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Alabama (other)
Alabama is a southern state in the United States. Alabama may also refer to: U.S. places *Alabama, New York, a town in Genesee County, New York *Alabama Port, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Mobile County *Alabama River, Alabama *Alabama Territory, a US territory from 1817 to 1819 *Alabama Township, a former civil township in Sacramento County, California Other places *Alabama Nunatak, NE Greenland Music *Alabama (American band), country-music band formed in 1969 * Alabama (Canadian band), band of the early 1970s *"Alabama", song by The Louvin Brothers from '' Tragic Songs of Life'' *"Alabama", song by Janis Ian on the 1971 album ''Present Company'' *"Alabama", song by Neil Young on the 1972 album ''Harvest'' *"Alabama", song by 10 Years on the 2008 album ''Division'' * "Alabama" (John Coltrane song), song on the album ''Live at Birdland'' * "Alabama" (state song), official state song of Alabama *"Alabama Song", a 1927 Berthold Brecht song prominently covered by the Doo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights) , anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama" , image_map = Alabama in United States.svg , seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery , LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville , LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Alabama, Baldwin County , LargestMetro = Birmingham metropolitan area, Alabama, Greater Birmingham , area_total_km2 = 135,765 , area_total_sq_mi = 52,419 , area_land_km2 = 131,426 , area_land_sq_mi = 50,744 , area_water_km2 = 4,338 , area_water_sq_mi = 1,675 , area_water_percent = 3.2 , area_rank = 30th , length_km = 531 , length_mi = 330 , width_km = 305 , width_mi = 190 , Latitude = 30°11' N to 35° N , Longitude = 84°53' W to 88°28' W , elevation_m = 150 , elevation_ft = 500 , elevation_max_m = 735.5 , elevation_max_ft = 2,413 , elevation_max_point = Mount Cheaha , elevation_min_m = 0 , elevation_min_ft = 0 , elevation_min_point = Gulf of Mexico , OfficialLang = English language, English , Languages = * English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Song (album)
''Alabama Song'' is the debut album by singer-songwriter Allison Moorer. The first single from the album, "A Soft Place to Fall", was featured in the Robert Redford film '' The Horse Whisperer'', and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song at the 1999 Academy Awards. Track listing Personnel * Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hi-string acoustic guitar * Ashley Cleveland – background vocals * John Cowan – background vocals * Chad Cromwell – drums * Eric Darken – percussion, tambourine * Richard Dodd – programming, sampling * Dan Dugmore – dobro, pedal steel guitar * Kenny Greenberg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut string guitar * Glen Hardin – string arrangements, conductor * Tim Lauer – harmonica, harmonium, Hammond organ * Larry Marrs – bass guitar, background vocals * Buddy Miller – background vocals * Allison Moorer – lead vocals * Greg Morrow – drums * The Nashville String Machine – strings * Louis Dean Nun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Stakes
The Alabama Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race open to three-year-old fillies. Inaugurated in 1872, the Grade I race is run over a distance of one and one-quarter miles on the dirt track at Saratoga Race Course. Held in mid August, it currently offers a purse of $600,000. In 2010 it became the third leg of the American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, after the Acorn Stakes and Coaching Club American Oaks. The Alabama Stakes is named in honor of William Cottrell of Mobile, Alabama. "Alabama" was the name settled on because Cottrell was too modest to have a race named for him personally. The inaugural running took place on July 19, 1872 and was won by a chestnut filly named Woodbine owned by prominent New York financier August Belmont Sr. The race was not run from 1893 to 1896 and 1898 to 1900. The 1908 passage of the Hart–Agnew anti-betting legislation by the New York Legislature under Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes led to a state-wide shutdown of racin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama (moth)
''Alabama argillacea'', the cotton leafworm or cotton worm, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is native to the New World, but has been extirpated from the United States and Canada, having not been recorded since 1998. In the Neotropics, it can be found from Mexico to northern Argentina. The larva is considered a pest of cotton. They feed on the leaves, twigs, and buds. Taxonomy ''Alabama argillacea'' is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Alabama'', which was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1895. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1823. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index gives this name as a synonym of '' Anomis'' Hübner, 821/small> Description The adult moth has light brown to orange wings. It wingspan varies from 25 to 35 mm. The larvae are up to 40 mm long, green or brownish with black and white stripes. They have a characteristic pattern of black dots on each segment. Life cycle ''Alabama argillacea'' is a specialist feeder on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Crimson Tide
The Alabama Crimson Tide refers to the intercollegiate athletic varsity teams that represent the University of Alabama, located in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) (with the exception of rowing, which competes in the Big 12 Conference). The Spirit Squads compete in the UCA and UDA College National Championships. In 2002, ''Sports Illustrated'' named Alabama the No.26 best collegiate sports program in America. Athletics facilities on the campus include the 100,077-seat Bryant–Denny Stadium, named after football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former University President George Denny, 15,316-seat Coleman Coliseum, Foster Auditorium, Sewell–Thomas Stadium, the Alabama Soccer Stadium, the Sam Bailey Track Stadium, the Ol' Colony Golf Complex, the Alabama Aquatic Center, and the Alabama Tennis Stadium. Sports sponsored Football University of Alabama law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the public List of colleges and universities in Alabama, universities in Alabama as well as the University of Alabama System. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Ed.S., education specialist, and doctorate, doctoral degrees. The only publicly supported University of Alabama School of Law, law school in the state is at UA. Other academic programs unavailable elsewhere in Alabama include doctoral programs in anthropology, communication and information sciences, metallurgical engineering, music, Romance languages, and social work. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama (schooner)
