Georgia the Empire State of the South in brief history
A feature notes Georgia’s early limits on slavery and rum, and highlights Mount Enota’s marker. It reviews Georgia’s founding in 1733 by Oglethorpe, Savannah’s planned city, colonial skirmishes, Civil War era devastation, postwar rebuilding, and long growth in industry, minerals, agriculture, and timber.
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Georgia
Mount Enota
Brasstown Bald Mountain
Fof Mernano de Sota
Ad Ventirer
Savannah
Oglethorpe
Wyamacraw Bluff
Chickamauga
Ringgold
Resaca
New Hope Church
Kennesaw Mountain
Peach Tree Creek
Atlanta
Joneshore
Allatoona
Sherman
Christmas Abroad and Memories of Home at Yuletide
A World War II era column recounts Christmas abroad, recalling Nürnberg ruins, Paris winter scenes, Kipling poems and the longing for home. It reflects on postwar joys, a note on John Lewis’s legal situation, and historical White House Christmas memories from Roosevelt to Harrison, concluding that Christmas is made by children.
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Nuernberg
Sitle
Rudyard Kipling
England
India
Albrecht Duerer
Meistersinger
Hans Sachs
Boulevard Montparnasse
Latn
Paris
Kipling
John Lewis
T. Alan Galdsborough
Lewis
Roosevelt
White House
Charley
Robert
William Howard Taft
International Bakers’ Association
Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley
Franklin Roosevelts
Truman
Benjamin Harrison
Harrisor
Ben and
Mary
Vicks VapoRub
When Barbs and Bees Meet in Cold War Jokes
A witty critique on leadership and progress notes that power struggles favor the right, while a tongue in cheek observation about the USSR describes honey bee labor mixing medicinal quinine with honey. The passage satirically links political bravado and scientific claims with a satirical shot at Soviet innovation.
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Western Hemisphere
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Europe
George I
James Edward Oglethorpe
Wesleys
John and
Charles
George Whitefield
Col
Joseph Habersham
Commodore Bowen
Boston
McIntosh
Bull
Augusta
Charleston
S. C
Elijah Clarke
Pickens
Light Horse
Harry Lee
Mississippi
Warm Springs Foundation
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Newnan
Ellis Gibbs Arnall
Yule
Baukhage Nave
WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Washington
Angela
Missouri
Washington Star
Star
Mary Lodge McKee
Baukhage
Sitten’s Gulch
McGraw Hill
Salt Lake Desk
West Broadway
Salt Lake Clie
Hoover
Los Angeles
Calit
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