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Celebrate National Poetry Month

"Georgia libraries offers the best of all worlds, the books we love and the online information we need. We in Georgia can be especially glad of GALILEO. . ." says Dan Veach, winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Poetry for 2013. In…

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This Day in Georgia History: April 6, 1935

On this day in 1935, Governor Eugene Talmadge proclaimed the Brown Thrasher as the official state bird of Georgia. Thirty five years later, in 1969, the question was raised if the governor could legally designate state symbols. Later that year, on…

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