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    Como is a town in Panola County, Mississippi, United States, which borders the Mississippi Delta and is in the northern part of the state, known as hill...
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  • States Lake Como, Florida, unincorporated community Lake Como, Mississippi, unincorporated community Lake Como, New Jersey, borough Lake Como, Pennsylvania...
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  • Illinois Como, Indiana Como, Minneapolis, Minnesota Como, Mississippi Como, Missouri, an unincorporated community Como, Nevada, a ghost town in Nevada Como, North...
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    and other products. In 1928, he moved to Mississippi to pick cotton. He finally settled in Como, Mississippi, around 1940, where he worked as a full-time...
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  • Luther Perkins (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    creating Cash's signature "boom-chicka-boom" style. Perkins was born in Como, Mississippi, the third of five children of Rev. Luther Monroe Perkins, Sr., a...
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  • Joe Henderson (gospel singer) (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    his 1962 recording of "Snap Your Fingers". Henderson was born in Como, Mississippi, United States, and raised in Gary, Indiana. After working in gospel...
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  • Rosa Lee Hill (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    born Rosa Lee Hemphill in Como, Mississippi, United States. Hill played music that was in the tradition of north Mississippi, singing acoustic blues that...
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  • Lake Como is an unincorporated community located in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. Lake Como lies one mile east of Tallahoma Creek. A post...
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  • R. L. Boyce (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    born and raised in Como, Mississippi. Boyce was a protege of Hill country blues musicians including R. L. Burnside and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Boyce...
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  • important part in the development of Mississippi blues. "Mississippi" Fred McDowell, who lived in Como, Mississippi, was one of the subgenre's most widely...
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    Stark Young (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    translator, and essayist. Young was born on October 11, 1881, in Como, Mississippi. His father, Alfred Alexander Young, was a physician. His mother,...
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  • SUNY Fredonia Fredonia High School (disambiguation) Fredonia Church, Como, Mississippi, on the National Register of Historic Places Fredonia (Spartanburg...
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    Floyd Chance (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    Tillotson). Chance died in 2005 at the age of 79. He was born in Como, Mississippi, and learned to play guitar, clarinet, saxophone and tuba while at...
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  • WRBO (category Radio stations in Mississippi)
    WRBO (103.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Como, Mississippi, and serving the Memphis metropolitan area. Owned by Cumulus Media, WRBO has an urban...
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  • Napoleon Strickland (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    North Mississippi hill country blues. He also played guitar, drums, harmonica, fife, and all manner of percussion instruments. Born near Como east of...
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    historic church building at the junction of Main & Craig Street in Como, Mississippi. The Carpenter Gothic building was constructed in 1873 and added to...
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    Bankhead. Her mother, Adelaide "Ada" Eugenia Sledge, was a native of Como, Mississippi, and was engaged to another man when she met William Bankhead on a...
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  • Michael Shaheen (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    Michael E. Shaheen, a physician. At age 5, Shaheen moved to Como, Mississippi. He lived in Como until attending the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut...
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    Memphis, Tennessee (category Tennessee populated places on the Mississippi River)
    in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis...
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    Miriam Greene Paslay (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    Institute & College in Columbus, Mississippi from 1891 until 1920. Miriam "Minnie" Paslay was born in Como, Mississippi, the eldest child of Thomas Jefferson...
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    Taylor-Falls House (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi)
    The Taylor-Falls House is a historic house in Como, Mississippi, in the United States. It was designed and built by Swedish-American architect Andrew...
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    artist R.L. Burnside performing at Brotherhood Sportsmen's Lodge in Como, Mississippi, on September 28, 1974. After assembling The Panther Burns, Falco...
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    the “Hill Country Blues Celebration” in Como, Mississippi to celebrate the “Repatriation of Como, Mississippi Recordings, Photographs and Videos from...
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  • Fredonia Church (category Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi)
    Fredonia Church is a historic church in Como, Mississippi. The Greek Revival style building was constructed in 1848 and added to the National Register...
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    America". Dedeaux, Flora; Noble, Noah (9 November 2023). "Hidden History: Mississippi's Nazi Prisoners of War". WLOX. Retrieved 1 October 2024. "Fomer [sic]...
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    Albert R. Howe (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    he moved to Como, Mississippi and became involved in cotton planting. He became involved in politics and was a member of the Mississippi Constitutional...
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  • The Mississippi Writers Trail is a series of historical markers which celebrate the literary, social, historical, and cultural contributions of Mississippi's...
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  • Tony Johnson (tight end) (category People from Como, Mississippi)
    Personal information Born: (1972-02-05) February 5, 1972 (age 52) Como, Mississippi, U.S. Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Weight: 255 lb (116 kg) Career information...
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  • field-recordings in the Southern United States and the "discovery" of Mississippi Fred McDowell. The music collected on the trip has had a significant...
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  • Othar Turner (category Farmers from Mississippi)
    County, Mississippi in 1907. He moved further north, living his entire life in northern Mississippi hill country as a farmer near Como, Mississippi in Panola...
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