. Beginning in 1609 Dutch traders explored and established fur trading posts on the Hudson River Delaware River and Connecticut River seeking to protect their interests in the fur trade the Dutch West India Company established permanent settlements on the Hudson River creating the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1626 Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape Indians and established the outpost of New Amsterdam Relatively few Dutch settled in New Netherland but the colony came to dominate the regional fur trade it also served as the base for extensive trade with the English colonies and many products from New England and Virginia were carried to Europe on Dutch ships the Dutch also engaged in the burgeoning Atlantic slave trade supplying enslaved Africans to the English colonies in North America and Barbados the West India Company desired to grow New Netherland as it became commercially successful yet the colony failed to attract the same level of settlement as the English colonies did Many of those who did immigrate to the colony were English German Walloon or Sephardim, Ridership increased during the first decade of the 21st century after implementation of capital improvements in the NEC and rises in automobile fuel costs the inauguration of the high-speed Acela Express in late 2000 generated considerable publicity and led to major ridership gains However through the late 1990s and very early 21st century Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other expenditures to break even by 2002 it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement in early 2002 David L Gunn replaced Warrington as president In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured Highways airports and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees highway fuel and road taxes and in the case of the General Fund from general taxation Gunn dropped most freight express business and worked to eliminate deferred maintenance. Pitchers The Atlanta metropolitan area is the ninth largest media market in the United States as ranked by Nielsen Media Research the state's other top markets are Savannah (95th largest) Augusta (115th largest) and Columbus (127th largest), 8 Government and politics CNN Center From 1992 to 1996 Atlanta was home to the short-lived Atlanta Knights an International Hockey League team Their inaugural season was excellent for a new team and was only bested by their sophomore season in which they won the championship Turner Cup in 1996 they moved to Quebec City Quebec and became the Quebec Rafales. Subsidies N 5.2 Mining, The Olympic flag waves at the 1996 games 2.6 Climate 139 2313. . 2 Ethnic Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (part), Atlanta encompasses 134.0 square miles (347.1 km2) of which 133.2 square miles (344.9 km2) is land and 0.85 square miles (2.2 km2) is water the city is situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at 1,050 feet (320 m) above mean sea level Atlanta has one of the highest elevations among major cities east of the Mississippi River Atlanta straddles the Eastern Continental Divide such that rainwater that falls on the south and east side of the divide flows into the Atlantic Ocean while rainwater on the north and west side of the divide flows into the Gulf of Mexico Atlanta sits atop a ridge south of the Chattahoochee River which is part of the ACF River Basin Located at the far northwestern edge of the city much of the river's natural habitat is preserved in part by the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. .
Image of March 1993 Storm of the Century covering the length of the east coast the outline of Georgia is discernible in the center of the image. Liechtenstein (2), British colonies in North America c.?1750, The Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) Georgia State Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt Conference) are Georgia's NCAA Division I FBS football teams having won multiple national championships between them the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their own rivalry. . Barnesville pop 6,775, These are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1996 Games, 6.1 Funding history In 2002 after a hundred years of library service to the public a major renovation of the Central Library was completed.
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