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I had assumed, as many I have talked to, that New Years has been a holiday for time immemorial. However, we were wrong! The celebration of the dawn of a new year is relatively new, only being ...

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Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union.

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