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Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/ AL-ə-BAM-ə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay, a historically significant port. Alabama's capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists (Alabama Creoles) in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama's largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Politically, as part of the Deep South, Alabama is predominantly a conservative state, and is known for its Southern culture. Within Alabama, American football, particularly at the college level, plays a major part of the state's culture.

Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868. Following the American Civil War, Alabama would suffer decades of economic hardship, in part due to agriculture and a few cash crops being the main driver of the state's economy. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws from the late 19th century up until the 1960s. High-profile events such as the Selma to Montgomery march made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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The 2006 UAW-Ford 500 was a stock car race that took place on October 8, 2006. The 38th annual running of the event, it was held at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, before 160,000 spectators; the 188-lap race was the 30th in the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the fourth in the ten-race, season-ending Chase for the Nextel Cup. Brian Vickers of Hendrick Motorsports won the race; Kasey Kahne finished second, and Kurt Busch came in third.

David Gilliland, who had the pole position, was passed immediately by teammate Dale Jarrett. The race lead changed 63 times, with Dale Earnhardt Jr. leading for the most laps (37). Earnhardt was leading on the final lap when he and Jimmie Johnson crashed after Vickers made contact with Johnson's right rear quarter panel, causing the race to end under caution flag conditions. Vickers (Johnson's teammate) was determined the race winner by NASCAR and was later criticized since the crash lowered Johnson in the points standings. (Full article...)

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View of Downtown Tuscaloosa from the amphitheater

Tuscaloosa (/ˌtʌskəˈluːsə/ TUS-kə-LOO-sə) is a city in and the county seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-most populous city, the population was 99,600 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 110,602 in 2022. It was known as Tuskaloosa until the early 20th century. It is also known as "the Druid City" because of the numerous water oaks planted in its downtown streets since the 1840s.

Incorporated on December 13, 1819, it was named after Tuskaloosa, the chief of a band of Muskogean-speaking people defeated by the forces of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540 in the Battle of Mabila, in what is now central Alabama. It served as Alabama's capital city from 1826 to 1846, where in 1846 it was moved to its present location in Montgomery. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 2Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 3Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 4A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 5The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 6Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 7The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 81823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 9Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 10The former Mount Sinai School in rural Autauga County, completed in 1919. It was one of the 387 Rosenwald Schools built in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 11Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 12The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 13Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 14Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 15The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 16Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 17Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 18Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 19The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in Montgomery. It houses the Supreme Court of Alabama, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. (from Alabama)
Image 20Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 21Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 22Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)

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Image 24Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 25Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 26Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 27Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 28The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 29Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 30Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 31Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 32Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 33William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 34Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 351725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 36Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 37The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 38Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 39Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 40Harrison Plaza at the University of North Alabama in Florence. The school was chartered as LaGrange College by the Alabama Legislature in 1830. (from Alabama)
Image 41Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 42Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 43Blast furnaces such as the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company's Ensley Works made Birmingham an important center for iron production in the early 20th century. (from History of Alabama)
Image 44Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 45Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 46The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 47Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 48Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 49The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 50Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 51Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 52The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 53Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 54Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)

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... that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas?
... that Alabama radio station WTQX was picketed over the alleged systematic firing of its existing staff by new management?
... that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that Brewer Hicklen hosts an annual youth baseball camp in Alabama?
... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams?
... that the USFL is in talks with officials from Birmingham, Alabama, with the goal of hosting the entirety of the 2022 USFL season in the city?

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