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Virginia State University Virginia State University is an historically black university located in Ettrick, Virginia (near Petersburg, in the Richmond area), and was founded on March 6, 1882. It was the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans.
Virginia Strawberry The Virginia Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), is one of two species of strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern domesticated Garden Strawberry. Its natural range is confined to North America, in the United States (including Alaska) and Canada.
Virginia Synod The Virginia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the geographical synod consisting of the entire state of Virginia, except for several counties and cities in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
Virginia Tax Review Association The Virginia Tax Review Association (VTR) is one of the oldest student-run law journals at the University of Virginia, and the only journal to deal exclusively with tax and corporate topics. VTR publishes four times annually.
Virginia Tech campus The Virginia Tech campus is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Drive to the west, Main Street to the east, and 460-bypass to the south, though it has several thousand acres beyond the central campus. The university also has several commonwealth branch campus centers: Hampton Roads (Virginia Beach), National Capital Region (Falls Church - Alexandria, Virginia), Richmond, Roanoke, and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon.
Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets (VTCC) is one of only two military organizations established as an integral part of a major United States civilian university, the other is Texas A&M University. Both are Senior Military Colleges.
Virginia Tech Hokies football The Virginia Tech Hokies are a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I-A and the Coastal Division of Atlantic Coast Conference. Their home games are played at Lane Stadium, considered one of the loudest stadiums in the country and recognized in 2005 by Rivals.
Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs The School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Virginia Tech fosters interdisciplinary initiatives, by building cooperative arrangements among units within the School and University, and by partnering with organizations external to the university.
Virginia Theological Seminary Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) is the largest accredited Episcopal seminary in the United States. Founded in 1823, VTS is situated on an 80 acre campus in Alexandria, Virginia, just a few miles from downtown Washington, D.
Virginia University of Lynchburg Virginia University of Lynchburg is a private, historically black university located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The University currently offers instruction and degrees, primarily in religious studies, including a Doctorate of Ministry program.
Virginia valeriae The Smooth Earth Snake (Virginia valeriae) is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake native to the eastern half of the United States, from Texas and Iowa to Pennsylvania and Florida. It is a small, fossorial species which spends most of its time buried in loose soil or leaf litter, and eats primarily earthworms and other soft-bodied arthropods.
Virginia V The steamer Virginia V (the “V” is the Roman numeral “5”) is one of two surviving members of the American "mosquito fleet" – the large, unlicensed steamers that worked the inland waters of the United States. (The other vessel is Carlisle II.
Virginia Vestoff Virginia Vestoff was an American actress of film, television and Broadway, arguably most famous for having played Abigail Adams in 1776 (see Vestoff was born into a family of vaudeville] performers on [[December 9, 1939 in New York City. Both her Russian immigrant father and mother, who was the great niece of American composer Stephen Foster, died and left Virginia an orphan at the age of nine.
Virginia Water Virginia Water is a large village, a lake and, originally, a stream, the village being in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the bodies of water stretching over the borders of Runnymede, Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot, all in England.
Virginia Water Lake Virginia Water Lake lies on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park, in the borough of Runnymede in Surrey and the civil parishes of Old Windsor and Sunninghill and Ascot in Berkshire, in England. It is a man-made lake taking it name from a natural body of water of the same name.
Virginia Wesleyan College Virginia Wesleyan College is a small Methodist liberal arts college on the border of Virginia Beach and Norfolk, Virginia offering a Bachelor of Arts in many disciplines and has added Bachelor of Science programs as well. Virginia Wesleyan College boasts a strong student-to-faculty ratio and has shown steady campus growth for several years.
Virginia Wings The Virginia Wings were a professional ice hockey team based in Norfolk, Virginia of the greater Hampton Roads area. They were an affilated farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, and a member of the American Hockey League for three seasons from 1972-73 to 1974-75.
Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership The Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership (VWIL) is a military program based at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. It opened in 1995 and now has approximately 140 cadets enrolled, attending both the military academy and Mary Baldwin.
Virginia's Explore Park Virginia's Explore Park is a living history museum and recreational facility locaed at milepost 115 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Roanoke County, Virginia. It includes various restored local historical structures and many miles of both hiking and biking trails, along with access to the Roanoke River for recreational use.
Virginia's Governor's Foreign Language Academies Starting in 1986, the Virginia Department of Education has sponsored Governor's Foreign Language Academies, summer residential programs for Virginia's most motivated and talented foreign language students. As of 2006, approximately 6,600 students have completed one of the six programs, housed at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond: immersion programs in French, German, and Spanish, an intensive Latin program, and partial-immersion programs in Russian and Japanese.
Virginia-Highland The Virginia-Highland neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia was founded in the early 20th Century as a streetcar community. The locus and origin of the name is the commercial district at the intersection of Virginia and North Highland Avenues.
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine is a unique college in that it is a state supported college of two states, Virginia and Maryland, filling the need for veterinary medicine education in both states. It is one of 27 colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States.
Virginia, Free State Virginia is a gold mining town located in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State Province in South Africa about 140 km (90 mi) northeast of Bloemfontein the provincial capital. Virginia is surrounded by some of the largest gold fields in Free State, and its economy is dominated by mining, gold-extraction plants, and the manufacture of sulfuric acid from gold ore.
Virginian Railway The Virginian Railway was a Class I railroad located in Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. The VGN was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads.
Virginians Against Drug Violence Virginians Against Drug Violence, or VADV, is an organization devoted to ending the drug war in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It reviews the Virginia General Assembly's bills every year, sending out emails to a network of citizens and urging them to contact their legislators on relevant issues.
Virginie Pouchain Virginie Pouchain is a 26-year-old singer and hairdresser from the département of Ardèche in southern France. On March 14 she was selected by the viewers of France 3 and a jury presided by Charles Aznavour to represent France in Eurovision Song Contest 2006.
Virginijus Praškevičius Virginijus Praškevičius (born April 3, 1974 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian basketball player. He played for Lithuania national basketball team and for Lithuania Under-22 national team, taking part to Eurobasket 1997, World Championship 1998, Eurobasket 1999, and 2003, where he took the Gold.
Virginio Orsini Gentile Virginio Orsini (circa 1434 - 8 January 1497) was a Renaissance Roman aristocrat and vassal of the papal throne and the Kingdom of Naples, mainly remembered as the powerful head of the Orsini family during its feud with Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). His most celebrated dignity was that of the Lord of Bracciano, but during his lifetime he bore many titles, among which Count of Tagliacozzo, Vicovocaro and Anguillara, Lord of Cerveteri, Knight of the Order of Emellino (1463), Constable of the Kingdom of Naples and Gonfalonier of the Roman Church.
Virginio Rognoni Virginio Rognoni (born August 5, 1924 in Corsico, province of Milan) is an Italian politician, member of Christian Democracy. He was several times Interior Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice.
Virginity pledge Virginity pledges (or abstinence pledges) are commitments made by teenagers and young adults to refrain from sexual intercourse until marriage, in an attempt to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and teenage pregnancy.
Virginius Affair The Virginius Affair (sometimes called the Virginius Incident) was a diplomatic dispute that occurred in the 1870s between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, then proprietor of Cuba, during the Ten Years' War.
Virginius Island Virginius Island is an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The island is formed by the Shenandoah Canal, constructed by the Patowmack Company between 1806 and 1807, which separates it from the town of Harpers Ferry.
Virgo (astrology) Virgo is an astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Virgo. Under the tropical zodiac, Virgo is occupied by the Sun from August 23 to September 22, and under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently from September 17 to October 17.
