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59: The Tornado Outbreak of 1932 Mar 19, 2019

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On March 21, 1932, Marion, Alabama was the first town struck in one of the most destructive series of tornadoes to wreak havoc across seven states and was hit twice in the same day. From this point at least a dozen vicious twisters ravaged the tornado belt, as they moved northeast toward Georgia and then splayed out into Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia

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58: The Oldest Alabamian Mar 16, 2019

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In Colbert County, there is a place called the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter that excited archaeologists throughout the world around 1961 when charcoal from campfires found there was believed to provide proof that Stone Age men roamed Alabama 10,000 years and more ago.

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57: Patriots in South Alabama form their own independent country Mar 12, 2019

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In 1810, a band of Americans, calling themselves patriots who had suffered cruelty at the hands of the Spaniards, organized, fought and made a Declaration of Independence and took steps to establish an independent government of the United States.

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56: How eating grits once caused a plague in Alabama Mar 09, 2019

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Grits are a southern staple. In this episode we cover the Ten Commandments of Grits, and how eating a diet of meat, molasses, grits and cornbread caused an epidemic of "Red Dath" in the early 1900s. The discovery and cure of the disease was led by Alabamians.

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55: How Silverhill Alabama was founded and named Mar 05, 2019

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There is a town in Baldwin County, Alabama with the strange name of Silverhill and a large population of Scandinavian descendants. This is their story

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54: The Alabama city almost named Muddtown Mar 02, 2019

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A city almost named Muddtown was founded in July 1871, through the merger of 3 pre-existing farm towns by an association of businessmen and financiers.

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53: A Real Pochahontas Milly Francis Feb 27, 2019

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Milly Francis was the first woman and Native American to be awarded a medal from the U. S. Government. She will be inducted into the Alabama's Women Hall of Fame in 2019.

to be inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame on March 7, 2019 to be inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame on March 7, 2019 to be inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame on March 7, 2019 to be inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame on March 7, 2019

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52: The Ten Commandments of Cornbread Feb 23, 2019

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Good comfort food when you are sick with the flu – cornbread and hot chicken soup. The staple in any Southern home is good cornbread. Here are the Ten Commandments and how sugar in cornbread is an abomination. What is your take on how cornbread is made and served?

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51: Devastating Explosion in Mobile after the Civil War Feb 20, 2019

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The carelessness of Federals or the accidental fall of a loaded shell produced the terrific magazine explosion of May 25, 1865. Thirty tons of gunpowder, with a large amount of assorted ammunition, were stored in the magazine. Early in the afternoon the whole city was jarred as if in the throes of an earthquake. Three hundred lives and nearly a million dollars' worth of property were destroyed.

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50: 'Tis the survivor that dies Feb 16, 2019

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Sam Dale, Alabama's Daniel Boone, settled in Clark county, Ala. in 1810, and was engaged in the Indian wars of his times, being severely wounded at the battle of Burnt Corn, in which he commanded a company.

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