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Michael Avon Oeming (young appearance) (Portal 2: Lab Rat) Andrea Wicklund (older appearance) (Portal 2: Lab Rat) Voiced by. Unknown (vocalizations in some music tracks) Doug Rattmann, often referred to as the " Ratman" is a character in both Portal and Portal 2. He was a former scientist working at Aperture and one of the few who survived when ...
Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.
Portal 2 is a 2011 puzzle-platform game developed by Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam service, while all retail editions were distributed by Electronic Arts. A port for the Nintendo Switch was included as part of Portal: Companion Collection.
Portal:Atlas/Selected quote/12. “. The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits.
Portal:Maps/Selected biography/15 . World map from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Abraham Ortelius (April 2, 1527 – June 28, 1598) was a cartographer and geographer, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas. He was born in Antwerp in what is now Belgium, a member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg.
The ATLAS network is an association of law enforcement special intervention units from the 27 Member States of the European Union and associated countries. It was established following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, on the initiative of the European Police Chiefs Task Force (EPCTF). [1][2] Together, these top-tier units maintain a ...
Worldmap from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, 1544 Credit: Battista Agnese , Library of Congress Worldmap from a portolan atlas showing the route that Magellan took around the world and the route from Cadiz , Spain , to Peru , 1544.
In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ ˈætləs /; Greek: Ἄτλας, Átlās) is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes: Heracles (Hercules in Roman mythology) and Perseus. According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Atlas stood at the ...