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100 unusual facts about Georgia


1887 Atlantic hurricane season

The storm continued northward, as a tropical storm, before dissipating late on July 28 near Augusta, Georgia.

1887 Detroit Wolverines season

On March 13, after training in Macon, Georgia‚ the Wolverines began a six-week exhibition tour through the South and Midwest.

1990 Atlantic hurricane season

However, Marco is more notable for the impact from the remnants, especially in Georgia and South Carolina, where rainfall from the storm peaked at 19.89 in (505 mm) near Louisville, Georgia.

2007 Pep Boys Auto 500

In that race, which was held in November, Alan Kulwicki drove his self-owned #7 Hooters Ford Thunderbird to his lone Winston Cup championship to edge hometown favorite Bill Elliott from nearby Dawsonville by ten points, even though Elliott won the race.

2013 Petit Le Mans

The 16th Annual Petit Le Mans presented by Mazda was the 2013 edition of the Petit Le Mans automotive endurance race, held on October 6–9, 2013, at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, United States.

Alabama State Route 204

Just prior to its terminus at State Route 21 the road crosses the Chief Ladiga Trail which is an old railbed running northeast from Anniston to Piedmont and then eastward into Georgia where it becomes the Silver Comet Trail before terminating near Smyrna.

Alfred L. Jenkins

Alfred L. Jenkins was an American diplomat, lecturer and author, born September 14, 1916 in Manchester, Georgia.

Angel McCord

Angel McCord (also Angie McCord) (born May 19,1985, Tucker, Georgia) is an American actress best known for her role in the 2014 independent film Salvation for which she was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2013 Madrid International Film Festival.

Auraria

Auraria, Georgia, a town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States

Babyland General Hospital

The Babyland General Hospital looked to move into a new $2.5 million "Babyland General" in either Helen or Cleveland, Georgia as revealed in the White County News Telegraph.

Banks County Jail

Banks County Jail is a historic jail in Homer, Georgia.

Barbara Jane Mackle

The FBI set up their base in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett’s county seat, and more than 100 agents spread out through the area in an attempt to find her, digging the ground with their hands and anything they could find to use.

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

As Johnston withdrew again, skirmishing erupted at Adairsville on May 17 and more general fighting on Johnston's Cassville line May 18–19.

Boar's Nest

The building used as the Boar's Nest in Covington, Georgia, during the filming of the first five episodes of season one still exists.

Box End

Carter landed on the coast of what is now the state of Georgia and settled around what is now known as the city of Americus.

Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy

Founded in 1885 in Savannah, Georgia, the school was named for Bishop Gilbert Haven, based on an earlier school founded by Mrs. S.M. Lewis and Mrs. M.C. Bristol of the Atlanta Mission.

Braselton, Georgia

Braselton borders the mailing addresses (not city limits) of Gainesville (Candler), Flowery Branch, Oakwood (Chestnut Mountain side), and Pendergrass.

Brunswick stew

A plaque on an old iron pot in Brunswick, Georgia, says the first Brunswick stew was made in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island.

Buddy Alexander

In 2010, Alexander's Gator golfers finished second of twelve teams in the SEC championship tournament in Sea Island, Georgia, and eleventh of thirty invited teams at the NCAA Tournament in Ooltewah, Tennessee.

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

CVIOG is a unit of the Office of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia.

Center for Computational Chemistry

The Center for Computational Chemistry (CCC) is a research center in the department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA.

Claire Rochester

Her mother was Mrs Jannie Bryant Rochester, formerly of Gordon County, Georgia.

Claudine's Return

It was filmed almost entirely on the American island of Tybee Island, Georgia with a few shots from the surrounding areas.

Cole Swindell

Swindell grew up in Bronwood, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2007 (he still famously wears the Georgia Southern Eagle baseball cap in many public appearances).

Colquitt Theatre

For the Colquitt Theatre in Moultrie, Georgia see Colquitt Theatre (Moultrie, Georgia)

Comcast C2 Charleston

The sister stations include Comcast C4, serving the Augusta, Georgia market and Comcast C7, seen in Savannah, Georgia.

Creole marble

Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia.

Dade County

Dade County, Georgia, the state's northwestern-most, bordering Alabama and Tennessee

Dan Washburn

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia.

