He served as chairman of the Atlantic Council from June 2007 to January 2009, when he assumed the post of National Security Advisor which he held until November 2010.

Strategically located on the Pacific coast, Panama City was relatively free of the permanent menace of pirates that roamed the Atlantic coast for over one and a half century, until it was destroyed by a devastating fire, when the pirate Henry Morgan sacked it on January 28, 1671.

Romania joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 2004, and the European Union, alongside Bulgaria, on January 1, 2007.

Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 ( news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships ).

On January 31, 1992, Ukraine joined the then-Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( now the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe -- OSCE ), and on March 10, 1992, it became a member of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.

* January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d ' Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

* January 23 – Britain retakes the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

* January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.

* January 5 – Annular solar eclipse in the Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and western Africa.

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970, taking its name from the Bight of Biafra ( the Atlantic bay to its south ).

In January 1941, Raeder launched the successful Operation Berlin, where the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were sent out on a raid into the North Atlantic.

Edmond Halley's voyage in HMS Paramour for magnetic investigations in the South Atlantic met the pack ice in 52 ° S in January 1700, but that latitude ( he reached 140 mi off the north coast of South Georgia ) was his farthest south.

His article " A Scientist Rebels " for the January 1947 issue of The Atlantic Monthly urged scientists to consider the ethical implications of their work.

Despite being hampered by injuries prior to and during 2005 – 06, the Flyers lived up to those expectations in the first half of the season, reaching the top of the league standings in January while simultaneously holding a ten-point lead in the Atlantic Division.

On January 26, 2010, CEO Ron Marshall resigned to become President and CEO of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. ( A & P ), a position which had been vacant since October.

The Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad Company, chartered in 1881, opened its line between Pensacola and Apalachicola in January 1883.

But with construction of the bridge to Lewiston in 1823, and especially after arrival of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad from Portland in January 1848, the community developed into a mill town.

Over the ensuing centuries, portions of the township were taken to create many new municipalities: Hamilton Township on February 5, 1813 ; Atlantic City on May 1, 1854 ; Absecon on May 1, 1854 ; South Atlantic City ( now Margate City ) on September 7, 1885 ; Pleasantville on January 10, 1889 ; Linwood on February 20, 1889 ; Somers Point on April 24, 1886 ; Longport on March 7, 1898 ; Ventnor City on March 17, 1903 ; and Northfield on March 21, 1905.

Ruth Brown ( January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006 ) was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as " Queen of R & B " noted for bringing a pop music style to R & B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as " So Long ", " Teardrops from My Eyes " and "( Mama ) He Treats Your Daughter Mean ".

In January 1974 Led Zeppelin negotiated the agreement with Atlantic Records to set up Swan Song Records.

She was the IWBF world Lightweight champion, but lost that honor when she fought a unification bout to the IFBA world champion Zulfia Koutdoussova on January 10, 1998 by a decision in Atlantic City.

On January 22, 1965 Burke recorded four songs at Atlantic's New York studio, including his " signature single ", and his biggest hit (# 1 R & B, # 22 pop ), " Got to Get You Off My Mind " ( Atlantic 2276 ), which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would later call " one of the premier soul hits of the 1960s.

Atlantic City, New Jersey Mayor Joseph Lazarow was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for a July 1977 publicity stunt, in which the mayor shook more than 11, 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8, 510 handshakes at a White House reception on 1 January 1907.

On March 4, 1895 Edge established the Atlantic City Daily Press ( now the Press of Atlantic City ) as the successor to the Atlantic City Guest.

Following the American Civil War, William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Petersburg, Virginia was the driving force in 1870 to combine the Norfolk and Petersburg, South Side and the Virginia & Tennessee railroads to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ).

In June 1895, Captain Elliott was sent to the Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New York, and from 22 April to 22 September 1898, he was on duty with the Marine Battalion of the North Atlantic Fleet.

Founded in 1895 by Walter Edge as the Atlantic City Daily Press, it is now owned by Abarta, a privately owned Pittsburgh-based holding company.

Wright died of a lung ailment on October 3, 1895 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, just short of 60 years old.

From 1895 to 1900, he was literary adviser to Houghton, Mifflin and Company, and for most of the same period editor of The Atlantic Monthly ( 1896 – 99 ).

In July 1895, the British again tried to take possession of this strategic position in the Atlantic.

When the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad ( A & P ) filed for bankruptcy, Walker and John J. McCook, another executive with the Santa Fe, were appointed as the A & P's receivers in December 1895.

The 1895 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1895.

Long Beach Polytechnic High School, founded in 1895 as Long Beach High School, is a High school located at 1600 Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, California, United States.

That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.

Several others also crossed the Atlantic in very small sailboats in the 1960s, none of them non-stop, though.

Atlantic may also refer to:

There is the standard way to sign the word learn that seems to be used by most speakers of ASL in Canada, and there is also an Atlantic regional variation.

The king also supported the exploration of the Atlantic Ocean led by prince Henry the Navigator but, after Henry's death in 1460, he did nothing to continue this course of action.

The name was also changed to Atlantic Baptist University, a reflection of expanded student enrollment and academic accreditation.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

Capp also freelanced very successfully as a magazine writer and newspaper columnist, in a wide variety of publications including Life, Show, Pageant, The Atlantic, Esquire, Coronet, and The Saturday Evening Post.

The same storm also created a reef barrier at the Atlantic Ocean.

Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from this base which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquarters of 12th U-boat Flotilla.

He also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ) and Atlantic City ( 1980 ).

Peuple Souverain also remained at Gibraltar: the ship was deemed too badly damaged for the Atlantic voyage to Britain and so was converted to a guardship under the name of HMS Guerrier.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean ; its eastern coast also forming the western limits of the Cabot Strait.

The stream was also the transportation route for their birch bark canoes, which could travel from Lake Winnipesaukee to the Atlantic Ocean.

On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subregion of Atlantic Canada, which also includes the northeastern province of Newfoundland & Labrador.

On 5 July 2008 a meeting took place between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.

The government is also developing ports and infrastructure in La Union in the east of the country, in order to use the area as a " dry canal " for transporting goods from Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean to Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean in the north.

The warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift Current, which warm Norway and Sweden, also warm Finland.

In 1994, Finland joined NATO's Partnership for Peace ; the country is also an observer in the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.

It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.