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Atlanta

æˈtlæntə
WordNet
Interesting fact
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia
  1. (n) Atlanta
    a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864
  2. (n) Atlanta
    state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola
  1. Atlanta
    (Zoöl) A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Five NFL teams have bird nicknames: Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens and Seattle Seahawks.
  1. (n) Atlanta
    A genus of mollusks, typical of the family Atlantidœ, having the twisted visceral sac inclosed in a dextral spiral shell, and the foot provided with an operculum. A. peroni is a Mediterranean species.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary NL., fr. Gr.

Usage in the news

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Mel Tucker cheers after a play against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome on December 15, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. twincities.com

ATLANTA (AP) — A jeweler in metro Atlanta is adding some bang to the bling. syracuse.com

ATLANTA — Atlanta Falcons couldn't do anything offensively. picayuneitem.com

ATLANTA — Jason Heyward and the Atlanta Braves were patiently waiting to see if the New York Mets' bullpen would crack. albanyherald.com

ATLANTA — Catcher Gerald Laird will get $3 million for his two-year deal with the Atlanta Braves, and could earn up to $750,000 in performance bonuses if he plays more than expected. therepublic.com

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Braves have agreed to a two-year deal with backup catcher Gerald Laird . foxnews.com

Two state lawmakers from Atlanta are pushing back against SACS, the accrediting agency which put Atlanta's high schools on probation after the past year of public power-wrangling on the school board. kiss1041fm.com

ATLANTA (AP) — Students are returning to an Atlanta elementary school where dozens of students were sickened by carbon monoxide, but school officials say they've now placed carbon monoxide detectors in the building. mdjonline.com

ATLANTA — Students are returning to an Atlanta elementary school where dozens of students were sickened by carbon monoxide, but school officials say they've now placed carbon monoxide detectors in the building. gwinnettdailypost.com

This week's version of The Other Side takes us to Atlanta where we speak with Darryl Ledbetter , who covers the Falcons for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. espn.go.com

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Falcons are tied for the best record in the NFL. foxnews.com

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank said Monday that a new stadium in Atlanta would offer a long term solution for his NFL franchise and argued it would benefit the city of Atlanta. usatoday.com

ATLANTA- An aggressive parking enforcement strategy in Atlanta has more than doubled the number of parking citations, boosting revenue for the city. onlineathens.com

New Atlanta center honors Martin Luther King Sr. ATLANTA — The father of Martin Luther King Jr is remembered as a prominent Atlanta preacher and civil rights leader. chronicle.augusta.com

John Bohn Pete van Wieren, radio broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves from 1978 to 2008, poses for a portrait at his home, in front of an Atlanta Braves uniform jersey that he received at the twenty five year mark of his career. gwinnettdailypost.com

Usage in scientific papers

This problem was suggested by Alan Frieze during the Conference on Random Structures and Algorithms at Emory University, Atlanta, 1995; he was originally intended as a coauthor but later declined this.
Rainbow Hamilton cycles in random regular graphs

Andrievskii, V. V., Belyi, V. I., and Dzjadyk, V. K. [1995] “Conformal Invariants in Constructive Theory of Functions of Complex Variable”, World Federation Publisher, Atlanta, Georgia.
Constructive Function Theory on Sets of the Complex Plane through Potential Theory and Geometric Function Theory

School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332, U.S.A.
Entropy and chaos in the Kac model

Pinhanez C. “The everywhere Displays Projector: A Device to Create Ubiquitous Graphical Interfaces”. In Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2001), Atlanta Sept. 2001, Abowd G., Brumitt B. and Shafer S.
Working Document on Gloss Ontology

Supported by NSF award CCR-0829672. ‡ School of Mathematics and School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332.
A Unified Framework for Testing Linear-Invariant Properties

Usage in literature

I wish the whole population of Atlanta, Georgia, would come over and just see. "The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol" by William J. Locke

There were also drills and target-practice on the "Miantonomoh" and the "Atlanta. "The Naval History of the United States" by Willis J. Abbot

But before our washing was dry, orders came to rush the battery to a position some five miles southwest of Atlanta. "A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A." by George Little

In cities of the South like Atlanta, how many coloured mechanical engineers are there? "The Future of the American Negro" by Booker T. Washington

They're on a journey to Atlanta, all the way from Kentucky, to enlist. "Chasing an Iron Horse" by Edward Robins

The Atlanta banker fully realized the need for culture. "The New Education" by Scott Nearing

This great show was held at Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, a great railway centre, and a place of much trade and manufacture. "From Slave to College President" by Godfrey Holden Pike

See Sketch in Miss Rutherford's American Authors, (Atlanta). "Southern Literature From 1579-1895" by Louise Manly

Later the Wayburn family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and thence to Chicago. "The Art of Stage Dancing" by Ned Wayburn

New Orleans, Atlanta, Charleston, or Savannah would be loath to diminish their negro mortality. "McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908." by Various

Usage in poetry
That bankers, warehousemen, and sich
Was fatt'nin' on the planter,
And Tennessy was rotten-rich
A-raisin' meat and corn, all which
Draw'd money to Atlanta: