Seth Shostak

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films.

American Scientist

Ethan Canin

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

American Author

Megan Mullally

Nick gets carsick if he's not driving - plus, he's basically a walking atlas. He can drive around any city without a map, which works out fine for me because I just become our entertainment director and pick out which audio book we'll listen to next.

American Actress

Edward Rutherfurd

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

British Writer

Nargis Fakhri

My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.

Ian Watson

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

Franz Kafka

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Novelist

J. Maarten Troost

Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

Dutch Writer

Ken Jennings

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

American Celebrity

Joanna Lumley

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

English Actress

Use 'atlas' when planning routes for travel or understanding geography.

Travel Preparation

'Atlas' indicates a learning resource in schools and universities.

Educational Tool

An 'atlas' can include different kinds of maps, such as political or physical.

Variety of Maps

In medical contexts, 'atlas' refers to a specific bone in the spine.

Medical Term

The word 'atlas' for the vertebra is not capitalized, unlike names of people or places.

Not Always Capitalized

In computing, 'atlas' implies efficiency by grouping resources.

Computing Resource

The computing use of 'atlas' is industry-specific jargon.

Technical Language

As a mythological term, 'atlas' refers to an ancient Greek Titan.

Mythical Reference

The Titan Atlas is often used to symbolize heavy responsibilities.

Symbolic Burden

The 'atlas' in biology is a large and unique-looking moth.

Distinctive Moth

 And our anatomists are going to go in and take a deeper look at this. So again this is what they can see under the microscope. You can see collections and configurations of large and small cells in clusters and various places. And from there it's routine. They understand where to make these assignments. And they can make basically what's a reference atlas.

Allan Jones: A map of...

 any way and you won't learn anything nor will you have fun and that's what it's all about so what you got to do is learn it over time and gradually your knowledge will increase and you'll be good to go second what you need a few tools for success the three most important tools would be atlases and

Geographic Bee 2010 - CA...

 you smush all that information and knowledge into your brain what's the secret here what have you study tips or tricks I think it's very important not to cram it all before the bee it's really a good idea to finish a lot of the work extensively going through the atlas and

KS Finalist PIPE National...

 doing to change its economy from being dependent just an exporting oil I've been interested in geography and then since I was a little kid and I've learned most of what I know about world geography by looking at many maps and atlases to smush all that information

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 but when it's repeated, your attention shifts to how the guitarist bends a pitch. This also occurs in language, with something called semantic satiation. Repeating a word like atlas ad nauseam can make you stop thinking about what the word means,

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 in order to learn all the information needs for the beat I take many practice quizzes online also I use an atlas to learn where a major physical and political features of the world are located finally I use various resource

OK Finalist PIPE National...

 by looking at and then memorizing the atlas and after I do this I write down the information either on a blank map or in the form of notes and shut up and this helps me remember the information for a longer time one of my

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 usually helps the first stars to read read from atlases magazines dictionaries regular books or interactive oh and of course a large-scale map also another thing you want to do is remember the

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 ever since I was little I've been just reading atlases and maps just every day all the time and I like looking up soccer teams from every place of the world and just seeing what's next

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 last he'd found what he'd been looking high in the atlas mountains of morocco were hundreds of thousands of nomads waiting for the right conditions to push