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	Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mississippi is bordered on the north by the state of Tennessee; on the east by Alabama, on the south by Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico; and on the west by Louisiana and Arkansas (across the Mississippi River).
		Mississippi is heavily forested, with over half of the state's acerage covered by wild trees (mostly pine trees, but Mississippi has an abundance of other trees (cottonwood, elm, hickory, oak, pecan, sweet gum, and tupelo).
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mississippi (2776 words)

	Louisiana - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The state is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of Mississippi, and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico.
		Most of the settlement concentrated along the banks of the Mississippi and its major tributaries, with trading outposts and mission settlements in the Illinois Country, as far north as Peoria, Illinois and a number of settlements in the area around near present-day Saint Louis, Missouri.
		Most of the territory to the east of the Mississippi was lost to Great Britain in the French and Indian War, except for the area around New Orleans and the parishes around Lake Pontchartrain.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Louisiana (2344 words)

	Mississippi Delta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mississippi Delta is the distinct northwest section of the state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.
		Technically not a delta but part of an alluvial plain, it has been said that The Delta "begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel (in Memphis) and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg" (various writers have been attributed with composing this memorable line, but most often David Cohen is credited with the saying).
		The Mississippi Delta is the setting for several stories by William Faulkner, most notably The Bear from Go Down, Moses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mississippi_Delta (1000 words)

	Chicago - LoveToKnow Watches
		Trunk lines reach E. to Montreal, Boston, [[New York (disambiguation), Philadelphia, Baltimore (the nearest point on the Atlantic coast, 8J4 m.); S. to Charleston, Savannah, Florida, Mobile, New Orleans, Port Arthur and Galveston; W. to the Pacific at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver, and to most of these by a variety of routes.
		The Illinois and Michigan canal is used by small craft, and the new drainage canal also may be used for shipping in view of the Federal government's improvements of the rivers connecting it with the Mississippi for the construction of a ship-canal for large vessels.
		Its course from Hennepin is by the Bureau Creek valley to the mouth of Queen river on the Rock river, thence by the Rock river and a canal around its rapids at Milan to its mouth at Rock Island on the Mississippi river.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chicago (9100 words)

	Mississippi River - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The river is divided into the upper Mississippi, from its source south to the Ohio River, and the lower Mississippi, from the Ohio to its mouth near New Orleans.
		The upper Mississippi is further divided into three sections: the headwaters, from the source to Saint Anthony Falls; a series of man-made lakes between Minneapolis and St.
		The task of maintaining a navigation channel on the Mississippi is the responsibility of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which began as early as 1829 removing snags, closing off secondary channels and excavating rocks and sandbars.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=19579 (2220 words)

	The Ultimate Mississippi River - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi.
		The Mississippi is joined by the Illinois River and the Missouri River at Saint Louis, and by the Ohio at Cairo, Illinois.
		Louis; and the middle Mississippi, a relatively free-flowing river downstream of the confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Mississippi_River (2027 words)

	Patrick Henry - LoveToKnow Watches
		Moreover, in the state convention called to decide whether Virginia should ratify the Federal Constitution he led the opposition, contending that the proposed Constitution, because of its centralizing character, was dangerous to the liberties of the country.
		This change of attitude is thought to have been due chiefly to his suspicion of the North aroused by John Jay's proposal to surrender to Spain for twentyfive or thirty years the navigation of the Mississippi.
		From 1 794 until his death he declined in succession the following offices: United States senator (1794), secretary of state in Washington's cabinet (1795), chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1795), governor of Virginia (1796), to which office he had been elected by the Assembly, and envoy to France (1 799).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Patrick_Henry (1017 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
		That afternoon the NHC extended the watch to cover the whole of the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines and President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi two days before the hurricane made landfall.
		Although the storm surge to the east of the path of the eye, in Mississippi was higher, a very significant surge affected the Louisiana coast.
		The height of the surge is uncertain due to a lack of data, although a tide gauge in Plaquemines Parish indicated a storm tide in excess of 14 feet (4.3 meters) and a 12 foot (3 meter) storm surge was recorded in Grand Isle.
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Hurricane_Katrina (6697 words)

