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1. Welty, Eudora - Biography (The University of Mississippi English Department)
   Provides biographical information on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Sometimes visitors misspell as Weltey. 7-01

2. Jack and the Beanstalk (University of Southern Mississippi - Salda)
   Provides the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. 11-03

3. -03-13-08 Obama Wins Clear Victory in Mississippi (PBS.org)
   "Sen. Barack Obama scored a victory in the Mississippi primary Tuesday, nudging his delegate advantage over rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. With nearly a dozen primary contests remaining, political analysts weigh how the battle for delegates may be waged in Pennsylvania and beyond." 03-08

4. -Earthquake Predicted for Mississippi Delta (ABC News)
   "One of the strongest series of earthquakes ever to hit the United States happened not in Alaska or along California's San Andreas fault, but in southeast Missouri along the Mississippi River."
   
   "Geologists consider the New Madrid fault line a major seismic zone and predict that an earthquake roughly the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) could occur in the area during the next 50 years." 01-10

5. Mississippi (Yahoo)
   Provides a list of cities with city guides. 11-01

6. Mississippi Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
   Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01

7. Mississippi (Weber Publications)
   Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Jackson. Sometimes visitors misspell as Missisipi, Misisipi, or Missisippi. 10-00

8. Mississippi Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
   Includes Foundation for the Mid South and Community Foundation of Greater Jackson. 10-02

9. Rivers (Education World)
   Provides sources of information on rivers, with a special emphasis on the Mississippi. 6-02

10. Pickering - NAACP Provides Reasons for Opposing Charles Pickering for Federal Judge (NAACP)
    "The NAACP Strongly opposes the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering, currently of the Southern District of Mississippi, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Charles Pickering's record as a district court judge and as a state senator shows his hostility to NAACP priorities, specifically civil rights, equal employment protection and voting rights. Further, throughout Charles Pickering's career, he has demonstrated a commitment to the reversal of a number of these rights, for which NAACP has fought for more than 90 years." 1-03

11. Bald Cypress Forests (MSNBC News)
    "A tree can inspire awe better than any man-made structure, particularly one that has eclipsed its brethren and thumbed its 'knees' at man’s efforts to turn it into something useful. On Day 12 of our two-week journey down the Mississippi River, we came face-to-trunk with one such forest monarch and met some locals who, while they have very different perspectives on the best uses for trees, share a deep love for a special piece of Louisiana swamp." 8-04

12. -Nations of Native Americans M - P (StateLocalGov.net)
    Provides Home pages of tribes, listed by tribe. Includes Makah Tribe (WA), Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (ND), Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi (MI), Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community (MN), Menominee Indian Tribe (WI), Miami Nation (OK), Miccosukee Indian Tribe (FL), Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MN), Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MS), Mohegan Tribe (CT), Mohican Nation (WI), Monacan Indian Nation (VA), Muckleshoot Tribe (WA), Nansemond Indian Tribal Association (VA), Native Village of Afognak (AK), Native Village of Georgetown (AK), Native Village of Kotzebue (AK), Native Village of Napaimute (AK), Native Village of Tanacross (AK), Navajo Nation (AZ), Nez Perce Tribe (ID), Ninilchik Traditional Council (AK), Oneida Indian Nation (NY), Oneida Nation (WI), Osage Tribe (OK), Pala Band of Mission Indians (CA), Pascua Yaqui Tribe (AZ), Passamaquoddy Tribe (ME), Pawnee Nation (OK), Penobscot Indian Nation (ME), Peoria Tribe (OK), Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians (CA), Poarch Band of Creek Indians (AL), Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (MI & IN), Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe (WA), Powhatan Renape Nation (NJ), Prairie Band of Potawatomi (KS), Prairie Island Indian Community (MN), Pueblo of Sandia (NM), and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribes (NV). 03-06

13. Twain, Mark (Artzia.com)
    "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910), better known by pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular humorist, writer and lecturer. He was also a steamboat pilot, gold prospector and journalist. His classics Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are widely read in schools across the U.S., as well as in many other western countries. Also popular are The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court and the non-fictional Life on the Mississippi." 10-04

14. -08-18-05 Sheehan Vigils (MoveOn.org)
    "On Wednesday, August 17, hundreds of thousands of supporters gathered at 1,627 vigils in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The vigils were the largest event we've organized. From Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mississippi, Oregon to South Carolina and New York to Texas — we gathered together to acknowledge the sacrifices made by Cindy Sheehan, her son, Casey and the more than 1,800 brave American men and women who have given their lives in Iraq—and their moms and families. Thank you so much for participating and making these vigils a success." 8-05

15. Hurricane Ruins Gulfport (BBC News)
    "Gulfport, Mississippi, was once a tourist town, filled with beach-goers and gamblers drawn to the casinos on barges permanently moored just offshore."
    
