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Fulton County's budget of $1.2 billion funds an array of resident services With 34 branches the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System is one of the largest library systems in Georgia Human services programs include one of the strongest senior center networks in metro Atlanta including four multi-purpose senior facilities the county also provides funding to nonprofits with FRESH and Human Services grants. . The area has gone by other names in the past An 1897 source refers to the area as North Atlanta which would later be the name of today's city of Brookhaven the 1897 "North Atlanta" encompassed (roughly) most of today's Midtown Georgia Tech and English Avenue Sources from the 1950s and early 1960s refer to the area as "Uptown Atlanta," a moniker which would later be applied instead to Buckhead following its annexation. 2.2 Geology and terrain 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. 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.

. Georgia is a major railway hub has the most extensive rail system in the Southeast and has the service of two Class I railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern plus 24 short-line railroads Georgia is ranked the #3 state in the nation for rail accessibility Rail shipments include intermodal bulk automotive and every other type of shipment. (as of 2010), Subsidies Cuba (164), 3.2 Languages 72/22 91/32 Retired August 6 2010 Iraq (3).