Georgia's men's soccer team received a bid to play in the NIRSA Club National Championship for the first time in 2007.

At the close of the 2006-2007 season, Georgia's men's basketball teams have amassed a record of 386 wins and 183 losses, which amounts to a 68 % win percentage.

The University of Georgia's athletic department counts a 1904 match its football squad played against a team from a school known as the University of Florida.

The 2007 Georgia Bulldogs are remembered for the " Gator Stomp ," a first-quarter mass celebration of the entire Georgia team in the Gators ' endzone after Georgia's first touchdown, a move that emotionally rallied the underdog Bulldogs.

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.

* Georgia GymDogs, the University of Georgia's NCAA champion gymnastics team.

Andy Landers, coach of the University of Georgia's women's basketball team and a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, got his start coaching at Roane State.

The Fayette County Lady Tigers basketball team has a long history of success and is currently one of Georgia's premier programs.

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.

Georgia's economy has traditionally revolved around Black Sea tourism, cultivation of citrus fruits, tea and grapes ; mining of manganese and copper ; and output of a big industrial sector producing wine, metals, machinery, chemicals, and textiles.

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.

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.

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.

The first settlers of Dade County won the land in Georgia's land lottery and came to work in coke and coal mines.

With the backing of much of Georgia's Republican establishment, he won both the primary and general elections by large margins.

Isakson's election marked the first time in Georgia's history that both of the state's U. S. Senate seats had been held by Republicans, as Saxby Chambliss had won the other seat by defeating Nunn's successor, Max Cleland, two years earlier.

According to preliminary results issued on January 6 by Georgia's Central Election Commission, Saakashvili won over 97 % of the votes cast.

McDonald won the primary in a surprise upset and was elected in November 1974 to the 94th United States Congress, serving for Georgia's 7th congressional district, which included most of Atlanta's northwestern suburbs ( including Marietta ), where opposition to school busing was especially high.

In 1854, Warner won election to the 34th United States Congress as a Democratic Representative of Georgia's 4th congressional district and served one term from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857.

In 1825, in Georgia's first popular election, Troup won by a razor-thin margin.

Upper Lars is the only land border crossing that does not go through Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia have seceded unilaterally from Georgia and would be given autonomous status if Georgia's territorial integrity were restored.

Shackleton and five companions set out in a small boat to summon help, and on 10 May, after an epic voyage, they landed at King Haakon Bay on South Georgia's south coast.

The court upheld Georgia's refusal to enforce the South Carolina judgment.

It also saw South Ossetia war against Georgia, that followed the Georgia's attempt to take over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

In 1927, South Georgia College became Georgia's first state supported junior college.

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.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, ethnic tensions between Ossetians and Georgians in Georgia's former Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia ( abolished in 1990 ) and between Ossetians and the Ingush in North Ossetia evolved into violent clashes that left several hundreds dead and wounded and created a large tide of refugees on both sides of the border.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, ethnic tensions between Ossetians and Georgians in Georgia's former Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia ( abolished in 1990 ) and between Ossetians and the Ingush in North Ossetia evolved into violent clashes that left several hundreds dead and wounded and created a large tide of refugees on both sides of the border.

He faces major problems, however, particularly Georgia's difficult economic situation and the still unresolved question of separatism in the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Georgia Center, the University of Georgia's Conference Center and Hotel is located on South Campus.

Towards the end of the late 1980s, increasingly violent clashes occurred between the Communist authorities, the resurgent Georgian nationalist movement and nationalist movements in Georgia's minority-populated regions ( notably South Ossetia ).

Until 1988, the lake was called Clarks Hill Lake, after the nearby South Carolina town of Clarks Hill, and the Revolutionary War hero Elijah Clarke, whose burial place, on the grounds of Georgia's Elijah Clark State Park, is on the western shore of the lake.

* Wright, G. Richard and Kenneth H. Wheeler, " New Men in the Old South: Joseph E. Brown and his Associates in Georgia's Etowah Valley ," Georgia Historical Quarterly 93: 4 ( Winter, 2009 )

Although Congress banned the slave trade in 1808, Georgia's slave population continued to grow with the importation of slaves from the plantations of the South Carolina Low Country and Chesapeake Tidewater, increasing from 149, 656 in 1820 to 280, 944 in 1840.

Due to the enormous and growing populations of these seals, their food is a significant proportion of South Georgia's krill stocks.

( Example: organized territorial rights by Russia for Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia to North Ossetia ) Another source of conflict arose when a group of people who constituted a minority in one nation would seek to secede from the nation either to form an independent nation or join another nation with whom they felt stronger ties.

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

* 500 pairs of Southern Giant Petrels ( 10 % of South Georgia's total )

Of South Georgia's 31 breeding species, 27 are found here.

During his time in the House, Ginn was considered one of South Georgia's most influential legislators, and credited with helping to bring several United States Navy bases to the area, as well as to protect Fort Stewart when its future seemed shaky.

The Georgian – Ossetian conflict refers to the ethno-political conflict in Georgia's autonomous region of South Ossetia, which evolved in 1989 and developed into a 1991 – 1992 South Ossetia War.