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mississippian
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mississippian \Mississippian\ prop. n. A geological period extending from from 310 million to 345 million years ago; it was associated with an increase of land areas, the presence of primitive ammonites, and emergence of winged insects; called also Missippian ...
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Mississippian may refer to: Mississippian (geology) , a subperiod in the geologic timescale lasting from roughly 360 to 325 million years ago Mississippian culture , a culture of Native American mound-builders from 900 to 1500 AD Mississippian Railway , ...
Usage examples of mississippian.
Although he had voted against Barnett, Chooky Falkner was politically conservative and like many of his men and many white Mississippians, he strongly opposed the way the federal government was handling the Meredith case.
While some segregationists admired his attempts to resist the federals during the Ole Miss crisis, many ordinary Mississippians viewed the episode as a disaster and a tragedy, and blamed Barnett for mismanaging the crisis.
The most populous and highly organized native societies of North America, the Mississippian chiefdoms, disappeared in that way between 1492 and the late 1600s, even before Europeans themselves made their first settlement on the Mississippi River.
This Gangetic, Mississippian inexorability, whose dwindling, he sadly knew, was what had gone wrong in his marriage.
Down by the shore the Mississippians in their rifle pits might see a little, and the scouts undoubtedly had seen much, else the signal guns would not be firing.