X-Nico

unusual facts about Tunica-Biloxi



Christine Harper

She previously worked for Dow Jones Newswires in Brussels and the US, and worked as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and as a reporter for Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Columbus Wardogs

The team was not able to begin play in Biloxi due to damage to the Mississippi Coast Coliseum by Hurricane Katrina.

Crystal City, Texas

In 2005, the company was retained by officials in Biloxi, Mississippi, to provide drinking water to Hurricane Katrina victims and to establish water remediation needed in the aftermath of the storm along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Earl Barbry

Raised on the Tunica-Biloxi Indian reservation, in Marksville, Louisiana, Barbry was elected tribal chairman of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe of Louisiana in 1978 and served until his death.

George Cummings

The Chocolate Papers toured clubs in Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina, before settling in Biloxi as the house band at the popular 800-seat Gus Stevens Restaurant, the first Gulf Coast supper club to offer upscale entertainment with such headliners as Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, Mel Tormé, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren.

Gulf Coast Chaos

The Gulf Coast Chaos were a W-League club based in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Gulf Coast Riptide

The Power found itself in the new Gulf Coast Division with teams from Biloxi, Panama City and New Orleans.

Gulf languages

However, a number of specialists on Muskogean languages, including Mary Haas and Pamela Munro Munro (1995) have regarded the hypothesis of a Gulf family of languages as promising; Haas thought the closest language to Muskogean would be Natchez, followed by Tunica, Atakapa, and, rather dubiously, Chitimacha.

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Under Harrah's, the Tunica "Shoe" became home to a World Series of Poker circuit event; previously, the Horseshoe had partnered with the neighboring Gold Strike to host the Jack Binion World Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour.

I Have Returned

The pictures on both the front and the back of the album were taken in the Mississippi Sound near Biloxi, Mississippi according to the album credits.

Kevin Robertson

Kevin George Robertson (born February 8, 1959 in Biloxi, Mississippi) is a former water polo player from the United States, who won two Olympic silver medals during his career: in 1984 and 1988.

Michael Moorcock's Multiverse

The first tale I: Moonbeams and Roses is set in the Terminal Cafe, in present day Biloxi, Mississippi where Jack Karaquazian indulges in meta-universal games of chance with an assortment of leading characters from the Moorcock novels, together with Moorcock himself, and later, artist Walter Simonson.

Newellton High School

(born 1936), a native of Tunica, Mississippi, graduate of Mississippi College in Clinton, former pastor of the Flowers Landing Baptist Church in Newellton, mathematics and chemistry teacher and coach at NHS from 1958-1978, resident of West Monroe and pastor in Waverly in Madison Parish.

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art

The museum is named for ceramic artist George E. Ohr (1857–1918), as well as Annette O'Keefe, late wife of former Biloxi mayor Jeremiah O'Keefe, Sr., who was instrumental in donating money and raising funds for the completion of the museum campus.

Old Mobile Site

After retracing his route to Biloxi, Iberville landed and constructed Fort Maurepas, a crude fort of squared logs.

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur

In 1699, he was with the group that ascended the Mississippi River from Biloxi to the "country of the Nadouessioux", stopping to overwinter at Isle Pelée or Fort Perrot above Lake Pepin.

Sunny Thompson

She has appeared in her award-winning cabaret shows in major casino showrooms in Reno, Lake Tahoe, Laughlin, Tunica and San Diego as well as Las Vegas.

Surf Style

In 2000, the Gus Stevens building at U.S. 90 and Veterans Avenue in Biloxi, Mississippi was slated for conversion into a Surf Style store.

Theodore Brune

He designed many churches on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and in Mississippi including the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 870 West Howard Avenue in Biloxi.

Tunica, Mississippi

Success of these gaming houses in northern Tunica County came at the expense of the area's first group of casinos in the early 1990s, located just northwest of Tunica proper, in an area known as Mhoon Landing—much of what comprises the current census-designated place of North Tunica.

WMAH

WMAH-FM, a radio station (90.3 FM) licensed to Biloxi, Mississippi, United States


see also