Virgo interferometer The Virgo detector for gravitational waves consists mainly in a Michelson laser interferometer made of two orthogonal arms being each 3 kilometers long. Multiple reflections between mirrors located at the extremities of each arm extend the effective optical length of each arm up to 120 kilometers.
Virgo Stellar Stream The Virgo Stellar Stream (also known as Virgo Overdensity, Virgo Dwarf Galaxy, or Virgo super star cluster) is the proposed name for a stream of stars in the constellation of Virgo which was discovered in 2005.The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reveals A New Milky Way Neighbor, SDSS press release, January 9, 2006Sonia Duffau, et al.
Virgos Merlot Virgos Merlot was a hard rock band formed in 1998. Their singular album, Signs of a Vacant Soul, was released in 1999, and featured densely-produced atmospheric guitars, a heavy rhythm presence, and the commanding vocals of lead singer Brett Hestla.
Virchow (crater) Virchow is a small lunar impact crater that is located on the northwestern interior floor of the prominent Neper crater. The latter formation lies near the eastern limb of the Moon, along the southern edge of the Mare Marginis.
Virchow-Seckel syndrome Virchow-Seckel syndrome (also known as bird-headed dwarfism, Harper's syndrome or Seckel dwarfism) is a syndrome of unknown etiology, characterized by intrauterine growth retardation and postnatal dwarfism with a small head, narrow birdlike face with a beaklike nose, large eyes with an antimongoloid slant, receding mandible, and mild mental retardation. It is very rare.
Viri probati Viri probati is a Latin term which in the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, refers to men who are married at the time they are ordained a deacon, priest or bishop. According to the ancient practice of the Early Church, married men who are ordained as deacons or priests in the Catholic Church (in the Eastern Rites of the Church and by exception in the Latin Rite) must renounce future remarriage in the event of the death of their spouse.
Virial coefficient Virial coefficients B_i appear as coefficients in the virial expansion of the pressure of a many-particle system in powers of the density. They are characteristic of the interaction potential between the particles and in general depend on the temperature.
Viriathus Viriathus (known as Viriato in Portuguese and Castilian) (180 BC - 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian tribe that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of Western Iberia, where the Roman province of Lusitania would be established (in the areas comprising Portugal, south of the Douro river, and Extremadura in Spain). Viriathus led the Lusitanian guerrilla fighters to several victories over the Romans between 147 BC and 139 BC before he was betrayed to the Romans by some of his own men and killed.
Viricide A viricide is a chemical agent which "kills" viruses outside the body. Since "life" in viruses is debatable to begin with, the term generally means an antiseptic which reliably deactivates or destroys a virus.
Viridomarus Viridomarus (died 222 BC) was a Gaulish military leader who led an army against an army of the Roman Republic at the Battle of Clastidium. The Romans won the battle, and in the process, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the Roman leader, earned the spolia opima by killing Viridomarus in single combat.
Virility Virility is part of the traditional idealized male gender role and derived from the Latin word vir meaning man. According to this view, a virile man is vigorously sexually active, and capable of making women pregnant.
Virini The Centauri Minister Virini is a fictional character in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, and is played by Damian London. A member of the Centauri race, Virini is a minister of the Centauri Imperial Court and later appointed Centauri Regent.
Virino The virino was a hypothetical infectious particle theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; it was thought to consist of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins.
Virisila Buadromo Virisila Buadromo (born 1972) is a Fijian political activist and former journalist, who is currently the Executive Director of the Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM). Previously, she was the news director for FM96.
Virko Baley Virko Baley (1938-) is a renowned Ukrainian-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Radehkiv, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (in what is now the country of Ukraine)on October 21, 1938, the only child of Petro (Peter) and Lydia Baley.
Virkon Virkon is a brand name for a powerful, multi-purpose disinfectant. The solution is used in many areas, including hospitals, laboratories, nursing homes, funeral homes, medical, dental and veterinary facilities, and anywhere else where control of pathogens is required.
