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District 7 (At-Large) Robb Pitts (Chairman) Democratic Hall (354/sq mi). ! Butts (24,059) 4.2 Closing ceremony Georgia 407.svg State Route 407 (unsigned designation for I-285) WSB-TV in Atlanta is the state's oldest television station having begun operations in 1948 WSB was only the second such operation founded in the Southern U.S trailing only WTVR in Richmond Virginia.[citation needed]. Automobiles N/A 3,501 BTU/mi (2,295 kJ/km) 0.48 N/A, Amtrak Express (reporting marks AMTK AMTZ) provides small-package and less-than-truckload shipping among more than 100 cities Amtrak Express also offers station-to-station shipment of human remains to many express cities at smaller stations funeral directors must load and unload the shipment onto and off the train Amtrak hauled mail for the United States Postal Service and time-sensitive freight but canceled these services in October 2004 due to minuscule profits on most parts of the few lines that Amtrak owns trackage rights agreements allow freight railroads to use its trackage, Rockdale An extinct fault line called the Brevard Fault runs roughly parallel to the Chattahoochee River but as its last movements were apparently prehistoric it is considered extinct and not a threat to the region Still minor earthquakes do rattle the area (and all of Georgia) occasionally One notable one was in April 2003 (magnitude 4.6) coming from the northwest its epicenter just across the state line in northeastern Alabama While many people slept through the 5A.M quake it caused a minor panic in others completely unaware of what was happening Similar earthquakes occur in this region called the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone often felt much more widely across the stronger crust of eastern North America as compared to the west Thus the 1886 Charleston South Carolina earthquake was also felt in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast it caused damage as far as central Alabama and West Virginia Two small earthquakes were also felt on the southeast side near Eatonton in early April 2009 the New Madrid Seismic Zone (near the Missouri-Tennessee borders) and the seismic zone producing the 1886 magnitude 7.3 earthquake are still capable of producing moderate or major earthquakes which the entire Atlanta area will feel moderately or even strongly; Table tennis (4) College Football Hall of Fame 10.2 TV Metal rails introduced 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 first use of electrification on a main line was on a four-mile section of the Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1895 connecting the main portion of the B&O to the new line to New York through a series of tunnels around the edges of Baltimore's downtown Electricity quickly became the power supply of choice for subways abetted by the Sprague's invention of multiple-unit train control in 1897 By the early 1900s most street railways were electrified, Air France (Joint venture with Delta Air Lines), Egypt (29) Charter governments were political corporations created by letters patent giving the grantees control of the land and the powers of legislative government the charters provided a fundamental constitution and divided powers among legislative executive and judicial functions with those powers being vested in officials Massachusetts Providence Plantation Rhode Island Warwick and Connecticut were charter colonies the Massachusetts charter was revoked in 1684 and was replaced by a provincial charter that was issued in 1691 Providence Plantations merged with the settlements at Rhode Island and Warwick to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations which also became a charter colony in 1636! Georgia was the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution J Religion in Atlanta while historically centered on Protestant Christianity now involves many faiths as a result of the city and metro area's increasingly international population Protestant Christianity still maintains a strong presence in the city (63%) but in recent decades the Catholic Church has increased in numbers and influence because of new migrants in the region Metro Atlanta also has numerous ethnic or national Christian congregations including Korean and Indian churches the larger non-Christian faiths are Judaism Islam and Hinduism Overall there are over 1,000 places of worship within Atlanta.

The British were left with large debts following the French and Indian War so British leaders decided to increase taxation and control of the Thirteen Colonies They imposed several new taxes beginning with the Sugar Act of 1764 Later acts included the Currency Act of 1764 the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767. In 1980 construction was completed on an expansion of what is now named Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the busiest and most efficient airport in the world it accommodates over 100 million passengers annually Employing more than 60,000 people the airport became a major engine for economic growth With the advantages of cheap real estate low taxes right-to-work laws and a regulatory environment limiting government interference the Atlanta metropolitan area became a national center of finance insurance technology manufacturing real estate logistics and transportation companies as well as the film convention and trade show businesses As a testament to the city's growing international profile in 1990 the International Olympic Committee selected Atlanta as the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics Taking advantage of Atlanta's status as a transportation hub in 1991 UPS established its headquarters in a suburb in 1992 construction finished on Bank of America Plaza the tallest building in the U.S outside New York or Chicago.