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  Atlantic Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlantic Europe is a geographical and anthropological term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean
Archaeologists have noted that the prehistoric peoples of Atlantic Europe had certain things in common as shown by artefacts and architectural styles found in the region which attest to at least some form of trade link.
Atlantic Europe is a convenient term for many of the Celtic peoples of western Europe, present in the archaeological record.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantic_Europe   (129 words)

  
 University Lecture 11/04
This also explains Europe's general aversion to assuming international responsibilities, including the use of force when necessary, and clarifies why Europeans are only inclined to use the military for humanitarian aid and peace support missions.
First, we must consolidate and strengthen the economic dimension of the Atlantic Community that already exists today; second, America must adopt a new policy towards Europe; third, we Europeans must lead the new Europe that is emerging in a pro-Atlantic direction, rather than setting it up as a counterweight to the United States.
Europe is constantly tempted to concentrate only on its own issues; especially now, when we have a number of important challenges ahead of us.
www3.georgetown.edu /president/aznar/1104.html   (3218 words)

  
 Chapter Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Globally, Europe’s relative location, at the heart of the land hemisphere, is one for maximum efficiency for contact with the rest of the world.
Europe’s relative location at the heart of the land hemisphere is one of maximum efficiency for contact with the rest of the world.
Devolution in Europe is highlighted by Civil War in North Ireland, Scottish Nationalism, Basque and Catalonian separatism in Spain, Corsica from France, and Division from French and Flemish in Belgium.
www.accd.edu /sac/earthsci/sgirhard/1303.090/chap2.htm   (4833 words)

  
 Welcome to Atlantic Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unisem has acquired Atlantic from its management, and a consortium of investors has been instrumental in enabling Atlantic to expand and maintain its competitive edge and assist the Company to re-unite with the Asian supply-chain and provide multi-regional manufacturing for its customer base.
Atlantic’s customers’ products are used in some of the worlds’ most innovative consumer devices, including mobile telephones, laptop computers, digital audio/video products and gaming consoles.
Atlantic has an experienced management team which includes Jeffrey Baloun and Mohamed Djadoudi, each of whom has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, specialising in assembly and test-manufacturing operations.
www.atlantic-us.com /at1/news/unisem2.htm   (469 words)

  
 Atlantic, WW2, U-boats, convoys, OA, OB, SL, HX, HG, Halifax, RCN, Freetown, Gibraltar, Home Fleet, RAF
Its exits to the Atlantic pass through the Allied controlled English Channel and North Sea.
The French warships allocated to the Atlantic and the German are mainly modern.
"Admiral Graf Spee" in the South and "Deutschland" in the North Atlantic.
www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsStartEurope.htm   (745 words)

  
 Portugal article - Portugal republic Iberian Peninsula Europe Spain Atlantic Ocean island - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
Madeira and Azores, due to their location in the Atlantic, are rainy and wet, and have a narrower range of temperatures.
Since the decolonization period, Portugal has received immigrants from the former African colonies, and from Europe (especially the United Kingdom, Germany and France - the climate, culture, and relatively low cost of living are the main attractions).
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Portugal   (5121 words)

  
 Bridging the Gulf Across the Atlantic: Europe and the United States in the Persian Gulf, by Simon Serfaty, The Middle ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Furthermore, Europe's ability to lead in foreign policy matters in an assertive or even coherent way is curtailed by the state of bilateral relations between the three EU countries (France, Germany, and Great Britain) that have been most directly responsible for the scope and pace of European integration.
Europe's preference for dialogue, whether with Iran or Iraq, with the Palestinians, or some of the more radical Arab states, including Libya, the Sudan and Syria, is based on a number of vital interests.
The states of Europe generally welcome an American will to lead, but the will to follow seems to be missing in the absence of certain conditions, namely, a shared vision pointing to collective goals, made plausible by the commitment of sufficient capabilities.
209.196.144.55 /articles/serfaty.html   (6207 words)

