July August 44/7 55/13 Rosa laevigata Cherokee rose the state flower of Georgia Two buildings stand side-by-side on a hill the one on the left is two stories with two smokestacks behind it the one on the right is the larger taller Tech Tower building! . 2.3 Ecology Interstate 85 passes through from Montgomery on the southwest and from Greenville on the northeast I-75 merges with I-85 to form the Downtown Connector from the Brookwood Interchange just north of Midtown Atlanta to just south of the Lakewood Freeway in south Atlanta Interstate 185 is a spur which merges with I-85 in LaGrange and stretches southward to Columbus Interstate 985 is a spur which merges with I-85 in Suwanee and serves the northern suburbs of Gwinnett and Hall Counties it terminates just northeast of Gainesville. 70/21 82/28 Clearcutting The composition of religious affiliation in Georgia is 70% Protestant 9% Catholic 1% Mormon 1% Jewish 0.5% Muslim 0.5% Buddhist and 0.5% Hindu Atheists deists agnostics and other unaffiliated people make up 13% of the population the largest Christian denominations by number of adherents in 2010 were the Southern Baptist Convention with 1,759,317; the United Methodist Church with 619,394; and the Roman Catholic Church with 596,384 Non-denominational Evangelical Protestant had 566,782 members the Church of God (Cleveland Tennessee) has 175,184 members and the National Baptist Convention USA Inc has 172,982 members the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest Presbyterian body in the state with 300 congregations and 100,000 members the other large body Presbyterian Church in America had at its founding date 14 congregations and 2,800 members; in 2010 it counted 139 congregations and 32,000 members the Roman Catholic Church is noteworthy in Georgia's urban areas and includes the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah Georgia is home to the largest Hindu temple in the United States the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta located in the suburb city of Lilburn Georgia is home to several historical synagogues including the Temple (Atlanta) Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta) and Congregation Mickve Israel (Savannah) Chabad and the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute are also active in the state! 3 On-board services Lamar 3 Crime rates and trends 46 Bryse Wilson 154 2922; First they provided a highly efficient network for shipping freight and passengers across a large national market the result was a transforming impact on most sectors of the economy including manufacturing retail and wholesale agriculture and finance the United States now had an integrated national market practically the size of Europe with no internal barriers or tariffs all supported by a common language and financial system and a common legal system, 48/9 78/26 Other race 0.6% 2.4% 4.0% Music Avondale Estates pop 2,960 Gold medal from the 1996 Summer Games. 1 History 7 Parks and recreational activities Politics Atlanta during the Civil War c.?1864 College of Design Turner Field Radio and television Gentrification of the city's neighborhoods is one of the more controversial and transformative forces shaping contemporary Atlanta the gentrification of Atlanta has its origins in the 1970s after many of Atlanta's neighborhoods had undergone the urban decay that affected other major American cities in the mid-20th century When neighborhood opposition successfully prevented two freeways from being built through the city's east side in 1975 the area became the starting point for Atlanta's gentrification After Atlanta was awarded the Olympic games in 1990 gentrification expanded into other parts of the city stimulated by infrastructure improvements undertaken in preparation for the games Gentrification post-2000 has been aided by the Atlanta Housing Authority's eradication of the city's public housing and more recently the construction of the Beltline. Canton pop 22,958 78 2514 13 Notes In addition areas in Texas that are slightly inland from the Gulf of Mexico such as Austin and San Antonio that border the semi-arid climate zone generally see a peak of precipitation in May a drought-like nadir in mid-summer and a secondary if not equal precipitation peak in September or October Areas further south along South Texas' Gulf Coast (Brownsville) which closely border tropical climate classification typically have a strong September precipitation maximum and a tendency toward dry conditions in winter with rain increasing in spring with December or January often the driest months.
Boxing (12), Atlanta Falcons American football National Football League Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta Main article: World and Olympic records set at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Downtown Atlanta In the 1730s Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe proposed that the area south of the Carolinas be colonized with the "worthy poor" of England to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9 1732 Oglethorpe and his compatriots hoped to establish a utopian colony that banned slavery and recruited only the most worthy settlers but by 1750 the colony remained sparsely populated the proprietors gave up their charter in 1752 at which point Georgia became a crown colony. Definitions Augusta Typical of the southeastern U.S Atlanta receives abundant rainfall that is evenly distributed throughout the year though late spring and early fall are somewhat drier the average annual rainfall is 50.2 inches (1,280 mm) while snowfall is typically light at around 2.9 to 5 inches per year the heaviest single snowfall occurred on January 23 1940 with around 10 inches (25 cm) of snow However ice storms usually cause more problems than snowfall does the most severe occurring on January 7 1973 Tornadoes are rare in the city itself but the March 14 2008 EF2 tornado damaged prominent structures in downtown Atlanta, 50 168 Along with the rest of the Southeast Georgia's population continues to grow rapidly with primary gains concentrated in urban areas the population of the Atlanta metropolitan area added 1.23 million people (24 percent) between 2000 and 2010 and Atlanta rose in rank from the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in the United States to the ninth-largest! Major petroleum and natural gas pipelines cross the area running from the Gulf coast Texas and Louisiana to the population centers of the northeastern U.S This includes Colonial Pipeline and Plantation Pipe Line both based in Alpharetta, No part of the city has evolved more dramatically over the past two decades . Impersonal office buildings imposing parking decks and cold asphalt arteries have given way to high-rise living and an explosion of street life . Where once there was a wasteland now there are great restaurants groceries specialty shops townhouses lofts and . people, In the 1730s Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe proposed that the area south of the Carolinas be colonized with the "worthy poor" of England to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9 1732 Oglethorpe and his compatriots hoped to establish a utopian colony that banned slavery and recruited only the most worthy settlers but by 1750 the colony remained sparsely populated the proprietors gave up their charter in 1752 at which point Georgia became a crown colony. .
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