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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ miz-OOR-ee) is a 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 at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. 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 was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Many from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, a heavy settlement of Rhinelanders created the Missouri Rhineland, a German cultural region specializing in wine production.

Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail and California Trail all began in Missouri. 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. (Full article...)

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The alumni of Missouri University of Science and Technology, or Missouri S&T, include both graduates and non-graduates who have attended the university located in Rolla, Missouri. Missouri S&T was founded as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM) in 1870, the first technological institution west of the Mississippi River. In 1964, the school's name was changed to University of Missouri–Rolla (UMR) as part of the University of Missouri System, and the most recent name change to Missouri University of Science and Technology took effect in 2008 to "distinguish UMR from the other University of Missouri campuses", among other reasons.

As of fall 2020, Missouri S&T had a total enrollment of 7,645 students (6,086 undergraduates and 1,559 graduate students). The Miner Alumni Association of Missouri S&T serves over 65,000 graduates and former students. The Hasselmann Alumni house was dedicated in 2015 as the home for the Miner Alumni Association and as a venue for campus and community events. It is named for Karl Hasselmann, a 1925 graduate in mining engineering, who had a prominent career in the oil industry. The Havener Center, the multipurpose campus center for student life and activity, is named for entrepreneur Gary Havener, a 1962 graduate in mathematics. (Full article...)

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The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals have played their home games at Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. One of the nation's oldest and most successful professional baseball clubs, the Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, the most of any NL team and second in MLB only to the New York Yankees. The team has won 19 National League pennants, third-most of any team behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. St. Louis has also won 15 division titles in the East and Central divisions.

In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club, renamed it the St. Louis Browns, and made it a charter member of the American Association baseball league. The team won four league championships, qualifying them to play in the era's professional baseball championship series, a forerunner of the modern World Series. In two of these championships, the Browns met the Chicago White Stockings, now the Chicago Cubs, launching the enduring Cardinals–Cubs rivalry. (Full article...)

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Image 1Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 2Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 3Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 4The 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)
Image 5Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 6The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 7African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 8American 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)
Image 9Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 10General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 11Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 12A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 13Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 14Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 15Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 16Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 17Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 18The 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)
Image 19St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 20Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 21The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 22Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 23The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 24A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 25The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 26African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 27The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 28Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 29The 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)
Image 30The 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)
Image 31The 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)
Image 32Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 33Christopher 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)
Image 34Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 35Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 36A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 37The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 38Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 39The 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)
Image 40Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 41Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 42A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 43The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 44Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 45Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 46Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 47Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 48Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 49Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 50Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 51Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 52Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 53Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 54Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 55Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 56Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 57The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 58The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 59Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 60The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 61Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 62Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 63General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 64Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 65A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 66Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 67Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 68The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 69Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 70The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 71The 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)
Image 72The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 73Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 74The 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)
Image 75The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 76Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 77Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 78Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)

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... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
... that after his professional gridiron football career, Ed "Brick" Travis served as president of the Missouri Auto Dealers Association and as president of a local school board?
... 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 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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