  
 Old, Antique Maps and Sea Charts of the Atlantic Ocean
Exhibiting the Whole of the Atlantic or Western Ocean and the Greatest Part of the Ethiopic or Southern Ocean, wherein the Respective Coasts of Europe, Africa and of America North and South, with all the Islands and Dangers: the Two Seas are Carefully Described.
BOWEN “A New and Accurate Chart of the Vast Atlantic or Western Ocean Including the Sea Coast of Europe and Africa on the East and the opposite Coast of the Continent of America and the West India Islands on the West; extending from the Equator to 59 Degrees North Latitude.
B/W. This is a scarce chart of the island in the South Atlantic belonging to Britain, with an extinct volcano which erupted in 1961 causing all the residents to flee, but was resettled in 1963 and is now the most important meterological and weather station based in the southern ocean.
www.gracegalleries.com /Atlantic_Ocean_Listings.htm   (4317 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Trans-Atlantic alliance still shaken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Many in Europe, leaders and ordinary people, are uneasy about what they see as overwhelming U.S. power encircling the globe.
The divide is fed by the stereotypes that have taken root in talk shows and editorials on opposite sides of the Atlantic: America the global bully, led by a Texas cowboy; Europe the aging continent, too pampered by welfarism to rise the challenge of terrorism and rogue regimes.
Still, Europe's desire for a major voice on the global stage to reflect its economic power are only likely to grow.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/12/22/trans_atlantic_alliance_still_shaken   (734 words)

  
 William H. Calvin, "The Great Climate Flip-flop," THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY (January 1998)
Europe's climate, obviously, is not like that of North America or Asia at the same latitudes.
For Europe to be as agriculturally productive as it is (it supports more than twice the population of the United States and Canada), all those cold, dry winds that blow eastward across the North Atlantic from Canada must somehow be warmed up.
Such a conveyor is needed because the Atlantic is saltier than the Pacific (the Pacific has twice as much water with which to dilute the salt carried in from rivers).
www.williamcalvin.com /1990s/1998AtlanticClimate.htm   (6832 words)

  
 atlantic.html
She will talk about teaching Atlantic history in both theory and practice, given the constraints of synthesizing the four continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean for a bright student population unfamiliar with many aspects of the histories contained within the Atlantic world in the early modern period.
By the end of the semester her students were able to discern patterns within the Atlantic world, to assess the experiences of the different populations contained therein, and to explain important transformations within the Atlantic.
Second, although the "documented" Atlantic world was initially born with European exploration and conquest in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the study of the Atlantic world is not the study of European expansion.
www.mtsu.edu /~jhwillia/atlantic.html   (1989 words)

  
 North Atlantic Oscillation
Strong positive phases of the NAO are often associated with above-normal temperatures in the eastern United States and across northern Europe and below-normal temperatures in Greenland and across southern Europe and the Middle East (Walker and Bliss 1932; Wallace and Gutzler 1981; van Loon and Rogers 1978).
This pattern was associated with a westward retraction of the jet core toward the west ern North Atlantic (Fig.
In contrast, southern Europe and northwestern Africa were abnormally wet and warm during NDJF 1995/96 and abnormally dry during NDJF 1988/89-1994/95.
www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov /products/assessments/assess_96/nao.html   (814 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Eastern Atlantic fishing 'unsustainable'
And all nine of the commercial species caught in the North Sea are being fished unsustainably, says a report to a conference on the region.
It is being presented later this week to the meeting in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, of the Ospar Commission (formerly two separate bodies, the Oslo and Paris Commissions).
Ospar is responsible for protecting the marine environment of the north-east Atlantic, stretching from the North Pole to Gibraltar.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_805000/805370.stm   (598 words)

  
 Welcome to Atlantic Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohamed Djadoudi, Chief Technical Officer at Atlantic Technology and Director of Briowave said, “This is a very exciting development because we can now offer customers a complete solution, with wafer test, assembly, final test, reliability and test development now under one roof..
The Atlantic Technology facility, established in 1995, is Europe’s most comprehensive assembly and test facility.
Atlantic Technology’s strong mixed signal/RF test expertise and assembly portfolio has made it a powerful service for both fabless and IDM semiconductor companies in Europe.
www.atlantic-us.com /at1/news/briowave.htm   (458 words)