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut

His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth", and he is the namesake of Duluth, Minnesota as well as Duluth, Georgia.

Daniel Whitehead Hicky

Daniel Whitehead Hicky aka "Jack" was born in Social Circle, Georgia, and very shortly thereafter his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was educated in private schools.

David-Seth Kirshner

For five years, Kirshner also served as spiritual leader for the Hebrew Congregation of Fitzgerald, in Southern Georgia.

Debra Ann Livingston

Livingston was born in Waycross, Georgia, and received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1980 and a Juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Edmund H. Pendleton

Born in Savannah, Georgia, Pendleton received a liberal schooling as a youth.

Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia

The White County Emergency Management Director reported that an F0 tornado touched down in the southwest corner of White County near the Hall County line at the Wauka Valley Farms area, which formed on the tail end of a feeder band associated with the remnants of Hurricane Dennis.

Eloy Fominaya

Eloy Fominaya, PhD (b. 10 Jun 1925 New York City; d. 8 Apr 2002, Augusta, Georgia), was an American contemporary composer, music educator at the collegiate level, conductor, violinist, and, as of 1985, a luthier.

Flavius Josephus Carpenter

Flavius Josephus Carpenter, born March 24, 1851 in Franklin County, Georgia, died August 2, 1933, at home in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, was an American Civil War veteran, steamboat captain, U.S. Marshal, and entrepreneurial businessman.

Fruitlands

Fruitlands (Augusta National Golf Club), American historic domestic single dwelling added in 1979 to National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, Georgia (listing 19)

George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter

Carpenter Street in Brunswick, Georgia is named after George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter, in honour of his role as one of the original trustees of the Colony of Georgia.

Georgia State Route 31

After they leave town, they continue to the northwest and have a short concurrency with SR 107, a few miles south of Jacksonville.

Georgia State Route 90

In Junction City, it meets SR 96, and they run concurrent to a point just west of town.

Georgia, Georgia

Georgia, Georgia is a 1972 Swedish-American drama film directed by Stig Björkman.

Georgia's 10th congressional district

Located in the eastern part of the state, the new district boundaries include the cities of Athens, Eatonton, Jackson, Milledgeville, Monroe, Watkinsville, and Winder.

Gordon Saussy

Saussy was the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia from 1929 to 1931.

Gus Statiras

After the war he moved with her to Tifton, Georgia, and tried his hand at a few other enterprises including a hamburger stand.

Harbin Clinic

The Harbin Clinic now has more than 27 satellite offices throughout Rome, Adairsville, Bremen, Calhoun, Cartersville, Cedartown, Summerville, and Trion.

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

Henry Frederick Conrad Sander

This firm continued to operate until the 1970s, briefly moving from Summit to Lilburn, Georgia before being dissolved.

Hickory Level, Georgia

Hickory Level is a place in Carroll County, Georgia, USA.

History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina

Among others who served in the field may be mentioned Jacob de la Motta, Jacob de Leon, Marks Lazarus, the Cardozos, and Mordecai Sheftall, who was deputy commissary-general of issues for South Carolina and Georgia, but who must be considered as a resident of Savannah, Georgia rather than of Charleston.

Horatio Luro

He eventually acquired "Old Mill Farm" in Cartersville, Georgia, where he and his wife Frances raised their family.

Ira O. McDaniel

In the 1830s he lived in Monroe, Georgia with his wife Rebecca Walker (November 10, 1819 – April 19, 1854) where their son, Henry McDaniel, a future Governor of Georgia was born.

Jacob Broughton Nelson

Over the next few years, he oversaw the chartering of Phi Kappa chapters at the Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia (Gamma Beta) and at the Gulf Coast Military Academy in Gulfport, Mississippi (Mu Theta).

Jacob Snider

Originally from Montgomery Georgia, Snider later moved to Philadelphia, but died in poverty in Great Britain while attempting to recover promised compensation from the British government.

Jason Webster

Currently, Webster is the team Chaplin for the Atlanta Falcons and lives in Braselton, Georgia.

Jerry Vines

Before attending seminary, he pastored his first church, Centralhatchee Baptist Church, at the age of 16.

John Papworth

In the 1960s, he was imprisoned along with Bertrand Russell for anti-nuclear protests, and also was placed in Albany, Georgia mail for Civil Rights activities.

