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Area codes of Mississippi. The state of Mississippi is served by the following area codes: . Area code 228 serves the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi.; Area codes 601 and 769 serve most of southern Mississippi including Jackson.
John W. Provine High School is a public high school located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.It is part of the Jackson Public School District.Nicknamed "Ram City", the school serves students in grades 9–12 in the West Jackson area.
Rush Medical College was chartered on March 2, 1837, two days before the city of Chicago was chartered. [3] The college opened with 22 students on December 4, 1843. It was Chicago's first health care institution [4] and one of the few medical schools west of the Alleghenies.
The Ross Barnett Reservoir, often called the Rez, is a reservoir of the Pearl River between Madison and Rankin counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The 33,000-acre (130 km 2 ) lake serves as the state's largest drinking water resource, and is managed by the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District .
Ross Henderson Paul, CM is a university administrator who was the fifth president and vice-chancellor of the University of Windsor. He completed his term of office as president on June 30, 2008. He completed his term of office as president on June 30, 2008.
The 1996 Jackson firehouse shooting was a mass murder that took place on April 24, 1996, at a firehouse in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States. Firefighter Kenneth Tornes fatally shot four of his supervisors, after killing his wife earlier that day.
Sanford Jackson (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D) – prominent biochemist, former biochemist-in-chief at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, inventor of the bilirubinometer; C. S. Holling (B.A., M.Sc. 1952) – ecologist and pioneer in ecological economics, director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.