MOBILE, Ala. -- Today, I'm going to fill you in on some fun Mobile facts. Let's start with an interesting tidbit relating to the USS Alabama. A reader, Clarence Thomas, picked up on the fact that the media were referring to the pirated Maer...
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The Yellowhammer State and the Heart of Dixie.
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Alabama has no official nickname and is the only state that lacks one however The Heart of Dixie is often used and once it was on the State's vehicle license plate.
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・ John Glenn. ・ Miguel Cervantes. ・ Scarface. ・ Television. ・ hand grenade. ・ Larry. ・ Marshall Mathers & Mathers. ・ Henry McCarty. Although best known by the alias William H. Bonney, which he used as his legal name, research ... ・ 71 P...
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The Heart of Dixie. " The Heart of Dixie " was a phrase developed in the 1940s and 1950s by the Alabama Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber sought a more distinctive slogan for their state and promoted that "Alabama is geographi...
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In his teens, Capone was hired by Torrio and his partner, Frankie Yale, and a bouncer in a saloon-brothel they ran in Brooklyn. It was here that Capone picked up his moniker of "Scareface Al," after his left cheek was slashed in a...
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