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Atlantic jackknife clam The Atlantic jackknife clam , Ensis directus, also known as the American jackknife clam or razor clam (but note that "razor clam" sometimes refers to different species), is a mollusc which is found on the Atlantic coast, from Canada to South Carolina. The clam lives in the sand and mud found in intertidal or subtidal zones in bays and estuaries.
Atlantic languages The (West) Atlantic languages"West Atlantic" is the more traditional usage, following Diedrich Hermann Westermann; "Atlantic" is more typical in recent work, particularly since (Bendor-Samuel 1989). of West Africa are a subgroup of Niger-Congo language family.
Atlantic Lottery Corporation The Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) is an organization which operates lottery games in Atlantic Canada. It is owned jointly by the four Atlantic provincial governments: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Atlantic moist forests The Atlantic moist forests, also known as the Atlantic coastal forests, are tropical moist evergreen forests, part of the Atlantic Forests complex of eastern Brazil. The Atlantic moist forests mostly lie within 80 km of the Atlantic coast.
Atlantic Metropolitan Hockey League The Atlantic Metropolitan Hockey League is a youth hockey organization, based in McAfee, New Jersey, that operates in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The league consists of four leagues under the banner of the AMHL: Atlantic Junior Hockey League, Atlantic Sled Hockey League, Atlantic Youth Hockey League, and the Metropolitan Junior Hockey League.
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) is a hypothesised mode of natural variability occurring in the North Atlantic Ocean and which has its principle expression in the sea surface temperature (SST) field. While there is some support for this mode in models and in observations, controversy exists in regard to its amplitude, and in particular, the attribution of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic in areas important for hurricane development.
Atlantic Northeast The Atlantic Northeast is a region of North America, comprising New England in the United States and the Maritimes in Canada. Definitions of the region vary; in New England it may be restricted to the rural north, and it may also extend to all of Atlantic Canada.
Atlantic Petrel The Atlantic Petrel (Pterodroma incerta) is a gadfly petrel endemic to the South Atlantic Ocean. It breeds in enormous colonies on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, and ranges at sea from Brazil to Namibia, with most records at sea being to the west of the breeding islands, and along the subtropical convergence.
Atlantic Petroleum Atlantic Petroleum was an oil company in the Eastern United States headquartered in Philadelphia, and a direct descendant of the Standard Oil Trust. It was also one of the companies that merged with Richfield Oil to form ARCO, now part of BP.
Atlantic Pygmy Octopus The Atlantic Pygmy Octopus (Octopus joubini), also known as the Small-egg Carribbean Pygmy Octopus, is the smallest octopus species in the order Octopoda. Fully grown, this cephalopod has an armspan of only about two to four inches.
Atlantic Region Ministries Atlantic Region Ministries is a church-planting organization located in Truro, Nova Scotia, made up of Baptist and Bible churches that do not cooperate with any other Baptist bodies. It was incorporated in 1991 and is recognized by the Canadian government as a non-profit charitable institution.
Atlantic Reporter The Atlantic Reporter is a regional case law reporter published by West Publishing in the United States. It contains select opinions of state supreme courts and lower appellate courts from the following states:
Atlantic Rowing Race The Atlantic Rowing Race is a challenging ocean rowing race from the Canary Islands to the West Indies, a distance of approximately 2,550 nm (2,930 statute miles or 4,700 km). The race was founded by Sir Chay Blyth and early races were run by Challenge Business Ltd.
Atlantic sailfish The Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) is a species of marine fish in family Istiophoridae of order Perciformes. It is found in south Florida associated with waters near the Gulf Stream; off the Panhandle about 100 feet (30 m) deep.
Atlantic saury The Atlantic saury, Scomberesox saurus, is a fish of the family Scomberesocidae found in the Atlantic Ocean, in the seas near Australia, and also in the Mediterranean. The fish grow to about 35 cm in length, with a maximum of 50 cm, and have beaklike jaws and a row of finlets behind their dorsal and anal fins.