    "Now, not a building along this coast has been left unscathed by Hurricane Katrina."
    
    "The wreck of this town is unbelievable." 9-05

16. -Destruction of the Delta (AmericanRadioWorks.com)
    "Right now, an entire region of the United States is crumbling and sinking into the sea. Scientists say it's causing one of the worst and least-publicized environmental disasters in America's history."
    
    "But when French settlers showed up in the 1700s, they tried to stop the Mississippi from flooding: they started building these walls. Eventually, the U.S. Army took over the job, and every time they thought they'd conquered nature, the river proved them wrong. So the army built more walls and they built them higher, they've built two thousand miles of levees as of today along the Mississippi River and its branches. And Houck says, the army has finally won the war—they've tamed the Mississippi."
    
    " 'And so,' describes Houck, 'the project was—from an engineering point of view— brilliant, brilliant. It was hugely successful. From an environmental standpoint, it was a disaster.' " 9-05

17. 09-03-05 Bush Tries Damage Control (Los Angeles Times.com)
    "It took him most of a week to get there, but President Bush accomplished several goals Friday on his tour of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He brought comfort to some of the uncounted homeless. He lent encouragement to emergency workers battling to save those still in danger."
    
    "And, not least, he launched a rescue mission to restore his own image after mounting criticism of an apparent shortage of federal leadership."
    
    "During four days of chaos in New Orleans, Bush and his aides had issued upbeat statements that help was on the way. But in the face of televised images of horrifying anarchy, some senior Republicans warned the White House that it needed to change its tone." 9-05

18. Helping With Long-Term Recovery (BushClintonKatrinaFund.org)
    The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund "will serve as an umbrella organization for the three special funds established by Governors of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and will focus on collecting donations to assist in the long-term recovery plan for the states affected by this terrible tragedy." 9-05

19. Red Tape for Katrina Assistance (CNN News)
    "Sen. Trent Lott berated both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and his own state's emergency management, MEMA, for being mired in red tape at a time of urgent need given the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina."
    
    "Lott said he has been trying to get FEMA to send 20,000 trailers 'sitting in Atlanta' to the Mississippi coast, and he urged President Bush during a meeting Monday to intervene. He said FEMA has refused to ship the trailers until contracts are secured." 9-05

20. FEMA Delays (CBS News)
    "Internal documents which came to light on Tuesday reveal that Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown waited until about five hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he asked his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security workers to support rescuers in the region."
    
    "Brown, in asking Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff to have workers sent to the hurricane zone, is also said to have given the workers two days to arrive."
    
    "The airline industry says the government's request for help evacuating storm victims didn't come until late Thursday afternoon."
    
    "Fire and rescue departments outside Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi were urged by FEMA not to send trucks or emergency workers into the disaster areas without an explicit request for help from state or local governments." 9-05

21. Katrina Proved Experts Right (ABC News)
    "While not exactly a prophet of doom, Penland spoke bluntly in the winter of 2000 about the fate he foresaw for New Orleans. Ancient levees that protected the city from the Mississippi and nearby Lake Pontchartrain were inadequate and in desperate need of upgrading. The barrier islands that protected the coastline from storm surges were eroding away at an alarming rate, and little was being done to restore them. The land on which New Orleans and many other communities sat was slowing sinking into the Gulf of Mexico."
    
    "It would have cost a few bucks to take care of some of these problems. A multi-agency task force, for which Penland served as a scientific adviser, came up with a price tag for protecting the Louisiana coastline from a hurricane like Katrina. It would cost about $14 billion, the panel concluded." 9-05

22. -09-08-05 Environmental Damage from Katrina Huge (Guardian Unlimited)
    "The extent of the environmental damage inflicted on the southern US states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama began to emerge yesterday with reports of an entire group of islands disappearing, serious oil slicks and the potential ruin of the seafood industry." 9-05

23. -09-20-05 Rita Becomes a Category 5 Storm (USA Today)
    "Hurricane Rita strengthened into a Category 5 storm as it moved across the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas and Louisiana, surpassing the power Katrina had when it swept ashore three weeks ago and became the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history."
    
