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Atlanta and Hawkinsville Railroad The Atlanta and Hawkinsville Railroad was chartered in July of 1886 and was planned to operate between Atlanta, GA and Hawkinsville, GA. The name was changed in 1887 to the Atlanta and Florida Railroad, which was eventually taken over by the Southern Railway in 1895.
Atlanta and West Point Rail Road The Atlanta and West Point Railroad (AWP) was originally chartered in 1847 as the Atlanta and LaGrange Rail Road and the section from Newnan to West Point was chartered in December 1849. It was completed in 1854.
Atlanta Athletic Club The Atlanta Athletic Club, (AAC), founded in 1898, is a world-renowned athletic club in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb 23 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia. The original home of the club was a 10-story building located on Carnegie Way, and in 1904 a golf course was built on Atlanta's East Lake property.
Atlanta Beat The Atlanta Beat was a professional soccer team that played in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team played at Bobby Dodd Stadium on the campus of Georgia Tech in their first year of operation, before moving to Herndon Stadium, on the campus of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta Biltmore Hotel The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel opened in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924 at a cost of $6 million. It was organized by Coca-Cola heir William Candler, Holland Ball Judkins, and John McEntee Bowman and was designed by the architectural firm of Schultze and Weaver.
Atlanta Bucks Rugby Football Club The Atlanta Bucks Rugby Football Club is the first rugby union club in the Southeastern United States established to invite members from traditionally under-represented groups, particularly men of color and gay men, to engage in the world's third most popular team sport.
Atlanta class cruiser The Atlanta class cruisers were United States Navy light cruisers designed originally as flotilla leaders but which ended up gaining recognition as effective anti-aircraft cruisers during World War II. With eight dual 5" gun mounts (six centerline), the first run of Atlanta class cruisers had by far the heaviest anti-aircraft broadside of any warship of World War II, at over 17,600 pounds (10,560 kg) per minute of highly-accurate, radar-fuzed VT ordnance.
Atlanta Campaign The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia, during the summer of 1864, leading to the eventual fall of Atlanta and hastening the end of the American Civil War.
Atlanta Civic Center The Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center is a theater and fine arts venue in Atlanta, Georgia. The theater, which seats 4,600, regularly hosts touring productions of Broadway musicals, concerts, seminars, and comedy acts.
Atlanta College of Art Atlanta College of Art, established in 1905, was the first not-for-profit college of design and art in the Southeastern United States. An original partner of Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta College of Art adjoins the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre.
Atlanta Crackers The Atlanta Crackers (distinct from the Atlanta Black Crackers) were a minor league baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1901 to 1965. The Crackers were Atlanta's home team until the Atlanta Braves moved from Milwaukee in 1966.
Atlanta Cyclorama The Atlanta Cyclorama is a cylindrical panoramic painting of the American Civil War Battle of Atlanta. The cyclorama is housed in a museum, also called the "Atlanta Cyclorama", in Grant Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta Dogwood Festival The Atlanta Dogwood Festival is an arts and crafts festival held each spring at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally held for nine days across two weekends and the weekdays between, it is now held only one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.
Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are currently a member of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
Atlanta Flames The Atlanta Flames were a National Hockey League (NHL) franchise based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 1972 to 1980. The team was relocated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the start of the 1980-81 NHL season and were re-named the Calgary Flames.
Atlanta Georgia Temple The Atlanta Georgia Temple is the 23rd constructed and 21st operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Sandy Springs, Georgia it was the first of a group of seven smaller temples announced together in 1980.
Atlanta History Center The Atlanta History Center is located in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. It comprises a history museum, a research library and archives, two historic houses (including the Philip Trammell Shutze designed Swan House) and a series of gardens all of which are located on 33 acres (13.
Atlanta child murders The Atlanta child murders, known locally simply as the "missing and murdered children case", were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia from the summer of 1979 until the spring of 1981. Over the two year period, twenty-nine African-American children, adolescents and adults were killed.
Atlanta Charter Middle School Atlanta's youngest operating charter school is located in the Ormewood Park community in Southeast Atlanta. It provides an alternative to the surrounding middle schools, and it boasts the highest composite CRCT scores for any middle school in APS.
Atlanta Chiefs The Atlanta Chiefs were a soccer team based out of Atlanta, Georgia that played in the NPSL and NASL from 1967 to 1972. Their home fields were Atlanta Fulton County Stadium (1967-1969, 1971-1972) and Tara Stadium (1970).
Atlanta Christian College Atlanta Christian College (founded 1937) is located in East Point, Georgia. The school stands in tribute to the vision and tenacity of her founders and of those who have shared their sense of mission and devotion.
