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2. Arthur L. "Art" Williams Jr. (born April 26, 1942) is an American insurance executive living in Palm Beach, Florida. He is the founder of A.L. Williams & Associates, known as Primerica Financial Services since 1991. He also ventured into professional sports, owning the Birmingham Barracudas of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the Tampa ...
The Birmingham Museum of Art is owned by the City of Birmingham and encompasses 3.9 acres (16,000 m 2) in the heart of the city's cultural district. Erected in 1959, the present building was designed by architects Warren, Knight & Davis, and a major renovation and expansion by Edward Larrabee Barnes of New York was completed in 1993.
The Birmingham News was launched on March 14, 1888, by Rufus N. Rhodes as The Evening News, a four-page paper with two reporters and $800 of operating capital.At the time, the city of Birmingham was only 17 years old, but was an already booming industrial city and a beacon of the "New South" still recovering from the aftermath of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
This is a list of public art in Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics. / 33.52007; -86.80948 ...
76000333 [ 1] Added to NRHP. July 6, 1976. The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world, and is the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, United States, reflecting its roots in the iron and steel industry. The 56-foot (17 m) tall statue depicts the Roman god Vulcan, god of the fire and forge, with ironworking equipment.
Lawson State Community College (Lawson State, Lawson, LSCC) is a public, historically black community college with campuses in Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama. The technical division of the college was founded as Wenonah State Technical Institute in Birmingham in 1949.
Birmingham, Alabama. / 33.51750°N 86.80944°W / 33.51750; -86.80944. Birmingham ( / ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm / BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,505, down 2% from ...
Nichole Brink, who says she quit her job as an agent for Farmers Insurance last year, claimed to the Journal some customers were dropped based on aerial images that were two or three years old ...