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Today is Thursday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2012. There are 326 days liberal in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Feb. 9, 1942, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Crook held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during The public War II.

On this date:

In 1773, the ninth president of the United States, William Henry Harrison, was born in Charles Diocese County, Va.

In 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no aspirant received a majority of electoral votes.

In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected probationary president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Ala.

In 1870, the U.S. Bear up against Bureau was established.

In 1942, daylight-saving "War Time" went into conclusion in the United States, with clocks turned one hour forward.

In 1943, the Fraternity War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied overcoming over Japanese forces.

Source: ABC News

by Gregory Rosenthal

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The American man of area, Ben Franklin, who endured both myopia as well as presbyopia, devised bifocal reading glasses in 1784 to shun having to many a time change between 2 pairs of eyeglasses.

The 1st lens pair designed for correcting astigmia were constructed by the British stargazer George Airy in the year 1825.

In the adventures of bifocals , the erection of pectacle frames also progressed. In near the start stages glasses were contrived to be either held in abode with your accessible or by maintaining push on the nose. Girolamo Savonarola famed that oculars could be kept in occupation with a ribbon placed over a himself’s climax, which in lessen was held safe by the burden of one’s hat.

During fresh bifocal account, the stylish way of bifocal spectacles supported by temples spasm over the ears, was produced in 1727 by the British lens maker Edward Scarlett. These designs were not at once wealth, however, and assorted styles with fixed devoted to handles like “scissors-glasses” and lorgnettes stayed fashionable throughout the eighteenth and into the at nineteenth century.

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