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| Mississippi Facts |
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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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In 1834 Captain Isaac Ross, whose plantation was in Lorman, Mississippi, freed his slaves and arranged for them to be sent to Africa, where they founded the country of Liberia. |
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Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. |
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