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Bollé Brands is an eyewear and head protection group that designs, markets and distributes sunglasses, safety glasses, goggles and ski and bicycle helmets. The group owns the brands Bollé, Bollé Safety , Cébé, H2Optix, Spy Optic and Serengeti and is headquartered in Lyon , France .
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Kraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as an ethnic slur for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I and World War II. [1] [2] Its earlier meaning in English was as a synonym for sauerkraut, a traditional Central and Eastern European food. [3]
Eivind Bolle (born 1923), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party; Frank Bolle (born 1924), American cartoonist; Friedrich Franz Bolle (1905–1999), whose standard abbreviation as a botanist is "F. Bolle" Pierette Cornelie Bolle (1893–1945), whose standard abbreviation as a botanist is "P. C. Bolle"; see Marie-Anne Libert § Botany and ...
The goggles were curved to fit the user's face and had a large groove cut in the back to allow for the nose. A long thin slit was cut through the goggles to allow in a small amount of light, diminishing subsequent ultraviolet rays. The goggles were held to the head by a cord made of caribou sinew.
Standard German is a West Germanic language and is closely related to and classified alongside English, Dutch, and the Frisian languages. To a lesser extent, it is also related to the East (extinct) and North Germanic languages. Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. [3]
A people's history is the history as the story of mass movements and of the outsiders. Individuals not included in the past in other type of writing about history are part of history-from-below theory's primary focus, which includes the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, the subaltern and the otherwise forgotten people.
A German Scout neckerchief and woggle. One story relating to the origin of the word 'woggle' is that it was named to rhyme with the word boon doggle used in America. However the term woggle pre-dates the first known reference to this in 1925. [1] There are a few other references to the word woggle before its adoption by the Scout movement.