70/21 85/29 4.3 Environment Bahrain (5) Earliest recorded examples of an internal combustion engine for railway use included a prototype designed by William Dent Priestman which was examined by Sir William Thomson in 1888 who described it as a "[Priestman oil engine] mounted upon a truck which is worked on a temporary line of rails to show the adaptation of a petroleum engine for locomotive purposes." in 1894 a 20 hp (15 kW) two axle machine built by Priestman Brothers was used on the Hull Docks. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the only international airport for the region (and only major international airport for the state) and as with rail travel it became the ubiquitous place through which everyone must travel at some point Atlanta's second airport is in the very preliminary discussion and study phase. .
Greek life at Georgia Tech includes over 50 active chapters of social fraternities and sororities All of the groups are chapters of national organizations including members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference National Panhellenic Conference and National Pan-Hellenic Council the first fraternity to establish a chapter at Georgia Tech was Alpha Tau Omega in 1888 before the school held its first classes the first sorority to establish a chapter was Alpha Xi Delta in 1954 Students with Greek affiliation make up around 26 percent of the undergraduate student body, Lithia Springs (CDP) pop 15,491, Well-known television shows set in Atlanta include from Tyler Perry Studios House of Payne and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns the Real Housewives of Atlanta the CBS sitcom Designing Women Matlock the popular AMC series the Walking Dead Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva Rectify and numerous HGTV original productions. In the Atlanta area World of Coke Georgia Aquarium Zoo Atlanta and Stone Mountain are important tourist attractions Stone Mountain is Georgia's "most popular attraction"; receiving over four million tourists per year the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta was the largest aquarium in the world in 2010 according to Guinness World Records, The BeltLine is a 22-mile-long (35 km) trail circling the older neighborhoods of central Atlanta which will be developed in stages the BeltLine Eastside Trail connects Piedmont Park (at the intersection of 10th and Monroe) to the Inman Park MARTA station at DeKalb Avenue the "Art on the BeltLine" project has resulted in the installation of several contemporary art pieces on the trail, 5.6 Subsidies White-tailed (Virginia) deer are in nearly all counties the northern mockingbird and brown thrasher are among the 160 bird species that live in the state. In Fiscal Year 2011 the U.S Congress granted Amtrak $563 million for operating and $922 million for capital programs 2.3 Rugby league; Service on the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington D.C. as well as between Philadelphia and Harrisburg is powered by overhead electric wires; for the rest of the system diesel locomotives are used Routes vary widely in frequency of service from three-days-a-week trains on the Sunset Limited to weekday service several times per hour on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) Amtrak also operates a captive bus service Thruway Motorcoach which provides connections to train routes.
Park At Abernathy Square