Atlantic sawtail cat shark The Atlantic sawtail cat shark, Galeus atlanticus, is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae the only specimen of which, the holotype, was found off Cape Spartel, on the northwest coast of Morocco, at 540 m.
Atlantic semi-deciduous forests The Atlantic semi-deciduous forests, also known as the Atlantic interior forests, are a belt of tropical moist broadleaf forests that are part of the Atlantic Forests complex of eastern Brazil. The semi-deciduous forests form a transitional zone between the humid Atlantic moist forests which lie near the Atlantic coast, and the drier Caatinga shrublands, Atlantic dry forests, and Cerrado savannas of the interior.
Atlantic sharpnose shark The Atlantic sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the subtropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean between latitudes 43° N and 25° S, at depths of from 10 to 280 m. Its length is up to about 1.
Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade was the purchase of slaves in and transported from West Africa and Central Africa, into slavery in the New World. The trade relied on kidnapping persons in Africa to make them ready for the arrival of the foreign slave-ships.
Atlantic stingray The Atlantic stingray, Dasyatis sabina, is a stingray of the family Dasyatidae found in the western Atlantic from Chesapeake Bay to southern Florida between latitudes 39° N and 17° N, at depths down to 25 m. Its length is up to 61 cm.
Atlantic sturgeon The Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrinchus) is a member of the Acipenseridae family and is among one of the oldest fish species in the world. Its range extends from New Brunswick, Canada to the eastern coast of Florida.
Atlantic Satellite Network Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN) is a Canadian English language television channel serving Atlantic Canada owned by CTV Television Inc., a division of CTVglobemedia with its studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Atlantic Short Line Railway The Atlantic Short Line was formed on December 9, 1892 from the failed Macon and Atlantic Railway. It managed to build a 28 mile stretch of rail East out of Brewton, GA (spelled Bruton at the time) before going bankrupt.
Atlantic School of Theology The Atlantic School of Theology (AST) is an ecumenical university which provides "graduate level theological education and research, and in formation for Christian ministries, lay and ordained, in church and society, primarily in Atlantic Canada". It is located in Halifax], [[Nova Scotia, Canada and its current enrollment is 170 students.
Atlantic Schooners The Atlantic Schooners was a conditional Canadian Football League expansion team in 1984, to play out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Schooners folded before they played a single game because the owners of the team (led by J.
Atlantic Soccer Conference Atlantic Soccer Conference(ASC), is a college athletic conference which only sponsors men's soccer. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I and its champion receives an automatic bid to the annual NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Tournament.
Atlantic Spanish mackerel The Atlantic Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, is a migratory species of mackerel that moves to northern Gulf of Mexico in spring, return to south Florida in eastern gulf, and to Mexico in western gulf in fall.
Atlantic Station Atlantic Station is a large urban renewal project at the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta. First planned in the mid-1990s and officially opened in 2005, its 138 acres (558,000 m²) of mixed-use land development is on the former brownfield site of the Atlantic Steel mill.
Atlantic Superstore Atlantic Superstore is an upscale supermarket chain of 51 stores in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Each of the stores are about 60,000 to 120,000 square feet (5,000 to 10,000 m²) in size on average.
Atlantic Ten Conference The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly on the United States' eastern seaboard. It also has two member schools in Ohio: Dayton and Xavier, located in Dayton and Cincinnati, respectively.
Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area The Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area (abbreviated as ATURA) is a section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, adjacent to the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights, Park Slope and Fort Greene, near the Atlantic Terminal train station. During the 2000's, the area has been under intense public awareness as an ambitious plan to redevelop the area, called the Atlantic Yards has led to a strong number of supporters and opponents.
Atlantic Theatre Festival The Atlantic Theatre Festival is a professional theatre company located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Theatre Festival presents live theatre during the summer in Wolfville's Festival Theatre, the former town hockey rink, which was converted into a 504 seat, thrust stage, theatre, and professional production facility, by the Atlantic Theatre Festival Society (a non-profit charity) As a result of a twenty-year (dollar-a-year) lease from Acadia University, over two million dollars was contributed by the local, Nova Scotian, and Canadian government to create the theatre.