Johns Creek, Georgia

Another local city with this issue is Braselton which has its own ZIP Code and is still in five different ZIP Code areas.

Kenneth W. Wright

At that time he was instrumental in establishing the Southeastern Georgia School of Biblical Studies in Waycross, Georgia.

KWNW

They are also the fifth Clear Channel outlet to adopt the "Radio Now" moniker, following 105-7 Hit Music Now/Greensboro, Y102.3 Hit Music Now/Augusta, 97.3 Radio Now/Milwaukee (whose logo is the same as KWNW) and Radio Now 98.9/Louisville.

Morgan Brian

Born in St. Simons, Georgia to parents, Vickie and Steve Brian, Morgan attended Frederica Academy in St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Ockham, Surrey

After reaching Liverpool in 1850, following an arduous journey starting with a flight to freedom from Macon, Georgia, African-American slaves William and Ellen Craft were given a home by a parishioner in Ockham in 1851.

Oglethorpe Plan

Though seldom mentioned, notable vestiges of the Oglethorpe Plan can be found in the land use pattern surrounding Savannah; in the cities of Darien, Georgia; Brunswick, Georgia; and at Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Osprey-class coastal minehunter

Twelve minehunter ships were built for the U.S. Navy by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (formerly Litton Avondale Industries) of New Orleans and Intermarine of Savannah.

Philip Miller

They were first planted on Sea Island, off the coast of Georgia, and hence derived the name of the finest cotton, Sea Island Cotton.

Pine Lake, Georgia

The corporation sold lots around a small fishing lake to Atlantans who lived in (then) faraway areas like Buckhead for use as a weekend retreat.

Rabun County School District

It serves the communities of Clayton, Dillard, Mountain City, Pine Mountain, Sky Valley, Tallulah Falls, and Tiger, Georgia.

Ralph Tambs-Lyche

He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche (1859–1898) and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden (1856–1938).

Raven Cliffs Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia.

Ruckersville, Virginia

It was founded by the same family that established Ruckersville, Georgia.

Rufus M. Rose

Before the start of the American Civil War, Rose had studied medicine, received a diploma and moved to Hawkinsville, Georgia.

Santa Wheels

Santa Wheels is a volunteer program created in 1995 by Master Pontiac-Buick-GMC and re-launched in 2006 in Augusta, Georgia, United States.

Sea Island

Sea Island, Georgia, an isolated resort island in Glynn County, Georgia

Selena Sloan Butler

Butler was born in Thomasville, Georgia to William Sloan and Winnie Williams on January 4, around 1872, just seven years after slavery was abolished.

Seth and Willie Fred

Seth and Willie Fred sometimes simply referred to as SWF, is a Comedy Rock, Country, Southern Rock, Parody band from Blakely, Georgia, formed in 2006.

Sounder

The boy hears his father may be in Bartow and later Gilmer counties but the author does not specify where the boy lives.

Sparta, Mississippi

The film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois while most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, east of Atlanta (and near the real I-20).

Susie Curry

Susie competes at 5'2" and 115 pounds, and currently lives in Bremen, Georgia where she co-owns a gyms and trains clients.

TasRail TR class

The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail Services, Patterson, Georgia for the Tasmanian Government Railways in 2013/14.

Taylor Hanson

After dating for two years, the two were married on June 8, 2002 at the Ida Cason Chapel in Pine Mountain, Georgia.

Thaddeus von Clegg

The manufactured version we know today was invented in Macon, Georgia, by an African American named Alabama Vest, in the 1840s.

The Green Hand

Chapman appeared in the film version, whose cast consisted of students and faculty from the University of Georgia and the surrounding city of Athens, Georgia.

The Instruments

The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes.

Therm-All Insulation

These include the company’s Cleveland-based headquarters and branches in Lancaster, PA; Columbus, WI; Kennesaw, GA; Dallas, TX; Stockton, CA; Phoenix, AZ; and Kent and Spokane, WA.

Tray Mountain Wilderness

The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Habersham, Rabun, Towns and White counties, Georgia and is managed in the Chattooga Ranger District.

Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania

:Not to be confused with Tunnel Hill, Georgia

USS PCS-1376

Later in her career, she was named Winder after Winder, Georgia, becoming the only U.S. Navy ship of that name.

