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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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Sharon Kinne (born Sharon Elizabeth Hall, November 30, 1939), also known as Jeanette Pugliese and in Mexico as La Pistolera, is an American murderer and prison escapee who was convicted in Mexico for one murder and is suspected of two others in the United States, one for which she was acquitted at trial. As of 2023, Kinne is the subject of the longest currently outstanding arrest warrant for murder in the history of Kansas City, Missouri, and one of the longest outstanding felony warrants in U.S. history.

On March 19, 1960, Sharon's husband, James Kinne, was found shot in the head. Sharon claimed that their two-year-old daughter, who had often been allowed to play with James's guns, had accidentally shot him, and police were initially unable to disprove her story. Then, on May 27, the body of 23-year-old Patricia Jones, a local file clerk, was found by Sharon and a boyfriend in a secluded area. Investigators found that Jones had been the wife of another of Sharon's boyfriends, and that Jones's husband had tried to break off his affair with Sharon shortly before Jones went missing. When Sharon admitted to having been the last person to speak to Jones, she was charged with her murder and, upon further investigation of his death, that of James. (Full article...)

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Lake of the Ozarks State Park is a Missouri state park on the Grand Glaize Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks and is the largest state park in the state. This is also the most popular state park in Missouri, with over 2.5 million visitations in 2017.

The park includes 85 miles (137 km) of shoreline on the lake (which has a total of 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline—mostly privately owned); two swimming beaches with imported sand, 12 trails, the Ozark Caverns, a boat launch, and the Lee C. Fine Memorial Airport which has a 6,500-foot (2,000 m) runway. In addition there are campsites and cabins within the park. (Full article...)

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Image 1A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 2St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 3General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 4Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 5The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 6Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of 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 8Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 9Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 10Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 11The 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 12Missouri 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 13Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 14Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 15Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 16The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 17Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 18Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 19The 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 20Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 21Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 22Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 23Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 24The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 25Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 26The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 27Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 28Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 29Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 30African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 31American 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 32General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 33Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of 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 35Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 36Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 37A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 38Christopher 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 39Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 40The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 41Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 42Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 43African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 44The 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 45The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 46A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 47Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 48Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 49Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 50The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (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 52Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from 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 54Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 55The 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 56The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 57The 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 58Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 59A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 60Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 61The 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 62Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 63Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 64Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 65The 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 66A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 67The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 68Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 69The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 70Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 71Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 72Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 73The 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 74Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 75The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 76The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 77Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 78The 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)

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... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... 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 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 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?

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