Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quincy, where President Dole had gone to comfort victims of the Mississippi flood, it is undisputed that Heather May Hamm, 4, whose family's home was lost, had been instructed by White House staff members to say to the President, "We thank you, President Dole, for your love and prayers" and said instead, "I have to make tinkle...
...response except banging the hands together. Without this mad blaze of confidence, her next novel might have been a hanky dampener. Accordion Crimes traces an old green accordion from hand to calloused hand among turn-of-the-century Italian and German immigrants in New Orleans and the lower Mississippi. Told by Proulx, it makes a wonderfully strong, rowdy book...
...album that combines blues and dance music? Seem too absurd even to try? Well, tell that to Mississippi blues singer R.L. Burnside, whose new album is a test of just how far the concept of musical fusion can go. According to Burnside, "Adam and Eve were dancing to the blues. Blues is nothing but dance music." Still, there is a risk in making any sort of fusion album. Fusion music often ends up combining the worst elements of two styles rather than the best. But Burnside is too good of a musician to let that happen. As a blues...
...place of birth. Starting with 1900, one can find out the year of immigration, whether English was spoken and whether a home was owned or rented. Robert Stokes, a retired Dallas high school principal, has traced his family from 17th century Maryland through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Mississippi to Texas. "It is such a thrill when you find a census about an old relative that shows he owned 26 pigs and a wagon," he says. "Then you have to go to the next census to see how he made out. If he had horses, and more pigs...
There are two websites valued and respected as resources for up-to-date information and discussion for the African ancestored. One is a website founded by Mississippi State University, Afrigeneas www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/afrigen/) the other is Christine's genealogy website www.ccharity.com...