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English: Map over Bay City, the largest virtual city of Second Life, located on the continent of Sansara. The map is located in the region Moose Beach where residents, i.e. users as they are called within Second Life, can set for free as their home. Taken 14 July 2013 in Second Life and uploaded 14 December 2013 in Wikimedia Commons.
Second Life also quickly became profitable due to the selling and renting of virtual real estate. 2006 also saw Second Life ' s first real-world millionaire; Ailin Graef, better known as Anshe Chung (her avatar), converted an initial investment of US$9.95 into over one million dollars over the course of two and a half years. She built her ...
Linden Lab reported that the Second Life economy generated US$3,596,674 in economic activity during the month of September 2005, [2] and in September 2006 Second Life was reported to have a GDP of US$64,000,000. [3] In 2009, the total size of the Second Life economy grew 65% to US$567 million, about 25% of the entire U.S. virtual goods market ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Tourism is a large portion of Florida's economy. Florida is home to the world's most visited theme park, the Magic Kingdom. [245] Florida is also home to the largest single-site employer in the United States, Walt Disney World. [246] PortMiami is the largest passenger port in the world and one of the largest cargo ports in the United States. [247]
Pre-Columbian stone sphere, located at the University of Costa Rica as a symbol of tradition and ancient wisdom. Stone spheres of the Diquís exhibited at Museo del Jade. Scientific research in the alluvial plain, particularly on United Fruit Company properties, began in the 1940s with the work of Doris Zemurray Stone and Samuel Lothrop ...
The chilling requirement of a fruit is the minimum period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom. It is often expressed in chill hours, which can be calculated in different ways, all of which essentially involve adding up the total amount of time in a winter spent at certain temperatures. [1] [2]
Australia's life expectancy of 83 years (81 years for males and 85 years for females) [392] is the fifth-highest in the world. It has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, [ 393 ] while cigarette smoking is the largest preventable cause of death and disease, responsible for 7.8% of the total mortality and disease.