	Mississippi Football -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1821, the Mississippi General Assembly, meeting in the then-capital, Natchez, had sent Thomas Hinds (for whom Hinds County is named), James Patton, and William Lattimore to look for a site.
		Measurements of the length of the Mississippi from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico vary, but the EPA's number is 2,320 miles (3733 km).
		http://www.nps.gov/miss/features/factoids/ in Wisconsin, with Minnesota in the distance across the Mississippi River]] The river is divided into the upper Mississippi, from its source south to the Ohio River, and the lower Mississippi, from the Ohio to its mouth near New Orleans.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/99/mississippi-football.html (1157 words)

	jazz - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The city soon fell heavily under the influence of waves of New Orleans musicians, and the older style blended with the New Orleans style to form what would be called "Chicago Jazz" starting in the late 1910s.
		Along the banks of the Mississippi around Memphis, Tennessee to Saint Louis, Missouri, another band style developed incorporating the blues.
		The most famous composer and bandleader of the style was the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/jazz (4990 words)

	About Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mississippi College Mississippi College is a predominantly Baptist college located in Clinton, Mississippi.
		Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi in the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles northeast of Jacks...
		Alternate uses: Mount Royal (disambiguation) Mount Royal (French: mont Royal) is a mountain on the Island of Montreal, immediately north of downtown Montréal, Québec,...
	www.info-pedia.net /about/index_33.html (1316 words)

	Louisiana - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The first European explorers to visit what is now Louisiana were a 1528 Spanish expedition (led by Panfilo de Narváez) that located the mouth of the Mississippi River.
		Louisiana was named by the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in honor of Louis XIV in 1682.
		Bernard Parish, in the river passes east of the city, along an old mouth of the Mississippi River which they named Terre aux Boeufs (literally "Land of the Cows" for the cattle living there).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/o/u/Louisiana.html (2687 words)

	Iowa
		In the summer of 1673, French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette traveled down the Mississippi River past the land that was to become the state of Iowa.
		The earliest settlers shipped their agricultural goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, but by the 1850s, Iowans had caught the nation's railroad fever.
		The Mississippi River forms the eastern boundary of the state.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Iowa (3624 words)

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		The height of the surge is uncertain due to a lack of data, although a tide gauge in Plaquemines Parish indicated a storm tide in excess of 14 feet (4.3 meters) and a 12 foot (3 meter) storm surge was recorded in Grand Isle.
		Preliminary estimates by Mississippi officials calculated that 90% of the structures within half a mile of the coastline were completely destroyed.
		In Dauphin Island, approximately 150 km to the east of the point where the hurricane made landfall, the sand that comprised the barrier island was transported across the island into the Mississippi Sound, pushing the island towards land.
	briansprediction.com /katrina.htm (5386 words)

	Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mississippi's population in 2003 was estimated at 2,881,281.
		The white population of Mississippi is remarkably homogeneous.
		Mississippi's religious affiliations largely consist of evangelical Christian denominations, particularly Baptists (Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptist, etc.); along with Methodist and Presbyterian.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/mississippi (968 words)

	MCI - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was based in Clinton, Mississippi before moving to its present corporate headquarters..
		Under the bankruptcy reorganization agreement, the company paid $750 million to the SEC in cash and stock in the new MCI,which was intended to be paid to wronged investors.
		WorldCom changed its name to MCI, and moved the corporate headquarters from Mississippi to Virginia, on April 14, 2003.
	www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=MCI (932 words)

	Top20Mississippi.com - Your Top20 Guide to Mississippi! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mississippi was a center of the civil rights movement.
		The white population of Mississippi is remarkably homogeneous and mostly of American ancestry.
		Mississippi's religious affiliations principally consist of evangelical Protestant denominations, particularly the Baptists (Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptist, etc.), along with Methodists and Presbyterians.
	top20mississippi.com (1836 words)

	Mississippi River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The upper Mississippi is further divided into three sections: the headwaters, from the source to Saint Anthony Falls; a series of man-made lakes between Minneapolis and St. Louis; and the middle Mississippi, a relatively free-flowing River downstream of the confluence With the Missouri River at St. Louis.
		Other changes in the course of the River have occurred because of earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault Zone, which lies near the cities of Memphis and St. Louis.
		Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge near New Orleans, a cable-stayed bridge carrying Interstate 310 across the Mississippi, connecting the towns of Luling and Destrehan, Louisiana.
	mississippi-river.mindbit.com (2279 words)

