"I'm a Ramblin' Wreck" has had many other notable moments in its history It is reportedly the first school song to have been played in space Gregory Peck sang the song while strumming a ukulele in the movie the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit John Wayne whistled it in the High and the Mighty Tim Holt's character sings a few bars of it in the movie His Kind of Woman There are numerous stories of commanding officers in Higgins boats crossing the English Channel on the morning of D-Day leading their men in the song to calm their nerves It is played after every Georgia Tech score in a football game, 1700 Percent 1755 Percent 1775 Percent ? 72/22 86/30, 6.2 Literature After the Civil War ended in 1865 Atlanta was gradually rebuilt Due to the city's superior rail transportation network the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868 in the 1880 Census Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city Beginning in the 1880s Henry W Grady the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper promoted Atlanta to potential investors as a city of the "New South" that would be based upon a modern economy and less reliant on agriculture by 1885 the founding of the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) and the Atlanta University Center had established Atlanta as a center for higher education in 1895 Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition which attracted nearly 800,000 attendees and successfully promoted the New South's development to the world. Through various commuter services Amtrak serves an additional 61.1 million passengers per year in conjunction with state and regional authorities in California (through Amtrak California and Metrolink) Connecticut (through Shore Line East) and Maryland (through MARC).[citation needed], Economy 6 Demographics I-20.svg Interstate 20, Georgia State Stadium is located in the Southeastern Atlanta neighborhood of Summerhill It is located on Hank Aaron Drive which provides multiple parking areas. By far the largest daily newspaper in Georgia is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with a daily readership of 195,592 and a Sunday readership of 397,925 Other large dailies include the Augusta Chronicle the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer the Telegraph (formerly the Macon Telegraph) and the Savannah Morning News, Slavery was legal and practiced in all of the Thirteen Colonies in most places it involved house servants or farm workers it was of economic importance in the export-oriented tobacco plantations of Virginia and Maryland and on the rice and indigo plantations of South Carolina About 287,000 slaves were imported into the Thirteen Colonies over a period of 160 years or 2% of the estimated 12 million taken from Africa to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade the great majority went to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be continually replenished By the mid-18th century life expectancy was much higher in the American colonies. . . Passenger mile Energy consumption 72/22 91/32 5.6.1.2 India Zones and constituent neighborhoods.
See also: List of governors of Georgia and Georgia elected officials, N In 1988 President John Patrick Crecine pushed through a restructuring of the university the Institute at that point had three colleges: the College of Engineering the College of Management and the catch-all COSALS the College of Sciences and Liberal Arts Crecine reorganized the latter two into the College of Computing the College of Sciences and the Ivan Allen College of Management Policy and International Affairs Crecine never asked for input regarding the changes and consequently many faculty members disliked his top-down management style; despite this the changes passed by a slim margin Crecine was also instrumental in securing the 1996 Summer Olympics for Atlanta a large amount of construction occurred creating most of what is now considered "West Campus" for Tech to serve as the Olympic Village and significantly gentrifying Midtown Atlanta the Undergraduate Living Center Fourth Street Apartments Sixth Street Apartments Eighth Street Apartments Hemphill Apartments and Center Street Apartments housed athletes and journalists the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center was built for swimming events and the Alexander Memorial Coliseum was renovated the Institute also erected the Kessler Campanile and fountain to serve as a landmark and symbol of the Institute on television broadcasts, Georgia had the second-fastest-growing Asian population growth in the U.S from 1990 to 2000 more than doubling in size during the ten-year period in addition according to census estimates Georgia ranks third among the states in terms of the percent of the total population that is African American (after Mississippi and Louisiana) and third in numerical Black population after New York and Florida Georgia was the state with the largest numerical increase in the black population from 2006 to 2007 with 84,000. Austria (72), Haralson M Under the leadership of Ella Gaines Yates who was the first African American director of the Library System a new Central library was opened to the public in May 1988 the building was designed by Marcel Breuer a participant in the innovative Bauhaus movement working side-by-side with his associate Hamilton Smith the Central Library was dedicated on May 25 1980 and Breuer would die a year later on July 1981 at the age of 81, The 1996 Olympics are the most recent edition of the Summer Olympics to be held in the United States Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics 32 years after the games were held in Atlanta. . USNWR departmental rankings, 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, Privileges of members On June 28 2013 the Atlanta Braves retired former third baseman Chipper Jones' jersey number 10 before the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks He was honored before 51,300 fans at Turner Field in Atlanta He served as a staple of the Braves franchise for 19 years before announcing his retirement at the beginning of the 2012 season Chipper Jones played his last regular season game for the Braves on September 30 2012. The Atlanta Regional Commission is so far the closest that the area has come to a metropolitan government it approves only those projects deemed to have a positive effect beyond the immediate area in which they are to be constructed the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority is somewhat of a cross between ARC and MARTA working to improve mobility air quality and land use practices in the region GRTA also operates Xpress buses from 11 counties and could operate commuter rail service in the future Currently plans for commuter rail and eventual intercity rail (including the long-proposed but still unfunded Atlanta Multimodal Passenger Terminal) are the responsibility of the Georgia Rail Passenger Authority which receives almost no funding.
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