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Mission Revival Style architecture The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th Century and drew inspiration from the early Spanish missions in California. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1890 and 1915, though numerous modern residential, commercial, and institutional structures (particularly schools and railroad depots) display this instantly-recognizable architectural style.
Mission Ribas Misión Ribas (launched November 2003) is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that provides remedial high school level classes to the five million Venezuelan high school dropouts; named after independence hero José Felix Ribas.
Mission River The Mission River is a river in Texas. It is formed by the confluence of Blanco and Medio creeks in central Refugio County (at 28°19' N, 97°19' W) and runs southeast, past Refugio, for twenty-four miles to its mouth on Mission Bay, an inlet of Copano Bay (at 28°10' N, 97°10' W).
Mission Robinson Mission Robinson (launched in July 2003) is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by the current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The name "Robinson" was given to the Mission in remembrance of the pseudonym adopted during his exile from Spanish America by Venezuelan philosopher and educator Simón Rodríguez (1769–1854).
Mission sui iuris A Mission sui iuris, or in Latin Missio sui iuris, also known as Independent mission, is a rare type of Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction in an area with very few Catholics, often desolate or remote.
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo was first established on June 3, 1770 in Monterey, California, and was named for Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, Italy. The following year, the Mission moved to its present location near the present-day town of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas was founded by Jesuit missionary Father Francisco Xavier Pauer in 1756 when he relocated at least seventy-eight Pima Indians to the site from their village of Toacuquita in what is now Arizona, near Tumacácori. The church, houses and the granary were set ablaze during an Apache attack in 1777; the Mission was abandoned in 1786 due to continuing problems with the natives.
Mission San Francisco de la Espada Mission San Francisco de la Espada (informally called just Mission Espada) was a Roman Catholic mission established by Spain near San Antonio de Bexar in northern New Spain in 1731 to convert local Native Americans to Christianity and solidify Spanish territorial claims in the New World against encroachment from France. Today, the structure is one of four missions that comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
Mission San Francisco Solano Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823 and named for a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the "Wonder Worker of the New World." Originally planned as an asistencia ("sub-mission") to Mission San Rafael Arcángel, the northernmost Alta California mission.
Mission San José de Tumacácori Mission San José de Tumacácori is a historic Spanish mission (the oldest in Arizona), established by Jesuits in 1691 as the Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori and preserved in its present form by Franciscans in 1828. After the Pima rebellion of 1751, the Mission was relocated to the present site on the west side of the Santa Cruz River and renamed; it is here that the first actual church structure was erected.
Mission San Jose High School Mission San Jose High School (MSJHS or just MSJ), one of five Fremont, California, USA public high schools, was opened in 1964. The school, located in the district of Mission San Jose, is known for good academics, sending 95% of its graduates to post-secondary schools.
Mission San Luis de Apalachee Mission San Luis de Apalachee (also known as San Luis de Talimali) was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in the early 17th century in the Florida Panhandle, two miles west of the present-day town of Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It was located in the descendent settlement of Anhaica (also as Anhayca Apalache or Inihayca) capital of Apalachee Province.
Mission San Rafael Arcángel Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded on December 14, 1817 as a medical asistencia ("sub-mission" or branch) of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Indians. The weather was much better in the North Bay, and helped the ill to get better.
Mission San Xavier del Bac Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham San Xavier Indian Reservation. Named for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order), the Mission is also known as the "place where the water appears" as the Santa Cruz River (which runs underground) surfaces nearby.
Mission Santa Clara de AsĂ­s Mission Santa Clara de AsĂ­s was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for the order of the Poor Clares, making it the first California mission to be named for a woman. The Mission in its heyday boasted the largest Native American population of any in California (initially the Ohlone people, also known as Costanoan).
Mission Santa Cruz Mission Santa Cruz was consecrated on August 29, 1791 and named for the "Celebration of the Sacred Cross," the name that the explorer Gaspar de PortolĂ  had given to the area when he camped on the banks of the San Lorenzo River on October 17, 1769 and erected a wooden cross.Yenne, p.
