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| | Atlas (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a mortal son of Poseidon. | | | The comic book superhero Captain Marvel was granted the stamina of Atlas as part of his powers. | | | Herakles, suspecting Atlas didn't intend to return again, pretended to agree to Atlas' offer, asking only that Atlas take the sky again for a few minutes so Herakles could rearrange his cloak as padding on his shoulders. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)
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| | Atlas, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | But Heracles 1 asked Atlas to hold the sky for a moment while he placed a pad on his head, and when Atlas held the sky again, Heracles 1 picked up the apples and left. | | | But on his return Atlas, who apparently felt released, said that he would deliver the apples himself to Eurystheus, the man who had asked for them. | | | Among the Thebans, Nycteus 2 and Lycus 5 were said to have come from Euboea, but they too might be descendants of Atlas, and so could be Amphion 1, grandson of Nycteus 2. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Atlas.html
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| | The Atlas Mountains, Morocco - Chasing the Lizard’s Tail - |
| | Rising near the Atlantic coastline, and petering out as far east as Tunisia, the Atlas Mountains are at their highest and most impressive in Morocco. | | | The Atlas is very much a borderland - not so much politically as geographically - for immediately to the south lies the Sahara, the greatest desert in the world. | | | It is only Atlas that prevents northern Morocco from succumbing to its sands. |
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http://www.bluegecko.org/lizard/lizard03.htm
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| | Atlas Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The population of the Atlas mountains are mainly Berber in Morocco and Arab in Algeria. | | | The mountains are divided into the Grand Atlas of Morocco, the lower Tell Atlas running near the coast and the larger Saharan Atlas running further south. | | | Because North America, Europe and Africa were connected eons ago, the Atlas mountains are believed to have originally been formed as part of Alleghenian orogeny. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_mountains
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| | Transportation (from Atlas Mountains) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The most common myth concerning Atlas, told by the poets Homer and Hesiod, relates that Atlas supported the pillars that held Heaven and Earth apart. | | | In the works of Homer, Atlas seems to have been a marine creation who supported the pillars that held heaven and earth apart. | | | This rugged, arid region, which encloses the Sous lowland and reaches the Atlantic coast at Sidi Ifni, is linked to the Haut (High) Atlas by... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-36955?tocId=36955
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| | Atlas Mountains - Wikitravel |
| | It is said that the form of Islam practiced in the rest of the country never penitrated fully into the High Atlas, and all the attempts throughout history to invade the mountains have failed at least in part. | | | The range can be divided into the High Atlas (or Grand Atlas) of Morocco, the Tell Atlas near the coast and the southern Saharan Atlas. | | | In the High Atlas, in general fewer people speak French than in the cities. |
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http://wikitravel.org/en/Atlas_Mountains
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| | Travelling exotic Maghreb, Atlas Mountains, Marrakesh, morocco tour, |
| | Rabat's treasures include wonders wonders both ancient and modern, from the ruins of Chellah to the Mausoleum of the great King Mohamed V, who brought independence to Morocco and is credited with saving Morocco's Jews from Nazi deportation during World War II. | | | Hikers and climbers from around the world come to the Atlas. | | | At its center is the deservedly famous Djemaa el Fna - a public space unlike any found in any city in Morocco, or the world. |
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http://www.marrakeshvoyage.com/BestofMorroco.html
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| | The Amazigh Voice, June 1996 |
| | Kahena, of Jewish faith according to Ibn Khaldun, who said that her tribe had converted to Judaism, continued to fight the Arabs until her death in battle in 702 A.D. She is called the Ancestral Queen Mother of the Amazighs. | | | They eventually settled in the Aures and Kabyle Mountains of the coast, the Atlas Mountains north of the Sahara of modern Tunisia and Morocco. | | | High in the Atlas Mountains, he did, at last, find her. |
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http://www.ee.umd.edu/~sellami/JUNE96/kahena.html
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| | Trekking in the Atlas of Morocco |
