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Blues Music: Overview
The blues is a blending of African and European traditional music characterized by its melancholy (or...

Bob Montag (1923-2005)
The slugging outfielder Bob Montag was the most popular player for the Atlanta Crackers in the 1950s....

Bobby Cox (b. 1941)
One of the greatest managers in the history of major league baseball, Bobby Cox led the Atlanta Braves...

Bobby Dodd (1908-1988)
Bobby Dodd, longtime football coach for the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta,...

Bobby Jones (1902-1971)
The greatest amateur golfer ever, Bobby Jones dominated his sport in the 1920s. In the eight seasons...

Bobby Ross (b. 1936)
With more than forty years of experience, Bobby Ross remains one of the few football coaches to have...

Bobs Candies
In the 1920s a cherubic child in a red-and-white hat hawked the quintessential Christmas treat—the...

Bodybuilding and Weight Lifting
An unusually large number of notable bodybuilders and weight lifters have hailed from Georgia. They include...

Boll Weevil
The boll weevil greatly affected Georgia's long history of cotton production between 1915, when the insect...

Bourbon Triumvirate
The term Bourbon Triumvirate refers to Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politicians of the post-...

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