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Mississippi produces more than half of the country's farm-raised catfish, and is a top producer of sweet potatoes, cotton and pulpwood. Others include advanced manufacturing, utilities, transportation, and health services. [16] Mississippi is almost entirely within the east Gulf Coastal Plain, and generally consists of lowland plains and
The following is a list of state symbols of the U.S. state of Mississippi, as defined by state statutes in Title 1, Section 3 of the Mississippi Code of 1972 and listed in the Mississippi Official & Statistical Register.
Mississippi, the word used in a counting sequence (e.g. one Mississippi, two Mississippi, etc.) to approximately measure a number of seconds, such as in American street football Mississippian culture , a Native American civilization from 800 CE to 1600 CE
Minn of the Mississippi is one of a series of children's travel and nature-themed books that Holling wrote in collaboration with his wife, artist and designer Lucille Webster Holling. [2] Holling's original publisher, Houghton Mifflin , advertised the group of five books, which also included Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941), Tree in the Trail (1942 ...
Statistics show that Mississippi's children have gone from having almost the worst scores on the standardized national reading test for fourth-graders in 2013 to narrowly exceeding the national ...
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Cosby, A.G. et al. A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta (1992) online (Alternate, Archive) Currie, James T. Enclave: Vicksburg and Her Plantations, 1863-1870. 1980. Dollard, John.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is the public broadcasting network serving the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is owned by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television ( MAET ), an agency of the state government that holds the licenses for all of the PBS and NPR member stations in the state.
Abbott, Dorothy. ed. Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986). Baldwin, Joseph G. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches (1853), on the boom times of the 1830s online edition; Bond, Bradley G. ed. Mississippi: A Documentary History (2003) excerpt and text search; Evers, Charles.