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The Argos Catalogue [60] was published twice a year in paperback book form - a Spring/Summer edition in January and an Autumn/Winter edition in July. This event was known internally as a Cat Launch , and individual stores quite often held party-like festivities to drum up public excitement.
A catalog merchant ( catalogue merchant in Commonwealth English) is a form of retailing. The typical merchant sells a wide variety of household and personal products, with many emphasizing jewelry. Unlike a self-serve retail store, most of the items are not displayed; customers select the products from printed catalogs in the store and fill out ...
Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran , it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc , before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the ...
Argos is a global satellite -based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world. [citation needed] The worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring system is the results from Franco-American cooperation. In addition to satellite data collection ...
Collections. Items of note in the Argos Archaeological Museum include a Minoan style bridge-mouthed pot of sub-Mycenaean times, a reddish pot (460–450 BC) representing the fight of Theseus and the Minotaur, attended by Ariadne, a compass of the early geometric times, which is decorated with meanders and parallel lines, and a mosaic floor excavated from a house of the 5th century, in which ...
Argus Panoptes ( Ἄργος Πανόπτης) was the guardian of the heifer - nymph Io and the son of Arestor. According to Asclepiades, Argus Panoptes was a son of Inachus, and according to Cercops he was a son of Argus and Ismene, daughter of Asopus. Acusilaus says that he was earth-born ( authochthon ), born from Gaia. [1]
Index (retailer) Index was a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom, that was owned by Littlewoods from 1985 until 2005. Many Index stores were attached to Littlewoods stores. It was a well known retailer in the 1980s and the 1990s, but sales declined in the noughties and it lost many customers to its main rival, Argos .
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