Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

** Atlas Carver, a South African military jet development project that was cancelled in the 1990s

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

Atlas Autocode ( AA ) was a programming language developed around 1965 at Manchester University for the Atlas Computer.

The < code >< u > complex </ u ></ code > data type was dropped when Atlas Autocode later morphed into the Edinburgh IMP programming language.

In some versions ( but not in the original Atlas version ), for the sake of easy typing it was possible to strop keywords by placing a "" sign in front of them, for example the keyword < code >< u > endofprogramme </ u ></ code > could be typed as or

Atlas Autocode's syntax was influenced by the output device which the author had available, a Friden Flexowriter.

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.

Atlas Autocode's second-greatest claim to fame ( after being the progenitor of Imp and EMAS ) was that it had many of the features of the original " Compiler Compiler ".

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.

Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, on 21 September 1866.

Things changed in 1953 with the Soviet testing of their first hydrogen bomb, but it was not until 1954 that the Atlas missile program was given the highest national priority.

The first armed version of the Atlas, the Atlas D, was declared operational in January 1959 at Vandenberg, although it had not yet flown.

Examples include R-7, Atlas, Redstone, Titan, and Proton, which was derived from the earlier ICBMs but never deployed as an ICBM.

* Atlas Drop Forge Company, a parts subsidiary of the former REO Motor Car Company

Sowjetunion / Tramway Atlas of the former USSR " ( ISBN 3-926524-15-4 ).

The Atlas Portland Cement Company plant closed in 1982, but city residents many of them former Atlas employees or their descendants — still identify strongly with the company and its history.

There is also a Trillium Railway ( Port Colborne Harbour Railway ) north-south line running through the east side of Welland on the former Welland Canal railway / Canadian National tracks beside the former site of the Atlas Specialty Steels plant ( torn down in 2007 ).

A smaller part of the former coke bunker-for carbon production-for the aluminium reduction works, was transformed in 2002 into Atlas Brewery which, together with Orkney Brewery, was taken over in 2006 to form Sinclair Brewery Ltd. Atlas was closed in July 2010 and its production transferred to Orkney.

The micro-brewery was re-opened in 2011 by Harry Heskey ( former head brewer for Atlas ) and now provides River Leven Ales

* Alejandro A. Chafuen – founding board member of the Acton Institute, former CEO and current president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, president and founder of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research ( HACER )

* Brute, a Hulk-like character from former Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman's Atlas / Seaboard Comics

Atlas Brewery was originally based in Kinlochleven and situated in a Grade B listed former aluminium smelting facility.

* Western Atlas, a joint venture formed with Dresser Industries, including former Litton subsidiary Western Geophysical.

James Robertson ’ s Topographical and military map of the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine, London, 1822 seems geographically inaccurate in its relative positioning of Buckie, Nether Buckie and Freuchny but is significant in that the new label of Rotten Slough is given equal importance in terms of size of community with Buckie ; however in Thomson ’ s Atlas of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1832 Rotten Slough is fairly unimportant by size so one of these two reference publications is distorted, probably the former.

Winkleman was born to a Jewish family the daughter of Eve Pollard, former editor of the Sunday Express, and Barry Winkleman ( born 1939 ), former publisher of The Times Atlas of the World.

In order to pursue his scholarly interests, Kelley stepped down as executive director of TOC in 2004, and the organization – now under the leadership of former regulatory policy analyst Edward Hudgins – was again renamed as The Atlas Society ( TAS ).

His Irish-American mother Mari Ryan Atlas was a former contestant in the Miss America pageant system, as well as a model.

Two of Goode ’ s former students ( Leppard and Espenshade ) helped him create Goode ’ s School Atlas ( later retitled Goode ’ s World Atlas ), first published in 1923 by Rand McNally.

* Ayn Rand makes a cameo appearance in her novel Atlas Shrugged, appearing as a fishwife and former writer.

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.

Lockheed Martin had the 5. 4-meter ( 4. 57 meters usable ) payload fairing for the Atlas V developed and built by RUAG Space ( former Oerlikon Space ) in Switzerland.

On September 9, 2010, the former Atlas coach became the new manager of Costa Rica, replacing interim coach Rónald González.

The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the " Sea of Atlas ".

*** Grand Atlas Mountains, another name for the High Atlas

* Atlas, official name for the Airbus A400M transport aircraft

Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, is scheduled for release on October 26, 2012.

Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in Illuminatus !, and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, " If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?

The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain and still debated.

Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, " hard, enduring ", which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλήναι " to endure "; Doig offers the further possibility that Virgil was aware of Strabo's remark that the native North African name for this mountain was Douris.

Since the Atlas mountains rise in the region inhabited by Berbers, it has been suggested that the name might be taken from one of the Berber languages, specifically adrar, Berber for " mountain ".

It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name " atlas ", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.

The term atlantes is the Latin plural of the name Atlas – the Titan who was forced to hold the sky on his shoulders for eternity.

It was then renamed nimbostratus and published with the new name in the 1932 edition of the International Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky.

* 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 ".

The first compiler-compiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create compilers for the Atlas computer at the University of Manchester, including the Atlas Autocode compiler.

He recorded the new name in his " Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique " published at St. Petersberg between 1824 and 1835.

The name West Long Branch appears in the 1889 Wolverton Atlas of Monmouth County.

Zedler also published new works such as the trade lexicon Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer Der Kaufmannschafft ( 1741 – 1743, 4 volumes and 1 supplement volume ), stock exchange laws Corpus Juris Cambialis ( Johann Gottlieb Siegels, 1742, 2 volumes ) and the Historical-Political-Geographical Atlas of the whole world ( 1744 – 1749, 13 volumes ), published under the name of the Leipzig bookseller, Johann Samuel Heinsius the Elder.

Atlas was named after a character in the popular comic strip Barnaby., and they initially decided to name the commercial versions " Mabel ".

By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name " Atlas Major ", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers.

The name Maciste was not in the title of the English versions of most of these films: when these films were imported into the USA and dubbed in English, the hero's name was often changed to Hercules, Samson, Goliath, Atlas, or Colossus, because the name Maciste was not widely recognised in the USA.