  
 EUROPE
A strategic crossroads on the land routes that connect the Adriatic to the Black Sea, and Europe to the Middle East, Macedonia was a dominion of the Serbs, of the Ottoman Turks, and of the Nazis in World War II, among others before it became a republic of Communist Yugoslavia in 1944.
The Dean of the Management School at MIT argues that Europe is most to blame for the rise in protectionism in trade and also feels it is best placed to dominate the world economy in the 21st century.
Robert Marjolin, French economist, "The intensification of research in Europe is necessary for psychological, political, and in a certain sense, moral reasons, to prevent the Europeans from losing confidence in themselves." Yet Europe still lacks self confidence and with good reason.
www.ems.psu.edu /~williams/print/txt_euro.htm   (3272 words)

  
 Support for the North East Atlantic Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The purpose of WWF's North-East Atlantic Programme is to protect and, where necessary, restore biodiversity and maintain the natural productivity and status of the North-East Atlantic marine environment, with special focus on land-sea interface, land-based activities in the catchment area and commonly shared resources.
The North-East Atlantic Ocean provides a diverse range of coastal and offshore marine habitats from tidal mud flats to fjords and steep cliffs - from the shallow North Sea to the continental shelf break and the deep sea.
Coastal and marine habitats are increasingly degraded by harbour construction, industrial development, flood defence and oil, gas, sand and gravel extraction from the sea bed.
www.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/toxics/projects/project_details.cfm?sPrjId=9E0140   (682 words)

  
 Europe and the Atlantic. (from Dependent States) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south (west to east) by the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Kuma and Manych rivers, and the Caspian Sea.
It occupies part of the Eurasian landmass, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.
The vast body of water that separates Europe and Africa from North and South America is the Atlantic Ocean.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-234974   (721 words)

  
 TNI History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There was a certain amount of panic about this prospect in establishment or near-establishment circles, as evidenced in the conclaves which they promote to discuss it.
Joseph Godson, 1974), and "The New Atlantic Challenge" (ed.
Since 1949 the Atlantic Alliance had been the keystone of the political world of capitalism, the basis for the reform of imperialism after the defeat of Hitler and the end of the old European empires.
www.tni.org /books/atlantic.htm   (334 words)

  
 Todd S. Purdum, "A Wider Atlantic: Europe Sees a Grotesque U.S.," New York Times, 16 May 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, May 15 — To travel on this side of the Atlantic with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is to catch a brief glimpse of a parallel universe: the heedless, insular, bellicose, unilateralist America seen by many European eyes.
They note that much of Europe's military is outmoded or incompatible with American forces, and are quick to recall the widespread European unease about President Reagan's aggressive posture against the former Soviet Union in the 1980's, a stance that succeeded so well it is now beyond debate.
When Europe itself has been united around a particular issue, as it has recently on the Middle East, it has had some success in prodding Washington to listen to its views.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/bush/purdum2.htm   (785 words)

  
 Nordic Culture > Vikings in Galicia - Scandinavica.com
The Kingdom of Galicia was historically a prosperous and strategic land for trading and navigation between the north Atlantic and the Mediterranean sea.
For almost four centuries, Atlantic Europe was to be dominated by the naval supremacy of the Scandinavians.
The Atlantic seaway was now mostly under Scandinavian control, yet the Vikings were still missing a base at the southern part of the Vestvegr.
www.scandinavica.com /culture/history/galicia.htm   (1154 words)

  
 NATO Mini. Comm. London - 5-6 July 1990   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A united Germany in the Atlantic Alliance of free democracies and part of the growing political and economic integration of the European Community will be an indispensable factor of stability, which is needed in the heart of Europe.
The Atlantic Community must reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War, and extend to them the hand of friendship.
We approve the mandate given in Turnberry to the North Atlantic Council in Permanent Session to oversee the ongoing work on the adaptation of the Alliance to the new circumstances.
hq.nato.int /docu/comm/49-95/c900706a.htm   (1792 words)

