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. The London Underground the world's oldest underground railway opened in 1863 and it began operating electric services using a fourth rail system in 1890 on the City and South London Railway now part of the London Underground Northern line This was the first major railway to use electric traction the world's first deep-level electric railway it runs from the City of London under the River Thames to Stockwell in south London, There are a number of performing arts venues in the state among the largest are the Fox Theatre and the Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff Arts Center both on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta as well as the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre located in Northwest Atlanta, In 1991 left-handed pitcher Tom Glavine received his first award. Bonanza (CDP) pop 3,135 Georgia 407.svg State Route 407 (unsigned designation for I-285). .

. The Savannah Historic District attracts over eleven million tourists each year. Even before 2002 the state had become increasingly supportive of Republicans in Presidential elections it has supported a Democrat for president only three times since 1960 in 1976 and 1980 native son Jimmy Carter carried the state; in 1992 the former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton narrowly won the state Generally Republicans are strongest in the predominantly white suburban (especially the Atlanta suburbs) and rural portions of the state Many of these areas were represented by conservative Democrats in the state legislature well into the 21st century One of the most conservative of these was U.S Congressman Larry McDonald former head of the John Birch Society who died when the Soviet Union shot down KAL 007 near Sakhalin Island Democratic candidates have tended to win a higher percentage of the vote in the areas where black voters are most numerous as well as in the cities among liberal urban populations (especially Atlanta and Athens) and the rural Black Belt region that passes through the central and southwestern portion of the state. Well-known television shows set in Atlanta include from Tyler Perry Studios House of Payne and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns the Real Housewives of Atlanta the CBS sitcom Designing Women Matlock the popular AMC series the Walking Dead Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva Rectify and numerous HGTV original productions, Other colonists settled to the north mingling with adventurers and profit-oriented settlers to establish more religiously diverse colonies in New Hampshire and Maine Massachusetts absorbed these small settlements when it made significant land claims in the 1640s and 1650s but New Hampshire was eventually given a separate charter in 1679 Maine remained a part of Massachusetts until achieving statehood in 1820. 7 Incidents The Atlanta metropolitan area is the ninth largest media market in the United States as ranked by Nielsen Media Research the state's other top markets are Savannah (95th largest) Augusta (115th largest) and Columbus (127th largest), Under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates who was the first African American director of the Library System a new Central library was opened to the public in May 1988 the building was designed by Marcel Breuer a participant in the innovative Bauhaus movement working side-by-side with his associate Hamilton Smith the Central Library was dedicated on May 25 1980 and Breuer would die a year later on July 1981 at the age of 81, Main articles: Tourism in Atlanta Festivals in Atlanta List of museums in Atlanta and Cuisine of Atlanta. . Jimmy Carter Library and Museum Atlanta is home to nationally renowned private colleges and universities most notably Emory University a leading liberal arts and research institution that consistently ranks among the top 25 universities in the United States and operates Emory Healthcare the largest health care system in Georgia The Atlanta University Center is also in the city; it is the largest contiguous consortium of historically black colleges in the nation comprising Spelman College Clark Atlanta University Morehouse College and Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta contains a campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design a private art and design university that has proven to be a major factor in the recent growth of Atlanta's visual art community Atlanta and nearby Athens also boast American Bar Association accredited law schools: Atlanta's John Marshall Law School Emory University School of Law Georgia State University College of Law and University of Georgia School of Law; Mon 23rd The American Institute of Architecture's 1993 Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta:.