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Atlanta Hawks Basketball National Basketball Association State Farm Arena Atlanta! Population density of Georgia 58 84 The Olympic flag waves at the 1996 games. 14 See also Before Atlanta was even a city it was a railroad hub From this came the joke popular among other Southerners that "regardless of whether one goes to heaven or hell everyone must go through Atlanta first" Many of its suburbs pre-date it as depots or train stations along the major lines in and out of town. 97 Jimmy Leo (bullpen catcher) Midtown Atlanta or Midtown is a high-density commercial and residential neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia the exact geographical extent of the area is ill-defined due to differing definitions used by the city residents and local business groups However the commercial core of the area is anchored by a series of high-rise office buildings condominiums hotels and high-end retail along Peachtree Street between North Avenue and 17th Street Midtown situated between Downtown to the south and Buckhead to the north is the second-largest business district in Metro Atlanta in 2011 Midtown had a resident population of 41,681 and a business population of 81,418. St Mark's United Methodist Church in Atlanta Sketch showing about a dozen people standing on an underground railway platform with a train standing at the platform Several more people are visible inside the train which has the words "Baker St" visible on its side. Basketball ? ? Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, No person on active duty with any branch of the armed forces of the United States shall have a seat in either house unless otherwise provided by law, 17 Further reading Main article: History of rail transport. Amtrak has argued that it needs to increase capital program costs in 2013 in order to replace old train equipment because the multi-year maintenance costs for those trains exceeds what it would cost to simply buy new equipment that would not need to be repaired for several years However despite an initial request for more than $2.1 billion in funding for the year the company had to deal with a year-over-year cut in 2013 federal appropriations dropping to under $1.4 billion for the first time in several years Amtrak stated in 2010 that the backlog of needed repairs of the track it owns on the Northeast Corridor included over 200 bridges most dating to the 19th century tunnels under Baltimore dating to the American Civil War era and functionally obsolete track switches which would cost $5.2 billion to repair (more than triple Amtrak's total annual budget) Amtrak's budget is only allocated on a yearly basis and it has been argued by Joseph Vranich that this makes multi-year development programs and long-term fiscal planning difficult if not impossible.[page needed], Asian 1.2% 2.1% 3.3% On-time performance, Tennis ? ? ? ?

Greece the home of the ancient and first modern Olympics was considered by many observers the "natural choice" for the Centennial Games However Athens bid chairman Spyros Metaxa demanded that it be named as the site of the Olympics because of its "historical right due to its history" which may have caused resentment among delegates Furthermore the Athens bid was described as "arrogant and poorly prepared" being regarded as "not being up to the task of coping with the modern and risk-prone extravaganza" of the current Games Athens faced numerous obstacles including "political instability potential security problems air pollution traffic congestion and the fact that it would have to spend about $3 billion to improve its infrastructure of airports roads rail lines and other amenities" in 1997 after Atlanta hosted the games Athens was awarded to host the 2004 Summer Olympics, The 1995 World Series Commissioner's Trophy on display in the Ivan Allen Jr Braves Museum and Hall of Fame at Turner Field. . Jeffrey Moreland vice-chairman 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. ! The new social history approach looks at community social structure to find issues that became magnified into colonial cleavages! As planned all commuter trains would arrive at the Atlanta Multimodal Passenger Terminal (MMPT) the long-delayed facility just across Peachtree Street from the Five Points MARTA station where all of its lines meet Planning for the system and its extension as intercity rail across the state are the responsibility of the Georgia Rail Passenger Authority. 1.6 High-speed rail The southern half of Midtown between 8th Street and North Ave was originally purchased by Richard Peters in 1848 to use the pine forest there for fuel for his downtown flour mill Over the next 40 years Peters slowly subdivided sections of these land lots off for a gridded residential area and built his own home there on Peachtree at 4th Street His son Edward built his home on the block bounded by North Avenue Piedmont Avenue Ponce de Leon Avenue and Myrtle Street the home now called Ivy Hall was restored by the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The provincial colony was governed by commissions created at pleasure of the king a governor and his council were appointed by the crown the governor was invested with general executive powers and authorized to call a locally elected assembly the governor's council would sit as an upper house when the assembly was in session in addition to its role in advising the governor Assemblies were made up of representatives elected by the freeholders and planters (landowners) of the province the governor had the power of absolute veto and could prorogue (i.e delay) and dissolve the assembly the assembly's role was to make all local laws and ordinances ensuring that they were not inconsistent with the laws of Britain in practice this did not always occur since many of the provincial assemblies sought to expand their powers and limit those of the governor and crown Laws could be examined by the British Privy Council or Board of Trade which also held veto power of legislation New Hampshire New York Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia were crown colonies Massachusetts became a crown colony at the end of the 17th century.