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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. List of people with color blindness - Wikipedia

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    Worked on applications to make the Internet more accessible to colorblind people. [26] Matt Holland: red–green b. 1974 England Ireland: Association football player [27] Richard Hughes: red–green b. 1975 England: Musician, member of Keane [28] Jake Humphrey: red–green b. 1978 England: TV presenter, journalist

  4. Iris Apfel - Wikipedia

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    Born Iris Barrel in to a Jewish family in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on August 29, 1921, [2] Apfel was the only child of Samuel Barrel (1897–1967), whose family owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye "Syd" Barrel (née Asofsky, 1898–1998), who owned a fashion boutique.

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    Richman tells PEOPLE exclusively, “As a Survivor fan and full-time glasses wearer, I am always fascinated and amazed by the way the players, specifically those who might not have the best vision ...

  6. 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.

  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. 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.

  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.