Mission Street Mission Street is San Francisco's longest street (a bit over seven miles) and is one of its oldest. It and the Mission District through which it runs were named for the Spanish Mission Dolores, several blocks away from the modern route, which runs from the city's southern border to its northeast corner.
Mission Style "Mission Style" is a generic term often used to refer to Mission Revival Style architecture, the architecture of the Spanish missions located throughout the Southwestern United States and Mexico, or to the design elements of the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Mission Sucre Mission Sucre (launched in late 2003) is one the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The program provides free and ongoing higher (college and graduate level) education to the two million adult Venezuelans who had not completed their elementary-level education.
Mission to Horatius Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds (ISBN 0-671-02812-X for the reprint) is the title of a 1968 novel for children based upon the television series Star Trek. It was the first novel of any kind to be based upon the Trek franchise (although the first novel for adult audiences, Spock Must Die!
Mission to Magnus Mission to Magnus is the third and final in a series of novelisations based on a number of cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was written by Philip Martin, who had previously written the television stories Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp.
Mission to Please Mission to Please is a 1996 album by The Isley Brothers on Island Records. This album was a return to commercial glory for the band in the years following their last platinum-certified album, 1983's Between The Sheets as it also was certified platinum based on the strength of the charted singles "Let's Lay Together", their first R.
Mission to Seafarers The Mission to Seafarers (formerly, The Missions to Seamen) is an international Anglican mission serving mariners and sailors through chapels in over 300 ports around the world. Its formal creation was in 1856 although the Mission had its roots in the earlier work of an Anglican priest, John Ashley who regularly visited ships at anchor in the Bristol Channel.
Mission to the Unknown Mission to the Unknown is a one-part Doctor Who serial. It is notable as the only regular-length, single-episode story in the original run of Doctor Who, and also for not featuring any of the series' regular characters, including the Doctor, although William Hartnell is still credited on-screen.
Mission trip A mission trip is where lay members (and sometimes clergy) of a church or volunteers travel to help others for an extended period of time. At the same time, through their actions and good works, those participating in the mission trip spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Mission To The Sun Mission To The Sun is an episode of the popular Cartoon Network show Courage The Cowardly Dog. In this episode, Courage must save the Sun from fizzling out, while contending with a tiny alien parasite which is using Muriel to sabatoge the mission.
Mission Trails Regional Park Mission Trails Regional Park is a 5,800 acre (23 km²) open space preserve within the city of San Diego, California. It consists of both natural and developed recreation areas, mostly of rugged canyons and hills.
Mission Valley Athletic League The Mission Valley Athletic League (commonly abbreviated MVAL) is a collaboration of 7 schools in the Tri-Cities area of Fremont, Newark and Union City, California. The MVAL is part of the Bay Shore Conference in the North Coast Section (NCS).
Mission Viejo High School Mission Viejo High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Mission Viejo, California, United States, as part of the Saddleback Valley Unified School District. Almost 3,000 students attended during the 2005-06 school year.
Mission Viejo, Aurora, Colorado Mission Viejo is a subdivision of Aurora, Colorado, in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Buckley Road on the east, Quincy Avenue on the south, Chambers Road to the west and Hampden Avenue to the north.
Mission Vuelta al Campo Mission Vuelta al Campo ("Return to the Countryside"; implementation announced in mid 2005) is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Mission Vuelta al Campo seeks to encourage impoverished and unemployed urban Venezuelans to willingly return to the countryside.
Mission Vuelvan Caras Vuelvan Caras (Spanish for "Mission About-Face"), is one of the Bolivarian Missions, a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs implemented by Hugo Chávez, current President of Venezuela. It has as its objective the transformation of the present Venezuelan economy to one that is oriented towards social, rather than fiscal and remunerative, goals.
Mission Zamora Mission Zamora is an integrated land reform and land redistribution program in Venezuela, created in law by the Ley de Tierras ("Law of Land"), part of a package of 49 decrees made by Hugo Chávez in November 2001. The plan is named in honor of Ezequiel Zamora, a 19th century Venezuelan peasant leader.
