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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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Hamm playing for United States in 1995

Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm (born March 17, 1972) is an American former professional football player, two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion. Hailed as a football icon, she played as a forward for the United States national team from 1987 to 2004. Hamm was the face of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women's soccer league in the United States, where she played for the Washington Freedom from 2001 to 2003. She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels and helped the team win four NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship titles.

Hamm competed in four FIFA Women's World Cups: the inaugural 1991 tournament in China, 1995 in Sweden, 1999 and 2003 in the United States. She led the team at three Olympic Games — 1996 in Atlanta (the first time women's soccer was played), 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. At these seven international tournaments she played in 42 matches and scored 14 goals. (Full article...)

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The First White House of the Confederacy is a historic house in Montgomery, Alabama, which was the initial executive residence of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis and family during early 1861. Moved from its original location in 1919 and completely furnished with original period pieces from the 1850s and 1860s, the 1835 Italianate-style house is open to the public. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974 and the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage since 2012. (Full article...)

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Image 2Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 3Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 4Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 5The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 6Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 7Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 8Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 9The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 10Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 11Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 12Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 13Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 14Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 15Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 16The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 17Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 18The 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 19Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 20Blast 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 21Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 22Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 23Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 24Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 25Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 26Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 27The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 28Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 29Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 30Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 31William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 32The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 33Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 34Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 35Harrison 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 36Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 371725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 38The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 39The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 40Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 41Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)
Image 42The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 43Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 441823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 45A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 46The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 47Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 48Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 49Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 50Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 51The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 52Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 53Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 54The 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)

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... that Alabama radio station WTQX was picketed over the alleged systematic firing of its existing staff by new management?
... that Fred Plump sued Alabama governor Bob Riley over an appointment to the county commission of Jefferson County?
... that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that an Alabama radio station was described by its program director as a "no-format mess"?
... that Huntsville, Alabama, is nicknamed Rocket City?
... that David Wheeler was running for re-election to the Alabama House of Representatives unopposed in the Republican primary when he died in 2022?

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