Most of Atlanta was burned during the Civil War depleting the city of a large stock of its historic architecture Yet architecturally the city had never been traditionally "southern" because Atlanta originated as a railroad town rather than a patrician southern seaport like Savannah or Charleston Many of the city's landmarks share architectural characteristics with buildings in the Northeast or Midwest, 1960 556,326 17.5% 10 Education The topography and geography of Atlanta. F Mountain biking (2) Fulton 72/22 90/32 Sat 28th. . 39 Rick Kranitz (pitching), The 1996 Summer Olympics took place in Atlanta the stadium that was built to host various Olympic events was converted to Turner Field the home of the Atlanta Braves through the 2016 season, The player's strike cut short the 1994 season prior to the division championships with the Braves six games behind the Montreal Expos with 48 games left to play. ! A number of noted authors poets and playwrights have lived in Georgia such as James Dickey Flannery O'Connor Sidney Lanier Frank Yerby and Lewis Grizzard; Evan Gattis catching for the Braves in 2013, fine 1.1 Baseball New England colonies, 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 first class of 95 students entered Georgia Tech in 1888 and the first two graduates received their degrees in 1890 Since then the institute has greatly expanded with an enrollment of 14,558 undergraduates and 6,913 postgraduate students as of Fall 2013.
5 Economy The U.S Census Bureau lists fourteen metropolitan areas in Georgia the largest Atlanta is the ninth most populous metro area in the United States. 5.1 Medal count Major products in the mineral industry include a variety of clays stones sands and the clay palygorskite known as attapulgite, History 1990 394,017 -7.3% 69 2212, 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). . Main article: Geology of Georgia (U.S state), Team captains 57 Sal Fasano (catching coach), Moldova (40) Turner Field Outside of isolated sections of Mexico the southernmost limits of this climate zone in North America lie just north of South Florida and around southern coastal Texas Cities at the southernmost limits such as Tampa and Orlando and along the Texas coast around Corpus Christi down toward Brownsville generally feature warm weather year-round and minimal temperature differences between seasons in contrast cities at the northernmost limits of the climate zone such as New York Philadelphia and Louisville feature hot humid summers and chilly winters These areas have average winter temperatures at the coldest limit of climates classed as humid subtropical.
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