But the route would run through a national park and pristine mountain gorge, home to Georgia's commercially prized mineral water and one of the few successful enterprises in Georgia's economy.

Noghaideli is not a member of any party and is regarded as a technocrat with a tough approach to the corruption that plagues Georgia's economy.

Consideration of replacing Georgia's republic with some form of constitutional monarchy has become part of the Georgian political debate since the Georgian Orthodox primate and other leading Georgians suggested the idea in 2007.

Georgia's Way has said it intends to have candidates for all the seats in Georgia's upcoming local elections, with Zourabichvili hoping to become Tbilisi Mayor.

This 3, 143-foot peak, located between Helen and Cleveland, is dramatically rimmed by sheer cliffs and has the distinction of being the highest point on Georgia's Piedmont Plateau.

The county sits firmly within Georgia's coastal plain region and has predominantly sedimentary rock and red and yellow clays.

Echols County has become notable in recent years as it has served as a place of banishment for many of Georgia's criminals.

The school also has competitive MIAA Division I athletics, having won several state titles in different sports and given rise to former major league pitcher Brian Rose and former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player Jess Gaspar along with UCONN Football star Jordan Todman and Georgia's Arthur Lynch.

However, discoveries of the Africanized bees in southern Louisiana indicate this subspecies has penetrated this barrier, In October 2010, a 73-year-old man was killed by a swarm of Africanized honey bees while clearing brush on his south Georgia property, as determined by Georgia's Department of Agriculture.

Shevardnadze has taken much of the credit for Georgia's economic performance under his rule.

The University has seen its academic reputation rise markedly since Georgia's HOPE Scholarship program was started in 1993.

Georgia's men's lacrosse team has won the South Eastern Lacrosse Conference three times, in 1998, 2007, and 2008, and received an automatic bid to the MCLA national tournament ; while the women's team earned an at-large bid to the WDIA National Tournament in 2007.

According to a 2001 survey by the North American Vexillological Association, New Mexico has the best-designed flag of any U. S. state, U. S. territory, or Canadian province, while Georgia's 2001 – 2003 state flag was rated the worst design.

Georgia's Parliament has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 77 members are proportional representatives and 73 are elected through a single-member district plurality system to represent their constituencies.

In the late 2007, concerned with Georgia's declining birth rate, Ilia II offered to personally baptize any child born to a family that already has at least two children, as long as the new child was to be born after his announcement.

Georgia's flag was named the worst, but has since been changed, and Nebraska's flag was named second worst.

He has also criticized the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe mission in the region on several occasions, accusing the organization of bias and likening its activities to " of Georgia's secret services ".

However, despite most past big games being played at Legion Field, Bryant – Denny Stadium has hosted many memorable games, such as the 1994 shootout between Alabama's Jay Barker and Georgia's Eric Zeier, Marvin Constant's goal-line stop against LSU quarterback Josh Booty as time expired in 1999, Tyrone Prothro's reception over the back of Southern Miss defensive back Jasper Faulk in 2005, a 31 – 3 victory over No. 5 Florida in 2005, the Roman Harper-forced fumble against Tennessee in 2005 that helped the Tide to victory, Alabama's 36-0 shutout victory against Auburn in 2008 thus breaking the six-game losing streak and first ever Iron Bowl victory in Bryant – Denny Stadium, and Terrence Cody's field goal block against Tennessee as time expired in 2009.

Unlike Georgia's Interstate highways, the highway still has actual sequential exit numbers, rather than being mile-log.

Illarionov has questioned the official Russian version of the Russian-Georgian war over Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Jekyll Island has proved to be one of Georgia's greatest assets as a year round resort area.

Castillo de San Marcos has withtood siege by British forces led by the governor of the Carolina Colony James Moore, in 1702 and Georgia's colonial governor James Oglethorpe in 1740.

She has been a regular board two for Georgia's Women's Olympiad team and helped them reclaim the gold medal at Dresden in 2008, scoring a very useful 7 / 10.

In presidential races, Georgia has not given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate only four times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket ; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ; and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won a plurality of votes in 1992 against incumbent Republican George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

In August 1991, just after the Soviet coup attempt, Gamsakhurdia sacked Tengiz Kitovani, the commander of Georgia's National Guard, and his Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua resigned around the same time.

Afterwards, head coach Wally Butts asked his permission to use the dog as Georgia's mascot, and around the same time a college friend suggested that he name it Uga.

On January 5, 1991 Georgia's National Guard entered Tskhinvali, South Ossetian capital and fighting broke out in and around the city.

