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State flower: Azalea

Georgia /ˈdʒɔːrdʒə/ ^ⓘ 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.

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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.

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Statesboro is a city in southeast Georgia, United States, and is the county seat and most populous city of Bulloch County.

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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)

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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"

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Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other movie awards and nominations during more than 50 years as an actress. After 15 years of retirement, she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in over 20 exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995, and once again in 2010. Fonda has been an activist for many political causes; her opposition to the Vietnam War and associated activities were controversial. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. In 2005 Fonda worked alongside Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organization. Since 2001, Fonda has been a Christian. She published an autobiography in 2005, and in 2011, she published a second memoir, Prime Time.

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August 17, 1917 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia.
August 26, 1927 - Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia, flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick" to attempt a solo non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuela jungle (the crash site is never located).

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...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 29 employees were killed in the Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion when a fire spread down an assembly line and detonated 56,322 magnesium tripflares that had been manufactured for the U.S. Army?

...that Hulk Hogan's Pastamania was a restaurant located in the Mall of America and created by the WWE's Hulk Hogan, and that it failed spectacularly?

...that retired American baseball player Hank Aaron holds ten Atlanta Braves team records?

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