Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Georgia Tech President Blake R. Van Leer. Carlos Valdes, actor and singer; Blake R. Van Leer, President of Georgia Tech, the first to admit women and fought against segregationist Governor Griffin; Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, artist and architect, women's rights activist; Fernando Velasco, football player; born in New York
Georgia has been the birthplace of many celebrities across various fields. Here are a dozen celebrities you might not know hail from the Peach State. Southern stars: 12 celebrities, past and ...
Any Georgia (U.S. state)-related WP:DYKs that have previously appeared at Template:DYK may be added to the next available subpage, above.; All hooks must first have appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know section.
Mary Musgrove (Muscogee name, Coosaponakeesa, c. 1700 –1765) was a leading figure in early Georgia history. She was the daughter of Edward Griffin, an English-born trader from Charles Town in the Province of Carolina, and a Muscogee Creek mother.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Over the past 20 years the state of Georgia has become a hot spot for the creation of new cinema. It seems like every week a new crew is somewhere in the state to film for ...
Business Insider revealed the most famous athletes born in every state, with Georgia's being Jackie Robinson.. Robinson (1919-1972) was born in Cairo before he broke the color barrier in baseball ...
Georgia Day is the holiday which the U.S. state of Georgia recognizes in honor of its colonial founding as the Province of Georgia. On February 12, 1733 [NS] [ 1 ] James Oglethorpe landed the first settlers in the Anne , at what was to become Georgia's first city (and later the first state capital ), Savannah .
A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.