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- Georgian (Human Languages Page)
- Chimpanzees - Intelligence (Georgia State University)
Provides facts and pictures of the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, regarding the expression of intelligence in communication and problem solving. 5-00
- O'Keeffe, Georgia (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the pioneering artist. 6-00
- O'Keeffe, Georgia (Artchive.com)
Provides a biography, as well as examples of some of his more famous works. 3-01 Sometimes visitors misspell as Okeefe, O'Keefe, or O'Keef
- Muslims Against Terrorism (University of Georgia - Godlas)
Provides statements from Muslim scholars and celebrities. 10-01
- -02-04-06 Coretta King Lies in Honor in Georgia (Fox News)
"Cheered by hundreds of people, the body of Coretta Scott King was carried through the streets by horse-drawn carriage Saturday to Georgia's state Capitol, where she became the first woman and first black person to lie in honor." 02-06
- 10-20-07 Georgia Declares Need for Disaster Relief on Water Shortage (MSNBC News)
"With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area." 10-07
- Georgia Declares Water Shortage Emergency (MSNBC News)
"With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area." 10-07
- Maxwell's Equations (Georgia State University)
Provides Gauss' law for electricity, Gauss' law for magnetism, faraday's law of induction, and Ampere's law. 02-08
- Electricity and Magnetism (Georgia State University)
Provides a comprehensive and concise description of basic topics in electricity and magnetism. 02-08
- Voltage (Georgia State University)
"Voltage is electric potential energy per unit charge, measured in joules per coulomb ( = volts)." 02-08
- -08-09-08 Georgia Declares War With Russia (CNN News)
"Georgia's parliament Saturday approved a request by President Mikhail Saakashvili's to impose a 'state of war,' as the conflict between Georgia and Russia escalated, Georgian officials said."
"Saakashvili accused Russia of launching an unprovoked full-scale military attack against his country, including targeting civilian homes, while Russian officials insist their troops were protecting people from Georgia's attacks on South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region that borders Russia." 08-08
- -08-11-08 Putin Criticizes U.S. on Georgia Conflict (Time.com)
"Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is criticizing the United States for airlifting Georgian troops from Iraq."
"Putin said Monday that the U.S. move will hamper efforts to solve Russia's conflict with Georgia over the breakaway province of South Ossetia."
"The Russian-Georgian conflict blew up after a Georgian offensive to regain control of the breakaway province of South Ossetia." 08-08
- -08-11-08 Behind the Struggle Between Russia and Georgia (MSNBC News)
"What are the risks of a wider regional conflict?"
"The risks here are great. With casualties to Russia’s peacekeeping force and attacks on Georgian territory beyond the conflict zone, we are already seeing the potential for this to spin into a larger, Russian-Georgian conflict. In addition, many of Russia’s unstable Caucus regions — Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan — are nearby and could see a spillover of violence into their regional conflicts." 08-08
- Editorial: Failing the Georgia Test (Time.com)
"Russia's swift invasion of Georgia appears to have met its goals: humiliating a neighbor that deigned to escape its sphere of influence, and proving that the Bear still has very sharp claws. While it is not yet clear that all military operations have ceased (Georgia reported that bombings continue), the past five days have been a test case for the limits of post-Iraq U.S. power — and the nimbleness of American policy. The results are not encouraging for Washington: the incursion of Russian troops beyond the secessionist province of South Ossetia represents a direct challenge by Moscow to the U.S., the European Union and NATO, reviving the old confrontation between the former Cold War adversaries."
"What neither Bush nor either of the campaigns are saying is that the outcome of the conflict in Georgia is likely to redefine perceptions of American and European power around the world, especially in the strategically important regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia." 08-08
- -08-15-08 Editorial: Georgia Crisis a Blow to NATO (Time.com)
"So, regardless of the appeals of Senator McCain — and his Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama — the events of the past week have more likely placed Georgia's NATO membership in the deep freeze for the foreseeable future, even if the Alliance remains rhetorically committed to the idea in principle. If so, Moscow can count what has transpired as a major victory: it has prevented the advance of a rival military alliance into Russia's backyard." 08-08
- -08-15-08 Editorial: Consequences of the Georgia Conflict (MSNBC News)
"Even if the cease-fire holds in Georgia, the consequences of the crisis could be grim: Tensions might jeopardize Russian energy shipments to Europe, cut the U.S. off from access to the International Space Station, end intelligence cooperation between Washington and Moscow in the war on terrorism." 08-08
- -08-26-08 Russia Recognizes Georgian Rebels (BBC News)
"President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia formally recognises the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia."
