Recent posts about Houston, Mississippi on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Houston is mentioned 267 times on our forum: Latest news from Houston, MS collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: American (13.1%), English (9.6%), Irish (2.9%), African (1.4%), Scotch-Irish (1.2%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 7.59 square miles.
Resomation was invented by  biochemist Sandy Sullivan, who is assisting Anderson-McQueen in the start up. Sullivan's Resomation, Ltd. has been developing the system since 2007, and it is distributed by Matthews Cremation of Orlando.
Joseph Jackson Lister invented the achromatic microscope in 1826. His son, Joseph Lister was a surgeon who began the idea of antiseptic surgery. He wanted to kill microbes tha â¦ t caused infections such as gangrene in wounds.