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• I am an Italian American

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  HUGO My roots are deep in an ancient soil, drenched by the Mediterranean sun, and watered by pure streams from snow capped mountains. I am enriched by thousands of years of culture. My hands are those of the mason, the artist, the man of the soil. My thoughts have been recounted in the annals of Rome , the ...
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• Take a Leap down Memory Lane

  
  The UrbanWire — Authority: 425
  As the first hand-drawn 2D Disney animation after a drought of 5 years, The Princess and The Frog certainly exceeds expectations. After classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Pinocchio , The Little Mermaid and many more, the world grieved a little when Disney announced that Home on the ...
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• Massive Carp Kills

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 527
  Officials are poisoning waterways in order to kill massive numbers of Asian carp, an invasive species that threatens the multi-billion dollar Great Lakes fishing industry. The poisoning also collaterally kills thousands of other fish species. Critics want to know if this is the right thing to be doing? Tom ...
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• US liable for Katrina damages

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 126
  I have predicted for years that governments may be liable for damages that will occur when the predictable effects of climate change overwhelm existing infrastructure. Last month,  the Eastern District of Louisiana held the US government liable for $719,698 to owners of four homes flooded by Hurricane Katrina, ...
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• Carp threat hurts steel barging

  
  Breakbulk Industry News — Authority: 133
  Efforts by Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to close the Grand Calumet River in Illinois have come under fire from the tugboat, towboat and barge industry. Closing the Chicago shipping channel and any locks would negatively impact barge movement, according to a spokeswoman for the American Waterways Operators. The ...
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• Mississippi Delta Landscape: a Reading

  
  View from Federal Twist — Authority: 106
  (These photos are very wide. Click to see the full panoramic view.) The Mississippi Delta, so the saying goes, begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg, a distance of some 200 miles. It is really an alluvial plain, not a delta, and was flooded every year for ...
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• Father Jacques Marquette

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 560
  By Bill Federer Father Jacques Marquette arrived in Quebec from France to be a missionary among the Indians. Governor Frontenac commissioned him to explore the unknown Mississippi River. In 1673, he traveled with explorer Louis Joliette by canoe from Lake Michigan, across Green Bay, up Fox River to the Wisconsin ...
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• Daily Haze: Get Ready for Week 13 and Beyond

  
  The Hazean — Authority: 501
  Blaine is off today as heads up the Mississippi River to Memphis to run in the St. Jude 5K tomorrow morning. He and his wife made the trip up I-55 and I wish them the best of luck this weekend. His absence, though, really makes me realize just how long it has been since I had to write a Friday Daily Haze on my own. ...
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• Four months, Twenty-Two days later – New Orleans

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 814
  Four months, Twenty-Two days later - New Orleans   By NEAL MOORE   NEW ORLEANS, LA (CNN iReport)  --  Fought severe weather to guide “The Andrea” safely into New Orleans. Wind and waves and rain and a plethora of barges and tankers as well as borderline hypothermia couldn’t keep me from this fine town. ...
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• Turbines in the Mississippi

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 142
  I "tweeted" about it over at the TMLJ feed in October, but heres an update on the plan to put a gaggle of power-generating turbines in the Mississippi River here in Louisiana.
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• National Briefing | Midwest: Michigan: Fear Over Asian Carp Brings Request to Close Waterways

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Fears that the Asian carp will enter the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to demands that the government close the waterways connecting the lakes and the Mississippi River.
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• Something to Carp About

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 444
  Starting today, a massive fish kill program will be taking place in the canal...
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• Mean old levee

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 660
  >>>>>Its a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan >>>>>Its a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan >>>>>Gonna leave my baby, and my happy home
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• ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER BOAT CRUISES

  
  Cheap Flight Auctions — Authority:
  Sightseeing, dinner, in isolation licence and party have been couple of of the pleasures subsequent by passengers from being on Mississippi stream vessel cruises whose operations begin from after New Year’s Day and would not close until the final couple of weeks of the year. You will knowledge internal story from ...
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• Experiencing Romance On Cheap Mississippi River Vacations

  
  Luggage Joint — Authority: 151
  Cheap Mississippi river vacations which presents numerous fun activities for cruisers is very easy to get and inexpensive in relation to home, resorts, hotels, or other recreation centres and one those who may wish to explore nature, waters, shower some love on a spouse, children, parents or the aged cannot afford to ...
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• The beautiful black man

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 604
  I’m now back in London but I’m not finished with the St. Louis Art Museum.  One piece there moved me more than any other – the ‘Bust of a Black Man’ by Melchior Barthel.This exquisite sculpture, in oiled black marble, was probably done in Venice when he was working on the tomb of Doge Giovanni [...]
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• Tugboat Row

  
  Twin Cities Daily Photo | One Photo Per Day Around The Twin Cities Metro Area — Authority: 125
  Tugboats lined up along shore of the Mississippi River near downtown St Paul.
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• Problems at Alton levee underscore a major regional threat

  
  The Platform — Authority: 498
  Water seeping under a levee near the Mel Price Lock and Dam in Alton. A plague of “sand boils” undermining an important Mississippi River levee in Alton is an ominous reminder of the critical need for extensive flood protection improvements in the…
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• Court Faults Army Corps In Katrina Levee Breaches

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 715
  Late last Wednesday, there was a blockbuster court ruling that got lost in the healthcare and oversight hearing onslaught. However, the decision by Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. in the In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation case is a game changer with immense and far ...
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• Travel Downtown On Mississippi River Dinner Cruises

  
  Save James — Authority: 156
  fIn most cases passengers are during a cruise assigned companions with whom they are expected to share the same table all through their period of stay in the vessel. Food is essential to existence and for this reason it is given strict attention especially for the sake of those who enjoy eating. In addition to seating ...
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