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Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract. As of the 2010 US Census, the population is 18,916; the Census Bureau estimates the city's 2013 population at 20,865. Oxford is the home of the University of Mississippi, founded in 1848, also commonly known as Ole Miss.
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  • 1. Southland Park Gaming and Racing West Memphis
    Southland Park Gaming and Racing is a casino, buffet, and greyhound racetrack in West Memphis, Arkansas. Over 400 greyhound races take place at the Park each year. Simulcast thoroughbred and greyhound races from other tracks around the United States are also offered. After years of low attendance, Southland Park has regained popularity because neighboring casinos in Tunica, Mississippi experienced devastating floods 2011. In 2014, it was announced that Southland was to undergo a nearly $38 million dollar expansion and renovation. It is one of the most visited attractions in Arkansas and the city of West Memphis.
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  • 2. Horseshoe Casino Tunica
    Horseshoe Lake is a town in Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 292 at the 2010 census.The town is named after Horseshoe Lake, an oxbow lake at the eastern tip of which the town is located.
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  • 5. Square Books Oxford
    The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. He explained in 1910: When I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. Roosevelt reflected three basic goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. These three demands are often referred to as the three C's of Roosevelt's Square Deal. Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt...
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  • 6. University of Mississippi Oxford
    This is a list of research universities in the United States classified as Doctoral Universities in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Research institutions are a subset of doctoral degree-granting institutions and conduct research. These universities meet the minimum requirement of at least or only awarding twenty research-based Doctorate degrees.
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  • 8. Lamar Park Oxford
    BP plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas supermajors, whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization and the company with the world's 12th-largest revenue . It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels and wind power. As of 31 December 2017, BP had operations in 70 countries worldwide, produced around 3.6 million barrels per day of oil equivalent, and had total proved reserves of 18.441 billion ba...
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  • 9. Square Books, Jr. Oxford
    The US federal government conducted a series of prosecutions from 1949 to 1958 in which leaders of the Communist Party of the United States were accused of violating the Smith Act, a statute which imposed penalties on those who advocated violent overthrow of the government. The prosecution argued that the CPUSA's policies promoted violent revolution; the defendants countered that they advocated a peaceful transition to socialism, and that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech and of association protected their membership of a political party. The trials led to the US Supreme Court decisions Dennis v. United States and Yates v. United States . The first trial, held in New York in 1949, was one of the lengthiest trials in American history. Large numbers of supporters of the de...
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  • 10. Confederate Cemetery Oxford
    This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America , Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.Monuments and memorials are listed below alphabetically by state, and by city within each state. States not listed have no known qualifying items for the list. For monuments and memorials which have been removed, consult Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials. Some but by no means all are included below. This list do...
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  • 12. The University of Mississippi Museum Oxford
    Mississippi is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city. The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on...
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  • 13. College Hill Presbyterian Church Oxford
    This is a list of Christian seminaries and theological institutions that self-identify or are generally regarded as being evangelical.
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  • 14. Historic Downtown Square Oxford
    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown Denver, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Denver, Colorado, United States. Downtown Denver is defined as being the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Central Business District, Civic Center, Five Points, North Capitol Hill, and Union Station. The locations of National Register properties and districts may be seen in an online map.There are 303 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Denver, including 1 National Historic Landmark. Downtown Denver includes 144 of these properties and districts, including the National Historic Landmark and 2 that extend into other regions; the city's remaining pro...
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