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Levi Strauss (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. [1] [2]
Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [2] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
This design is on all Levi's jeans today. In December 1870, Davis was asked by a customer to make a pair of strong working pants for her husband who was a woodcutter . [ 7 ] To create suitably robust pants for working, he used duck cloth and reinforced the weak points in the seams and pockets with the copper rivets.
It’s official: Zachary Levi is bringing the classic children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon to the big screen with a live-action adaptation. “We about to paint this town PURPLE, y’all ...
The Testament of Levi is believed to have been written between 153 BC and 107 BC, and closer to the latter date. [21] On his deathbed, Levi gathered all his children to narrate the story of his life to them, and prophesied unto them what they would do, and what would happen to them until judgment day.
Perhaps the oldest known dice, resembling modern ones, were excavated as part of a backgammon-like game set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran, estimated to be from between 2800 and 2500 BC. [157] [158] Later, terracotta dice were used at the Indus Valley site of Mohenjo-daro (modern-day Pakistan). [159]
The Wrench, published in the U.S. under the title of The Monkey's Wrench, is a novel by Primo Levi that takes the form a collection of interconnected stories exchanged between the two main characters. [1] It is similar in form to his collection of connected memoir stories, The Periodic Table.
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