Soccer The interior of a Viewliner sleeping car bedroom with the lower bed down, Atlanta Braves Hall of Famers Korean Air A replica of Trevithick's engine at the National Waterfront Museum Swansea. . A circular six-story brick building with decorative white concrete stripes above and below lines of adjacent square windows that encircle most of each level. 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, The median income for a household in the county was $56,709 and the median income for a family was $75,579 Males had a median income of $56,439 versus $42,697 for females the per capita income for the county was $37,211 About 12.0% of families and 15.3% of the population were below the poverty line including 22.0% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over, Georgia county and city public school systems are administered by school boards with members elected at the local level as of 2013 all but 19 of 181 boards are elected from single-member districts Residents and activist groups in Fayette County Georgia sued the board of commissioners and school board for maintaining an election system based on at-large voting which tended to increase the power of the majority and effectively prevented minority participation on elected local boards for nearly 200 years a change to single-member districts has resulted in the African-American minority being able to elect representatives of its choice.
Main article: Geology of Georgia (U.S state). ? M 139 2920 Billy Herman Sale to Liberty Media 1.5 Growth in the 21st century Founded as the Georgia School of Technology Georgia Tech assumed its present name in 1948 to reflect a growing focus on advanced technological and scientific research Unlike most similarly named universities (such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology) the Georgia Institute of Technology is a public institution. South Fulton Parkway See also: Steam locomotive Atlanta also has Georgia's largest Bosnian American population with approximately 10,000 in the metro area mainly in Gwinnett County. Georgia recognizes all local units of government as cities so every incorporated town is legally a city Georgia does not provide for townships or independent cities though there have been bills proposed in the Legislature to provide for townships; it does allow consolidated city-county governments by local referendum All of Georgia's second-tier cities except Savannah have now formed consolidated city-county governments by referendum: Columbus (in 1970) Athens (1990) Augusta (1995) and Macon (2012) (Augusta and Athens have excluded one or more small incorporated towns within their consolidated boundaries; Columbus and Macon eventually absorbed all smaller incorporated entities within their consolidated boundaries.) the small town of Cusseta adopted a consolidated city-county government after it merged with unincorporated Chattahoochee County in 2003 Three years later in 2006 the town of Georgetown consolidated with the rest of Quitman County. . As of 2016 Tech's undergraduate engineering program is ranked 4th and its graduate engineering program is ranked 7th by U.S News & World Report Tech's undergraduate engineering programs include aerospace (2nd) biomedical (1st) chemical (3rd) civil (2nd) computer (6th) electrical (4th) environmental (2nd) industrial (1st) materials (5th) and mechanical (3rd) Tech's graduate engineering programs include aerospace (2nd) biomedical/bioengineering (2nd) chemical (8th) civil (4th) computer (6th) electrical (6th) environmental (5th) industrial (1st) materials (8th) mechanical (6th) and nuclear (6th), Two Canadian National diesel locomotives pull a southbound freight train on the Norfolk-Southern railroad near Columbus Ohio in the United States, Cycling From 2009 to 2016 overall crime in Atlanta declined 27 percent "with sharp declines in burglaries (9,102 in 2009 to 4,377 in 2016) robberies (2,622 to 1,914) and aggravated assaults (2,602 to 2,179).". . 168 3123 Province of Massachusetts Bay established in the 1620s a crown colony 1692.
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