Atlanta in the Civil War The city of Atlanta, Georgia, was an important rail and commercial center during the American Civil War. Although relatively small in population, the city became a critical point of contention during the Atlanta Campaign in 1864 when a powerful Union army approached from Federally-held Tennessee.
Atlanta Institute Of Music The Atlanta Institute Of Music is a 19,000 square-foot facility comprised of classrooms, recording studios, a library, private lesson rooms, a performance hall, a student lounge, and video viewing and practice areas, and digital practice rooms. The performance halls and classrooms are outfitted with the latest, top-of-the-line amplification gear, acoustic and electric drum kits and recording equipment.
Atlanta Junior Golf Association The Atlanta Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Marietta, GA. It was established in 1974 as the 'Dekalb Junior Golf Association' with less than 100 members and conducted approximately one dozen events.
Atlanta Junior Chamber (JCI Atlanta) The Atlanta Junior Chamber is an organization of young professionals ages 21-40 that provide a wide range of activities. Members can participate in community service, business networking, leadership development, and social events.
Atlanta Knights The Atlanta Knights (later Quebec Rafales [rafales being French for "winds"]) were an International Hockey League franchise from 1992-93 through 1996-97. The team moved for the 1996-97 IHL season due to the impending arrival of an Atlanta NHL franchise (Atlanta Thrashers) and the loss of the The Omni arena.
Atlanta Krunk Wolverines The Atlanta Krunk Wolverines are a Continental Basketball Association team. They began play in 2005 as the Charlotte Krunk of the American Basketball Association team playing out of Charlotte, North Carolina's Cricket Arena.
Atlanta metropolitan area The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta metropolitan area is the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the United States and consists of 28 counties in Georgia. According to the 2000 census, the metropolitan area had a population of 4,247,981, though the 2005 Census estimate shows 4,917,717 people living in the area.
Atlanta Nights Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors, with the express purpose of producing an unpublishably bad piece of work and testing whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it, which they did.
Atlanta Race Riot The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which began the evening of September 22nd and lasted until September 25th. At least 27 people died and over seventy were injured.
Atlanta Regional Commission The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the Atlanta, Georgia, region, as defined as a 10-county area including Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale counties, as well as the City of Atlanta. It also serves as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for 19 counties in the Atlanta Region.
Atlanta Rhythm Section Atlanta Rhythm Section, sometimes abbreviated ARS, is an American southern rock band. The band unofficially formed in 1970 as former members of the Candymen and the Classics IV became the session band for the newly opened Studio One in Doraville, Georgia, near Atlanta.
Atlanta Rolling Mill The Atlanta Rolling Mill was constructed in 1858 by Lewis Schofield and James Blake and soon after, Schofield and William Markham took it over and transformed it into the South's second most productive rolling mill, after the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia.
Atlanta Silverbacks The Atlanta Silverbacks are an American professional soccer club who currently play in the USL First Division, a division of the United Soccer Leagues, and the second division in the US Soccer hierarchy. They also have a USL Premier Development League club known as the Atlanta Silverbacks U23's, which began play in 2006.
Atlanta Silverbacks U23's Atlanta Silverbacks U23’s are an American soccer team, founded in 2006 as part of the development system for the Atlanta Silverbacks USL First Division team. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Southeast Division of the Southern Conference against teams from Bradenton, Cocoa, Greensboro, Nashville, Orlando, Raleigh, and West Palm Beach.
Atlanta Speech School The Atlanta Speech School is a therapeutic educational center for children and adults with hearing, speech, language, or learning disabilities in Atlanta, GA. It was established in 1938 and is considered to be among the oldest and best schools of its type in the Southeast.
Atlanta Steam Atlanta Steam is one of four teams that will be introduced to the Lingerie Football League in 2008 (formerly announced for 2005 season). The other teams will be Las Vegas Sin, Miami Caliente and San Francisco Seduction.
Atlanta Symphony Center The Atlanta Symphony Center is a proposed concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia that would be the new home of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The site for the new structure is in Midtown on 14th Street just south of the current Symphony Hall in the Woodruff Arts Center.
Atlanta University Center The Atlanta University Center is the largest consortium of African-American higher education in the United States of America. The center is made up of six historically black colleges in southwest Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta Wind Symphony The Atlanta Wind Symphony is an internationally-renowned musical ensemble comprised of some of Atlanta's finest professional musicians and composers as well as talented amateurs. It operates as a nonprofit 501c(3) corporation and receives grants from individuals, foundations, corporations and the Fulton County Arts Council.
Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony (AYWS) The Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony was founded in 1988 as the premiere honor wind ensemble for high school youth for the Atlanta metropolitan area. Its purpose is to provide a positive musical experience for advanced instrumentalists in wind and percussion performance.
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was a baseball, football and soccer stadium that formerly stood in Atlanta, Georgia. Completed in just 50 weeks, for $18 million, it opened in the spring of 1965 as Atlanta Stadium.
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway was formed in 1905 to purchase the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway and extend its track into Birmingham from an end point at Montezuma. The AB&A Railway formally consolidated with the A&B Railway in April of 1906 to form the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad.
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad The Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad was formed in 1926 from a reorganization of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad. The Atlantic Coast Line had acquired most of the AB&C's stock and absorbed it in about 1946.
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta (IPA: or ) is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Georgia, and the central city of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. It is the county seat of Fulton County; although a portion of the city extends into DeKalb County.
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad Nicknamed "The Hiawasse Route" for a scenic portion of the railroad along the Hiawassee River, the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad was chartered in 1896 as a successor to the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad. Most of the AK&N's stock was purchased by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1902, which gave the L&N a complete route from Atlanta to Cincinnati.
Atlantean Scion A fictional ancient device created for the video game Tomb Raider, the Atlantean Scion was apparently capable of "powers beyond the creator himself", that was fashioned by the three great rulers of Atlantis: Qualopec, Tihocan, and Natla.
Atlantes (Sorcerer) Atlantes was a powerful sorcerer featured in the chansons de geste. The sorcerer built a castle of iron in the Pyrenees to keep knights and ladies he had captured as a diversion for his nephew Roger, a pagan knight.
Atlantic 75 class lifeboat B-Class (Atlantic 75) lifeboats serve the shores of the UK as a part of the RNLI inshore fleet.The Atlantic 75 is the second generation Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) in the B-Class series, developed from the Atlantic 21.
Atlantic 85 class lifeboat Atlantic 85 class lifeboats serve the shores of the UK as a part of the RNLI inshore fleet.The Atlantic 85 is the third generation B-Class Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) developed from the Atlantic 21 and later Atlantic 75.
Atlantic and Birmingham Railway The Atlantic and Birmingham Railway was originally chartered in 1887 as the Waycross Air Line Railroad. In 1901, the original charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham and the railroad's name was changed to the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad.
Atlantic and Gulf Short Line Railroad The Atlantic and Gulf Short Line Railroad originated around 1905 from a possible reorganization of a railroad called either the Midville and Swainsboro Railroad or the Midville, Swainsboro and Red Bluff Railroad (maps from the period show the former while other accounts showed the latter). This line was then sold to the Georgia and Florida Railroad in 1906.
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company was chartered in New York state in 1852. While the formative bond adhered to the provisions of the Mississippi and Pacific Act of 1853, the bond was rejected and cancelled.
Atlantic Airlines de Honduras Atlantic Airlines de Honduras is an airline based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It was established in 2001 and operates regional passenger services in Central America, together with its Nicaraguan affiliate of the same name, Atlantic Airlines.
Atlantic Airways Flight 670 Atlantic Airways Flight 670 Atlantic Airways press release, October 10, 2006 was a chartered flight between Stavanger Airport, Sola and Molde Airport, Årø with an intermediate landing at Stord Airport, Sørstokken. At 07:35, on October 10, 2006, the aircraft, a British Aerospace 146-200, slid off the runway and burst into flames while landing at Stord in Norway.
Atlantic Avenue (Boston) Atlantic Avenue is a street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, USA, partly serving as a frontage road for the underground Central Artery (I-93) and partly running along the Boston Harbor. It has a long history, with several relocations along the way.
Atlantic Avenue Elevated The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railway's Main Line (now the Orange Line) around the Washington Street Tunnel. It was in use from 1901 to 1938, and was demolished due to low ridership.
Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street (New York City Subway) Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, the BMT Brighton Line and the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. It is located at Atlantic, Fourth and Flatbush Avenues and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, and is served by:
Atlantic Beach, Florida Atlantic Beach is a city in Duval County, Florida, United States. When the majority of communities in Duval County consolidated with Jacksonville, Florida in 1968, Atlantic Beach, along with Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, and Baldwin, Florida, remained quasi-independent.
Atlantic Boulevard (Los Angeles) Atlantic Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue is a major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County. It passes through Alhambra, Monterey Park, East Los Angeles, Commerce, Vernon, Maywood, Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood, Compton, and Long Beach.
