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'Possum, Amphibian, Art Museum, Atlas, Ballet, Beef Barbeque, Championship Cook-off, Bird, Butterfly, Center for Character Education, Creed, Crop, Fish, Flag, Floral Emblem, Folk Dance, Folk Festival, Folk Life Play, Fossil, Frontier and Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center, Fruit, Game Bird, Gem, High School, Historical Drama, Insect, Language, Marine Mammal, Mineral, Motto, Musical Theatre, Nicknames, Peanut Monument, Poet Laureate, Pork Barbeque Championship Cook-off, Poultry Capital of the World, Prepared Foods, Railroad Museum, Reptile, Seal, Sea Shell, Song, Tartan, Theatre, Transportation History Museum, Tree, Vegetables, Waltz, Wild Flower
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Georgia State  'Possum

Pogo ‘PossumGeorgia State  'Possum: Pogo ‘Possum

Adopted in 1992

A friendly cartoon swamp creature comments wryly on politics and philosophy. Walt Kelly, a cartoonist and movie animator, visited the Okefenokee Swamp in 1942 and was inspired to draw some "swamp critters." Pogo ‘Possum appeared in comic books in the early 1940's and became the star of a nationally syndicated newspaper comic strip in 1949. Declaring "We have met the enemy and he is us," Pogo poked fun at the vanity and shortcomings of people everywhere. The General Assembly voted Pogo the State ‘Possum in 1992.

 
Georgia Code, Title 50, Chapter 3
50-3-68.
Pogo ´Possum, created by Walt Kelly, is adopted as the official Georgia State ´Possum.

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State symbols represent things that are special to a particular state.

symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun

Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century

1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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