Mission-type tactics Mission-type tactics (German: Auftragstaktik, also known as Directive Control in the US), have been a central component of the tactics of German armed forces since the 19th century. The term auftragstaktik was coined by opponents of the development of mission-type tactics.
Mission, British Columbia Mission is a Canadian district municipality, in the province of British Columbia and is situated on the north bank of the Fraser River, overlooking the Fraser Valley. Mission is the twenty-third largest municipality in British Columbia, with a population of 31,272 (2001).
Mission, Calgary The Mission district is an inner-city neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada that originated as Notre Dame de la Paix, a Catholic mission, and was for a time the incorporated Village of Rouleauville. In 2006 Mission had a population of 4,433.
Mission: Bossou Mission: Bossou is a charitable project of the students of Bergen County Academies. Its official purpose is to deliver food as quickly as possible to people suffering from hunger in Bossou [Guinea] and surrounding communities.
Mission: Impossible (Nintendo 64) Mission: Impossible is an action and third-person shooter video game for the Nintendo 64 based on the 1996 film Mission: Impossible (film). It was developed by Ocean Software and distributed by Infogrames Entertainment.
Mission: Impossible III Mission: Impossible III (abbreviated M:i:III) is the third film based on the television series Mission: Impossible. Tom Cruise reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt, and stars along with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Crudup, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg and Keri Russell.
Mission: SPACE Mission: SPACE is a motion simulator thrill ride at Epcot, a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It simulates what an astronaut might experience aboard a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, from the higher g-forces of blastoff to the speculative hypersleep.
Mission: Wolf Mission: Wolf is a remote wolf sanctuary near Westcliffe, Colorado. Housing up to 40 wolves and wolf-dog hybrids, Mission: Wolf works to promote a better understanding of wolves in order to further reintroduction efforts and discourage attempts to keep wolves as pets.
Missional church A Missional Church is a church that seeks to align all their activities according to the redemptive mission of God, rather than identifying it with the traditional understanding of missionary work. To be missional is to align one's life with the redemptive mission of Jesus in the world.
Missionaries and cannibals problem The missionaries and cannibals problem is a logic puzzle commonly used as an example of using abstract concepts to solve a problem. It was made famous within the field of artificial intelligence by Saul Amarel, who used the problem as an example in a paper on problem representation.
Missionaries of Charity Missionaries of Charity is a Catholic religious order established in 1950, which consists of over 4,500 nuns and is active in 133 countries. Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order's initials, "MC.
Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo The Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo or Scalabrinian Missionaries are a Roman Catholic religious order of brothers and priests founded by John Baptist Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, Italy in 1887 to "maintain Catholic faith and practice among Italian emigrants in the New World.
Missionaries of the Holy Spirit The Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (MSpS) are a Catholic religious order founded in Mexico City in 1914 by FĂ©lix de JesĂşs Rougier . Rougier was a priest, member of another religious order, the Society of Mary.
Missionaries of the Poor The Missionaries of the Poor (MOP) is an international Roman Catholic monastic order of Brothers dedicated to "Joyful Service with Christ on the Cross" to serve the poorest of the poor. The order was started in 1981 by Father Richard Ho Lung in Kingston, Jamaica and has now grown to over 300 brothers.
Missionaries of the Precious Blood The Missionaries of the Precious Blood are a Roman Catholic religious order for men, founded by Saint Gaspar del Bufalo in 1815. The Missionaries of the Precious Blood is a shortened English translation of the Latin Congregatio Missionariorum Pretiosissimi Sanguinis Domini Nostri Jesus Christi, [The Congregation of Missioners of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ].
Missionary A missionary is traditionally defined as a propagator of religion who works to convert those outside that community; someone who proselytizes. While some faiths like Judaism, Mandaeism, Parsees, or those focused on ancestor cult or local spirits, as in Animism and Shintoism make little or no effort to spread beyond their ethno-cultural home societies, many religious groups engage in missionary activities.
