and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

Headquarters is in Birmingham, Ala..

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

* 205: 557-2311 Birmingham, AL ( deprecated, 557 is now Cingular Vernon )

* 205: 841-1111 Tarrant, AL ( deprecated, 841 is now a standard Birmingham exchange )

Euro Bus Expo is a trade show, which is held bi-annually at the UK's National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.

Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.

Each fellowship has a statement of faith, the most common of which is the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith ( BASF ), named after an ecclesia in Birmingham.

Constraint-induced aphasia therapy ( CIAT ) is based on similar principles as constraint-induced movement therapy developed by Dr. Edward Taub at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

He was an active member of the Lunar Society often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham.

In a 2001 retrospective review of " Forever Changes ," Andrew Cowen of The Birmingham Post ( UK ) wrote, " This 1967 masterpiece ... is the nearest the Americans came to having their own ' Sgt Pepper ' and, in true American style, it was largely overlooked by the mainstream audience which, at the time, was hanging on every note played by The Beatles.

The group at this time is sometimes referred to as the " Lunar circle ", though this is a later description used by historians, and the group themselves used a variety of less specific descriptions, including " Birmingham Philosophers " or simply " fellow-schemers ".

* 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

On the other hand, the largely self-contained Merseyrail system is part of the National Rail network, and urban rail networks around Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and West Yorkshire consist entirely of National Rail services.

One of these is The Vine, known locally as The Bull and Bladder, in Brierley Hill near Birmingham.

He also donated £ 50, 000 to help set up the University of Birmingham in 1899.

Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

A large number of indoor rowing competitions are held all over the world, including the indoor rowing world championships ( also known as CRASH-B Sprints ) held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in February and the British Indoor Rowing Championships held in Birmingham, England in November ; both are rowed on Concept2s.

During his master studies, Mehmood had read scientific reports of the " Manhattan Project " while receiving his training at the Birmingham University, where he also had an opportunity to discuss enrichment technology with scientists from South Africa, who were then exploring the jet-nozzel aerodynamic process of enrichment.

He is also remembered by one of the Moonstones in Birmingham and by a blue plaque at Edgbaston Golf Club.

Morris also joined a Birmingham group at Pembroke College, known among themselves as the " Brotherhood " and to historians as the " Pembroke set ".

Birmingham can also refer to:

* Birmingham ( HM Prison ), prison in Birmingham, England, also known as Winson Green Prison

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

There is also a direct bus link with Birmingham city centre.

A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east-west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north-south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Mobile, and Birmingham.

Much of the wealth on which the city of Manchester, and surrounding towns, was built in the late eighteenth century, and for much of the nineteenth century, was based on the processing of slave-picked cotton .. Other British cities also profited from the slave trade. Birmingham, the largest gun producing town in Britain at the time, supplied guns to be traded for slaves.

The University of Birmingham also maintains the Lapworth Museum within the Aston Webb building on the main Edgbaston campus.

The society is also closely involved with the spring and autumn shows at Malvern, Worcestershire, and with BBC Gardeners ' World Live held annually at the Birmingham NEC.

Pride events also happen in most other major cities such as Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Belfast.

De Meyer also took over as vocalist for Birmingham 6 for their 1996 album Error of Judgment.

Miller also appeared on both WAPI ( Birmingham, Alabama ) and WSFA radio ( Montgomery ), promoting the activities of civil service women aircraft mechanics employed at Maxwell.

SPSS did not wish to sell and support Poplog as such, so Poplog then became available as open source software, hosted at the University of Birmingham, which had also been involved in development after 1991.

The club dropped into the Birmingham & District League, and in 1909 also became members of the Southern League.

Shelby County was also crossed by an early north-south railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, that connected Louisville, Nashville, Decatur, Birmingham, and Montgomery.

Birmingham ranks as one of the most important business centers in the Southeastern United States and is also one of the largest banking centers in the United States.

In the field of college and university education, Birmingham has been the location of the University of Alabama School of Medicine ( formerly known as the Medical College of Alabama ) and the University of Alabama School of Dentistry since 1947, and since that time, it has also become provided with the University of Alabama at Birmingham ( founded circa 1969 ), one of three main campuses of the University of Alabama, and also with the private Birmingham-Southern College.