On curves the outer rail may be at a higher level than the inner rail This is called superelevation or cant This reduces the forces tending to displace the track and makes for a more comfortable ride for standing livestock and standing or seated passengers a given amount of superelevation is most effective over a limited range of speeds. Gaylord Perry Fernbank Science Center, 4.3.2 Fauna 1970 4,589,575 16.4% Where more than one town in the same county has a road to the same place the smaller towns have their own name prefixed to it while the county seat does not the road need not go directly to the other place but may connect through other roads Examples include Due West Road west from Marietta Kennesaw Due West Road southwest from Kennesaw and Acworth Due West Road south from Acworth Some are usually hyphenated like Peachtree-Dunwoody Road Ashford-Dunwoody Road Chamblee-Dunwoody Road and Chamblee-Tucker Road, Mauritania (4) An Acela Express at Old Saybrook Connecticut in 2011. Military presence Hall (199,335) In tennis Andre Agassi won the gold medal which would eventually make him the first man and second singles player overall (after his eventual wife Steffi Graf) to win the career Golden Slam which consists of an Olympic gold medal and victories in the singles tournaments held at professional tennis' four major events (Australian Open French Open Wimbledon and US Open). ; 5 Research Print 33/1 61/16 1940 302,288 11.8% 2 Geography 13 State symbols; . 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. !
. The demographic make-up of Fulton County has changed considerably in recent decades the northern portion of the county a suburban area is among the most affluent areas in the nation and is majority white it was formerly a Republican stronghold but has seen a shift toward the Democratic Party since the early 2010s in 2018 Lucy McBath won the 6th Congressional District the majority of which is in North Fulton the central and southern portion of the county which includes the city of Atlanta and its core satellite cities to the south is overwhelmingly Democratic and majority black it contains some of the poorest sections in the metropolitan area but also has wealthy sections particularly in Midtown Atlanta many east Atlanta neighborhoods and in the suburban neighborhoods along Cascade Road beyond I-285 Cascade Heights and Sandtown located in the southwest region of Fulton County are predominantly affluent African American in population. . Notable people Jamaica (45), Lindbergh Drive (Georgia 236), 2.1 Concept D Government 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 Technique also known as the "'Nique" is Tech's official student newspaper It is distributed weekly during the Fall and Spring semesters (on Fridays) and biweekly during the Summer semester (with certain exceptions) it was established on November 17 1911 Blueprint is Tech's yearbook established in 1908 Other student publications include the North Avenue Review Tech's "free-speech magazine" Erato Tech's literary magazine the Tower Tech's undergraduate research journal and T-Book the student handbook detailing Tech traditions the offices of all student publications are located in the Student Services Building.
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