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...rented a car one day and made the two-hour drive to Samuel Clemens' childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River village that inspired Mark Twain's best-known books about the childhood adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry...
...Musial already has a statue in St. Louis named after him. If state and federal lawmakers get their way, a new Mississippi River bridge also will carry the name of the St. Louis Cardinals great.Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill, of Missouri...
...of British Columbia and Alaska. He also took a 4-month, 3,800-mile run on the Yellowstone, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.After many explorations through Canada and Alaska, he returned to Alaska in 1946, on the sailboat "Endeavour...
...has shrunk from something the size of the Lower 48 United States to an area that covers just the region west of the Mississippi River, said Snow and Ice Data Center senior scientist Walt Meier.The University of Bremen in Germany, which uses a...
...John Jay, the secretary of foreign affairs, had in 1786 attempted to sign away America's rights to navigate the Mississippi River in exchange for preferential trade status. This would have been a disaster for the Southern economy. Only the requirement...
...joined the "Post Card" Academy. "I didn't know then that there are Coast Guard units, river tenders, on the Mississippi River," Uchytil said. "At Dubuque and Keokuk, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska." Uchytil would show he had an attraction...
...BP disaster was just the latest insult to the vast Mississippi River Delta, a region long under assault from environmental...year thanks to the misguided re-engineering of the Mississippi River. For decades, our elected leaders chose short-term...
...Yakima, Wash. In the nation: In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. In 1832, the first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore. In 1881, Clara Barton founded...
...Film Festival. In the world In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. In 1892, the opera "I Pagliacci," by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, was first performed, in Milan, Italy. In 1927...
...to U.S. seas: Massive agricultural drainage that has created a Massachusetts-sized "dead zone" where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico; robust coastal development that is fouling thousands of acres of habitat for young...