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Town
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A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a town varies considerably in different parts of the world, the word town shares an origin with the German word Zaun, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun. The German word Zaun comes closest to the meaning of the word. An early borrowing from Celtic *dunom, in English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the wealthy, in Old Norse tun means a place between farmhouses, and is still used in a similar meaning in modern Norwegian. If there was any distinction between toun and burgh as claimed by some, it did not last in practice as burghs, for example, Edina Burgh or Edinburgh was built around a fort and eventually came to have a defensive wall. In some cases, town is a name for city or village. Sometimes, the town is short for township. A places population size is not a determinant of urban character. In many areas of the world, as in India at least until recent times, in the United Kingdom, there are historical cities that are far smaller than the larger towns. Some forms of settlement, such as temporary mining locations, may be clearly non-rural. Towns often exist as governmental units, with legally defined borders. In the United States these are referred to as incorporated towns, in other cases the town lacks its own governance and is said to be unincorporated. Note that the existence of a town may be legally set forth through other means. In the case of planned communities, the town exists legally in the form of covenants on the properties within the town. Australian geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor proposed a classification of towns based on their age, although there is no official use of the term for any settlement. In Albanian qytezë means small city or new city, while in ancient times small residential center within the walls of a castle
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Mississippi
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Mississippi /ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpi/ is a state in the southern region of the United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico. Its western border is formed by the Mississippi River, the state has a population of approximately 3 million. It is the 32nd most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States, located in the center of the state, Jackson is the state capital and largest city, with a population of approximately 175,000 people. The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area, before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, where slaves worked on cotton plantations. After the war, the bottomlands to the interior were cleared, by the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Deltas property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after a financial crisis. Clearing altered the Deltas ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi, much land is now held by agribusinesses. The states catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States, since the 1930s and the Great Migration, Mississippi has been majority white, albeit with the highest percentage of black residents of any U. S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were mostly black, whites retained political power through Jim Crow laws. In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African Americans, the highest percentage of African Americans in any U. S. state, since gaining enforcement of their voting franchise in the late 1960s, most African Americans support Democratic candidates in local, state and national elections. Conservative whites have shifted to the Republican Party, African Americans are a majority in many counties of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, an area of historic settlement during the plantation era. Since 2011 Mississippi has been ranked as the most religious state in the country, the states name is derived from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary. Settlers named it after the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi, in addition to its namesake, major rivers in Mississippi include the Big Black River, the Pearl River, the Yazoo River, the Pascagoula River, and the Tombigbee River. Major lakes include Ross Barnett Reservoir, Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Mississippi is entirely composed of lowlands, the highest point being Woodall Mountain, in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains,807 feet above sea level. The lowest point is sea level at the Gulf coast, the states mean elevation is 300 feet above sea level. Most of Mississippi is part of the East Gulf Coastal Plain, the coastal plain is generally composed of low hills, such as the Pine Hills in the south and the North Central Hills. The Pontotoc Ridge and the Fall Line Hills in the northeast have somewhat higher elevations, yellow-brown loess soil is found in the western parts of the state. The northeast is a region of black earth that extends into the Alabama Black Belt. The coastline includes large bays at Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, the northwest remainder of the state consists of the Mississippi Delta, a section of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
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ZIP Code
