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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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Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem, transliterated from Hebrew to mean the Congregation of Israel Tree of Life, is a Conservative Jewish synagogue located at 3525 Cloverdale Road in Montgomery, Alabama, in the United States.

The synagogue was formed through the 2001 merger of Agudath Israel and Etz Ahayem synagogues. (Full article...)

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Condoleezza Rice (/ˌkɒndəˈliːzə/ KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the secretary of state standing fourth in the presidential line of succession). At the time of her appointment as Secretary of State, Rice was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States to be in the presidential line of succession.

Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up while the South was racially segregated. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of Denver and her master's degree from the University of Notre Dame, both in political science. In 1981, she received a PhD from the School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She worked at the State Department under the Carter administration and served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and Eastern Europe affairs advisor to President George H. W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification from 1989 to 1991. Rice later pursued an academic fellowship at Stanford University, where she later served as provost from 1993 to 1999. On December 17, 2000, she joined the Bush administration as President George W. Bush's national security advisor. In Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as Secretary of State, thereby becoming the first African-American woman, second African-American after Powell, and second woman after Madeleine Albright to hold this office. (Full article...)

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Image 1Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County (from Alabama)
Image 2Harrison 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 3Mississippi Territory changes 1798–1817. (from History of Alabama)
Image 41725 map of Mobile, Alabama's first permanent European settlement (from History of Alabama)
Image 5Ono Island in Baldwin County (from Alabama)
Image 6Senator Doug Jones won a special election in 2017. (from Alabama)
Image 7The Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, one of the largest shopping centers in the southeast (from Alabama)
Image 8The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has a large economic impact on the state. (from Alabama)
Image 9Blast 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 10Shelby Hall, School of Computing, at the University of South Alabama in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 11Tornado damage in Phil Campbell following the statewide April 27, 2011, tornado outbreak (from Alabama)
Image 12Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Tuscaloosa County was the first automotive facility to locate within the state. (from Alabama)
Image 13The developing skyline of Birmingham in 1915 (from Alabama)
Image 14The 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 15Artists conception of Moundville, a Mississippian culture site on the Black Warrior River in Hale County (from History of Alabama)
Image 16The Islamic Center of Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 17Aerial view of the port of Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 18Ethnic origins in Alabama (from Alabama)
Image 19Flag of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 20Lighthouse on Guntersville Lake (from Alabama)
Image 21Vestavia Hills High School in the suburbs of Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 22The main house, built in 1833, at Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former Black Belt plantation. (from Alabama)
Image 23Artist's conception of the Taskigi Site, a fortified mound and village near Wetumpka, Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 24Bryant–Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (from Alabama)
Image 25The 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 26The Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 CE. (from Alabama)
Image 27Union Army troops occupying Courthouse Square in Huntsville, following its capture and occupation by federal forces in 1864 (from Alabama)
Image 28Republican Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama as of 2024. (from Alabama)
Image 29The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery on February 18, 1861. (from History of Alabama)
Image 30Alabama's beaches are one of the state's major tourist destinations. (from Alabama)
Image 311823 Map of Alabama (from History of Alabama)
Image 32Regions Field in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 33Temple B'Nai Sholom in Huntsville, established in 1876. It is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in the state. (from Alabama)
Image 34Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville (from Alabama)
Image 35Airbus Mobile Engineering Center at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 36A stand of Cahaba lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria) in the Cahaba River, within the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (from Alabama)
Image 37Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery in 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 38Terminal at the Montgomery Regional Airport in Montgomery (from Alabama)
Image 39Map of Alabama from the National Atlas of the United States (2007) (from Alabama)
Image 40Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 41The Space Shuttle Enterprise being tested at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1978 (from Alabama)
Image 42Alabama's population density, 2010 (from Alabama)
Image 43Dauphin Street in Mobile (from Alabama)
Image 44The State Capitol Building in Montgomery, completed in 1851 (from Alabama)
Image 45William J. Samford Hall at Auburn University (from Alabama)
Image 46Regions-Harbert Plaza, Regions Center, and Wells Fargo Tower in Birmingham's financial district (from Alabama)
Image 47Cliffs at the rim of the Wetumpka meteorite crater (from Alabama)
Image 48Von Braun Center in Huntsville (from Alabama)

Map of counties in Alabama by racial plurality, per the 2020 census

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Image 50The Natural Bridge Rock in Winston County is the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies. (from Alabama)
Image 51Interstate 59 (co-signed with Interstate 20) approaching Interstate 65 in downtown Birmingham (from Alabama)
Image 52Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S. (from Alabama)
Image 53Members of the Alabama state legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery during Reconstruction (1872) (from History of Alabama)
Image 54Highlands United Methodist Church in Birmingham, part of the Five Points South Historic District (from Alabama)

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... 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?
... that in 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
... 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 Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that Alabama Pitts was noted by the Los Angeles Times in 1934 as "the most prominent jail-bird athlete in America"?

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