The Atlanta Business Chronicle, a weekly journal, has covered economic trends, events, and multimillion-dollar developments in Atlanta’s business community since the late 1970s. As of 2007 the Chronicle had a total circulation of 39,500 and a staff of 67; its offices are located in Atlanta. The emergence of the Atlanta Business Chronicle and similar newspapers across the country occurred at the end of the 1970s, as publishers attempted to reach the untapped readers and advertising dollars of the business community, which was largely underserved by the mainstream media.

Members of the Southern Element Flag Corps march down Peachtree Street in 1994 during the city's annual gay pride parade. A chapter of the Gay Liberation Front opened in Atlanta in 1971 and organized the city's first pride parade from 7th Street to Piedmont Park.  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.

When Martha Berry established her Boys’ Industrial School in 1902 on eighty-three acres of land given to her by her father, little did she dream of the recognition she would receive for her agricultural efforts. In September 2002 the Agricultural Hall of Fame at the University of Georgia inducted Martha Berry posthumously for her contribution in agriculture to the state. Having seen the poor level of productivity on the farms and the poverty that prevailed in the Appalachian foothills surrounding her home at Oak Hill near Rome, she vowed to help these rural families by teaching the boys whom she could entice to come to her school improved farm methods and ways of achieving greater productivity on the land.

Birdsong Nature Center is a model of biodiversity and environmental stewardship in the red hills of southwest Georgia. Located between Thomasville and Tallahassee, Florida, Birdsong offers 565 acres of varied ecological habitats, including twelve miles of maintained trails for birding and hiking. Birdsong is the living legacy of Ed and Betty Komarek, who purchased the plantation in 1938. In 1934 Herbert L. Stoddard, the famed wildlife manager, hired Ed Komarek, who was then a biology student at the University of Illinois, to aid him in his study of the declining quail population in the red hills.

The Lockheed-Georgia C-5 Galaxy can carry 135 tons of cargo, making it the largest production aircraft built in the United States and avital part of any military action in which large amounts of material need to be airlifted around the world. It has a wingspan of just under 223 feet (compared with just over 195 feet for Boeing 747-100s,-200s,-300s, and-400s; and with just over 225 feet for the Boeing 747-400XQLR) and is 247 feet long and 65 feet high.