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  2. List of bespectacled baseball players - Wikipedia

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    For many years, wearing glasses while playing the sport was an embarrassment. [1] Baseball talent scouts routinely rejected spectacled prospects on sight. [2] The stigma had diminished by the early 1960s and by one estimate 20 percent of major league players wore glasses by the end of the 1970s.

  3. George M. Stratton - Wikipedia

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    Stratton wore these glasses over his right eye and covered the left with a patch during the day, and slept blindfolded at night. Initial movement was clumsy, but adjusting to the new environment took only a few days. [59] Stratton tried variations of the experiment over the next few years. First he wore the glasses for eight days, back at Berkeley.

  4. People who wear glasses are smarter, study claims - AOL

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    Check out these smart famous glasses wearers: Researchers at the University Medical Center in Germany linked spending more time in school and achieving higher level of education to nearsightedness.

  5. Ray-Ban Wayfarer - Wikipedia

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    1950s singer Buddy Holly helped popularise Wayfarers. 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.

  6. List of American advertising characters - Wikipedia

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    Kid Vid, a blond Caucasian male who loved video games and technology; he was the leader of the group. Boomer, a sports loving Caucasian tomboy with red hair tied into a ponytail. I.Q., a male Caucasian nerd with ginger hair and freckles who wore red glasses, a green lab coat, and a pocket protector.

  7. Andrew Garfield’s Reading Glasses Were the Real ... - AOL

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    New year, new glasses? Andrew Garfield got social media swooning after his hot appearance at the 2025 Golden Globes — but in an unlikely turn of events, it’s all about his reading glasses. The ...

  8. Time travel claims and urban legends - Wikipedia

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    It was claimed that his clothing and sunglasses were of the present day and not of the styles worn in the '40s, while his camera was anachronistically small. Further research suggested that the present-day appearance of the man would not have necessarily been out of place in 1941. The style of sunglasses he is wearing first appeared in the 1920s.

  9. Monocle - Wikipedia

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    This is due in large part to advances in optometry which allow for better measurement of refractive error, so that glasses and contact lenses can be prescribed with different strengths in each eye. The monocle did, however, gain a following in the stylish lesbian circles of the early 20th century, when lesbians would wear a monocle for effect.