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Events of the 1996 Games were held in a variety of areas a number were held within the Olympic Ring a 3 mi (4.8 km) circle from the center of Atlanta Others were held at Stone Mountain about 20 miles (32 km) outside of the city to broaden ticket sales other events such as Association football (soccer) were staged in various cities in the Southeast. . 37/3 68/20 Retired August 6 2010 Historic Fourth Ward Park 1.5 Other events Douglas (143,882) Steam locomotives are locomotives with a steam engine that provides adhesion Coal petroleum or wood is burned in a firebox boiling water in the boiler to create pressurized steam the steam travels through the smokebox before leaving via the chimney or smoke stack in the process it powers a piston that transmits power directly through a connecting rod (US: main rod) and a crankpin (US: wristpin) on the driving wheel (US main driver) or to a crank on a driving axle Steam locomotives have been phased out in most parts of the world for economical and safety reasons although many are preserved in working order by heritage railways. Burkina Faso (5) Before settlement by Europeans Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12 1733 the colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by (and named for) King George II the Trustees implemented an elaborate plan for the colony's settlement known as the Oglethorpe Plan which envisioned an agrarian society of yeoman farmers and prohibited slavery the colony was invaded by the Spanish in 1742 during the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1752 after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony the Trustees turned over control to the crown Georgia became a crown colony with a governor appointed by the king, Main articles: Architecture of Atlanta and Neighborhoods of Atlanta Nigeria (65). Imperial conversion Metro Atlanta primarily uses natural gas for central heating and water heaters with the major exception of heat pumps in apartments built during and since the 1980s This is because winters are mild and large apartment buildings usually require little energy to heat Backup heat (also used during defrosting) is usually supplied by electric resistance heating though some homes have hybrid heating units which use gas backup when it is cold Exurban homes may also use all-electric instead of gas if gas mains have not been extended to an area, 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, *In 2012 voters in Macon and Bibb County approved the consolidation of the City of Macon and unincorporated Bibb County; they officially merged on January 1 2014 Macon joined Columbus Augusta and Athens as consolidated cities in Georgia.

The Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta with the distinctive gold dome, Along with the rest of the Southeast Georgia's population continues to grow rapidly with primary gains concentrated in urban areas the population of the Atlanta metropolitan area added 1.23 million people (24 percent) between 2000 and 2010 and Atlanta rose in rank from the eleventh-largest metropolitan area in the United States to the ninth-largest. Energy Jekyll Island Bangladesh (4), Georgia 139.svg State Route 139, Milo Hamilton John Smoltz 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. The area experiences a winter storm with significant snowfall about once each year however this can be extremely irregular a blizzard (see: 1993 Storm of the Century) caught much of the Southeast off-guard in 1993 dumping 4.5 inches (11.4 cm) at the Atlanta airport on March 13 and much more than that in the suburbs to the north and west as well as in the mountains the only other recorded winter storm of comparable severity was the Great Blizzard of 1899 the heaviest snow however was in January 1940 when 8.3 inches (21.1 cm) buried the city during its coldest month on record the second-heaviest was in 1983 when a very late storm dumped 7.9 inches (20.1 cm) on March 24 Ice storms have also occurred in the area the well-remembered 1973 ice storm was brutal as was the storm in 1982. Austria (72), I-20.svg Interstate 20, Each region has its own distinctive characteristics for instance the Ridge and Valley which lies in the northwest corner of the state includes limestone sandstone shale and other sedimentary rocks which have yielded construction-grade limestone barite ocher and small amounts of coal; Jackie The BeltLine is a 22-mile-long (35 km) trail circling the older neighborhoods of central Atlanta which will be developed in stages the BeltLine Eastside Trail connects Piedmont Park (at the intersection of 10th and Monroe) to the Inman Park MARTA station at DeKalb Avenue the "Art on the BeltLine" project has resulted in the installation of several contemporary art pieces on the trail, Ghana (35), Jimmy Carter from Plains Georgia was President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta in 1929 He was a civil rights movement leader fighting for rights for African Americans and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.