Wikipedia:WikiProject Alabama/DYK


 * ... 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 ft 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.