Charles Atlas, Italian-born American bodybuilder and physical culturist who, with Frederick Tilney and Charles P. Roman, created and marketed a highly popular mail-order bodybuilding course. Through its advertisements, Atlas became synonymous with manly
This year marks the 80th that Atlas' mail-order company has been in business. Atlas himself is long gone—he died in 1972—and Charles Atlas Ltd. now operates out of a combined shrine, archive and office over a nail salon in the northern New Jersey town of Harrington Park. But the Int...
The cave was rediscovered when naturalist Sir Joseph Banks visited it in 1772. At the time of Banks’ discovery, Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books was a very popular poetic series, supposedly translated from an ancient Gaelic epic by Irish poet James Macpherson. The book was an inf...
Whether you’re readying for a voyage to the great white continent or just have a passing interest in the most uncharted area of our planet, you’ll find something for you in our list of books about Antarctica. Our list is in no particular order and draws on our personal favourites as w...
The interrupted stories are then brought to their respective conclusions (in reverse chronological order) over the second half of the novel, which ultimately ends with the tale of the 19th-century notary. Mitchell followed the audaciously structured Cloud Atlas with Black Swan Green (2006), a ...
The skeletal frame of the Jester Roller Coaster rises above Six Flags New Orleans. ATLAS OBSCURA BOOKS A Visual Odyssey Through the Marvels of Life Venture into Nature's Unseen Realms with Our New Book Atlas Obscura: Wild Life Order Now These ragged wounds, juxtaposed against the remaining fra...
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These high-order associative areas are rapidly developed in terms of not only their morphological characteristics such as gray matter volume [15,28,29] but also their functional correlates in terms of default mode network connectivity [30] and language task activation [31]. Understanding these ...
In my beginning is my end… In my end is my beginning. (Eliot, “East Coker,” 1.1, 5.38) Cloud Atlasis another one of those books I have wanted to read. I can honestly say that I have never read anything quite like it. It is genre-bending, clever, and entertaining. Parts may ...
However, in order to adapt our method to atlases with different registration states, even if when it appears that some individual atlas registrations are wrong or partially missing, thus we recommend using this weight function to increase the robustness of the segmentation algorithm. 3.4. Fast ...