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  2. PC World (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    PC World was a British retail chain of mass market computer megastores. Established in November 1991, it became part of Dixons Retail in February 1993, and then part of Dixons Carphone, after the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse in August 2014. During its final years, the company's remaining physical stores were within co-branded ...

  3. Currys - Wikipedia

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    currys.co.uk. Currys (branded as Currys PC World between 2010 and 2021) is a British electrical retailer and aftercare service provider operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, specialising in white goods, consumer electronics, computers and mobile phones. Established as a bicycle retailer in 1927, Currys expanded the range of goods sold ...

  4. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    A fictional county in Alabama, used to conceal true crime locations Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin "ihp" & various SCP Foundation: Sloth's Pit was originally called New Toronto, also known as Nexus-18. It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and ...

  5. List of Latin names of cities - Wikipedia

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    Vigornia. Worcester, England; Worcester, Massachusetts. Vindobona. Vienna, Austria. Latinized form of a Greek name. Naples/Neapolis is a rare exception to the rule of Latinization of foreign city names as it was established by the Greeks and predates Rome by many centuries. There was no need to change it as the name was too deeply entrenched.

  6. List of Philippine city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Hispanicized form of bakolod, an old Hiligaynon word for "hill" in reference to the hilly area in the city that is now the barangay of Granada. Bacoor. Cavite. Hispanicized form of bacood, derived from the Tagalog word which means "fence." [1] Bago. Negros Occidental. from bago-bago, a local shrub. Baguio.

  7. PC World - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.pcworld.com. ISSN. 0737-8939. OCLC. 1117065657. PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. [2] Since 2013, it has been an online-only publication. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal technology products and services.

  8. Dixons Retail - Wikipedia

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    Dixons Retail plc was one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe, which merged with Carphone Warehouse in 2014 to create Dixons Carphone, which was renamed Currys plc in 2021. In the United Kingdom, the company operated Currys, Currys Digital, PC World (with stores increasingly dual-branded 'Currys PC World'), Dixons Travel and ...

  9. Jan Murray (entrepreneur) - Wikipedia

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    In November 1991, Murray founded PC World, marking the inception of the first computer superstore chain outside the United States. Within twenty-four months of its establishment, Murray had opened the four largest flagship stores around London, attaining an annual turnover of £50 million by April 1992.