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Consolidated city-county and county seat of Clarke County, Georgia, United States
research and for Peace and Justice record that has documented victims whose deaths are recognized on national remembrance projects (this figure is cited in EJI and multiple local reports) . Local and ...
did use the language framing a particular American “lineage” as reaching “back to , to , to , to ,” asserting that “our ancestors built the cities” during a public speech tied to / memorial events, an...
publicly frames itself as a nationwide publicity and advocacy firm that supplies trained actors and organizers to create “impactful advocacy campaigns,” from paparazzi-style celebrity experiences to o...
Kevin Greeson, a 55-year-old man from Athens, Alabama, died on January 6, 2021 on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol from a sudden cardiac event; family statements, contemporaneous reporting, and the D.C...
Georgia law requires the governor to call special elections to fill U.S. House or state legislative vacancies; for state legislative seats, when a vacancy occurs between 60 days before the November ge...
The Lynching Victims Memorial, hosted by , collects names, life-stories and the dates and places of lynchings to acknowledge and memorialize victims of ; it launched online in December 2011 and remain...
College towns in Ohio act as concentrated pockets of Democratic support—places like Athens (home to Ohio University) help produce counties that vote blue even as the state tilts Republican overall—bec...
Stoicism is an ancient Greco‑Roman school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE that teaches virtue as the sole good and emphasizes rational control of passions to achieve flourishing...
The event winners at the (, 1896) were a small, mostly male, and internationally mixed group whose achievements are recorded officially by the IOC and reconstructed by historians; is widely celebrated...
in , includes a monument for every U.S. county documented as the site of racial terror lynchings; those county-plates and duplicate markers are intended to be claimed by local communities as part of ....
(and its symbolic presence in ) is not the same as "Olive Odyssey," which is a modern expedition/book project and popular shorthand for narratives about ; the two share a subject (the olive) but are d...
If given one day to time‑travel into ancient Greece, the most revealing single moment would be Athens in the mid‑5th century BCE during the “Golden Age” of Pericles—around the 450s–430s BCE—because it...
If given a single-day time-travel window into the “Greek mythology era,” the most illuminating choice is not to hunt gods on Mount Olympus but to witness how myth lived among people: a public performa...
TWA Flight 847, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 en route from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, was seized minutes after takeoff by armed Lebanese Shiite hijackers and forced on a 17-day odyssey that...
Direct democracy means citizens vote on policy decisions themselves, while representative democracy entrusts those votes to elected officials—so the crucial distinction is who makes law: the electorat...
The Obama years saw several high-profile protests that escalated into episodes of violent unrest—most prominently Ferguson and Baltimore —each ignited by controversial police killings of young Black m...
The phrase "Iron bost" appears to point to multiple strands of reporting: a boatmaker brand called IRON Boats promoting models and shows (including the 827 and appearances at Athens and Sydney boat sh...
Yes — multiple Georgia businesses advertise tub-to-shower and shower conversion services statewide, from national chains (Bath Planet, Jacuzzi Bath Remodel, Five Star Bath Solutions) to regional/local...
Direct democracy places policy decisions directly in voters’ hands through referenda, initiatives or assemblies, while a representative republic delegates lawmaking to elected officials accountable to...
Reporting across international and U.S. outlets shows racism manifests in many forms today: violent attacks by far‑right actors (for example, Greek lawmaker George Koumoutsakos was beaten at a protest...