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Atlas and fictional
* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics
* Atlas ( Teen Titans ), a fictional villain in the Teen Titans animated series
* Atlas, a fictional character in the 2007 video game BioShock
* Atlas, one of two fictional player-controlled robots in the co-operative mode of Portal 2
* Rome, Wisconsin, a fictional town in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
: Not to be confused with Zedelghem, a fictional place in the novel Cloud Atlas
The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad is an atlas of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional realm of Middle-earth.
* Ayn Rand references the theme in Atlas Shrugged, her epic of a fictional USA's decline into an impoverished kleptocracy.
Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Barbara Strachey ( ISBN 0-04-912016-6, 1981 ) is an atlas based on the fictional realm of Middle-earth, which traces the journeys undertaken by the characters in Tolkien's epic.
* a fictional weapon in the book Atlas Shrugged
* M-11 ( comics ), a fictional robot in Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics
While doing research for her book Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand learned the operation of the train, and subsequently devised a fictional company-the " Twentieth Century Motor Company "-which would be important to the novel's plot.
* Ayers Music Publishing Company, a fictional company in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged
Marvel Boy is the name of several fictional comic book characters in comic books published by the Marvel Comics, including predecessor companies Timely Comics and Atlas Comics.
* James Taggart ( Atlas Shrugged ), fictional character in the novel Atlas Shrugged
Wakanda is located in Northeastern Africa, although its exact location has varied throughout the nation's publication history: some sources place Wakanda in East Africa, just north of Tanzania, while others-such as Marvel Atlas # 2-show it bordering Lake Turkana, near Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia ( and surrounded by fictional countries like Azania, Canaan and Narobia ).
There have been two superheroes called the Human Torch in the fictional pantheon of Marvel Comics and its predecessors, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics.
According to the Atlas of the DC Universe ( published by Mayfair Games ), it is located in the fictional city of New Carthage, New York.
* Robert Frobisher, a fictional amanuensis and composer from the novel Cloud Atlas

Atlas and character
* King Atlas, a Transformers character
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
" In her novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, she also emphasizes the central importance of productive work, romantic love and art to human happiness, and dramatizes the ethical character of their pursuit.
" The essence of Objectivist ethics is summarized by the oath her Atlas Shrugged character John Galt adhered to:
Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.
* Ayn Rand included in her book Atlas Shrugged a character who is a modern-day Scandinavian pirate, to whom she gave the first name " Ragnar ".
Atlas was named after a character in the popular comic strip Barnaby., and they initially decided to name the commercial versions " Mabel ".
A memorable character in the strip was Atlas, a mental giant whose genius resided not in his memory but in his ability to calculate anything he needed to know with his slide rule.
Luther Strode, the title character, is one person to receive this book and truly use it, he obtains it from a mail order Charles Atlas parody.
* John Galt, the hero character from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged
* Erik Josten, Marvel Comics character known as Atlas
* David Mitchell's novel, Cloud Atlas, echoes the story in many ways, most explicitly through the character Luisa Rey.
* Brute, a Hulk-like character from former Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman's Atlas / Seaboard Comics
Issue # 42, featured the origin of Flex Mentallo, who was supposed to be the character in the Charles Atlas ad.
After this, Chaykin was given various adventure strips to draw for Marvel, including his own creation, Dominic Fortune ( inspired by his Scorpion character, originally drawn for Atlas Comics ), now in the pages of Marvel Premiere.
* Tarantula is the name of a character from Atlas / Seaboard Comics
Maia, whose name thought by casual observers to be of Māori origin, was actually named by a former mayor for a character from Greek mythology, Maia, one of the daughters of the Titan Atlas.
" for Ayn Rand in her novel, Atlas Shrugged, which has a mystery character named John Galt.
* Cuffy Meigs, a character in Atlas Shrugged
Some examples include: six interlocking stories ; the music score Cloud Atlas is a " sextet with overlapping soloists " ( not unlike the six stories ); Sixsmith is the name of a main character, who is 66 years old ; Eva is the result of " six centuries of breeding "; a police officer is shot six times in the back ; Napier knew Luisa when she was six ; Cavendish is sixty-something years old, he needs 60, 000 pounds to avoid being " beat up ", his hospital window only opens six inches ; Sonmi recites Six Catechisms, drives six-wheeler fords, lives on the university sixth-floor where she is left alone for six days, completes secondary school in six months ; A Prescient woman arrives in Zachry's sixteenth year, he rolls a six ' n ' six when playing dice, etc.

Atlas and from
* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand
* " Atlas ", a single from the album Mirrored by experimental rock group Battles
* Atlas ( automobile ), an American automobile manufactured from 1907 to 1913
* GM Atlas engine, a family of truck engines from General Motors
* Atlas, a BattleMech from the BattleTech series
*, formerly HMS Atlas, used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London from 1881-1904
* Edinburgh University wrote compilers for Algol60 ( later updated for Algol60M ) based on their Atlas Autocode compilers initially bootstrapped from the Atlas to the KDF-9.
Apart from the lowlands and the Atlas mountain range, the continent may be divided into two regions of higher and lower plateaus, the dividing line ( somewhat concave to the north-west ) running from the middle of the Red Sea to about 6 deg.
* The Atlas range — orthographically distinct from the rest of the continent, being unconnected with and separated from the south by a depressed and desert area ( the Sahara ).
by the Atlas range, to the northeast a rocky plateau separates it from the Mediterranean ; this plateau gives place at the extreme east to the delta of the Nile.
Atlas Autocode included a < code >< u > complex </ u ></ code > data type which would support complex numbers, partly because of pressure from the electrical engineering department, as complex numbers are used to represent the behavior of alternating current.
Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
Subtitle: " An All-Sky Atlas Comprising One Million Stars to Visual Magnitude Eleven from the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues and Ten Thousand Nonstellar Objects ".
In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.
In the mid-1960s, a successor to the EDSAC 2 was planned, but the move was instead made to the Titan, a prototype Atlas 2 — the latter having been developed from the Atlas Computer of the University of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey.
* 1964 – U. S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas / Agena combination from Point Arguello ( LC-2-3 ) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
Examples include R-7, Atlas, Redstone, Titan, and Proton, which was derived from the earlier ICBMs but never deployed as an ICBM.

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