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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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Stengel in 1957

Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (/ˈstɛŋɡəl/; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, the expansion New York Mets. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.

Stengel was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1890. In 1910, he began a professional baseball career that would span over half a century. After almost three seasons in the minor leagues, Stengel reached the major leagues late in 1912, as an outfielder, for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His six seasons there saw some success, among them playing for Brooklyn's 1916 National League championship team; but he also developed a reputation as a clown. After repeated clashes over pay with the Dodgers owner, Charlie Ebbets, Stengel was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1918; however, he enlisted in the Navy that summer, for the remainder of World War I. After returning to baseball, he continued his pay disputes, resulting in trades to the Philadelphia Phillies (in 1919) and to the New York Giants (in 1921). There, he learned much about baseball from the manager, John McGraw, and had some of the glorious moments in his career, such as hitting an inside-the-park home run in Game 1 of the 1923 World Series to defeat the Yankees. His major league playing career ended with the Boston Braves in 1925, but he then began a career as a manager. (Full article...)

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Kansas City International Airport (IATA: MCI, ICAO: KMCI, FAA LID: MCI) (originally Mid-Continent International Airport) is a public airport in Kansas City, Missouri, located 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Downtown Kansas City in Platte County, Missouri. The airport was opened in 1972 and a new complex in the airport was completed in 2023, replacing the old one. MCI replaced Kansas City Municipal Airport (MKC) in 1972, with all scheduled passenger airline flights moved from MKC to MCI. It serves the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and is the primary passenger airport for much of western Missouri and eastern Kansas.

The airport covers 10,680 acres (4,320 ha) and has three runways. The airport has always been a civilian airport and has never been assigned an Air National Guard unit. Since the 2020 pandemic shutdown, the number of peak-day scheduled aircraft departures has been steadily recovering. , there were 303 daily arrivals and departures. Nonstop service was offered to 47 airports, including Cancun, Montego Bay, San José del Cabo, and Toronto. (Full article...)

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Image 1Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 2The 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 3The 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 4Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 5The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 6Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 7Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 8African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 9Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 10Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 11Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 12The 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 13A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 14Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 15The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 16Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 17The 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 18A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 19Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 20Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 21Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 22The 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 23The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 24The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)

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

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50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

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

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... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
... 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 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 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 a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?

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