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Author Index
                         
S. K. Brehe
"Georgia Wonder" Phenomenon
Beginning in 1883, several young women from Georgia astonished the nation by demonstrating strange powers...
Jane Withers (b. 1926)
Before Jane Withers became one of the most popular child actors of the 1930s, she performed in vaudeville...
Oliver Hardy (1892-1957)
Oliver Hardy was a successful character actor in silent films and a partner in the Academy Award–winning...
Sterling Holloway (1905-1992)
The character actor and voiceover specialist Sterling Price Holloway Jr. was born on January 4 or 14,...
Brian Brodrick
Atlanta Gas Light Company
In February 1856 the Atlanta Gas Light Company was incorporated to provide gas lighting to the city of...
Chick-fil-A Bowl
The Chick-fil-A Bowl, formerly known as the Peach Bowl, was established in 1968 and remains Georgia's...
F. Erik Brooks
Roy Barnes (b. 1948)
Roy Barnes was sworn in as the eightieth governor of Georgia on January 11, 1999, and served until 2003....
Paul G. Brower
Farm Cooperatives
Farm cooperatives came to America with the earliest immigrants, who modeled their collective businesses...
Gold Kist Inc.
Atlanta-based Gold Kist, founded during the Great Depression by a young agronomy instructor at the University...
Brian Brown
Capture of Jefferson Davis
In early May 1865 the Confederate States of America was greatly disorganized, largely because of the...
Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, the seat of Ben Hill County, is located in the heart of south central Georgia, twenty-five...
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