. ! 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, Basketball In recent events Democrat Jim Martin ran against incumbent Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss Chambliss failed to acquire the necessary 50 percent of votes a Libertarian Party candidate receiving the remainder of votes in the runoff election held on December 2 2008 Chambliss became the second Georgia Republican to be reelected to the U.S Senate. . The primary network-affiliated television stations in Atlanta are WXIA-TV 11 (NBC) WGCL-TV 46 (CBS) WSB-TV 2 (ABC) and WAGA-TV 5 (Fox) Other major commercial stations include WPXA-TV 14 (Ion) WPCH-TV 17 (Ind.) WUVG-TV 34 (Univision) WUPA 69 (CW) and WATL 36 (MyNetworkTV) WPXA-TV WUVG-TV WAGA-TV and WUPA are network O&O's the Atlanta metropolitan area is served by two public television stations (both PBS member stations) and one public radio station WGTV 8 is the flagship station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network while WPBA is owned by Atlanta Public Schools Georgia Public Radio is listener-funded and comprises one NPR member station WABE a classical music station operated by Atlanta Public Schools, The railroads invented the career path in the private sector for both blue-collar workers and white-collar workers Railroading became a lifetime career for young men; women were almost never hired a typical career path would see a young man hired at age 18 as a shop laborer be promoted to skilled mechanic at age 24 brakemen at 25 freight conductor at 27 and passenger conductor at age 57 White-collar careers paths likewise were delineated Educated young men started in clerical or statistical work and moved up to station agents or bureaucrats at the divisional or central headquarters at each level they had more and more knowledge experience and human capital They were very hard to replace and were virtually guaranteed permanent jobs and provided with insurance and medical care Hiring firing and wage rates were set not by foremen but by central administrators in order to minimize favoritism and personality conflicts Everything was done by the book whereby an increasingly complex set of rules dictated to everyone exactly what should be done in every circumstance and exactly what their rank and pay would be By the 1880s the career railroaders were retiring and pension systems were invented for them, For more than 130 years from 1872 to 2003 Georgians nominated and elected only white Democratic governors and white Democrats held the majority of seats in the General Assembly Most of the Democrats elected throughout these years were Southern Democrats who were fiscally and socially conservative by national standards This voting pattern continued after the segregationist period!
Atlanta is home to many rugby union clubs on September 21 2018 Major League Rugby the top-level rugby union league in North America announced that Atlanta was one of the expansion teams joining the league for the 2020 season the team name Rugby ATL was revealed on February 26 2019 Games will be broadcast on WSB-TV; 11 External links, Mon 30th Media Growth in the 21st century, Main article: Government of Georgia (U.S state) After the Civil War ended in 1865 Atlanta was gradually rebuilt Due to the city's superior rail transportation network the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868 in the 1880 Census Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city Beginning in the 1880s Henry W Grady the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper promoted Atlanta to potential investors as a city of the "New South" that would be based upon a modern economy and less reliant on agriculture by 1885 the founding of the Georgia School of Technology (now Georgia Tech) and the Atlanta University Center had established Atlanta as a center for higher education in 1895 Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition which attracted nearly 800,000 attendees and successfully promoted the New South's development to the world. The Atlanta metropolitan area is the ninth largest media market in the United States as ranked by Nielsen Media Research the state's other top markets are Savannah (95th largest) Augusta (115th largest) and Columbus (127th largest). Atlanta Georgia business directory Police patrol zones of Atlanta. WiFi and electronic services Atlanta's larger combined statistical area (CSA) adds the Gainesville Georgia MSA Athens-Clarke County Georgia MSA and the LaGrange Thomaston Jefferson Calhoun and Cedartown micropolitan areas for a total 2012 population of 6,162,195 the CSA also abuts the Macon and Columbus MSAs the region is one of the metropolises of the Southeastern United States and is part of the emerging megalopolis known as Piedmont Atlantic MegaRegion along the I-85 Corridor. Other Georgia Tech-affiliated buildings in the area host the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute the Advanced Technology Development Center VentureLab and the Georgia Electronics Design Center Technology Square also hosts a variety of restaurants and businesses including the headquarters of notable consulting companies like Accenture and also including the official Institute bookstore a Barnes & Noble bookstore and a Georgia Tech-themed Waffle House, 16 Bibliography Homicide The HOPE Scholarship funded by the state lottery is available to all Georgia residents who have graduated from high school or earned a General Educational Development certificate the student must maintain a 3.2 or higher grade point average and attend a public college or university in the state. 9% U.S highways Matters approached a crisis in the 1960s Passenger service route-miles fell from 107,000 miles (172,000 km) in 1958 to 49,000 miles (79,000 km) in 1970 the last full year of private operation the diversion of most U.S Postal Service mail from passenger trains to trucks airplanes and freight trains in late 1967 deprived those trains of badly needed revenue in direct response the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway filed to discontinue 33 of its remaining 39 trains ending almost all passenger service on one of the largest railroads in the country the equipment the railroads had ordered after World War II was now 20 years old worn out and in need of replacement; Names in bold received the award based primarily on their work as broadcasters for the Braves.
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