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Children between 12 and 15 years old are now allowed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Georgia, and around the country. That sets up a challenge in bridging a wide gap in vaccine access between the moneyed north of Georgia and the rest of the state.
When the FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for young people Monday, Georgia’s Department of Public Health told health departments who had it to start immunizing.
“We were aware of parents who wanted to have their children vaccinated and did not want to run the risk of asking people to return in 48 hours and having them not come back,” DPH spokesperson Nancy Nydam said.
DUNWOODY, Ga. â Dunwoody Preservation Trust has scheduled its next History Alive Program, âFighting Fascism with Film,â for Saturday, May 15, 2021 from 9:30-11 a.m.
The presentation, given by John Thomas Scott, will detail how American filmmakers used both documentaries and feature films from 1941 to 1945 to support the war effort. The program will feature clips from movies such as âMrs. Miniver,â âCasablanca,â and âThey Were Expendable,â as well as clips from documentaries made by Hollywood directors such as John Ford and Frank Capra.
John Thomas Scott is a professor of history at Mercer University in Macon. He specializes in early American history, particularly the history of Trustee Georgia (1732-1752). His recently published book, âThe Wesleyâs and the Anglican Mission of Georgia, 1735-1738â (Lehigh Press), details the experiences of the Wesley brothers and other Anglican missionaries to the colony, f
Shrunken Head Displayed in Georgia Was Returned to Ecuador
Researchers at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., authenticated the head, which was brought to the United States by a professor decades ago, and turned it over to Ecuadorean officials in 2019.
Bought in Ecuador in the 1940s by a future biology professor, the shrunken head, called a tsantsa, had been alternately displayed and stored at Mercer University for decades.Credit. Adam Kiefer/Mercer University
No bigger than a fist, the shrunken head had nonetheless become a major headache.
The head, a mummified Amazonian war trophy called a tsantsa, had been in the possession of Mercer University in Macon, Ga., for decades. Over that time, it was puzzled over by professors, used as a prop in a John Huston comedy and displayed in a university museum. And in 2019, it was returned to Ecuadorean officials but only after it was authenticated with a 33-item checklist, according to an article published this week by Mercer researchers.
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Researchers at a Georgia University have authenticated a shrunken head that has been on display for decades.
The tsantsa, as it s known in Amazonian languages, was also featured in the 1979 film Wise Blood.
Researchers spent years trying to authenticate the artifact so it can be sent back to Ecuador.
A shrunken head artifact that has been on display for decades at a Georgia university and was featured as a prop in the 1979 John Huston film Wise Blood, has been authenticated as a real human head and will be returned to Ecuador, the country from where it originates.