    "Rita has winds of 165 mph (265 kph), putting it in the highest intensity level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the National Hurricane Center said. Category 5 storms have winds of 156 mph or stronger."
    
    "Since record-keeping began, only three Category 5 storms have hit the U.S.: an unnamed storm that hit the Florida Keys in 1935; Hurricane Camille, which hit Mississippi in 1969; and Andrew, which devastated southern Florida in 1992." 9-05

24. -11-13-05 Wilma Hurricane Victims Still Suffering (USA Today)
    "The aftermath of damage left by Wilma around South Florida has gotten little national attention as Louisiana and Mississippi try to recover from the earlier devastation of Hurricane Katrina."
    
    "But more than 478,000 households in 13 Florida counties have applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for individual help, about 70% from Broward and Miami-Dade counties." 11-05

25. Maritime Disaster (Rootsweb.com)
    The most terrible steamboat disaster in history was probably the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union Veterans died... yet the tragedy got very few headlines. Late in April of 1865, the Mississippi stood at flood stage. Four years of war had ruined many levees and dikes, and in the lower reaches of the river the foaming water was over the banks for miles. But in the towns and cities of the lower valley the high water was only an incident, and the dominant feeling was one of relief, for the Civil War at last was ended." 11-05

26. Indian Removal Act (PBS.org)
    "In 1830, just a year after taking office, Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation called the 'Indian Removal Act' through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands to the west. Those wishing to remain in the east would become citizens of their home state. This act affected not only the southeastern nations, but many others further north. The removal was supposed to be voluntary and peaceful, and it was that way for the tribes that agreed to the conditions. But the southeastern nations resisted, and Jackson forced them to leave." 01-06

27. Indian Removal Act (Wikipedia.org)
    "he Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a law passed by the Twenty-first United States Congress in order to facilitate the relocation of American Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River in the United States to lands further west. The Removal Act, part of a U.S. government policy known as Indian Removal, was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830." 01-06

28. -01-28-06 Post-Katrina Promises Largely Unfulfilled (MSNBC News)
    "President Bush announced a lofty post-Katrina reconstruction plan in his Sept. 15, 2005, speech from New Orleans' Jackson Square. But the government's record of action has largely failed to match Bush's words."
    
    "Officials from both parties credit the president for committing $85 billion in federal funds and for approving tax relief and incentives such as the Gulf Opportunity Zone, which provides tax breaks for businesses in Mississippi and Louisiana. Still, they say the overall cost of the rebuilding is a major concern."
    
    "Trailer costs have swelled from $19,000 to $75,000 apiece."
    
    "Layers of subcontractors have caused debris removal costs to quadruple from $8 per cubic yard to $32 per cubic yard, said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who visited the region on Jan. 17 as part of a Senate delegation."
    
    "As of this week, the SBA said that 190,000 of 363,000 applications for disaster loans to homeowners and businesses are still pending."
    
    " 'This great city will rise again,' said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). 'The question is whether the city and the region will be doing it alone, dragging the federal government with us every step of the way, or will this administration get in gear and put their mind to the task at hand.' " 01-06

29. -03-09-06 Country Music Celebrities Denounce Leadership on Katrina (ABC News)
    "Faith Hill and Tim McGraw — two stars who usually stay out of politics — blasted the Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort, with Hill calling the slow progress in Louisiana and Mississippi 'embarrassing' and 'humiliating.' "
    
    "McGraw specifically criticized President Bush." 03-06

30. -04-03-06 Ownership of the Northwest Passage Disputed (USA Today)
    "Melting ice is opening up the Northwest Passage and reviving a dispute between the United States and Canada over who controls the potentially lucrative shipping route."
    
    "The United States calls the passage an international strait, open to all. Canada claims control because it considers the passage an internal waterway, like the Mississippi River." 04-06

31. -05-10-06 American Bar Association: Bush Nominee "Not Qualified" (MSNBC News)
    "The American Bar Association rated one of President Bush's judicial nominees "not qualified" Wednesday, prompting a call from a liberal group for the president to withdraw the Mississippi lawyer's nomination." 05-06

32. -05-25-06 Judge Rules Against State Farm in Katrina Case (CNN News)
    "Provisions in a State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. policy that exclude certain damage from Hurricane Katrina are unenforceable, a federal judge in Mississippi has ruled." 05-06

33. -06-23-06 Report: Abramoff Used Norquist to Distribute Gambling Funds (CNN News)
    "Moving money from a casino-operating Indian tribe to Ralph Reed, the Christian Coalition founder and professed gambling opponent, was a problem. Lobbyist Abramoff turned to his longtime friend [Grover] Norquist, apparently to provide a buffer for Reed."
    
