PROOF
Mississippi’s Tunica Lake, in this image’s central oxbow bend, was once part of the Mississippi River. In the
1940s the Army Corps of Engineers cut the bend to straighten the river and shorten the shipping route.
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PROOF
Mississippi’s Tunica Lake, in this image’s central oxbow bend, was once part of the Mississippi River. In the
1940s the Army Corps of Engineers cut the bend to straighten the river and shorten the shipping route.
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