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ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, was chosen to suggest that the travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly. The basic format consists of five numerical digits, an extended ZIP+4 code, introduced in 1983, includes the five digits of the ZIP Code, a hyphen, and four additional digits that determine a more specific location within a given ZIP Code. The term ZIP Code was originally registered as a servicemark by the U. S. Postal Service, USPS style for ZIP is all caps and the c in code is also capitalized, although style sheets for some publications use sentence case or lowercase. The early history and context of postal codes began with postal district/zone numbers, the United States Post Office Department implemented postal zones for numerous large cities in 1943. For example, Mr. John Smith 3256 Epiphenomenal Avenue Minneapolis 16, by the early 1960s a more organized system was needed, and on July 1,1963, non-mandatory five-digit ZIP Codes were introduced nationwide. Three months later, on October 1,1963, the U. S, an earlier list in June had proposed capitalized abbreviations ranging from two to five letters. The abbreviations have remained unchanged, with one exception, according to the historian of the U. S. Robert Moon, an employee of the post office, is considered the father of the ZIP Code, he submitted his proposal in 1944 while working as a postal inspector. The post office gives credit to Moon only for the first three digits of the ZIP Code, which describe the sectional center facility or sec center, an SCF is a central mail processing facility with those three digits. The SCF sorts mail to all post offices with those first three digits in their ZIP Codes, the mail is sorted according to the final two digits of the ZIP Code and sent to the corresponding post offices in the early morning. Sectional centers do not deliver mail and are not open to the public, Mail picked up at post offices is sent to their own SCF in the afternoon, where the mail is sorted overnight. The United States Post Office used a character, which it called Mr. ZIP. He was often depicted with a such as USE ZIP CODE in the selvage of panes of stamps or on labels contained in, or the covers of. In 1983, the U. S. Postal Service introduced an expanded ZIP Code system that it called ZIP+4, often called plus-four codes, add-on codes, or add ons. But initial attempts to promote use of the new format met with public resistance. For Post Office Boxes, the rule is that each box has its own ZIP+4 code. However, there is no rule, so the ZIP+4 Code must be looked up individually for each box. It is common to use add-on code 9998 for mail addressed to the postmaster,9999 for general delivery, for a unique ZIP Code, the add-on code is typically 0001
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Jason Campbell
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Jason S. Campbell is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft and he played college football at Auburn. Campbell also played for the Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, a 2000 graduate of Taylorsville High School in Taylorsville, Mississippi, Campbell went on to play college football at Auburn. Campbell graduated from Auburn with a degree in public administration, ~includes bowl gameSource, sports-reference. com Campbell was drafted as the 25th pick in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins under General Manager Vinny Cerrato. The Redskins traded up in the draft to get Campbell, surrendering a third round pick in the 2005 NFL draft, along with first, Campbell didnt play in his rookie season, sitting on the bench behind Mark Brunell and Patrick Ramsey. On November 13,2006, Campbell was named the Redskins starting quarterback, despite losing in his first start to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Campbell was praised for his poise. On November 26,2006, Campbell had his first win of his pro career, Campbell completed 11 passes on 23 attempts for only 118 yards, with two touchdowns and one interception. Campbell threw a 66-yard touchdown pass to tight end Chris Cooley in the fourth quarter, on August 18,2007, Campbell was tackled at the knee by Pittsburgh Steelers DE Brett Keisel in the second preseason game. Initially, the injury looked severe but Campbell eventually walked off the field on his own, trainers said that Campbells ligaments were not torn and announced his injury as a bruised knee. On December 6,2007, Campbell dislocated the patellar ligament of his knee during a game against the Chicago Bears. The injury did not require surgery but Campbell did not play for the remainder of the season, when Joe Gibbs retired for a second time at the end of the 2007 season, the Redskins hired Jim Zorn, first as offensive coordinator and then naming him head coach. Zorn said at the time he would serve as quarterbacks coach. The Redskins started the season 6-2, prompting observers to declare Campbell one of the NFLs elite quarterbacks, the team, however, then went on to lose six of their remaining eight games to end the season 8-8, missing the playoffs. At the end of the season, it was if the Redskins were on the road to improvement or decline. Questions arose on the future of Campbell as the quarterback for the Washington Redskins. Despite pursuing other quarterbacks in the offseason, the Redskins were unable to acquire Jay Cutler or Mark Sanchez, Campbell and the Redskins ended 2009 with a 4-12 record, one of the worst in Redskins history. The often rocky relationship Campbell had with head coach Jim Zorn ended with Zorns firing, after the Redskins acquired Donovan McNabb, Campbell was traded to the Oakland Raiders on April 24,2010 for a fourth round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. On the same day, Campbell received a contract extension through the 2011 season
