After months, and sometimes years, on the campaign trail, candidates reach an emotional finish line on election night. Some host festivities with their supporters at campaign headquarters, while others await the returns quietly with family and friends. They hope for victory and fear defeat, but are sometimes granted neither. In 1946 Georgians elected Eugene Talmadge to succeed progressive up-and-comer Ellis Arnall as governor. Talmadge was in poor health, though, and his inner circle feared he might not live to be sworn into office.

Georgia-Pacific, a multinational corporation that manufactures paper, pulp, packaging, tissue, building products, and construction-related chemicals, is the largest wholesale supplier of building products in North America; only one corporation, International Paper, ranks higher than Georgia-Pacific in the production of paper products. Georgia-Pacific operates more than 600 facilities in the United States, Canada, and eleven other countries, and the company and its subsidiaries employ more than 61,000 people in North America.

The Early Paleoindian subperiod is characterized by Clovis and related projectile point forms, relatively large lanceolate (lance-shaped) points with nearly parallel sides, slightly concave bases, and single or multiple basal flutes (channels) that rarely extend more than a third of the way up the body. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcLzApZyooZ6ZtqK6jKmcq6GfmXw%3D

The Peach Bowl, renamed the Chick-fil-A Bowl in 2006, takes place each year in Atlanta. Established in 1968, the bowl draws the highest attendance of all the bowl games outside the Bowl Championship Series and offers the second-highest payout to participating teams. 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.

This drawing shows the 1887 Piedmont Exposition's main building. Located in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the structure was 570 feet long, 126 feet wide, and two stories high. The Exposition opened on October 10 to nearly 20,000 visitors. 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. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Atlanta History Center.