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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 marches made the state a major focal point of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. (Full article...)

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Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT and CBS Sports. Nicknamed "Sir Charles", "the Bread Truck", and "the Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Though shorter than the typical power forward, he used his strength and aggression to become one of the NBA's best rebounders and scorers. Widely regarded as one of the greatest power forwards in NBA history, Barkley was an 11-time NBA All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and the 1993 Most Valuable Player (MVP). He was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams.

An All-American at Auburn University, Barkley was drafted as a junior by the Philadelphia 76ers with the fifth pick of the 1984 NBA draft. In his rookie season, Barkley was named to the All-Rookie First Team in 1985. In the 1986–87 season, Barkley led the league in rebounding average and earned his first rebounding title. He was named the All-Star Game MVP in 1991, and in 1993 with the Phoenix Suns, he was voted the league's MVP while leading the team to the NBA Finals. He also competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, winning two gold medals as a member of the U.S. national team. In 2000, Barkley retired as the fourth player in NBA history to achieve 20,000 points, 10,000 rebounds, and 4,000 assists. Barkley is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2006 for his individual career, and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 Olympic "dream team." (Full article...)

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The Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama in the Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park

The Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama, also known as the Tannehill Museum, is an industrial museum that demonstrates iron production in the nineteenth-century Alabama located at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park in McCalla, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Opened in 1981, it covers 13,000 square feet (1,200 m²).

The museum is an interpretive center focusing on 19th-century iron-making technology. It features an extensive collection of machinery and other iron industry artifacts spanning from the time of the American Civil War until the 1960s, including belt-driven machines, a reconstruction of an 1870s machine shop, and four steam engines. The collection also houses over ten thousand artifacts and other items sourced from archaeological digs at various iron-making sites in Alabama such as the Roupes Valley Ironworks, and from the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the Henry Ford Museum, and the Washington Navy Yard. The collection includes rare steam engines, forge cams and war materials manufactured at the CS Naval Gun Works at Selma, Alabama. (Full article...)

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Image 1Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 2Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 3Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 4Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 5Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 6The 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 7Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 8The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 9Harrison 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 10The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 11The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 12Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 13Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 14William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 15The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 16Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 17Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 18Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 19Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 20Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 21Blast 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 22Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 23Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 241823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 25The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 26Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 27Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 28The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)

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Image 30Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 31Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 32The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 33Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 34Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 35The 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 36Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 37The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 38Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 39Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 40Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 41Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 42Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 43Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 44Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 45The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 46Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 47Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 48Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 491725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 50Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 51Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 52The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 53A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 54Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)

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... that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting?
... that the 2022 USFL playoffs and championship game could not be played in Birmingham, Alabama, as the rest of the season was, due to the 2022 World Games?
... that the two varieties of Alabama croton are separated by more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles)?
... that Symphyotrichum kentuckiense, the Kentucky aster, is only found on limestone cedar glades and limestone roadsides in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
... that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that the 1874 Alabama gubernatorial election was marred by violence and fraud?

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