Virman Vundabar Virman Vundabar is one of the New Gods, a fictional race created by Jack Kirby for DC Comics. A resident of Apokolips, he is a minion of Granny Goodness, and models his personality and schemes on Prussian military appearance and precision.
Viro Small Viro Small (born 1854) was a catch wrestler and boxer of African descent who was active in the late 19th century. He is notable for being one of the first professionals of African descent in these fields in the United States.
Viroconium Cornoviorum Viroconium Cornoviorum, or simply Viroconium, was a Roman town, one corner of which is now occupied by the small village of Wroxeter in the English county of Shropshire, about 8 km (5 miles) east-south-east of Shrewsbury.
Virola Virola, also known as Epená, is a genus of medium-sized trees native to the South American rainforest and closely related to other Myristicaceae, such as nutmeg. It has glossy, dark leaves with clusters of tiny yellow flowers and emits a pungent odor.
Virology Virology, often considered a part of microbiology or of pathology, is the study of organic viruses: their structure and classification, their ways to infect and exploit cells to reproduce and cause disease, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their potential uses in research and therapy. A researcher in virology is a virologist.
Viropexis Viropexis is the process by which different classes of viruses, particularly picornaviruses and papovaviruses, enter the host cell in which they will be able to replicate. The hydrophobic structures of the capsid proteins may be exposed after viral binding to the cell (see VAP, viral attachment protein).
Virosome A virosome is a unilamellar phospholipid bilayer vesicle with a mean diameter of 150 nm. Essentially, virosomes represent reconstituted empty influenza virus envelopes, devoid of the nucleocapsid including the genetic material of the source virus.
Virotherapy Virotherapy is an experimental form of cancer treatment using biotechnology to convert viruses into cancer-fighting agents by reprogramming viruses to only attack cancerous cells while healthy cells remained undamaged. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is a candidate for this and is currently under investigation.
Virovitica (former county) Virovitica (in Croatian) or Verőce (in Hungarian) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the autonomous region Croatia-Slavonia within the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in eastern Croatia.
Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line The Virovitica-Karlovac-Karlobag line is a hypothetical geographic line often used to describe the extent of Greater Serbia. Everything east of the line is Greater Serbia, while the west of it would be Croatia and Slovenia.
Virpi Kuitunen Virpi Kuitunen (born May 20, 1976 in Kangasniemi) is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 1995. She won a bronze medal in the team sprint event (with Aino Kaisa Saarinen) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and earned her best individual finish of 5th in the individual sprint event in those same games.
Virtanen (crater) Virtanen is a lunar crater that is located to the northeast of the larger Sharonov crater, and to the east of Anderson crater. Virtanen lies on the far side of the Moon, and it can not be viewed directly from the Earth.
Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary is a combination of the original Virtua Fighter arcade title, with Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution, for PlayStation 2. In North America, Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary was included in Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution.
Virtua Fighter Animation Virtua Fighter Animation is a 1996 versus fighting video game for the Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System. The main mode of gameplay is a story mode, which follows the plot of the Virtua Fighter anime series in cutscenes between stages.
Virtua Racing Virtua Racing is a Formula 1 racing arcade game, developed by Sega-AM2 and released in October 1992. It was one of the first driving games to use fully polygonal characters and environments (the first was Hard Drivin'), on the new 3DCG board "Model 1".
Virtua Tennis 2 Virtua Tennis 2 (known as Sega Sports Tennis 2K2 in the US) is a sequel to Virtua Tennis that was released for the Sega Dreamcast, Sega NAOMI arcade unit and Sony's PlayStation 2 in 2001. New features included the ability to play as female players (such as Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Lindsay Davenport) and mixed doubles matches.
Virtual appliance A virtual appliance is a minimalist virtual machine image designed to run under VMware, Xen, Microsoft Virtual PC, QEMU, Usermode Linux, CoLinux or other PC virtualization technology, providing network applications like firewalls or webservers.
