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unusual facts about Alberta City, Tuscaloosa



1921 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

After their loss to Sewanee, Alabama scrimmaged both Cullman High School and Tuscaloosa High School as part of their preparation for their first road game of the season.

2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado

As the tornado traveled east to 35th Street and Kauloosa Avenue, the Tuscaloosa Environmental Services and Cintas facilities suffered severe damage.

Abernant

Abernant, Alabama, unincorporated community in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA

Alabama Stage and Screen Hall of Fame

Each year, a new group of inductees are honored at the annual gala, featuring a cast of dancers and singers from the roster of Theatre Tuscaloosa, accompanied by the Steve Sample Orchestra, with arrangements by Steve Sample, Sr.

Alabama State Route 297

By 2002, the Tuscaloosa chapters of the Sierra Club and the Alabama River Alliance also joined in the chorus of groups against the construction of the bypass.

Alabama State Route 69

Northbound I-359 and SR-69 are co-routed with southbound US-11 until they junction with US-43 near the campus of the University of Alabama south of downtown Tuscaloosa.

Alberta City, Tuscaloosa

The area is generally defined as encompassing the portions of the city east of U.S. Route 82 (McFarland Boulevard), west of Holt, south of the Black Warrior River and north of Veterans Memorial Parkway.

Bei Dao

He has taught and lectured at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Beloit College, Wisconsin, and is Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Bombardment of Cherbourg

Rear Admiral Morton Deyo, heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (flag), heavy cruiser Quincy, battleship Nevada, HMS light cruiser Glasgow and light cruiser Enterprise, six destroyers: Ellyson, Rodman, Gherardi, Hambleton, Emmons, and British 9th Minesweeping Flotilla.

Citizens for the Republic

Hillyer is a Republican candidate in Alabama's 1st congressional district special election, 2013 to succeed Jo Bonner, who resigned in August to take a position as vice chancellor with the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

E. Woolsey Peck

In 1867, he moved to Sycamore, Illinois then to Rockford, Illinois and then back to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.He was elected chairman of the Military Reconstruction Convention of 1867.

Ed Salem

Salem was born in Tucson, Arizona and arrived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to play for Harold Drew's Crimson Tide at a time when they were still rising to national prominence.

Edgar Ross

Ross grew up in Tuscaloosa; his brother Ronnie played football for Auburn, but he was too violent for football, according to a childhood friends, and picked fights on the Tuscaloosa streets before turning to amateur boxing on the advice of a Tuscaloosa County deputy sheriff who, himself an amateur boxer, had seen Ross beat up on people in bars and parking lots.

Hale County, Alabama

Since the 1960s, artist William Christenberry, born in Tuscaloosa, has been photographing various structures in Hale County as part of his multi-media artistic investigations.

Jake and Steve Show

The Jake and Steve Show is a morning radio show hosted by Jake Bennett and Steve Cummings on WVUA-FM 90.7 The Capstone at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Johnny Matson

He served as the Program Director at the Jemison Center, Partlow State School and Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama from 1977-1978.

Lafayette Guild

Guild died in San Francisco, California and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in his native Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Moundville

Moundville Archaeological Site, a prehistoric chiefdom center near Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Roszetta Johnson

She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and grew up singing in her local church choir.

Samuel Minturn Peck

Samuel Minturn Peck was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on November 4, 1854, the youngest of nine children of Elisha Wolsey Peck and Lucy Lamb Randall.

Sherman Irby

Sherman Irby was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Spain Park High School

The Dance program attends the UDA Camp each year at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and performed at the 2009 Sugar Bowl between the University of Alabama and the University of Utah along with hundreds of other dancers from all over the Southeast.

Spiro Mounds

Pauketat, Timothy R. The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama, 1994.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Alabama

Before August 24, 1842, branches in Tuscaloosa (the Cybry Branch) and Perry (Bogue-Chitto Branch) counties were organized by Elder Brown.

The Five Cities of June

In the Vatican, the election and coronation of Pope Paul VI; in the Soviet Union, the launch of a Soviet rocket as part of the Space Race with the United States; in South Vietnam, fighting between Communists and South Vietnamese soldiers; in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, the racial integration of the University of Alabama opposed by Governor George Wallace; and in Berlin, President John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany and Rudolph Wilde Platz.

Thomas H. Beeby

Chairman Emeritus of Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Architects (HBRA), Beeby spent over 40 years as the firm’s Director of Design, leading projects such as the James Baker Institute at Rice University, Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, the Bass Library at Yale University, and the United States Federal Building and Courthouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Principal agricultural products in Tuscaloosa County have included hay, corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat and snapdragons.

WJQX

In 2005, Apex Broadcasting, the owners of WANZ and several Tuscaloosa-area stations, sold their radio properties to Citadel Communications, owners of five stations in the Birmingham market including WRAX (107-7 the X), a station with a format that was virtually identical to that of WANZ.

WTJP-TV

W46BU (channel 46), formerly served as a translator in Tuscaloosa; that station went silent on April 13, 2010 due to declining support, which was attributed to the digital transition.

WVUA

WVUA-FM, a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

WVUA-CA, a television station (channel 7) licensed to Tuscaloosa/Northport, Alabama, United States


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