Word: mississippi
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...what happens when Pitt falls? There are only three other undefeated teams left: Clemson, Southern Mississippi, and Yale...
...wanting to offend the Indians-or interfere with the lucrative fur trade-London continued to prohibit settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Barrier Act was often ignored, but it nonetheless slowed development of the Far West-that vast area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. Only in this century have Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, had populations large enough to qualify for provincehood; until 1908 they had territorial governors appointed directly by the Prime Minister's office on Flatbush Avenue...
Another unfortunate consequence of the Barrier Act was to encourage the French to try to push their frontier east of the Mississippi. The Emperor Napoleon had been tempted to sell all of France's New World holdings-for as little as ? 3 million-but Jefferson, that consummate troublemaker, convinced him not only to keep his 828,000 square miles but to populate them with the landless peasants of France and Southern Europe. If it had not been for Jefferson-non piangere per me, indeed!-America, our British America, might now extend from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains...
...well, back to the Mississippi, where the French and the British waged constant warfare along their river boundary. In fact, the final battle of the Mississippi War took place as late as 1865. Only then, at the Battle of Prairie du Chien, did the combined British and American armies, under the leadership of General Sir Ulysses S. Grant, persuade the French and their Indian allies to stay on their side of the water. After that, Paris seemed to lose interest in its third of the North American continent, and with French blessing, the newly independent nation of Louisiana unfurled...
...object to tampering with electoral democracy in order to aid one group or interest; we object to such tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta to end generations of racial gerrymandering, the goal was more than simply giving Blacks greater political clout; it was an issue of fundamental fairness. And so is this...