Missionary dating Missionary dating is a phrase used to describe when a person of one religious persuasion dates a person with differing beliefs for the purpose of converting him or her. Synonymous phrases include "dating for Jesus" or "flirt to convert".
Missionary Generation The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. They became the indulged home-and-hearth children of the post-Civil War era.
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church founded on January 25, 1816 by Saint Eugene de Mazenod, a French priest from Marseille. It was first recognized by Pope Leo XII on February 17, 1826.
Missionary position The missionary position is a common human sex position also used by certain other species including bonobos and armadillos. In his seminal study Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), researcher Alfred Kinsey stated that 91 percent of married women surveyed reported using this position most often, whereas nine percent reported using it exclusively.
Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit The Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, also known as Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, or simply Holy Spirit Sisters (SSpS Latin: Serva Spiritu Sanctu) are an official "Religious Congregation" within the Catholic Church, with members (after some years) making a vowed commitment to the loving service of God and their sisters and brothers in need around the world. Holy Spirit Homewww.
Missionary Stew Missionary Stew was an American rock group formed in East Detroit, Michigan and active from 1987 to 1993. The group was based on the songwriting partnership of Dion Roddy and Chris Gallivan, the slick keyboard playing of Jeff Woods, the dynamic drumming of Todd Kulman and the punchy bass playing of Todd Ruthruff.
Missionary Training Center Missionary Training Centers (or "MTCs") are centers devoted to training missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The flagship MTC is located in Provo, Utah, USA, adjacent to the campus of Brigham Young University.
MissionCare MissionCare is a project which aims to turn around poorly managed hospitals in China. There are more than 10000 hospitals and healthcare facilities in China and most of them are still being managed in a very old-fashioned way.
MissionForce: Cyberstorm MissionForce: Cyberstorm (commonly referred to as "Cyberstorm") is a turn-based strategy game developed by Dynamix and published in 1996 by Sierra Entertainment. The game is set in the Earthsiege universe created by Dynamix, and the player control units of HERCs (Humaniform-Emulation Roboticized Combat Unit with Leg-Articulated Navigation): bipedal warmachines of varying size and construct.
Missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is well known for their efforts to contact the public through proselyting activities. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints use the word mission in relation to these activities.
Missisquoi River The Missisquoi River is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 80 mi (130 km) long, in northern Vermont in the United States and southern Quebec in Canada. It drains a rural area of the northern Green Mountains along the US-Canada border northwest of Lake Champlain, passing through no major population centers.
Mississagi River The Mississagi River is a river in central Ontario, Canada, which originates in Mississagi Lake and flows 270 km to empty into Lake Huron at Blind River, Ontario. The river's delta is a "bird's foot" delta, a type not commonly found on the Great Lakes.
Mississauga Baseball Association The Mississauga Baseball Association (commonly referred to in writing as the MBA) is a not-for-profit summer baseball league that provides opportunities for youth in the Mississauga, Ontario area aged roughly 9 to 21 to play baseball from early May to late August. It is composed of five individual associations -- the Erindale Lions Little League, the Forest Glen Giants Baseball Association, the Mississauga Majors Baseball Association, the Mississauga North Baseball Association, and the Mississauga Southwest Baseball Association.
Mississauga East—Cooksville Mississauga East—Cooksville is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Mississauga Hockey League The Mississauga Hockey League is a minor hockey league in Mississauga, Ontario offering hockey to every person in Mississauga between the ages of 6 and 19, every player in the league must be a resident of Mississauga. It is part of the Greater Toronto Hockey League's system of minor hockey leagues within the Greater Toronto Area.
Mississauga municipal election, 2006 The 2006 Mississauga municipal elections took place on 13 November 2006, to elect a mayor and 11 city councillors in Mississauga, Canada. In addition, school trustees will be elected to the Peel District School Board, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud.
