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[Guru]

http://www.visitmississippi.org/press_news/press_trivia_facts1.asp

I love this kind of thing. More to come as I find all my links.

[eyescene]

Yell I love that kinda stuff too!

[Flowergirl]

Keep them coming.

[Guru]

All you ever wanted to know about "O'Brother Where Art Thou?"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/trivia

[Guru]

Pages and pages of Mississippi Trivia:

http://www.americanprofile.com/tidbits/mississippi.html

[Guru]

Really good Elvis trivia:

http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/Presley.html

[Guru]

Famous Mississippi writers:

http://shs.ee.msstate.edu/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/write.html



one day ...

[Guru]

Famous Mississippi musicians:

http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/music.html

[Guru]

Famous Mississippi actors:

http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/Stennis/MississippiStarsStageScreenTV.html

[Guru]

Mississippi artists:

http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/Stennis/MississippiArtists2.html

[Guru]

Six principal regions of Mississippi (also referenced as so by John Grisham in the novel "The Summons":

http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/mll/index.html

[Guru]

Timeline Mississippi:
(got some really good historical timeline information here)

http://www.classbrain.com/artstate/publish/printer_505.shtml

[Guru]

Mississippi Demographics:

http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/ms.htm

[eyescene]

WoW! I'll be reading all day! Thanks Guru!

[Guru]

Gosh isn't all that great stuff? I LOVE this kind of thing. Who would have ever thought all that happened here?

[TheCapitalist]

You might like this book, Guru. Extensively researched book on indian names and meanings in mississippi:

http://media.www.reflector-online.com/media/storage/paper938/news/2007/09/25/Entertainment/Msu-Author.Reveals.Mysteries.Behind.Mississippi.Names-2990085.shtml

[pooker]

You would think if we produced 70% of the worlds catfish we would have the festival here?

[Guru]

It's hard to be humble when you are from Mississippi. Sometimes, to play nice with the rest of the world we just give them stuff.

[Fotno]

I appreciate y'all posting this kind of stuff.
I am a history Geek.

[optimistik1]

Nanih Waiya State Park in Winston County is the legendary birthplace of the Choctaw Indian Nation and the site of their sacred mound, Nanih Waiya. The mound, built more than 1,500 years ago, took two to three generations to complete

We have Choctaw in our heritage....love MS facts!

[Guru]

More famous Mississippians, I'm going to have to make a Master List one day:

Famous Mississippians
Red Barber sportscaster, Columbus
Lance Bass singer, Laurel
Theodore Bilbo public official, Poplarville
Jimmy Buffett singer, songwriter, Pascagoula
Craig Claiborne columnist, restaurant critic, Sunflower
Bo Diddley guitarist, McCombs
Charles Evers civil rights leader, Decatur
Medgar Evers civil rights leader, Decatur
Brett Farve football, Kiln
William Cuthbert Faulkner author, New Albany
Shelby Foote historian, Greenville
Richard Ford author, Jackson
Barry Hannah author, Clinton
Elizabeth Lee Hazen inventor,
Beth Henley playwright, actress, Jackson
Jim Henson puppeteer, Greenville
Faith Hill singer, Jackson
James Earl Jones entertainer, Arkabutla
Simbi Khali actress, Jackson
B. B. King guitarist, Itta Bena
Willie Morris writer, Jackson
Brandy Norwood singer,actress, McComb
Walter Payton football player, Columbia
Elvis Presley singer, actor, Tupelo
Charley Pride country singer, Sledge
Leontyne Price soprano, Laurel
William Raspberry columnist, Oklaona
Jerry Rice football player, Starkville
LeAnn Rimes country music, Jackson
William Grant Still composer, Woodville
Conway Twitty country music, Friars Point
Sela Ward actress, Meridian
Muddy Waters singer, guitarist, Rolling Fork
Eudora Welty author, Jackson
Tennessee Williams playwright, Columbus
Oprah Winfrey talk-show host, Kosciusko
Richard Wright author, Natchez
Tammy Wynette country music star, Tupelo

[threekidspa]

You don't have Brittney Spears on your list???? ;)

[optimistik1]

I was going to correct your list by adding Morgan Freeman, as I thought he was BORN in MS, but he was born in Memphis, and moved to Charleston, MS as an infant and still has a home there....

[Guru]

I'm not sure where Britney Spears was born. Do we really want to claim her?
:D

[Guru]

Part 1, five photos from a new state ad campaign.

[Guru]

Part 2, five other photos from a new state ad campaign.