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.

A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe ; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

Recent studies suggest that deep processes rooted in the Earth's mantle may have contributed to the uplift of the High and Middle Atlas.

Atlas Comics may refer to

Cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad, who created The Atlas of Middle-earth, speculated that the Sea of Rhûn may have been a body of salt water.

Most adults possess wingspans between 1 to 6 inches ( 2. 5 to 15 cm ), but some tropical species, such as the Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), may boast quite incredible wingspans of up to 12 inches ( 30 cm ).

Only small populations persist in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria and a few may remain also in Egypt.

Nonetheless, as the known distribution of the Atlas bear is a relict of the desertification of the Sahara, its ancestor may have been widespread in northern and eastern Africa in prehistoric times.

The blue form of the species, native to high elevations of the Atlas Mountains, has recently been introduced into the trade and early reports indicate that it may be 5 or more degrees hardier than the green form.

Another subspecies, alienus, is found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and may represent a separate species.

During the part of the year when people are not living in pit structures activities should be focused on acquiring foods to store .< REF NAME = Gilman1987_544 > Gilman ( 1987: 544 )</ ref > Based on the sample from the Ethnographic Atlas, this may be through either hunting and gathering or agricultural activity.

In the coming fiscal year additional quantities of Atlas, Titan, and Polaris missiles also will be procured.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* UNIVAC 1101, also known as the Atlas

** UNIVAC 1103, also known as the Atlas II

* Atlas, a fictional character from Marvel Comics, also known as Erik Josten ( formerly a member of the Thunderbolts )

* Atlas of Electoral Systems of the World Colour-coded world maps showing the electoral systems used by every democratic country in the world, also available with more details as tables of text.

It also is the flagship of the The Protea Atlas Project, run by the South African National Botanical Institute.

*** Hesperides ( nymphs of the West, daughters of Atlas ; also had attributes of the Hamadryads )

*** Pleiades ( daughters of Atlas and Pleione ; constellation ; also were classed as Oreads )

" 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.

At the time, Finn was also the drummer in the band Love Battery, who had recently changed record labels from Sub Pop to Atlas Records, an A & M subsidiary.

Atlas ' daughter Calypso would also bear Odysseus two sons, Nausithoos and Nausinous.

He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged, which receives several mentions in the chronicles.

According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engines powered the Space Shuttle, and the company also supplies booster engines for Delta II rockets and boosters and upper stage engines for Atlas III and V and Delta IV rockets.

Convair also introduced the first U. S. operational intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas.

An Atlas Air EP was announced for 1 November as a vinyl / digital only release in aid of Warchild, also featuring the Heligoland leftover track, RedLight, plus a remix by Warp artist, Clark.

He is also known to have written a book about a spurge found in the High Atlas which he named Euphorbia after his personal physician.

In Greek mythology, Iapetus (), also Iapetos or Japetus (), was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father ( by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia ) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race.

Although it did not specify an island of Corvo, the Medici Atlas did refer to an Insula Corvi Marini ( Island of the Marine Crow ), in a seven-island archipelago.

Atlas / Seaboard is the term comic-book historians and collectors use to refer to the 1970s line of comics published as Atlas Comics by the American company Seaboard Periodicals, to differentiate from the 1950s ' Atlas Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics.

They refer to them simply as the Atlas V's Solid Rocket Boosters.

* Shrugging can refer to throwing off a burden, including in the metaphorical sense, as in going on strike, as found in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

That, however, may also bring the police, if the thinking does not meet with social approval.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

He may also consider ideas.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

The defect of these proposals is in their attempt to outrun history and their assumption that because something may be desirable it is also possible.

Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

The return for a decedent may also serve as a claim for refund of an overpayment of tax.

If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.

Since you contributed more than half of his support, you may also claim an exemption for him on your return.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

Outboard motors, insurance, and boat repairs may also be financed in the same way as boats.

Boatyards which also provide some of the above facilities may rightfully be called marinas.

It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene, but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around.

A site may also be attractive just through the beauty of its trees and shrubs.

It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.