- ... that
Alabama socialite and writer
Madame Le Vert was the only female commissioner at the
1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris? Appeared on March 17, 2012.
- ... that
a Chief Justice of the
Alabama Supreme Court was removed from office for not removing a granite monument from the rotunda of the
Alabama Judicial Building in
Montgomery, Alabama? Appeared on February 23, 2012.
- ... that most of the provisions of
Alabama HB 56, considered the toughest anti-
illegal immigration law in the United States, recently went into effect after surviving a legal challenge? Appeared on October 8, 2011.
- ... that
Belle Mina, completed in 1826, is one of the earliest examples of a
columned plantation house in
Alabama? Appeared on August 8, 2011.
- ... that the storehouse at
Alpine Plantation in
Alpine, Alabama, was torn down so its timber could be used to build a
carport? Appeared on July 18, 2011.
- ... that
Aduston Hall (pictured) is built like a mid-20th century
California ranch house despite being a mid-19th century plantation house in
Gainesville, Alabama? Appeared on July 17, 2011.
- ... that the
Redstone Test Stand was built in Alabama by
Wernher von Braun's rocketry team for just $25,000 out of concrete and salvaged materials? Appeared on July 11, 2011.
- ... that witnesses have reported ghostly lights and phantom fires emanating from the
Dr. John R. Drish House in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama? Appeared on July 7, 2011.
- ... that
Mount Ida Plantation in
Talladega County, Alabama, burned to the ground after being struck by lightning? Appeared on July 2, 2011.
- ... that the
Birmingham Americans won the only
World Bowl ever held by the upstart
World Football League? Appeared on April 15, 2010.
- ... that
Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of
President
Barack Obama in full
antebellum-era dresses? Appeared on March 28, 2010.
- ... that in 1975,
professional baseball player
Jimmy Sexton led the
Texas League in
stolen bases with 48? Appeared on March 25, 2010.
- ... that the
American
electric blues
harmonica player,
singer and
songwriter,
Little Sonny, often boosted his earnings by
photographing customers between his on-stage appearances? Appeared on March 5, 2010.
- ... that the
Patrick Henry Brittan House in
Montgomery, Alabama, was built in 1858 by the 10th
Secretary of State of Alabama? Appeared on February 27, 2010.
- ... that
Alabama is the first
state in the
United States to create its own
legislatively enacted
cabinet-level
Department of Homeland Security? Appeared on February 8, 2010.
- ... that, until it was destroyed during
Wilson's Raid, the
Brierfield Furnace was used to produce iron for the
Confederacy's
Brooke cannon? Appeared on February 5, 2010.
- ... that in 2006, the
Alabama Department of Environmental Management hired an
environmental justice
ombudsman? Appeared on December 20, 2009.
- ... that in a short story by
Kathryn Tucker Windham,
Sturdivant Hall (pictured), a
historic house museum in
Alabama, is
haunted? Appeared on December 17, 2009.
- ... that the
Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building in
Selma, Alabama, has housed a county courthouse, two schools, and three hospitals in its more than 160 year history? Appeared on December 17, 2009.
- ... that the
Gorgas-Manly Historic District in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, contains two of only seven buildings to survive the burning of the
University of Alabama by the
Union Army on April 4, 1865? Appeared on December 7, 2009.
- ... that the elaborate
Greek Orthodox
Malbis Memorial Church (pictured) in rural
Malbis, Alabama, has never had an active congregation? Appeared on December 5, 2009.
- ... that
English-born
architect
William Nichols designed and built statehouses for
North Carolina,
Alabama, and
Mississippi in the early
19th century? Appeared on December 3, 2009.
- ... that
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights secretary
Lola Hendricks applied personally to public safety commissioner
Bull Connor for permission to demonstrate in
Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1963
Birmingham Campaign?
- ... that
Trillium reliquum is an
endangered species that exists at only 21 sites in
Alabama,
Georgia and
South Carolina?
- ... that in his mid-career, the
American
blues and
boogie-woogie
pianist,
Big Joe Duskin, had not touched a
keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the
devil's music?
- ... that on May 21, 1961,
Martin Luther King Jr. sat in the basement of the
Montgomery, Alabama
First Baptist Church , besieged by thousands, urging
Robert F. Kennedy to desegregate interstate travel?
- ... that
Dartmouth
football
halfback
Dave Morey was given the nickname "David the Giant Killer" by American sportswriter
Grantland Rice?
- ... that an attack on
Freedom Riders in May 1961 at the
Greyhound Bus Station in
Montgomery, Alabama, led the
Kennedy administration to side, for the first time, with civil rights activists?
- ... that during the
American Civil Rights Movement,
Carraway Methodist Medical Center in
Birmingham, Alabama, turned away
a wounded Freedom rider, but treated
the man who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church?
- ... that
U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader
Marie Foster walked fifty miles in a
march, despite receiving injuries two weeks earlier on
Bloody Sunday?
