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	History and Culture - Volume 2 - Draft Heritage Study and Environmental Assessment
		Mississippian is the term with which archeologists label the diverse pre-European contact societies of Indians who eventually inhabited the fertile river valleys of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi Rivers in what is now the southeastern United States, extending as far west and north as present-day Oklahoma and Wisconsin, respectively.
		As political and social ranking proliferated, the Mississippian mindset was increasingly reinforced by ceremony and sacrament.
		Ravaged by epidemics of smallpox and malaria and infections such as typhoid fever, measles, syphilis, and tuberculosis, the Mississippian population plummeted (Thomas, Josephy, and Miller 1993).
	www.nps.gov /history/delta/volume2/history.htm (16022 words)

	List of famous Old Etonians - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about List of famous Old Etonians
		List of famous Old Etonians born in the 16th and 17th centuries
		List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century
		List of famous Old Etonians born in the 19th century
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /List+of+famous+Old+Etonians (232 words)

	Mississippi
		The name itself probably comes from Native American words with various spellings that mean "large waters" or "father of the waters." Other nicknames attached to Mississippi are the Eagle State, the Border-Eagle State, and the Bayou State.
		Mississippians are sometimes called Mudcats after the freshwater catfish taken from the state's streams.
		USS Mississippi was named in honor of this state.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mississippi.html (857 words)

	Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mississippi was part of the Mississippian culture in the early part of the second millennium AD; descendant Native American tribes include the Chickasaw and Choctaw.
		People of Hispanic origin, who may be of any race, comprised 1.4% of the population in 2000, and an estimated 1.5% in 2003.
		By 1900 the vast majority of fl Mississippians were denied the right to vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mississippi (2745 words)

	New signals from a gestural painter \| Philadelphia Inquirer \| 09/14/2007
		Melissa Meyer, whose career is the subject of two exhibitions at Swarthmore College (in its List Gallery and the McCabe Library), was making gestural, studiously untrendy abstract oil paintings throughout much of the '80s and into the late '90s.
		This was a person who was slowly but surely working out a way to put her own idiosyncratic mark on the history of gestural painting, and developing her own distinctive color.
		The exhibitions at Swarthmore, organized by the independent curator William Carroll and List Gallery curator Andrea Packard (accompanied by a catalog with essays by Robert Storr and David Cohen), illuminate the trajectory of Meyer's journey to her exuberantly colored work.
	www.philly.com /inquirer/weekend/9763972.html (670 words)

	Mississippi - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Although Mississippians still cherish the columned mansions and hallowed traditions of their past, they can now boast a diversified industrial and agricultural economy.
		Too many Mississippians depend for their livelihoods on government: In many depressed counties the chief source of income is government payments such as welfare and social security.
		Black Mississippians, whose voter registration increased to nearly 60 percent by 1968 and to 74 percent by 1998, largely supported the Democratic Party.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761575599___0/mississippi.html (13275 words)

	History and Culture - Volume 2 - Draft Heritage Study and Environmental Assessment
		Mississippian is the term with which archeologists label the diverse pre-European contact societies of Indians who eventually inhabited the fertile river valleys of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi Rivers in what is now the southeastern United States, extending as far west and north as present-day Oklahoma and Wisconsin, respectively.
		As political and social ranking proliferated, the Mississippian mindset was increasingly reinforced by ceremony and sacrament.
		Ravaged by epidemics of smallpox and malaria and infections such as typhoid fever, measles, syphilis, and tuberculosis, the Mississippian population plummeted (Thomas, Josephy, and Miller 1993).
	www.cr.nps.gov /delta/volume2/history.htm (16022 words)

	American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Luther King is perhaps most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
		The State of Alabama had effectively barred the NAACP from operating in Alabama in 1956 by requiring it to give the state a list of its members, then enjoining it from operating within the state when it failed to do so.
		A day after delivering his famous "Mountaintop" sermon at Lawson's church, King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_rights_of_the_United_States (9030 words)

	djournal.com
		We're not talking about freeloaders but hard-working lower- and middle-income Mississippians - as well as the elderly living on fixed incomes - who spend virtually all their income on life's necessities.
		Food is the most basic in the list of necessities.
		A tax system that more proportionately taxes higher incomes is fairer because those people can better afford it and the impact on their disposable income isn't proportionately as great.
	www.djournal.com /pages/story.asp?ID=210903&pub=1&div=Opinion (611 words)

	2ndReg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Mississippians and other parts of Bee's and Bartow's brigades on the field were sent to support that line, and finding Evans' men fighting against desperate odds, advanced rapidly across Young's branch and went into the fight about 11 o'clock.
		The remnant of this regiment (sixty muskets) shared in the famous charge of the Mississippians up the slope of Cemetery ridge, July 3, a charge made by Heth's division, under Pettigrew, and Pickett's division, and of this heroic remnant all but one were killed, wounded or captured.
		The casualty list of the regiment at Gettysburg was 40 killed and 183 wounded.
	www.homestead.com /rebelyell/2ndReg.html (2813 words)

