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Alabama and Reading
* West Blocton Elementary is a National Blue Ribbon School and was one of the first schools in the state to be trained for the Alabama Reading Initiative.
Opelika City Schools employ highly qualified teachers trained in the latest instructional techniques including the Alabama Reading Initiative ( ARI ), Transforming East Alabama Mathematics ( TEAM-Math ), Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative ( AMSTI ), and Science in Motion.
Siegelman launched the " Alabama Reading Initiative ", an early education literacy program that was praised by both Democratic and Republican officials, and emulated by several other states.

Alabama and Test
* On November 3, 2011, the EAS in Etowah County, Alabama was activated for a Required Weekly Test on television.
In 1992, he was assigned as an engineering test pilot at the U. S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama.
After attending the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, from 1985 to 1986, he was assigned as the operations officer of the 6513th Test Squadron at Edwards AFB.
After the end of the Korean War, Griffin continued to work for the military in a civilian capacity as Chief of the Publications Division of the U. S. Army Signal Aviation Test & Support Activity at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
The Main Propulsion Test Article, without truss work, is on display at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center, Visitor Information Center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, alongside the MPTA-ET which is mounted under the refurbished Pathfinder orbiter simulator.

Alabama and Show
The film ( which shares the name " I'm with Phil ") won numerous awards including Best of Show at its premier in the George Lindsey Film Festival hosted by the University of North Alabama.
Ardmore is the setting of a song by Old Crow Medicine Show called Alabama High-Test.
* October 17 – WBMG-TV in Birmingham, Alabama launches on channel 42, sharing dual CBS / NBC affiliation with crosstown WAPI-TV — and allowing viewers in the Birmingham market to watch more programming from those networks that WAPI did not have room for ( including The Ed Sullivan Show, The CBS Evening News, and The Tonight Show ).
In 1965, Wynette sang on the Country Boy Eddie Show on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, and this led to performances with Porter Wagoner.
Each year, around the first weekend in December, the university has a fundraising dinner featuring well-known speakers, such as Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr., former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H. W. Bush, TV personality Regis Philbin, retired General Norman Schwarzkopf, Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton, Senator Elizabeth Dole, former US Senate Majority Leader and physician, Dr. Bill Frist, popular radio commentator Paul Harvey, NBC Today Show weatherman Willard Scott, NFL football player, commentator & actor Merlin Olsen, country comedian Jerry Clower, former Alabama head coach Gene Stallings, historic CBS-TV News anchor and reporter Walter Cronkite, former First Lady Barbara Bush, former NBC News Anchor and former Meet the Press moderator Tom Brokaw and most recently Emmy Award winning comedian Tim Conway.
Thornton is perhaps best remembered as co-host of The Bear Bryant Show at Alabama.
She appeared in Kelsey Grammer's The Sketch Show on Fox Television, King of Queens as a character named " Priscilla ", a waitress at a pirate-themed kiddie restaurant in an episode of Newsradio (" The Secret of Management "), and in numerous films including Mysterious Skin, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Dude, Where's My Car ?, Man on the Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, The Anniversary Party, Firewall, Little Miss Sunshine, music videos for Beck, Weezer and Sheryl Crow, as well as portraying a blind girl in the film Road Trip.
During the 1960s, Flagg co-hosted the locally produced " Morning Show " on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.
At the TNA House Show in Birmingham, Alabama on January 20, 2007, Douglas was injured in a match between The LAX and The Naturals.
WMXA consistently receives top awards for station and personalities, the latest coming in 2010 with " The Tige Rodgers Morning Show " being named " Best Small Market Morning Show " in the state of Alabama and WMXA along with the " Zach Fox Morning Show " being voted # 1 " Best Of " Auburn-Opelika News.
Noted theaters on the Chitlin ' Circuit included the Royal Peacock in Atlanta ; the Carver Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama ; the Cotton Club, Small's Paradise and the Apollo Theater in New York City ; Robert's Show Lounge, Club DeLisa and the Regal Theatre in Chicago ; the Howard Theatre in Washington, D. C .; the Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia ; the Royal Theatre in Baltimore ; the Fox Theatre in Detroit ; the Victory Grill in Austin, Texas ; the Hippodrome Theatre in Richmond, Virginia ; the Ritz Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida ; and The Madam C. J. Walker Theatre on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis.
Rick Burgess ( born October 3, 1964 in Oxford, Alabama ) and Bill " Bubba " Bussey ( born March 27, 1964 in Jacksonville, Alabama ) are cohosts of The Rick & Bubba Show — a syndicated comedic radio program based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Alabama and Overall
Overall, sixty-five percent of the students enrolled are from the Mobile area or surrounding counties while seventeen percent are from other areas in Alabama.
Overall, damage in Alabama amounted to $ 125 million ( 1998 USD, $ 164 million 2009 USD ).

Alabama and from
He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.
And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
He became, after a time, commander of a post on the Alabama River, but his operations extended from Mobile throughout the district, and he finally obtained a monopoly of the Indian trade.
Their entry will crack the total segregation of all public education, from kindergarten through graduate school, in Georgia -- and in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina as well.
Following World War II, Alabama experienced growth as the economy of the state transitioned from one primarily based on agriculture to one with diversified interests.
* 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
Southeast of the Appalachian Valley region, the Piedmont Plateau also crosses the Alabama border from the N. E.
* 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.
Image: USACE Claiborne Lock and Dam. jpg | Claiborne Lock and Dam on the Alabama River, approximately upriver from Claiborne, Monroe County
Image: Alabama River at Benton Park. JPG | The Alabama River in Lowndes County as seen from Benton Park in Benton, Alabama.
As his master J. Selby refused to release him from his apprenticeship obligation, Johnson left and went to Mooresville, Alabama.
** C. v. virginianus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )-nominate-Atlantic coast from Virginia to northern Florida and southeast Alabama
Category: Artists from Alabama
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* 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U. S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
Twenty-seven year-old nurse Kate Cumming from Mobile, Alabama, described the primitive hospital conditions in her journal:

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