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6 unusual facts about The Atlantic


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot

Prominent publications such as the The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times and USA Today ran editorials critical of the riots and those who participated in them, as well as the city, marking the stark contrast between the Stanley Cup playoffs and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Jesse Hill Ford

Without former Atlantic Monthly editor Edward Weeks to encourage and shape his work, he was unable to successfully write literary fiction, although he continued to play the role of Southern gentleman/author.

Richard and Florence Atwater

After her husband's stroke in 1934, Florence Atwater started teaching high school French, English and Latin, and wrote short pieces for The New Yorker, Woman's Home Companion and The Atlantic.

Silas Bent

As a freelance writer he contributed articles to The New York Times, Harper's Weekly and The Atlantic among others.

Steven A. Cook

Cook contributes regularly to foreign policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The New Republic.

Time travel urban legends

Nicholas Jackson, associate editor for The Atlantic, says the most likely answer is that she was using a portable hearing aid, a technology that was just being developed at the time.


140 Proof

140 Proof is a social advertising company known for its targeted advertising API used by third-party apps and websites, such as HootSuite and The Atlantic.

Bipartisanship

According to political analyst James Fallows in The Atlantic, bipartisanship is a phenomenon belonging to a two-party system such as the political system of the United States and does not apply to a parliamentary system such as Great Britain, since the minority party is not involved in helping write legislation or voting for it.

David Yezzi

His poems have been published in literary journals including The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry Daily and The New Criterion.

Disability in the media

Assistive Media - Has made over 1000 audio recordings of in-depth titles of mostly serious non-fiction from mainstream periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and as of 2011 creates recordings for library use

Fireside Poets

Organized by publisher Henry Oscar Houghton, then editor of the Atlantic Monthly, the event was meant to serve as a symbol for the magazine's association with the poets, most of whom were present for the celebration.

Lytton Smith

Additionally, Smith's poetry has appeared in a number of prominent literary journals and magazines such as The Atlantic, Bateau, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and many others.

Ozyory, Moscow Oblast

The town was profiled at the turn of the millennium by author Jeffrey Tayler as the subject of a travel narrative piece for The Atlantic (then still known as The Atlantic Monthly).

Pantoum

Stuart Dischell published a well-received pantoum, "She Put on Her Lipstick in the Dark," in the December, 2007 issue of The Atlantic.

Richard Locke

He is the author of more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and other publications.


see also

2d Antisubmarine Squadron

Deployed again to Port Lyautey in French Morocco in March 1943 to shore up scanty Allied antisubmarine defenses in the Atlantic approaches to the Straits of Gibraltar as part of 2037th Antisubmarine Wing (Provisional) under the operational control of the United States Navy (USN) Fleet Air Wing 15 (FAW-15), which answered to the commander of the Moroccan Sea Frontier.

342d Fighter Day Group

The enemy was on the defensive, and the American defensive outposts in the Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Bermuda) were shifting to secondary roles.

A March to Madness

A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference is a book written by John Feinstein.

Aahl

All-American Hockey League (1987–1988), formerly the Continental Hockey League; in 1988, it merged with the Atlantic Coast Hockey League to form the East Coast Hockey League

Abrolhos

Abrolhos Marine National Park, at the Atlantic Ocean, off the East coast of Brazil

Alvania subcalathus

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands.

Andrew Beck

Together they represent many of today's news worthy individuals, including Guy Goma - the wrong guy interviewed by the BBC and Michael Perham, who is to attempt to become the youngest person to sail the Atlantic single-handed at the age of 14.

Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada

The Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada is a professional award winning touring ballet company based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company

RMS Titanic - The Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company also helped to insure the RMS Titanic.

Battle of Wilmington

On February 11 Schofield attacked Hoke's Sugar Loaf Line with Alfred Terry's corps; the engagement started in the morning with a bombardment by Union gunboats along the Atlantic side of the fortifications.

Bud Bird

A sport fisherman and conservationist, Bird is Chairman Emeritus of the Miramichi Salmon Association and has been a Director of both the Atlantic Salmon Federation of Canada and Atlantic Salmon Federation of the United States.

C. Pope Caldwell

He was appointed by Governor John Alden Dix a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper Water Ways Convention in 1910.

Calliostoma granulatum

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Shetlands to the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands; in the Western Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea.

Carlos Luis Fallas

After a bloody clash between striking workers and the police, a judge sentenced him in 1933 one year of banishment in the Atlantic coast.

Carrier Air Wing Six

A year later, the air wing participated in Ocean Venture ’88 in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, and then provided air support for Operation Earnest Will.

Chalcides bedriagai

It also occurs on the Mediterranean islands of the Islas del Mar Menor and the Isla de Nueva Tabarca and the Atlantic islands of Cies Islands, Pessegueiro Island, Ons Island and Islote de Sancti Petri.

Colony

The United States also founded their own colonies in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions, such as Madisonville on the island of Nuku Hiva in 1813 and Monrovia in 1821.

Danilia otaviana

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea; in the Atlantic Ocean off Northern Spain, Madeira and the Cape Verdes.