"Earlier, the US and France called the Russian move regrettable, while the UK said it categorically rejected it. Nato said the declaration violated numerous UN Security Council resolutions that Russia itself had endorsed."
"However the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which have had de facto independence since the early 1990s, thanked Russia." 08-08
- -08-26-08 Russia's Game Plan in Georgia (BBC News)
"As far as Moscow is concerned, the Russian army has completed its pullout from Georgia."
"Russia says its 'peacekeepers' are sticking around to prevent further bloodshed and to protect the people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia."
"By keeping troops in Georgia, Russia is also sending an unambiguous message to the West: that the former Soviet republic remains part of Russia's sphere of influence."
"Today - buoyed by massive oil and gas revenues - Russia feels more confident to flex its muscles, restore lost influence and defend its interests close to home." 08-08
- -09-03-08 U.S. Offers $1 Billion in Aid to Georgia (CBS News)
"President Bush on Wednesday announced $1 billion in new economic aid to Georgia to help the pro-Western former Soviet republic rebuild after Russia's invasion." 09-08
- Georgia (Yahoo)
Provides a list of cities with city guides. 11-01
- Georgia Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01
- Georgia (Weber Publications)
Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Atlanta. 10-00
- Famous Georgians (50States.com)
Lists famous persons from the state of Georgia in the USA. 6-02
- Georgia (U.S. State Department)
Provides information on the economy, transportation, people, government, geography, and a map.
- Georgia
- Georgia (CountryReports.org)
Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map and a flag. 6-02
- Georgia Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
Includes The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc., Community Foundation of Central Georgia, East Lake Community Foundation, The Gwinnett Foundation, and North Georgia Community Foundation. 10-02
- Georgia Profile (BBC News)
"Situated at the strategically important crossroads where Europe meets Asia, Georgia has a unique and ancient cultural heritage, famous traditions of hospitality and cuisine and an alphabet which is entirely its own." 04-06
- Georgia Timeline (BBC News)
Provides a timeline of key events, starting with 1801. 04-06
- Huron Nation History (First Nations)
"Ouendake (called Huronia by the French) was the original homeland of the Huron occupying a fairly compact area of central Ontario between the southern end of Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe."
- Rulers by Country - G-I (Schulz)
Provides a list of leaders by country and date. Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Iran, Israel, and Italy. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00
- Architecture Timeline (About.com - Craven)
Describes highlights of architecture throughout human history. Includes more recent styles, such as Renaissance, American Colonial, Baroque, Rococo, Georgian Colonial, Neoclassical, Federalist, Idealist, Greek Revival, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco. 3-01
- Bottle Recycling Campaign (WasteNotGeorgia.org)
Describes a campaign in Georgia to reduce bottle waste and provides statistics on the size of the problem. 1-02
- Republican Victory - Next Steps for Republicans (MSNBC News)
"Riding an election wave that put Republicans in control of the House and Senate, the Bush administration on Wednesday made clear it would move quickly on two priorities: creating a homeland defense agency and stimulating the economy with permanent tax breaks. The House had already been held by Republicans, but Tuesday’s midterm election saw Democrats lose the Senate when their candidates lost in Missouri and Georgia." 11-02
- Editorial - War Records - Bush and Kerry (MSNBC News - Clift)
"Kerry is accompanied on the campaign trail by the men he served with in the Mekong Delta [during the Vietnam war]." "Kerry's candidacy was elevated when a former Green Beret whose life he saved showed up on the campaign trail in Iowa to attest to Kerry's courage. In addition, former Georgia senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam and was defeated in 2002 after GOP attacks on his patriotism, appears regularly with Kerry."
"There is another chapter to Kerry's war history that Republicans are examining, and that is his leadership in 1971 of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Some GOP strategists envision television ads linking Kerry with Jane Fonda in order to undermine his credentials as a decorated war veteran."
"Highlighting Kerry's antiwar activism is a risky strategy for the Republicans. If the election turns into a debate over war records, Bush can't win."
"Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson did an exhaustive study of Bush's military service, which was published in May 2000. Robinson concluded that during Bush's final 18 months in the Texas Air National Guard in 1972 and 1973, he did not fly at all and was 'all but unaccounted for,' with no records to indicate that he attended any of the required drills." "Under the rules at the time, guardsmen who miss duty were supposed to be reported and could then be drafted." "In fairness, Bush has been candid about why he enlisted in the Air National Guard. Like many young men of his generation, he wanted to avoid Vietnam. He told one reporter, 'I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes.' " 1-04
- Computer-Security Experts Warn of Stolen Elections (MSNBC News)
"The best minds in the computer-security world contend that the voting terminals can’t be trusted. Listen, for example, to Avi Rubin, a computer-security expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University who was slipped a copy of Diebold’s source code earlier this year. After he and his students examined it, he concluded that the protections against fraud and tampering were strictly amateur hour."
