[WikiEN-l] The American ego trumps all -- thank God, 'cause mine needs surrounded by other big heads

[Matthew Brown]

On 5/21/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> "(a) Georgia-the-state is significantly
> older than Georgia-the-country,"
>
> I'm awestruck.  Awestruck.

Read the article and find out, KP.  It should be obvious from context
that I do not mean that the land has been unoccupied or that there is
no history there.  It is, however, the case that the modern
independent state has only existed since the division of the Soviet
Union.  Prior to that, it was an administrative division of the USSR
with similar status to the state of Georgia within the United States;
approximately the same area was briefly independent 1918-1921 after
the collapse of the Russian Empire.

Thus, prior to 1991, the area was (except for three years) a division
of a larger nation during the previous 250 years or so, and thus of
similar status to the Georgia in the US.

-Matt