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| Mississippi Facts |
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Leontyne Price of Laurel, Mississippi performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera. |
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Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi has been called Where Flowers Healed a Nation. It was April 25, 1866, and the Civil War had been over for a year when the ladies of Columbus decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with |
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At Vicksburg, Mississippi, the United States Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station is the world's largest hydraulic research laboratory. |
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