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Georgia is a major railway hub, has the most extensive rail system in the Southeast, and has the service of two Class I railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern, plus 24 short-line railroads. Georgia is ranked the No. 3 state in the nation for rail accessibility. Rail shipments include intermodal, bulk, automotive and every other type of shipment. [112]
Though he has sometimes joked that he was born on an oleo run to Illinois, Uecker was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, [2] the son of August "Gus" Uecker, who immigrated from Switzerland in 1923, and Mary Schultz Uecker, originally from Michigan.
Barr was born in Iowa City, Iowa, [2] to Robert Laurence Barr and Beatrice Barr. [8] His father, a career military officer who had graduated from West Point, [8] [9] was stationed in various locations around the world while pursuing his career in civil engineering.
Robert Scott Lazar (/ l ə ˈ z ɑːr /; born January 26, 1959) is an American conspiracy theorist.In 1989, Lazar claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology; he also purported to have read government briefing documents that described alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years.
Graham was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, defeating incumbent Senator Paula Hawkins, 55% to 45%. [12] He was reelected in 1992 (over Bill Grant, 66–34%) [13] and 1998 (over Charlie Crist, 63–37%) [14] and chose not to seek reelection in 2004. Upon retiring from the Senate in January 2005, Graham had served 38 consecutive years in ...
Bob is a male given name or a hypocorism, usually of Robert, and sometimes a diminutive of Bobby.It is most common in English-speaking countries such as the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand and some Anglophone African countries.
Georgia was incorporated into what would soon become the Soviet Union. Soviet rule was firmly established only after local insurrections were defeated. [86] Georgia would remain an unindustrialized periphery of the USSR until the first five-year plan (1928–1932), when it became a major centre for textile goods.
Bob Crane was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the younger of two sons of Rose Mary (née Ksenich) and Alfred Thomas Crane—the original spelling of the family name was Crean. [3]