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JanSport is an American brand of backpacks and collegiate apparel, now owned by VF Corporation, one of the world's largest apparel companies. [1] JanSport is the world's largest backpack maker. Nearly half of all small backpacks sold in the United States are produced by JanSport and its sister brand The North Face , also owned by VF Corporation.
A Patagonia garment with a label saying "Vote the Assholes Out", which it featured in the lead-up to the 2020 United States elections.. Since 1985, Patagonia has committed 1% of its total sales to environmental groups through One Percent for the Planet, an organization of which Yvon Chouinard was a founding member. [42]
Jeanne Villepreux-Power was born in Juillac, Corrèze, on September 24 [2] or 25, 1794, [6] the eldest child of a shoemaker and a seamstress. [2] She lived until age 18 in rural France, [2] where she learned to read and write. [6]
A case study is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case (or cases) within a real-world context. [1] [2] For example, case studies in medicine may focus on an individual patient or ailment; case studies in business might cover a particular firm's strategy or a broader market; similarly, case studies in politics can range from a narrow happening over time like the operations of a ...
Robert Cade was born in San Antonio, Texas, on September 26, 1927. [2] He was a fourth-generation Texan. [3] Cade took an early interest in athletics and ran the mile in four minutes, twenty seconds at Brackenridge High School, [2] a very respectable time for a high school athlete in the early 1940s. [4]
Smith also invented the “Floyd Smith Safety Seat” for Switlik (U.S. Patent No. 1,779,338). His Safety Seat had an attached parachute and could be dropped through the bottom of an airplane's fuselage in an emergency. [3] In 1930, the family was living in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Floyd worked as an engineer. [5]
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.