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Marriage
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The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually sexual, are acknowledged. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or considered to be compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity, when defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal. Individuals may marry for several reasons, including legal, social, libidinal, emotional, financial, spiritual, whom they marry may be influenced by socially determined rules of incest, prescriptive marriage rules, parental choice and individual desire. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, child marriage, polygamy, conversely, such practices may be outlawed and penalized in parts of the world out of concerns for womens rights and because of international law. These trends coincide with the human rights movement. Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, an authority, a tribal group. It is often viewed as a contract, Marriages can be performed in a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting via a wedding ceremony. The act of marriage usually creates normative or legal obligations between the individuals involved, and any offspring they may produce, some cultures allow the dissolution of marriage through divorce or annulment. In some areas, child marriages and polygamy may occur in spite of laws against the practice. For example, the number of marriages in Europe decreased by 30% from 1975 to 2005 and these changes have occurred primarily in Western countries. The word marriage derives from Middle English mariage, which first appears in 1250–1300 CE and this in turn is derived from Old French, marier, and ultimately Latin, marītāre, meaning to provide with a husband or wife and marītāri meaning to get married. The adjective marīt-us -a, -um meaning matrimonial or nuptial could also be used in the form as a noun for husband. Anthropologists have proposed several competing definitions of marriage in an attempt to encompass the wide variety of marital practices observed across cultures, even within Western culture, definitions of marriage have careened from one extreme to another and everywhere in between. The anthropological handbook Notes and Queries defined marriage as a union between a man and a such that children born to the woman are the recognized legitimate offspring of both partners. In recognition of a practice by the Nuer people of Sudan allowing women to act as a husband in certain circumstances, Kathleen Gough suggested modifying this to a woman, none of these men had legal rights to the womans child. Economic anthropologist Duran Bell has criticized the definition on the basis that some societies do not require marriage for legitimacy. He argued that a definition of marriage is circular in societies where illegitimacy has no other legal or social implications for a child other than the mother being unmarried. In 1955 article in Man, Leach argued that no one definition of marriage applied to all cultures and he offered a list of ten rights associated with marriage, including sexual monopoly and rights with respect to children, with specific rights differing across cultures
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U.S. Route 84
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U. S. Route 84 is an east–west U. S. Highway. It started as a short Georgia–Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, the highways eastern terminus is a short distance east of Midway, Georgia, at an interchange with Interstate 95. The road continues toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean as a county road and its western terminus is in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, at an intersection with U. S.160. The section from Brunswick, Georgia to Roscoe, Texas has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East/West Corridor, the designation is intended to promote the route for both tourism and NAFTA-facilitated trade with Mexico. States are asking for Federal funds to widen the US84 El Camino East/West Corridor, the western terminus of US84, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was made famous by C. W. McCall in the 1975 song and album Wolf Creek Pass. US84 actually ends approximately 1 mile east of downtown Pagosa Springs at a T-intersection with US160, south of Pagosa Springs, the 28 miles of the Colorado section of US84 pass through a portion of San Juan National Forest. The highway climbs Confar Hill, a divide between the Rio Blanco and Navajo River, before descending into the village of Chromo and passing into New Mexico. US84 enters Rio Arriba County, New Mexico 28 miles south of its terminus at US160, about 6 miles south of the Colorado–New Mexico state line, US64 comes from the west and travels concurrently with US84 for the next 28 miles. Therefore, only 37 miles of US84 is located west of the Continental Divide, about 12 miles east of the intersection, US 64/US84 enters the town of Chama. At a T-intersection, New Mexico