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Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores from the 1920s until about the 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, Germany and Switzerland. [1] In the UK, they were known as Pedoscopes, after the ...
The nuclear weapons tests of the United States were performed from 1945 to 1992 as part of the nuclear arms race. The United States conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests. [1] [notes 1] Most of the tests took place at the Nevada Test Site (NNSS/NTS) and the Pacific Proving ...
The California Food Safety Act—which has been referred to as a “Skittles ban”— forbids the sale of four food additives, including brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben ...
Libby and James Arnold proceeded to test the radiocarbon dating theory by analyzing samples with known ages. For example, two samples taken from the tombs of two Egyptian kings, Zoser and Sneferu , independently dated to 2625 BC plus or minus 75 years, were dated by radiocarbon measurement to an average of 2800 BC plus or minus 250 years.
The bill would prevent school boards from forcing school staff to inform a student’s parents if they request to use a name or pronoun that does not align with their biological sex.
Although Newsom temporarily lifted the ban on plastic bags during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Assembly Bill 2236 and Senate Bill 1053 seek to close “loopholes and (ensure) a ...
The California Psychological Inventory ( CPI) also known as California Personality Inventory [1] is a self-report inventory created by Harrison G. Gough and currently published by Consulting Psychologists Press. The text containing the test was first published in 1956, and the most recent revision was published in 1996.