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1.2 Middle colonies In 1958 the Braves again won the National League pennant and jumped out to a three games to one lead in the World Series against the New York Yankees once more thanks in part to the strength of Spahn's and Burdette's pitching But the Yankees stormed back to take the last three games in large part to World Series MVP Bob Turley's pitching, Atlanta Georgia business directory 8 Charlie Culberson Through mergers the main railroads in the area are now Norfolk Southern and CSX the Georgia Northeastern Railroad is a short line that also services part of the area There are also several railyards of Atlanta and vicinity as well as the Southeastern Railway Museum and the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History. 11 Further reading, Atlanta is rated as a "beta+" world city that exerts a moderate impact on global commerce finance research technology education media art and entertainment it ranks in the top twenty among world cities and 10th in the nation with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $385 billion Atlanta's economy is considered diverse with dominant sectors that include aerospace transportation logistics professional and business services media operations medical services and information technology Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage earning it the nickname of "the city in a forest." Revitalization of Atlanta's neighborhoods initially spurred by the 1996 Summer Olympics has intensified in the 21st century altering the city's demographics politics aesthetics and culture, Andorra (8) Parliament had directly levied duties and excise taxes on the colonies bypassing the colonial legislatures and Americans began to insist on the principle of "no taxation without representation" with intense protests over the Stamp Act of 1765 They argued that the colonies had no representation in the British Parliament so it was a violation of their rights as Englishmen for taxes to be imposed upon them Parliament rejected the colonial protests and asserted its authority by passing new taxes. Georgia 236.svg State Route 236 According to the 2010 United States Census Georgia had a population of 9,687,653 in terms of race and ethnicity the state was 59.7% White (55.9% Non-Hispanic White alone) 30.5% Black or African American 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native 3.2% Asian 0.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 4.0% from some other race and 2.1% from two or more races Hispanics and Latinos of any race made up 8.8% of the population. Coaches Atlanta's Georgia Dome hosted Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994 and Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 the Georgia Dome hosted the NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball National Championship in 2002 2007 and 2013 it hosted WWE's WrestleMania XXVII in 2011 an event which set an attendance record of 71,617 the dome was also the venue of the annual Chick-fil-A Bowl post-season college football games Since 2017 they have been held at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium along with the FIRST World Championships. Government and politics Union City pop 19,456, 7.5 Airports Avondale Estates pop 2,960, Alternate plate.svg Atlanta VA Medical Center. Several sites honor the lives and careers of noted American leaders: the Little White House in Warm Springs which served as the summer residence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt while he was being treated for polio; President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains and the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta; the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site in Atlanta which is the final resting place of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King; and Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr King preached, Guyana (7) Perini sold the Braves to a Chicago-based group led by William Bartholomay in 1962 Almost immediately Bartholomay started shopping the Braves to a larger television market Keen to attract them the fast-growing city of Atlanta led by Mayor Ivan Allen Jr constructed a new $18 million 52,000-seat ballpark in less than one year Atlanta Stadium which was officially opened in 1965 in hopes of luring an existing major league baseball and/or NFL/AFL team After the city failed to lure the Kansas City A's to Atlanta (the A's would move to Oakland in 1968) the Braves announced their intention to move to Atlanta for the 1965 season However an injunction filed in Wisconsin kept the Braves in Milwaukee for one final year in 1966 the Braves completed the move to Atlanta! Growing dissent Cities Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces operating more than 300 trains daily over 21,400 miles (34,000 km) of track Amtrak owns approximately 623 miles of this track and operates an additional 132 miles of track Some track sections allow trains to run as fast as 150 mph (240 km/h); Medal count Atlanta Georgia business directory In November 2009 Kia started production in Georgia at the first U.S Kia Motors plant Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia in West Point.

50 168; Atlanta during the Civil War c.?1864 Forest Park pop 18,468 There are 17 Fortune 500 companies and 26 Fortune 1000 companies with headquarters in Georgia including Home Depot UPS Coca-Cola TSYS Delta Air Lines Aflac Southern Company Anthem Inc Honeywell and SunTrust Banks.