Virtual assistant A Virtual Assistant (or simply VA), is an independent contractor providing administrative, technical, or sometimes creative assistance to clients--usually to other independent entrepreneurs and solo and small business practices, such as that of a lawyer or realtor. Virtual assistants work from their own office (hence "virtual"), thus making it a fairly popular (and growing) profession.
Virtual auditory space Virtual auditory space (also known as Virtual Acoustic Space, or `VAS') simulations are sounds played back over headphones which provide the listener with more cues normally present in real-world environment. Perception of an externalized sound source comes from acoustic cues, which are generated by the interaction of sound with the head and external ears.
Virtual Abbey The Virtual Abbey is the name of a concert by David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir at The Kitchen in New York City. The concert made use of a technique called acoustic transportation and is documented on the BMG CD "Earth to the Unknown Power.
Virtual Adepts The Virtual Adepts are a Tradition, or secret magical society, in the Mage: The Ascension role-playing game. They are the newest of the formal Traditions; like their fellow societies, they seek Ascension for themselves and the world at large.
Virtual Air Traffic Flight Simulation Network The Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM) is an organization whose purpose is the simulation of worldwide air traffic by means of flight simulation and air traffic control software. It is, in essence, a massively multiplayer online game.
Virtual Asset Sales Virtual Asset Sales (VAS) refers to any game business model that offers its players to acquire in-game items through the use of real-money. It can be via a credit card or prepaid card, or can be in various forms like a reward points program, wherein the points are acquired through a direct involvement of real-cash - example is by topping-up your account.
Virtual Assistance A Virtual Assistant (or VA) is a professional service provider who specializes in providing remote administrative office support services as an independent contractor who works with clients in an ongoing, collaborative professional relationship.
Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce (VACOC) is a professional association and global community of Virtual Assistants to promote shared business interests, opportunities and advancement of the Virtual Assistant profession.
Virtual band A virtual band (also called a virtual group or cartoon band), in music, is any group whose members are not flesh-and-blood musicians, but animated characters. The music is recorded (and, in the case of concerts, performed) by human musicians and producers, while any media related to the virtual band, including albums, video clips and the visual component of stage performances, feature the animated line-up; in some cases (including both the Gorillaz albums, Gorillaz and Demon Days), the virtual band members have been listed as the writers and performers of the songs.
Virtual battlefield A virtual battlefield is the digital simulation of a war, generally accomplished by the combination of differing simulators into a digital environment. Each soldier, or vehicle in the environment is controlled by a human being.
Virtual Boy The was the first portable game console capable of displaying "true 3D graphics." Most video games are forced to use perspective to achieve the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional screen, but the Virtual Boy was able to create a more accurate illusion of depth through an effect known as parallax.
Virtual circuit A virtual circuit (VC) is a communications arrangement in which data from a source user may be passed to a destination user over more than one real communications circuit during a single period of communication, but the switching is hidden from the users. A widely used virtual circuit protocol is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
Virtual colonoscopy Virtual colonoscopy (VC) is a Medical imaging procedure which uses x-rays and computers to produce two- and three-dimensional images of the colon (large intestine) from the lowest part, the rectum, all the way to the lower end of the small intestine and display them on a screen. The procedure is used to diagnose colon and bowel disease, including polyps, diverticulosis and cancer.
Virtual community A virtual community or online community is a group of people that may or may not primarily or initially communicate or interact via the Internet. Online communities have also become a supplimental form of communication between people who know each other in real life.
Virtual companion A virtual companion is any kind of hardware or software creation designed to give companionship to a person. These can include digital pets, such as the popular Tamagotchi, or robots, such as the well-known Sony AIBO.
Virtual concatenation Virtual concatenation (VCAT) is an inverse multiplexing technique used to split SONET/SDH bandwidth into logical groups, which may be transported or routed independently. Alternate SONET/SDH concatenation techniques include: (i) contiguous concatenation and (ii) arbitrary concatenation.
