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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 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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Bobby Bostic (born January 5, 1979) is an American writer who was sentenced to a term of 241 years. On December 12, 1995, Bostic, aged 16, along with 18-year-old Donald Hutson robbed a group of people in Missouri at gunpoint, and shortly thereafter robbed and briefly detained a woman in her car. The pair were caught later that day. Hutson was offered a plea deal and accepted 30 years in prison. On the advice of family, Bostic declined the same offer and elected to go to trial. He was given a sentence of 241 years by Judge Evelyn Baker, making him eligible for parole when he was 112. Bostic was serving the longest sentence in Missouri given to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses.

Bostic's case attracted considerable media attention in later years, due to changing laws regarding life-sentences for minors, and the severity of his sentence. Judge Baker later stated she regretted giving Bostic the sentence, and actively supported his unsuccessful appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in 2018, along with Ken Starr, Sally Yates, Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and over 100 current and former judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers. In 2021, a new law passed allowing Bostic to apply for parole. His application was approved and he was released on November 9, 2022. (Full article...)

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer early in his career, and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to his older brother Orion Clemens' newspaper. Twain then became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, which provided him the material for Life on the Mississippi (1883). Soon after, Twain headed west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. (Full article...)

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Image 1The 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 2The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 3Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 4Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 5Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 6Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 7Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)

Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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50–60%

60–70%

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(from Missouri)

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

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... 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?
... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... 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?

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