	FNG Heritage Center - Florida's Soldiers Beyond the Border 1861 - 1865
		Proud regiments, counting one thousand or more men at the beginning of the war, were surrendered at war’s end with at most a few dozen men still present and ready for duty.
		To list the battles in which this Florida Brigade fought is to list every battle fought by Lee’s army.
		At Fredericksburg in December of that year, portions of the brigade, led by David Lang (a future Adjutant General of Florida), were brigaded with Barksdale’s Mississippians to defend the town against Union units attempting to bridge and cross the river.
	www.floridaguard.army.mil /history/read.asp?did=1307 (1399 words)

	MS Potters
		Given that two young sons are listed as farm laborers in 1880, he may have purchased land by that time with the intention of becoming a farmer rather than mechanic or laborer.
		Children are listed as John C., 18, student, born North Carolina; Martha, 14, born in Tennessee; Jemima, 13, student, born in Tennessee; Margaret, 11, student, born in Mississippi; Green, 7, student, born in Mississippi; Lavina, 4, born in Mississippi; and Julia A. Hill, 19, born in North Carolina (sister-in-law?).
		Clay from one of the many outcrops in the vicinity of Lockhart was tested by the state geological survey at cone 4 as light pink, soft, and porous; at cone 8 as light gray, hard, and slightly porous; and at cone 13 as dark gray and steel hard, becoming white at cone 20 (Logan 1909:197).
	www.deltaarchaeology.us /ms_potters.htm (16047 words)

	FNG Heritage Center - Florida's Soldiers Beyond the Border 1861 - 1865 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Proud regiments, counting one thousand or more men at the beginning of the war, were surrendered at war’s end with at most a few dozen men still present and ready for duty.
		To list the battles in which this Florida Brigade fought is to list every battle fought by Lee’s army.
		At Fredericksburg in December of that year, portions of the brigade, led by David Lang (a future Adjutant General of Florida), were brigaded with Barksdale’s Mississippians to defend the town against Union units attempting to bridge and cross the river.
	www.floridaguard.net /history/read.asp?did=1307 (1399 words)

	Owen Cooper (1908-1986): Business Leader and Humanitarian
		While today’s young people might not include him on their list of RICH AND FAMOUS, the name of Owen Cooper would be recognized by persons both inside and outside Mississippi for his many contributions to the economic, social, and spiritual well-being of many people.
		Students are probably more familiar with the term “famous” than they are with the concept of humanitarianism.
		Ask them to write a meaning in their notes, share it with a partner, check in a dictionary, discuss it with the whole class, and reach consensus regarding the appropriate definition of the term.
	teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us /mhnlp/owencooperlp.htm (645 words)

	MSU News: MSU researchers spend decade rooting for 'bear' facts
		Both are on the state's list of endangered species.
		Their numbers were such that President Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Mississippi in 1902 for what became probably America's most famous bear hunt.
		For his widely reported refusal to shoot a captured cub, Roosevelt, a renowned sportsman and conservationist, inadvertently lent his nickname to the stuffed toy bear that was popular in the late Victorian era.
	www.msstate.edu /web/media/detail.php?id=1416 (646 words)

	Perfect Words: Faculty List
		She is descended from a long line of Mississippians but was raised in Florida.
		His famous love affair with the author Georges Sand is one of the most celebrated combinations of words and music in history.
		Wiltz became fascinated with the life of the famous and well-loved New Orleans madam Norma Wallace, a life story as entertaining as most fiction, laced as it was with her personal relationships with the Louisiana politicians of her day, many of whom considered her "house" more of a political fraternity house than a cat house.
	members.aol.com /faulkhouse/faulty.html (18448 words)

	Mississippi State University Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In deciding what factors make a writer appropriate for the list, the central problem is determining an individual's relationship to the state.
		These individuals may be considered Mississippians by virtue of the influence the state had on them or the influence they had on the state.
		Her famous saying, which expressed her views on the social injustices facing Black Americans, was "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." Her involvement in the struggle for human rights attracted the attention of many African governments.
	library.msstate.edu /content/templates/default.aspx?a=137&template=print-article.htm (8325 words)

	Profile and Trivia
		Faced with enslavement by the Biloxi tribe, the Pascagoulas joined hands and began to chant a song of death as they walked into the river until the last voice was hushed by the dark, engulfing waters.
		The Singing River is famous worldwide for the noise it makes, like a swarm of bees.
		The music, which grows nearer and louder until it seems to come from under foot, is best heard in the still of evening, during late summer and autumn.
	www.cityofpascagoula.com /profiletrivia.htm (1309 words)

	Mrs. Chapman's Middle School English - Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death. - Moliere ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Famous Mississippians: Dana Andrews, Jimmy Buffett, Hodding Carter III, Bo Diddley, William Faulkner, Shelby Foote, Morgan Freeman, John Grisham, Fannie Lou Hamer, Jim Henson, Robert Johnson, James Earl Jones, B. King, L.
		List two things going on in nature and why they are important.
		List three things the Logan family will do to try to get by until the cotton can be ginned.
	teacherweb.com /GA/FlintRiverAcademy/JenniferChapman/h3.stm (1938 words)

