Happy Georgia Day!

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Georgia Day is the holiday which the U.S. state of Georgia recognizes in honor of its colonial founding as the Province of Georgia. On February 12, 1733, James Oglethorpe landed the first settlers in the Anne, at what was to become Georgia's first city (and later the first state capital), Savannah. It is not a public holiday, but is mainly observed in schools and by some local civic groups for its historic importance to the state.
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Mainly it's celebrated in Savannah due to the fact that Oglethorpe founded the city and designed the downtown district by all of the Elementary schools doing a parade through downtown Savannah dressed like Indians and Settlers screwing up the traffic flow for hours. And my work is in the middle of downtown so I'm no going anywhere for half the day.

HA.
 
why is oglethorpe univ. in atlanta then? odd

Ted Turner's daughter went there...he probably used his time machine to go back and make sure that the University was founded in ATL so that it'd be there when she was ready to go to school.