| | Atlas Sahara Trekking, a German travel agency, specialises on Morocco | | | Mountain Safari Tours Morocco in the country itself, somewhere on this site, or mail to safari@atlasnet.net.ma | | | I did not venture out far, just the internet. |
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http://www.traildatabase.org/morocco
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| | The Demesnes - Atlas - Mountains |
| | There are supposedly passes through the range to the Sea of Dust, assumed to have been used by the ancient Suloise, but none are known to modern mapmakers. | | | The range separates the Hold of the Sea Princes from the Sea of Dust. | | | This is the range of mountains running between the Dry Steppes and the Sea of Dust. |
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http://www.dangermouse.net/gurps/demesnes/mountains.html
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| | Morocco, the High Atlas mountains |
| | Behind the Atlas we enter another part of Morocco. | | | · Wandelvakantie door de Hoge Atlas in Marokko, by Sander Haytink ( | | | · The High Atlas, by Angus McIntyre ( |
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http://nextdada.hostit.be/travel/marokko.html
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| | ATLAS MOUNTAINS - Online Information article about ATLAS MOUNTAINS |
| | section of the Atlas, known to the inhabitants of Morocco by its See also: | | | time immemorial the Atlas have been the See also: | | | Harris, who explored some of the southern slopes and crossed the Atlas at two points during his expedition to Tafilalt in 1894. |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/ARN_AUD/ATLAS_MOUNTAINS.html
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| | John Ruskin School expedition to Atlas Mountains |
| | On the 8th April a group from John Ruskin Comprehensive School, Coniston, embarked on a two week expedition to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco led by Carol McNeil, head of PE, and supported by Taff Bowles from the Kepplewray Centre. | | | Expedition to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco April 2000 | | | Shaun was a member of a 15-strong team from John Ruskin School in Coniston that flew out to Morocco in April to start a two week trekking and mountaineering expedition in the Atlas mountains. |
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http://www.kepplewray.org.uk/Morocco.htm
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| | IngentaConnect Cystic echinococcosis in the Berber of the Mid Atlas mountains, M... |
| | Cystic echinococcosis in the Berber of the Mid Atlas mountains, Morocco: new insights into the natural history of the disease in humans | | | A mass ultrasound-screening survey, coupled with a questionnaire to record all previous surgical histories related to CE, was carried out amongst the primarily transhumant Berber people of the Mid Atlas mountains in Morocco. | | | IngentaConnect Cystic echinococcosis in the Berber of the Mid Atlas mountains, M... |
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http://api.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/atmp/2004/00000098/00000005/art00008
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| | Weldon Beauchamp |
| | Intracontinental Rifting and Inversion: the Missour Basin and Atlas Mountains, Morocco. | | | For comments, suggestions or collaboration contact me at the address below: | | | Studies of the tectonic history of the Atlas mountains, using a geographical information system (GIS) to integrate: |
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http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/people/weldon.html
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| | Atlas Mountains |
| | The northernmost area of Morocco belongs to the Rif Mountains, which is not a part of the Atlas. | | | Many millions of people live in the Atlas Mountains, almost all of them counting themselves as Berbers, except in Tunisia, where the locals regard themselves as Arabs. | | | The Atlas mountains contain many fertile valleys, since the high peaks force the clouds to give away large quantities of rainfall. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/atlasmou.htm
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| | High Atlas - Morocco Information |
| | During July 1998 I spent three weeks in Morocco, including a weeks trekking the Toubkhal massif in Morocco's High Atlas mountains. | | | Thanks to John Tennent for his invaluable book 'The butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia' and also his personal information. | | | The Butterflies of the High Atlas - Morocco |
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http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk/regions/morocco
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| | Earth from Space - Image Information |
| | Portions of the Atlas Mountains of central Morocco are captured in this low-oblique, southwest-looking photograph. | | | Atlas, the European name for the mountains, reflects the ancient Greeks’ belief that this was the home of the god Atlas. | | | Because the Atlas Mountains were born of the same global convulsions that formed the Alps and the Himalayas, geologically they are more European than African. |
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http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/EFS/printinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS059-L03-2
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| | my_research |
| | My dissertation research comprises an interdisciplinary study of intracontinental deformation in Atlas Mountains of Morocco as part of the Cornell Morocco Project. | | | I have been focussing on the Middle Atlas region of Morocco (shown by the box on the map above) in an effort to constrain the kinematics of Late Cenozoic tectonism. | | | Due to the oblique orientation of the Middle Atlas with respect to the Late Cenozoic stress field of the western Mediterranean, it is generally believed that the mountain system is in a transpressive environment, thus raising the issue of the role of strike-slip faulting. |
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http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/people/gomez/my_research.html
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| | Sherpa Walking Holidays: The Atlas Mountains |
| | However much less well known and yet in many respects more interesting and varied are the long distance footpaths which cross the mountains from east to west, or from "Sea to Sea" - Mare a Mare; as they are called. | | | Today the most well known of these walks is the "GR20" a high level ridge walk (described as the toughest GR in France) which follows the north-south watershed of the mountains. | | | In 1971 the French Regional Nature Park of Corsica was formed to protect a large area of the mountains, which make up the backbone of this rugged island. |
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http://www.sherpa-walking-holidays.co.uk/tours/inntoinn/jmsdos.htm
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| | atlas mountains - visit the atlas mountains with Sherpa Expeditions |
| | Each Atlas Mountains trek has its own Sherpa leader and a local Berber guide who speaks French, sometimes some English. | | | As well as the Atlas Mountains, we also offer tailor-made trekking holidays in many of the worlds other fascinating and beautiful locations such as the Andes, the Alps, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus in Russia, Tibet, Nepal and India. | | | This is a self guided tour in the broadest sense of the word because you will be accompanied by both a donkey who carries your baggage, and a Berber guide who will tend to steer you in the right direction however you may interpret the notes! |
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http://www.sherpa-walking-holidays.co.uk/atlas-mountains.htm
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| | Atlas mountains - Wikimedia Commons |
| | some of Moroccos mountains in january and in april and an explanation of the wadis and schotts | | | This page was last modified 21:24, 12 June 2005. | | | Atlas Mountains can be seen over the roofs of Marrakech |
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_mountains
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| | Pedaling Over Atlas |
| | In places, the range runs close to the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts – the highest peak in the Atlas, Toubkal, is only fifty miles south of Marrakech on the Atlantic coastal plain. | | | One of the most interesting ways of seeing the Atlas – and one that has exploded in popularity in recent years – is by bike. | | | Although some of this mountains have snowy tops all year round, their coolness doesn’t extend right down into the valleys, which can get baking hot during the summer months. |
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http://www.faremax.com/articles/africa/atlasmountains.aspx
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| | Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert |
| | We travel from Casablanca to Marrakech for an interesting look into the markets and culture of the people of Morocco. | | | The High Atlas Mountains, home for the Berber culture, offer a dramatic contrast to the surrounding desert and Toreg people to the south and east. | | | Following Marrakech we start our trek into the Atlas Mountains and up Jebel Toubkal to 13,671 ft., the highest point. |
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http://www.exploreyourplanet.com/trips/morocco/atlas_mountains_and_the_sahara_desert.htm
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| | A Stroll in the High Atlas Mountains |
| | Account of a week's walking holiday in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco | | | The tour is called The Atlas Panorama and has been running for many years. | | | This is a pictorial account of a week spent walking in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco with a group tour organised by the tour company Exodus. |
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http://davidgardiner.net/atlas.html
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| | National Geographic MapMachine: Student Atlas - Asia Mountains Photos, Map |
