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...that downtown Birmingham has a block-long memorial to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks?
...that Edgewood Lake once covered the area north of Lakeshore Drive, inluding the current-day site of Homewood High School?
...that a bridge over the Black Warrior River is named for Bear Bryant?
...that Hardrock Gunter's "Birmingham Bounce" (1950) was arguably the first rock and roll record?
...that the Florence Hotel was named for the late wife of William S. Mudd who lived at Arlington?
...that Babec was the first gorilla to receive an artificial pacemaker?
...that the automatic railroad car coupler was invented by Andrew Beard in East Lake?
...that the city of Jasper was a major center for coke production?
...that actress Louise Fletcher's father, John Fletcher, founded hundreds of churches for the deaf across the South?
...that Samuel Ullman served as Lay Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El?
...that photographers A. C. Oxford and A. C. Keily were both freemasons?
...that "Borat" was asked to leave a dinner party in Helena?
...that Blount County has three covered bridges, more than any other county in Alabama?
...that Craig T. Nelson played Russ Fine in a 1993 USA Network movie?
...that Timothy Leary earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Alabama?
...that James Spann became a weather anchor the same week Hurricane Frederic hit Mobile?
...that Hugh Martin wrote four versions of his song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Chirstmas" ?
...that Loulie Jean Norman "sang" the theme for the original Star Trek television series?
...that the Roden Hotel, though never finished, netted investors $150,000 when the steel frame was sold for scrap?
...that Mayor Bernard Kincaid promised that "we will attack this problem from every responsible angle to reduce the number of homicides that occur in our city" in his 2006 State of the City address?
...that the parents of Condoleezza Rice and Freeman Hrabowski both taught at Ullman High School?
...that Condoleezza Rice and Freeman Hrabowski were classmates at Ullman High School?
...that short-lived magazine I Cover the War interviewed legendary pop band The Primitons in their debut issue?
...that Hazel the Mummy, star attraction at the Bessemer Hall of History has since been cremated?
...that Birmingham native David F. Friedman produced dozens of exploitation films, including Blood Feast?
...that former Birmingham Stallions owner Marvin L. Warner served 18 months in prison'?
...that West Park was renamed "Kelly Ingram Park" for WWI hero Osmond Kelly Ingram?
...that Police Chief Annetta Nunn was valedictorian of her class at Jackson-Olin High School?
...that the sensational Hawes murders made national headlines in 1888?
...that Terrell Owens' Amani Raha bar is named for the Swahili words for "peace" and "happiness"?
...that Bull Connor was present when the nation's first 911 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama?
...that downtown's Joy Young Restaurant began serving Chinese food in Birmingham in 1919?
...that Arnold Schwarzenegger earned a Golden Globe for the 1976 film Stay Hungry, filmed in Birmingham?

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