Dominique Sorrente

He spent his childhood in various cities and regions of France: Marseille, the Morvan’s forests and the Vendée, on the Atlantic coast.

Don Allum

In September 1987 Allum completed his westward crossing of the Atlantic, from St John's, Newfoundland to Dooagh on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.

Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld

On 12 April 1928 these three left Baldonnel in the Bremen and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landing at Greenly Island at the south coast of Labrador, Canada.

After Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic from West to East in May 1927, the idea of flying in the opposite direction, which is more difficult because of the prevailing winds, became more and more popular.

Erema

Having completed her self-imposed mission, she sets out on her way back to California and the sawmill; reaches the other side of the Atlantic in time to help in nursing the sick and wounded in the civil war; and among them finds her old friends, Sampson Gundry and his grandson, arrayed on opposite sides in the war.

Flabellina affinis

This species is found in depths to 50 m in European waters along Portugal and Spain, in the Mediterraneran Sea along Greece, in the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Ghana and along the Canaries

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT) is an American maritime landing force that is spread across the Atlantic Ocean and reports to the United States Atlantic Command.

Geoffrey Girard

His previous books include Tales of the Jersey Devil (2005), thirteen original tales based on the legendary Jersey Devil monster, Tales of the Atlantic Pirates (2006), Tales of the Eastern Indians (2007) and an adaptation of The Iliad (2007).

Harry Ricardo

The dramatic reduction in fuel use as a result of higher-octane fuel was directly responsible for allowing Alcock and Brown to fly the Atlantic in their Vickers Vimy bombers adapted with his modifications.

Hold On, I'm Comin'

Hold On, I'm Comin' is the 1966 debut album by Atlantic Records soul duo Sam and Dave, issued on the Atlantic-distributed Stax label in 1966.

Hypersonic flight

Soon after, in May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American and second person to achieve hypersonic flight when his capsule reentered the atmosphere at a speed above Mach 5 at the end of his suborbital flight over the Atlantic Ocean.

John LaMountain

In September 1859, La Mountain made an ascension with the Atlantic, along with newspaperman John Haddock, from Watertown, New York across Minnesota and Michigan.

Kordofanian languages

Roger Blench notes that the Talodi and Heiban families have the noun-class systems characteristic of the Atlantic–Congo core of Niger–Congo, but that the two Katla languages have no trace of ever having had such a system, whereas the Kadu languages and some of the Rashad languages appear to have acquired noun classes as part of a Sprachbund rather than having inherited them.

Lorry-Rail S.A.

A second rolling highway was planned for 2011 on the Atlantic coast between Lille and Irun.

MS Louis Olympia

Following a voyage across the Atlantic, the Song of America entered service with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on 5 December 1982 on a cruise from Miami to Nassau, San Juan and St. Thomas.

Nassarius recidivus

This species is distributed in the Western Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira.

Nerodia clarkii

A third subspecies, the Atlantic salt marsh snake (N. c. taeniata), is restricted to a small stretch of coastline in Volusia and Indian River Counties, Florida.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Old Orchard Beach is the twin city of the French seaside resort of Mimizan, as a reminder of Oiseau Canari, the pioneer aircraft crossing of the Atlantic by Assollant, Lefèvre and Lotti in 1929 to Oyambre (Cantabria, Spain).

Pfaffenhofen an der Roth

1928 - Hermann Köhl, Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld and James Fitzmaurice crossed the Atlantic Sea from east to west with a plane.

Poor man's tropheus

The Poor man's tropheus, Hypsophrys nematopus is a species of cichlid native to Central America where it can be found in Lake Xiloa, Lake Managua, Lake Masaya and Lake Nicaragua and in riverine habitats on the Atlantic coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Its 3,718-metre (12,198 ft)-high summit is the highest point in Spain, the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic, and it is the third highest volcano in the world measured from its base on the ocean floor, after Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea located in Hawaii.

Rockpile

Rockpile (under solo artists' names) enjoyed hits in 1979 on both sides of the Atlantic with Edmunds' "Girls Talk" (a top 20 hit in both the UK and Canada) and Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind" (top 20 in the UK, Canada and the US).

Royal William

SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.

Seguenzia elegans

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bay of Biscay, Madeira, Bermuda and Argentine.

Stanisław Mlotkowski

Following the war, he joined a group of the Grand Army of Republican veterans and helped develop the Atlantic coast resort at Egg Harbor City, New Jersey.

The Litchfield Company

The company owned a significant amount of land in the Pawleys Island area of South Carolina and spent forty years developing highly-amenitized resort communities stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Waccamaw River, many golf courses, and a large marina.

Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season

EDT (0000 UTC) – Tropical Storm Agnes emerges into the Atlantic Ocean near Nags Head, North Carolina.

Wayne County, Georgia

Clary is credited with convincing the Macon and Brunswick Railroad to locate its tracks so that they crossed the Atlantic and Gulf rails at Jesup.

White-tailed Cotinga

The White-tailed Cotinga's southeast Amazon Basin range encompasses the lower drainage, (about one third), of the Tocantins-Araguaia River system, and ends in the east at the Atlantic Ocean in the state of Maranhão.