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July 19, 1976 [1] Majestic Caverns (formerly known as DeSoto Caverns) is a cave and tourist attraction located in Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama. [2] Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is touted as "Alabama's Big Cave". Other attractions include a three-quarter acre maze known as the Lost Trail Maze, panning for ...
The second leg of the de Soto Expedition, from Apalachee to the Alibamu. The peoples the expedition encountered in Georgia were speakers of Muskogean languages.The expedition made two journeys through Georgia - the first heading northeast to Cofitachequi in South Carolina, and the second heading southwest from Tennessee, at which point they visited the Coosa chiefdom.
Russell Cave National Monument is a U.S. national monument in northeastern Alabama, United States, close to the city of Bridgeport. The monument was established on May 11, 1961, when 310 acres (1.3 km 2) of land were donated by the National Geographic Society to the American people. It is now administered and maintained by the National Park ...
Chief Tuskaloosa. Illustration by H. Roe. Tuskaloosa (Tuskalusa, Tastaluca, Tuskaluza) (died 1540) was a paramount chief of a Mississippian chiefdom in what is now the U.S. state of Alabama. His people were possibly ancestors to the several southern Native American confederacies (the Choctaw and Creek peoples) who later emerged in the region.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) [ 1 ][ 2 ] was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. [ 3 ] Ramón y Cajal was the first ...
She played for Canada in the Olympics for the second time and has played an important role for the Lynx, who are vying for their first title since 2017. During Minnesota's Game 3 loss, she tallied ...
The history of what is now Alabama stems back thousands of years ago when it was inhabited by indigenous peoples. The Woodland period spanned from around 1000 BCE to 1000 CE and was marked by the development of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. [ 1 ] This was followed by the Mississippian culture of Native Americans, which lasted to around the ...
Cajal. / 12.6; 31.1. Cajal is a small lunar impact crater on the northern part of the Mare Tranquilitatis. It was named after the Spanish doctor and Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal. [ 1] It is a circular (9 km diameter), cup-shaped formation that lies southeast of the lava -inundated crater Jansen. Cajal was formerly designated Jansen F.