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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ ^ⓘ mih-ZOOR-ee) is a 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. At 1.5 billion years old, the St. Francois Mountains are among the oldest in the world. 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 in the ninth century, built cities and 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; 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 "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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William Warren Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American politician and former professional basketball player. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1979 to 1997 and a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore.

Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, Missouri, a small town 45 miles (72 km) south of St. Louis. He excelled at basketball from an early age. He did well academically and was an all-county and all-state basketball player in high school. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He won a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the Most Outstanding Player of the 1965 NCAA Tournament, when Princeton finished third. After graduating in 1965, he attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where he was a member of Worcester College, delaying a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). (Full article...)

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St. Louis–style pizza is a type of pizza in St. Louis, Missouri, and surrounding areas. The pizza has a thin cracker-like crust made without yeast, topped with sweet tomato sauce and Provel cheese, and is cut into squares or rectangles rather than wedges.

St. Louis–style pizza is available at local restaurants and chains such as Imo's Pizza. Frozen St. Louis–style pizzas are sold at local supermarkets such as Schnucks and Dierbergs Markets. (Full article...)

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Image 1Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 2Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 3Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 4The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 5The 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 6The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 7Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 8The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 9Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 10Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 11Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 12Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 13A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 14Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 15Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 16A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 17Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 18The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 19Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 20The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 21Missouri 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 22Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 23Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)

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

Legend

Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Black or African American

40–50%

(from Missouri)

Image 25The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 26St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 27The 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 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 30Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 31Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 32The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 33Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 34The 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 35Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 36African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 37A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 38Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 39Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 40Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 41Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 42Christopher 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 43Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 44The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 45The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 46The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 47The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 48General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 49The 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 50American 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 51Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 52Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 53The 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 54Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 55The 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 56Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 57Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 58General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 59Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 60Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 61Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 62Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 63The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 64The 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 65Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 66Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 67Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 68Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 69Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 70Map 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 71Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 72Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 73Missouri 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 74A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 75Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 76Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 77Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 78A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)

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

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