	Articles - Magnolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For this reason, it has become a symbol of support for the regions most heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in the late summer of 2005 (for example, presenters at the 2005 Emmy Awards on September 18, 2005, wore magnolias on their lapels, as did host Ellen DeGeneres, a New Orleans native).
		Mississippi´s state nickname is the "Magnolia State", because of the abundance of magnolias in the state.
		The magnolia is also the official state tree of Mississippi.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/Magnolia (2339 words)

	wiki/USA Definition / wiki/USA Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It uses the U.S. postal abbreviation LA. The state is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of Mississippi, and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico.
		Mississippi Mississippi is a southern state of the United States.
		The heart of the Midwest is bounded by the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, the 'Old Northwest' (or the 'West') referring to the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, which comprised the original Northwest Territory, but are now...
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/USA (13290 words)

	Blues - Enpsychlopedia
		Kubik also pointed out that the Mississippi technique of playing the guitar using a knife blade, recorded by W.C. Handy in his autobiography, is common to West and Central Africa cultures where the kora, a guitar-like instrument, is often the stringed instrument of choice.
		The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy style, often accompanied by slide guitar and harmonica, and characterized by a spare style and passionate vocals.
		The Chicago blues is influenced to a large extent by the Mississippi blues style, because most artists of this period were migrants from the Mississippi region: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Jimmy Reed were all born in Mississippi.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Blues (7044 words)

	NEW ORLEANS : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The site was selected because of its relatively high elevation along the flood-prone banks of the Lower Mississippi River and its location adjacent to a Native American trading route and portage between the river and Lake Pontchartrain.
		The city is located in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, mostly between the Mississippi River in the south and Lake Pontchartrain in the north.
		A tanker on the Mississippi River in New Orleans.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/New_Orleans (5994 words)

	Help.com - alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		About three-fifths of the land area is a gentle plain with a general decline towards the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
		The lowest point east of the Mississippi River lies in Dekalb County along a creek cutting tower ridges, and creating Buck's Pocket State Park.
		States bordering Alabama include Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida to the south; and Mississippi to the west.
	help.com /wiki/Alabama (1834 words)

	VC
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
		In less than an hour it is known all over the Mississippi Pacific Ocean.
		All America, while arming for the war, was still protesting conclusion, the expediency of which more than a year of blood was Alexander presided in the meeting, and the famous "Mecklenburg and adopted a system of government and military commissions.
	www.factspider.com /vc/vc.html (214 words)

	MCI - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The company began in Jackson, Mississippi as Long Distance Discount Services, Inc. (LDDS) in 1983.
		Under the bankruptcy reorganization agreement, the company paid $750 million to the SEC in cash and stock in the new MCI, which was intended to be paid to wronged investors.
		It has yet to pay many of its creditors, who have waited for 2 years for a portion of monies owed.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/MCI (1098 words)

	Articles - KKK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In an 1868 newspaper interview, Forrest boasted that the Klan was a nationwide organization of 550,000 men, and that although he himself was not a member, he was "in sympathy" and would "cooperate" with them, and could himself muster 40,000 Klansmen with five days´ notice.
		The tide was turned in favor of the bill by the governor of South Carolina´s appeal for federal troops, and by reports of a riot and massacre in a Meridian, Mississippi, courthouse, which a fl state representative escaped only by taking to the woods.
		The Klan was involved in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi, and also murdered Viola Liuzzo, a Southern-raised white mother of five who was visiting the South from her home in Detroit to attend a civil rights march.
	www.techize.com /articles/KKK (5937 words)

	The Ultimate Confederate States of America - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The Confederate States of America (CSA, also known as the Confederacy) was the confederation formed by the southern slave states that seceded from the United States and existed from 1861 to 1865.
		Eventually a total of 11 states became part of the Confederacy, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
		Missouri and Kentucky never officially seceded, but factions from those states applied for acceptance into the confederacy, and those states are represented as stars on the Confederate battle flag.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Confederate_States_of_America (1354 words)

	Really Big Search Results for - "tunica" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tunica may refer to: This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
		Tunica is a town in Tunica County, Mississippi, located on the Mississippi River.
		Tunica is a casino resort town in northwest part of Mississippi on the Mississippi river.
	www.reallybigsearch.com /cgi-bin/search/rbs.cgi?keywords=tunica (474 words)

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