Atlantic Transport Line The Atlantic Transport Line was a Baltimore, Maryland-based passenger shipping line that was folded into the International Mercantile Marine shipping trust (IMM) in 1902. The line's owner and president was Bernard N.
Atlantic Treaty Association The Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) is an umbrella organization which acts as a network facilitator in the Euro-Atlantic and beyond. The ATA draws together political leaders, academics, and diplomats in an effort to further the values set forth in the North Atlantic Treaty - Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Peace, Security, and the Rule of law.
Atlantic Union College Atlantic Union College (AUC), established in 1882, is located in South Lancaster, MA. The College is a four-year accredited, coeducational, liberal-arts institution with a number of professional and pre-professional programs, several alternative education programs, and a masters degree program in education.
Atlantic University Atlantic University was a university in Virginia Beach, Virginia which is associated with the Edgar Cayce organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE). Founded in 1930, and folding two years later thanks to the Great Depression, AU was re-started in 1985.
Atlantic University Sport The Atlantic Universities Athletics Association was founded in 1974, with the merging of the Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the Atlantic Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Prior to the acceptance of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, the AIAA, which dates back to the late 19th century, was known as the Maritime Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
Atlantic weasel shark The Atlantic weasel shark, Paragaleus pectoralis, is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Verde and Mauritania to northern Namibia, and possibly extending north to Morocco, from the surface to 100 m. Its length is up to 1.
Atlantic white shrimp Atlantic white shrimp (Penaeus setiferus), also known as white shrimp or green tails is a species of prawn (not shrimp), found on the eastern seaboard of North America. They are bluish-white, with pink sides, and are sometimes carried into estuaries by tides or winds.
Atlantic whitefish The Atlantic whitefish (Coregonus huntsmani) is a freshwater salmonid fish inhabiting the northwestern Atlantic ocean around the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, as well as some freshwater lakes within Nova Scotia. C.
Atlantic wreckfish The Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) is a marine, [bathydemersal| bathydemersal], and [fish in the family] [[Polyprionidae. It is found in the Eastern and Western Atlantic Ocean, Western Indian Ocean, and in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
Atlantic Wall The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by the German Third Reich during World War II (1942-44) along the western coast of Europe in order to defend against an anticipated Anglo-American led Allied invasion of the continent from Great Britain.
Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference The Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference is an eight-member conference founded in 1995 and given official status in 1999. It competes in NCAA Division III and as its name implies, only offers championships in women's sports.
Atlantic Yards The Atlantic Yards is a planned mixed-use commercial and residential development project of 16 buildings, proposed to be constructed in the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights, and Park Slope, adjacent to Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene in Brooklyn, New York City. The centerpiece of the development, according to the developers, would be the Barclays Center, which would serve as the new home of the New Jersey Nets.
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross The Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) is a large seabird in the albatross family. This small mollymawk was once considered conspecific with the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross and known as the Yellow-nosed Albatross (some authorities still believe the species to be the same).
Atlantic-Congo languages In the classification of African languages, Atlantic-Congo is an early branch of the Niger-Congo phylum. Atlantic-Congo comprises the Atlantic languages and all other Niger-Congo branches except Mande and Kordofanian, which are believed to have split off even earlier than Atlantic.
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Steamship Company The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company of Baltimore, Maryland was incorporated in May, 1920. Its primary mission was to transport goods and produce across the Atlantic, across the Pacifc and coast to coast via the Panama Canal.
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O) was formed in 1870 in Virginia from 3 east-west railroads which traversed across the southern portion of the state. Organized and led by former Confederate general William Mahone (1826-1895), the 428-mile line linked Norfolk with Bristol, Virginia by way of Suffolk, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and Salem.
Atlantic, North Carolina Atlantic is an unincorporated community in eastern Carteret County situated along the Core Sound. It is the location of US 70's eastern terminus and the ferry terminal for journeys to the Cape Lookout National Seashore (Portsmouth Island).