State Road 17 enters from the north and terminates at said intersection, while US 64/US84 enter from the south and west. After heading south from Chama, US 64/US84 combine for about 14 miles to Tierra Amarilla, about 57 miles down the road, US84 is joined by US285 south of the small community of Chili. About 5 miles further, US 84/US285 enter the city of Española from the north as North Paseo de Onate Street, at the south end of the town, US 84/US285 become the Santa Fe Highway and an expressway. About 9 miles further, US 84/US285 becomes a limited-access freeway,15 miles further south, the two return to surface street status and then travel past downtown Santa Fe via St. Francis Drive. On the south side of Santa Fe at Interstate 25s exit 282A, all four highways head east and slightly to the south to avoid the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Just before turning north, US285 exits the freeway at exit 290, following a path southeast and then south for 42 miles, US84 merges with I-40 at I-40s exit 256. After 17 miles I-40/US84 enter Santa Rosa, about 21 miles from its confluence with I-40, US84 diverges at exit 277. The highway then travels south/southeast for 42 miles until merging with US60 in downtown Fort Sumner, from the intersection with US60, US 60/US84 travel east, passing through Taiban and Melrose before intersecting US70 after 61 miles in Clovis. From the intersection with US70, US 64/US 70/US84 travels east 8.7 miles entering Texico, here, about 280 feet before the Texas–New Mexico state line, US60 splits from US 70/US84 with US 70/US84 continuing east into Farwell, Texas
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Magee, Mississippi
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Magee is a city in Simpson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was estimated to be near 5,019 as of February 2007 and it is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. The first white settlers in the area were Arthur Mangum and Phil Magee, pioneers from Virginia and the Carolinas followed. The town of Magee was once named Mangum, named after Arthur Mangum, in 1840, Willis Magee built a grist mill on Little Goodwater Creek, inside the present city limits. On February 25,1900, the community was incorporated as a village, the Magee Public School mascot is the Trojan. Windhams Restaurant is located in Magee, locally known as Zips, in 2015, it was voted as serving the best hamburger in Mississippi. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.9 square miles. Magee is located between Jackson and Hattiesburg on U. S. Highway 49 at the intersection of three Mississippi Highways,541,545, and 28. Magee has a subtropical climate, with an annual mean temperature 65.8 degrees. On March 26,2009, around 1,30 a. m. an EF3 tornado struck the north part of the city, the tornado destroyed 60 homes and 25 injuries occurred, with no fatalities. The tornado significantly damaged the water treatment plant, interrupting service to the entire town. Using four MEMA generators, the rural water staff was able to service to Magee by 2,20 p. m. the next day. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,200 people,1,573 households, the population density was 860.5 people per square mile. There were 1,725 housing units at a density of 353.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 62. 67% White,33. 88% African American,0. 07% Native American,0. 26% Asian,2. 31% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 62% of the population. 33. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 3.02. In the city, the population was out with 27. 7% under the age of 18,9. 9% from 18 to 24,26. 3% from 25 to 44,19. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 93.5 males
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Gulf of Mexico
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The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U. S. states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas border the Gulf on the north, Atlantic and Pacific coasts, or sometimes the south coast, in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the north coast. One of the seven main areas is the Gulf of Mexico basin. The Gulf of Mexico formed approximately 300 million years ago as a result of plate tectonics, the Gulfs basin is roughly oval and is approximately 810 nautical miles wide and floored by sedimentary rocks and recent sediments. It is connected to part of the Atlantic Ocean through the Florida Straits between the U. S. and Cuba, and with the Caribbean Sea via the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba, with the narrow connection to the Atlantic, the Gulf experiences very small tidal ranges. The size of the Gulf basin is approximately 1.6 million km2, almost half of the basin is shallow continental shelf waters. The basin contains a volume of roughly 2,500 quadrillion liters, the consensus among geologists who have studied the geology of the Gulf of Mexico, is that prior to the Late Triassic, the Gulf of Mexico did not exist. It was created by the collision of plates that formed Pangea. As interpreted by Roy Van Arsdale and Randel T. Cox, geologists and other Earth scientists agree in general that the present Gulf of Mexico basin originated in Late Triassic time as the result of rifting within Pangea. The rifting was associated with zones of weakness within Pangea, including sutures where the Laurentia, South American, first, there was