''Alabama'' is a Gloucester (Massachusetts) fishing schooner that was built in 1926 and was the pilot boat for Mobile, Alabama. The ''Alabama's'' home port is Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. It is owned by The Black Dog Tall Ships, along with the '' Shenandoah'', and offers cruises of Nantucket Sound. History The schooner ''Alabama'' was one of the last vessels built from the design of one of the most notable designers of Gloucester fishing schooners, Thomas F. McManus. Commissioned by the Mobile Bar Pilot Association of Mobile, Alabama, the vessel was built in Pensacola, Florida, launched in 1926, and originally called ''Alabamian'' until her predecessor, the Bar Pilot Association's original ''Alabama'', was retired. Though the hull bore a strong resemblance to McManus' famous Gloucester fishing schooner designs, it as a pilot boat stationed on the Mobile Bar until 1966. In 1967, the schooner was bought by Captain Robert S. Douglas, master and designer of the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Alabama
At least seven United States Navy ships have been named ''Alabama'', after the southern state of Alabama. * , a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1819, though never completed as such. She was eventually launched in 1864 as the storeship USS ''New Hampshire''. * , a sidewheel steamer transferred to the Navy in 1849 that served as a troop transport during the Mexican–American War. * , a sidewheel steamer merchant vessel that was commissioned in 1861 during the American Civil War. * , a pre-dreadnought battleship commissioned in 1900 and scrapped in 1924. * , a 69-foot motor boat inspected by the Navy in the summer of 1917 and assigned the designation SP-1052. * , a battleship commissioned in 1942, converted to a museum ship in 1964 and now docked in Mobile, Alabama Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 195,111 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Maersk Andaman
MV ''Tygra'' (formerly MV ''Maersk Alabama'') is a container ship currently operated by the Waterman Steamship Corporation and owned by Element Shipmanagement SA of Piraeus, Greece. She was previously owned by the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group and operated by Maersk Line and Maersk Line Limited. She had a light-blue hull and a beige superstructure like all Maersk vessels, regardless of their flag of registry. She was hijacked by pirates near Somalia in 2009 and her crew held hostage. Four additional unsuccessful hijacking attempts were made later that year, 2010, and 2011. History ''Alva Maersk'' was built by China Shipbuilding Corporation, Keelung, Taiwan at yard number 676 and launched in 1998. As ''Alva Maersk'', she was flagged to Denmark. In 2004, ''Alva Maersk'' was renamed ''Maersk Alabama'' and reflagged to the United States, with her operator, Maersk Line, Limited, based in Norfolk, Virginia. She has been involved in seven incidents, and was employed on Maersk Line's East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSS Alabama
CSS ''Alabama'' was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool, England by John Laird Sons and Company. ''Alabama'' served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never docked at a Southern port. She was sunk in June 1864 by at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France. History Construction ''Alabama'' was built in secrecy in 1862 by British shipbuilders John Laird Sons and Company, in north west England at their shipyards at Birkenhead, Wirral, opposite Liverpool. The construction was arranged by the Confederate agent Commander James Bulloch, who led the procurement of sorely needed ships for the fledgling Confederate States Navy. The contract was arranged through the Fraser Trenholm Company, a cotton broker in Liverpool with ties to the Confederacy. Under prevailing British neutrality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Language
Alabama (also known as Alibamu) is a Native American language, spoken by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas. It was once spoken by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town of Oklahoma, but there are no more Alabama speakers in Oklahoma. It is a Muskogean language, and is believed to have been related to the Muklasa and Tuskegee languages, which are no longer extant. Alabama is closely related to Koasati and Apalachee, and more distantly to other Muskogean languages like Hitchiti, Chickasaw and Choctaw. History The Alabama first encountered Europeans when Hernando de Soto arrived in 1540. (See here for other de Soto contactees) In the 18th century, the French arrived on the Gulf Coast and built a fort at what became Mobile, Alabama. The ''Alibamu'' and ''Koasati'' tribes were part of the Creek Confederacy. They had less contact with British settlers than other Creek tribes did. They were the first to leave when British settlers swarmed into the area by the middle of the 18th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama People
The Alabama or Alibamu ( akz, Albaamaha) are a Southeastern culture people of Native Americans, originally from Alabama. They were members of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, a loose trade and military organization of autonomous towns; their home lands were on the upper Alabama River. The Alabama and closely allied Coushatta people migrated from Alabama and Mississippi to the area of Texas in the late 18th century and early 19th century, under pressure from European-American settlers to the east. They essentially merged and shared reservation land. Although the tribe was terminated in the 1950s, it achieved federal recognition in 1987 as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. Its 1,137 members have about of reservation. The Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town is a federally recognized tribe, headquartered in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Language The Alabama language is part of the Muskogean language family. Alabama is closely related to Koasati and distantly to Hitchiti, Chickasaw and Choctaw. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
