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The Brown Thrasher was originally selected by schoolchildren as the state bird of Georgia in the 1928, and was declared the state bird by Eugene Talmadge in 1935, but was not officially adopted until 1970. The Brown Thrasher also was the inspiration for the name of Atlanta's former National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Thrashers.
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“The local is a shabby thing. There’s nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)