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In 1967, the first Conforama was opened in Saint-Priest, Rhône in a 2,500-square-metre industrial building. In 1976, Conforama was acquired by Agache-Willot. In 1981, the financial holding company experienced serious legal difficulties, and in 1991, Conforama was acquired by Pinault SA. Conforama set up its first commercial website in 1998. [2]
Schlieren was first mentioned in 828. [3] Until 1415, Schlieren belonged to Habsburg. After the conquest of Aargau by the Swiss Confederates it was a component of the county of Baden. In 1803 Schlieren was assigned to the Canton of Zürich. In 1777 the minister Heinrich Keller created here the first "deaf-mute school" in Switzerland.
Just one year later, the company moved its base back to Schlieren, and in 1901, there was another renaming, to Schweizerische Wagons-Fabrik AG in Schlieren-Zürich (SWS). In 1903, the newly formed Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) ordered passenger cars from SWS. As early as 1906, the 1,000th item of rolling stock left the SWS workshop, and ...
Richard Gere is getting candid about his life in Spain with wife Alejandra Silva.. The Pretty Woman star, 75, shared in an interview with Elle España that he has found new fulfillment since ...
While the "Hips Don't Lie" songstress was on stage accepting an award at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, her two sons, Milan, 12, and Sasha, 10, sweetly cheered her on from the ...
Smith, 53, became internationally infamous in 1994 when she drove her car into a South Carolina lake with her two sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, strapped inside.
Schlieren (/ ˈ ʃ l ɪər ən / SHLEER-ən; German: [ˈʃliːʁn̩] ⓘ, German for 'streaks') are optical inhomogeneities in transparent media that are not necessarily visible to the human eye. Schlieren physics developed out of the need to produce high-quality lenses devoid of such inhomogeneities.
Recently, progress on inflation appeared to be stuck or, at worst, reversing: A closely watched gauge of underlying price hikes — an index that excludes highly volatile categories — hadn’t ...