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Victor Gruen
Victor Gruen , 1903-80, American architect, often called the inventor of the modern shopping mall, b. Vienna as Viktor David Grünbaum. In Vienna, he studied at the Technological Institute and Academy of Fine Arts, worked for Peter Behrens , and opened (1933) his own architectural firm. He fled... Read more |
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Online shopping
Virtual Shopping BUSINESS PLAN CLICK 'N SHOP INC. 425 Loop Rd., Ste. 14 Chicago, IL 60060 March 1995 This business plan for a virtual reality application is an example of how state-of-theart technology can become the basis for a popular start-up... Read more |
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Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop BoysPop group The Pet Shop Boys became world-recognized pop stars in 1986 with the huge success of their debut album Please, which featured the chart-topping dance hits "West End Girls" and "(Opportunities) Let's Make Lots of Money." Since then vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris... Read more |
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shopping center
shopping center a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into one encompassing structure. The... Read more |
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Congeries
Congeries a collection of particles, parts, or things; a heap; a group of things heaped together. Examples: congeries of ballads; of furniture shops; of repugnant affections, 1619; of rocks, 1793; of dead and stupid matter, 1679; of towers, halls, churches, and chambers, 1875; of stars, 1849; of... Read more |
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Michael Wolgemut
Michael Wolgemut , 1434-1519, German painter, wood carver, and engraver who worked mainly in Nuremberg. First instructed by his father and in Munich, he traveled and then returned to Hans Pleydenwurff's shop in Nuremberg where he worked on the Hofer Altarpiece. The Descent from the Cross panel... Read more |
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Shopping
SHOPPING Shopping involves the purchasing of products by consumers, all of which fall into various shopping product categories that are based on the way consumers think of them and purchase them. The two main categories are convenience goods and shopping goods; two lesser categories are specialty... Read more |
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Planchette
Planchette A simple instrument designed for the purpose of communication with spirits. It consists of a thin heart-shaped piece of wood mounted on two small wheels that carries a pencil, point downward, for the third support. The hand is placed on the wood and the pencil writes automatically, or... Read more |
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Edeka Zentrale A.G
Edeka Zentrale A.G. New York Ring 622297 HamburgGermanyTelephone: (49) 40-6377-0Fax: (49) 40-6377-4575Web site: http://www.edeka.de Cooperative CompanyIncorporated: 1908Employees: 190,000Sales: $29.4 billion (2000)NAIC: 422490 Other Grocery and Related Products Wholesalers; 445110... Read more |
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Greenfield Village
Greenfield Village reproduction of an early American village, est. 1933 by Henry Ford at Dearborn, Mich., as part of the Edison Institute. A white-spired church, a town hall, an inn, a school, a courthouse, a general store, and other buildings are grouped about a typical New England village green.... Read more |
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