- ... that although
Paul W. Bryant High School in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is named for
football
coach
Paul "Bear" Bryant, a court order prevented the school from using "Bears" as its mascot? Appeared on
2009
15 September.
- ... that
Georgia Cottage, an 1840s house in
Mobile, Alabama, was the home of
Augusta Jane Evans, the first female author in the United States to earn more than $100,000 for her literary work? Appeared on
2009
29 August.
- ... that the opportunity for the establishment of the
Indy Grand Prix of Alabama as part of the
2010 IndyCar Series season resulted in part from the
Detroit Indy Grand Prix being discontinued? Appeared on
2009
2 August.
- ... that the
tallest building in Mobile,
Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m)
RSA Battle House Tower? Appeared on
2009
22 July.
- ... that
Donold Lourie, a former
Princeton University
football star, was appointed to a
State Department post by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower? Appeared on
2009
19 July.
- ... that
Milwaukee Brewers baseball player
Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on
Sabbath? Appeared on
2009
26 June.
- ... that
McFarland Mall in
Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing
shopping mall in the US state of
Alabama? Appeared on
2009
May 31.
- ... that
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? Appeared on
2009
March 14.
- ... that
Prairie Bluff, Alabama, is a
ghost town whose only remaining physical feature is a
cemetery with
marked graves dating from the 1830s to the 1860s? Appeared on
2009
February 21.
- ... that
a radio station in
Evergreen, Alabama, made national headlines in 1992 when the
Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that state law allowed a
disc jockey to be fired just because she is a
woman? Appeared on
2009
February 15.
- ... that
Joe M. Rodgers, who spent six hours a day for four months learning
French after being named
U.S. Ambassador to France, later became CEO of language school operator
Berlitz International?}} Appeared on
2009
February 13.
- ... that Sammy Stephens, an
internet sensation for his "It's just like a mini-mall" rap advertisements for Flea Market Montgomery, got his start in broadcasting at
WMGY in
Montgomery, Alabama? Appeared on
2009
February 4.
- ... that
radio station WLIQ (now
WMOB) broadcast from the historic
Battle House Hotel in
Mobile, Alabama, from 1964 to 1971? Appeared on
2009
January 24.
- ... that
radio station
WMSP in
Montgomery, Alabama, broadcasts the
college football games of both the
Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival
Auburn Tigers? Appeared on
2009
January 20.
- ... that the historic
McGehee-Stringfellow House in
Greensboro, Alabama, collapsed in the 1980s when the
MacMillan Bloedel company tried to move it? Appeared on
2009
January 18.
- ... that
Prairieville, Alabama's
Italianate
Browder Place was inspired by an 1852
Samuel Sloan publication? Appeared on
2009
January 17.
- ... that historic
Glencairn in
Greensboro, Alabama, was built in 1835 by
Alabama legislator John Erwin? Appeared on
2009
January 16.
- ... that the
studio band of
radio station WRAG (now
WREN) in
Carrollton, Alabama, is credited with popularizing
bluegrass music in central
Alabama and eastern
Mississippi? Appeared on
2009
January 15.
- ... that the owner of
Twin Oaks Plantation organized Company B of the
36th Regiment Alabama Infantry in the
Confederate Army on the lawn in front of his house? Appeared on
2009
January 15.
- ... that
disc jockeys at
WLWI-FM in
Montgomery,
Alabama, USA, have been nominated for
Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981? Appeared on
2009
January 11.
- ... that the house at
Borden Oaks in
Greensboro, Alabama, features sidelights and
transoms derived from an 1833
Asher Benjamin design? Appeared on
2009
January 12.
- ... that
radio station
WLWI in
Montgomery, Alabama, founded in
1930 as WSFA, gave
country music legend
Hank Williams his start as a professional musician? Appeared on
2009
January 9.
- ... that
WLVV, the oldest
radio station in
Mobile, Alabama, was once known as WMML (for "M-M-Mel") as a play on then-owner
Mel Tillis' famous
stutter? Appeared on
2009
January 7.
- ... that the owner of
Fairhope Plantation near
Uniontown, Alabama, organized his own
artillery unit during the
American Civil War?
- ... that
broadcasting brothers James R. Doss, Jr. and James L. Doss named Alabama
radio stations
WJRD and
WJLD after themselves? Appeared on
2008
December 28.
- ... that the
childhood home of
Rear Admiral
Richmond P. Hobson was dedicated as an
Alabama state shrine in 1947? Appeared on
2008
December 27.
- ... that
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? Appeared on
2008
December 25.
- ... that the annual
Christmas on the River festival in
Demopolis, Alabama, features a parade with
floats on boats? Appeared on
2008
December 24.
- ... that
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? Appeared on
2008
December 21.
- ... that the visitor's
locker room at the
Alabama Crimson Tide football
stadium was recently named "The Fail Room" after alumnus contributor
James M. Fail? Appeared on
2008
December 19.
