. Braves closer Craig Kimbrel pitching in 2011 Lamar (18,599), From 1992 to 1996 Atlanta was home to the short-lived Atlanta Knights an International Hockey League team Their inaugural season was excellent for a new team and was only bested by their sophomore season in which they won the championship Turner Cup in 1996 they moved to Quebec City Quebec and became the Quebec Rafales. ; . Ridership WSB-AM in Atlanta was the first licensed radio station in the southeastern United States signing on in 1922 Georgia Public Radio has been in service since 1984 and with the exception of Atlanta it broadcasts daily on several FM (and one AM) stations across the state Georgia Public Radio reaches nearly all of Georgia (with the exception of the Atlanta area which is served by WABE), 14 Sister cities 5 Records Atlanta Georgia business directory ? Atlanta is home to one of the nation's largest gay pride festivals Atlanta Pride as well as what is billed as the world's largest black gay pride celebration Atlanta Black Pride. . 42/6 59/15 Participants at Summer olympics 1996 In the Atlanta area World of Coke Georgia Aquarium Zoo Atlanta and Stone Mountain are important tourist attractions Stone Mountain is Georgia's "most popular attraction"; receiving over four million tourists per year the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta was the largest aquarium in the world in 2010 according to Guinness World Records. 1910 154,839 72.3% 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.
On November 17 2016 the Gateway Program Development Corporation (GDC) was formed for the purpose of overseeing and effectuating the rail infrastructure improvements known as the Gateway Program (citation below) GDC is a partnership of the States of New York and New Jersey and Amtrak the Gateway Program includes the Hudson Tunnel Project to build a new tunnel under the Hudson River and rehabilitate the existing century-old tunnel and the Portal North Bridge to replace a century-old moveable bridge with a modern structure that is less prone to failure Later projects of the Gateway Program including expansion of track and platforms at Penn Station New York construction of the Bergen Loop and other improvements will roughly double capacity for Amtrak and NJ Transit trains in the busiest most complex section of the Northeast Corridor! ! A ? The Thirteen Colonies also known as the Thirteen British Colonies or the Thirteen American Colonies were a group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries which declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America the Thirteen Colonies had very similar political constitutional and legal systems and were dominated by Protestant English-speakers They were part of Britain's possessions in the New World which also included colonies in Canada Florida and the Caribbean, 5.3 Industry The 1995 World Series Commissioner's Trophy on display in the Ivan Allen Jr Braves Museum and Hall of Fame at Turner Field. .
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