No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

The jury said it found the court `` has incorporated into its operating procedures the recommendations '' of two previous grand juries, the Atlanta Bar Association and an interim citizens committee.

Hartsfield has been mayor of Atlanta, with exception of one brief interlude, since 1937.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as " the Perimeter " that has come to mark the boundary between “ Inside the Perimeter ” ( ITP ), the city and close-in suburbs, and “ Outside the Perimeter ” ( OTP ), the outer suburbs and exurbs.

The heavy reliance on automobiles for transportation in Atlanta has resulted in traffic, commute, and air pollution rates that rank among the worst in the country.

Atlanta has a reputation as the " city in a forest " due to an abundance of trees that is unique among major cities.

However, the problem is being addressed by community organizations and city government: Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization founded in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75, 000 shade trees in the city, while Atlanta ’ s government has awarded $ 130, 000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees.

In addition, late-season call up Jeremy Hermida, a highly-regarded prospect who has been compared to the Atlanta Braves ' Jeff Francoeur, hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first major-league at-bat and a game-tying two-run homer in the last game of the season.

At Christmas ( 1863 ), Ashley has been granted a furlough from the army and returns to Atlanta to be with Melanie.

Ironicallly, the Dolphins became a Professional Football powerhouse, winning two Super Bowl Championships, including the perfect season of 1972, while the NFL's Atlanta team has been a perennial also-ran.

... she has in her brief life, perhaps, had more men really, truly ' dead in love ' with her, more honest-to-goodness suitors than almost any other girl in Atlanta.

This is cooler than its southern neighbor Dallas, Texas, and while similar to Atlanta, Georgia, it has warmer summertime temperatures.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

It is headquartered in New York City, and has offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta.

The Wheel of Time now has its own annual convention, JordanCon, which has been held annually in Atlanta, GA since 2009.

Charles Beaumont in the Twilight Zone episode " Long Live Walter Jameson " has the lead character ( a history professor ) comment on the burning of Atlanta that the union soldiers did it unwillingly at the behest of a Sherman described as sullen and brutish.

* Mizrahi Netzarim Judaism has the Cushite Hebrew Yeshiva, which is a non-messianic Yeshiva that follows the customs of North African Jews, and is located in Atlanta.

It was the most expensive acquisition made by Cisco to date, and only the acquisition of Scientific Atlanta has been larger.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

Aaron spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves in the National League ( NL ) before playing for the Milwaukee Brewers of the American League ( AL ) for the final two years of his career.

In the playoffs, the Vikings rolled past the Arizona Cardinals 41 – 21, and came into the Metrodome heavily favored for their NFC title showdown with the Atlanta Falcons, who had gone 14 – 2 in the regular season.

After dropping seven games behind the Atlanta Braves on July 21, Philadelphia finished with an MLB-best record of 97 – 65.

* May 21 – Over 300 acres ( 73 blocks ) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.

Atlanta Dream forward Angel McCoughtry was the first player in league history to average over 20 points per game ( 21. 6ppg ) while playing under 30 minutes per game ( 27. 9mpg ).

On September 21, 2003, Time Warner, the owners of both the Thrashers and the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, sold both teams to Atlanta Spirit, LLC, a group consisting of businessmen based both in Atlanta and elsewhere.

The NAMES Project Foundation is now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and has 21 chapters in the United States and more than 40 affiliate organizations world-wide.

On September 21, 2002, at 12: 15 a. m., 41-year-old Million A. Woldemarian was fatally shot in the head and back by a. 22-caliber pistol in Atlanta, Georgia.

Volunteers For America was a benefit concert held on October 20, 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia and October 21, 2001 at the Smirnoff Music Center, Dallas, Texas.

The Concert was in Atlanta Georgia on October 20, and moved overnight to Dallas, Texas for the October 21 show.

However, it was not until November 21, 1988 that an actual NWA-affiliated promotion called World Championship Wrestling appeared on the national scene, under the ownership of media mogul Ted Turner, based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rudolph has also confessed to the bombings of an abortion clinic in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs on January 16, 1997 ; the Otherside Lounge of Atlanta lesbian bar on February 21, 1997, injuring five ; and an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama on January 29, 1998, killing Birmingham police officer and part-time clinic security guard Robert Sanderson, and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons.

Named for former Atlanta mayor William Berry Hartsfield, who did much to promote air travel, William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport opened on September 21, 1980, on-time and under budget.

On January 21, 2011, the Atlanta Thrashers owners filed a malpractice claim against King & Spalding for $ 194. 5 million.

