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Cairo, Illinois

Index Cairo, Illinois

Cairo is the southernmost city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is the county seat of Alexander County. [1]

100 relations: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, African Americans, Alexander County, Illinois, Alfred B. Mullett, American Civil War, American Gods, Amtrak, Andrew Hull Foote, Barkley Regional Airport, Ben Carson, Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, Boycott, Cairo, Cairo Historic District, Cairo Mississippi River Bridge, Cairo Ohio River Bridge, Cairo Rail Bridge, Cairo Unified School District 1, Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area, Carbondale, Illinois, Census, Central Time Zone, Charles Dickens, Chicago, City of New Orleans (train), Civil rights movement, Concurrency (road), Confluence, County seat, Custom house, Federal Information Processing Standards, Fort Defiance (Illinois), Fulton, Kentucky, General Services Administration, George Grey Barnard, George Howe (architect), Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Greetings from Cairo, Illinois, Historic house museum, Humid subtropical climate, Illinois, Illinois Central Railroad, Illinois in the American Civil War, Interstate 57, Italianate architecture, Jackson, Missouri, Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, Kentucky, ..., Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League, Levee, List of municipalities in Illinois, List of U.S. states and territories by elevation, Louis A. Simon, Lynching, Magnolia Manor (Cairo, Illinois), Mark Twain, Martin Chuzzlewit, Mississippi River, Missouri, Mounds, Illinois, NAACP, National League, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Register of Historic Places, Neil Gaiman, Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury, Ohio River, Ohio River flood of 1937, Old Custom House (Cairo, Illinois), Per capita income, Public art, Public housing, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Reconstruction era, Richard B. Ogilvie, Sea level, Second Empire architecture, Sociology of race and ethnic relations, Southern Illinois, St. Louis Cardinals, Stace England, Steamboat, Steamboats of the Mississippi, Thebes, Illinois, Time, Ulysses S. Grant, Union (American Civil War), United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Census Bureau, United States circuit court, United States district court, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Upland South, Victorian architecture, William P. Halliday, 2010 United States Census, 2011 Mississippi River floods. Expand index (50 more) »

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alexander County, Illinois

Alexander County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Alfred B. Mullett

Alfred Bult Mullett (April 7, 1834 – October 20, 1890) was an American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect, head of the agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Gods

American Gods (2001) is a novel by English author Neil Gaiman.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Andrew Hull Foote

Andrew Hull Foote (September 12, 1806 – June 26, 1863) was an American naval officer who was noted for his service in the American Civil War and also for his contributions to several naval reforms in the years prior to the war.

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Barkley Regional Airport

Barkley Regional Airport is located 12 nautical miles west of Paducah, in McCracken County, Kentucky, United States.

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Ben Carson

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American politician, author and former neurosurgeon serving as the 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2017, under the Trump Administration.

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Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway

The Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway is a flood control component of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in southeast Missouri just below the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

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Boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Cairo Historic District

The Cairo Historic District is a historic district encompassing a large section of Cairo, Illinois.

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Cairo Mississippi River Bridge

The Cairo Mississippi River Bridge is a type of cantilever bridge known as a Steel Truss Through Deck carrying U.S. Route 60 and U.S. Route 62 across the Mississippi River.

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Cairo Ohio River Bridge

The Cairo Ohio River Bridge is a cantilever bridge carrying U.S. Route 51, U.S. Route 60, and U.S. Route 62 across the Ohio River between and Wickliffe, Kentucky and Cairo, Illinois.

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Cairo Rail Bridge

Cairo Rail Bridge is the name of two bridges crossing the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois.

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Cairo Unified School District 1

Cairo Unified School District 1 is a unified school district located in Cairo, Illinois, the county seat of Alexander County.

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Cape Girardeau Regional Airport

Cape Girardeau Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport in Scott County, Missouri, United States.

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau (Cap-Girardeau; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area

The Cape Girardeau–Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in southeastern Missouri and one in southern Illinois, anchored by the cities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson.

