WEDNESDAY: Dana Visits the National Cartoon Museum
Good Day Columbus' Dana Turtle took a trip to visit the National Cartoon Museum Wednesday.
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus - CXC
Who knew that Columbus is cartoon central? Columbus is home to the largest and most comprehensive research facility of printed cartoon art, it is home to historic and current cartoonists and it is becoming the home to an annual festival celebrating the art of the cartoon - Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC). This CMC featured the leaders of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus including cartoonist Jeff Smith, creator of Bone and president & artistic director of CXC, Tom Spurgeon, editor of The Comic Reporter and director of the CXC and Lucy Caswell, professor emeritus and founding curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at OSU. Sherri Geldin, director of the Wexner Center for the Arts, moderated the discussion.
“The number of cartoonist from Ohio is ridiculous,” said Jeff Smith, creator of the popular cartoon Bone, who was raised in Columbus, honed his skills and training at OSU, ventured west and returned home to Columbus. Both CCAD and Ohio State offer training for all types of cartoonists and many people who came to Columbus for those programs have stayed or returned to Columbus. Columbus also has a rich history of cartoonists including Milton Caniff, his mentor James Thurber and Jeff Smith.
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, or CXC, aspires to become just like Sundance, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Arnold Classic or South by Southwest by attracting people to an annual festival celebrating an art form. This is not a comic con-like event with costumes and celebrating pop culture, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus celebrates the art and history of cartoons.
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Comics to a T: The Triumphs and Troubles of Telling the Tyler Story
Carol Tyler discussed her creative life. A pioneer of the autobiographical comics genre, Tyler uses her own experience to tackle the complex issues of the human experience. With grace, humor, and style, her work has helped shape the direction of comics.
Speaker Biography: Carol Tyler's 2015 book Soldier's Heart, about her father's trauma from World War II and its impact on her family, received a Gold Medal Award from the Society of Illustrators, the Cartoonist Studio Prize from Slate Book Review, 11 Eisner Award nominations, two Ignatz Award nominations, and was twice a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. With grace, humor and style, Tyler's work has helped shape the direction of comics. This includes The Hannah Story, a powerful tale of loss, which was named one of the Top 100 Cartoons of the 20th Century. Carol was recently given the title Master Cartoonist by CXC at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Art Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
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The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard
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Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.
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LCV Cities Tour - Columbus: Kelton House
Visit the Kelton House, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Learn about the family that lived here and some of the escaped slaves who sought shelter at this urban home.
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Southern United States | Wikipedia audio article
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America. It is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.
The South does not fully match the geographic south of the United States but is commonly defined as including the states that fought for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. The Deep South is fully located in the southeastern corner. Arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863, commonly is. Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries. While the states of Delaware and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia, permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War, they remained with the Union. Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, they became more culturally, economically, and politically aligned with the industrial Northern states, and are often identified as part of the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast by many residents, businesses, public institutions, and private organizations,but the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South.
Usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States. The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European (mostly English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, French, and Spanish American), African, and some Native American components.Some other aspects of the historical and cultural development of the South have been influenced by the institution of slave labor on plantations in the Deep South to an extent seen nowhere else in the United States; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population; support for the doctrine of states' rights, and the legacy of racial tension magnified by the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, as seen in thousands of lynchings (mostly from 1880 to 1930), the segregated system of separate schools and public facilities known as Jim Crow laws, that lasted until the 1960s, and the widespread use of poll taxes and other methods to frequently deny black people of the right to vote or hold office until the 1960s. Since the late 1960s, black people have held many offices in Southern states, especially in the coastal states of Virginia and South Carolina. Many black people have also been elected or appointed as mayors and police chiefs in the metropolises of Charlotte, Birmingham, Richmond, Columbia, Memphis, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and New Orleans, and serve in both the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.Historically, the South relied heavily on agriculture, and was highly rural until after 1945. It has since become more industrialized and urban and has attracted national and international migrants. The American South is now among the fastest-growing areas in the United States. Houston is the largest city in the Southern United States. Sociological research indicates that Southern collective identity stems from political, demographic, and cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the United States. The region contains almost all of the Bible Belt, an area of high Protestant church attendance (especially evangelical churches such as the Southern Baptist Convention) and predominantly conservative, religion-influenced politics. Indeed, studies have shown that Southerners are more conservative than non-Southerners in several areas, including religion, morality, international relations, and race relations. This is evident in both the region's religious attendance figures and in the region's usually strong support for the Republican Party in political elections since the 1960s, and especially since the 1990s.Apart from its climate, the living experience in the South increasingly resembles the rest of the nation. The arrival of millions of Northerners (especially in major metropolitan areas and coastal areas) and millions of Hispanics has meant the introduction of cultural values and social norms not rooted in Southern traditions. Observers conclude that collective identity and Southern distinctiveness are thus declining, particularly when defined against an earlier South that was somehow more authentic, real, more unified and distinct. The process has worked both ways, however, with aspects of Southern culture spreading throughout a greater portion of the rest of the United States in a process termed Southernization.
