Mississippi

June 21st, 1964 In Philadelphia, Mississippi, three civil rights workers disappear while trying to help blacks register to vote.

has a similar life story, a story in which he attempts to found a family dynasty in Mississippi in the 19th century.

In August, a Mississippi student's senior portrait was barred from her yearbook because she had posed in a tuxedo.

Levees have changed that. Until Katrina, the Mississippi had not flooded in or around the city in almost 80 years.

The river would be "Russia's Mississippi" . The apparently lush region it drained was to be a new America.

The seeds of a sustained increase in food prices are about to be sown in Mississippi, Nebraska and other farm-belt states across the U. S.

Emergency officials in Missouri say they are surprised by how much the Mississippi River has risen in some areas.

The architecturally unique Sydney Opera House seemed to the computer to be similar to a hotel in Mississippi as well as a bridge in London.

He said the Mississippi plant will produce 330, 000 tons of bar a year against U. S. demand of nine million tons.

At the age of 21, Sam returned to the river to realize an old ambition, that of being a Mississippi River steamboat pilot.

All the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River from Texas to Saskatchewan used to be a giant expanse of prairie.

Researchers found a carpet of small crustaceans inhabiting the head of the Mississippi Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mississippi has been such a bad state for women for so long it rarely even gets noticed in the news anymore.

To a certain degree the pace of shipments between the Lower Mississippi and Upper Mississippi offsets one another.

Elizabeth Bolden died Monday at a nursing home in Memphis, Mississippi, said one of her grandsons, James Bolden.

As a child, he watched with great interest the steamboats, large and small, that carried goods and passengers up and down the Mississippi.

dropped the line and groped toward it, pushed his head and shoulders through a small hole, and saw the broad Mississippi rolling by!

In time the Amur was being described as Russia's Mississippi, and the Amur basin made out to be a new California.

The Mississippi River has always been a freight carrier.

At Wesson Attendance Center, a Mississippi public school, just that sort of fight erupted over senior portraits.

At dockside, the value of shrimp, oysters and fish brought in to Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi totals less than $400 million a year.

It was also in Mississippi that I discovered what might be my favorite thing about radio-its durability.

You could float one of those Mississippi steamboats on a heavy dew.

Dudley, 54, was born in New York and grew up in Mississippi, part of the Gulf Coast region suffering environmental and economic damage.

Under the cover of darkness, industry continues to expel smoke into the wind currents along the Mississippi River.

If you look at the map, the US seems to be cut into three parts by the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

The 2nd is drawn as a black-majority district. It covers most of New Orleans and a few suburbs on the west bank of the Mississippi.

It was no sure bet, because in rural areas beyond the Mississippi River, the roads varied from poor to nonexistent.

Vicksburg, Mississippi, was an important, well-protected fortress for the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

Just a short drive east of Saint Louis, and across the Mississippi into Illinois, is America's first city.

Recently this has included methane odors in San Diego, a huge fissure in Arizona, and yet another Mississippi bridge needing repair.

But Haley Barbour, the Republican governor of Mississippi, is ready to take his spot.

Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huck Finn, tell stories, fish, and pretend to be pirates along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Images of New Orleans spread around the world, but east of the Louisiana border, much of the Mississippi coast was also wiped out.

Such fertilizer leaching is responsible for dead zones across the world, like the one at the mouth of the Mississippi River currently.

A region of the north-central United States around the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi Valley.

Yet Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, like the Mississippi River itself, is far more complex than it may seem on its surface.

They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic.

It is a somewhat idyllic tale of the free-spirited young Huck's adventures as he floats down the Mississippi with the run-away slave Jim.

He's planning on becoming a dietician, a job that he did for a week whilst in Mississippi - a state that suffers from widespread obesity.

it is remembered as it was in its heyday, one of the most romantic eras in the history of the Mississippi.

The Mississippi River runs through 10 states and was used to define portions of these states' borders.

The white-tail is not the only southern bird to drift north recently. Mississippi kites now nest in New England.

Mark Twain drew a vivid picture of his hometown and the Mississippi region of which he knew best in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

The fishing ban announced Sunday did not affect state waters west of the Mississippi River.

The scene looks southwest from above Lake Michigan across the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, towards Texas near the horizon.

For the next four years he steamed up and down the Mississippi.

Yes, the nickname for New Orleans is Crescent City, due to its downtown location along a particularly deep bend of the Mississippi River.

