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Libraries Tournaments and events Steam power introduced. 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. A train is a connected series of rail vehicles that move along the track Propulsion for the train is provided by a separate locomotive or from individual motors in self-propelled multiple units Most trains carry a revenue load although non-revenue cars exist for the railway's own use such as for maintenance-of-way purposes the engine driver (engineer in North America) controls the locomotive or other power cars although people movers and some rapid transits are under automatic control, 10 Infrastructure Puerto Rico (69), Klaus Advanced Computing Building named for its benefactor Chris Klaus. ? ? ? South Fulton Parkway The 2010 United States Census reported that Atlanta had a population of 420,003 the population density was 3,154 per square mile (1232/km2) the racial makeup and population of Atlanta was 54.0% Black or African American 38.4% White 3.1% Asian and 0.2% Native American Those from some other race made up 2.2% of the city's population while those from two or more races made up 2.0% Hispanics of any race made up 5.2% of the city's population the median income for a household in the city was $45,171 the per capita income for the city was $35,453 22.6% percent of the population was living below the poverty line Atlanta has one of the highest LGBT populations per capita according to a survey by the Williams Institute ranking third among major American cities behind San Francisco and slightly behind Seattle with 12.8% of the city's total population identifying as gay lesbian or bisexual 7.3% of Atlantans were born abroad (86th in the US).

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! White-tailed (Virginia) deer are in nearly all counties the northern mockingbird and brown thrasher are among the 160 bird species that live in the state. ! Although high-speed steam and diesel services were started before the 1960s in Europe they were not very successful. The Middleton Railway in Leeds which was built in 1758 later became the world's oldest operational railway (other than funiculars) albeit now in an upgraded form in 1764 the first railway in the Americas was built in Lewiston New York. Presidents 2 Other sports Amtrak first offered free Wi-Fi service to passengers aboard the Downeaster in 2008 the Acela Express and the Northeast Regional trains on the NEC in 2010 and the Amtrak Cascades in 2011 in February 2014 Amtrak rolled out Wi-Fi on corridor trains out of Chicago When all the Midwest cars offer the AmtrakConnect service about 85% of all Amtrak passengers nationwide will have Wi-Fi access as of 2014 most Amtrak passengers have access to free Wi-Fi the service has developed a reputation for being unreliable and slow due to its cellular network connection; on some routes it is usually unusable either freezing on the login page or if it manages to log in failing to provide any internet bandwidth, Georgia 237.svg State Route 237 1890 84,655 72.3% 3.2 Languages Tourism; Main article: New England colonies 2002 2,603,484 32,142 64.2% 13th 14th 2.3 Western Asia Computer Engineering 6 Main article: British America The 1996 Olympics were marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27 Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the pipe bomb and immediately notified law enforcement and helped evacuate as many people as possible from the area before it exploded Although Jewell's quick actions are credited for saving many lives the bombing killed spectator Alice Hawthorne wounded 111 others and caused the death of Melih Uzunyol by heart attack Jewell was later considered a suspect in the bombing but was never charged and he was exonerated in October 1996 in 2003 Eric Robert Rudolph was charged with and confessed to this bombing as well as the bombings of two abortion clinics and a gay bar He stated "the purpose of the attack on July 27th was to confound anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand." He was sentenced to a life sentence at ADX Florence prison in Florence Colorado. Atlanta contains several outdoor attractions the Atlanta Botanical Garden adjacent to Piedmont Park is home to the 600-foot-long (180 m) Kendeda Canopy Walk a skywalk that allows visitors to tour one of the city's last remaining urban forests from 40-foot-high (12 m) the Canopy Walk is considered the only canopy-level pathway of its kind in the United States Zoo Atlanta in Grant Park accommodates over 1,300 animals representing more than 220 species Home to the nation's largest collections of gorillas and orangutans the Zoo is one of only four zoos in the U.S to house giant pandas Festivals showcasing arts and crafts film and music including the Atlanta Dogwood Festival the Atlanta Film Festival and Music Midtown respectively are also popular with tourists.