Cleveland, Ohio | Wikipedia audio article
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Cleveland, Ohio
00:01:25 1 History
00:08:34 2 Geography
00:08:43 2.1 Topography
00:09:52 2.2 Cityscape
00:10:01 2.2.1 Architecture
00:11:51 2.2.2 Neighborhoods
00:14:01 2.2.3 Suburbs
00:14:36 2.3 Climate
00:16:54 3 Demographics
00:17:03 3.1 2010 census
00:19:17 3.2 2000 census
00:23:21 3.3 Languages
00:24:17 4 Economy
00:26:44 5 Culture
00:26:53 5.1 Performing arts
00:30:12 5.2 Film and television
00:36:07 5.3 Literature
00:39:18 5.4 Cuisine
00:41:23 5.5 Tourism
00:44:14 6 Sports
00:49:15 7 Parks and gardens
00:50:27 8 Law and government
00:52:34 8.1 Crime
00:56:48 8.1.1 Consent decree with Department of Justice
00:59:43 8.2 Fire department
01:01:00 9 Education
01:01:09 9.1 Public schools
01:02:00 9.2 Private and Parochial Schools
01:02:38 9.3 Colleges and universities
01:03:29 10 Media
01:03:38 10.1 Print
01:04:48 10.2 Television
01:06:14 10.3 Radio
01:08:38 11 Infrastructure
01:08:47 11.1 Healthcare
01:09:23 11.2 Transportation
01:09:54 11.2.1 Airports
01:10:54 11.2.2 Seaport
01:11:14 11.2.3 Railroads
01:11:53 11.2.4 Transit systems
01:13:23 11.2.5 Inter-city bus lines
01:14:08 11.2.6 Roads
01:15:07 11.2.7 Freeways
01:16:58 11.2.8 Walkability
01:17:36 12 Sister cities and international relations
01:18:03 13 See also
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Cleveland ( KLEEV-lənd) is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making it the 51st-largest city in the United States, and the second-largest city in Ohio. Greater Cleveland is ranked as the 32nd-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city anchors the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 3,515,646 in 2010 and is ranked 15th in the United States.
The city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. It became a manufacturing center due to its location on both the river and the lake shore, as well as being connected to numerous canals and railroad lines. Cleveland's economy relies on diversified sectors such as manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and biomedicals. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Cleveland residents are called Clevelanders. The city has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City.
LCV Cities Tour - Columbus: War of 1812
Learn about the War of 1812 at the Ohio History Center and hear about the two battles that took place in Ohio that secured our nation's border with Canada.
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Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives
Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives kicked off its One Million Abolitionists Project where the organization leaders presents copies of Douglass' first autobiography to one million students. Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave was Douglass's first and most popular autobiography and contradicted the racist mythology promoted by the business of slavery and helped turn the tide toward emancipation. Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives is an abolitionist organization co-founded by direct descendants of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
Speaker Biography: Robert J. Benz is co-founder of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives.
Speaker Biography: Nettie Washington Douglass is co-founder & chairwoman of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. She is the great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington and the great-great-granddaughter of Frederick Douglass.
Speaker Biography: Andre Dawson is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department and serves as senior advisor to Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives.
Speaker Biography: Kenneth Morris is co-founder & president of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives. He is Nettie Washington Douglass's son, the great-great-grandson of Booker T. Washington and the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass.
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HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS, HE'S GOT THE WIND AND THE RAIN, TINY LITTLE BABY IN HIS HANDS
Conspiracy theorists are insane in the spam! We were spammed this video, so we sped it up for your enjoyment and laughter at the conspiracy theorist crazies falsely accusing whole industries of somehow being a part of some hand-sign-symbolism agenda to influence and subvert all people. What a joke! They're just not that organized and why would they do such a thing? Conspiracy Theorists are INSANE. Such BS. It's all fake and a joke. POSTING THIS VIDEO TO SHOW HOW RIDICULOUS THEY ARE! THE HAND SIGN MEANS PEACE. GET OVER YOURSELF FOOLS. THEY LIKE MAKEUP. THEY LIKE TATTOOS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT. IT'S JUST ART, STOP SAYING IT'S THE DEVIL OR SATAN. PAUL ELAM IS SATAN Are you Satan? You need The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi
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UW won’t comment on OSU’s decision to sell beer at football games
The Ohio State University will start selling beer at its football games this fall.
