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Atlanta   /ætlˈæntə/  /ətlˈæntə/  /ætlˈænə/  /ətlˈænə/   Listen
Atlanta

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: capital of Georgia.
2.
A siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864.  Synonym: battle of Atlanta.



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"Atlanta" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tennessee system these points were Knoxville, Rome, Atlanta, Macon, Huntsville, and Memphis, and to these points all cars must go, loaded or empty, and there they were parked upon the tracks prepared for the purpose. Passenger trains were run to points where it had been arranged to change them, generally ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various

... evening of July 24, 1948, an Eastern Airlines DC-3 took off from Houston, Texas. It was on a scheduled trip to Atlanta, with intermediate stops in between. The pilots were Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted. At about 2:45 A.M., when the flight was 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, the captain, Chiles, saw a light dead ahead and closing fast. His first reaction, he later reported to an ATIC investigation team, ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... a livelier widow never hailed from Peachtree street, Atlanta; which is sayin' a lot. Who sends ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford

... of Every Day Life in General Sherman's Army, from the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign until the close of the war. By F. Y. Hedley, Adjutant Thirty-Second Illinois Infantry, with Introduction by Charles Walter Brown, A.M. and with illustrations by F. L. Stoddard. Dedicated by permission to Mrs. John A. Logan; Autograph letter from General Sherman. 500 ...
— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill

... improvement of other ills of municipal government require the constant attention of trained investigators. Cogent arguments for such funds have recently appeared in the New York Evening Post's symposium on "How to Give Wisely," by Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd, of Atlanta, and Miss Salmon, ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen


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