1 Context References Sports, Chipper 1.2 Postbellum Ethnic Amy Van Dyken won four gold medals in the Olympic swimming pool the first American woman to win four titles in a single Olympiad Penny Heyns swimmer of South Africa won the gold medals in both the 100 metres and 200 metres breaststroke events Michelle Smith of Ireland won three gold medals and a bronze in swimming She remains her nation's most decorated Olympian However her victories were overshadowed by doping allegations even though she did not test positive in 1996 She received a four-year suspension in 1998 for tampering with a urine sample though her medals and records were allowed to stand. . .
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, Two buildings stand side-by-side on a hill the one on the left is two stories with two smokestacks behind it the one on the right is the larger taller Tech Tower building, Utilities Georgia consists of 159 counties second only to Texas with 254 Georgia had 161 counties until the end of 1931 when Milton and Campbell were merged into the existing Fulton Some counties have been named for prominent figures in both American and Georgian history and many bear names with Native American origin Counties in Georgia have their own elected legislative branch usually called the Board of Commissioners which usually also has executive authority in the county Several counties have a sole Commissioner form of government with legislative and executive authority vested in a single person Georgia is the only state with current Sole Commissioner counties Georgia's Constitution provides all counties and cities with "home rule" authority the county commissions have considerable power to pass legislation within their county as a municipality would. ; Shooting ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? District 5 Marvin S Arrington Jr. Democratic Automobiles N/A 3,501 BTU/mi (2,295 kJ/km) 0.48 N/A Retired June 13 1994 Dacula pop 4,442 dagger Suspended list. . . . Diagram of Priestman Oil Engine from the Steam engine and gas and oil engines (1900) by John Perry.
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