A levee near Gulfport, Illinois was not able to hold back the rising water of the Mississippi river.

That's difficult for a state like Mississippi, where high calorie foods have been the tradition for generations.

John Avery Lomax was born in 1867. He came from the state of Mississippi but grew up in Texas.

sweepstake winners. Tampa in Florida, Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis were also among the least lucky cities.

A "controlled burn" of surface oil took place in an area about 30 miles (50km) east of the Mississippi River delta.

In August 1937, Donald entered a state-run facility 50 miles from his home, in a town then actually called Sanatorium, Mississippi.

But the pain will seem like a small price to pay when you become the first person to jog across the rapids of the Mississippi.

Republican governors in South Carolina, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have made a show of refusing some of the stimulus money.

Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.

Floods across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky caused at least 27 deaths and damaged parts of historic Nashville, reported CNN on May 4.

Federal officials briefed the president on efforts to shore-up levees along the Mississippi River and help those displaced by the flooding.

The city is divided by the Mississippi, with the principal settlement on the east bank. The west bank, known as Algiers, has grown rapidly.

The front of the oil slick is a rounded, ghostly arm reaching toward the tip of the Mississippi Delta.

He loves the South and hopes to remain in this post for a while. But, he says, finding a nice Jewish girl in Mississippi isn't easy.

The boat navigated the Monongahela, then followed the ohio to Cairo, Illinois, where it joins the Mississippi.

Kicking off the top three is Mississippi, home to the purported descendants of some of the aforementioned lazy pioneers.

Storms and tornadoes struck Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, killing at least 340 people, leveling towns, and leaving thousands homeless.

And Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, was a Washington lobbyist for years and can likely tap into that wealthy network if he runs.

Last weekend, a set of boats struck part of a bridge crossing the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital.

Mississippi has consistently held the top spot for the past three years, while Colorado has been at the bottom of the list.

A project in Mississippi is poised to break ground, though the Sierra Club is still fighting in court to revoke the plant's permits.

It was along the Mississippi River that Mark Twain spent much of his childhood.

Every year, when the ducks fly south from Canada for the winter, one of the two main flyways is down the Mississippi River.

His father kidnaps him, but he manages to escape and together with a runaway slave, Jim, they sail down the Mississippi on a raft.

Subjecting January included how researchers in the State of Mississippi have identified tens of thousands of genes in catfish.

On the one of bridge over the Mississippi River, some American flags are waving in the sky.

The rig, the Deepwater Horizon, is located in an area known as the Mississippi Canyon.

Recent rains across the upper Mississippi River area of the Corn Belt has led to fast rising river stages.

His replacement will be another BP veteran, Robert Dudley, an American who grew up in Mississippi.

Haley Barbour suggesting that the civil rights era in Mississippi, with its sometimes fatal strife, was not that bad.

The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

The Mississippi River is longer than any other river in the United States.

Our open like the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Mississippi River, rain water in any place, any way into the same convenient access.

Along the banks of the flood-ravaged Mud Island Tuesday morning, the pleasure boats returned to the bloated Mississippi.

U. S. President George Bush will visit the Midwest state of Iowa Thursday to inspect damage from major flooding along the Mississippi River.

This urban center of the Mississippi culture had organized leadership, commerce and a penchant for mound-building.

The British Proclamation of 1763 designated the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River as Indian Territory.

The American author and humorist was best known for his book Tom Sawyer and his love of the Mississippi river.

Butstressed Mississippi is ready to face the challenge of another hurricane season.

A historical region of the north-central United States extending from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Great Lakes.

Cahokia, near the importance trade routes of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers became an influential and highly developed community.

But Obama told supporters Monday in Mississippi that Democrats must choose between the two of them for the party nomination.

And not wimpy Mississippi-scale floods, either: just one of them could equal the combined flow of all the planet's rivers.

What events led to most of the east of the Mississippi River becoming part of the United States?

The city sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and played a major role in early America's Westward expansion.

The demand is surely higher and not being met, as Mississippi is far from the place to go for decent sex education and birth control.

The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians to areas west of the Mississippi River.

State governments have followed suit; Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all closed large swathes as well.

Mark Twain started out working on a boat sailing up and down the Mississippi.

In Mississippi, only one law-enforcement agency out of 60 bothered to file a report at all.

It operates nine plants in the United States in Kentucky, Indiana, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, California and Mississippi.

If this stress causes bridges crossing the Mississippi River to be fracturing and pulling apart, it obviously will affect fragile caverns.

The southernmost extent of this enormous glaciation extended well into the present-day United States and Mississippi basin.

largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; one of the Twin Cities.

Assistant: Mississippi ? I said count to five'!

and folk fiddlers, to name only a few, all of whom love along the Mississippi River.

Here are mine: Southern states, especially those in the Mississippi Delta region, are burdened with a continuing high-incidence of poverty.

The story follows Huck Finn as he helps Jim, a runaway slave, to escape along the Mississippi River.

And when American pioneers master the waters of the Mississippi basin with a radical invention, the steamboat, a new era opens.

A second major cotton-growing area lay in the rich bottom land of the lower Mississippi River and is tributaries.

In the top image, the Mississippi Delta is at image centre, and the oil slick is a silvery swirl to the right.

Roger Barlow, president of the Mississippi-based Catfish Institute, said FDA's decision not to order a nationwide ban was disappointing.

The Mississippi will not be able to keep the oil at bay indefinitely, however.

Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican, was sworn in as the first black member of the U. S. Senate.

The original plans also called for a series of floods and nuclear disasters along the Mississippi river but these also ended in failure.

The settlers first planted the loamy, fertile soils that extended in an arc from Georgina through Alabama into northeastern Mississippi.

So, and that means, you know, somebody who is based in, in Mississippi, knows more about Mississippi than I do.

In terms of plots, this novel gives a detailed description of Huck and Jim's long drift and adventure on the Mississippi River.

The Mississippi River flows down the middle of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico.

It already was low on manpower and weapons. But an even greater loss was the control of the Mississippi River.

Several years ago, flooding along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers destroyed thousands of acres of wheat.

Toyota has still not decided when it will begin production of the Prius at its Tupelo, Mississippi, plant in the United States.

NOAA issued a precautionary closure of the federal waters off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and part of Florida for 10 days.

During an air show over Mississippi in 1954, Hawkins was flying an entirely new type of plane.

Barack Obama and John McCain were due to meet in Oxford, Mississippi for the first of their three eagerly awaited presidential debates.

President Bush will begin his tour of the region in Mississippi - one of the states that felt the full fury of Hurricane Katrina.

The carp have already infested parts of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, driving away many native fish.

A member of a group living in southern Alabama and southeast Mississippi, of mixed white, Black, and Native American ancestry.

When white settlers began moving into the state, they wanted the Seminoles to move to Indian territories west of the Mississippi River.

The rather obvious explanation for the imbalance west of the Mississippi is immigration, particularly illegal immigrants.

Just this: The two regions that the group compared are the Yangtze River Delta (which includes Shanghai) and Mississippi.

New Madrid pops and the Mississippi River Valley up to lake Michigan will be shaken to mud and washed away.

Rivers rising in both mountain chains flow toward each other down the sides of this vast bowl, emptying into the Mississippi.

The land to the west of the Mississippi will drop so that the Mississippi will become 50 miles wide in the state of Mississippi.

On September 10, thousands of fish and a dead whale were found dead in the west Mississippi River, Louisiana, US.

Those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana-Mississippi area , then fly across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas .

They were put to work as cleaners at fish farms along the Mississippi River and in wastewater treatment systems.

The Upper Mississippi region has had plentiful supplies of grains and soybeans and is expected to harvest a decent size crop.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

The mississippi River flows through the Interior Plains of the United States.

Chris Hampton of the ACLU's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Project, says she has never seen a case like the one in Mississippi.

Then, as the snow melted, floods ravaged Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, and tornadoes battered Alabama and Missouri.

The current form of the Mississippi River basin was largely shaped by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet of the most recent Ice Age.

Between the clouds, however, a silvery-gray streak of oil remained visible offshore of the Mississippi River Delta.

With grassland damaged, many farmers in Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee have no hay to feed their cows.

Brown, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University entitled "Nearfield acoustic communication by ants" .

Mark used to be a pilot on the Mississippi River.

Five Southerners resigned from the U. S. Senate, including Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the future president of the Confederacy.

It was as big a fish as was ever catched in the Mississippi, I reckon.

The huge Mississippi River Basin is a source of great wealth to the United States in both agriculture and industry.

Elvis' first time singing in public was at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show at the age of 10.

