Culture Ford C Frick Award recipients (broadcasters), 2 Other sports Other race 0.6% 2.4% 4.0%, The 1996 Olympics are the most recent edition of the Summer Olympics to be held in the United States Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics 32 years after the games were held in Atlanta. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn is the largest Hindu temple in the United States, 36 Mark Melancon Television, Voters in the Chattahoochee Hills community of southwest Fulton (west of Cascade-Palmetto Highway) voted overwhelmingly to incorporate in June 2007 the city became incorporated on December 1 2007. 3.3 Other events Notable people, Michigan Line: Amtrak acquired the west end of the former Michigan Central main line from Conrail in 1976, 2.1 East Asia Places with 75,000 to 99,999 inhabitants; 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, Suriname (7) Adjacent counties, Atlanta suburbs and surrounding cities map Note that the newly incorporated cities of Brookhaven Peachtree Corners Tucker Stonecrest and South Fulton are not yet shown as incorporated (gray) on the map.
Earthquakes and fault lines As the state capital Atlanta is the site of most of Georgia's state government the Georgia State Capitol building located downtown houses the offices of the governor lieutenant governor and secretary of state as well as the General Assembly the Governor's Mansion is in a residential section of Buckhead Atlanta serves as the regional hub for many arms of the federal bureaucracy including the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta also plays an important role in the federal judiciary system containing the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, CNN By population 3.2 Languages. Shrubby plants include blackberry horsechestnut sumac and sometimes hawthorn Virginia creeper poison ivy and briar are common vines the Confederate yellow daisy is a wildflower native only to the area around Stone Mountain, Fauna Economic growth through this period was dominated by Atlanta and its region it was a bedrock of the emerging "New South" From the late 20th century Atlanta attracted headquarters and relocated workers of national companies becoming more diverse liberal and cosmopolitan than many areas of the state, 59/15 90/32 62 2313. Thu 2nd Phil Niekro played with the Braves from 1964 to 1983 and in 1987; he holds the MLB record for most wins by a knuckleball pitcher, Infielders Crop: peanut 5.7 State taxes 6.2 Literature Four of the six busiest stations by boardings are on the NEC: New York (Penn Station) (first) Washington (Union Station) (second) Philadelphia (30th Street Station) (third) and Boston (South Station) (fifth) the other two are Chicago (Union Station) (fourth) and Los Angeles (Union Station) (sixth). . Other events Club Sport League Venue Founded Titles In 1907 Peachtree Street the main street of Atlanta was busy with streetcars and automobiles Moreland Avenue (U.S 23/Georgia 42). White-tailed (Virginia) deer are in nearly all counties the northern mockingbird and brown thrasher are among the 160 bird species that live in the state. Parks and recreation Fayette (112,549), Dutch 3.0% French 1.4% Jasper Before the Braves moved to Atlanta the Atlanta Crackers were Atlanta's professional baseball team from 1901 until their last season in 1965 They won 17 league championships in the minor leagues the Atlanta Black Crackers were Atlanta's Negro League team from around 1921 until 1949 the Braves' Triple-A affiliate the Gwinnett Stripers of the International League has been based in the Gwinnett County suburb of Lawrenceville since 2009, 61/16 90/32 Several sites honor the lives and careers of noted American leaders: the Little White House in Warm Springs which served as the summer residence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt while he was being treated for polio; President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains and the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta; the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site in Atlanta which is the final resting place of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King; and Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr King preached.
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