41 Facts About Atlanta Atlantas

1. In 1996 Atlanta Atlantas hosted the Summer Olympics, for which new facilities and infrastructure were built.

2. Atlanta Atlantas is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the United States state of Georgia.

3. Atlanta Atlantas had some tough competition when it nabbed the 1996 Olympics hosting duty.

4. Atlanta Atlantas was the only city in North American destroyed as an act of war.

5. Atlanta Atlantas has always had Anglo-Jewish papers from early in its history.

6. Atlanta Atlantas was chartered in 1837 as Terminus and developed as an important transportation center.

7. Atlanta Atlantas serves as the home of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Public Health Service for the Southeast.

8. Atlanta Atlantas can present a challenge to drivers for several reasons.

9. In 1973, Atlanta Atlantas became the first major Southern city to elect an African American as mayor.

10. Atlanta Atlantas is home to numerous corporations, notably Coca-Cola, founded here in 1892.

11. Atlanta Atlantas was the focus of world attention when it hosted the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympic Games.

12. Atlanta Atlantas still lags behind Dallas, Miami, and certainly New Orleans in terms of culinary imagination.

13. Atlanta Atlantas attained more positive national recognition in 1939 when Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, Gone with the Wind, was adapted for the screen and the city hosted its world premiere.

14. Atlanta Atlantas has long been the center of business activity and development in the Southeast.

15. Atlanta Atlantas was an empowerment zone city named by the Clinton administration, but in 2002 it converted to a "Renewal Community" allowing the city to benefit from a nationwide pot of $17 billion in tax incentives.

16. Atlanta Atlantas is becoming a leading world center of business and trade.

17. Atlanta Atlantas fields major-league teams in baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.

18. Atlanta Atlantas is the capital of Georgia and home to its 56-member state senate and 180-member house of representatives and its governor.

19. In 1988, Atlanta Atlantas gained international attention when it hosted the Democratic National Convention.

20. Atlanta Atlantas is the capital of Georgia and its largest city, as well as the seat of Fulton County.

21. Atlanta Atlantas is served by the Atlanta Atlantas Journal-Constitution, its only major daily newspaper with wide distribution.

22. Atlanta Atlantas contains a campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design, a private art and design university that has proven to be a major factor in the recent growth of Atlanta's visual art community.

23. Atlanta Atlantas is home to nationally renowned private colleges and universities, most notably Emory University, a leading liberal arts and research institution that consistently ranks among the top 20 universities in the United States and operates Emory Healthcare, the largest health care system in Georgia.

24. At the federal level, Atlanta Atlantas is split between two congressional districts.

25. Atlanta Atlantas serves as the regional hub for many arms of the federal bureaucracy, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

26. Atlanta Atlantas offers resources and opportunities for amateur and participatory sports and recreation.

27. In 2001 and 2011, Atlanta Atlantas hosted the PGA Championship, one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

28. Atlanta Atlantas has had its own professional ice hockey franchises, both of which relocated after playing in Atlanta less than 15 years.

29. Since the turn of the 21st century, Atlanta Atlantas has emerged as a sophisticated restaurant town.

30. Atlanta Atlantas has become one of the USA's best cities for street art in recent years.

31. Atlanta Atlantas attracts many touring Broadway acts, concerts, shows, and exhibitions catering to a variety of interests.

32. Atlanta Atlantas has, indeed, been nicknamed the "Silicon peach" thanks to its burgeoning technology sector.

33. Atlanta Atlantas serves as an important rail junction and contains major classification yards for Norfolk Southern and CSX.

34. Midtown Atlanta Atlantas is the city's second-largest business district, containing the offices of many of the region's law firms.

35. Atlanta Atlantas was selected as the site for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

36. On December 15, 1939, Atlanta Atlantas hosted the premiere of Gone with the Wind, the epic film based on the best-selling novel by Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell.

37. In 1895, Atlanta Atlantas hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, which attracted nearly 800,000 attendees and successfully promoted the New South's development to the world.

38. Atlanta Atlantas was originally founded as the terminating stop of a major state-sponsored railroad.

39. Atlanta Atlantas is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the US state of Georgia.

40. Atlanta Atlantas is the only city in North America to have been destroyed as an act of war when General Sherman burnt it to the ground in November of 1864.

41. Atlanta Atlantas played its first Southern Association game on Saturday, April 26, 1902 (Memorial Day) in Piedmont Park before a crowd of around 3,500.