Atlantic, Seattle, Washington Atlantic is the northernmost neighborhood of the Rainier Valley, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. Atlantic is in turn located in the Central District of east-central Seattle, Washington, though it may also be considered part of South Seattle and the Rainier Valley.
Atlantic, Valdosta and Western Railway Chartered in 1897, the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western Railway operated from Valdosta, GA to Jacksonville, FL and was nicknamed the Jacksonville Short Line. In 1902 it was purchased by the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad.
Atlantica (trade zone) Atlantica, formally known as Atlantica: the International Northeast Economic Region (AINER), is the name of a proposed area of economic integration in the Atlantic Northeast of North America, incorporating parts of Canada and the United States.
Atlanticism Atlanticism is a philosophy of cooperation among European and North American nations regarding political, economic, and defense issues. One who believes in Atlanticism is known as an Atlantist or an Atlanticist.
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland Division The AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland Campus is a 323-bed hospital, opened in 1975, and located in Pomona, in Galloway Township. Situated on the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey campus, the Mainland Campus experienced a 44 percent growth in admissions from 1986 to 1992.
Atlantique Incident The Atlantique Incident was a major event in which a Pakistan Navy plane was shot down by the Indian Air Force citing border violation. The episode took place in the Rann of Kutch on August 10, 1999 just a month after the Kargil War, creating a tense atmosphere between India and Pakistan.
Atlantis Atlantis (Greek: , "Island of Atlas") is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In Plato's account, Atlantis, lying "beyond the pillars of Hercules", was a naval power which conquered many parts of western Europe and Africa 9000 years before Plato's own time--approximately 9400 BC.
Atlantis (brothel) Atlantis was one of the largest German brothels, located in an industrial area of Altenstadt, some 30 km north-east of Frankfurt am Main. It was opened in the fall of 2000 and was closed by authorities in March 2004 because of charges of large-scale tax evasion, pimping and trafficking in women.
Atlantis (comics) Atlantis is a fictional location in the Marvel Universe. Atlantis had been a small continent (about the same size as modern Australia) with many human settlements, when an event 21,000 years ago called the "Great Cataclysm" caused it to be submerged into the sea.
Atlantis (Stargate) In the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the spin-off of Stargate SG-1, Atlantis (Milky Way Gate address: |pixelwidth=16|openbracket=|closebracket=}}, Pegasus Gate address: ) is an Ancient City Ship, both of which are part of the Stargate science fiction setting. It is based on, and serves to explain, the Greek myth of the Lost City of Atlantis.
Atlantis (Transformers) Atlantis is fictional starship in the TV show Transformers Cybertron. According to Vector Prime's explanation, Atlantis is one of the four Cybertronian starships that transported the Cyber Planet Keys to the four planets.
Atlantis basin Atlantis basin is an eroded impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars in the Phaethontis quadrangle, Sirenum Terrae region, centered at 177ÂşW, 35ÂşS. The crater was formed during the early Noachian period in a volcanic plain.
Atlantis in art, literature and popular culture Having become a "permanent member" of popular culture, Atlantis is frequently featured in many books, television shows, movies and other creative works. Below is a partial listing of works where Atlantis is featured as a major part of the storyline.
Atlantis no Nazo Atlantis no Nazo (translated from Japanese as "Puzzle of Atlantis") is an action game developed and published by Sunsoft and released exclusively for Japan for the Nintendo Famicom in 1986. Though an international version was never released, a partially translated prototype version was under development under the name Super Pitfall 2.
Atlantis Oil Field The Atlantis oil field is the third largest oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, estimated at about 600 million barrels (95 million mÂł). The British energy company BP owns a 56% interest in the field in conjunction with BHP Billiton Petroleum Deepwater which owns a 44 percent interest.
Atlantis Paradise Island The Atlantis is a large resort and casino located on Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas. The resort dominates the island's real estate and is a major contributor to the island's economy, employing some 6,000 residents.