USS Quail

USS Quail (AM-377) which was laid down by the Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, Georgia.

Vedette Shapewear

Vedette is a company, headquartered in Williamson, Georgia, USA, that manufactures and markets undergarments for women, with an emphasis on shapewear undergarments which are functionally designed to help wearers achieve a desired body form for aesthetic purposes, but can also be used as post-surgical support or to encourage posture discipline.

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc (or VESI) is an American roleplaying games company located in Powder Springs, Georgia.

WATC-DT

It has also received a construction permit for a fill-in broadcast translator in Union City, Georgia (southwestern metro Atlanta) on channel 36, which was vacated by analog WATL TV.

Wayne Farms

Eventually, the company acquired processing plants in Danville, Arkansas, Laurel, Mississippi, Decatur, Alabama, Dobson, North Carolina, Pendergrass, Georgia, Enterprise, Alabama, College Park, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama.

WDNN-CA

The station also has two translators (repeaters): Chattanooga, Tennessee/Ringgold, Georgia's WRNG-LP (on channel 28), LaFayette, Georgia's WLFW-LP (on channel 41).

WDTA-LD

Originally W22AH on channel 22, it was licensed in 1988 to serve Columbus, Georgia, over 100 km away.

WEAS-FM

callsign meaning = The WEAS callsign was originally licensed to Decatur, Georgia, home to two schools:
Emory and Agnes Scott|

William Jackson Brack

He married firstly to the former Olive Chancey (1838–1864) of Clinch County, Georgia, by whom he had two sons who died young.

William Kiehn

Kiehn volunteered for paratrooper and received training in Toccoa, Georgia.

Winfred Rembert

Winfred Rembert was born on November 22nd, 1945 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, in the US state Georgia.

WKSY-LD

From its transmitter atop the Mack White Gap east of Summerville, in addition to cable coverage, WKSY-LD covers northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama, including Rome, Dalton and Ringgold, Georgia; as well as Fort Payne, Alabama.

WPBS

WPBS (AM) an AM radio station operating at 1040 kHz in Conyers, Georgia


1985 Auburn Tigers football team

Bo Jackson rushed for 1,786 yards, which was the second best single-season performance in SEC history behind Herschel Walker's 1,891 rushing yards for the Georgia in 1981.

Annual Georgia European Union Summit

The finale of the event is often the presentation of the AGEUS Award for Individual Contribution in the field of Georgia economic development, which was begun in 2006, and/or the presentation of the joint AGEUS/GDEcD awards known as the Georgia Featured Export Product Awards, which began in 2007.

Ashley Whitney

Whitney initially attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of coach Jack Bauerle's Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team in 1999—Georgia's first NCAA national championship team.

Azerbaijani Air Forces

Plans were announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and another near the border with Georgia at Agstafa.

Bakuriani

Georgia's flag-bearing athlete at the opening ceremony, alpine skiier Iason Abramashvili, also resides there; he has decided to compete to honor Kumaritashvili's memory.

Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.

Charles C. Jones Jr. was born October 28, 1831 in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a Presbyterian minister.

Cousin Skeeter

Skeeter (performed by Drew Massey, voiced by Bill Bellamy) - Skeeter is a puppet whose life changed when he moved from Atlanta, Georgia to New York City to live with his cousin Bobby.

CULC

Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, a large academic building at Georgia Tech named for G. Wayne Clough

Decision Sciences Institute

DSI’s home office is located in Atlanta, Georgia, where it receives support from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University.

Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

With 36 seconds remaining and faced with 4th and 18 from the Tiger 26-yardline, Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former defensive back for the Bulldogs during the 2011 season, threw a Hail Mary pass, which was tipped by Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons right into the hands of Auburn sophomore wide receiver Ricardo Louis.

E. B. Teague

During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.

Emory College

Emory College, an academic division of Emory University, located in DeKalb County, Georgia, USA, in the Atlanta area

Eutaw

Eutaw Formation, a geological formation in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi

Fort Oglethorpe

Fort James Jackson, fort built during 1808–1812 that protected Savannah, Georgia and was also known as Fort Oglethorpe

Georgia Bulldogs football under Charles McCarthy

As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed.

Georgia Football Team

Georgia national football team, the association football (soccer) team of the nation of Georgia

Georgia Line

The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress.

