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Sports The player's strike cut short the 1994 season prior to the division championships with the Braves six games behind the Montreal Expos with 48 games left to play! The Georgia Film Music and Digital Entertainment Office promotes filming in the state Since 1972 seven hundred film and television projects have been filmed on location in Georgia Georgia overtook California in 2016 as the state location with the most feature films produced in FY2017 film and television production in Georgia had an economic impact of $9.5 billion Atlanta now is even called the "Hollywood of the South." Television shows like Stranger Things the Walking Dead and the Vampire Diaries are filmed in the state Movies too such as Passengers Forrest Gump Contagion Hidden Figures Sully Baby Driver the Hunger Games: Catching Fire Captain America: Civil War Black Panther Birds of Prey and many more were filmed around Georgia, Each region has its own distinctive characteristics for instance the Ridge and Valley which lies in the northwest corner of the state includes limestone sandstone shale and other sedimentary rocks which have yielded construction-grade limestone barite ocher and small amounts of coal. The APD also trains and issues the AR-15 to many of its patrol officers to aid in tactical situations where a pistol and shotgun are out matched. .

. 3.2 Track Six National League Cy Young Awards in the 1990s were awarded to three Braves pitchers:, The ascendancy of the Republican Party in Georgia and in the South in general resulted in Georgia U.S House of Representatives member Newt Gingrich being elected as Speaker of the House following the election of a Republican majority in the House in 1994 Gingrich served as Speaker until 1999 when he resigned in the aftermath of the loss of House seats held by members of the GOP Gingrich mounted an unsuccessful bid for President in the 2012 election but withdrew after winning only the South Carolina and Georgia primaries. F An early picture of Georgia Tech, After contending for most of 1915 and 1916 the Braves only twice posted winning records from 1917 to 1932 the lone highlight of those years came when Judge Emil Fuchs bought the team in 1923 to bring his longtime friend pitching great Christy Mathewson back into the game However Mathewson died in 1925 leaving Fuchs in control of the team, Major cities 4 References 1 History Chief Financial Officer Sharon Whitmore. MARTA serves most of the county and along with Clayton and Dekalb County Fulton pays a 1% sales tax to fund it MARTA train service in Fulton is currently limited to the cities of Atlanta Sandy Springs East Point and College Park as well as the airport Bus service covers most of the remainder except the rural areas in the far southwest North Fulton residents have been asking for service to extend the North Line ten miles (16 km) up the Georgia 400 corridor from Perimeter Center to the fellow edge city of Alpharetta However as the only major transit system in the country that its state government will not fund there is no money to expand the system Sales taxes now go entirely to operating maintaining and refurbishing the system Xpress GA/ RTA provides commuter bus service from the outer suburbs of Fulton County the city of Sandy Springs to Midtown and Downtown Atlanta, Main article: Economy of Atlanta, Northeast Georgia Medical Center Languages Electric locomotives draw power from a stationary source via an overhead wire or third rail Some also or instead use a battery in locomotives that are powered by high voltage alternating current a transformer in the locomotive converts the high voltage low current power to low voltage high current used in the traction motors that power the wheels Modern locomotives may use three-phase AC induction motors or direct current motors Under certain conditions electric locomotives are the most powerful traction.[citation needed] They are also the cheapest to run and provide less noise and no local air pollution.[citation needed] However they require high capital investments both for the overhead lines and the supporting infrastructure as well as the generating station that is needed to produce electricity Accordingly electric traction is used on urban systems lines with high traffic and for high-speed rail. .