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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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The Frémont Emancipation was part of a military proclamation issued by Major General John C. Frémont (1813–1890) on August 30, 1861, in St. Louis, Missouri, during the early months of the American Civil War. The proclamation placed the state of Missouri under martial law and decreed that all property of those bearing arms in rebellion would be confiscated, including slaves, and that confiscated slaves would subsequently be declared free. It also imposed capital punishment for those in rebellion against the federal government.

Frémont, a career army officer, frontiersman and politician, was in command of the military Department of the West from July 1861 to October 1861. Although Frémont claimed his proclamation was intended only as a means of deterring secessionists in Missouri, his policy had national repercussions, potentially setting a highly controversial precedent that the Civil War would be a war of liberation. (Full article...)

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Mozarkite is a form of chert (flint). It is the state rock of Missouri. The name is a portmanteau, formed from Mo (Missouri), zark (Ozarks), and ite (meaning rock).

Mozarkite consists essentially of silica (quartz - SiO₂) with varying amounts of chalcedony. It has won distinction as a particular form or variety of chert because of its unique variation of colors and its ability to take a high polish. It has the hardness of 7-7.5 on the Mohs scale, which qualifies it as a suitable material for semi-precious gemstone, and has a density of about 2.65 g/cm³. Typically, the colors are different hues of red, pink, and purple with varying tints of green, gray and brown. It is collected and admired by lapidarists across the country. (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 2Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 3Mel Carnahan served as Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. (from History of Missouri)
Image 4Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 5The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 6Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 7African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
Image 8St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 9Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 10Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 11Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (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 14A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 15Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 16Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 17Map 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 18Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 19Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 20Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 21Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 22Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 232024 United States presidential election results by county
Democratic
Republican
(from Missouri)
Image 24Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 25The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 26Christopher 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 27A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 28The 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 29African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
Image 30Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 31Map 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 32Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 33Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 34Largest alone or in any combination ethnic origin by county in Missouri, per the 2020 census (from Missouri)
Image 35The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 36The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 37Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 382024 United States presidential election results by county
Democratic
Republican
(from Missouri)
Image 39The 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 40World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 41The Mississippi River at Hannibal (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 43The 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 44A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 45Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 46Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 47Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 48The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 49The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 50Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlaid over the current American states that it encompassed. (from Missouri)
Image 51American 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 52Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 53The 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 54Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 55The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 56World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 57Largest alone or in any combination ethnic origin by county in Missouri, per the 2020 census (from Missouri)

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... that less than a year after the owner of a Missouri TV station declared that "cancellation of a network affiliation is almost unheard of", his station's affiliation was canceled?
... that Interstate 155 is the only piece of surface transportation infrastructure that directly connects the U.S. states of Missouri and Tennessee?
... that Missouri did not repeal its school segregation laws until 22 years after Brown v. Board of Education?
... that the only casualty of USS Missouri's destruction was a pet bear?
... that tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Missouri annually to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College?
... that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area?

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