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At 2,405 feet Cheaha Mountain is Alabama's highest point above sea level. |
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In 1902 Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound in a young boy's heart. The surgery occurred in Montgomery, Alabama. |
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Singer and entertainer Nathaniel Adams (Nat King) Cole was known as the man with the velvet voice. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1919 and died in 1965. |
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