• the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN) in Carrollton, Alabama, is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi?
• the NAACP forced the cancellation of some wrestling events in Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?
• although the damages by Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi in 2002 were mostly minor, 41 counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas?
• the 1979 Easter flood was among the most costly and devastating ever to occur in Mississippi, with over $1.4 billion in damages?
• the Harrell Prairie Botanical Area is one of the last undisturbed portions of the Jackson Prairie in the U.S. state of Mississippi?
• the name "regular Fronthall" was used to refer to brave soldiers in honor of the courage of Max Fronthall of the 16th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers?
• the first Singing Christmas Tree took place in Mississippi in 1933 while the first indoor tree debuted in North Carolina in 1958?
• Weidmann's Restaurant, established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi?
• the Simmons & Wright Company building, built in far eastern Mississippi in 1884, was filmed for the movie Due Date?
• Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall) became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was crowned Miss America?
• feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• Mississippi-born Joshua Green had successive careers as a major figure in the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and as a Seattle banker?
• dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
• Meridian Baptist Seminary was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-American students?
• George E. Johnson, Sr., who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped out of high school, founded the first Black-owned company ever traded on the American Stock Exchange?
• African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi, but was later associated with the Northwest School?

Facts on topics related to Mississippi

Alabama

• Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?
• Alabama land- and slave-owner Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (pictured), reputed to be America's richest man in 1860, lost a half million dollars during the American Civil War?
• Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?
• country music singer Ty Herndon's grandmother Myrtle hosted a Gospel music radio show on WPRN and WPRN-FM in Alabama for more than 40 years?
• disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• Barton Academy in Mobile was the first public school in the U.S. state of Alabama?
• John G. Cullmann was nearly assassinated after establishing a settlement of German immigrants in northern Alabama?
• Marcus Schrenker, after committing pseudocide, may face charges from the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as Indiana, Alabama, and Florida law enforcement?
• McFarland Mall in Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing shopping mall in the US state of Alabama?

Georgia (U.S. state)

• Cloudland Canyon State Park in the U.S. state of Georgia straddles a gorge cut into the mountain by Sitton Gulch Creek, where the elevation differs from 1,980 to 800 feet (604 to 244 m)?
• Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
• Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a bellhop in an Atlanta, Georgia hotel elevator?
• an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km²) in the U.S. states of Georgia, North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew?
• in November 1931, American country blues harmonicist Eddie Mapp was found stabbed to death at the age of 20 on an Atlanta, Georgia, street corner?
• in the Frederica Naval Action of the American Revolutionary War, three galleys led by Georgian colonel Samuel Elbert (pictured) defeated a much stronger British force?
• judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk?
• several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812?
• the 17th-century church built by the Tacatacuru, a Timucua chiefdom on Cumberland Island, Georgia, was said to be as big as the one in the Spanish colonial capital of St. Augustine?
• the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse, Monroe County, Tennessee?

Florida

• citrus plantation owner Julia Tuttle owned the land upon which Miami, Florida was built, and that she gave half her land to Henry Flagler to entice him to build a station for the Florida East Coast Railroad there?
• Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida?
• Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac?
• Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower?
• Florida's City College paid US$11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
• Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia" in the 30 Rock episode "The Natural Order"?
• marsh rice rats in Florida are infected by an "unprecedented" number of internal parasites?
• Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida, and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida's medical benefits?
• professional baseball player Pat Osburn's brother-in-law was Milt May, and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
• Ron Rothstein was the first head coach of the Miami Heat, an American professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida?

Illinois

• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
• Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
• Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
• Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
• David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
• Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
• Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?

Arkansas

• Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren authored a failed bill to require motorcyclists to wear helmets or offer proof of health insurance?
• Arlie Metheny, as public information officer in 1958 at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, handled media inquiries relating to the induction of Elvis Presley into the Army?
• dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
• Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas is recognized as one of the best preserved Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the United States?
• Fay Boozman, as the state health director under Governor Mike Huckabee, managed the "Healthy Arkansas" initiative, including the fight against obesity?
• Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas?
• Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas?
• Lynn A. Davis stopped illegal gambling in Hot Springs in a 128-day career as head of the Arkansas state police?
• Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas?
• after Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?

Louisiana

• conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?
• Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
• Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
• Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
• Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
• Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
• Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting, nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?

Kentucky

• American pioneer John Bowman, granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman, presided over the first county court held in Kentucky?
• Jim Bunning, currently a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, was the Pittsburgh Pirates' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1968?
• Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
• Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?
• Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?
• Kentucky political boss Thomas Rhea was instrumental in getting delegates from Southern states to vote to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention?
• Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory?
• Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
• Kentucky's Cherokee State Park, now part of Kenlake State Resort Park, was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States?
• Kentucky's Great Saltpetre Cave, which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812, was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below?

North Carolina

• "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
• North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color?
• North Carolina-based author Perry Deane Young's first Vietnam War article for UPI was about the Tet Offensive, which began the night he arrived in Saigon?
• Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina?
• Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
• Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
• Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?
• James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?

Missouri

• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
• news director Brad Boyer of Missouri radio station KIRK received a Distinguished Service Award from the MSHSAA in 2008 for his "lifelong contributions to the ideals of interscholastic activities"?
• St. Louis, Missouri native Jeremiah James Harty became Archbishop of Manila and successfully lobbied for the establishment of the first Christian Brother school in the Philippines?
• Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester (pictured) follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969?
• Philip Leget Edwards, the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon, later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California?
• the 1906 firing of John McLean (pictured) for paying an athlete to play college football was called "the biggest scandal in the history of Missouri athletics"?
• the fifth album by Missouri-based reggae band Jah Roots featured former Bob Marley & The Wailers lead guitarist Junior Marvin?
• the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California, but the company only completed portions at each end?
• the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor, built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri?
• the opening of State Fair Community College was delayed for more than two years because of a legal dispute over college districts in Missouri?