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10/20 issue: New Cyclorama, Obama and Afghanistan

10/20 issue: New Cyclorama, Obama and Afghanistan

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Saving a Natural Treasure: The Cyclorama To Be at History Center

EEB PERSPECTIVE: How President Obama Disappoints Many in This Country

UPCOMING: Good Samaritan Health Clinic To Move to Buford Highway in Norcross

NOTABLE: Suwanee Saves $180,000 When Re-Financing City Hall

RECOMMENDED READ: The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Missionaries Sentenced to Prison in Cherokee Rights Affair

TODAY’S QUOTE: On the Movement Away from September

MYSTERY PHOTO: Only Two Persons Were Eagle-Eyed in Spotting Recent Mystery

LAGNIAPPE: Waffle Houses Are Located in 25 of the Lower 48 States

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by · October 20, 2015 · Full issues
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FOCUS: Atlanta Cyclorama getting new building

By Gordon L. Jones | In the 1880s, before the advent of motion pictures, massive 50-foot high 360-degree cyclorama paintings were the virtual reality time machines of their day. The resulting fad produced at least 20 cyclorama paintings of seven different battles – virtually all of them Northern victories. But in the 1890s, cycloramas gave way to nickelodeons and nearly all were lost to fire or decay. Today, only two Civil War cycloramas survive on exhibit: The Battle of Gettysburg and The Battle of Atlanta.

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by · October 20, 2015 · Today's Focus