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The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km 2 (32,870,000 sq mi). [2] It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area.
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
Dutch ambassadors received by Garcia II, monarch of Kongo in West Central Africa in 1642. Given the scope of Atlantic history it has tended to downplay the singular influence of the voyages of Columbus and to focus more on growing interactions among African and European polities (ca 1450–1500), including contact and conflict in the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands, as critical to the ...
The Atlantic Ocean which gives its name to the so-called Atlantic World of the early modern period. Atlantic history is a specialty field in history that studies the Atlantic World in the early modern period. The Atlantic World was created by the contact between Europeans and the Americas, and Atlantic History is the study of that world. [1]
Ann Arbor is a city in and the county seat of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.Founded in 1824 by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey, it was named after the wives of the village's founders, both named Ann, and the stands of bur oak trees they found there.
In the southern Atlantic in 1898/1899, Carl Chun on the Valdivia brought many new life forms to the surface from depths of over 4,000 metres (13,000 ft). The first observations of deep-sea animals in their natural environment were made in 1930 by William Beebe and Otis Barton who descended to 434 metres (1,424 ft) in the spherical steel ...
Poster by the U.S. government promoting the Marshall Plan (1950) Atlanticism, also known as Transatlanticism, [1] is the ideology which advocates a close alliance between nations in Northern America (the United States and Canada) and in Europe on political, economic, and defense issues.
Atlantic Broadband, a cable company in Massachusetts; Atlantic City Electric, a division of Elexon supplying electricity in New Jersey; Atlantic LNG, a liquefied natural gas producing company based in Trinidad and Tobago; Atlantic Petroleum, a former oil company in the United States; Atlantic Petroleum (Faroe Islands), an oil and gas production ...