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(Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders a collection of maps in book form the 1st cervical vertebra a figure of a man used as a supporting column
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King Atlas was a mythical King of Mauretania, in Libya. He was said to be a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who supposedly made the first celestial globe. It was this Atlas that Gerardus Mercator was paying tribute to when he first used the name "Atlas" to describe a book of maps (see Atlas (cartography)). Mercator included a depiction of the King on the title-page of his publication of "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi ... ...
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In Greek mythology, Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. He was the father of the Hesperides, Maera, the Hyades, Calypso and the Pleiades. Because Atlas fought on the side of the Titans in the war with the gods of Mount Olympus, Zeus punished him with the burden of carrying the heavens upon his shoulders. ...
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ATL may stand for: *Microsoft's Active Template Library*Aero Tec Labs company*Algar Telecom Leste *Association of Teachers and Lecturers, a teachers' union in the UK*the city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA*the IATA airport code for Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport*Azienda Trasporti Livornese*Alternating time Temporal Logic*Meanings and uses related to the phrase "Above the line". ...
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Most superior of the cervical vertebrae, supporting the cranial articulation.
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