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Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt." The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the area.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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City of New Orleans (train)

The City of New Orleans is an Amtrak passenger train which operates on an overnight schedule between Chicago and New Orleans.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Concurrency (road)

A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Custom house

A custom house or customs house was a building housing the offices for the government officials who processed the paperwork associated with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Fort Defiance (Illinois)

Fort Defiance, known as Camp Defiance during the American Civil War, is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers near Cairo in Alexander County, Illinois.

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Fulton, Kentucky

Fulton is a home rule-class city in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States.

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General Services Administration

The General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government, was established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.

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George Grey Barnard

George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris.

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George Howe (architect)

George Howe (1886–1955) was an American architect and educator, and an early convert to the International style.

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Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with inundated up to a depth of.

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Greetings from Cairo, Illinois

Greetings From Cairo, Illinois is a 2005 concept album and historical album by Stace England with songs referencing the history of Cairo, Illinois from 1858 to 2005.

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Historic house museum

A historic house museum is a house that has been transformed into a museum.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama.

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Illinois in the American Civil War

The U.S. state of Illinois during the American Civil War was a major source of troops for the Union Army (particularly for those armies serving in the Western Theater of the Civil War), and of military supplies, food, and clothing.

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Interstate 57

Interstate 57 (I-57) is an Interstate Highway in Missouri and Illinois that parallels the old Illinois Central rail line for much of its route.

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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Jackson, Missouri

Jackson is a city in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.

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Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan

Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan (artist) are visual artists and film-makers based in Manchester, UK.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League

The Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League (or KITTY League) was a Class D minor league baseball circuit that went through six different lives.

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Levee

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List of municipalities in Illinois

Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

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List of U.S. states and territories by elevation

The elevation of U.S. states and territories may be described in several ways.

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Louis A. Simon

Louis A. Simon (1867–1958) was an American architect.

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Lynching

Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.

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Magnolia Manor (Cairo, Illinois)

Magnolia Manor is a postbellum manor located in Cairo, Illinois, located in Alexander County.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Martin Chuzzlewit

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Mounds, Illinois

Mounds is a city in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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National League

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest current professional team sports league.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury

The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Ohio River flood of 1937

The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937.

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Old Custom House (Cairo, Illinois)

The Old Custom House is a historic government building in downtown Cairo, Illinois.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Public art

Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Queen Anne style architecture in the United States

In the United States, Queen Anne-style architecture was popular from roughly 1880 to 1910.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Richard B. Ogilvie

Richard Buell Ogilvie (February 22, 1923 – May 10, 1988) was the 35th governor of Illinois and served from 1969 to 1973.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Second Empire architecture

Second Empire is an architectural style, most popular in the latter half of the 19th century and early years of the 20th century.

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Sociology of race and ethnic relations

The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society.

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Southern Illinois

Southern Illinois (also known as "Little Egypt" or "Egypt") is the southern third of the state of Illinois.

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St. Louis Cardinals

The St.

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Stace England

Stace England is a musician from Cobden, Illinois, United States.

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Steamboat

A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.

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Steamboats of the Mississippi

Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the Mississippi River and its tributaries by allowing the practical large-scale transport of passengers and freight both up- and down-river.

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Thebes, Illinois

Thebes is a village in Alexander County, Illinois, United States.

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Time

Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States circuit court

The United States circuit courts were the original intermediate level courts of the United States federal court system.

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United States district court

The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system.

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United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the President's Cabinet, and twelfth in the Presidential line of succession.

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Upland South

The terms Upland South and Upper South refer to the northern section of the Southern United States, in contrast to the Lower South or Deep South.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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William P. Halliday

William Parker Halliday (July 21, 1827 – September 22, 1899) was an American steamboat captain, banker, printer, hotel owner, vast land owner and businessman.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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2011 Mississippi River floods

The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging recorded along the U.S. waterway in the past century, comparable in extent to the major floods of 1927 and 1993.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo,_Illinois

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