Mississippi River

The longest river in the United States, flowing over two thousand miles from Minnesota to Louisiana and into the Gulf of Mexico.

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The most enduring of Twain’s books is “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published Stateside in 1885 when Twain was 49, the story of a runaway boy and an escaped slave who flee down the Mississippi River.

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The group said it elevated the river on the list, right behind the first-ranked Mississippi River, to bring greater attention to the waterway’s chronic pollution problems and the lack of action to clean it up.

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Published in March to widespread critical acclaim,“James” is told from the perspective of Jim, the escaped slave who joins Twain’s protagonist Huckleberry Finn on his journey down the Mississippi River.

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Call signs for most stations east of the Mississippi River begin with a W, and for stations west of the Mississippi, a K. Beyond that, the imagination ran riot.

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Edward Carroll Stone Jr. was born on Jan. 23, 1936, in Knoxville, Iowa, southeast of Des Moines, and grew up near Burlington, on the banks of the Mississippi River.

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Mississippian Mississippi Sound

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