	Mississippi People
		Mississippians have changed the face of American life in science, art, industry,athletics, and entertainment.
		We have begun with representatives from a wide variety of fields, backgrounds, and areas of the state.
		Neither can we cover in detail the lives of these famous Mississippians, but we hope that our comments will inspire all viewers to further research.
	www2.nemcc.edu /mspeople (219 words)

	SparkNotes: The Unvanquished: Context
		William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in the town of New Albany, Mississippi.
		His family had been influential Mississippians for almost seventy-five years: a great-grandfather, William Falkner (his great-grandson added a "u" to the family surname) was a slave-owning planter and a colonel in the Confederate army, much like Colonel Sartoris; one of Faulkner's grandfathers controlled the Gulf & Chicago Railroad.
		But his father, Murry, lost his job when William was five, and the family moved forty miles away to Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi, the town where Faulkner would spend most of his adult life and the model for the fictional Jefferson.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/unvanquished/context.html (741 words)

	The Lightspan Network - sw
		There is also a list of some notable natives and residents, a locational map, and an enlargeable.gif state map which you might like to download into a project.
		Its history is also overviewed, and besides a list of famous Mississippians, you'll find a state flag image and an enlargeable map.
		It's a simple listing of state facts, with a flag graphic, a solid state shape image, and links to view a photo of, or contact, your Congressional representative.
	www.lightspan.com /common/studyweb/sw.asp?target=http://www.studyweb.com/links/7664.html (796 words)

	Ballot initiatives Archive \| Democracy in America \| Economist.com
		Mississippians will decide whether to give Haley Barbour a second term as governor, or whether to send him to sleep with the catfishes (not likely).
		Democrat Steve Beshear is expected to oust Republican Ernie Fletcher in Kentucky's gubernatorial race, despite some mysterious robocalling putatively from the "homosexual lobby".
		It is well known to American libertarians, if almost no one else, that the famous rights to which the Declaration of Independence declared all men were entitled—"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"—would have been "life, liberty and property" were it not for some last-minute waffling by its author, Thomas Jefferson.
	www.economist.com /blogs/democracyinamerica/ballot_initiatives (969 words)

	Tourism
		And so it is with the beauty of famous scenery, which lies in any case in what feels about it oneself.
		Thus there are famous scenic spots which I do not feel are anything extraordinary, and there are unknown places that I think are quite wonderful.
		This is a famous long-term conflict resulting from colonial powers ignoring preexisting intertribal politics.
	www.deltaarchaeology.us /tourism.htm (6506 words)

	History-Sites.com - Contributing Authors
		Listed below are the books or forthcoming works of the authors who, so graciously, give of their time and expertise by contributing to the scholarly discussion here at the "History-Sites.com" Civil War Message Boards.
		The book lists the soldiers alphabetically and gives their company and regiment, along with their rank at the time of the battle.
		Appendices include a list of forces that took part in the Battle of the Crater, a table of casualties from the battle and a list of soldiers decorated for gallantry during the conflict.
	history-sites.com /books.htm (11880 words)

	LESSON PLANS
		On the board or on butcher paper in the center of the circle, write the characteristics the students have listed.
		All along connections are made between the lecture and the list the students created.
		Students are given hand-outs of Margaret Walker Alexander’s “Jackson, Mississippi,” a volunteer reads it aloud and the class is instructed to list elements of the Mississippi Literature found in the poem.
	www.jsums.edu /plans/Ellington.htm (1641 words)

	Slavery in America
		Census enumerators usually listed light-skinned slaves and free fls as mulattoes, meaning the offspring of white and fl parents.
		After the Civil War, the term miscegenation started being used as a derogatory word covering the whole range of mixed racial offspring, and the word mulatto was dropped from the vocabulary and from the census.
		Instead, census takers listed any and all light-skinned African Americans as simply "Negro." The Reconstruction governments removed the bans on interracial marriages, but many southern states reinstated these laws after 1876, and some states even wrote anti-miscegenation provisions into their state constitutions.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /scripts/sia/glossary.cgi?term=m&letter=yes) (4315 words)

	Eudora: a writer's life, by Ann Waldron (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The much-honored first lady of American letters is a gracious, soft-spoken Mississippian who has always guarded her privacy and refused to talk about her personal life.
		But Welty is almost as famous for her unwriterly personality and down-home lifestyle as she is for her work, as Waldron points out.
		Waldron suggests that Welty, who has never married, had an intense friendship, and possibly a sexual relationship, with Bowen, who was thought to be bisexual, and she writes at length about Welty's intimate friendship with a man who turned out to be homosexual.
	www.bonster.com /eudora.html (763 words)

	JURIST – The Mississippi Burning Trial
		Among those being trained for a summer of work aimed at improving the lives of fl Mississippians was a Queens College student named Andrew Goodman, who Schwerner convinced to come to Meridian.
		The list of those indicted differed slightly from the original list, and included the names of eighteen Klansmen.
		Famous Trials is JURIST's guide to celebrated historic trials, written by Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/mississippi.php (3405 words)

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