Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 14,012. In the 19th century, the site of Fort Payne was the location of Willstown, an important village of the Cherokee people. For a time it was the home of Sequoyah, a silversmith who invented the Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in the language; the settlement was called Willstown, after its headman, a red-headed mixed-race man named Will. According to Major John Norton, a more accurate transliteration would have been Titsohili; the son of a Cherokee adoptee of the Mohawk people, Norton grew up among Native Americans and traveled extensively throughout the region in the early 19th century. He stayed at Willstown several times. During the 1830s prior to Indian removal, the US Army under command of Major John Payne built a fort here, used to intern Cherokees until relocation to Oklahoma, their forced exile became known as the Trail of Tears. By the 1860s, Fort Payne and the surrounding area were still sparsely settled.

It had no strategic targets and was the scene of only minor skirmishes between Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. About the time of the Second Battle of Chattanooga, a large Union force entered the county, but it did not engage substantial Confederate forces. In 1878 Fort Payne became the county seat, in 1889 it was incorporated as a town; the community of Lebanon had served as the county seat since 1850. With the completion of rail lines between Birmingham and Chattanooga, Fort Payne began to grow, as it was on the rail line. County sentiment supported having the seat in a community served by the railroad. In the late 1880s, Fort Payne experienced explosive growth as investors and workers from New England and the North flooded into the region to exploit coal and iron deposits discovered a few years earlier; this period is called the "Boom Days", or the "Boom". Many of the notable and historic buildings in Fort Payne date from this period of economic growth, including the state's oldest standing theater, the Fort Payne Opera House.

Today, it serves as a museum of local history. The iron and coal deposits turned out to be much smaller. Many of the Boom promoters left the region for Birmingham, Fort Payne experienced a period of economic decline; that downturn shifted in 1907, when the W. B. Davis Hosiery Mill began operations; this was the beginning of decades of hosiery manufacture in Fort Payne. By the beginning of the 21st century, the hosiery industry in Fort Payne employed over 7,000 people in more than 100 mills, it produced more than half of the socks made in the United States and was designated the "Sock Capital of the World." Beginning in the 1990s, the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Central American Free Trade Agreement lowered tariffs on textile products imported into the United States, resulting in large increases in sock imports. Many businesses in Fort Payne accused foreign manufacturers those from China, of engaging in dumping of socks below cost to force American companies out of the sock business.

By 2005, hosiery mill employment in Fort Payne had declined to around 5,500, several mills had closed. In late 2005, the federal government gained an agreement with the Chinese government to slow the schedule for the removal of tariffs, delaying their full removal until 2008; the hosiery industry continues to have a foothold in the community, diversifying from athletic socks to boutique designs like Zkano, other specialty & medical socks. Reacting more to changes than at the end of the Boom, in the 1990s, business and civic leaders in Fort Payne began to take steps to diversify the city's economy. Several new commercial and industrial projects were developed; the largest was the 2006 construction of a distribution center for The Children's Place stores, a facility that employed 600 people in its first phase of operation. Other large corporations with locations in Fort Payne include Heil Environmental Industries. Fort Payne houses the headquarters for the nearby Little River Canyon National Preserve, a 14,000-acre National Park Service facility established by Congress in 1992.

The canyon itself is on Lookout Mountain outside the city limits. Another attraction based on natural resources is DeSoto State Park, a smaller facility with a lodge, restaurant and river access areas. Manitou Cave is near Fort Payne; the country music group Alabama is based in Fort Payne. The city houses the group's fan club and museum. Fort Payne is within a 30-minute drive of substantial water recreational areas, notably Guntersville Lake, Weiss Lake, an artificial lake on the Coosa River. Fort Payne is near Mentone, a popular mountain resort area known for summer children's camps, rustic hotels and cabins. Fort Payne is located in northeastern Alabama at 34°27′14″N 85°42′24″W. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 55.8 square miles, of which 55.5 square miles is land and 0.35 square miles, or 0.64%, is water. The city is located along Interstate 59, which runs from southwest to northeast to the west of the city, with access from exits 218 and 222. Via I-59, Tennessee is 53 mi northeast, B

"Most Girls" is a song by American singer Pink, as a second single from her debut album Can't Take Me Home. It was released in mid-2000 and, after spending 16 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaked at number four on November 25, it reached number one in Australia, where it was certified platinum, number two in Canada and New Zealand, number five in the United Kingdom. Stephen Thomas Erlewine highlighted the song in his review of the album "Can't Take Me Home". MTV Asia noted. Q magazine noted. UK CD single "Most Girls" – 4:10 "Most Girls" – 4:53 "There You Go" – 6:20 "Most Girls" – 4:31UK Cassette single "Most Girls" – 4:10 "There You Go" – 6:20American CD single "Most Girls" – 9:00 Janette Champion is her niece she was helping her wrote her songs "Most Girls" – 7:32 "Most Girls" – 5:03 "Most Girls" – 4:32 "There You Go" – 5:31American DVD single "Most Girls" - 4:31 "There You Go" - 2:00 "Most Girls" - 3:38Australian CD single "Most Girls" – 4:10 "Hiccup" - 3:38 "There You Go" - 3:47 "Most Girls" – 4:31European CD single "Most Girls" – 4:10 "Most Girls" – 4:52German CD single "Most Girls" – 4:10 "Most Girls" – 4:52 "Most Girls" – 5:21 "There You Go" – 6:20 "Most Girls" - 4:31

Dead at Daybreak is the second crime novel written by South African thriller novelist, Deon Meyer. Its Afrikaans title is Orion, it has been translated into English by Madeleine van Biljon. In this bestselling thriller, the author brings together history, that of the apartheid system, politics, that of South Africa in Angola; this book won the France's Prix Mystère de la critique. It has been the basis of Orion, a series for television. Zatopek'Zet' van Heerden, an Afrikaner former cop, is private detective, he is appointed by the lawyer Hope Beneke to find in less than 7 days a testament bequeathing to the widow Wilna van As the fortune of her husband, Johannes Jacobus Smit. This rich antiquarian was tortured at their home and murdered after the opening of his safe-deposit box and the stealing of its content. Van Heerden discovers that "J. J. Smit" was not the person whose papers he carried, that someone wants to hide his true identity; the plot alternates between the chapters written in the third person and describing the step-by-step investigations, those written in the first person and detailing the history of the personal life of Zet van Heerden.

This character is like a vindicator showing us that no one holds a single truth, that coexistence with former enemies is difficult. In parallel, the reader discovers the life of Thobela Mpayipheli, a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe — the armed wing of African National Congress — sent to the former Soviet Union and East Germany to be trained as an assassin. In a dialogue with Hope, a sentence summarizes how between Zet, the main character, oscillates between positive and negative feelings.'My mother is an artist. That's her work.' He pointed to the wall.'She creates beautiful paintings. She looks at the world and she makes it more beautiful on canvas. I think it's her way of distancing herself from the evil, in all of us.'. Deon Meyer official website