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. The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April when the native dogwoods are in bloom. In 1784 James Watt a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer patented a design for a steam locomotive Watt had improved the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen hitherto used to pump water out of mines and developed a reciprocating engine in 1769 capable of powering a wheel This was a large stationary engine powering cotton mills and a variety of machinery; the state of boiler technology necessitated the use of low pressure steam acting upon a vacuum in the cylinder which required a separate condenser and an air pump Nevertheless as the construction of boilers improved Watt investigated the use of high-pressure steam acting directly upon a piston raising the possibility of a smaller engine that might be used to power a vehicle Following his patent Watt's employee William Murdoch produced a working model of a self-propelled steam carriage in that year. M The stadium was originally constructed as the 85,000-seat Centennial Olympic Stadium and used for the 1996 Summer Olympics Private entities including NBC and other Olympic sponsors agreed to pay a large sum of the cost to build Centennial Olympic Stadium (approximately $170 million of the $209 million bill) it was complete and ready for the Opening Ceremony in July 1996 where it hosted track and field events and the closing ceremony! White Democrats regained power after Reconstruction due in part to the efforts of some using intimidation and violence but this method came into disrepute in 1900 shortly before Georgia adopted a disfranchising constitutional amendment in 1908 blacks comprised 47% of the state's population, The Thirteen Colonies also known as the Thirteen British Colonies or the Thirteen American Colonies were a group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries which declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America the Thirteen Colonies had very similar political constitutional and legal systems and were dominated by Protestant English-speakers They were part of Britain's possessions in the New World which also included colonies in Canada Florida and the Caribbean. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence the State of Georgia's first constitution was ratified in February 1777 Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24 1778 and was the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution on January 2 1788. . .

July 26 1969 Atlanta also was the home to the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling hosted two Starcade events held each Thanksgiving night by WCW Atlanta also hosted WrestleMania XXVII in the Georgia Dome on April 3 2011, George N Barnard photograph of Slave trader's business on Whitehall Street Atlanta Georgia 1864 ironically shows a United States Colored Troop Infantryman [Corporal] just by the door, Main article: American Revolution Although their first major confrontation occurred when the Mets swept the Braves in the 1969 NLCS en route to their first World Series championship the first playoff series won by an expansion team (also the first playoff appearance by an expansion team) the rivalry did not become especially heated until the 1994 season when division realignment put both the Mets and the Braves in the NL East division During this time the Braves became one of the most dominant teams in professional baseball earning 14 straight division titles through 2005 including five world series berths and one world series championship during the 1995 season the rivalry remained heated through the early 2000s. . Indonesia (40) 2 Augusta Richmond 196,639, Nuvola apps ksysv square.svg Transport portal, The General Assembly does not publish reports and does not keep bill files Major legislation is discussed in detail in the Peach Sheets a student-written part of Georgia State University College of Law's Law Review Recent Peach Sheet articles are available in an online archive Otherwise Peach Sheets articles should be included in the Georgia State Law Review databases on Lexis Westlaw and HeinOnline. 1 Major league sports, 5 Taxes 1% 5 Economy, US 29.svg U.S Route 29. Home attendance Gymnastics ? Rock groups from Georgia include the Atlanta Rhythm Section the Black Crowes and the Allman Brothers. George Warrington became president in 1998 with a mandate to make Amtrak financially self-sufficient Passengers became "guests" and there were expansions into express freight work but the financial plans failed Amtrak's inroads in express freight delivery created additional friction with competing freight operators including the trucking industry Delivery was delayed of much anticipated high-speed trainsets for the improved Acela Express service which promised to be a strong source of income and favorable publicity along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington D.C.[citation needed], Atlanta has a large effect on the state of Georgia the Southeastern United States and beyond Atlanta has been the site of growth in finance insurance technology manufacturing real estate service logistics transportation film communications convention and trade show businesses and industries while tourism is important to the economy Atlanta is a global city also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center as a city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system. Atlanta Georgia business directory Most New England towns sponsored public schools for boys but public schooling was rare elsewhere Girls were educated at home or by small local private schools and they had no access to college Aspiring physicians and lawyers typically learned as apprentices to an established practitioner although some young men went to medical schools in Scotland.[page needed]. .