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! During the Cold War era Atlanta followed global modernist trends especially with regards to office towers and commercial buildings Examples of modernist architecture include the Westin Peachtree Plaza (1976) Georgia-Pacific Tower (1982) the State of Georgia Building (1966) and the Atlanta Marriott Marquis (1985), 1100 Peachtree Baseball (1), A one-story brick building with grey concrete stairs in the center leading to a door with a column on either side of it There are three long windows on each side of the building.

11 Media In the 1980 census 1,584,303 Georgians claimed English ancestry out of a total state population of 3,994,817 making them 40% of the state and the largest ethnic group at the time Today many of these same people claiming that they are of "American" ancestry are actually of English descent and some are of Scots-Irish descent; however their families have lived in the state for so long in many cases since the colonial period that they choose to identify simply as having "American" ancestry or do not in fact know their own ancestry Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies and for this reason many of them today simply claim "American" ancestry though they are of predominantly English ancestry, 4 Politics 2 Policing 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, 1.3.4.4 2005: a new generation In early 1861 Georgia joined the Confederacy (with secessionists having a slight majority of delegates) and became a major theater of the Civil War Major battles took place at Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta in December 1864 a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea 18,253 Georgian soldiers died in service roughly one of every five who served in 1870 following the Reconstruction Era Georgia became the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union; ; Sun 22nd 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, Military Sat 4th TV As of 2010 Atlanta is the seventh-most visited city in the United States with over 35 million visitors per year Although the most popular attraction among visitors to Atlanta is the Georgia Aquarium the world's largest indoor aquarium Atlanta's tourism industry is mostly driven by the city's history museums and outdoor attractions Atlanta contains a notable amount of historical museums and sites including the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site which includes the preserved childhood home of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. as well as his final resting place; the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum which houses a massive painting and diorama in-the-round with a rotating central audience platform depicting the Battle of Atlanta in the Civil War; the World of Coca-Cola featuring the history of the world-famous soft drink brand and its well-known advertising; the College Football Hall of Fame which honors college football and its athletes; the National Center for Civil and Human Rights which explores the civil rights movement and its connection to contemporary human rights movements throughout the world; the Carter Center and Presidential Library housing U.S President Jimmy Carter's papers and other material relating to the Carter administration and the Carter family's life; and the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum where Mitchell wrote the best-selling novel Gone with the Wind, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8). Main article: Georgia Tech traditions, 2.7 Election and returns; disorderly conduct, The water boundaries are still set to be the original thalweg of the rivers Since then several have been inundated by lakes created by dams including the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint point now under Lake Seminole. Chinese (including Mandarin) 0.38% The Braves began the season on a nine-game losing streak which is the worst opening by the franchise since 1988 when they dropped the first 10 games of that season, Atlanta Georgia business directory Further information: Economy of Metro Atlanta.