EBay, the world's biggest auction site (which also owns a stake in Craigslist), already works like a global trading place.
"New York is the biggest human hair trading place," said Nina America's managing director, Do Kwang Baek.
It began as a trading place on a salt route to Prague, was chartered in 1143, and fell to the Wettin margraves of Meissen in 1308.
The site is believed to have been a meeting or trading place, according to "Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis," by Reginald Bolton (Museum of the American Indian High Foundation, 1922).
It has been a trading place since the Middle Ages, and a look at the colorful sea of stalls makes it easy to imagine what it might have looked like in the 13th century.
By 1811 Louisville had become an important frontier and river-flatboat trading place, and its development was further stimulated that year when Captain Nicholas Roosevelt docked the New Orleans, the first successful steamboat to ply the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
