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Atlantis (TV series)

Atlantis (2013–2015) is a BBC One/BBC America fantasy series by Urban Myth Films' Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, and Howard Overman, the Merlin creators, starring Jack Donnelly as Jason in a myth-mixing Bronze Age Greek city; cancelled after two series.

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος)

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος), the fictional island empire of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, an allegory of ideal Athens defeating hubris, not a real lost civilization; source of over 20,000 books.

Atlantis Chaos

Atlantis Chaos is a roughly 180-km-wide chaos terrain of fractured mesas and knobs in Terra Sirenum, Mars, inside the Atlantis basin and the proposed Eridania paleolake, named by the IAU in 1985.

Atlantis Mons

Atlantis Mons is a 105-km-diameter mountain (mons) on Mars at 28.71°S, 184.77°E in Terra Sirenum, IAU-approved August 18, 2020 and named for the classical albedo feature Atlantis, near the Atlantis paleolake basin.

Atlantis of the Sands

Atlantis of the Sands is T.E. Lawrence's name for Ubar, a legendary lost frankincense-trade city of Arabia's Empty Quarter; candidate ruins at Shisr, Oman, found via satellite imagery, remain debated.

Atlantis Paradise Island

Atlantis Paradise Island, also known as Atlantis Bahamas, is a mega-resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas with over 3,800 rooms, a 141-acre water park, and a casino.

Atlantis: Milo's Return

Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003) is Disney's direct-to-video sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire, assembled from three episodes of the cancelled Team Atlantis series, directed by Tad Stones, with James Arnold Taylor replacing Michael J. Fox as Milo.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Atlantis: The Lost Empire, also known as Disney's Atlantis, is a 2001 American animated action-adventure film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, following Milo Thatch's expedition to Atlantis.

Atlanto-axial dislocation

Atlanto-axial dislocation (AAD), also called atlantoaxial subluxation, is loss of alignment between the C1 atlas and C2 axis. Caused by trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, or congenital disorders; diagnosed by ADI over 5 mm; treated with C1-C2 fusion.

Atlantropa

Atlantropa, first called Panropa, was a megaproject proposed by Hermann Sörgel from 1927 until his death in 1952 to dam the Mediterranean, generating vast hydroelectricity and new land.

Atlapetes

Atlapetes (brush-finches, brushfinches) is a genus of about 30 species of New World sparrows (Passerellidae) inhabiting montane forests from Mexico to northern Argentina, type species A. pileatus, with several threatened Andean endemics.

Atlas

An atlas is a book or collection of maps, often with facts, history, and statistics; specialized forms include road, historical, and star atlases locating celestial objects.

Atlas (anatomy)

Atlas (C1), first cervical vertebra: a ring-shaped bone with no body or spinous process that supports the skull, articulates with the occipital condyles and axis, and provides about half of head rotation.

Atlas (Guns N' Roses song)

"Atlas" is a 2025 Guns N' Roses single (formerly "Atlas Shrugged") from the Chinese Democracy sessions, reworked with Slash and Duff McKagan, released with "Nothin'" on Geffen, debuting at No. 4 on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales.

Atlas (lunar crater)

Atlas (lunar crater), near 46.7°N 44.4°E, ~87 km wide, an IAU-named (1935) floor-fractured crater in the Moon's northeast highlands near Hercules, with uplifted fractured floor, pyroclastic deposits, and Rashid-1 landing site status.

Atlas (mythology)

Atlas (Ἄτλας), Greek Titan son of Iapetus, brother of Prometheus, who holds up the sky (not the earth) at the world's edge; tricked by Heracles over the Hesperides' apples, turned to a mountain by Perseus, and namesake of the Atlas Mountains and map atlases.

Atlas (rocket family)

Atlas is an American rocket family that began as the SM-65, the first operational US intercontinental ballistic missile, and evolved into the Atlas V, a mainstay of national security launches.

Atlas (World Labs world model)

Atlas is an omni world model released on September 1, 2026 by World Labs, the startup cofounded by Fei-Fei Li, natively operating on text, images, video, and 3D.

Atlas 2030 (exoskeleton)

Atlas 2030 is a pediatric lower-limb gait exoskeleton developed by Spain's Marsi Bionics, helping children with cerebral palsy and neuromuscular disorders stand and walk during rehabilitation.

Atlas Agena B

The Atlas Agena B was an American expendable launch vehicle, an Atlas D booster with a Lockheed Agena B upper stage, flown from 1960 to 1966.

Atlas Air

Atlas Air is an American cargo airline founded in 1992 by Michael Chowdry, the world's largest ACMI provider and operator of the largest Boeing 747 freighter fleet.

Atlas Air Flight 3591

Atlas Air Flight 3591 was a Boeing 767 cargo flight for Amazon that crashed into Trinity Bay, Texas, on February 23, 2019, killing all three people aboard.

Atlas bear

Atlas bear (Ursus arctos crowtheri), Africa's only Holocene bear, a brown bear subspecies of the Atlas Mountains described by Schinz in 1844; genetically divergent, small-bodied, extinct by the 19th or early 20th century.

Atlas Capital Resources

Atlas Capital Resources is a series of private equity funds managed from Greenwich, Connecticut by Atlas Holdings, making control investments in financially or operationally stressed manufacturing and distribution businesses.

Atlas Cedar Biosphere Reserve

Atlas Cedar Biosphere Reserve (RBCA), UNESCO MAB site in Morocco's central Atlas Mountains, designated 19 March 2016; 1,375,000 ha, about 1,006,000 residents, and 75 percent of the world's Atlas cedar trees.

Atlas Cheetah

The Atlas Cheetah, also known as the Denel Cheetah, was a South African fighter jet, an upgrade of the Mirage III, serving from 1986 to 2008.

Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso

Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso is a set of 16 hand-drawn celestial charts covering the whole sky, compiled by Czechoslovak astronomer Antonín Bečvář and first published in Prague in 1948.

Atlas Copco

Atlas Copco, formerly AB Atlas Diesel, is a Swedish industrial group, founded in 1873 and headquartered near Stockholm, that makes compressed air, vacuum, and power tool equipment.

Atlas D

The Atlas D (Convair SM-65D) was the first operational American intercontinental ballistic missile, deployed in 1959, and in modified form launched John Glenn and three other Mercury astronauts into orbit.

Atlas E

Atlas E was the second operational version of the SM-65 Atlas, the US Air Force's first ICBM, deployed from 1961 to 1966 and later reused as a space booster.