The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

But when former Gov. Marvin Griffin and Lt. Gov. Byrd accepted the invitations of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce to join the tour next November, the situation was aggravated.

Annisberg was about seventy-five miles west of Birmingham, near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa River, a small and dirty stream.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

Andronikos was granted estates in Kakhetia, in the east of Georgia.

* Manuel Komnenos ( born 1145 ), who married Rusudan of Georgia and was the father of Emperor Alexios I and David Komnenos, the founders of the Empire of Trebizond

Miss Julia Elliott, a school teacher from Griffin, Georgia was singled out from many people who suggested " Falcons " as the Nickname for the new Georgia NFL franchise.

In the center of the helmet was a center black stripe surrounded by 2 gold stripes and 2 white stripes, These colors represented the two college rival schools in the state of Georgia ; rival schools Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ( White and Gold ) and the Georgia Bulldogs ( Red and Black ) Although the gold was later taken out, the white remains to this day.

Kotlyarevsky defeated the numerically superior Persian army in the Battle of Aslanduz and in October, 1813, Persia was compelled to make a disadvantageous peace, ceding some territory in the Caucasus ( present-day Georgia, Dagestan, and most of the Republic of Azerbaijan ).

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

The first Antarctic land discovered was the island of South Georgia, visited by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675.

The first human born in the Antarctic was Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen born on 8 October 1913 in Grytviken, South Georgia.

The isotope effect was reported by two groups on the 24th of March 1950, who discovered it independently working with different mercury isotopes, although a few days before publication they learned of each other's results at the ONR conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Thad Starner from Georgia Institute of Technology and others published numerous studies showing that two handed chorded text entry was faster and yielded fewer errors than on a QWERTY keyboard.

The 1st Armored Division was sent to Georgia, and five army divisions were alerted for maximal action.

The Georgia Legislature will wind up its 1961 session Monday and head for home -- where some of the highway bond money it approved will follow shortly.

The Politics of Georgia is based on a presidential representative democratic republic ( semi-presidential system ), with a multi-party system, and the President as the head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of the Georgian Government.

Debate on the possible installation of a constitutional monarchy in Georgia was revitalized following the 7 October 2007 sermon of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the popular head of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

After former Georgia Tech head coach Bobby Ross was hired by the Chargers in 1992, the team won the AFC West with an 11-5 regular season record and won an opening round playoff game against Kansas City.

Finally, Brodess and " the Georgia man " came toward the slave quarters to seize the child, where Rit told them, " You are after my son ; but the first man that comes into my house, I will split his head open.

These raids came to a head at the Battle of Taliwa in 1755, present-day Ball Ground, Georgia, with the defeat of the Muscogee.

In 1838, U. S. Army troops rounded up the last of 15, 000 Cherokees in Georgia and forced them to march west in what came to be known as the " Trail of Tears ", making Gordon County the head of this loathsome trail.

On September 21, 2002, at 12: 15 a. m., 41-year-old Million A. Woldemarian was fatally shot in the head and back by a. 22-caliber pistol in Atlanta, Georgia.

However, White settlement in the area increased steadily, coming to a head with the gold rush in the nearby mountains of Northwest Georgia.

* Bill Curry, football coach and analyst, currently head coach for Georgia State University

* Bobby Bowden, Former FSU football coach, first head coaching job was with the football team at South Georgia College.

* And Georgia Tann, former head of the Tennessee Children's Home Society

The second head of the Society was Congressman Larry McDonald from Georgia, who was killed on September 1, 1983, when the Soviets shot down KAL 007.

Afterward, Georgia Tech head coach Bobby Dodd told reporters: " We didn't have Gatorade ; that made the difference.

In 1943 two police officers, Inspector Robert Owens and Staff Sergent Jack Russell saw a “ huge sea serpent with a horse like head ” in Georgia Strait.

It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman ( former Brown University and University of Pennsylvania player ; head football coach at Auburn University, Clemson University, Rice University, and University of Pennsylvania ; and football, basketball, and baseball head coach and athletic director at Georgia Tech ).

Broyles sought the head coaching position at Northwestern University in 1954, and ultimately left Georgia Tech in 1957 when he was offered the position of head coach at the University of Missouri.

