8 External links Chipper Jones salutes the crowd at Turner Field prior to his final regular season game on September 30 2012 Jones announced he would retire after 19 seasons with the Braves, The Savannah Historic District attracts over eleven million tourists each year. As an example a typical modern wagon can hold up to 113 tonnes (125 short tons) of freight on two four-wheel bogies the track distributes the weight of the train evenly allowing significantly greater loads per axle and wheel than in road transport leading to less wear and tear on the permanent way This can save energy compared with other forms of transport such as road transport which depends on the friction between rubber tyres and the road Trains have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying which reduces air resistance and thus energy usage. Achievements Major league sports, In 2002 incumbent moderate Democratic Governor Roy Barnes was defeated by Republican Sonny Perdue a state legislator and former Democrat While Democrats retained control of the State House they lost their majority in the Senate when four Democrats switched parties They lost the House in the 2004 election Republicans then controlled all three partisan elements of the state government, Roger Williams established Providence Plantations in 1636 on land provided by Narragansett sachem Canonicus Williams was a Puritan who preached religious tolerance separation of Church and State and a complete break with the Church of England He was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony over theological disagreements; he founded the settlement based on an egalitarian constitution providing for majority rule "in civil things" and "liberty of conscience" in religious matters in 1637 a second group including Anne Hutchinson established a second settlement on Aquidneck Island also known as Rhode Island.
Georgia 6.svg State Route 6, In its first decade Amtrak fell far short of financial independence which continues today but it did find modest success rebuilding trade Outside factors discouraged competing transport such as fuel shortages which increased costs of automobile and airline travel and strikes which disrupted airline operations Investments in Amtrak's track equipment and information also made Amtrak more relevant to America's transportation needs Amtrak's ridership increased from 16.6 million in 1972 to 21 million in 1981, 102 2720 American football. The Georgia General Assembly began as a unicameral body in 1777 but changed to a bicameral legislature in 1789 It is now made up of a Senate (the upper house) and a House of Representatives (the lower house) the Senate has 56 members while the House of Representatives has 180 Members from each body serve for two years but have no limit to the number of times they can be re-elected Both senators and representatives are elected from their constituents' districts. Washington Monthly 42 139 104 Arts facilities have led the way for modernists in Atlanta architecture with the High Museum designed by Richard Meier with a 2005 addition by Renzo Piano a recent design competition resulted in Freelon Associates (in conjunction with HOK) being selected as the architect for the new $100 million home of the Center for Civil and Human Rights Michael Graves' post-modern style is exhibited in the Ten Peachtree Place office building in Midtown and the Michael C Carlos Museum on the campus of Emory University the 50-story One Atlantic Center was designed by Philip Johnson in association with John Burgee Completed in 1980 the Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library was designed by one of the 20th century's most notable modernists architects Marcel Breuer who holds the distinction of having studied and taught at the Bauhaus where early in his career Breuer first became a renowned furniture designer Atlanta also has its own Flatiron Building built in 1897 five years before the more famous Flatiron Building in New York City (1902).
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