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Austria-Hungary ■ Byzantine Empire ■ Caliphate ■ Czechoslovakia ■ Frankish Empire ■ Kingdom of Hawaiʻi ■ Inca Empire ■ Iroquois Confederacy ■ Macedonian Empire ■ Ottoman Empire ■ Prussia ■ Roman Empire ■ Soviet Union ■ Republic of Texas ■ Vermont Republic ■ Republic of West Florida ■ Yugoslavia For instance, the Phoenician Hanno the Navigator is said to have sailed as far as Mount Cameroon in the 5th or 6th century BC. See Lemprière (1833), pp.249–250 and Ovid, The Metamorphoses, commented by Henry T. Riley ISBN 978-1-4209-3395-6 Sources describe Atlas as the father, by different goddesses, of numerous children, mostly daughters. Some of these are assigned conflicting or overlapping identities or parentage in different sources. La tero estas la tria planedo de nia sunsistemo, kaj la sola konata vivoporta planedo. La astronomia simbolo estas ♁ aŭ \oplus. Yugoslavia - In 2003, FR Yugoslavia became officially known as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (abbreviated SUSM). In 2006, Montenegro seceded from the union and regained independence on 3 June 2006.

Clouds light the night around the North Pole. The image above shows a satellite view of noctilucent or "night shining" clouds. Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Our goal is to keep the atlas free for use by anyone with an internet connection. To that end, please consider donating by Our platform allows anyone in the world to view, upload, discover, and interact with an enormous library of high quality maps and images. We’re bringing together every map, satellite, and drone image that has ever existed, or will ever exist, in one place. A common misconception today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, not the heavens

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There are other states or countries or country-like geopolitical entities that are not members of the UN. Besides sovereign nations, there are autonomous self-ruling political units that are part of a sovereign state but not part of the mainland, and there are self-ruling territories, but they are not or only partially recognized as such.

In this story, Atlas was the father of the Hesperides, nymphs and guardians of the tree of golden apples. The earth goddess Gaea gave the tree of golden apples to Hera as a wedding present and placed it in a secret location; nevertheless, an oracle told Atlas that a son of Zeus would one day steal the golden apples guarded by his daughters. To prevent this Atlas refused to let anyone visit his home and when Perseus asked for hospitality in his land, Atlas denied him. Perseus used the head of the Gorgon Medusa and immediately transformed Atlas into the mountain range in North West Africa, the Atlas Mountains.The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons.

Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes. The enchanted and sometimes surreal landscapes of Earth View have the ability to elevate our minds from our tiny screens to outer space. Hopefully, this can also move us to care more deeply about our fragile planet.Physical and topographical ■ Political ■ Geological ■ People ■ Time and time zones ■ Projections of the globe According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito. [21] The works of Eusebius [22] and Diodorus [3] also give an Atlantean account of Atlas. In these accounts, Atlas' father was Uranus and his mother was Gaia. His grandfather was Elium "King of Phoenicia" who lived in Byblos with his wife Beruth. Atlas was raised by his sister, Basilia. [23] [24] [25] King of Mauretania [ edit ] If the plug-in doesn’t work correctly with Chrome, see the Chrome help center to learn how to update to the latest version.

There are 54 sovereign states (countries) in Africa. An estimated 1.34 billion people live on the second-largest continent (in 2020). Gantz, T. (1993). Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-4410-2. LCCN 92026010. OCLC 917033766. The probably best known dependent territories are Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, French Polynesia, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, New Caledonia, Aruba, Curaçao, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, and Gibraltar. Atlas was so grateful to Heracles for his kindly deed that he not only gladly gave him such assistance as his Labour called for, but he also instructed him quite freely in the knowledge of astrology. For Atlas had worked out the science of astrology to a degree surpassing others and had ingeniously discovered the spherical nature of the stars, and for that reason was generally believed to be bearing the entire firmament upon his shoulders. Similarly in the case of Heracles, when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place." Bibliotheca historica, Book IV 27.4-5

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There are no countries in Antarctica. There are no people in Antarctica apart from some personnel from research stations and field camps. A number of countries operate seasonal or year-round research stations on the continent and its surrounding islands.