| | National Geographic MapMachine: Student Atlas - Asia Mountains Photos, Map | | | Not many people live on the remote mountainsides. | | | The yearly flood of visitors and climbers has led to problems with deforestation, overgrazing, and garbage. |
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http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/mountains.html
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| | Assign to Atlas Mountains |
| | Bost 12.199 26 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have its happy ports... | | | LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear... |
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http://www.walden.org/Institute/thoreau/about2/E/Emerson_Ralph_Waldo/Concordance/ASSIGN-ATLAS.HTM
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| | Annette Solyst's Travel Page for Morocco |
| | To me, Morocco has been a fascinating country. | | | It's history goes back for thousands of years: the original Berbers in the mountains left traces some five thousand years ago. | | | Exploring the cities and their ancient souks takes time and energy, as well as patience. |
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http://soly.st/Morocco/Morocco.html
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| | Travel - Morocco - Anti-Atlas Mountains - Igherm to Taroudannt |
| | Travel - Morocco - Anti-Atlas Mountains - Igherm to Taroudannt | | | The green plains are ended abrubtly by the 4000m wall of the High Atlas on the distant horizon. | | | The High Atlas Mountains rise up in the distance on the road to Taroudannt. |
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http://www.markhorrell.com/travel/morocco/antiatlas/ind_taroudannt.html
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| | MOROCCO, MOROCCO MAP, MOROCCO MAPS, MOROCCO TRAVEL GUIDE, MAROC, MOROCCAN, FEZ, MARRAKECH, RABAT, CASABLANCA, ATLAS ... |
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http://www.theallafricanguide.com/Morocco.asp
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| | MSN Encarta - Atlas Mountains |
| | The Atlas Mountains are the traditional habitat of the Berbers, who were driven inland to the mountains by the Arabs in the 7th century. | | | Jebel Sidi Musa (ancient Abila or Abyla), a promontory (846 m/2,775 ft) marking the western extremity of the Little Atlas, and the Rock of Gibraltar (see Gibraltar), on the European side of the strait, were known in the ancient world as the Pillars of Hercules. | | | Geologically, the system is made of two separate parts: the High Atlas of the south-west, in Morocco, was formed by the folding of the ancient Saharan plateau, while the eastern Tell Atlas, in Algeria and Tunisia, was formed in a later, separate folding episode contemporary with the formation of the Alpine system of Europe. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577053/Atlas_Mountains.html
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| | Hiking in the Atlas mountains, Morocco |
| | I didn't understand anything of what the story tellers did and said, but they did have a sizable audience. | | | From Marrakesh you can see the mountains, some of which are upwards 4000 m high and with snow covered peaks, which I sort of hadn't expected considering the climate in Marrakesh, so the trip for our group started out in a mini-bus with the goal already in sight. | | | The Atlas mountains may seem pretty remote and inaccessible, and of course parts of them are, but where we walked practically all land was either planted or grazed, so we hardly saw any wild animals except for birds. |
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http://travels.larp.se/morocco/maroc.html
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| | CityBuildingContests.net - Contest 37 Atlas Mountains |
| | Atlas has been known to reward loyalty from time to time... | | | Atlas Mountains was created by Caesar Alan, who would like to thank his beta tester Aditya. | | | This is a Poseidon contest, and should only be played with Poseidon V2.1. |
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http://www.ancient-maps.com/archives/contest37
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| | CRAFTS OF THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS |
| | For this to happen, artisans, who are, for the most part, the poorest of people, need the capital with which to buy equipment (such as weaving instruments) and gain access to the market place. | | | Since the turn of the century, the Atlas rug has been more and more heavily marketed, and has even become a major source of income in certain areas whose rugs have become famous around the world (Tazenakht is one example). | | | Certain areas, such as the Lower Atlas and High Atlas regions, have long practiced an arts and crafts tradition in which aesthetic considerations have been considered more important than utilitarian considerations. |
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http://www.southbazar.com/english/ev-infos/countries/ev-mpatrim.htm
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