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    TRIMLINE TELEPHONE
    August 2, 1965 - Michigan, USA

    The trimline telephone was made available to all customers throughout the service area of Michigan Bell Telephone for an optional $1 monthly extra charge. The company had placed the first trimline telephone in service in the U.S. on 21 Oct 1963. The dial and a hang-up button were no longer on a remote base, but instead integrated into the handpiece, midway between the microphone and speaker. A call could thus be dialled from the handpiece alone. A call could thus be dialled from the handpiece alone, which was more convenient in the kitchen or while in bed. It was dramatically different in style from earlier telephones, developed with the industrial design firm Henry Dreyfuss Associates. In 1977, Fortune magazine selected it as one of the country's 25 best-designed products.

    FIRST NEW U.S. INTERSTATE HIGHWAY CONTRACT
    August 2, 1956 - Laclede County, Missouri, USA

    In 1956, the first new contract to build a section of the U.S. Interstate Highway system, awarded after the signing of the Highway-Aid Act of 1956, was for U.S. Route 66 in Laclede County, Missouri, which became Interstate 44. The Highway-Aid Act of 1956 established 90% federal funding for a System of Interstate and Defense Highways across the U.S., making it possible for States to afford construction of the important network of national limited-access highways. Other notable firsts related to the U.S. Interstate highways are claimed by the States of Pennsylvania (which has the oldest section of Interstate Highway, built 1 Oct 1940, years before the Highway Aid Act of 1956, but later part of the Interstate system) and Kansas, which began the first concrete paving under the Act, on 26 Sep 1956.

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Hair sticks are in the fashion due to its advantages as pure adornment and decoration that can instantly jazz up your plain hairstyles.

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Very small hair accessories hair sticks that might not be of much importance to you was once sold for $2,500. Going in details Mizuki hair stick that is not available now, was sold for $2,500 as per the report published in 2000 to 2001 in Harper is Bazarre Magazine says and this is surely effective enough to change your view towards hair accessories. Most historians believe that hair sticks first appeared many centuries ago in the Orient and both women and men in their hair often used them but it is unclear whether the hair sticks were used as functional hair tools to hold the hair in place or as elaborate decorative jewels. Any way, hair sticks have gone from a relatively inconceivable type of hair accessory that was worn mainly by the long tresses in the past few years but today the scene says a different story. Hair sticks options have blasted and they are available in every various length.

Looking at the record of popularity, hair sticks cycle in and out as hot fashion hair accessories several times and it is worn for purely adornment reasons and not for functional reasons. It is available in every various length from as short as 2 inches to as long as 12 inches and are found in every conceivable type of material from the traditional wood and metal to inexpensive chopsticks, plastic sticks, knitting needles, bone, glass, faux tortoise shell and a myriad of ceramic, cellulose and other unusual compositions. Moreover, the most important thing about these hair accessories is that they are easy to wear. You just need to slide them into thick braids to accent the beautiful plaits or twist them into a French Twist to show off the seam or you can even pop them into two fat hair twists to show off the twists. But it has found that one of the most basic hair styles that can take either functional or decorative advantage of hair sticks is the basic hair knot.

Besides the size and the material, attention has also been paid to the appearance also. You can find handmade hair sticks that are shaped from very long feathers, fire polished glass, foils, rare, discontinued Swarovski crystals to hand fashioned antique beads, and other amazing jeweled pieces. They are also found to be fashioned with leather, silk, velvet and brocade outer wrappings. Now you can instantly jazz up your plain hairstyles with the addition of gorgeous jeweled hair sticks as accent pieces. You can also develop unique hair looks that range from very romantic to hot and sassy with your innovative ideas and hair accessories. The most important thing about these is that they can be worn in business and professional settings also.

Although it is not known much about its appearance officially in the hair scene but it is definitely true that it is not the matter of present but of past. Hair sticks getting the recognition in the world of fashion due to its advantages as pure adornment and decoration so they are in the fashion today.

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