The typical division of branches is into a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary. It can be contrasted with the fusion of powers in a parliamentary system where the executive and legislature (and sometimes parts of the judiciary) are unified.
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the Heart of Dixie and the Cotton State. The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, IPA: / Ë aÉª s Él /), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS / Ë aÉª s Éª s /), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (Arabic: Ø¯Ø§Ø¹Ø´ â dÄÊ¿ish, IPA: [ËdaËÊÉªÊ]), is a Salafi jihadist militant group and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi, and heterodox doctrine of Sunni Islam.