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* The Klencke Atlas is commissioned by Dutch merchants as a gift to King Charles II of England ; it remains to this day the world's largest book ever made.
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Towards the extreme west the Futa Jallon highlands form an important diverging point of rivers, but beyond this, as far as the Atlas chain, the elevated rim of the continent is almost wanting.
Atlantis ( in Greek,, " island of Atlas ") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC.
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.
However, the Californian, North African ( Atlas bear ), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the 1870s, 1922, and more recently, respectively, and the not officially recognized Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears.
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.
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.
India delivered HAL Dhruv helicopters and South Africa is about to deliver 12 Atlas Cheetah supersonic-aircraft.
It also is the flagship of the The Protea Atlas Project, run by the South African National Botanical Institute.
This is the reason why the first manned mission with a Redstone rocket has the number 3 ( MR-3 ) and the first with an Atlas rocket is MA-6.
" The essence of Objectivist ethics is summarized by the oath her Atlas Shrugged character John Galt adhered to:
Heinlein made quick work of altruism as a false virtue in Stranger in a Strange Land and mentioned John Galt — the hero in Rand's " Atlas Shrugged "-- as a heroic archetype in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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.
In the Star Trek Atlas, the Romulan Star Empire is about 1 / 3 the size of the Klingon Empire and surrounded by the Federation.
< span id =" Stage-and-a-half " /> The early Atlas rocket is an expendable SSTO by some definitions.
Atlas and commissioned
The first Atlas was commissioned in 1962 but working prototypes of paging had been developed by 1959.
Atlas and by
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
In addition to maintaining a permanent central file of illustrations of diseases, wounds, and injuries of military importance, it provides facilities for clinical photography, photomicrography, and medical arts, and operates a printing plant, by permission of Congressional Committee, for publication of an `` Atlas of Tumor Pathology ''.
** Atlas Oryx, a medium-sized utility helicopter manufactured by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation of South Africa
* 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.
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.
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