13.A skeleton of a prehistoric man was found in Russell Cave.
14.At 2，405feet Cheaha Mountain is Alabamas highest point above sea level.
15.Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the World.
16.The Alabama Department of Archives is the oldest statefunded archival （关于档案的）agency in the nation.
17.The musical singing group Alabama has a Fan Club and Museum in Fort Payne.
18.In 1902Dr.Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing（缝合）a stab wound in a young boys heart.The surgery occurred in Montgomery.
19.To help fund education Alabama instituted its state sales tax in 1937.
20.Schools established in Mobile include Washington Academy （founded in 1811）and Huntsville Green Academy （founded in 1812）.
21.Between 1817and 1819Old Saint Stephens was the first territorial（领土的）capital of Alabama.
22.In 1956the Army Ballistic Missile Agency was established at Huntsvilles Redstone Arsenal（红石弹导）.
23.Governor George C.Wallace served four terms in office.
24.In 1995Heather Whitestone serves as first Miss America chosen with a disability.
25.Alabamas geographic center is located in Chilton a community located 12miles southwest of Clanton.
26.The word Alabama means tribal town in the Creek Indian language.
27.The United States Army Chemical Corps Museum in Fort McClellan contains over 4000chemical warfare artifacts（史前古器物）.
28.Hitlers typewriter survived from his mountain retreat and is exhibited at the Hall of History in Bessemer.
29.Blount County was created on February 7，1818and is older than the state.
30.Winston County is often called the Free State of Winston.It gained the name during the Civil War.
31.Mobile is named after the Mauvilla Indians.
32.Peter Bryce is recognized as the states first psychiatrist（精神病学家）.He was born in 1834and died in 1892.
33.The Alabama State Flag was authorized by the Alabama legislature on February 16，1895.
34.Hematite is Alabamas official state mineral and is known as oxide（氧化物）of iron （Fe2O3）.
35.The Monarch butterfly （Danaus pleipuss）is the states official insect.
36.The star blue quartz（石英）is the states official gemston（宝石）.
37.The Florence Renaissance Faire is the Alabamas official fair.
38.The pecan（美洲山核桃）is the Alabamas official nut.
39.People from Alabama are called Alabamians.
40.On January 11，1861，Alabama becomes the fourth state to secede（脱离）from the Union.
41.On January 28，1846，Montgomery was selected as capital of Alabama.
42.Tallulah Bankhead entertained as a star of stage，screen，and radio during the 1930s—1950s.She was born in Huntsville in 1902and died in 1968.
43.Singer and entertainer Nathaniel Adams （Nat King）Cole was known as the man with the velvet（柔软的，光滑的）voice.He was born in Montgomery in 1919and died in 1965.
44.Alabama resident Sequoyah devised（设计，发明）the phonetic，written alphabet of the Cherokee language.
45.The Birmingham Airport opened in 1931.At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19hours.
46.Alabamas mean elevation is 500feet at its lowest elevation point.
47.Audemus jura nostra defendere is the official state motto.Translated it means “we dare defend our rights”.
48.Washington County is the oldest county in Alabama.
49.General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians in 1814.Following the event the Native Americans ceded（放弃）nearly half the present state land to the United States.
50.At the Battle of Mobile Bay Admiral David Farragut issued his famous command，“Damn（谴责）the torpedoes（鱼雷），full speed ahead.”The event occurred on August 5，1864.
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