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. . 2 Trains Native American settlements Energy use and production! DeKalb (753,253) Frontier Airlines Atlanta Georgia business directory, 12 Further reading Ice hockey Stone Mountain Freeway or U.S 78 is an 8-mile corridor east of Downtown Atlanta and the neighboring suburb of Decatur it serves northeast portions of Dekalb County including the city of Stone Mountain it continues east as a divided highway into south Gwinnett County including the suburb of Snellville U.S 78 also stretches east to Athens. Games The syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune taped three weeks of Olympics-themed episodes from the Fox Theater in Atlanta for broadcast in April and July 1996 which included prizes from the Games' official sponsors a video game featuring the Games' mascot Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings was also released, Alliance Theater Other sports.

The 1996 Olympics were marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27 Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the pipe bomb and immediately notified law enforcement and helped evacuate as many people as possible from the area before it exploded Although Jewell's quick actions are credited for saving many lives the bombing killed spectator Alice Hawthorne wounded 111 others and caused the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack Jewell was later considered a suspect in the bombing but was never charged and he was exonerated in October 1996 in 2003 Eric Robert Rudolph was charged with and confessed to this bombing as well as the bombings of two abortion clinics and a gay bar He stated "the purpose of the attack on July 27th was to confound anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand." He was sentenced to a life sentence at ADX Florence prison in Florence Colorado, Map of Georgia's counties depicting the median income as of 2014. Geography and nomenclature Flora Dan Brouthers 1 Ozzie Albies Peachtree Center exhibiting the contributions of John Portman. Before settlement by Europeans Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12 1733 the colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by (and named for) King George II the Trustees implemented an elaborate plan for the colony's settlement known as the Oglethorpe Plan which envisioned an agrarian society of yeoman farmers and prohibited slavery the colony was invaded by the Spanish in 1742 during the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1752 after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony the Trustees turned over control to the crown Georgia became a crown colony with a governor appointed by the king, Hapeville pop 6,373 Fairburn pop 12,950, Dobbins Air Reserve Base Rugby union. Some residents of suburban north Fulton have advocated that they be allowed to secede and re-form Milton County after the county that was absorbed into Fulton County in 1932 during the Great Depression Fulton County in comparison to the state's other counties is physically large Its population is greater than that of each of the six smallest U.S states. . The first passenger horsecar or tram Swansea and Mumbles Railway was opened between Swansea and Mumbles in Wales in 1807 Horses remained the preferable mode for tram transport even after the arrival of steam engines until the end of the 19th century because they were cleaner compared to steam driven trams which caused smoke in city streets. The total cost of the 1996 Summer Olympics was estimated to be around $1.7 billion the venues and the Games themselves were funded entirely via private investment and the only public funding came from the U.S government for security and around $500 million of public money used on physical public infrastructure including streetscaping road improvements Centennial Olympic Park (alongside $75 million in private funding) expansion of the airport improvements in public transportation and redevelopment of public housing projects $420 million worth of tickets were sold sale of sponsorship rights accounted for $540 million and sale of the domestic broadcast rights to NBC accounted for $456 million in total the Games turned a profit of $10 million!