Atlanta also plays host to one Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race each year at Atlanta Motor Speedway. 49/9 80/27 "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck" has had many other notable moments in its history It is reportedly the first school song to have been played in space Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a ukulele in the movie the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit John Wayne whistled it in the High and the Mighty Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie His Kind of Woman There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves It is played after every Georgia Tech score in a football game, The water boundaries are still set to be the original thalweg of the rivers Since then several have been inundated by lakes created by dams including the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint point now under Lake Seminole, There are many references to their use in central Europe in the 16th century Such a transport system was later used by German miners at Caldbeck Cumbria England perhaps from the 1560s a wagonway was built at Prescot near Liverpool sometime around 1600 possibly as early as 1594 Owned by Philip Layton the line carried coal from a pit near Prescot Hall to a terminus about half a mile away a funicular railway was also made at Broseley in Shropshire some time before 1604 This carried coal for James Clifford from his mines down to the river Severn to be loaded onto barges and carried to riverside towns the Wollaton Wagonway completed in 1604 by Huntingdon Beaumont has sometimes erroneously been cited as the earliest British railway it ran from Strelley to Wollaton near Nottingham. Religion Percent Composition West Campus Modernization Georgia has a progressive income tax structure with six brackets of state income tax rates that range from 1% to 6% in 2009 Georgians paid 9% of their income in state and local taxes compared to the US average of 9.8% of income This ranks Georgia 25th among the states for total state and local tax burden the state sales tax in Georgia is 4% with additional percentages added through local options (e.g special-purpose local-option sales tax or SPLOST) but there is no sales tax on prescription drugs certain medical devices or food items for home consumption. Modern rail as economic development indicator Georgia 3 Connector.svg State Route 3 Connector. 65/18 90/32 39/4 69/21 As of 2011 58.8% of Georgia's population younger than age 1 were minorities (meaning that they had at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white) compared to other states like California with 75.1% New York with 55.6% and Texas with 69.8%, 1920 200,616 29.6% The state of Georgia has approximately 250 tree species and 58 protected plants Georgia's native trees include red cedar a variety of pines oaks hollies cypress sweetgum scaly-bark and white hickories and sabal palmetto East Georgia is in the subtropical coniferous forest biome and conifer species as other broadleaf evergreen flora make up the majority of the southern and coastal regions Yellow jasmine and mountain laurel make up just a few of the flowering shrubs in the state! 120 2820 vte Victorian architecture in Inman Park In the 1980 census 1,584,303 Georgians claimed English ancestry out of a total state population of 3,994,817 making them 40% of the state and the largest ethnic group at the time Today many of these same people claiming that they are of "American" ancestry are actually of English descent and some are of Scots-Irish descent; however their families have lived in the state for so long in many cases since the colonial period that they choose to identify simply as having "American" ancestry or do not in fact know their own ancestry Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies and for this reason many of them today simply claim "American" ancestry though they are of predominantly English ancestry.
Interior view of the top deck of a VR InterCity2 double-deck carriage 1900 117,363 38.6%. Source: Japan Meteorological Agency, 1.1 Ancient systems Historically Atlanta has been a stronghold for the Democratic Party Although municipal elections are officially nonpartisan nearly all of the city's elected officials are registered Democrats the city is split among 14 state house districts and four state senate districts all held by Democrats At the federal level Atlanta is split between two congressional districts Most of the city is in the 5th district represented by Democrat John Lewis a small portion in the north is in the 11th district represented by Republican Barry Loudermilk.
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