That year American President Theodore Roosevelt, nicknamed "Teddy" , went on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi.

The Mississippi scheme was a precursor of modern attempts to reflate the economy with unorthodox monetary policies.

Thomson rose on agriculture; farmers planted corn and, thanks to sandy soil near the Mississippi, it became the Melon Capital of the World.

The plan is to build five new mills, with the first adding 120 jobs to one of America's most economically depressed states, Mississippi.

She added that four screens against the far wall were made for a courthouse in Gulfport. Mississippi.

But the devil must have been listening at the tavern and had heard his boast, for the Mississippi had shifted!

Bulls have been found thousands of miles upstream in both the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers.

Grand Tower sits along one of the Mississippi's narrowest points, across from Missouri.

The company is also planning to restart work on a plant in Mississippi that was suspended after the financial crisis.

Mayor Wharton walks across his office to a picture window and stares at a shimmering Mississippi River .

What are the two tributaries of Mississippi? The two largest tributaries of Mississippi are the River Missouri and River Ohio.

West of the Mississippi River alone, about 18 million hectares, once thought useless , have been reclaimed through irrigation projects .

The top five states for income inequality were New York, Alabama, Mississippi, Massachusetts and Tennessee.

A mountain 12, 000 feet high would be a horrible monster here , as wrong as a plain 400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississippi .

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

Affiliate WMC in Mississippi is reporting 2 people were killed when a bus flipped over earlier today near the town of Tunica .

Marable's band played on steamboats that traveled up and down the Mississippi River.

The riverbed of the Mississippi is constantly silting and the river is now actually higher than the city.

Many regions -- from the Great Plains to the Mississippi Delta to rural New England -- saw population declines.

Unlike Cnooc's takeover, Sinopec is entering a joint venture. Chesapeake will retain operational control of the Mississippi Lime field.

It wasn't until 1981 that he graduated with a law degree and set up shop as a criminal and personal injury lawyer in Southaven, Mississippi.

The states with the lowest rates of entrepreneurial activity were Mississippi, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Minnesota.

Both banks of the Mississippi River were forested all the way to the sea, Trees grew large enough to make dugouts 50 to 60 feet long.

Fresh river water flowing from the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico does not mix into the salt water immediately.

AS YOU crest a rise on Mississippi's Highway 63, just north of Pascagoula and the Gulf coast, the vista unfolds.

While attending the University of Mississippi, the Georgia native first attempted to get a recording contract with a Nashville label.

The move could cost exporters and shipping companies millions of dollars as the Mississippi is a vital route for grain shipments.

Cloning and embryonic stem -cell research would be banned in Mississippi, as could the "morning-after pill" and IUDs.

A historical region of the north-central United States west of the Mississippi River and north of the Missouri River.

With its victory in the French and Indian War (1763), it secured Canada and the eastern Mississippi Valley and gained supremacy in India.

In the Gulf of Mexico, fish and shrimp have been eliminated in an 8, 000-square-mile dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

But Florida or Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, those states maybe they'll never come around to that.

The five Mississippi homestead communities all followed similar development paths and were also virtually identical when completed.

As I just saw pitcher plants at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge a couple weeks ago, it seemed the perfect subject.

No one thought the Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis would collapse.

The new product is sold in grocery stores east of the Mississippi, as well as select markets in Minnesota and Iowa.

In the United States, he traveled from coast to coast, and from the Mississippi delta to the northern border.

Others, like the Mississippi, defy our best efforts to tame them.

The story background of the times, a nineteenth century the United States Mississippi River in St.

In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" , two runaways named Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi in search of better lives.

Horseshoe shaped lakes or oxbow lakes are not unusual in the flat plains of the lower Mississippi River and deltas of other rivers.

The eighteen fifties were an increasingly tense time in the United States. Most of the population lived east of the Mississippi River.

A town of extreme southern Illinois near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The state imprisons 26% more people, on a per-capita basis, than the next-strictest state, Mississippi.

Such mighty rivers as the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Hudson and the Colorado irrigate the croplands of hundreds of miles of fertile valleys.

He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the diddle of the Mississippi River for several days.

Introduced by French colonials, as a game called poque, it soon spread from its original base in the Mississippi delta.

The next nominating contests are in Wyoming this Saturday and in Mississippi on Tuesday.

Mississippi is the Magnolia State. It is named for a tree with big, beautiful white flowers that grows in that hot, southern state.