Mississauga Red Wolves The Mississauga Red Wolves are an American Basketball Association (ABA) team in Mississauga, Ontario. The team was announced during the 2005-2006 season as a Toronto expansion franchise and subsequently chose nearby Mississauga as their home.
Mississauga South Mississauga South is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
Mississauga Truck and Bus Collision Mississauga Truck and Bus Collision is a rebuilder of buses and trucks in Southern Ontario. Located in Milton, Ontario, MTB has done work for various transit authorities in Ontario, Canada and the United States:
Mississauga, Ontario Mississauga (pronounced: [] ) with an estimated population of 678,000 in 2007, is Canada's seventh most populous municipality (Census subdivision), located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, and part of the Greater Toronto Area. It is the most populous lower-tier municipality in Ontario and also considered the most populous suburban municipality in North America .
Mississauga—Brampton South Mississauga—Brampton South is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Mississauga—Erindale Mississauga—Erindale is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Mississauga—Streetsville Mississauga—Streetsville is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Mississinewa River The Mississinewa River is a tributary of the Wabash River in eastern Indiana and a small portion of western Ohio in the United States. It is about 100 mi (160 km) long Via the Wabash and Ohio] Rivers, it is part of the [[Mississippi River watershed.
Mississippi and Missouri Railroad The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad (M&M Railroad) was the first railroad in Iowa and was chartered in 1853 to build a line between Davenport, Iowa on the Mississippi River and Council Bluffs, Iowa on the Missouri River and was to play an important role in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Mississippi Aerial River Transit The Mississippi Aerial River Transit, or simply MART was a gondola lift transport system spanning the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana constructed for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. Its station on the East Bank was located at the foot of Julia Street adjacent to what became the Ernest N.
Mississippi Alluvial Plain The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, the largest ecoregion in Louisiana, covers some 12,350 square miles (31,990 square kilometres) of the state. It occupies parts of seven states, from southern Louisiana to southern Illinois.
Mississippi Amendment 1 (2004) Amendment 1 of 2004 is a so-called "defense of marriage amendment" that amended the Mississippi Constitution by adding a definition of marriage that has the effect of preventing same-sex marriages from being conducted or recognized in Mississippi. The Amendment passed a public referendum in November 2, 2004 with 86% of voters supporting and 14% opposing.
Mississippi Brilla Mississippi Brilla are an American soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and will make their debut in the Mid-South Division of the Southern Conference in 2007, playing against teams from Austin, Baton Rouge, Dallas, El Paso, Laredo and New Orleans.
Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a 1988 film based on the investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The movie focuses on two fictional FBI agents (portrayed by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) who investigate the murders.
Mississippi Business Journal Mississippi Business Journal is a statewide business newspaper, located in Jackson, Mississippi. It failed five times before Rosa Lee Harden and Kevin Jones took it over in 1979, thereafter making it financially viable and establishing it as the leading business publication in the state.
Mississippi civil rights worker murders The Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders involved the 1964 slayings of three political activists during the American Civil Rights Movement. The murders of James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi, Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York, and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish social worker also from New York, helped symbolize the dangers of the civil rights movement as part of what became known as "Freedom Summer.
Mississippi class battleship The Mississippi-class battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and USS Idaho (BB-24), served in the US Navy from 1908 to 1914. The ships were built as part of a brief Congressional desire to restrain the ballooning tonnage and expense of new battleships (which had vaulted over 10,000 tons in the span of a decade, and promised to increase further with the new all-big-gun designs then on the boards).
Mississippi Coliseum The Mississippi Coliseum is a 6,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Jackson, Mississippi, located on the Mississippi State Fairgrounds Complex. It was home to the Jackson Bandits minor league ice hockey team from 1999-2003, and is currently home to the Jackson Wildcats of the United States Basketball League.
Mississippi College Mississippi College, also known as "MC", is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi. Mississippi College is comprised of the main campus in Clinton as well as the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson.
Mississippi Company In August 1717 Scottish businessman John Law acquired a controlling interest in the then derelict Mississippi Company and renamed it the Compagnie d'Occident [sic] (or Compagnie du Mississippi). Its initial goal was to trade and do business with the French colonies in North America, which included much of the Mississippi River drainage basin, and the French colony of Louisiana.
