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The Georgia Mental Health Institute (GMHI) was a psychiatric hospital which operated from 1965 to 1997 near Emory University in Druid Hills, Atlanta, Georgia. It was located on the grounds of the Briarcliff Estate, the former residence of Asa G. Candler, Jr., the son of the founder of Coca-Cola.
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. The club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings.
The Beat folded along with WPS after the 2012 season, and the Atlanta area does not have a team in WPS' effective successor, the current National Women's Soccer League. Atlanta was awarded a Major League Soccer expansion team in April 2014. Atlanta United FC began play in the league in 2017. Atlanta United won the MLS Cup on December 8, 2018.
The club played 82 seasons in Boston (1871–1952) and used several nicknames, including Braves. The Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and played as the Milwaukee Braves from 1953 to 1965. In Atlanta, the Braves won the 1995 World Series, and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005. [2]
Changing the Braves name: A mammoth, multiyear challenge. Regardless of current sentiment in Atlanta and the commissioner’s office, it’s clear that time appears to be on the side of change.
Martin Luther King Jr., addressing the hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. - The Denver Post/Getty Images
Name Years Ivers Whitney Adams, John Conkey, Henry L. Pierce, Eben Dyer Jordan, John F. Mills, Harrison Garnder, James A. Freeland, Edward A. White, Frank G. Webster ...
The controversy over Native American names in professional and collegiate sports arrived at the White House on Monday, when President Biden hosted the Atlanta Braves, winners of last year’s ...