The North Atlantic right whale is the world's most endangered large whale. Less than 350 individuals remain. Image from Moira Brown The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOoJyon6KWvanFjJ6lr6GipLuusc2tZqielqi1sL7EZq6arJWnwHC5jGxqbGxf

Rudy York played major league baseball from 1937 to 1948 (with a brief appearance in late 1934). A seven-time all-star, York spent his most successful years as a first baseman with the Detroit Tigers. His most significant achievement, however, came while he was a rookie catcher in August 1937, when he broke Babe Ruth’s record for the most home runs in a single month. Early Career Preston Rudolph York was born on August 17, 1913, in Ragland, Alabama.

In 1951 Eugene Odum, a professor at the University of Georgia, contracted with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to conduct ecological research on the Savannah River Site, a 300-square-mile nuclear production facility located in Aiken, South Carolina, just over the Georgia border (approximately twenty miles from Augusta). Odum and his students studied the ecosystems of the Savannah River Site and in the process set the stage for the establishment of a permanent on-site laboratory in 1961—the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.

The Savannah Tribune, a weekly newspaper covering news and issues related to Savannah’s African American community, was founded in 1875. With the exception of two hiatuses, from 1878 to 1886, and from 1960 to 1973, the paper has operated continuously. As of 2008 the Tribune circulated to approximately 10,000 readers under the direction of Shirley B. James, the paper’s owner, publisher, and editor. Early Years The  years between U.S. president Abraham Lincoln’s 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, issued during the Civil War (1861-65), and the postwar Reconstruction era ushered in a brief period of opportunity for southern African Americans, particularly in the political arena.

Sea Island is one of a series of barrier islands located off the coast of Georgia near St. Simons Island in Glynn County. Internationally known as a wealthy resort and cottage colony, the island is approximately five miles long and one and a half miles wide at its widest point. Early History Once known as Fifth Creek Island by coastal Native Americans, Sea Island was largely uninhabited until the 1920s. In 1768 James MacKay, one of General James Oglethorpe’s troop commanders, acquired it as a land grant from King George III of England, but he made no use of it.