"(The biggest buzz focuses on the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial election, won by a Republican underdog whose win confounded pollsters.) Suspicions run even higher when people learn that some of those in charge of voting technology are themselves partisan. Walden O’Dell, the CEO of Diebold, is a major fund-raiser for the Bush re-election campaign who recently wrote to contributors that he was 'committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president next year.' "
"To remedy the problem, technologists and allies are rallying around a scheme called verifiable voting. This supplements electronic voting systems with a print-out that affirms the voter’s choices. The printout goes immediately into a secure lockbox. If there’s a need for a recount, the paper ballots are tallied." 11-04
- Maynard, Kyle (KMaynard.com)
"Kyle was born March 24, 1986 with a rare disorder called, "Congenital Amputation." This left Kyle with only three major joints: a neck and two shoulders. Despite his physical differences, Kyle is one of the top high school wrestlers in Georgia. His visit to the Georgia State Wrestling Championship left him with an impressive record of 35-16. Kyle also narrowly missed All-American status at the National High School Senior Wrestling Championships." 11-04
- -11-18-04 Study: Reported Vote in Key States Not Valid (University of Pennsylvania - Steven Freeman)
Provides evidence that exit polls, properly conducted as they were by the National Election Poll, are extremely accurate. Provides a statistical analysis which shows that the reported votes in key states in the 2004 presidential election were definitely different from the exit poll results. Points out that the United States and other countries have so much confidence in exit polls that when the exit polls and the reported votes disagree, it is solid evidence that the reported votes are incorrect. The United States took this position successfully in the elections of the Republic of Georgia. The United States sided with the exit poll results and against the official tally. Further, the United States played a key role in unseating the person "officially elected" as President, replacing him with the person who won in the exit polls.
It has been the official position of the United States government that properly conducted exit polls are the "gold standard." The results of exit polls reveal who won. Reported votes, on the other hand, are more easily manipulated.
Editor's Note: Freeman attempted to explain his statistics in everyday language, but fell short. However, he made a compelling analysis that leads to the conclusion that Kerry won the 2004 presidential election. 9-05
- Editorial: Reform Needed in Voting Security (CommonDreams.org)
"On December 4, 2000, in time to change the outcome of the Electoral College vote, Greg Palast published an article in Salon.com, made into a BBC television documentary shortly thereafter, that laid out solid evidence of massive electoral fraud in Florida, perpetrated against the majority-Democratic-voting African American community by Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush. Without this fraud, Gore would have easily carried the state."
"Ironically, the Democratic Party knows how to highlight election fraud and start national movements to bring down administrations that try to steal elections. A Party-affiliated group has helped do it four times in the past four years."
"But not in Ohio, Florida, or anywhere else in the USA."
"Instead, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Madeleine K. Albright, Chairman) has joined up with a similar organization affiliated with the Republican Party (the International Republican Institute - John McCain, Chairman), other NGOs, and US government agencies to support the use of exit polls and statistical analyses to challenge national elections in Ukraine, Serbia, Belarus, and the former Soviet republic of Georgia."
"In three of those four nations they succeeded in not only mounting a national challenge, but in reversing the outcomes of elections."
"The election reversals were accomplished by funding local groups - most made up of a core of activists and college students - who worked to topple regimes that had rigged their own re-elections." 12-04
- Editorial: U.S. Campaign in Kiev (Guardian Unlimited - Traynor)
"Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics, has been mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the same again."
"But while the gains of the orange-bedecked 'chestnut revolution' are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes."
"Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box."
"Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze." 12-04
- -01-13-05 Judge: Remove "Evolution" Stickers from Books (Bloomberg.com)
"Georgia's Cobb County school system must immediately remove stickers from science textbooks that say evolution is a 'theory, not a fact,' because a federal judge ruled the disclaimers were unconstitutional."
