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Atlanta was selected as the site for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Following the announcement , the city government undertook several major construction projects to improve Atlanta's parks, sporting venues, and transportation infrastructure; however, for the first time, none of the $1.7 billion cost of the games was governmentally funded.
The airport's weather station became the official location for Atlanta's weather observations on September 1, 1928, and records by the National Weather Service. [21] Atlanta was a busy airport from its inception, and by the end of 1930, it was third behind New York City and Chicago for regular daily flights with sixteen arriving and departing. [22]
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the sixth-largest in the United States, based on the July 1, 2023 metropolitan area population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Japanese battleship Tosa was a planned battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, Tosa was to be the first of two Tosa-class ships.Displacing 39,900 long tons (40,540 tonnes) and armed with ten 410 mm (16.1 in) guns, these warships would have brought Japan closer to its goal of an "eight–four" fleet (eight battleships and four battlecruisers).
Atlanta is an American comedy-drama television series created by Donald Glover.The series follows college dropout and music manager Earnest "Earn" Marks (Glover) and rapper Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles (Brian Tyree Henry) as they navigate a strange, seemingly otherworldly Atlanta hip hop scene.
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Between 1994 and 1996, Hula was the Olympics correspondent for WGST, the official “information station” for the Atlanta Games. He also served as AOL’s Olympics reporter in Atlanta. Whilst delivering his radio coverage to listeners worldwide, Hula realized there was a demand for specialized business news about the Olympics.
The website was launched by Infonautics in March 1998. [2] Infonautics was acquired by Tucows in August 2001. [3] In August 2002, Patrick Spain bought Encyclopedia.com and its sister website eLibrary from Tucows and incorporated them in a new company called Alacritude, LLC (a combination of Alacrity and Attitude). [4]