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MS. St. Louis. MS St. Louis was a diesel -powered passenger ship properly referred to with the prefix MS or MV, built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for HAPAG, better known in English as the Hamburg America Line. The ship was named after the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Her sister ship, MS Milwaukee, was also a diesel powered motor ...
"Terrible Tragedy at St. Louis, Mo.", wood engraving originally published in the New York Illustrated News, 1861. The Camp Jackson affair, also known as the Camp Jackson massacre, occurred during the American Civil War on May 10, 1861, when a volunteer Union Army regiment captured a unit of secessionists at Camp Jackson, outside the city of St. Louis, in the divided slave state of Missouri.
The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks on African Americans by white Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, between late May and early July of 1917. These attacks also displaced 6,000 African Americans and led to the destruction of approximately $400,000 ($9.51 million in 2023) worth of property. [1]
Weatherbird. First Weatherbird appearance, February 11, 1901, drawn by Harry B. Martin. The Weatherbird is a cartoon character and a single-panel comic. It is printed on the front of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has been in the paper continuously since 1901, making it the longest-running American newspaper cartoon and a mascot of the newspaper.
Life Childhood and heritage Faulkner was influenced by stories of his great-grandfather and namesake William Clark Falkner. William Cuthbert Falkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner (1870–1932) and Maud Butler (1871–1960). His family was upper middle-class, but "not quite of the old feudal cotton aristocracy ...
Bay St. Louis is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Mississippi, in the United States. [2] Located on the Gulf Coast on the west side of the Bay of St. Louis, it is part of the Gulfport – Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,284 at the 2020 census, up from 9,260 at the 2010 census .
The 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado ( great cyclone) was a historic tornado that caused severe damage to downtown St. Louis, Missouri, East St. Louis, Illinois, and surrounding areas on Wednesday, May 27, 1896, at around 5:00 pm. One of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history, this tornado was the most notable of a ...
A panel of the comic depicting Freckle McMurray and Rocky Rickaby. Lackadaisy (also known as Lackadaisy Cats) is a webcomic created by American artist Tracy J. Butler. Set in a Prohibition -era St. Louis with a population of anthropomorphic cats, [1] the plot chronicles the fortunes of the Lackadaisy speakeasy after its founder is murdered.
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city.
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