Atlantic Brass Quintet The Boston-based Atlantic Brass Quintet is a five-piece chamber music ensemble which was founded in 1985, by John Manning, Joseph Foley, John Faieta and Bob Rasmussen Early after it's inception, it received first prize in a number of chamber music and brass quintet competitions, including the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Carmel Chamber Music Society Competition, the Shoreline Alliance Chamber Music Competition, the Summit Brass First International Brass Ensemble Competition, and the Rafael Mendez International Brass Quintet Competition. In 1992 the ensemble won the "Premiere Prix" at the International Brass Competition of Narbonne, France, recognized worldwide as the preeminent competition of its kind.
Atlantic Broadband Atlantic Broadband is one of the top 20 cable operators in the United States with 250,000 customers and 500 empolyees. The company services the regions of: Western Pennsylvania, Miami Beach and Maryland/Delaware.
Atlantic coastal pine barrens The Atlantic coastal pine barrens is a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of the northeastern United States. The ecoregion covers a disjunct area of 8,975 km² including the New Jersey Pine Barrens, and smaller areas of southern Long Island in New York State, and on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Atlantic Canada Atlantic Canada, also known as the Atlantic provinces, is the region of Canada comprising four provinces located on the Atlantic coast: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island – and Newfoundland and Labrador. The population of the Atlantic provinces was 2.
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is the Canadian federal government department responsible for helping to build economic capacity in the Atlantic Provinces by working with the people of the region – in their communities, through their institutions and with their local and provincial governments and businesses – to create jobs and enhance earned incomes.
Atlantic Central Football Conference The Atlantic Central Football Conference (ACFC) is a College Athletic Conference which competes in football only in the NCAA's Division III. Its member teams are located in Delaware, Maryland, New York and Virginia.
Atlantic City (song) Atlantic City is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo guitar album Nebraska, which is generally considered one of Springsteen's darker albums musically.
Atlantic City Bus Terminal The Atlantic City Bus Terminal is a regional bus station and a major stop for New Jersey Transit buses in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Located at the 1900 block of Atlantic Avenue, the station is now only half its size as part of it was built for a Polo Ralph Lauren store in the Atlantic City Outlets The Walk.
Atlantic City Conference The Atlantic City Conference of 1929 is considered by most crime historians as the earliest organized crime summit held in the United States and held a major impact on the future direction of the underworld, it held more importance and significance than the Havana Conference of 1946 and the Apalachin meeting of 1957, representing the first concrete move toward a "National Crime Syndicate".Sifakis, p.
Atlantic City Diablos Atlantic City Diablos are an American soccer team, founded in 2007. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and will make their debut in the brand new Eastern Conference in 2007.
Atlantic City Expressway The Atlantic City Expressway (officially numbered, but unsigned, as Route 446) is a controlled-access toll road in New Jersey, managed and operated by the South Jersey Transportation Authority. It is a 44-mile-long toll highway, running as an extension of Route 42 in Turnersville to Atlantic City.
Atlantic City High School Atlantic City High School is a four-year public high school located in Atlantic City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Atlantic City School District. The current school building opened in 1994 and holds approximately 2,500 students.
Atlantic City Line The Atlantic City Line is run by New Jersey Transit between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Atlantic City, New Jersey. It runs over trackage that was controlled by both the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.
Atlantic City Race Course The Atlantic City Race Course is a thoroughbred horse race track located in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The track is located off the Black Horse Pike (U.
Atlantic City Surf The Atlantic City Surf is a former Atlantic League and presently Can-Am League baseball team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey. From the 1998-2006 seasons, they played in the South Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball before dismal attendance and a change in ownership prompted moving to the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, neither of which are affilitated with Major League Baseball.
Atlantic Club Ridge The Atlantic Club Ridge (Vrah Atlanticheski Klub 'vr&h a-tlan-'ti-che-ski 'klub) is a ridge rising to 161 m in Eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica. To the west the ridge surmounts the South Bay coast north of Johnsons Dock, to the south it is bounded by the lower course of the two km long Contell Glacier, to the east by the foot of the Balkan Snowfield sloping up towards Krum Rock and to the northwest by Sea Lion Tarn.
Atlantic Coast The Atlantic Coast is any coast fronting the Atlantic Ocean. The term differentiates the coasts of countries or continents with coastlines on more than one body of water, such as North America, South America, Africa and Europe.
Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is one of the oldest collegiate athletic leagues in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member universities compete in twenty sports in the NCAA's Division I.
Atlantic Coast Express The Atlantic Coast Express (ACE) was an express passenger train in England between Waterloo station, London and seaside resorts in the south west. It ran between 1926 and 1964: at its peak it included coaches for nine separate destinations.
Atlantic Coast Football League The Atlantic Coast Football League operated between 1962 and 1964 drawing many quality players from the East Coast schools. Though it provided the NFL with many talented players, it was an entertaining option during a time when (with lower player salaries) it could compete with other leagues.