Atlantis Pattern The Atlantis Pattern is a fictional symbol used in the art of many human cultures in the Transformers: Cybertron (called Transformers: Galaxy Force in Japan) cartoon series. It is based on a pattern visible on an ancient Cybertronian starship that came to Earth in order to establish a colony many thousands of years ago.
Atlantis Reef Atlantis Memorial Reef is supposed to be a unique concept sub-sea residence for the cremated remains and the world’s largest man-made reef (covering over 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) of ocean floor). The place was chosen at 3.
Atlantis Underwater Tycoon Atlantis Underwater Tycoon is a Tycoon computer game in which you must create an underwater civilization, and become a tycoon. It was developed and published by Activision Value, and released January 3, 2003 for Microsoft Windows on the PC.
Atlantis: the lost continent revealed Atlantis: The lost continent revealed is a book by Charles Berlitz. He lists several alternative theories on where the possible mythical Atlantis may have been situated, and cites different legends and stories that may support the different theories.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 15, 2001. An animated sci-fi mixed action movie, it was written by Tab Murphy, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn.
Atlantis: The Lost Tales Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released on September 30, 1997. The game is named after its initial and most important setting, Atlantis.
Atlantogenata Atlantogenata is a mammal clade containing the cohorts or super-orders Xenarthra, Afrotheria and Meridiungulata. These groups originated and radiated in the South American and African continents, presumably in the Cretaceous.
Atlantropa Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering and colonization project devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s and propagated by him until his death in 1952. Its central feature was a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by as much as 200 metres.
Atlas An atlas is a collection of maps or manifolds, traditionally bound into book form, but also found in multimedia formats. As well as geographic features and political boundaries, many often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics.
Atlas (King) Late Hellenistic and Roman poets reimagined the Titan Atlas as a giant ruler in the westernmost lands, and early modern translators such as Thomas Bulfinch made of that hint a King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, west of Libya, who provided an alternative etiological origin-tale for the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. The hints in literary myth-makers' poetical license are to be found in a lost poem of Polyidus,Polyidos' lost dithyramb apparently made Atlas not a king but a shepherd who blocked Perseus' way and was turned to stone.
Atlas (missile) The Atlas is a venerable line of space launch vehicles originally built by the Convair Division of General Dynamics, and now Lockheed Martin. Originally designed as an ICBM in the late 1950s, the Atlas is today used as a launch platform for commercial and military satellites, and other space vehicles.
Atlas (topology) In topology, a branch of mathematics, an atlas describes how a complicated space called a manifold is glued together from simpler pieces. Each piece is given by a chart (also known as coordinate chart or local coordinate system).
Atlas Aircraft Corporation The Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa (also known as Atlas Aviation) was established in 1965 to manufacture a number of sophisticated military aircraft and avionics equipment for the South African Air Force, as well as for export. It was established primarily to circumvent an international arms embargo commenced in 1963 against the South African government because of its Apartheid policies.
Atlas Autocode Atlas Autocode (AA) was a programming language developed around 1965 at Manchester University for the Atlas Computer. It was developed by Tony Brooker as an improvement on the ALGOL programming languages, removing some of Algol's poorer features such as passing parameters by name.
Atlas beetle The Atlas beetle, Chalcosoma atlas, is a species of beetle found in southern Asia, especially Malaysia, remarkable for its size (25-145 mm). As common in many insect species, the male is larger than the female and usually two males will fight for a female for mating.
Atlas Bank The Atlas Group established Atlas Investment Bank in 1990 as a joint venture between Atlas Group and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Japan. With an associated company, Atlas Lease Limited formed in 1989 as a joint venture between the Atlas Group, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Japan and the National Investment Trust, Pakistan was merged into the Bank in February, 2002.
Atlas Comics (1950s) Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Magazine and paperback-novel publisher Martin Goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic-book division during this time.
