Archive for March, 2010
Catfish Creek, which feeds into the Mississippi River south of Dubuque, Iowa. July 5, 2007.
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Mississippi River Flooding St Paul 2010 Red River Flooding
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This beautiful partially wooded, partly open property with year-round stream is 40 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico in Pearl River County, Mississippi. The house is 2548 sq feet and is steel-framed with a low maintenance exterior of brick and Hardiplank. It features almost 1000 sq feet of screened porches for outdoor enjoyment. It is situated on 10 acres with extensive landscaping, including many varieties of bamboo. Outdoor amenities include an Endless Pool sunken into a deck made of maintenance-free composite material and a separate patio seating area with a working brick fireplace. The house has an 11kW hard-wired generator. A two-car garage is connected by a covered, screened breezeway and is on the same level as the house for wheelchair accessibility. Additional properties, including a 1000 sq ft cottage on an adjacent 10 acres, are available, if bought at the same time. Properties are close to the Pearl River wildlife management area with excellent hunting and fishing.
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The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,320 miles (3,730 km) from the source of its upper portion at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi River is part of the Missouri-Mississippi river system, which is the largest river system in North America and among the largest in the world: By length—3,900 miles (6,300 km)—it is the fourth longest, and by its average discharge of 572,000 cu ft/s (16,200 m³/s), it is the tenth largest.
The name Mississippi is derived from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi (”Great River”) or gichi-ziibi (”Big River”).
From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, the flow of the Mississippi River is moderated by 43 dams.
The Mississippi River runs through 10 states and was used to define portions of these states’ borders. The middle of the riverbed at the time the borders were established was the line to define the borders between states. The river has since shifted, but the state borders of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi have not changed; they still follow the former bed of the Mississippi River as of their establishment.
The area of the Mississippi valley was first settled by Native American tribes, such as the Cheyenne, Sioux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Kickapoo, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Quapaw and Chickasaw.
The Cheyenne, one of the earliest inhabitants of the upper Mississippi River, called it the Máˀxe-éˀometaaˀe (Big Greasy River) in the Cheyenne language. However, the word Mississippi comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River).
On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River, which he called Río del Espíritu Santo (”River of the Holy Spirit”), in the area of what is now Mississippi. In Spanish, the river is called Río Mississippi.
The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles (1,579 km) long and is located in the eastern United States.Pearls have a particularly long history in the Midwest. Excavations in the Ohio River Valley revealed fabulous quantities of pearls belonging to the people of the ancient Hopewell culture (200 B.C.-A.D. 500).
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1978 home movie featuring drive-by shots of New Orleans City Hall, the Superdome, and a Mississippi River cruise. Part of the Elmer Gerlock Film Project.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces a new initiative to improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River Basin in taped remarks to the Gulf Hypoxia Task Force Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa. The Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) will provide approximately $320 million over the next four years for voluntary projects in priority watersheds located in 12 key states. Participation in this initiative, which will be managed by USDAs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will be made available through a competitive process for potential partners at the local, State and national levels.
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You must see this home to appreiciate the beauty inside and out. Breakfast bar, granite counters, stainlees steel appliances, cherry kitchen cabinets 18 foot celings, oak flooring in the kitchen, living room and dining room, 3 sets of french doors, 3 sided gas fireplace. About a 3 minute drive to the Mississippi River, spectacluar river views from the deck and only 10 minutes to yellow river state forest with over 8000 acres to roam on.
Ewing Real Estate
7 West Main St.
Waukon, IA
563-568-4371
Licensed in IA
Dan Denk
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In September of 2009, David made the trip for the reenactment of the Meriwether Lewis 1809 Expedition took place from St. Louis to Memphis. The trip of about 400 miles down the Mississippi River was made on a replica flatboat. It took 21 days with no means of power, no motors or generators, we just had oars and guided our way down. The Flatboat is on the boat ramp at Mud Island in Memphis, currently and then will become part of the permanent exhibition in the museum in spring of 2010.
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Entering Catfish Creek, which feeds into the Mississippi River south of Dubuque, Iowa. July 5, 2007.
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Janis covering a country classic i think all these live songs were from threadgills, its interesting to hear her as a young singer before she developed her own sound.
Lyrics:
Well, I’m going down that Mississippi River, yes, I am, yes I am
Well, I’m going down that Mississippi River, yes, I am, yes I am
Yes I am, boy, yes I am
Well, I’m goin’ on that big Belle Louise, yes, I am, yes I am
Well, I’m going on that big Belle Louise, yes, I am, yes I am
Yes I am, boy, yes I am
Oh man, where are you gonna catch your river, catch me tryin’, you catch me tryin’
Oh man, where are you gonna catch your river, you catch me tryin’, you catch me tryin’
You catch me tryin’, boys, you catch me tryin’
Man, will your daughter take on me?
Well, I don’t know, I don’t know
Oh man, will your daughter take on me?
I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t know, boy, I don’t know
Well, I’m going down that Mississippi River, yes, I am, yes I am
Well, I’m going down that Mississippi River, yes, I am, yes I am
Yes I am, boy, yes I am
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