Atlantic Coast Hockey League The Atlantic Coast Hockey League was a minor league hockey organization that operated between 1981 and 1987. Beginning in 1988 the league merged with the All-American Hockey League to create the East Coast Hockey League (today the ECHL).
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American railroad that existed between 1898 and July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The company was headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida (Wilmington, North Carolina before 1961).
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Depot (also known as Lake Wales Depot Museum or the Lake Wales Museum or The Depot) is a historic Atlantic Coast Line Railroad depot in Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It is located at 325 South Scenic Highway.
Atlantic Coast restingas Atlantic Coast retingas are an ecoregion of Brazil, part of the Atlantic Forest region. Restingas are coastal forests which form on sandy, acidic, and nutrient-poor soils, and are characterized by medium sized trees and shrubs adapted to the dry and nutrient-poor conditions found there.
Atlantic Coastal Plain The Atlantic Coastal Plain is the flat stretch of land that borders the Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico). It is approximately 2,200 miles long, stretching from Cape Cod, through the southeast United States and through Mexico, ending with the Yucatán Peninsula.
Atlantic College The United World College of the Atlantic, more commonly referred to simply as Atlantic College, is a internationally-prestiged private boarding school in Wales, United Kingdom. Founded in 1962 by the German educationalist Kurt Hahn who also set up Gordonstoun School in Scotland.
Atlantic College of Puerto Rico The Atlantic College of Puerto Rico is a private university in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico that offers undergraduate studies in business administration, education, and graphic arts, and graduate studies in graphic arts. It was founded in 1983 by Colonel RamĂłn M.
Atlantic Conveyor The Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship that was requisitioned during the Falklands War and sunk by an Exocet missile. Owned by Cunard, the 14,950 tonne roll-on, roll-off container ship was built along with six other container ships each named Atlantic and flown under different national flags for different companies.
Atlantic District (LCMS) The Atlantic District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers eastern New York state: New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and the Capital District. It comprises approximately 100 congregations and a number of mission stations, subdivided into 12 circuits, as well as 47 preschools, 26 elementary schools and 4 high schools.
Atlantic Division (NBA) The Atlantic Division is a division in the Eastern Conference of the NBA. The Celtics, Nets, Knicks, and 76ers were already in the seven team Atlantic before the merge that brought the Raptors and sent the Heat, Magic and Wizards to the new Southeast Division.
Atlantic Film Festival Located in coastal Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) (September 14-23, 2006) is a ten-day celebration of film and video from the Atlantic Provinces, Canada and around the world. Known for its warm and festive atmosphere, the Festival is committed to screening an inspiring and engaging collection of films and videos from Canada and the world.
Atlantic Flyway The Atlantic Flyway is a bird migration route that generally follows the Mississippi River in the United States and the Mackenzie River in Canada. The main endpoints of the flyway include the Canadian Maritimes and the region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico; the migration route tends to narrow considerably in the southern United States in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (U.
Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese) is a region of tropical and subtropical moist forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savannas, and mangrove forests which extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina.
Atlantic Giant The Atlantic Giant is a pumpkin (sometimes also qualified as a squash, depending on fruit color) variety of the species Cucurbita maxima that was bred by Howard Dill. The uniqueness of this variety lies in its production of fruits both more massive and more voluminous than those produced by any other plant in the world.
Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling (AGPW) is a wrestling promotion run and owned by Emile Duprée, AKA Golden Boy Dupree (father of Rene Dupree). Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling currently runs in parts of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia.
Atlantic horse mackerel The Atlantic horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus is a species of mackerel in the family Carangidae. It gets its common name from the legend that other smaller species of fish could ride on the back of it over great distances.
Atlantic hurricane Atlantic hurricane refers to a tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator, usually in the Northern Hemisphere summer or autumn, with one-minute maximum sustained winds of 74 mph/64 kts/33 m/s. National Hurricane Center.
Atlantic hurricane reanalysis Atlantic hurricane reanalysis is an ongoing project within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which seeks to correct and add new information about past Atlantic tropical cyclones. It was started around 2000 to update HURDAT, the official hurricane database for the Atlantic Basin, which has become outdated since its creation.
Atlantic House The Atlantic House (often called the A-House, even in its own advertisements) in Provincetown, Massachusetts is a drinking establishment that has been in continual operation on the tip of Cape Cod for over two centuries.The History of Atlantic House.
Atlantic Innovation Fund The Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF) is a financing program run by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) to help Canadian organizations in Atlantic Canada to develope innovative products and services. This program is highly-competitive.

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