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The CW |
WTTO 21, Homewood/Birmingham |
WTVY 4.3, Dothan |
WHDF 15, Florence/Huntsville |
WFNA 55, Gulf Shores/Mobile/Pensacola, FL |
WDBB 17, Tuscaloosa |
WBMM 22, Tuskegee/Montgomery |
Culture |
Literature |
Sports |
Professional sports |
Alabama has several professional and semi-professional sports teams, including three minor league baseball teams. |
Notes |
The Talladega Superspeedway motorsports complex hosts a series of NASCAR events. It has a seating capacity of 143,000 and is the thirteenth largest stadium in the world and sixth largest stadium in America. Also, the Barber Motorsports Park has hosted IndyCar Series and Rolex Sports Car Series races. |
The ATP Birmingham was a World Championship Tennis tournament held from 1973 to 1980. |
Alabama has hosted several professional golf tournaments, such as the 1984 and 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek, the Barbasol Championship (PGA Tour), the Mobile LPGA Tournament of Champions, Airbus LPGA Classic, and Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic (LPGA Tour), and The Tradition (Champions Tour). |
College sports |
College football is extremely popular in Alabama, particularly the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn University Tigers, rivals in the Southeastern Conference. Alabama averages over 100,000 fans per game and Auburn averages over 80,000—both numbers among the top twenty in the nation. Bryant–Denny Stadium is ... |
Legion Field is home of the UAB Blazers football program and the Birmingham Bowl. It seats 71,594. Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile is the home of the University of South Alabama football team, and serves as the home of the NCAA Senior Bowl, LendingTree Bowl, and Alabama-Mississippi All Star Classic; the stadium seats 40... |
Transportation |
Aviation |
Major airports with sustained operations in Alabama include Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), Huntsville International Airport (HSV), Dothan Regional Airport (DHN), Mobile Regional Airport (MOB), Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM), Northwest Alabama Regional Airport (MSL) and Northeast Alabama Region... |
Rail |
For rail transport, Amtrak schedules the Crescent, a daily passenger train, running from New York to New Orleans with station stops at Anniston, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa. |
Roads |
Alabama has six major interstate routes: Interstate 65 (I-65) travels north–south roughly through the middle of the state; I-20/I-59 travel from the central west Mississippi state line to Birmingham, where I-59 continues to the north-east corner of the state and I-20 continues east towards Atlanta; I-85 originates in M... |
Several U.S. Highways also pass through the state, such as U.S. Route 11 (US-11), US-29, US-31, US-43, US-45, US-72, US-78, US-80, US-82, US-84, US-90, US-98, US-231, US-278, US-280, US-331, US-411, and US-431. |
There are four toll roads in the state: Montgomery Expressway in Montgomery; Northport/Tuscaloosa Western Bypass in Tuscaloosa and Northport; Emerald Mountain Expressway in Wetumpka; and Beach Express in Orange Beach. |
Ports |
The Port of Mobile, Alabama's only saltwater port, is a large seaport on the Gulf of Mexico with inland waterway access to the Midwest by way of the Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway. The Port of Mobile was ranked 12th by tons of traffic in the United States during 2009. The newly expanded container terminal at the Port of ... |
Water ports of Alabama, listed from north to south: |
See also |
Index of Alabama-related articles |
Outline of Alabama—organized list of topics about Alabama |
Notes |
References |
Further reading |
Atkins, Leah Rawls, Wayne Flynt, William Warren Rogers, and David Ward. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1994). |
Flynt, Wayne. Alabama in the Twentieth Century (2004). |
Owen Thomas M. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (4 vols, 1921). |
Jackson, Harvey H. Inside Alabama: A Personal History of My State (2004). |
Mohl, Raymond A. "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics in Late-twentieth-century Alabama" Alabama Review (2002, 55(4): 243–274). |
Peirce, Neal R. The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States (1974). |
Williams, Benjamin Buford. A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century (1979). |
WPA Guide to Alabama (1939). |
External links |
Alabama State Guide, from the Library of Congress |
Your Not So Ordinary Alabama Tourist Guide |
All About Alabama, at the Alabama Department of Archives and History |
Code of Alabama 1975 |
USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Alabama |
Alabama QuickFacts from the U.S. Census Bureau |
Alabama State Fact Sheet |
1819 establishments in the United States |
Southern United States |
States and territories established in 1819 |
States of the Confederate States |
States of the Gulf Coast of the United States |
States of the United States |
U.S. states with multiple time zones |
Contiguous United States In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ) or Achilleus () was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and is the central character of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia. |
Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan prince Hector outside the gates of Troy. Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the Iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him with an arrow. Later legends (beginning wit... |
Etymology |
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