Appalachia | Wikipedia audio article
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Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, southwesterly to the Great Smoky Mountains. As of the 2010 United States Census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, such as the construction of dams to provide cheap electricity and the implementation of better farming practices. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream, but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.
Andrew Jackson | Wikipedia audio article
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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the common man against a corrupt aristocracy and to preserve the Union.
Born in the colonial Carolinas to a Scotch-Irish family in the decade before the American Revolutionary War, Jackson became a frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson Robards. He served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate representing Tennessee. After resigning, he served as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 until 1804. Jackson purchased a property later known as The Hermitage, and became a wealthy, slaveowning planter. In 1801, he was appointed colonel of the Tennessee militia and was elected its commander the following year. He led troops during the Creek War of 1813–1814, winning the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson required the Creek surrender of vast lands in present-day Alabama and Georgia. In the concurrent war against the British, Jackson's victory in 1815 at the Battle of New Orleans made him a national hero. Jackson then led U.S. forces in the First Seminole War, which led to the annexation of Florida from Spain. Jackson briefly served as Florida's first territorial governor before returning to the Senate. He ran for president in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote. As no candidate won an electoral majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent election. In reaction to the alleged corrupt bargain between Adams and Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda of President Adams, Jackson's supporters founded the Democratic Party.
Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide. Jackson faced the threat of secession by South Carolina over what opponents called the Tariff of Abominations. The crisis was defused when the tariff was amended, and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina attempted to secede. In Congress, Henry Clay led the effort to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson, regarding the Bank as a corrupt institution, vetoed the renewal of its charter. After a lengthy struggle, Jackson and his allies thoroughly dismantled the Bank. In 1835, Jackson became the only president to completely pay off the national debt, fulfilling a longtime goal. His presidency marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the party spoils system in American politics. In 1830, Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly relocated most members of the Native American tribes in the South to Indian Territory. In foreign affairs, Jackson's administration concluded a most favored nation treaty with Great Britain, settled claims of damages against France from the Napoleonic Wars, and recognized the Republic of Texas. In January 1835, he survived the first assassination attempt on a sitting president.
In his retirement, Jackson remained active in Democratic Party politics, supporting the presidencies of Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk. Though fearful of its effects on the slavery debate, Jackson advocated the annexation of Texas, which was accomplished shortly before his death. Jackson has been widely revered in the United States as an advocate for democracy and the common man. Many of his actions, such as those during the Bank War, proved divisive, garnering both fervent support and strong opposition from many in the country. His reputation has suffered since the 1970s, largely due to his role in Indian removal. Surveys of historians and scholars have ranked Jackson favorably among United States presidents.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:25 1 History
00:03:34 1.1 Union Pacific in the 19th century
00:07:24 1.2 Union Pacific in the 20th century
00:10:52 2 Company officers
00:14:01 3 Facilities
00:14:39 3.1 Active hump yards
00:16:17 4 Locomotives and rolling stock
00:16:27 4.1 Paint and colors
00:20:12 4.1.1 Merger partner locomotives
00:22:19 4.1.2 Commemorative color schemes
00:24:30 4.2 2013 locomotive roster
00:25:06 4.2.1 Train Pride equipment
00:25:45 4.2.2 Low-emissions locomotives
00:26:20 4.3 Historic locomotives
00:34:49 4.4 Preserved locomotives
00:46:25 4.5 Miniature train
00:47:52 5 Facts and figures
00:49:24 6 Passenger service
00:49:43 6.1 Commuter services
00:50:27 6.2 Former services
00:54:06 6.3 Hosted Amtrak trains
00:54:51 7 Recent notable accidents
00:57:25 7.1 San Antonio area
00:59:54 8 Environmental record
01:01:33 9 EMP
01:02:11 10 Union Pacific Railroad Museum
01:03:01 11 See also
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The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) (or legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans. The Union Pacific Railroad system is the second largest in the United States after the BNSF Railway and is one of the world's largest transportation companies. The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
Union Pacific is known for pioneering multiple innovative locomotives, typically the most powerful of their era. These include members of the Challenger-type (such as the 3985, the 3977), and the Northern-type (the 844), as well as the famous Big Boy steam locomotives. Union Pacific ordered the first (diesel) streamliner, the largest fleet of turbine-electric locomotives in the world, and still owns the largest operational diesel locomotive.
The Union Pacific legacy began in 1862 with the original company, called the Union Pacific Rail Road, which was part of the First Transcontinental Railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. The railroad would subsequently be reorganized thrice: as the Union Pacific Railway (which absorbed the original in 1880), as the Union Pacific Railroad (which absorbed the Union Pacific Railway in 1897), and finally as a renamed Southern Pacific Transportation Company (which merged with Union Pacific in 1998).
