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unusual facts about University of Alabama, Huntsville



4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment participated in the Third Battle of Chattanooga from November 23–27 1863, then was on garrison duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville in Alabama, until June 1864, having Veteranized during the spring of 1864.

61400 Voxandreae

It is named after Andreae Deman, a planetarium program speaker for the Von Braun Astronomical Society in Huntsville, Alabama.

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.

Allan Blair

Allan Walker Blair (1900 – 1947) was a professor at the University of Alabama's medical school who is best known for allowing himself to be bitten by a black widow spider in order to investigate the toxicity of its venom in humans.

Andrew Owusu

Andrew attended the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School (Presec Legon) and the University of Alabama, where he was an 8-time All-American with the Alabama Crimson Tide's Track and Field Team, competing in the long jump and triple jump.

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.

Concrete canoe

Typically, frontrunners include University of Alabama, Huntsville, University of Nevada, Reno, University of Florida, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, the University of California at Berkeley, Clemson University, École de technologie supérieure, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Condredge Holloway

Dorothy was hired to work at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville in 1962, becoming the first African American employee of NASA.

Coonass

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban came under fire in early 2007 for using the term while speaking "off the record" to a reporter.

Debbie Elliott

She attended graduate school at the University of Alabama, where she worked for WUAL-FM radio (which later joined other stations in forming Alabama Public Radio).

Derek Pegues

Pegues attended the same high school as Rudd, South Panola, which also produced current Pittsburgh Steelers starting Cornerback Deshea Townsend, Rudd's teammate in high school and college, at the University of Alabama.

Heart of Huntsville Mall

The long-running Delta Zeta Arts and Crafts Show began in 1967 with roughly 100 booths at Heart of Huntsville Mall.

Huntsville Depot

Huntsville was occupied by Union forces in 1862 during the Civil War as a strategic point on the railroad and the depot was used as a prison for Confederate soldiers.

Huntsville Unit

Cross Canadian Ragweed has a song that is about the prison called "Walls of Huntsville" on their 2002 self-titled album.

Huntsville, Texas

Huntsville has the highest number of state-sanctioned executions of any place in the United States.

Invisible Life

The story starts in the 1980s: he's in his senior year at the University of Alabama, he has the perfect life.

Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

It was published by Continuum Press in 2004 and edited by Matthew Kapell (later publishing as Matthew Wilhelm Kapell), anthropological historian, and William G. Doty, professor emeritus of religious studies and religion at the University of Alabama.

James Ervan Parker

Jim Parker is the creator and host of a show at the Von Braun Center Playhouse in Huntsville, Alabama called Jim Parker’s Songwriter Series where he showcases the talent of songwriters from Los Angeles, Canada, Georgia, Nashville, TN, Muscle Shoals, AL, and surrounding areas.

Jason McAddley

He played his high school football at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and went to the University of Alabama.

Law enforcement in the Marshall Islands

Kwajalein Atoll is serviced by Alutiiq Security & Technology of Huntsville, Alabama.

Logan Young

During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis claimed that Young had paid Lynn Lang, the Trezevant head football coach, approximately $150,000 to encourage defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama.

Luca Urbani

During the mission, Urbani acted as Crew Interface Coordinator in the Payload Operations Control Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

Luke Sewell

Born in the rural town of Titus, Alabama, Sewell grew up wanting to play baseball, and graduated from the University of Alabama where, he played for the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team as an infielder.

Merry Widows of Joe Cain

The Huntsville-based band, The Pine Hill Haints, perform a song titled "The Merry Widows of Joe Cain" which, in its lyrics, pays homage to Joe Cain, Mardi Gras tradition, and the city of Mobile itself.

Michael Mulhall

Returning to the Diocese of Peterborough in 2002, he served again briefly in Huntsville and then in Hastings.

Millard Fuller

Fuller majored in economics at Auburn University (’57) and received a law degree from the University of Alabama (’60).

Misery Loves Kompany

Production was mainly handled by David Sanders II, a producer from Huntsville, Alabama; Sanders handled half the production with the rest mainly being handled by Seven (who produced numerous track for Tech N9ne's 2006 effort Everready: The Religion) with lone production credit going to Rob Rebeck for "You Don't Want It."

Paul Finebaum

He also in 1993 broke the story of Antonio Langham, a University of Alabama football player who signed a contract with a sports agent while playing for the school, which led to NCAA probation for the school.

Pineview Dam

The western half of present-day Huntsville is located between the central and southern bays of Pineview Reservoir.

Robert E. Cramer

In the House, Cramer was a tireless supporter of the International Space Station and a leading advocate for spending increases in missile defense, as Huntsville has long been a center for research and development of these two projects, as Redstone Arsenal—located in the district—is home of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Ronald Brise

Brisé graduated from Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, with degrees in Biology and Biology Education.

Rufus William Bailey

Rufus William Bailey (13 April 1793 – 25 April 1863) was the founder of Augusta Female Seminary (later Mary Baldwin College), in Staunton, Virginia, and also president of Austin College, in Huntsville, Texas.

Simon Haley

Simon Haley held positions at various southern universities including Alabama A&M just north of Huntsville, Alabama.

Slackwater darter

For example, the population in the Flint River drainage in Madison County, Alabama, is threatened by changing land use patterns associated with the growth of the city of Huntsville, 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.

Sportz Blitz

The show focuses on Alabama high school and college sports, specifically Auburn University and the University of Alabama.

STS-26

The VCU was created by SCI Systems in Huntsville, Alabama, and was based on technology licensed from the Votan company.

Texas Prison Rodeo

The rodeo became part of the history of the US space program when, during the training for the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz mission, NASA brought the cosmonauts in training, along with other Soviet personnel, to the Huntsville rodeo.

The Huntsville Item

The Thomson Corporation sold The Huntsville Item, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later Hollinger International) in 1995.

Tony Shore

Tony Jason Shore (born October 30, 1980 in Huntsville, Alabama) is American musician and actor, best known for appearing as himself in comedy skits on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and playing cop & criminal types on TV crime shows.

Twickenham Historic District

The name derives from an early name for the town of Huntsville, named after Twickenham, England, by LeRoy Pope.

Upland South

Knoxville and Huntsville are both centers of industry and scientific research.

US Orbital Segment

The segment is monitored and controlled from various mission control centers around the world including Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Wasatch Range

Three more ski resorts lie here, as well as several small towns (such as Huntsville, Liberty, and Eden).

WAWB

WAMY-TV, a cable television station (channel 8) licensed as a sub-channel of WZDX to Huntsville, Alabama, United States, which used the fictional call sign WAWB-TV from January 1995 to September 2006

WHDF

WOWL-TV always faced competing NBC affiliates in Huntsville or Decatur, whose signals reached much of its broadcast area.

William Harold Albritton III

Born in Andalusia, Alabama, Albritton graduated from Andalusia High School, and received a B.A. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1959, and an LL.B.

William Wilson Hudson

He was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1808 and was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Alabama before moving to Columbia, Missouri in 1838.

WLRH

Although Huntsville is only the state's third-largest city, it has boasted for many years a large population of highly-educated, affluent professionals such as technicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs, mostly associated with the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal installation, NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and contractors.


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