The 1996 Summer Olympics relied heavily on commercial sponsorship the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company was the exclusive provider of soft drinks at Olympics venues and built an attraction known as Coca-Cola Olympic City for the Games, Traffic surged during World War II which was aided by troop movement and gasoline rationing the railroad's market share surged to 74% in 1945 with a massive 94 billion passenger-miles After the war railroads rejuvenated their overworked and neglected passenger fleets with fast and luxurious streamliners These new trains brought only temporary relief to the overall decline Even as postwar travel exploded passenger travel percentages of the overall market share fell to 46% by 1950 and then 32% by 1957 the railroads had lost money on passenger service since the Great Depression but deficits reached $723 million in 1957 for many railroads these losses threatened financial viability, Climate chart (explanation) Indonesia (40) Student media; In 1884 the legislature appropriated one million dollars to build a new State Capitol Construction began October 26 1884 and the building was completed (slightly under budget) and occupied on June 15 1889, East Campus The definition and meaning of "Midtown" has varied over time expanding from an original concept of a small neighborhood midway between Downtown and Buckhead Boundary definitions vary by the source in many cases Midtown is a quasi-legal entity for zoning law enforcement and tax purposes It is defined by the City of Atlanta to include the business district along Peachtree Street as well as Historic Midtown the residential area east of Piedmont Avenue and to the south of Piedmont Park the Midtown Alliance defines a larger "Greater Midtown" area of approximately four square miles This includes the area within the city's definition but splitting it into the sub-areas Midtown Core and Midtown Garden District i.e Historic Midtown it also includes the neighborhoods of Ansley Park Sherwood Forest Atlantic Station Home Park and Loring Heights, where: Atlanta has played a major or contributing role in the development of various genres of American music at different points in the city's history Beginning as early as the 1920s Atlanta emerged as a center for country music which was brought to the city by migrants from Appalachia During the countercultural 1960s Atlanta hosted the Atlanta International Pop Festival with the 1969 festival taking place more than a month before Woodstock and featuring many of the same bands the city was also a center for Southern rock during its 1970s heyday: the Allman Brothers Band's hit instrumental "Hot 'Lanta" is an ode to the city while Lynyrd Skynyrd's famous live rendition of "Free Bird" was recorded at the Fox Theatre in 1976 with lead singer Ronnie Van Zant directing the band to "play it pretty for Atlanta" During the 1980s Atlanta had an active punk rock scene centered on two of the city's music venues 688 Club and the Metroplex and Atlanta famously played host to the Sex Pistols' first U.S show which was performed at the Great Southeastern Music Hall the 1990s saw the city produce major mainstream acts across many different musical genres Country music artist Travis Tritt and R&B sensations TLC Usher and Toni Braxton were just some of the musicians proud to call Atlanta home the city also gave birth to Atlanta hip hop a subgenre that gained relevance and success with the introduction of the home-grown ATLiens known as Outkast along with other Dungeon Family artists such as Organized Noize and Goodie Mob; however it was not until the 2000s that Atlanta moved "from the margins to becoming hip-hop's center of gravity with another sub-genre called Crunk part of a larger shift in hip-hop innovation to the South and East" Also in the 2000s Atlanta was recognized by the Brooklyn-based Vice magazine for its indie rock scene which revolves around the various live music venues found on the city's alternative eastside to facilitate further local development the state government provides qualified businesses and productions a 15% transferable income tax credit for in-state costs of music investments. The Kessler Campanile seen from the Georgia Tech Student Center The poem received such a wide audience that the sentiment usually now paraphrased as "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" entered the baseball vocabulary However in the 1948 season the Braves had the same overall winning percentage as in games that Spahn and Sain started. There are 48 television broadcast stations in Georgia including TBS TNT TCM Cartoon Network CNN and Headline News all founded by notable Georgia resident Ted Turner the Weather Channel also has its headquarters in Atlanta! . 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All MLB rosters, Water polo (1) The area sprawls across the low foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to the north and the Piedmont to the south the northern and some western suburbs tend to be higher and significantly more hilly than the southern and eastern suburbs the average elevation is around 1,000 feet (300 m).
Atlanta Georgia business directory, 54/12 68/20 Atlanta Georgia business directory, Somalia (4) 2007: More struggles. Atlanta Falcons Football NFL Mercedes-Benz Stadium (71,000) 1966 N/A 0 Main article: New England colonies In addition to individual lynchings during the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 whites killed at least 25 African Americans; the number may have been considerably higher Two white persons died during the riot; one a woman who died of a heart attack the violence affected black residential and business development in the city afterward some of which has been maintained in county development the Georgia legislature effectively completed disenfranchisement of African Americans in 1908 constitutional amendments that raised barriers to voter registration and voting excluding them from the political system. .
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