a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic phase of rifting during which rift valleys formed and filled with continental red beds. Second, as rifting progressed through Early and Middle Jurassic time and it was at this time that tectonics first created a connection to the Pacific Ocean across central Mexico and later eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. This flooded the basin created by rifting and crustal thinning to create the Gulf of Mexico. While the Gulf of Mexico was a basin, the subsiding transitional crust was blanketed by the widespread deposition of Louann Salt. Initially, during the Late Jurassic, continued rifting widened the Gulf of Mexico and progressed to the point that sea-floor spreading, at this point, sufficient circulation with the Atlantic Ocean was established that the deposition of Louann Salt ceased. During the Late Jurassic through Early Cretaceous, the occupied by the Gulf of Mexico experienced a period of cooling. The subsidence was the result of a combination of stretching, cooling. Initially, the combination of stretching and cooling caused about 5–7 km of tectonic subsidence of the central thin transitional
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Laurel, Mississippi
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Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 18,548. It is located northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, Laurel is the principal city of a Micropolitan Statistical Area named for it. Its major employers include Howard Industries, Sanderson Farms, Masonite International, Family Health Center, Howse Implement, Thermo-Kool, Laurel is home to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippis oldest art museum, which was established by the family of Laurel Eastman Rogers. It is the headquarters of the Jones County Sheriffs Department, which administers in the county, Laurel was founded in 1882 as a lumber town, as the industry harvested yellow pine forests in the region. The city was named for laurel thickets near the town site. By the turn of the century, the city became a site of mills, to process. The city population grew markedly during the early 20th century, as people were attracted to manufacturing jobs. Mechanization of agriculture reduced the number of farming jobs, the city reached its peak of population in 1960, and has declined about one third since then. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 15.8 square miles, of which 15.4 square miles is land and 0.3 square miles. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Laurel has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 18,393 people,6,925 households, the population density was 1,192.3 people per square mile. There were 7,804 housing units at a density of 505.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 40. 64% White,55. 08% African American,0. 11% Native American,0. 33% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,3. 17% from other races, and 0. 67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 87% of the population,30. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the family size was 3.21. In the city, the population was out with 27. 9% under the age of 18,10. 1% from 18 to 24,25. 4% from 25 to 44,19. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 85.8 males
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Population density
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Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume, it is a quantity of type number density. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and most of the time to humans and it is a key geographical term. Population density is population divided by land area or water volume. Low densities may cause a vortex and lead to further reduced fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it, commonly this may be calculated for a county, city, country, another territory, or the entire world. The worlds population is around 7,000,000,000, therefore, the worldwide human population density is around 7,000,000,000 ÷510,000,000 =13.7 per km2. If only the Earths land area of 150,000,000 km2 is taken into account and this includes all continental and island land area, including Antarctica. If Antarctica is also excluded, then population density rises to over 50 people per km2, thus, this number by itself does not give any helpful measurement of human population density. Several of the most densely populated territories in the world are city-states, microstates, cities with high population densities are, by some, considered to be overpopulated, though this will depend on factors like quality of housing and infrastructure and access to resources. Most of the most densely populated cities are in Southeast Asia, though Cairo, for instance, Milwaukee has a greater population density when just the inner city is measured, and the surrounding suburbs excluded. Arithmetic density, The total number of people / area of land, physiological density, The total population / area of arable land. Agricultural density, The total rural population / area of arable land, residential density, The number of people living in an urban area / area of residential land. Urban density, The number of people inhabiting an urban area / total area of urban land, ecological optimum, The density of population that can be supported by the natural resources. S. States by population density Selected Current and Historic City, Ward & Neighborhood Density
