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Missouri (see pronunciation) 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. With over six million residents, it is the 19th-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 with pyramidal and other ceremonial 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, taking advantage of its productive agricultural plains; 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 large 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 "Gateway to the West", 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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Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles, February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011) was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 aged 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.

During World War II, then aged 40, he was captured by Japanese forces while working in the shipping business, and spent three years in the Philippines as a civilian prisoner. After the war, Buckles married in San Francisco and moved to Gap View Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia. A widower at age 98, he worked on his farm until the age of 105. (Full article...)

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The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team plays its home games at Arrowhead Stadium.

Established in 1959 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), the Chiefs started playing in 1960 as the Dallas Texans, owned by league founder Lamar Hunt. In 1963, the team moved to Kansas City, and adopted its current name. The Chiefs joined the NFL in 1970 as a result of the AFL–NFL merger; entering the 2024 season, the team is valued at over US$4.85 billion. After Hunt's death in 2006, his wife, Norma, and children became legal owners of the team. After Norma's death in 2023, the Hunt children inherited her stake in the franchise. Clark Hunt, one of the Hunts' children, has served as chairman and CEO since 2006 and is the ultimate authority over personnel decisions. He is also the team representative at league owner meetings. (Full article...)

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Image 1Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 2The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 3Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 4Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 5Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 6The 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 7The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 8Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlaid over the current American states that it encompassed. (from Missouri)
Image 9A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 10A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 11The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 12Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlaid over the current American states that it encompassed. (from Missouri)
Image 13Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 14Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 15African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
Image 16World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 17Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 18The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 19The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 20The 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 21Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 22African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
Image 23Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 24Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (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 26American 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)

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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Black or African American

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(from Missouri)

Image 28St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 29Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 30The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 31Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 32Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 33Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 34Map 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 35Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 36Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 37Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 382024 United States presidential election results by county
Democratic
Republican
(from Missouri)
Image 39The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 40Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 41Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 42The 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 43Christopher 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 44Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 45A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 46The 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 47Mel Carnahan served as Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. (from History of Missouri)
Image 48The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 49Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 50World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 51Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 52Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 53Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 542024 United States presidential election results by county
Democratic
Republican
(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)

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... that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Missouri annually to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College?
... that the only casualty of USS Missouri's destruction was a pet bear?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
... that when a developer tried to buy Kansas City's New York Life Building in the 1990s, it was unclear who owned it?

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