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History and Culture - Volume 2 - Draft Heritage Study and Environmental Assessment (16022 words) |
 | Mississippian is the term with which archeologists label the diverse pre-European contact societies of Indians who eventually inhabited the fertile river valleys of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi Rivers in what is now the southeastern United States, extending as far west and north as present-day Oklahoma and Wisconsin, respectively. |
 | As political and social ranking proliferated, the Mississippian mindset was increasingly reinforced by ceremony and sacrament. |
 | Ravaged by epidemics of smallpox and malaria and infections such as typhoid fever, measles, syphilis, and tuberculosis, the Mississippian population plummeted (Thomas, Josephy, and Miller 1993). |
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List of famous Old Etonians - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about List of famous Old Etonians (232 words) |
 | List of famous Old Etonians born in the 16th and 17th centuries |
 | List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century |
 | List of famous Old Etonians born in the 19th century |