Prentiss County residents, natives, and their ancestors are a vital piece in the puzzle of Mississippi history.

This alignment necessitates two new crossing over the Mississippi River, one near Chalmette and the other near Luling.

Dr Sampson, a former member of the WSU equine faculty, recently accepted a faculty position at Mississippi State University.

By 1860 there were thousands of miles of railroads crossing the eastern mountain ranges and reaching westward to the Mississippi .

This potentially fatal disease was most often detected in dogs from Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and South Carolina.

He ended his visit with a stop in Gulfport, Mississippi, before returning to Washington.

That's one of the reasons she wrote Homesick, a fond recollection of growing up in Mississippi, published last year.

This spring, so-called "100-year floods" swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America's largest commercial waterway.

The larger proposals, like adjustments to the way the Army Corps of Engineers controls the Mississippi River, are more ambitious.

She was 82 and living in Keoluk when, unaccountably , she insisted upon attending a convention of old settlers of the Mississippi Valley.

Brian and Cindy Wiegand and their son, Colt, surveyed the devastation of their Iowa fields during last summer's Mississippi River flood.

The governors of Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi all physically blocked black students from entering formerly white schools.

The adjustment that will incite the European tsunami will involve bridges on the Mississippi breaking, and being impassable.

At Peoria Lake they struck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and turned their prows southward.

In 1973 two men were out fishing in Mississippi. They say they saw a UFO shaped like an egg.

The upper Mississippi River in Missouri and Illinois is about to hit its high point.

Obama told the press on his plane to Mississippi that progress on the bail-out legislation was being made.

And alleged sturgeon caviar was just cheap Mississippi paddlefish eggs.

The early city was located on the east bank along a sharp bend in the Mississippi, from which the nickname "Crescent City" is derived.

A mighty Mississippi of cash flows into the Redmond software house, and its name is "Office. "

The mighty Mississippi River broke through or flowed over the tops of dirt levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

The Mississippi River and its branches now supply cheap electricity for machines in homes and on farms.

Most Suzuki teachers revert to the childish "Mississippi stop stop" lingo that I don't think adults can relate to.

"The Mississippi River's 'plumbing' provides a potential benefit to reducing the movement of oil onshore from shelf waters, " says Twilley.

Officials with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) said it could be the largest alligator gar caught.

This little family restaurant in Philadelphia, Mississippi, serves up top-notch titillation for the taste buds.

They account for the majority of children in six more: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi and Nevada.

When he grew up, he once served as a sailor onboard a ship on the Mississippi.

on the mississippi river where young sam experienced his excitement and colorful sights of the waterfront .

The plan is to get rid of this levee on the Mississippi River, which will flood about 200 square miles of land in Missouri.

But Obama also made it clear that he intends to attend Friday's scheduled presidential debate in Mississippi.

Are social and economic conditions there more conducive to women remaining single than west of the Mississippi?

Introduced in Arkansas in the 1970s, Asian carp have swum up the Mississippi River, eating and spawning ravenously.

A city of southeast Louisiana between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.

Revision #4 due. Small group workshops. Assignment 5 presented. View Mississippi Masala? (We'll schedule a time together. ) Handout.

arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis.

A month after the scandal became public, Woods spent two months in therapy at a Mississippi clinic with hopes of saving his marriage.

Twain is best known for his novels set in his boyhood world on the Mississippi River.

The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (at right) merges with the Gulf Intra coastal Water way just east of New Orleans .

Before leaving for the debate site in Mississippi Friday, Obama repeated his view that he and McCain should debate as planned.

Later the car was found burned beside the Mississippi River levee, with a charred corpse inside.

With grass lands damaged, many farmers in Mississippi, Georgia and Tenassi have no fee to feed their cows.

Signs of stress have been noted for the past couple years along this stress line, even east of the Mississippi.

Additionally, the bill calls for ecosystem restoration measures in the upper Mississippi River basin.

Her book A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography appeared in 1999 (University Press of Mississippi).

Soon after that, the Union won another important victory, seizing Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Right now officials fear dozens more levees along the Mississippi River may overflow.

Severe weather moves through parts of Mississippi and Alabama.

The affected waters include areas off the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama.

North (left) of New Orleans, a line of lights tracing central US highway I55 connects to Jackson, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee.

In Mississippi, the legislation passed, but it's not a ban on those drinks, it's a ban of the ban.