Atlas Computer (Manchester) The Atlas Computer of the University of Manchester, England, became operational in 1962, as a joint development between the University, Ferranti and Plessey. It was arguably one of the world's first supercomputers, and the fastest computer in the world until the release of the CDC 6600.
Atlas Flycatcher Atlas Flycatcher Ficedula speculigera is a bird in the an Old World Flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers; it is endemic as a breeding species to North-west Africa.
Atlas Cheetah The Atlas Cheetah is a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force. It was first built as a major upgrade of the Dassault Mirage III by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa (established 1965) in South Africa.
Atlas II Atlas II is the final member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas ICBM program of the 1950s. It is designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit.
Atlas III The Lockheed Martin Atlas III was an American orbital launch vehicle, used between 2000 and 2005. It was the first member of the Atlas family to feature a "normal" staging method, compared to the previous Atlas variants, which were equipped with jettisonable engines on the first (sustainer) stage.
Atlas Maior The Atlas Maior (or Atlas Novus, as it was originally called) is a comprehensive world atlas, conceived by Willem Blaeu but compiled by his son Joan Blaeu, and completed in 1665. The original work consisted of eleven volumes, in Latin, containing 594 maps.
Atlas Mira Although initially Russian cartography could not glory in original work - the "Atlas Marxa" (1905), for example, is merely a translation of Debes' Neuer Handatlas - the large Atlas Mira ("World Atlas", 1954, 2nd ed. 1967, 3rd 1999), with some 200,000 names, also in English translation of the last two editions as "The World Atlas", meant a very special achievement.
Atlas Mountains The Atlas Mountains () are a mountain range in northwest Africa extending about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, including The Rock of Gibraltar. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of 4,167 m (13,665 feet) located at in southwestern Morocco.
Atlas of Canada The Atlas of Canada is an Internet atlas that has information on every town, village, hamlet, and city in Canada. It was originally a print atlas, with its first edition being published in 1906 by James White, Geographer and a team of 20 cartographers.
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalog of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which was originally published in 1966 by the California Institute of Technology.
Atlas of Pridnestrovie The Atlas of Pridnestrovie, also known as the Atlas of the Dniester Moldavian Republic or the Atlas of Transnistria is to date the most thoroughly researched reference work in existence for Transnistria, a region which declared independence from Moldova in 1990.
Atlas Supervisor The Atlas Supervisor was the program which managed the allocation of processing resources of the Atlas Computer (of the University of Manchester) so that the machine was able to act on many tasks and user programs concurrently.
Atlas V Atlas V is a launch vehicle formerly built by Lockheed Martin and now built by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. It consists of a kerosene-liquid oxygen powered booster which retains the name Atlas and the liquid hydrogen - liquid oxygen powered Centaur upper stage.
Atlas V (boat) The Atlas V (Atlas 5) was a Belgian tug boat which was armed by resistance forces under the command of Jules Hentjens during the First World War. On the night of the 3rd and 4th of January, 1917, the boat arrived in The Netherlands with 107 people aboard, from Liege in occupied Belgium, which was occupied by German troops.
Atlas Vampire The Atlas Vampire (also known as the Vampire Murder Case) is the nickname given to the unknown assailant who committed the unsolved "Vampire Murder" in Stockholm, Sweden in 1932. On May 4, 1932, a 32 year old woman was found murdered in her small apartment in the Atlas area of Stockholm near Sankt Eriksplan.
Atlas Venture Atlas Venture is an international early-stage venture capital firm that invests in communications, information technology, and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich, and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the United States and Europe.
Atlas/Seaboard Comics Atlas/Seaboard is the term that comic book historians and collectors use to refer to the short-lived line of comics published as "Atlas Comics" by Seaboard Periodicals, to differentiate it from Atlas Comics, a former name of Marvel Comics. The company was located at 717 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.
Atlascopcosaurus Atlascopcosaurus (meaning "Atlas Copso lizard") is the name given to a genus of hypsilophodont dinosaur. It lived in what is now Australia; the type specimen, Atlascopcosaurus loadsi, was found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria.

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