The Mississippi Miracles is an American Basketball Association ( ABA ) and World Basketball Association team based in Cleveland, Mississippi.

In January, 2006, new ownership purchased the team and renamed it as the Mississippi Miracles.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

* Cambridge State University, a diploma mill, formerly in Louisiana and Hawaii and later relocated to Mississippi

* December 10 – Mississippi is admitted as the 20th U. S. state, formerly the Mississippi Territory.

The Mississippi RiverKings, formerly the Memphis RiverKings, is a professional hockey team of the Central Hockey League " Class AA " which plays its home games in DeSoto County.

Mississippi County is located in what was formerly known as " Tywappity Bottom ," a vast area bordered by the Scott County Hills on the north, St. James Bayou on the south, the Mississippi River on the east and Little River on the west.

It was formerly known as Mississippi County Community College until the merger with the Cotton Boll Technical Institute.

Simmesport sits very near the end of the Red River and the beginning of the Atchafalaya River, where formerly water from the Mississippi flowed freely into the Atchafalaya.

About 1776, a Chemin Neuf, French for " New Road ", was built connecting the Mississippi River with False River, a long oxbow lake and formerly the main channel of the Mississippi.

* John Bell Williams, governor of Mississippi from 1968 to 1972, was born in Raymond ; he formerly served in the United States House of Representatives.

Hattiesburg is home to The University of Southern Mississippi ( originally known as Mississippi Normal College ) and William Carey University ( formerly William Carey College ).

The Navy formerly operated Recruit Training Centers in San Diego, California, Orlando, Florida, Mississippi and Port Deposit ( Bainbridge ), Maryland.

Clayton ), they purchased a plantation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, in the Mississippi Delta, formerly a base of cotton plantations and production.

* Mississippi State Penitentiary ( Sunflower County, formerly Parchman Farm )

The Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, formerly the Cathedral of Saint Louis, and colloquially the Old Cathedral, was the first cathedral west of the Mississippi River and until 1845 the only parish church in the city of St. Louis, Missouri.

* Yazoo lands, historic area in Mississippi and Alabama, formerly occupied by Yazoo tribe

* 555 California Street ( formerly The Bank of America Center ), is completed in San Francisco, California, and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi from 1969 – 1972.

The Pro Indoor Football League was reformed as the Indoor Professional Football League and the three remaining clubs from the old league ; the Hawaii Hammerheads ( formerly Honolulu Hurricanes ), the Rocky Mountain ( Colorado Springs ) Thunder ( formerly Colorado ( Denver ) Wildcats ) and the Louisiana Bayou Beast were joined by three new franchises in Boise, Idaho, Biloxi, Mississippi and Austin, Texas.

* Jeff Smith ( Mississippi politician ) ( born 1949 ), Republican ( formerly Democratic ) legislator

The team began play in the fall of 2004 as the Mississippi Stingers.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

Reports are that it is more than probable that the four congressmen from Mississippi who did not support the party ticket will be stripped of the usual patronage which flows to congressmen.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.

* 1865 – The steamboat, carrying 2, 400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1, 700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.

* 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items ; a typical barge measures 195 by 35 feet ( 59. 4 m × 10. 6 m ), and can carry up to 1, 500 tons catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped by barge from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

In such pre-industrialized, or poorly developed infrastructure regions, many barges are purpose-designed to be powered on waterways by long slender poles thereby becoming known on American waterways as poleboats as the extensive west of North America was settled using the vast tributary river systems of the Mississippi drainage basin.

The Mississippi and Nelson watersheds are separated by the Laurentian Divide, which meets the Continental Divide at Triple Divide Peak near the headwaters of the Columbia's Flathead River tributary.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians, to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction of the Mississippi river, according to Milfort the original Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns.

Hellbender species are present in a number of eastern states that stretch “ from southern New York to northern Georgia ,” including parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and even a small bit of Oklahoma and Kansas.

Not to be forgotten are the 56 % of the people who claim Irish ancestry who are Protestant and populate large areas of the southeastern United States especially in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and Virginia

* 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

This area lies principally along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River, which traverses the state from north to south for a distance of about 600 miles ( 1, 000 km ) and empties into the Gulf of Mexico ; the Red River ; the Ouachita River and its branches ; and other minor streams ( some of which are called bayous ).

There are many proposals to save coastal areas by reducing human damage, including restoring natural floods from the Mississippi.

The Mississippian is so named because rocks with this age are exposed in the Mississippi River valley.

Millsaps reports that 45 % of their student body comes from outside Mississippi ; a large portion of out-of-state students are from neighboring Louisiana.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for " disturbing the peace " after disembarking from their bus.

The two largest Missouri rivers are the Mississippi, which defines the eastern boundary of the state, and the Missouri River, which flows from west to east through the state, essentially connecting the two largest metros, Kansas City and St. Louis.

The water levels for the Ohio River from Smithland Lock and Dam to Cairo, Illinois, are predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center.

He told his Secretary of War, General Henry Dearborn ( Indian affairs were then under the War Department ): " if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi.

Grant's first battles during the Civil War were launched from his base at Cairo, Illinois, the strategic point where the Ohio River runs into the Mississippi River and there are easy links to the Tennessee and Culberland rivers.