"At least five parents filed a lawsuit challenging the stickers on the grounds that they violated the U.S. Constitution and the Constitution of the state of Georgia. A section of the state's constitution says that 'no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult, or religious denomination.' "
"Cooper also placed a permanent ban on the stickers being disseminated. Cobb County is north of Atlanta." 01-05
- Charles, Ray (Biography.com)
Provides a biography. "Singer, pianist, and composer, born in Albany, Georgia, USA. He lost his sight (from glaucoma) when he was six, and attended a school for the blind, where he learned to read and write music in braille and play piano and organ. Orphaned at age 15, he left school and began playing music to earn a living, moving to Seattle in 1947." 2-05
- Exit Polls - Accurate or Unreliable in 2004? (InTheseTimes.com)
"Exit polls are highly accurate. They remove most of the sources of potential polling error by identifying actual voters and asking them immediately afterward who they had voted for."
"The reliability of exit polls is so generally accepted that the Bush administration helped pay for them during recent elections in Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine." 2-05
- Essay - Paperless Voting Machines Corrupted the Results (BartCop.com)
"My preference would be that you read my argument from the viewpoint of a member of a Grand Jury being presented with a summary set of facts. You are being asked to decide whether or not they indicate enough of a possibility of wrong doing to warrant issuing an indictment and conducting a full and thorough official and public investigation."
"Secretaries of State and local election officials certify vote counting software based solely on [Shaun] Southworth’s say so. They do no independent examination or testing of the code themselves beyond simple logic and accuracy tests which security experts have called completely inadequate to the task of ensuring the software to be safe, secure and accurate. In essence this means that outside of the programmers who actually write the code, there is only one person in the entire US who has had access to the code and he is at best a shadowy figure who is dependent for his livelihood on the companies whose products he tests and certifies."
"In many states (including AZ), a legal recount consists only of running the ballots back through the same central tabulator."
"In the 2002 midterm election, there were fourteen House and Senate races across the U.S. where Democratic candidates were leading in the last pre-election polls by margins of 4 to 10 points. The votes in all those races were counted on either ES&S or Diebold optical scan or touchscreen systems. In all fourteen races the Republican candidate won by 3-7 percentage points. Republican control of the House and Senate were decided by these races. In the case of Senator Max Cleland of Georgia who was defeated by Saxy Chambliss, it took a sixteen point swing."
Editor's Note: The tone of this article is very partisan. 4-05
- -10-07-05 Simulations for Better Driver Training (MSNBC News)
"A driving simulator similar to flight simulators used to train pilots can help people re-learn to drive after suffering a stroke."
"Nearly 75 percent of stroke patients trained on the simulator were able to pass an official driving test, compared with 42 percent of patients who completed standard training, Dr. Abiodun Akinwuntan of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and colleagues in Belgium report." 9-05
- 09-20-06 House Passes New Photo ID Law for Voting (ABC News)
"The bill would require everyone to present a photo ID before voting in federal elections by 2008. By 2010 voters would have to have photo IDs that certified they were citizens. In response to criticism that this would be a burden for the poor, the bill stipulates that states must provide the identification cards free of charge to those who can't afford them."
"Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., said he was initially denied a voter ID required under a Missouri state law because he doesn't have a driver's license and couldn't immediately produce a passport or birth certificate. His congressional ID card was not accepted."
"A Missouri court earlier this month struck down the state law, and on Tuesday a state superior court judge in Georgia ruled that that state's law requiring a photo ID was an unconstitutional condition for voting." 09-06
- -Editorial: Will the Next Election Be Hacked? (RollingStone.com - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.)
According to Ion Sancho, an election supervisor in Leon County, Florida, "With a few key people in the right places, it would be possible to throw a presidential election."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke with a Diebold voting machine consultant who reported that in 2004 unauthorized and secret changes were made on voting machines.
"According to [consultant] Hood, Diebold employees altered software in some 5,000 machines in DeKalb and Fulton counties [in Georgia] - the state's largest Democratic strongholds. To avoid detection, Hood and others on his team entered warehouses early in the morning."
"The United States is one of only a handful of major democracies that allow private, partisan companies to secretly count and tabulate votes using their own proprietary software. Today, eighty percent of all the ballots in America are tallied by four companies - Diebold, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Sequoia Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic." 09-06
- Ultra Low Emissions Device Developed for Burning Fuel (GaTech.edu)
"Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices -- with next to no emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO), two of the primary causes of air pollution. The device has a simpler design than existing state-of-the-art combustors and could be manufactured and maintained at a much lower cost, making it more affordable in everything from jet engines and power plants to home water heaters." The device is called a Stagnation-Point Reverse-Flow Combustor. 11-06
- -04-10-07 Forecast for Foreclosures (MSNBC News)
"Colorado registered the second-highest rate in February, with one foreclosure for every 345 households, while Florida took third place, with one filing for every 382 homes. Others ranking among the country's top 10 states for foreclosures were Georgia, Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, Arizona, and Indiana." 04-07
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