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2. Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs - Wikipedia

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   Various governments have passed legislation to phase out manufacturing or importation of incandescent light bulbs for general lighting in favor of more energy- efficient alternatives. The regulations are generally based on efficiency, rather than use of incandescent technology. However, it is not unlawful to continue to buy or sell existing ...

3. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Luxottica - Wikipedia

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   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 merged with ...

5. List of bank robbers and robberies - Wikipedia

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   1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1798, $162,821 (over $2.9 million today) Seafirst Bank robbery, Lakewood, Washington, February 1997, $4.5 million ($8.5 million in 2023) in cash, done by the Trenchcoat Robbers. 1998 Bank of America robbery, 1998, $1.6 million ($3 million in 2023)

6. Ray-Ban Wayfarer - Wikipedia

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   Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .

7. List of time capsules - Wikipedia

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   Asia Install Year Open Year Location Notes Cite 1971 6970 ; 4946 years' time (6970) Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan Expo '70 time capsule, donated by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic) and Mainichi Newspapers. India Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had buried a time capsule outside one of the gate of Red Fort complex,The Indira Gandhi government named this time capsule "Kalpaatra", Delhi ...

8. Balikbayan box - Wikipedia

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   A balikbayan box ( lit. 'repatriate box') is a corrugated box containing items sent by overseas Filipinos (known as balikbayan literally "returnee to the country/nation"). Though often shipped by freight forwarders specializing in sending balikbayan boxes by sea, such boxes are also commonly brought by Filipinos returning to the Philippines via ...

9. List of films banned in Australia - Wikipedia

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   In 2014, the ban was lifted and the following year it was released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time by Umbrella Entertainment. The Beast in Heat (also known as SS Hell Camp) Excessive sexual violence The film was seized by Customs in 1992, and forwarded to the ACB. It was subsequently refused classification. Still banned.