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Raymond was inspired to start Victoria's Secret after feeling embarrassed purchasing lingerie for his wife in a department store. To open the store, he borrowed $40,000 from a bank and $40,000 from his family. Roy and Gaye Raymond worked together to design and launch the first store with a Victorian-inspired style.
Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer. Founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond, [6] [7] the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in 1982. [8] Wexner rapidly expanded into American shopping malls, growing the company into 350 stores nationally with sales of $1 billion by the early 1990s, when ...
Mina Miller Edison. Mina Edison, 1906. Mina Miller Edison (July 6, 1865 – August 24, 1947) was an American community activist and the second wife of inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison. She was a community activist in Fort Myers, Florida, known for her work advancing the use of public spaces and education initiatives.
Love is all around! British actors Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Talulah Riley tied the knot over the weekend. The 34-year-old Love Actually and Game of Thrones star married the 38-year-old Westworld ...
True Detective star Jodie Foster has been with her wife, Alexandra Edison, for over a decade. Get to know Edison and her history with Foster. All About Jodie Foster’s Wife, Alexandra Hedison
Early life Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images While Michael Oher — the inspiration behind the film The Blind Side — deals with his drama with the Tuohys, his wife, Tiffany Roy, is his biggest support system.
Young Tom Edison is a 1940 biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison directed by Norman Taurog and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was the first of a complementary pair of Edison biopics that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released in 1940. Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy, followed two months later, completing the two-part ...