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Clermont Harbor, Mississippi
Clermont Harbor is an unincorporated community on the western end of Hancock County on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clermont Harbor is located directly on the coastline, with the main road in and out of town being Beach Boulevard (unsigned Mississippi Highway 606). Buccaneer State Park lies on the eastern boundary of the community. The community lies along the CSX Transportation line. A post office operated under the name Clermont Harbor from 1913 to 1989. Clermont Harbor was completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. ... on August 29, 2005. The 40-room Clermont Harbor Hotel operated in Clermont Harbor from 1915 to 1946. Notable people * Lori K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as the military). There are many unincorporated communities and areas in the United States and Canada, but many countries do not use the concept of an unincorporated area. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It publishes a wide range of academic titles, including ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', numerous academic journals, and advanced monographs in the academic fields. The press is located just south of the Midway Plaisance on the University of Chicago campus. One of its quasi-independent projects is the BiblioVault, a digital repository for scholarly books. History The University of Chicago Press was founded in 1890, making it one of the oldest continuously operating university presses in the United States. Its first published book was Robert F. Harper's ''Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum''. The book sold five copies during its first two years, but by 1900, the University of Chicago Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Communities In Mississippi
Unincorporated may refer to: * Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality * Unincorporated entity, a type of organization * Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress has determined that only select parts of the U.S. Constitution apply * Unincorporated association Unincorporated association refers to a group of people in common law jurisdictions—such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand—who organize around a shared purpose without forming a corporation or similar legal entity. Unlike in some ..., also known as voluntary association, groups organized to accomplish a purpose * ''Unincorporated'' (album), a 2001 album by Earl Harvin Trio {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Rieker
Albert Rieker (1889–1959) was an American sculptor. He designed public sculptures in Louisiana and Mississippi. Early life Albert Rieker was born in 1889 in Eislingen, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1923. Career Rieker became a sculptor in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his designs are found in the City Hall and the First Baptist Church. His 1940 bust of Governor Huey P. Long can be seen at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Rieker also designed the statue of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville inside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Other public sculptures can be found in Monroe, Louisiana. Rieker designed "two friezes" on the War Memorial Building in Jackson, Mississippi, which is listed as a contributing property to the Old Capitol on the National Register of Historic Places. Death Rieker resided in and summered in Clermont Harbor, Mississippi Clermont Harbor is an unincorporated community on the western end o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori K
Lori may refer to: * Lori (given name) *Lori Province, Armenia * Lori Fortress, a fortress in Armenia * Lori Berd, a village in Armenia * Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget, a historical Armenian kingdom from c. 980 to 1240, sometimes known as the Kingdom of Lori * Lori people, a nomadic community found in Balochistan region of Pakistan and Iran *Luri language (or Lori language), spoken by the Lur people Lorestān, Iran *'' Hesperornithoides'', a dinosaur whose type specimen was nicknamed "Lori" until it was described in 2019 * William Lori (born 1951), U.S. Catholic bishop * Lori, Grand'Anse, a village in the Jérémie commune of Haiti * Lori Vanadzor, defunct football club from Vanadzor *Lori FC, football club from Vanadzor founded in 2017 *Aircraft name of National Airlines Flight 102 *2022 EP by Iron & Wine See also *Lory (other) *Lorry (other) * Loris (other) * Lodi (other) *Loris Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine mammals of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. It is tied with Hurricane Harvey as being the List of the costliest tropical cyclones, costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States, gauged by barometric pressure. Katrina formed on August 23, 2005, with the merger of a tropical wave and the remnants of a tropical depression. After briefly weakening to a Tropical cyclone, tropical storm over south Florida, Katrina entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and Rapid intensification, rapidly intensified to a Saffir–Simpson scale, Category 5 hurricane befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 from the merger of Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Industries, two holding companies that controlled railroads operating in the Eastern United States. Initially only a holding company, the subsidiaries that made up CSX Corporation completed merging in 1987. CSX Transportation formally came into existence in 1986, as the successor of Seaboard System Railroad. In 1999, CSX Transportation acquired about half of Conrail in a joint purchase with competitor Norfolk Southern Railway. In 2022, it acquired Pan Am Railways, extending its reach into northern New England. Norfolk Southern remains CSX's chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccaneer State Park
Buccaneer State Park is a public recreation area in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The state park is located off U.S. Highway 90 and Beach Boulevard ( Mississippi Highway 606), straddling the line between Waveland and Clermont Harbor. The park sits on the Gulf of Mexico and was entirely rebuilt after all its buildings were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. ... in 2005. Activities and amenities The park features a waterpark, 250 campsites, bathhouses, recreation center, 18-hole disc golf course, picnic area, playground, and nature trail. References External links * Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and ParksBuccaneer State Park MapMississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks {{authority control State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Boulevard (Hancock County, Mississippi)
Mississippi Highway 606 (MS 606) is the unsigned designation for the Beach Boulevard in Hancock County, Mississippi. It travels entirely along the coastline of the Mississippi Sound, which is part of the Gulf of Mexico. Route description MS 606 and Beach Boulevard begin at a dead end in the parking lot of Silver Slipper Casino in the seaside community of Lakeshore, near the outlet of Bayou Caddy. According to the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), the formal southern terminus is further south where a parking lot formerly existed, but had since been removed for an expansion of the casino building. The road heads north along the immediate sandy shoreline of the Mississippi Sound, part of the Gulf of Mexico, to have an intersection with Lakeshore Road (which leads to the main part of the community, Bayside Park, and U.S. Route 90 or US 90) before curving northeast to leave Lakeshore and cross Sand Bayou to pass through the community of Clermont Harbor, where i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