The current Union Pacific corporation began in 1969 as the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, which was itself created in a reorganization of a railroad whose legacy dated to 1865. Over the years it would grow to include (among others) the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, in addition to its eponymous railroad. The 1998 Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger was not UP's first: Union Pacific had already merged with Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Western Pacific Railroad and the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. However, because the merger with Southern Pacific substantially changed the scope of the Union Pacific railroad, this article will refer to the unmerged system as Union Pacific (Mark I), and the merged system as Union Pacific (Mark II).
Union Pacific (Mark II)'s main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's largest freight railroad by volume, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.
Huntsville, Alabama | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:14 1 History
00:01:23 1.1 First settlers
00:02:41 1.2 Incorporation
00:04:00 1.3 Emerging industries
00:04:59 1.4 Civil War
00:06:46 1.5 After the Civil War
00:08:06 1.6 Great Depression 1930s
00:08:32 1.7 World War II
00:09:21 1.8 Missile development
00:11:11 1.9 Space flight
00:13:30 1.10 Biotechnology
00:14:43 2 Geography
00:16:19 2.1 Boundaries
00:17:12 2.2 Climate
00:20:33 3 Demographics
00:22:29 3.1 2010 census
00:24:08 3.2 Demographic distribution
00:24:17 3.3 Sex ratio and income distribution
00:24:28 4 Politics and government
00:26:03 5 Public safety and health
00:26:32 5.1 Fire
00:27:16 5.1.1 Volunteer organizations
00:28:02 5.2 EMS
00:28:36 5.3 Police
00:29:01 5.3.1 Police Academy
00:29:22 5.4 Hospitals
00:29:35 6 Economy
00:30:56 6.1 Retail
00:31:33 6.2 Space and defense
00:32:02 7 Infrastructure
00:32:11 7.1 Transportation
00:34:33 7.1.1 Public transit
00:35:14 7.1.2 Railroads
00:37:19 7.2 Air service
00:37:48 7.3 Ports
00:38:19 7.4 Bicycle routes
00:38:33 7.5 Utilities
00:39:27 8 Media and communications
00:39:37 8.1 Newspapers
00:40:59 8.2 Magazines
00:41:19 8.3 Radio
00:41:40 8.4 Television
00:43:38 8.5 Film
00:45:15 9 Education
00:45:24 9.1 K–12 education
00:47:35 9.2 Budgeting
00:48:05 9.3 Higher education
00:50:05 10 Culture
00:50:13 10.1 Historic districts
00:51:15 10.2 Museums
00:53:03 10.3 Parks
00:56:11 10.4 Festivals
00:59:34 10.5 Public golf courses
00:59:59 10.6 Private golf courses
01:00:50 10.7 Libraries
01:01:47 10.8 Arts associations
01:02:14 10.8.1 Arts Council
01:03:30 10.9 Performing arts
01:09:26 10.10 Visual arts
01:10:27 10.11 Convention center and arena
01:11:07 10.12 Local breweries
01:12:09 10.13 Comedy and other entertainment
01:12:34 10.14 Other
01:13:04 11 Sports
01:13:13 11.1 Current sports franchises
01:14:20 11.2 Past sports franchises
01:15:34 11.3 Stadiums
01:15:51 12 Notable people
01:16:00 13 Sister cities
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Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County and south into Morgan County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 census. Huntsville is the third-largest city in Alabama and the largest city in the five-county Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area, which at the 2013 census estimate had a total population of 683,871. The Huntsville Metropolitan Area's population was 417,593 in 2010 to become the 2nd largest in Alabama. Huntsville metro's population reached 441,000 by 2014.It grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command nearby at the Redstone Arsenal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Huntsville to its America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010 list.
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Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States. It began as a British colony in 1733, the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Province of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina down to Spanish Florida and New France along Louisiana (New France), also bordering to the west towards the Mississippi River. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. In 1802–1804, western Georgia was split to the Mississippi Territory, which later split to form Alabama with part of former West Florida in 1819. Georgia declared its secession from the Union on January 19, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States. From 2007 to 2008, 14 of Georgia's counties ranked among the nation's 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. Atlanta, the state's capital and most populous city, has been named a global city.
Georgia is bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, to the northeast by South Carolina, to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Florida, and to the west by Alabama. The state's northernmost part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. The Piedmont extends through the central part of the state from the foothills of the Blue Ridge to the Fall Line, where the rivers cascade down in elevation to the coastal plain of the state's southern part. Georgia's highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet (1,458 m) above sea level; the lowest is the Atlantic Ocean. Of the states entirely east of the Mississippi River, Georgia is the largest in land area.
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Animated video to prepare electricians and the energy sector for the introduction of ESVConnect. The video uses animated characters to describe the functionality of the online system, and show how it will improve interaction with COES and Licensing services.
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