Xerox - The Name
Time: 1958
Place: New York, U.S.
Details: Looking for a term to differentiate its new system, Haloid coined the term xerography from two Greek roots meaning "dry writing". Haloid changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1958 and then Xerox Corporation in 1961.
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Mao Zedong-The Great Leap Forward
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IKEA-The First Möbel-IKÉA Store
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Akio Morita-Renaming The Company
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First Sudanese Civil War-The Coup d'état of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Abboud
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Howard Hughes: The Aviator-Screening room incident
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Harald V-The oath To the Constitution of Norway
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Nelson Mandela-1st Divorce
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Pope Francis-Society of Jesus
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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon-Margaret met the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones
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