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Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. Named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 21, 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 most extensive 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 is the state's capital and its most populous city.
Georgia is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina; on the west by Alabama; and on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina. The northern part of the state is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a mountain range in the vast Appalachian Mountains system. The central piedmont extends from the foothills to the fall line, where the rivers cascade down in elevation to the continental coastal plain of the southern part of the state. The highest point in Georgia is Brasstown Bald, 4,784 feet (1,458 m); the lowest point is the Atlantic Ocean.
Georgia is the most extensive state east of the Mississippi River in terms of land area, although it is the fourth most extensive (after Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin) in total area, a term which includes expanses of water which are part of state territory.
The February–March 2007 tornado outbreak sequence was a tornado outbreak across the southern United States that began in Kansas on February 28, 2007. The severe weather spread eastward on March 1 and left a deadly mark across the southern US, particularly in Alabama and Georgia. Twenty deaths were reported; one in Missouri, nine in Georgia, and 10 in Alabama. Scattered severe weather was also reported in North Carolina on March 2, producing the final tornado of the outbreak before the storms moved offshore into the Atlantic Ocean. In the end, there were 55 tornadoes confirmed during the outbreak, including three EF3 tornadoes reported across three states, as well as three EF4 tornadoes; two in Alabama and one in Kansas, the first such tornadoes since the introduction of the Enhanced Fujita scale. Total damages were estimated at over $580 million from tornadoes alone, making it the fourth costliest tornado outbreak in US history (the figure not including damage from other thunderstorm impacts including hail and straight-line winds). Insured losses in the state of Georgia topped $210 million, making this outbreak the costliest in that state's history. Enterprise, Alabama, which was hit the hardest, sustained damages in excess of $307 million.
State facts
- Nickname: Peach State
- Capital and largest city: Atlanta
- Governor: Brian Kemp (R)
- Lieutenant Governor: Burt Jones (R)
- Total area: 153,909 km2 (59,425 sq mi)
- Population (2021 estimate): 10,799,566
- Date admitted to the Union: January 2, 1788
- Senators: Jon Ossoff (D), Raphael Warnock (D)
State symbols:
- State amphibian: American green tree frog (Hyla cinerea)
- State bird: Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
- State flower: Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata)
- State marine Mammal: North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
- Butterfly: Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
- Fruit: Peach
- Insect: Honeybee
- Prepared Food: Grits
- Fish: Largemouth Bass
- Crop: Peanut
- Tree: Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
- Vegetable: Vidalia onion
- Reptile: Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
- Game Bird: Bobwhite Quail
- Seashell: Knobbed Whelk
- Gem: Quartz
- Fossil: Shark Tooth
- Mineral: Staurolite
- Agriculture: Poultry
- Art Museum: Georgia Museum of Art in Athens
- Atlas: The Atlas of Georgia
- Ballet: Atlanta Ballet
- Beef Barbecue Championship Cook-off: The Hawkinsville Civitan Club’s “Shoot the Bull” barbecue championship
- Center for Character Education: Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum
- Folk Dance Square Dance
- Folk Festival: Georgia Folk Festival
- Folk Life Play: “Swamp Gravy”
- Frontier and Southern Indian Interpretive Center: The Funk Heritage/Bennett Center at Reinhardt University, Waleska
- Historic Drama: “The Reach of Song” presented on the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds near Hiawassee
- Musical Theatre: Peach State Summer Theatre
- Peanut Monument: Turner County on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn
- Pork Barbecue Championship Cook-off: The Dooly County Chamber of Commerce’s “Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig”
- Railroad Museum: The Central of Georgia Railroad Shops Complex, Savannah
- Songs: "Georgia on My Mind"
Katherine Dee "KaDee" Strickland (born December 14, 1975) is an American actress currently known for her role as Charlotte King on the ABC drama Private Practice. Well known in her hometown of Patterson, Georgia, when she was a child, she began acting during high school. Strickland studied the profession in Philadelphia and New York City, where she obtained mostly small roles in film, television and theater projects, among them The Sixth Sense (1999). Her participation in the 2003 Hollywood films Anything Else and Something's Gotta Give led to her receiving significant parts in the horror pictures Anacondas and The Grudge (both 2004). In the period they were released, Strickland was referred to as "the pride of Patterson" and the horror fandom's "newest scream queen", though her performances in both films received mixed critical reviews. In 2005, Strickland garnered positive critical comment for the romantic comedy Fever Pitch, and in 2007, she was a cast regular in the television show The Wedding Bells and subsequently was added to the cast of Private Practice. Strickland has spoken against the emphasis placed on beauty in the Los Angeles acting community, in which she says her Southern U.S. background has helped to distinguish herself from other blonde-haired actors.
Selected anniversaries for October
- October 14, 1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings (including the 1996 Olympic bombing) in Atlanta, Georgia.
- ...that, in 1973, a Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb–Peachtree Airport after striking birds which likely came from a landfill site adjacent to the runway?
- ...that the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?
- ...that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee?
- ...that retired American baseball player Hank Aaron holds ten Atlanta Braves team records?
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Fort King George was a fort located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The fort was built in 1721 along the Altamaha River and served as the southernmost outpost of the British Empire in the Americas until 1727. The fort was constructed in what was then considered part of the colony of South Carolina, but was territory later settled as Georgia. It was part of a defensive line intended to encourage settlement along the colony's southern frontier, from the Savannah River to the Altamaha River. Great Britain, France, and Spain were competing to control the American Southeast, especially the Savannah-Altamaha River region.
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