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Missouri ( miz-OOR-ee) is a double landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capital is Jefferson City.
Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. The Indigenous Osage and Missouria nations inhabited the area when European people arrived in the 17th century. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South rushed into the new Missouri Territory; Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business.
Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouri has been called the "Mother of the West", the "Cave State", and the "Show Me State". Its culture blends elements of the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is the birthplace of the musical genres ragtime, Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and the lesser-known St. Louis-style barbecue, can be found across the state and beyond. (Full article...)
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The Frémont Emancipation was part of a military proclamation issued by Major General John C. Frémont (1813–1890) on August 30, 1861, in St. Louis, Missouri during the early months of the American Civil War. The proclamation placed the state of Missouri under martial law and decreed that all property of those bearing arms in rebellion would be confiscated, including slaves, and that confiscated slaves would subsequently be declared free. It also imposed capital punishment for those in rebellion against the federal government.
Frémont, a career army officer, frontiersman and politician, was in command of the military Department of the West from July 1861 to October 1861. Although Frémont claimed his proclamation was intended only as a means of deterring secessionists in Missouri, his policy had national repercussions, potentially setting a highly controversial precedent that the Civil War would be a war of liberation. (Full article...)
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Mozarkite is a form of chert (flint). It is the state rock of Missouri. The name is a portmanteau, formed from Mo (Missouri), zark (Ozarks), and ite (meaning rock).
Mozarkite consists essentially of silica (quartz - SiO2) with varying amounts of chalcedony. It has won distinction as a particular form or variety of chert because of its unique variation of colors and its ability to take a high polish. It has the hardness of 7-7.5 on the Mohs scale, which qualifies it as a suitable material for semi-precious gemstone, and has a density of about 2.65 g/cm3. Typically, the colors are different hues of red, pink, and purple with varying tints of green, gray and brown. It is collected and admired by lapidarists across the country. (Full article...)
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The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
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Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
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General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
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Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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Non-Hispanic White50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90%+
Black or African American40–50%
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Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
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The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
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Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
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Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
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A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
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Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
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Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
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Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
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Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
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Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
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Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
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Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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Non-Hispanic White50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
90%+
Black or African American40–50%
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Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
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The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
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The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
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Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
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The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
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The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
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Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
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Christopher Bond became the youngest person elected Governor of Missouri in 1972 and was part of the rise of the Republican Party in the state. (from History of Missouri)
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Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
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African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
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Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
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The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
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The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
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A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
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A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
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The Shelley House in St. Louis was the focus of a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibited restrictive covenants in housing. (from History of Missouri)
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Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
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The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
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Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
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The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
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The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
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The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
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Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
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Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
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Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
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Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
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African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
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The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
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Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
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Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
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American pioneers such as Daniel Boone with his sons Daniel Morgan Boone, Nathan Boone, and other family members, came to Spanish-controlled Missouri during the 1790s. (from History of Missouri)
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Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
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Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
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The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to a non-President and the first for an African-American. (from History of Missouri)
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Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
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A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
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A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
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Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
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Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
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St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
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Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
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Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
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The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
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The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
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The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
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Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
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Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
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Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
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Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
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Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
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Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
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General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
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- ... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
- ... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
- ... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
- ... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
- ... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
- ... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
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