The two appeared together on a card in Atlanta, Georgia on November 21, 1997.

The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 16 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21.

When he was released on October 1, 1919, Berkman looked " haggard and pale "; according to Goldman, the 21 months Berkman served in Atlanta took a greater toll on him than his fourteen-year incarceration in Pennsylvania.

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker ( born November 21, 1975, in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker ( WSOP ).

On February 21, 2009, Roenick earned his 700th career assist against the Atlanta Thrashers, by setting up a goal by Jonathan Cheechoo.

Survivors include his sister, Mrs. Emma B. Odom of Atlanta.

As she is leaving the jailhouse, Scarlett runs into Frank Kennedy, who is betrothed to Scarlett's sister, Suellen, and running a store in Atlanta.

* Caroline Irene (" Carreen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's youngest sister, who also became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.

* Susan Elinor (" Suellen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's middle sister, who became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.

They meet again when Scarlett has already lost her first husband, Charles Hamilton, while she is staying with Charles ' sister Melanie and their Aunt Pittypat in Atlanta during the war.

The holdings recently jumped from about 1, 800 to 2, 500 objects with a gift of Colombian ceramics from Camilla Chandler Frost, a LACMA trustee and the sister of Otis Chandler, former LA Times publisher, and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer of Atlanta, whose family built the collection.

WALR-FM became the last remaining urban station owned by Cox Radio in Atlanta when sister station WBTS flipped from rhythmic contemporary to news-talk as a simulcast of WSB-AM on August 16, 2010.

It transmits from a broadcast tower at the northeastern edge of metro Atlanta, which it now shares with sister station WSBB-FM, and a permit for a broadcast translator for WSB-TV on physical ( RF ) TV channel 46.

The station broadcasts from the same building as its other Cumulus Atlanta sister stations WWWQ (" Q100 "), W250BC (" Q100 20 @ 97-9 "), WKHX (" Kicks 101-5 "), and 99X in Sandy Springs near the Georgia Highway 400 and Interstate 285 interchange.

Its studio is located in Colony Square in Midtown Atlanta along with its sister stations WAOK and WZGC ; The CW-owned television station WUPA is located in a separate facility in DeKalb County.

It has maintained a very strict rubric to the urban contemporary format since its inception in 1976, which is rare amongst larger markets urban-oriented radio stations who have shifted to the Mainstream Urban or Urban Adult Contemporary formats ; this approach has been protected by default only because WVEE has no counter-competing sister stations in Atlanta.

Instead of actually enrolling into a college, Bob found a job at the Atlanta University, which became his equivalent experience as if he was a student on campus – from the interview from his sister, he was able to gain a vast amount of knowledge due to his knowledge-packed environment.

Trapeze Atlanta is a club located in Atlanta GA, with sister clubs in Ft Lauderdale Fl and Philadelphia PA.

When Atlanta fell to the Union during the American Civil War, Root's father sent young Root and two other boys on a steamer to England, while his mother and sister went to Cuthburt, Georgia.

As a result, Atlanta sister station, WVEE, is considered the largest urban station and flagship of the company's urban / rhythmic division.

WSB AM is the sister station to WSBB-FM 95. 5, WSB-FM ( B98. 5FM ), WALR-FM ( Kiss 104. 1 ), WSRV FM, ( 97-1 the River ), WSB-TV 39 ( 2. 1 / 2. 2 ), and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in metro Atlanta, all owned by Cox.

After the 2011 purchase of Citadel Broadcasting, its sister stations in Atlanta now include WKHX-FM 100. 5 and WYAY FM 106. 7, in addition to previous Cumulus holdings WWWQ FM 99. 7, WNNX FM 100. 5, and W250BC FM 97. 9.

The team has a development team, Atlanta Silverbacks Reserves, which plays in the National Premier Soccer League, and a sister organization, the Atlanta Silverbacks Women, which plays in the women's USL W-League.

In January 2008, it was announced that WNGC was sold ( along with sister stations WGMG, WPUP, WRFC and WGAU ) to Cox Radio in Atlanta.

The station has been the longest running NBC affiliate under Cox's ownership, especially after its sister stations in Charlotte and Atlanta switched over to ABC in 1978 and 1980, respectively.

After some fake static ( in which the conclusion of " Beginnings " by Chicago could faintly be heard ), the station was " relaunched " as " News Talk 103. 1 WRKA ," with a fake newscast similar in tone to sister station WSB / Atlanta, GA. ( WSB's imaging voice, Jeff Davis, even voiced the station ID and a promo for " Louisville's Morning News.