6.2 Housing 141 158, Volleyball Air Animal-powered Cable Human-powered Land Rail Road Pipeline Space Water, Czech Republic (115) Butts (24,059) The state has 151 general hospitals over 15,000 doctors and almost 6,000 dentists the state is ranked forty-first in the percentage of residents who engage in regular exercise. Decatur pop 19,335 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. Common lawn weeds are mock strawberry violet wild onion and of course the ubiquitous dandelion crabgrass and plantain, Georgia 74.svg State Route 74. Panama (7) 3.2 French and Indian War Diesel locomotives use a diesel engine as the prime mover the energy transmission may be either diesel-electric diesel-mechanical or diesel-hydraulic but diesel-electric is dominant Electro-diesel locomotives are built to run as diesel-electric on unelectrified sections and as electric locomotives on electrified sections. 39/4 Population 2.2 Efficiency Limitation of powers, Newton Atlanta has a large effect on the state of Georgia the Southeastern United States and beyond Atlanta has been the site of growth in finance insurance technology manufacturing real estate service logistics transportation film communications convention and trade show businesses and industries while tourism is important to the economy Atlanta is a global city also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center as a city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system, Firms Universities and Organizations Butts (105/sq mi) Georgia 401.svg State Route 401 (unsigned designation for I-75). . Total gold medals 16 13 17 10 15 10 15 20 24 22 10 16 17 19 29 18 Politics In 1982 former Secretary of the Navy and retired Southern Railway head William Graham Claytor Jr came out of retirement to lead Amtrak.[page needed] Despite frequent clashes with the Reagan administration over funding Claytor enjoyed a good relationship with John H Riley the head of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and with members of Congress Limited funding led Claytor to use short-term debt to fund operations. Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S passenger rail services it receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization Amtrak's headquarters is located one block west of Union Station in Washington D.C, Georgia's major fine art museums include the High Museum of Art and the Michael C Carlos Museum both in Atlanta; the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens; Telfair Museum of Art and the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah; and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.
. Fulton County was created in 1853 from the western half of DeKalb County it was named in honor of Hamilton Fulton a railroad official who acted as surveyor for the Western and Atlantic Railroad and also as chief engineer of the state After surveying the area that is now Fulton County Fulton convinced state officials that a railroad rather than a canal should be constructed to connect Milledgeville then the state capital to Chattanooga Tennessee Building the railroad was a precursor of Fulton County's prominence as a major transportation center Organized as settlement increased in the Piedmont section of upland Georgia Fulton County grew rapidly after the American Civil War as Atlanta was rebuilt becoming a center of railroad shipping industry and business. 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), Atlanta is also served by several other freeways in addition to the interstate highways including:! . Organization and procedure of the General Assembly 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). 1890 1,837,353 19.1% Hampton pop 6,987 Authors have grappled with Georgia's complex history Popular novels related to this include Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Olive Ann Burns' Cold Sassy Tree and Alice Walker's the Color Purple, Owing to the area's long history of settlement and uneven terrain most arterial roads are not straight but meander instead which can be confusing as much as the famed proliferation of Atlanta streets with "Peachtree" in the name It is also often joked that half the streets are named Peachtree while the other half have several names to make up for it, 58/14 87/31 MODA (Museum of Design Atlanta) is located on Peachtree Street.
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