    "The result, according to evidence gathered by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, was that Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform became a conduit for more than a million dollars from the Mississippi Choctaw to Reed's operation, while Norquist, a close White House ally, took a cut." 06-06

34. -11-15-06 Trent Lott Returns to Republican Leadership (MSNBC News)
    "Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election to the chamber's No. 2 GOP post Wednesday." 11-06

35. -05-30-07 Narrowing the Standards Gap in "No Child Left Behind" (CBS News)
    "Georgia is not alone, Wallace reports. Mississippi, Tennessee and Oklahoma are among the states in which students scored high on their state tests but significantly lower on the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam, according to the non-partisan Hoover Institution."
    
    "The problem, say experts, is one word: proficiency." 05-07

36. Fertilizers Creating a Huge "Dead Zone" in the Gulf (MSNBC News)
    "The nation's corn crop is fertilized with millions of pounds of nitrogen-based fertilizer. And when that nitrogen runs off fields in Corn Belt states, it makes its way to the Mississippi River and eventually pours into the Gulf, where it contributes to a growing "dead zone" — a 7,900-square-mile patch so depleted of oxygen that fish, crabs and shrimp suffocate." 12-07

37. -06-26-08 Army Corps of Engineers Causing Floods? (Time.com)
    "On March 4, three Midwestern University professors wrote to warn the Army Corps of Engineers that its concrete navigation structures in the Mississippi River were intensifying floods, and that its plans to build more wingdikes and weirs would 'exacerbate a severe and growing problem.' They called some of the structures — designed to scour out the river's bottom so that barges could pass — 'loaded cannons pointing at St. Louis and East St. Louis, waiting to go off in the next flood.' Citing 'clear and unequivocal data' from a dozen peer-reviewed articles, they declared that 'the time to ask these questions is now, and not in the aftermath of the next great flood.' "
    
    "The Army Corps, the troubled, gung-ho public works agency that bears much of the blame for leaving New Orleans underwater, blew off the academics' concerns."
    
    "The Army Corps is always completely confident, even when it's completely wrong. Its levees protecting St. Louis and East St. Louis survived this year's great flood, thanks in part to dozens of levee breaks upstream that reduced the pressure downstream, but there is powerful evidence that the Corps' mania for concrete significantly magnified the flood's power. Army Corps structures aren't the only reason 500-year floods seem to be hitting the Mississippi every 15 years, but a National Science Foundation-funded database of 8 million hydrologic measurements suggests they are the most important reason." 06-08

38. -04-19-09 Editorial: The Need for High National Standards (Time.com)
    "The No Child Left Behind Act pushed by President George W. Bush unintentionally exacerbated the problem. It required each state to ensure that its students achieve "universal proficiency" in reading and math — but allowed each to define what that meant. The result was that many states made their job easier by setting their bar lower. This race to the bottom resulted in a Lake Wobegon world where every state declared that its kids were better than average. Take the amazing case of Mississippi. According to the standards it set for itself, 89% of its fourth-graders were proficient or better in reading, making them the best in the nation. Yet according to the random sampling done every few years by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, a mere 18% of the state's fourth-graders were proficient, making them the worst in the nation. Even in Lake Wobegon that doesn't happen." 04-09

39. Platforms for Disaster Preparation (Business Week)
    " The problem with the future is there are so many of them. In one future, we spent $10 billion on flood control in the Mississippi delta and avoided hundreds of billions in economic losses and thousands of tragic deaths. In another, the Y2K problem remained undetected, and for three months in the early winter of the new century, the U.S. power grid went down unexpectedly, killing thousands."
    
    "We need to cluster important future scenarios into groups sharing related solutions, and in doing so, dilute the risk of choosing poorly." 9-05

40. Homelessness in the USA (USA Today)
    "Months before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck, volunteer searchers found 6,251 homeless people living in the coastal areas of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. The search was part of an unprecedented count of the nation's homeless population that the federal government asked cities and counties to conduct."
    
    "That snapshot tally was 727,304 homeless people nationwide, meaning about one in 400 Americans were without a home, according to a USA TODAY survey of all 460 localities that reported results to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in June." 10-05