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We witnessed history last night at the 2025 Wingfoot XC Classic 🤯 Bowdon High School junior Averi Lowen blew us away in the Girls Championship race, not only crushing the course and event record previously set that morning, but running the FASTEST 5K XC TIME IN GEORGIA HISTORY in 16:28! Remember her name. Averi Lowen is legendary. 👑 🎥 DRT Nation | Atlanta Track Club

Blood and Fire: The Tragedy of USS Atlanta

On Friday the 13th, 1942, the US Navy clashed with Imperial Japanese forces in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The conflict led to the destruction of ships on both sides, but ended in a strategic US victory. | HISTORY

The Confederate ironclad CSS Atlanta was built from the hull of the blockade runner SS Fingal, which ran weapons into Savannah, Georgia, in 1861. After its blockade-running career ended due to Union control of the river, the ship was converted to an ironclad, but its deep draft limited its operations. The CSS Atlanta was captured by Union monitors USS Weehawken and USS Nahant in June 1863 during the Battle of Wassaw Sound. Renamed the USS Atlanta, it was recommissioned into the Union Navy and se