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Roy Raymond was an American entrepreneur who started the lingerie retail store Victoria's Secret in 1977 with his wife Gaye. He sold the company to Leslie Wexner in 1982, but later faced financial troubles and personal struggles that led to his suicide in 1993.
On August 26, 1993, Roy Raymond, the founder of Victoria's Secret, died after intentionally jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge at the age of 46. Last seen walking toward the bridge, Raymond's body was shortly thereafter washed up on a shoreline in Marin County; investigators concluded that he had killed himself by jumping from the bridge. [77]
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) [1] was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. [2] [3]Rife is known for his microscopes, which he claimed could observe live microorganisms with a magnification considered impossible for his time, and for an "oscillating beam ray" invention, which he thought could treat various ailments by ...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper predicted the death toll would rise as rescuers and other emergency workers reached isolated areas. REUTERS Supplies were being airlifted to the region around the ...
Brenner moved to Ithaca, New York and went on to write a book about the shooting, Wight's death, and her ordeal, Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence, and to become an active speaker against anti-gay violence. [18] [19] [20] In 1999, H. L. Pohlman also wrote a book about the murder, titled, The Whole Truth.
Victoria's Secret was founded by Roy Raymond, and his wife, Gaye Raymond, [2] [6] [7] on June 12, 1977. [19] [8] The first store was opened in the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California. [8] Years earlier, Raymond was embarrassed when purchasing lingerie for his wife at a department store.
Roy Raymond is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He was introduced in "Impossible... But True!", a back-up strip in Detective Comics, beginning with issue #153 (Nov. 1949). [1] In 1997, Roy Raymond Jr. was introduced as the grandson of the original Roy Raymond. He was later renamed Roy Raymond III during ...
Owlman (Thomas Wayne, Jr.) is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.A supervillainous alternate-universe counterpart of Bruce Wayne / Batman, he is depicted as the adult version of Wayne's deceased older brother, who in most iterations dies as a child, before Bruce is born.