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unusual facts about Perry, Georgia


WSST-TV

Its digital signal only extends 50 miles (80 km) from Cordele, but it's seen on many cable systems in the region, including Albany and Perry.


1976 college football season

At the Sugar Bowl, Pitt quarterback Matt Cavanaugh passed for 192 yards, and Dorsett had 32 carries for 202 yards, overcoming Georgia's heralded "Junkyard Dogs" defense.

2003 Auburn Tigers football team

After consecutive losses to Ole Miss, led by Eli Manning, and Georgia, the Tigers concluded a disappointing regular season by defeating arch rival Alabama, 28–23.

2012–13 Georgian Ice Hockey League season

The 2012–13 Georgian Ice Hockey League season was the third season of the Georgian Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Georgia.

5uu's

In May 2004, Dave Kerman/5uu's regrouped again in Israel, this time comprising Kerman, Drake, Cutler, Perry, Koomran and Janet Feder on prepared guitar.

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.

Bobby Peters

Peters graduated from Hardaway High School in 1967, in Columbus, Georgia, and later earned an undergraduate degree in criminal justice, and a post-graduate degree in education at Columbus State University.

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.

Burdell

George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day

C.P. Quattlebaum House

Its owner, Cephas Perry Quattlebaum, served as Conway's first mayor and his office is located nearby, the C.P. Quattlebaum Office.

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).

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.

David Devdariani

In 1992-1993, he began petitioning and working for the peaceful conflict settlement in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia.

Ellis Johnson

Ellis L. Johnson, Coca-Cola chair professor for Georgia Tech's School of ISyE

Eutaw

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

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 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.

Georgia State Route 7 Connector

Georgia State Route 7 Connector (Lowndes County): A former connector route of Georgia State Route 7 that existed in rural parts of Lowndes County, northwest of Valdosta.

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.

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.

Haley Reinhart

On May 28, 2011, Reinhart and the other American Idol top 4 performed at the opening of the new Microsoft Store at Lenox Square Mall in 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.

Housing at the University of Georgia

Named after Mary Ethel Creswell, the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia, Creswell Community is home to male and female first-year students.

Jeff Mullis

He currently serves as the Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority Executive Director (NWGAJDA.COM)and the Top of Georgia Economic Development Chairman.

Jigda-Khatun

Jigda-Khatun's involvement in the government of Georgia was occasioned by David's departure for the court of Batu Khan, when she, together with the courtier Jikur, was left in charge of regency.

John W. Bowen

He is the paternal grandson of John W.E. Bowen, Sr., former President of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, former Professor of Music at Clark College in Atlanta.

Keselo

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

O. P. Caylor

Oliver Perry Caylor (December 14, 1849 – October 19, 1897) was an American baseball newspaper columnist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Commercial before becoming one of the principal figures in the founding of the American Association in 1881 as well as the catalyst in the formation of the modern-day Cincinnati Reds.

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.

Peter Chitty

Perry, R. (2010) The Changi Brownlow, Hachette, Sydney.

PLOrk

Composers and performers from Princeton and elsewhere developed new pieces for the ensemble, including Paul Lansky (Professor of Music at Princeton), Brad Garton (Director of the Columbia Computer Music Center), Pauline Oliveros, PLOrk co-founders Dan Trueman and Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, Ge Wang, and others.

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.

Q100

WWWQ, a radio station (99.7 FM) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Rati Urushadze

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

Runaway Officials of 1851

Congress passed a statute depriving any territorial officials of pay if they were absent from their assignments without due cause, and Daniel Webster advised Judge Perry E. Brocchus to either resign his position or return to the territory.

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Simon Perry

Perry's major public commissions include Threaded Field, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne (1999-2000), On Tap, Caroline Springs, Melbourne (2007), and the much loved Public Purse (1994).

Soul Temple Records

Soul Temple Records is an American record label founded in 2012 by hip hop music recording artist RZA and Bob Perry, after the release of the RZA directed The Man with the Iron Fists.

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.

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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Alabama

Before August 24, 1842, branches in Tuscaloosa (the Cybry Branch) and Perry (Bogue-Chitto Branch) counties were organized by Elder Brown.

The Georgia Melodians

The Georgia Melodians were an early jazz band that was active in the 1920s and recorded for Edison Records.

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.

Thomas M. Green, Sr.

Thomas received an interview with the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos where he claimed the entire district for Georgia.

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.

Walden L. Ainsworth

On the night of 4–July 5, TF 18 moved up "the Slot" and bombarded Japanese positions at Vila on Kolombangara and at Baiko on New Georgia.

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

WPCH

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

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.


see also

Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway

On December 15, 1995, NS sold the 80-mile section between Foley, Florida and Adel, Georgia to Gulf & Ohio Railways, which created new subsidiary, Live Oak, Perry & Georgia Railroad, to own the trackage.

Westfield Schools

The Westfield School, a private PK-12 school in Perry, Georgia, United States.

WPGA

WPGA-TV, a television station (channel 58 analog/32 digital) licensed to Perry, Georgia, United States

WPGA-FM, a radio station (100.9 FM) licensed to Perry, Georgia, United States