In Hollywood, screenwriter James Lee Bartlow ( Dick Powell ), movie star Georgia Lorrison ( Lana Turner ), and director Fred Amiel ( Barry Sullivan ) each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields ( Kirk Douglas ) in Paris.

* Lana Turner as Georgia Lorrison

In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy – who was also made into a character in the film – sued the studio for displaying " vicious, untrue and false attacks " against him in the film.

In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy, who was also made into a character in the film, sued the studio for displaying " vicious, brutal and false attacks " against him in the film.

Although never officially confirmed, a widespread rumor suggests that the character of Ben Matlock was based largely on well-known Georgia attorney Bobby Lee Cook.

* Many members of Sturges ' unofficial " stock company " of character actors appear in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, among them Al Bridge, Georgia Caine, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Melford, Torben Meyer, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Max Wagner.

The episode " The Creek " saw the introduction of the first new police character " Officer Randy Goode " ( 1988 – 1993 ) played by Randall Franks cast following the show's move to Georgia introducing the second prominent Georgia performer to claim a regular role on the series.

Her character is based upon Jerry Jones and Georgia Frontiere.

Simon changed the main character's name to Georgia Hines for the film adaptation ; the character was named Evy Meara in the stage version.

First making it big in Cincinnati, Ohio at WSAI ( AM ), he moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1960s and joined the staff of WQXI radio, where WKRP in Cincinnati creator Hugh Wilson used him as inspiration for the sitcom's off-the-wall character Dr. Johnny Fever.

" Douglas was included in a tribute to pioneering women when television character Lisa Simpson made a papier-mâché bust of her with Georgia O ' Keeffe and Susan B. Anthony in an early episode of The Simpsons.

Leigh has an older sister, Carrie Ann Morrow, who was credited as a " technical advisor " in Georgia, and on whom Leigh's character Sadie Flood was reputedly based.

The central character is Charlie Baker, who, while on a vacation in a Georgia hunting lodge, pretends not to be able to understand English, so as to avoid the attentions of the other guests.

Filmed in Columbus, Georgia and headed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. ( her character is his mother ) and Beyoncé Knowles, the film garnered mixed reviews by critcs, but scored top three of the U. S. box office, resulting in a domestic gross of US $ 30. 2 million.

The great noble houses of Georgia, capitalizing on the vacillating character of the king, sought to assert more autonomy for themselves ; Tbilisi, the ancient capital of Kartli, remained in the hands of its Muslim rulers, and a local dynasty, for a time suppressed by George's energetic father Bagrat IV, maintained its precarious independence in the eastern region of Kakheti under the Seljuq suzerainty.

* James Arthur Williams ( 1930 – 1990 ), central character in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and antiques dealer and restorer of historic homes from Savannah, Georgia

In the mid-fifteenth century, the Safaviyya changed in character and became militant under Shaykh Junayd and Shaykh Haydar, launching jihads against the Christians of Georgia.

At the opening of the film, the audience learns that Otar Gogebashvili ( an unseen character ), a doctor by profession because of the difficult economic situation in newly independent Georgia has not long before moved to France, in order to work illegally and support his family back in Georgia.

Actor Oliver Hardy was known to have stated on many occasions, that after seeing the character Helpful Henry in a Georgia newspaper, it inspired him for his screen character.

Ethel Waters also starred in Cabin in the Sky, which contained a character named Georgia Brown.

* In the Drawn Together episode " Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care ", the character Ling-Ling, after being given 21 shots of liquor ( for his 21st birthday ), is given " the traditional 21 doses of Sweet Georgia Brown ," according to Spanky Ham.

In the 1966 Howard Hawks western El Dorado, the character Bull, in response to being shot at from a bell-laden church tower, proclaims, " Well, just give me another gun and I'll play " Marching Through Georgia.

George II ’ s wavering character and incompetent political decisions coupled with the Seljuk yoke brought the Kingdom of Georgia into a profound crisis which climaxed in the aftermath of a disastrous earthquake that struck Georgia in 1088.

Confidence in the state's economic future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction budget for this year.

It is good to know that Georgia will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of industrialization.

William R. Stillwell, an admirable Georgian whose delightful correspondence is preserved in the Georgia Department of Archives and History, liked to tease his wife in his letters.

The statement explained that under the Georgia Constitution and state law, tax-exempt status is granted to educational institutions only if they are segregated.

The fire ant is thought to infest approximately two million acres of land in Georgia, attacking crops, young wildlife and livestock and can be a serious health menace to humans who are allergic to its venom, Blasingame said.

This is being done so that Georgia Tech can complete the final phase of a traffic survey on the North Expressway.

The real reason for his rejection, they argued, is the fact that Georgia law automatically cuts off funds for any desegregated school.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

Armenia is a landlocked country in the Transcaucasia region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhchivan Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.

It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.

The Armenian economy's competitiveness is low and stagnating according to the Global Competitiveness Index, in which Armenia's ranking slipped from 80th out of 132 countries in 2006-2007 index to 93rd out of 131 countries in the 2007-2008 index ( just below Libya, Namibia, Georgia, Serbia and Pakistan ).

The only operational rail link into Armenia is from Georgia.

The Georgian railway, which runs through the town of Gori in central Georgia, is the main transport link between Armenia and the aforementioned Georgian seaports.

Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.

* Georgia on My Mind is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer.

In the northeast are several flat-topped mountains, of which Raccoon and Lookout are the most prominent, having a maximum elevation near the Georgia line of little more than and gradually decreasing in height toward the southwest, where Sand Mountain is a continuation of Raccoon.

* 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

The navigation of the Tallapoosa River –- which has its source in Paulding County, Georgia, and is about long -– is prevented by shoals and a fall at Tallassee, a few miles north of its junction with the Coosa.

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

* 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.