By Carson Brown, sophomore broadcast major, Meek School of Journalism and New Media cebrown3@go.olemiss.edu Thousands of Ole Miss students are out of town for the holidays, soon to...
Mississippi is known as the Magnolia State. The species is named for French botanist, Pierre Magnol. The Magnolia is an ancient species– 20 million year-old fossils...
Lance Alworth a native of Brookhaven holds the all-time NFL record for the most 200+ yard receiving games in a career. He accomplished it in five...
In the Civil War the Confederates established a Navy Yard in 1862 on a nearby channel of the Yazoo River. It was there that the ironclad...
Vicksburg native Joseph Biedenharn was the first person to bottle Coca-Cola in 1894. Excerpted by permission of The Nautilus Publishing Company from 501 Little-Known Facts, Obscure...
The most valuable crop, per acre, in the state is not cotton nor soybeans. It is the sweet potato. Chickasaw and Calhoun counties account for 80...
Holly Springs native Shepard Smith is one of America’s top television news anchors. Excerpted by permission of The Nautilus Publishing Company from 501 Little-Known Facts, Obscure...
John Grisham currently has 275 million books in print. His books have been translated into 29 languages. Nine of his novels have been made into films....
Oxford-based FNC, Inc. revolutionized the U.S. housing market by pioneering automated valuation. They invented a software system called Collateral Management System that is used by the...
Leland native Jim Henson created The Muppets. He responded to those who asked that he’d had two close friends growing up, both named Kermit. Of all...