  
 The Johns Hopkins Gazette: August 19, 2002
A program is emerging to make critical measurements in the Atlantic and to monitor these processes for signs of weakening and to see if the thermohaline circulation is switching off.
Although he's been to sea to gather data, Haine has now moved into a portion of his career where the bulk of his research is focused on taking field data and fitting it to computer models of ocean circulation processes.
Using the computer model to probe key aspects of ocean circulation is akin to the methods meteorologists use to forecast weather, according to Haine.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/19aug02/19global.html   (1055 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Defence: Atlantic or European?
There are some who see in this the first fractures in the defence relationship between the United States and Europe, the inevitable result of the removal of the threat from the Soviet Union.
The United States one day will leave Europe but not yet and does not want to be treated like an outsider.
The British stand by Nato as the territorial defender of Europe yet try to make soft noises to fellow Europeans as well.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3210418.stm   (592 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / In Europe, little taste for low-carb
While diets like Atkins and South Beach are gospel for many in the United States, the American craze for low-carbohydrate versions of brownies, breads, and pasta has not crossed the Atlantic to Europe.
One reason for Europe's snub of low-carb diets might be need -- or lack of it.
Continental Europe saw few such products being introduced until this year, when a US-based company that sells low-carb bagels, buns, cheesecakes, and other products, began offering its fare via the Internet to Europe.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/08/09/in_europe_little_taste_for_low_carb   (662 words)

  
 Trans- Atlantic Solidarity -Europe and No. America - COME TOGETHER!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Atlantic Alliance and the war in Iraq.
Atlantic Council Chairman Attends Conference in Belgrade, 16-18 May 2003.
Henry Catto, of the ACUS, along with other Atlantic Council officials and NATO's George Katsidirkis, attended the Prospects of Serbian and Montenegrin Accession to Euro Atlantic Integration Conference held in Belgrade this May. His report on the progress of the Serbia government toward becoming part of the Euro-Atlantic famliy is here.
www.pronato.com /solidarity/factsheets   (381 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Fortress Europe: Hitler's Atlantic Wall: The German Viewpoint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although earlier phases of the war had proved the ineffectiveness of fixed defensive lines- most notably in the failure of the French Maginot Line -the concept of an Atlantic Wall was central to German defensive plans in the west.
Stretching along the Atlantic and Channel coasts, a complex network of fortifications was constructed, a network that was to have a dramatic impact on the Allied strategic planning for D-Day in June 1944.
Although the Atlantic Wall was to fail its ultimate test, along certain sections of the coast the German defenses were able to impose massive casualties on the invasion force; if the German support forces had been able to reach the Allied beachhead more rapidly, the history of the war might have been fundamentally different.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0711027692   (388 words)

  
 ATLAN-TIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ATLANTIC (A Thematic Long-term Approach to Networking for the Telematics and ITS Community) is a project supported by the European Commission, the US DOT and Transport Canada.
ATLANTIC is successfully bringing together world experts on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to pool knowledge, share information and promote solutions for transport.
The ATLANTIC website is a rich source of information and a valuable resource for those interested or involved in ITS.
www.atlan-tic.net   (80 words)

  
 Neolitihc of the Atlantic and Northern Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During the later sixth Millenium BC we see the gradual spreading out of villages and homesteads from central, eastern and parts of southern Europe into the river valleys of the North.
This movement is associated with the linear pottery culture (or Linearbandkeramik - LBK) which is seen from about 4600 bc from Hungary and the Danube, and spreads rapidly along the rivers of the North German Plain and Paris/ Rhine basins.
Coastal frisia was unsuitable for agriculture due to its swamps and bogs, but other areas could perhaps have had Mesolithic economies sufficient to support the population, agriculture was therefore an unnattractive propostion.
www.le.ac.uk /archaeology/rug/AR210/TransitionsToFarming/atlneo.htm   (600 words)

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