Georgia's location, nestled between the Black Sea, Russia, and Turkey, gives it strategic importance far beyond its size.

Some rock groups from the South, such as Georgia's R. E. M., The B-52's, Widespread Panic, and Black Crowes, Florida's Sister Hazel, Blind Melon's Mississippian lead guitarist, and Texas's Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Joe Ely incorporated Southern musical and lyrical themes without explicitly allying with any Southern rock movement.

The newly independent nation of Georgia, which also hosted several bases of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet when it was the Georgian SSR, also claimed a share of the Fleet, including 32 naval vessels formerly stationed at Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti.

Krasnodar Krai borders, clockwise from the west, Ukraine — from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch and the Sea of Azov — Russia's Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, and the Karachay – Cherkess Republic, and Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia.

After the Soviets conquered these republics, the territory under Armenian control, by and large, went to Turkey ; whereas the territory under Georgian control mostly reverted to the Soviet Union after Georgia's fall in March 1921.

In Gregg, the Court found, in a 7-2 ruling, that Georgia's new death penalty laws passed Eighth Amendment scrutiny: the statutes provided a bifurcated trial in which guilt and sentence were determined separately ; and, the statutes provided for " specific jury findings " followed by state supreme court review comparing each death sentence " with the sentences imposed on similarly situated defendants to ensure that the sentence of death in a particular case is not disproportionate.

Many scholars doubt the assertion that it was as far north as the Chesapeake ; most place it in present-day Georgia's Sapelo Island.

Many in America were outraged by Calley's sentence ; Georgia's governor Jimmy Carter instituted " American Fighting Man's Day " and asked Georgians to drive for a week with their lights on.

Weise reported that Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, found refrigeration was critical to safe salsa ; and also that using fresh garlic and fresh lime juice, instead of their more processed equivalents, inhibited the growth of bacteria.

* Caroline Miller, author who was Georgia's first Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ; she received the award for Lamb in his Bosom in 1934.

Georgia's second capitol building, built 1807-1837 ; photo, 1937.

A controversy arose in January 2009 over a Georgian Public Broadcaster ( GPB ) television program, Sakartvelos Didi Ateuli ( საქართველოს დიდი ათეული ; " Best Georgians " or " Great Ten Georgians ") — a show which invited viewers to pick Georgia's top historical personages through polling by telephone, text messaging, and the Internet.

Abkhaz is also spoken by members of the large Abkhaz Muhajir diaspora, which is mainly located in Turkey with smaller groups living in Syria, Iraq and Jordan ; Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara ; throughout the former USSR ( e. g. Armenia and the Ukraine ) and through more recent remigration in Western countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

Brooke stated " I do not intend to be a national leader of the Negro people ", and " condemned both Stokely Carmichael and Georgia's Lester Maddox " as extremists ; nonetheless, his historic election gave Brooke " a 50-state constituency, a power base that no other Senator can claim.

* Atlanta, Georgia's “ Underground ” represents the original surface level of downtown Atlanta ; the present streets are raised roadways ( viaducts ) built in the 1920s.

But the Bulldogs seemed to come alive in the third quarter, mounting a long drive ; however, Georgia's drive died in the shadow of the Gators ' goal line when they were stuffed on fourth down, checking the Bulldogs momentarily but pinning the Gators deep in their own territory.

* Freehling, William W., and Craig M. Simpson ; Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860 Oxford University Press, 1992

: story of Georgia's new terror by Harry Raymond ; intro.

Furthermore, four prominent remaining Blue Dogs, Dennis Cardoza of California, Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas, and Heath Shuler of North Carolina have announced their retirement ; one member, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, is running for Senate ( partially due to Republican redistricting efforts ); and more members, such as North Carolina's Mike McIntyre as well as Georgia's John Barrow, have been or will be targeted by Republicans in redistricting efforts.

Stevenson left the group after the release of The Power of Expression and was briefly replaced by William DuVall, former guitarist of Atlanta, Georgia's Neon Christ ; from then on, Neider was the sole guitarist from that point on.

It can be argued that France's involvement in Georgia's history was very limited, at best ; it can be further argued that Georgia was never a sovereign nation, as Texas once was.

* Oral History ( 1985 – 86 ), Georgia's Political Heritage Project, Dr. Mel Steely, Director ; University of West Georgia

Akhaltsikhe (, literally new castle ; also known as Lomisa ) is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region ( mkhare ) of Samtskhe-Javakheti.

Akhalkalaki ( for New City ; ) is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60, 975.