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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 Sinquefield Music Center

The School of Music is an academic division of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Its focus is the study of music, awarding baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees as part of the College of Arts and Science. The institution's programs encompass composition, performance, conducting, music education, music history, musical theatre and musicology. Established in 1917 as the Department of Music, the school continues to play a prominent role in the cultural life of Missouri and is located in the Sinquefield Music Center, on the university's flagship campus in Downtown Columbia. The Fine Arts Building also houses classrooms, studios, and a recital hall. Its major performance venues are Jesse Hall, the Missouri Theatre, and Whitmore Recital Hall. The Missouri Tigers marching band, Marching Mizzou, performs at Faurot Field for Southeastern Conference football games. The school's ensembles have performed worldwide and can be heard weekly on the university's own KMUC 90.5 FM Classical, Mid-Missouri's classical music radio station. Alumni include singers Sheryl Crow and Neal Boyd, Canadian Brass founder Gene Watts, and jazz artist Mike Metheny. (Full article...)

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St. Louis County is located in the eastern-central portion of Missouri. It is bounded by the City of St. Louis and the Mississippi River to the east, the Missouri River to the north, and the Meramec River to the south. At the 2020 census, the total population was 1,004,125, making it the most populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is Clayton. The county is included in the St. Louis, MO–IL metropolitan statistical area.

After Great Britain took over former French territory east of the Mississippi River, many ethnic French colonists moved west. They settled the area of St. Louis County and founded the city of St. Louis in the late 1700s. The US acquired this territory in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. (Full article...)

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Image 1Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 2Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 3Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 4The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 5Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 6General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 7American 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 8The 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 9Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (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 11Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 12Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 13Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 14Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 15Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 16The 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 17The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 18Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 19The 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 20The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 21Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 22Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 23The 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)

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

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