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The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1 000 000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards. It was first proposed by the German geographer Albrecht Penck in 1891. The Central Bureau of the Map of the World was established in London.
The Lego Group (formally Lego A/S) [5] is a Danish construction toy production company based in Billund, Denmark. [6] It manufactures Lego-branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks. The Lego Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates numerous retail stores.
On 1 April 2018, Google Maps added a minigame in which one can look for Wally and his friends around the world [25] – in the Andes (Chile), Surfers Paradise beach (Australia), in the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium (South Korea), at the La Tomatina festival (Spain), in Hollywood and in the Picard crater on the Moon. [26]
Toys "R" Us in Macy's Philadelphia flagship, February 4, 2024. Toys "R" Us[ nb 1] is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids (doing business as Tru Kids Brands) and various others. The company was founded in 1948; its first store was built in April 1948, with its headquarters located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New ...
Flight Flap Compact Phone & Tablet Stand. $11 $16. See at Amazon. And one of our favorite interactive toys for bored dogs — this Hide-A-Squirrel Interactive Puzzle Toy — is on sale on Amazon ...
The World's Best Talking Doll. My Friend Cayla was a line of 18-inch (46 cm) dolls which used speech recognition technology in conjunction with an Android or iOS mobile app to recognize a child's speech and perform conversations with users. The doll used the internet to search what the user said, and then responded with data that it found online.
The World of Springfield is a series of action figures featuring characters from the animated sitcom The Simpsons. The line ran between December 1999 and December 2004 and was released by Playmates Toys . The toy action figure series was called World of Springfield, because the concept of the line was for collectors to build a miniature ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.