Gamsakhurdia's SSIR party and the Georgian Helsinki Union joined with other opposition groups to head a reformist coalition called " Round Table — Free Georgia " (" Mrgvali Magida — Tavisupali Sakartvelo ").

The New York Times reported on September 27, 1992 that Coverdell's tenure as head of the Peace Corps was likely to be one of the issues in the 1992 Senate race in Georgia and that Coverdell had been " accused of using the office to plot his political future in Georgia.

" The decision to consolidate functions in Georgia and build a technology focused corporate headquarters campus is right in line with our business strategy to drive growth, improve our innovation output, increase productivity and continually upgrade our focus on the customer ," said Bill Nuti, NCR ’ s chairman and chief executive officer.

Bleckley County is one of 8 remaining counties in Georgia that operates under a Sole Commissioner form of government, with a single county commissioner acting as the county executive and legislative branches.

He was an executive of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company who came to the Phoenix area in 1916 in search of suitable land to farm a long-staple cotton that had previously been available only from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and from Egypt.

Ralph Reed, a University of Georgia Ph. D. candidate and hotel waiter whom Robertson had met at an inaugural dinner for George H. W. Bush in January 1989, took control of day-to-day operations of the coalition in 1989 as its founding executive director.

It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with executive offices also located in Birmingham, Alabama.

The term is used frequently in Georgia on the state governor's letterhead, the text of executive orders, any document that requires the governor's signature, and in formal settings.

In 2007 for example, the Governor of Georgia made an executive order for all of its state agencies to reduce water use during a major drought.

Finding that he no longer desired the Georgia plantation life of his youth, he taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and then served in executive positions with the Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad ( executive superintendent ), the Savannah and Memphis Railroad ( president ), and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( president ).

The Executive Branch Program allows students the opportunity to experience the executive branch of state government in Georgia.

Miller's first experience in the executive branch of government was as Chief of Staff for Georgia governor Lester Maddox.

The President of Georgia is Head of State and the head of executive power.

The President of Georgia concludes international treaties and agreements and conducts negotiations with foreign states ; with the consent of Parliament, appoints and dismisses Georgian ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives ; receives the credentials of ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of foreign states and international organizations ; with the consent of Parliament, appoints Prime Minister and members of the Government ; is empowered to remove ministers from their posts ; submits to Parliament the draft state budget, after agreeing upon its basic content with parliamentary committees ; declares a martial law and state of emergency ; with the consent of Parliament has the right to halt the activities of representative bodies of self-government or territorial units as well as of state bodies ; signs and promulgates laws ; has the right to dissolve Parliament under certain conditions set by the Constitution ; decides questions of citizenship and the granting of political asylum ; grants pardons ; schedules elections to Parliament and other representative bodies ; has the right to revoke acts of subordinate executive bodies ; is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ; and appoints members of the National Security Council, chairs its meetings, and appoints and dismisses military commanders.

After Georgia formally seceded from the Soviet Union on April 9, 1991, the Supreme Council voted, on April 14, to create the post of executive President, and appointed Zviad Gamsakhurdia to the office pending the holding of direct elections.

* Bob Young ( mayor ) ( born 1947 ), former mayor of Augusta, Georgia, former senior executive in cabinet of President George W. Bush, former television news anchor

) Georgia was no longer a colony ; it was a state with a weak chief executive, the " President and Commander-in-Chief ," who was elected by the Congress for a term of only six months.

Swanagan would become the Georgia Aquarium's founding president and executive director, and is largely credited with the creation of the aquarium.

Foxworthy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the first child of Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy, an IBM executive, and Carole Linda ( Camp ) Foxworthy, both of English descent.

They also attempted to forcibly secure meetings with Nitro's executive producer Eric Bischoff and WCW owner Ted Turner at WCW headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Roy Barnes also took executive action to change the flag of the state of Georgia, despite opposition from several vocal minority groups.

Michael Curb ( born December 24, 1944, in Savannah, Georgia ) is an American musician, record company executive, NASCAR and IRL race car owner.

The Court found that the defense had failed to prove that such data demonstrated the requisite discriminatory intent by the Georgia legislature and executive branch.

From 1995 through 2009 Harris served at Georgia State University as a distinguished executive fellow and lecturer in the School of Policy Studies.