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Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains system of ranges and plateaus in NW Africa, extending c.1,500 mi (2,410 km) from SW Morocco, through N Algeria, to N Tunisia; Jebel Toubkal (13,671 ft/4,167 m), in SW Morocco, is the highest peak. The Atlas Mts., predominantly folded mountains of sedimentary rock, were uplifted... Read more |
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Atlas Air Inc
Atlas Air, Inc. 2000 Westchester AvenuePurchase, New YorkU.S.A.Telephone: (914) 701-8000Fax: (914) 701-8001Web site: http://www.atlasair.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1992Employees: 1,255Sales: $790.5 (2000)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: CGONAIC: 481112 Scheduled Freight Air... Read more |
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Atlas (mythology)
Atlas In Greek mythology, one of the Titans, brother of Prometheus. Having fought against Zeus, he was condemned to hold up the heavens.... Read more |
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Calypso (mythology)
Calypso , nymph, daughter of Atlas, in Homer's Odyssey. She lived on the island of Ogygia and there entertained Odysseus for seven years. Although she offered to make him immortal if he would remain, Odysseus spurned the offer and continued his journey.... Read more |
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Hesperides
Hesperides , in Greek mythology, daughters of Atlas. They lived in a fabulous garden located at the western extremity of the world. There they guarded (with the aid of the dragon Ladon) a tree that bore golden apples. Hercules killed the dragon and obtained the apples as one of his 12 labors.... Read more |
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atlas (geography)
atlas in geography, collection of maps or charts. It usually includes data on various features of a country, e.g., its topography, natural resources, climate, and population, as well as its agriculture and main industries. In astronomy, a star atlas is a collection of maps or photographs covering... Read more |
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Tlemcen
TLEMCEN City near the Moroccan border in eastern Algeria. Situated on a high ridge of the Little Atlas mountains thirty miles (50 km) inland from the Mediterranean Sea, Tlemcen has a population of 155,000 (1998). The Almoravids founded Tlemcen in the eleventh century, on an ancient Berber,... Read more |
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Sahara
Sahara [Arab.,=desert], world's largest desert, c.3,500,000 sq mi (9,065,000 sq km), N Africa; the western part of a great arid zone that continues into SW Asia. Extending more than 3,000 mi (4,830 km), from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, the Sahara is bounded on the N by the Atlas Mts.,... Read more |
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Epes Sargent
Sargent, Epes (1813-1880) Well-known American author, editor, and psychical investigator. He was born on September 27, 1813, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1829 and joined the editorial staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser. He subsequently worked for the... Read more |
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Atlas (astronomy)
Atlas in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn . Also known as Saturn XV (or S15), Atlas is a small, irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 25 mi (40 km) by 12.5 mi (20 km); it orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 85,544 mi (137,670 km), and has an... Read more |
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How Diana's favourite designer found a taste of paradise in 'Riojashire';...
...MILLER A mountain eagle soars...18 years living in Gaucin...Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains. The price...January, I found the mellow...Although it has only 4,600 square feet of living space, it...courtyard ... |
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A Taste of Tunis
...Fricasee is only a few months...Tunisian woman living in the north...Israel. "We found the bread...it in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco...The Atlas Mountain people eat this only during ... |
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Only In ... MOROCCO.(facts about the Strait of Gibraltar)
...places (only about 9 miles...This is the only place in...Gibraltar is found. Animals living only on The Rock...The pushing open of this rift...only folded mountain range in...places, and ... |
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The Kumbh Mela.(Features)
...The one thing that binds...lifts and the only way to the...I'd found Maximon and...There was only one place...cross the mountains and to reach...of Berbers living in a makeshift...boiling on an open fire ... |
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Sun, sea, sand? Forget it. Authentic tourism is to be found just here...
...village in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco...itself". The only Scottish destination...because it's more open to personal interpretation...ve resisted things like yellow lines...place and a real living community. ... |
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Earth's light pollution interferes with astronomers' work.(The Dallas Morning...
...A new "atlas" of this...incalculable _ not only for astronomers...created the atlas to raise...planet. The atlas is more than...necessarily a bad thing, says Chris...blocked by mountains, and other...This could ... |
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Some thoughts and observations after 20 years in the military and 30 of...
...northern Arizona mountains to the western...re not the only "nutty doomsday...earth, open, trusting...earned their living laboring...The strange thing about the...people I found in other...families living in ... |
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This song of the open road is a diesel voluntary
...constantly for a living do on vacation...stuff), having found the Colorado mountain clime conducive...and AAA Road Atlas, set forth in...foot-long-only-God-knows...axle Haulmark is a thing of beauty and a... |