Glossary

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• George Andrews
  George William Andrews Jr. (1906-1971) was a Democratic representative to Congress from 1944 to 1965,...
• Anniston
  The city of Anniston emerged as a key industrial center in the mountainous northeastern section of Alabama...
• Anniston Army Depot
  Anniston Army Depot was originally conceived as an ammunition storage site in the isolated northeast...
• Anniston Museum of Natural History
  The Anniston Museum of Natural History in Anniston, Calhoun County, is home to displays that range from...
• Antebellum Industrialization
  Manufacturing represented a small but expanding sector of Alabama's economy in the antebellum period....
•  Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis 
   Appalachiosaurus mont gomeriensis  was a small tyrannosaurid dinosaur that was indigenous to...
• Arab
  Arab is located primarily in west-central Marshall County, although part of the city also is located...
• Archaic Period
  Archaeologists refer to the period between about 10,500 to about 3,000 years before the present as the...
• Archdiocese of Mobile
  What is now known as the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile was established in 1829 as the Diocese of Mobile....
• Ardmore
  Ardmore is located in north-central Limestone County on the northern border of the state; it lies across...