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Mobile and Mardi Gras
Now largely a secular festival, Mardi Gras originated as a Christian celebration. The season runs between the Feast of Epiphany and Ash Wednesday in the spring, culminating in the revelry of Mardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday")....
Pulitzer Prize Winners of Alabama
The Pulitzer Prize, established in 1917, is one of the top awards for journalists and writers, and it has been presented to several Alabama authors in a variety of categories. The fiction winners include T.S. Stribling's Depression-era...
Colonial Era in Alabama
The European presence in what is now Alabama began in the early sixteenth century, when Spanish explorers reached the Gulf Coast. In 1540, Hernando de Soto and his men became the first Europeans to traverse Alabama’s interior, bringing death...
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ALABAMA
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