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

H. Lawrence Gibbs

According to Richard Carlton Haney in his book Canceled Due to Racism, the impetus for Gibbs's bill was probably the preceding Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans in January 1956, when the University of Pittsburgh brought a black fullback, Bobby Grier, for the game with Georgia Tech of Atlanta, Georgia.

House of Orbeliani

The Orbeliani were in possession of a large fief called Saorbelo or Saqaplanishvilo which comprised the southern part of the Baratashvili princedom (Sabaratiano), including much of the Ktsia and the Dmanisi valleys in what is now the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia.

Imedi Media Holding

As a proof for their allegations, Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office released, on November 16, 2007, several taped phone conversations between Patarkatsishvili and Giorgi Targamadze, chief of Imedi TV’s political programs, and also between a producer and a journalist of Imedi TV.

John Deal

John Nathan Deal (born 1942), United States politician, Governor of Georgia

Keselo

Keselo is a small medieval fortress just above the village of Omalo in Tusheti (historic geographic area in eastern Georgia).

Leith Harbour

In 1912 Leith Harbour was the site of the second introduction of Reindeer to South Georgia, an attempt that failed when the entire herd was killed by an avalanche in 1918.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Original Town of Fernandina Historic Site

During his invasion of north Florida, 1736–1742, the governor of the British colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, stationed a military guard of Scottish Highlanders on the site and named the island Amelia, after the daughter of King George II of Great Britain.

Pamela Jackson

She is the recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award, and a member of The International Women's Writing Guild.

Pandura

In Georgia the panduri is a three-string fretted instrument widely spread in all regions of Eastern Georgia: such as Pshavkhevsureti, Tusheti, Kakheti and Kartli.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Pineapple Press

Its catalogue includes non-fiction titles such as "Baseball in Florida" and "Florida's Birds" (a reference book with artwork by Karl Karalus) as well as compilations such as "Cracker literature", books on historic homes, lighthouses, Gulf Coast islands, and fiction including historical novels from Patrick D. Smith and a mystery by Virginia Lanier ("Death in Bloodhound Red" set in in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp).

Politics of Abkhazia

The Council of Ministers relocated to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, where it operated as a de jure government of Abkhazia for almost 13 years.

Politics of the Southern United States

When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama.

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Rati Urushadze

He had 41 caps for Georgia, from 1997 to 2009, scoring 5 tries, 25 points on aggregate.

Roswell King

Roswell King, Sr. had conflicts with Major Pierce Butler when he managed his island plantations in Georgia, because Butler took a more moderate approach to the treatment of slaves than King did.

Southern Belting Company Building

Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.

SpaceWorks Enterprises

SEI was founded in 2000 by Dr. John R. Olds, then a tenured professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stephen I of Iberia

The exterior stone plaque of the church of the Holy Cross at Mtskheta, Georgia, mentions the principal builders of this church: Stephanos the patricius, Demetrius the hypatos, and Adarnase the hypatos who have traditionally been equated by the Georgian scholars with Stephen I, son of Guaram; Demetre, brother of Stephen I and Adarnase I.

Stippled studfish

The Stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama.

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia is a 2013 psychological horror film that serves as a brother film to The Haunting in Connecticut by Gold Circle Films.

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1964

During the Concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third district House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.

WAYS

WDEN-FM 99.1, formerly WAYS (FM), a radio station in Macon, Georgia, United States

WFNA

WANN-CD, a low-power television station (channel 29/PSIP 32) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which used the call sign WFNA-LP from June 1999 to June 2002

Winfield Myers

He taught on the Great Books and Renaissance history at Michigan, world history at Xavier University of Louisiana, medieval history at Tulane, and early modern history and the philosophy of history at Georgia.

WNIV

Former Georgia Congressman Pat Swindall hosted a daily talk show on WNIV for several years, after serving a federal prison sentence.

World Athletes Monument

Martin Dawe of Atlanta, Georgia and Dick Reid of York, England were chosen to create the Atlas bronzes.

WPCH

WPCH-TV, a television station (channel 17 analog/20 digital) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States

WRWR

WRWR-LD, a TV station (channel 38) licensed to Warner Robins, Georgia

Zestaponi

The local football club, FC Zestafoni, plays in the top league in Georgia and twice won the Georgian championship in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 season.