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Birmingham

by traveldave

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama, with about 1,200,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Named after the city of the same name in the United Kingdom, Birmingham was founded in 1871 at a railroad junction near where the downtown area is now located. The city grew rapidly due to the abundance of mineral reserves in the surrounding area. Iron and steel production made Birmingham a leading industrial center of the South, and gave rise to the nickname "Pittsburgh of the South."The Great Depression severely affected Birmingham's economy, which continued to suffer up until the last few decades, when a shift toward a service economy turned the city's fortunes around.Durng the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham was in the national and international spotlight as a center of the civil rights struggle.Nowadays, Birmingham is a pleasant city with a lot of cultural and historical attractions for...

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Heat and Humidity

by jeffjackson

Watch out for fire ants and snakes. In-laws lived there and I woke up in the morning to find a rattler in the chair out in the carport (Most homes in Alabama and the south region for that matter do not have garages they have what appear to be a full garage without a door, therefore a carport). Leaving

Space Camp in 'bama

by vixelpixen

As a child I went to the Space Center in Huntsville (Rocket City) as well as Monte Sano State Park. I'd definitely recommend it, although I am sure the Space center changed quite a bit since I was a child. It is probably much better than I remember, but it left a lasting impression on me.Here is the website and address for the Space Center:www.spacecamp.comU.S. Space & Rocket CenterOne Tranquility BaseHuntsville, AL 35805 The friendly people, warm weather, misty mountains and of course, the rockets at the Space center.

Huntsville

by traveldave

Huntsville is one of the most beautiful small cities in Alabama. The city of 180,000 has the highest per capita income in the South, even surpassing that of Atlanta. It is also one of the fastest-growing cities in the South.An early pioneer, John Hunt, built a cabin next to a spring in the Tennessee Valley in 1805. It was not long before a town began to grow up around his cabin. By 1819, Huntsville was the largest town in the Alabama Territory. Hunstville became the center of the cotton industry in the Tennessee Valley and northern Alabama. Planters from Virginia and the Carolinas moved into Huntsville and built magnificent town homes in the city, which now form the basis of Huntsville's three Historic Districts.In 1950, Senator John Sparkman brought a group of German rocket scientists, including Werhner von Braun, to the nearby Redstone Arsenal to develop rockets for the United States...

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Truck Stops

by blurryguy

Hahaha Charles (my bro-in-law) and I walk to the gas station and asked a trucker guy if we could sit in his truck and take a picture. The trucker was a very kind man and allowed me to take a picture. While I sat in his truck I noticed alot of gages and switches.

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Truck Stops

by blurryguy

Where I live its a little town, alot of truck stops here because of the interstate highway. There are alot of gas stations that service to the big 18 wheelers. I can remember when I was younger when we would travel we'd do the motion to the truckers to honk there horns.

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Alabama State Flower: the Camellia

by Stephen-KarenConn

In 1959 the Camellia was named the official state flower of Alabama, and since 1999, it has been more specfically designated to be the variety Camellia japonica L, of the more than 240 subspecies that are known. The camellia replaced the goldenrod which served as Alabama's State Flower from 1927 - 1959.A woody evergreen shrub and a member of the tea family, the camellia blooms from fall to early spring, and throughout the winter during periods of mild weather. The blossoms come in various shades and patterns of red, pink and white.The camellia originated in the orient, but has found a perfect home in the climate of the deep southern United States. The flowers in this photo were found growing in front of the Alabama State Capitol building in Montgomery.

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Native American Life: Past and Present

by JourneyOf1

It seems many are becoming more interested in Native American religions, shamanism, symbolism and cultures these days as a way to relieve their ennui. And there are always those who like to collect dreamcatchers, sport feathers in their hair, buy bead jewelry, wear t-shirts and moccasins of Native American design, but for those similar myself it is more than just a hobby, passing fad or novelty, it is our way of life and history. It is a way that we are struggling to keep alive and pass on to our children. We respect all who are geniunely interested in such things, and ask for respect in return for our traditions. Undertanding that we promote not separatism in the slighest, but an intergration of past life into present and future life. Many tribes currently near oblivion not regarding numbers or blood, but because teaching of the old ways, the oral histories are being forgotten, not...

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Native American History in Alabama, Part II

by JourneyOf1

When the French established a settlement almost 150 years later at 27-mile Bluff near modern Mobile they found a decimated peoples. Numbers were slow to arise again, this time it was the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Cherokee peoples who arose to become nations. Yet again conflict and warfare would arise over land. They would be crushed between Europeans influences and the new Americans struggling to control the land. The 1800s were a hard time, battle after battle, ill feelings and ill deeds on each side until the US decided no more. They forced all natives in the southeast westward to Oklahoma in the "Trail of Tears". Unfairly, they took the Peoples lands, killed or imprisoned those who would not go, dividing families and clans. Ironically enough, they brought Native Americans from the west like the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches back across the country east to be settled on...

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Native American History in Alabama, Part 1

by JourneyOf1

Indigenous peoples had lived in the southeast back to 10,000 B.C. archaelogical records show. At places like Russell Cave, the huge cave near Bridgeport, Alabama that is a National Monument first excavated in 1953, findings date back at least 9,000 years of habitation shown by artifacts used by the semi-nomadic hunter/gatherers. First contact recorded by Europeans was through Hernando De Soto and his men in 1540, the brutal ones who had plundered the Incas in Peru, brought terrible diseases which the Peoples had no immunity against, destroyinging whole tribes. It is not exactly known De Soto´s route, but excavation suggests he crossed the southeastern tip of Alabama north through the Coosa area then into Georgia. He left a long line of Native American dead. The Native American Pow-wows and celebrations, the festivals which take place often throughout the year.

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