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. . Azerbaijan (23) 4 Uniforms Australia (424) Modern pentathlon (1) 1.4 Contemporary Era Engineering General 4 Archery (4) Turner used the Braves as a major programming draw for his fledgling cable network making the Braves the first franchise to have a nationwide audience and fan base WTBS marketed the team as "The Atlanta Braves: America's Team" a nickname that still sticks in some areas of the country especially the South Among other things in 1976 Turner suggested the nickname "Channel" for pitcher Andy Messersmith and jersey number 17 in order to promote the television station that aired Braves games Major League Baseball quickly nixed the idea. . Aruba (3) Fulton County is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, 11 External links Other European 2.0% Swedish 0.6% During the 2000s Atlanta underwent a profound physical cultural and demographic transformation Suburbanization a booming economy and new migrants decreased the city's black percentage from a high of 67% in 1990 to 54% in 2010 From 2000 to 2010 Atlanta gained 22,763 white residents 5,142 Asian residents and 3,095 Hispanic residents while the city's black population decreased by 31,678 Much of the city's demographic change during the decade was driven by young college-educated professionals: from 2000 to 2009 the three-mile radius surrounding Downtown Atlanta gained 9,722 residents aged 25 to 34 holding at least a four-year degree an increase of 61% Between the mid-1990s and 2010 stimulated by funding from the HOPE VI program Atlanta demolished nearly all of its public housing a total of 17,000 units and about 10% of all housing units in the city; O In the West Indies the elected assemblies of Jamaica Grenada and Barbados formally declared their sympathies for the American cause and called for mediation but the others were quite loyal Britain carefully avoided antagonizing the rich owners of sugar plantations (many of whom lived in London); in turn the planters' greater dependence on slavery made them recognize the need for British military protection from possible slave revolts the possibilities for overt action were sharply limited by the overwhelming power of Royal Navy in the islands During the war there was some opportunistic trading with American ships. .

6.4 Retired numbers Most of Atlanta was burned during the Civil War depleting the city of a large stock of its historic architecture Yet Atlanta architecturally had never been particularly "southern." Because Atlanta originated as a railroad town rather than a patrician southern seaport like Savannah or Charleston many of the city's landmarks could have easily been erected in the Northeast or Midwest and indeed this was one reason why Atlanta referred to itself frequently as "the New York" or "the Chicago of the South.". The Masters golf tournament the first of the PGA tour's four "majors" is held annually the second weekend of April at the Augusta National Golf Club, Imperial conversion Main article: Slavery in the colonial United States. The new state house a two-story 18th century Gregorian building of red brick was completed in 1796 the Legislature designated Louisville the "permanent seat" of Georgia's government Yet further western expansion created the need for another new state capital the capitol building was purchased by Jefferson County and used as a courthouse but the building had to be torn down because it became unsound a plaque marks the location of the old Capitol. 139 2920, Georgia 400 is the main corridor serving the north-central suburbs and was the only toll road in the metropolitan Atlanta area as of November 23 2013 the tolls ended and the toll plazas are demolished it reaches into the northern portion of Fulton County and gradually turns northeast before entering Forsyth County the controlled-access portion terminates just northeast of the city of Cumming to the south it terminates and merges into southbound I-85 just south of the Buckhead business district Cumming/Dahlonega is used on I-285 as the northbound sign and Atlanta/Buckhead as the southbound From I-85 northbound it uses Buckhead/Cumming. 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. .