Georgia 139.svg State Route 139, 7 Races GCL Braves Gulf Coast League Lake Buena Vista Florida. See also: List of tallest buildings in Atlanta. Georgia Tech's Music Department was established as part of the school's General College in 1963 under the leadership of Ben Logan Sisk in 1976 the Music Department was assigned to the College of Sciences & Liberal Studies and in 1991 it was relocated to its current home in the College of Design in 2009 it was reorganized into the School of Music the Georgia Tech Glee Club founded in 1906 is one of the oldest student organizations on campus and still operates today as part of the School of Music the Glee Club was among the first collegiate choral groups to release a recording of their songs the group has toured extensively and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show twice providing worldwide exposure to "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" Today the modern Glee Club performs dozens of times each semester for many different events including official Georgia Tech ceremonies banquets and sporting events it consists of 50 to 70 members and requires no audition or previous choral experience. Television Main article: Education in Georgia (U.S state), Douglasville pop 30,961 East Campus houses all of the fraternities and sororities as well as most of the undergraduate freshman dormitories East Campus abuts the Downtown Connector granting residences quick access to Midtown and its businesses (for example the Varsity) via a number of bridges over the highway Georgia Tech football's home Bobby Dodd Stadium is located on East Campus as well as Georgia Tech basketball's home McCamish Pavilion (formerly Alexander Memorial Coliseum)! 3.6 Stations The Georgia Historical Society an independent educational and research institution has a research center located in Savannah the research center's library and archives hold the oldest collection of materials related to Georgia history in the nation. Okefenokee Swamp Georgia Cycling ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Among mammals the eastern gray squirrel is by far the most ubiquitous stealing birdseed from the bird feeders which many locals maintain Chipmunks and small brown rabbits are common but it is relatively rare to hear of them doing any damage Opossum raccoons foxes and now coyotes and armadillos are frequently seen Garden and meadow snakes are common; three venomous snakes (Eastern diamondback rattlesnake Water Moccasin and Copperhead) are indigenous but reports of bites are rare Many types of frogs including tree frogs and bullfrogs are easily heard in early summer as are cicadas in July and August Black bears occasionally wander down from the mountains and white-tailed deer are abundant; overpopulated in some areas Homeowners in the outer suburbs are prone to landscaping damage due to scavenging deer. Evan Gattis catching for the Braves in 2013 6.3 Television The Atlanta metropolitan area is also home to three NCAA Division I programs with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Georgia State Panthers in Atlanta proper and the Kennesaw State Owls in Kennesaw Both Georgia Tech and Georgia State are members of the Football Bowl Subdivision in the Atlantic Coast Conference and Sun Belt Conference respectively while Kennesaw State is a football member of the Big South Conference in the Football Championship Subdivision while its remaining sports are in the non-football Atlantic Sun Conference.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Atlanta had a population of 420,003 the population density was 3,154 per square mile (1232/km2) the racial makeup and population of Atlanta was 54.0% Black or African American 38.4% White 3.1% Asian and 0.2% Native American Those from some other race made up 2.2% of the city's population while those from two or more races made up 2.0% Hispanics of any race made up 5.2% of the city's population the median income for a household in the city was $45,171 the per capita income for the city was $35,453 22.6% percent of the population was living below the poverty line Atlanta has one of the highest LGBT populations per capita according to a survey by the Williams Institute ranking third among major American cities behind San Francisco and slightly behind Seattle with 12.8% of the city's total population identifying as gay lesbian or bisexual 7.3% of Atlantans were born abroad (86th in the US). . Russia: Public Russian Television VGTRK Olympiade, 5.1 Agriculture Atlanta Georgia business directory As a national center for cinema and television production Atlanta plays a significant role in the entertainment industry it doubles for other parts of the world and fictional settlements in blockbuster productions among them the newer titles from the Fast and the Furious franchise and Marvel features such as Ant-Man (2015) Captain America: Civil War (2016) Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War (both 2018) on the other hand Gone With the Wind (1939) Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Sharkey's Machine (1981) the Slugger's Wife (1985) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) ATL (2006) and Baby Driver (2017) are among several notable examples of films actually set in Atlanta the city also provides the backdrop for shows such as the Walking Dead Stranger Things and Atlanta in addition to a myriad of animated and reality television programming.
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