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Jean Améry (31 October 1912 – 17 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third ...
The American Cancer Society Center (ACS Center) is a large convention center and office building in downtown Atlanta, adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park. The building contains about 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m 2 ), including a partially underground parking garage and loading area.
In the 1960s, the Georgia Department of Transportation began acquiring land for two east-side freeways.The north-south route would have cut north from I-20 through Virginia-Highland, creating an interchange at I-85 and continuing north as what is now SR 400.
Pages in category "Amery family" ... Julian Amery; L. Leo Amery This page was last edited on 28 August 2016, at 23:36 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The Herndon Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 587 University Place NW, in Atlanta, Georgia.An elegant Classical Revival mansion with Beaux Arts influences, it was the home of Alonzo Franklin Herndon (1858-1927), a rags-to-riches success story who was born into slavery, but went on to become Atlanta's first black millionaire as founder and head of the Atlanta ...
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One Georgia Center (formerly known as the Life of Georgia Building) is a skyscraper in SoNo, Atlanta, at the intersection of West Peachtree Street and North Avenue. Completed in 1968, the 24-story building is notable for its Georgia marble exterior.
Lithograph of Piedmont Park plans for the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, GA c.1894. In 1894, the Piedmont Exposition Company offered to sell the land to the city of Atlanta for $165,000.00, but Mayor John B. Goodwin refused. [12] Thus, The park remained in private hands and outside the city limits for another ten years.