Mississippi Delta The Mississippi Delta is the distinct northwest section of the state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. Technically not a delta but part of an alluvial plain, it has been said that The Delta "begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel (in Memphis) and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg" (various writers have been attributed with composing this memorable line, but most often David Cohn is credited with the saying).
Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (also sometimes referred to as the MDAC) is a government deptartment that regulates and promotes agricultural-related businesses within the United States state of Mississippi. The Department of Agriculture and Commerce was created by the Mississippi Legislature in 1906.
Mississippi embayment The Mississippi embayment is a physiographic feature in the south-central United States. It is essentially a northward continuation of the fluvial sediments of the Mississippi River Delta to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
Mississippi Flyway The Mississippi Flyway is a bird migration route that generally follows the Mississippi River in the United States and the Mackenzie River in Canada. This main endpoints of the flyway include central Canada and the region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico; the migration route tends to narrow considerably in the lower Mississippi River valley in the states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, which account for the high number of bird species found in those areas.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964, during the civil rights movement. It was organized by black and white Mississippians, with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to win seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention for a slate of delegates elected by disenfranchised black Mississippians and white sympathizers.
Mississippi general election, 2003 A general election was held in Mississippi on November 4, 2003 to elect to 4 year terms all members of the state legislature (122 representatives, 52 senators), the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, State Auditor, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, and Commissioner of Insurance, plus all three members of the Transportation Commission and all three members of the Public Service Commission.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College consists of four campuses and four centers: the main campus, located in Perkinston, Mississippithe Jackson County Campus, in Gautier]the Jefferson Davis Campus, in [[Gulfport, Mississippi|Gulfport]the Community Campus, a non-traditional campus without walls[http://www.mgccc.
Mississippi Hare Mississippi Hare is a Looney Tunes cartoon short produced in 1949 by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. In recent years, the short has not been shown on television because of its presumably offensive portrayal of African-Americans.
Mississippi Highway 182 Mississippi Highway 182 designates the old two-lane highway for US 82 where the current US 82 occupies a new right-of-way. Some of the towns with this 182 segment are Winona, Kilmichael, Eupora, Mayhew, Starkville, and Columbus.
Mississippi Highway 365 Mississippi Highway 365 runs north-south through Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Its northern terminus is on Mississippi Highway 25 near Pickwick Lake, and its southern terminus is on Mississippi Highway 30 west of Paden, Mississippi.
Mississippi Highway 4 Mississippi Highway 4 runs east-west from an intersection in the community of Fox Island west of Tunica, Mississippi, near the border with Arkansas, to Mississippi Highway 25 in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It travels a distance of 154 miles, serving Tunica, Tate, Marshall, Benton, Tippah, Prentiss, and Tishomingo Counties.
Mississippi Highway 42 Mississippi Highway 42 (MS 42) is a state highway in Mississippi. MS 42 runs in an eas/west direction for 105 miles, serving seven Mississippi counties: Wayne, Greene, Perry, Forrest, Lamar, Jefferson Davis, and Lawrence.
Mississippi Highway 50 Mississippi Highway 50 (MS 50) is a state highway in Mississippi. It generally follows an east/west track for 60 miles and runs from MS 9 in Walthall, Mississippi, east to the Alabama state line east of Columbus.
Mississippi Highway 6 Mississippi Highway 6 runs east-west from MS 161 in Lyon, Mississippi, Mississippi, east to MS 25 near Amory, Mississippi. It travels approximately 136 miles, serving Coahoma, Quitman, Panola, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Lee, and Monroe Counties.
Mississippi Highway 7 Mississippi Highway 7 runs generally north-south from the Tennessee state line in Benton County to Belzoni, Mississippi. It travels approximately 165 miles, serving Humphreys, Leflore, Carroll, Grenada, Yalobusha, Lafayette, Marshall, and Benton Counties.

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