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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.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008.
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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]
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]
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]
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 ...
Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 – October 25, 1934) was an American inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators.