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Atlantic (B&O locomotive)
The Atlantic was a 0-4-0 grasshopper steam locomotive built in 1832 for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which it served as its first mainline locomotive.
Atlantic 10 Conference
Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), formerly the Eastern Eight, is a 14-school NCAA Division I conference founded in 1975, based in Washington, D.C., sponsoring 23 sports and known as a basketball-centric league.
Atlantic blue marlin
The Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) is a large, highly migratory billfish inhabiting tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters, prized as a game fish that can exceed 12 feet and 2,000 pounds.
Atlantic bluefin tuna
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), also called northern or giant bluefin, is the largest tuna, reaching 13 ft and 2,000 lb. Managed by ICCAT as eastern and western stocks split at 45°W, with quotas, a 2022 management procedure, and recent recovery in UK waters.
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada is the Eastern Canadian region of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, also called the Atlantic provinces; over 2.5 million people, defined by Statistics Canada, distinct from the three-province Maritimes.
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter, a joint Roosevelt-Churchill declaration of 14 August 1941 at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, set eight Anglo-American war aims including self-determination, freer trade, and freedom of the seas; unsigned and non-treaty, it inspired anticolonial movements worldwide.
Atlantic City (1980 film)
Atlantic City (1980) is a Canada-France-US drama directed by Louis Malle, written by John Guare, starring Burt Lancaster as small-time gangster Lou Pascal and Susan Sarandon. Co-winner of the 1980 Venice Golden Lion, it earned five Oscar nominations and captured the city at the dawn of legalized casino gambling.
Atlantic City (song)
Atlantic City is a 1982 Bruce Springsteen song, track 2 of the album Nebraska, recorded solo on a four-track Tascam; its opening verse references the 1981 Philip "Chicken Man" Testa nail-bomb killing, and The Band's 1993 cover is its best-known version.
Atlantic City Electric
Atlantic City Electric is a wires-only electric utility serving about 571,000 customers across southern New Jersey. It owns no generation and has been a subsidiary of Exelon since 2016.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey: resort city on Absecon Island, founded 1854, home of the first U.S. boardwalk (1870) and first casino outside Nevada (Resorts, 1978); nine casinos, 38,497 residents (2020).
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), NCAA Division I college athletic conference founded 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina. 18 members including Cal, SMU, Stanford; ESPN media rights through 2036; third in Power Four revenue.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American Class I railroad, headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, that ran from Richmond, Virginia, to Tampa, Florida from 1900 to 1967.
Atlantic coastal plain
Atlantic coastal plain: low-lying physiographic province from Cape Cod to Florida and the Mexican border, a seaward-sloping wedge of unconsolidated sediments on a passive margin, bounded inland by the Fall Line.
Atlantic cod
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), a North Atlantic groundfish from Greenland to Cape Hatteras, once supported the world's largest single-species fishery; the 1992 Newfoundland moratorium followed its collapse, and U.S. stocks remain overfished.
Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan Washington, DC think tank founded in 1961 to support the Atlantic Alliance; sixteen programs and centers, ranked #7 US think tank in the 2020 UPenn index, CEO Frederick Kempe.
Atlantic County
Atlantic County, New Jersey: county formed February 7, 1837 from Gloucester County, county seat Mays Landing, 555.70 sq mi, 23 municipalities, population about 274,500, Executive form of government, casino-tourism economy centered on Atlantic City.
Atlantic cup
The Atlantic Cup is an annual club friendly football tournament held mid-winter in the Algarve, Portugal, every year since 2011 except the pandemic-canceled 2021 edition.
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999) of 25 protected areas in Paraná and São Paulo, Brazil, covering about 470,000 ha of the largest, best-preserved remnants of the threatened Atlantic Forest, with high endemism, 300-plus caves and a 1,223,557 ha buffer zone.
Atlantic goliath grouper
Atlantic goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara), formerly jewfish: largest Atlantic grouper, up to 8 ft and 800 lb, Florida to Brazil and Congo to Senegal; mangrove nurseries, harvest banned in U.S. federal waters since 1990, limited Florida lottery fishery since 2022, IUCN Vulnerable.
Atlantic Hockey America
Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) is an NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey conference formed in 2024 by merging Atlantic Hockey (est. 2003) and College Hockey America (est. 2002); 16 programs across 14 schools, led by commissioner Michelle Morgan.
Atlantic horseshoe crab
Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), American horseshoe crab: a chelicerate arthropod, not a crustacean, from Maine to the Yucatan; Delaware Bay holds the world's largest spawning population, and its blood yields LAL endotoxin tests.
Atlantic hurricane
An Atlantic hurricane, or Atlantic tropical cyclone, is a storm with winds of at least 74 mph forming in the Atlantic basin, active June through November.
Atlantic hurricane naming lists
The Atlantic hurricane naming lists are six rotating lists of 21 storm names, maintained by the World Meteorological Organization and reused every six years unless a name is retired.
Atlantic hurricane season
The Atlantic hurricane season runs officially from June 1 to November 30, when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico.
Atlantic hurricane seasons before satellite observation (1850s–1949)
Atlantic hurricane seasons before satellite observation cover Atlantic tropical cyclone activity from 1851 through 1949, recorded from ships and coastal stations and now known to undercount storms at sea.
Atlantic League of Professional Baseball
Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), independent pro baseball league founded 1998 by Frank Boulton; MLB's first Professional Partner League since 2019; 10 teams, 126-game schedule, rule-testing lab, Boulton Trophy.
Atlantic Lezard
Atlantic Lezard (Atlantic Lézard Surf School) is a surf school and rental business on Dunes 1 beach, Brétignolles-sur-Mer, Vendée, France, run by Alpha Surf Crew, labeled French Surfing Federation and Handi Surf, teaching from age 6.
Atlantic LNG Terminal
The Atlantic LNG Terminal is a four-train LNG liquefaction and export facility at Point Fortin on Trinidad's southwest coast, commissioned in 1999 and the country's only LNG export facility.
Atlantic mackerel
Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), also called common or Boston mackerel, is a schooling North Atlantic pelagic fish up to 16.5 inches and 2.2 pounds. U.S. stock rebuilding; Northeast Atlantic stock below Blim in 2025 amid coastal-state quota disputes.
Atlantic manta ray
Atlantic manta ray (Mobula yarae), third recognized manta species, formally described July 2025; Atlantic-only range from the eastern US and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; differs from Mobula birostris in ventral spots, denticles, tooth rows, and DNA; Florida nursery.