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  2. Cullen (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Cullen is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicised form of Gaelic Ó Cuileáin 'descendant of Cuileán', a name meaning ' wolfhound whelp ', 'young hound'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also considered by some to mean the 'handsome one'. [ 3 ]

  3. List of Mississippi placenames of Native American origin

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    The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Mississippi whose names are derived from Native American languages.The name of Coila is not of Native American origin. It is a Scottish name that is a poetic rendering of the name Kyle.

  4. List of place names of Scottish origin in the United States

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    Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers. There are some common suffixes. Brae in Scottish means "hillside" or "river-bank".

  5. Tylertown, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Cullen Conerly went there in 1850 and bought out the Garland Hart store and established a post office which was called Conerly's post office. The store and post office served as the social center of the community for over a half century. The town bore the name Conerly's from 1848 to 1879.

  6. Cullen - Wikipedia

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    Cullen Center in Houston, Texas; Cullen, a genus of legumes native to the Old World; Cullen College of Engineering, an academic college at the University of Houston; Cullen number, a natural number of the form n · 2 n + 1 (written C n) Cullen skink, a thick Scottish soup; Cullen Wines, a winery in Western Australia

  7. History of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.

  8. Three Mississippi teachers win Milken Educator Award ... - AOL

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    Three Mississippi teachers received the Milken Educator Award in early January 2024. The coveted award grants the winners a $25,000 cash prize. ... Davis is a math teacher at Houston High School ...

  9. Texas oil boom - Wikipedia

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    Cullen was a self-educated cotton and real-estate businessman who moved to Houston in 1918 and soon began oil prospecting. [124] Cullen's success led to his founding the South Texas Petroleum Company (with partner Jim West Sr. ) and Quintana Oil Company. [ 125 ]