Virtual console In some operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD, a virtual console (VC, sometimes virtual terminal, VT) is a conceptual combination of the keyboard and the display for a user interface. The concrete combination is the console of the computer, where the user can switch between the virtual consoles to access multiple unrelated user interfaces.
Virtual corporation A virtual corporation is a firm that outsources the majority of its functions. Typically, a small group of executives will contract out and then coordinate the designing, making, and selling of products or services.
Virtual crime Virtual crime or in-game crime refers to a virtual criminal act that takes place in a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), usually an MMORPG. The huge time and effort invested into such games can lead online "crime" to spill over into real world crime, and even blur the distinctions between the two.
Virtual Campus A Virtual Campus refers to the online offerings of a college or university where college work is completed either partially or wholly online, often with the assistance of the teacher, professor, or teaching assistant.
Virtual Case File Virtual Case File, or VCF, was a software application developed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2000 and 2005. The project was not close to completion when it was officially abandoned in January 2005, having turned into a complete fiasco for the FBI.
Virtual Center of Biotechnology for the Americas The Virtual Center of Biotechnology for the Americas is a non-profit group in Mexico which makes free copies of peer-reviewed articles available to students of the biological sciences in third-world nations via the Internet.
Virtual Collaboration Virtual Collaboration - Two or more people collaborating together to accomplish a task without the use of face to face interaction. Examples of Virtual Collaboration include Audio Conferencing, Video Conferencing, or Computer Mediated Communication.
Virtual Community of Practice To some a virtual Community of Practice is a misnomer as the original concept of a Community of Practice (CoP) was based around situated learning in a co-located setting. However, with increasing globalization and the continued growth of the Internet many now claim that virtual CoPs do exist.
Virtual Console Virtual Console, sometimes abbreviated as VC, is a video game download service that is currently offered by Nintendo for its Wii gaming console. Described by Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata as "the video game version of Apple's iTunes Store", the service features titles from past Nintendo consoles (NES, SNES and N64) and formerly competing systems, the Mega Drive/Genesis and TurboGrafx-16.
Virtual directory A virtual directory is a server for a directory protocol such as LDAP, but unlike a traditional directory server, does not master the data itself in its own database. Instead a virtual directory will dynamically translate requests it receives to operations in other protocols or data models, such as to a relational database.
Virtual displacement In analytical mechanics the concept of a virtual displacement, related to the concept of virtual work, is meaningful only when discussing a physical system subject to constraints on its motion. A special case of an infinitesimal displacement (usually notated dvec{x}), a virtual displacement (notated delta vec{x}) refers to an infinitesimal change in the position coordinates of a system such that the constraints remain satisfied.
Virtual Document Exchange Virtual Document Exchange or VDX is an electronic inter-library electronic/online document request management system. It provides users the ability to create and manage document borrowing and lending requests between participating libraries.
Virtual DOS machine Virtual DOS machine (VDM) is the name of Microsoft's technology allowing the ability to run MS-DOS programs on Intel 80386 or higher computers when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware.
Virtual Drummer Virtual Drummer was a small freeware application for the Apple Macintosh written by Jon Nichols in the mid-1990s. Initially conceived as a vehicle to learn programming and QuickTime, called BigBang, the author eventually worked on it alongside his professional software career.
Virtual Dungeon The Virtual Dungeon was the first stronghold of the arch villain Grimlord in the Saban series VR Troopers. The interior consisted of footage taken from Choujinki Metalder, where it was known in that show as God Neros's "Ghost Bank.
Virtual economy A virtual economy (or sometimes synthetic economy) is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually in the context of an Internet game. People enter these virtual economies recreationally rather than by necessity; however, some people do interact with them for "real" economic benefit.
Virtual education Virtual Education refers to instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and the teacher provides course content through course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, videoconferencing, etc. Students receive the content and communicate with the teacher via the same technologies.

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