But as lovely a treasure as it is, an old-fashioned printed world atlas is not on the same plane or even the same planet as Google Earth (and its sister, Google Maps).
She grew up in the village and wrote the piece - a translation from French of the text of the early world atlas of Ortelius - when she was aged 12 or 13.
Together, these researchers have found a way to measure the amount of light pollution around using satellite data, thereby creating the world's first atlas of light and darkness.
Back above ground, students from around the world are shown the Atlas control room, one of the places where data from the LHC will be gathered when it is switched back on.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) certainly was, but so also are the lesser-known creators of abundant value in the business sector who sustain the world economy like the Atlas who holds up the globe.
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The new definition is included in the latest edition of the Atlas of the World's Languages in danger, compiled by the United Nations group Unesco.
Nordby immediately set his sights on The Onion -- whose products include a fake atlas, Our Dumb World -- as a potential partner.
Fourteen of the world's top 25 air cargo carriers are Atlas customers, and Chowdry has the rest in his flight path.
Nevertheless the Frenchman is not the national technical director - his mission is to lead the Atlas Lions to Angola 2010 and the World Cup in South Africa later in that year.
He was in the Atlas Lions' squad for both the 1986 and 1994 World Cups.
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The site also features an international atlas that lets users focus on just about any place in the world.
The atlas is designed to highlight awareness of languages in danger around the world and was compiled by 30 linguists.
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If the longer needs are to be met, may I suggest the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (atlas-fdn.org), an umbrella for supporting proponents of liberty in the world's most challenged locales.
"I worked as an English teacher in a town in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco for two years, and quickly grew to love this part of the world, " he said.
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