The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa in Mobile AL
Reservations: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa 26 North Royal Street Mobile AL 36602 This Mobile hotel is a 3 minute walk from the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center and one mile from the Conde Charlotte Museum House. Guests can enjoy an outdoor pool, hot tub, and 3 on-site restaurants. A 42-inch flat-screen TV, desk, and sitting area are featured in all guest rooms. Select rooms at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa include a fireplace. Access to free Wi-Fi, a fitness center, and business center is available to all guests at this Alabama Battle House Renaissance Hotel and Spa. Guests can also escape to the full-service spa after an exciting day of sightseeing. Local ingredients on seasonal menus are served for breakfast and dinner at The Trellis Room. Specialty martinis, light fare, and live music can be found in the Royal Street Tavern. Pizza, sandwiches, and salads are available at Joe Cain Café. The Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center and the USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park are within 2 miles of the hotel. Historic Blakeley State Park is 14 miles away.
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00:02:28 1 Etymology
00:03:08 2 History
00:03:17 2.1 Colonial
00:08:00 2.2 19th century
00:13:19 2.3 20th century
00:21:49 3 Geography and climate
00:21:59 3.1 Geography
00:22:47 3.2 Neighborhoods
00:23:11 3.3 Climate
00:25:27 3.3.1 Christmas Day tornado
00:26:58 4 Culture
00:28:02 4.1 Carnival and Mardi Gras
00:31:01 4.2 Archives and libraries
00:32:45 4.3 Arts and entertainment
00:36:44 5 Tourism
00:36:53 5.1 Museums
00:39:17 5.2 Parks and other attractions
00:41:35 5.3 Historic architecture
00:45:06 6 Demographics
00:47:35 7 Government
00:50:00 8 Education
00:50:08 8.1 Public facilities
00:50:56 8.2 Private facilities
00:52:20 8.3 Tertiary
00:52:29 8.4 Primary and secondary
00:52:54 8.4.1 Undergraduate and postgraduate
00:54:46 8.4.2 Community college
00:55:09 8.4.3 Vocational
00:55:39 9 Healthcare
00:57:48 10 Economy
00:58:49 10.1 Major industry
00:58:57 10.1.1 Port of Mobile
00:59:37 10.1.2 Shipyards
01:00:44 10.1.3 Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley
01:03:01 10.1.4 ThyssenKrupp
01:03:52 10.2 Top employers
01:04:09 10.3 Unemployment rate
01:04:37 11 Transportation
01:04:47 11.1 Air
01:05:25 11.2 Rail
01:06:27 11.3 Roadways
01:08:14 11.4 Water
01:10:36 12 Media
01:10:44 12.1 Print
01:11:24 12.2 Television
01:12:34 12.3 Radio
01:13:33 13 Sports
01:13:42 13.1 Football
01:14:55 13.2 Baseball
01:15:33 13.3 Basketball
01:15:52 13.4 Other sports and facilities
01:16:55 14 Sister cities
01:17:09 15 Tunnels
01:17:28 16 See also
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Mobile ( moh-BEEL; French pronunciation: [mɔ.bil]) is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the Gulf Coast between New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of the Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. This region of 412,992 residents is composed solely of Mobile County; it is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the state. Mobile is the largest city in the Mobile-Daphne−Fairhope CSA, with a total population of 604,726, the second largest in the state. As of 2011, the population within a 60-mile (100 km) radius of Mobile is 1,262,907.Mobile was established in 1702 by the French as the first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France). During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the United States of America in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain. In 1861, Alabama joined the Confederate States of America, which surrendered in 1865.Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States. Its French Catholic colonial settlers celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States. (In New Orleans such a group is called a krewe.)
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The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
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Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties. Those who engage in acts of piracy are called pirates. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilizations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. A land-based parallel is the ambushing of travelers by bandits and brigands in highways and mountain passes. Privateering uses similar methods to piracy, but the captain acts under orders of the state authorizing the capture of merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation, making it a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors.While the term can include acts committed in the air, on land (especially across national borders or in connection with taking over and robbing a car or train), or in other major bodies of water or on a shore, this article focuses on maritime piracy. It does not normally include crimes committed against people traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states. In the early 21st century, seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant issue (with estimated worldwide losses of US$16 billion per year in 2004), particularly in the waters between the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and also in the Strait of Malacca and Singapore.
Today, pirates armed with automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades use small motorboats to attack and board ships, a tactic that takes advantage of the small number of crew members on modern cargo vessels and transport ships. They also use larger vessels, known as mother ships, to supply the smaller motorboats. The international community is facing many challenges in bringing modern pirates to justice, as these attacks often occur in international waters. Some nations have used their naval forces to protect private ships from pirate attacks and to pursue pirates, and some private vessels use armed security guards, high-pressure hoses or sound cannons to repel boarders, and use radar to avoid potential threats.