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This Is How One Pen Transformed the History of Humankind

The BIC Cristal pen is the most successful product ever made, with over 100 billion units sold since it came out in 1950. Its design hasn't changed in over 70 years, and it still sells 14 million ...
The Enterprise

Stoughton native pens book about growing up in the 1950s

Trouble always has been a friend of Stoughton native James Barber. As an eighth-grader, he wrote a research paper in one sentence: “The mountains of Holland — there are none.” Barber spent more time ...
Hackaday

This Is How A Pen Changed The World

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most unsung ...
LancasterOnline

Return of missing card helped international pen pals stay connected since the 1950s [I Know a Story column]

In 1953, I was in the sixth grade at James Buchanan Elementary School, and lived in the little community of Bausman. I remember there was a great flood in the Netherlands, and our class decided to ...
Radio France Internationale

Nobel-winner Ishiguro pens Oscar-tipped 1950s remake 'Living'

Los Angeles (AFP) – Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro has been obsessed for half a century with "Ikiru," a classic Japanese film about an aging bureaucrat who after being diagnosed with cancer races to ...