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• the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN) in Carrollton, Alabama, is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi?
• the American photographer Arthur Rothstein is famous mostly for his photographs of Gee's Bend in Alabama, a poor African American tenant community?
• the 1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833?
• in a short story by Kathryn Tucker Windham, Sturdivant Hall (pictured), a historic house museum in Alabama, is haunted?
• at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
• besides a mobile library, the Mobile Public Library also operates a system of libraries with eight branches and a local history and genealogy division with permanent addresses in Alabama?
• the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama?
• the village which later became Chickasaw, Alabama was started as a company town by a local shipyard?
• the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
• the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island, Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
• the Rosenbaum House is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. state of Alabama?
• the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville, Alabama?
• the tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower?
• the childhood home of Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson was dedicated as an Alabama state shrine in 1947?
• after the fall of Napoleon in France, some 200 Bonapartists fled to the United States and attempted to establish an agricultural settlement to grow wine grapes and olive trees in the Alabama wilderness?
• Trillium reliquum is an endangered species that exists at only 21 sites in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• Barton Academy in Mobile was the first public school in the U.S. state of Alabama?
• disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
• country music singer Ty Herndon's grandmother Myrtle hosted a Gospel music radio show on WPRN and WPRN-FM in Alabama for more than 40 years?
• Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (pictured), reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
• Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?
• John G. Cullmann was nearly assassinated after establishing a settlement of German immigrants in northern Alabama?
• Marcus Schrenker, after committing pseudocide, may face charges from the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as Indiana, Alabama, and Florida law enforcement?
• Wallace Community College was the first comprehensive community college in Southern Alabama?
• BodyLove is an Alabama-based radio soap opera that uses drama to reach African American listeners with messages that promote diabetes awareness and healthy lifestyles?
• WKKR and WZMG (now known as WTLM) were the first radio stations in Alabama to win NAB Crystal Radio Awards for outstanding commitment to community service?
• Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery was established by Alabama's first Jewish congregation and one of the oldest Reform Jewish congregations in the US?
• McFarland Mall in Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing shopping mall in the US state of Alabama?
• Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?