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The Brown Thrasher was originally selected by schoolchildren as the state bird of Georgia in the 1928, and was declared the state bird by Eugene Talmadge in 1935, but was not officially adopted until 1970. The Brown Thrasher also was the inspiration for the name of Atlanta's former National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Thrashers.
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“Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
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