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  2. Persol - Wikipedia

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    Persol is an Italian luxury eyewear brand specializing in the manufacturing of sunglasses and optical frames. It is one of the oldest eyewear companies in the world and is owned by the Luxottica group. The name is derived from the Italian per il sole, meaning "for the sun". Formed in 1917 by Giuseppe Ratti, Persol originally catered to pilots ...

  3. Luxottica - Wikipedia

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    Luxottica. Luxottica Group S.p.A. is an Italian eyewear conglomerate based in Milan. As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails its eyewear brands all through its own subsidiaries. The company, presently organized as a subsidiary of EssilorLuxottica which formed when the Italian conglomerate ...

  4. Olivetti typewriters - Wikipedia

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    Olivetti is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers, calculators, and fax machines. It was founded as a typewriter manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy. By 1994, Olivetti stopped production of typewriters, as more and more users were transitioning to personal computers .

  5. Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) - Wikipedia

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    1929 Sunglasses. A pair of sunglasses for women. Sunglasses or sun glasses are a visual aid which feature lenses that are coloured or darkened to prevent strong light from reaching the eyes. For centuries, Chinese judges had routinely worn smoke-colored quartz lenses to conceal their eye expressions in court.

  6. List of United States Army Field Manuals - Wikipedia

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    including C 1, 25 July 1952. This manual supersedes FM 100–5, 15 June 1944. This manual supersedes FM 100–5, 15 June 1944. including C 1, 16 September 1942; C 2, 12 November 1942; and C 3, 26 April 1943. These regulations supersede FM 100–5, Tentative Field Service Regulations, Operations, October 1, 1939.

  7. Herbert Giles - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Allen Giles (/ dʒ aɪ l z /, 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge [2] [3] for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China.

  8. United States Army Field Manuals - Wikipedia

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    United States Army Lt. Gen. John Kimmons with a copy of the Army Field Manual, FM 2-22.3, Human Intelligence Collector Operations, in 2006. FM-34-45. United States Army Field Manuals are published by the United States Army 's Army Publishing Directorate. They contain detailed information and how-tos for procedures important to soldiers serving ...

  9. Chinese typewriter - Wikipedia

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    Chinese typewriter. A Double Pigeon mechanical typewriter for Chinese from the 1970s. The characters can be assorted on the board and can be picked separately and then typed. Typewriters that can type Chinese characters were invented in the early 20th century. Written Chinese is a logographic writing system, and facilitating the use of ...