- ... that the
WJBE
call letters now used by a radio station in
Five Points, Alabama, were used by singer
James Brown for his James Brown Enterprises radio station? Appeared on
2008
December 19.
- ... that the
Goode-Hall House near
Town Creek, Alabama, is a
vernacular interpretation of
Palladian architecture? Appeared on
2008
December 18.
- ... that "Johnny Mac" McDonald was elected mayor of
Thomasville, Alabama, in 1976 while working at
radio station
WJDB-FM as
announcer and
account executive? Appeared on
2008
December 17.
- ... that the community of
Half Acre, Alabama, once contained half an
acre of land that was deeded to the
Devil? Appeared on
2008
December 12.
- ... that the
radio station
WHOS in
Decatur, Alabama, aired an all-
Elvis Presley format from October 1988 to April 1989? Appeared on
2008
December 10.
- ... that
radio station
WHAL in
Phenix City, Alabama, used to broadcast from a defunct
airport terminal? Appeared on
2008
December 6.
- ... that employees at
radio station
WIXI in
Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their
radio studios were
haunted? Appeared on
2008
December 1.
- ... that the
Alabama Crimson Tide
college football team holds
NCAA records for both
bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively? Appeared on
2008
October 2.
- ...that the
Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of the
Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base? Appeared on
2008
June 4.
- ...that
Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery was established by
Alabama's first Jewish congregation and one of the oldest
Reform Jewish congregations in the
US? Appeared on
2008
April 22.
- ...that
Old Catholic Cemetery was created for
Roman Catholic citizens after a
yellow fever epidemic struck
Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s? Appeared on
2008
April 20.
- ...that the
Alabama-Huntsville Chargers ice hockey team is the only
Division I collegiate hockey team located south of the
Mason-Dixon Line? Appeared on
2008
April 11.
- ...that
Robert D. Knapp's
squadron failed to see any action in
World War I because the
propellers for their
Handley Page O/400
bombers arrived late? Appeared on
2008
March 15.
- ...that
Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the
US formed their own community of
Africatown near
Mobile, Alabama after the
Civil War? Appeared on
2008
March 3.
- ...that
Hiram Wesley Evans, the second Imperial Wizard of the "second"
Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect
Calvin Coolidge as
U.S. President? Appeared on
2008
February 22.
- ...that the people of
Uniontown, Alabama were surprised that Phillip Henry Pitts built such a large house in 1853, so it is now known as "
Pitts' Folly"?
2008
February 20.
- ...that
Barton Academy in
Mobile was the first
public school in the
U.S. state of
Alabama? Appeared on
2008
February 6.
- ...that the
kitchen of the
Conde-Charlotte House was originally constructed in 1822 to be the first
courthouse and
jail of
Mobile, Alabama? Appeared on
2008
January 10.
- ...that 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? Appeared on
2008
January 06.
- ...that 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? Appeared on
2007
December 16.
- ...that the
Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so? Appeared on
2007
November 26.
- ...that
Alabama lawyer and
Republican Party pioneer
John Grenier of
Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages:
French,
Spanish,
German, and
modern Greek? Appeared on
2007
November 17.
- ...that the
village which later became
Chickasaw,
Alabama was started as a
company town by a local
shipyard? Appeared on
2007
June 15.
- ...that the mounds of
Indian Mound Park on
Dauphin Island,
Alabama are composed of
oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians? Appeared on
2007
June 5.
- ...that the
1929
Chicago Cubs
outfield comprised of
Riggs Stephenson,
Hack Wilson and
Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in
Major League Baseball history to each
drive in over 100
runs in the same season? Appeared on
2006
December 28.
- ...that 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? Appeared on
2006
November 8.
- ...that folklorist
Kathryn Tucker Windham's most famous book,
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, is named after a
ghost that Windham believed haunted her home? Appeared on
2006
March 14.
- ...that the
Pickens County Courthouse in
Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows? Appeared on
2006
March 13.
- ...that the
mummified remains of outlaw
Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the
Bessemer Hall of History in
Bessemer, Alabama? - appeared
2006
April 28
- ..that 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? - appeared
2006
March 3
- ...that
16th Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham, Alabama, site of the
1963
church bombing, was designed in
1911 by noted
African American architect
Wallace Rayfield? - appeared
2006
February 16
- ...that
Lewis Adams was an
African American former
slave in
Macon County, Alabama is best-remembered for helping found the
normal school which grew to become
Tuskegee University? - Appeared
2006
February 15.
- ...that
Richard Arrington Jr., the first African-American mayor of
Birmingham, Alabama earned
doctoral degree in
zoology? - Appeared
2005
November 3.
- ...that
Bryce State Mental Hospital in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama has served as a model of both progressive and inhumane
mental health treatment during its 144-year career? - Appeared
2005
August 28.
- ...that
Nickajack was the name of a proposed
neutral state made up of
Unionist areas of North
Alabama and
East Tennessee in the period leading up to the
U. S. Civil War? - Appeared
2005
July 13.
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