Travel Day -> Missouri

 Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Missouri shares a border with 8 other states: 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.






Abbreviation: MO

Capital: Jefferson City

Temperature: 76 degrees, thunderstorms

Time: 1:00 (CST, 1 hour behind us)

Nickname: The 'Show-Me State'

Missouri has long been known as the Show Me state, but the origins of that nickname aren’t entirely clear. Perhaps the best-known story involves a Missouri representative named Willard Duncan Vandiver. After a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1899, the congressman was invited to a meeting of Philadelphia’s Five O’Clock Club, a gathering place for the city’s political and business elite. Vandiver hadn’t packed formal attire for the trip, and, when it was his turn to address the tuxedo-clad crowd, he jokingly accused Rep. John Hull of Iowa of stealing his suit and declared:

“I’m from a state that raises corn, cotton, cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I’m from Missouri. You have to show me.”

Population: 6.168 million (PA 12.8)

Size: 69,715 sq mi (PA 46,000)

Cost of living:  $32,336 (PA $49,040)

Minimum wage: $12.00 (PA $7.25)

Statehood: August 10, 1821

State Flag: 



The three large stripes were symbolic of the people of the state—the blue stripe represented vigilance, permanency, and justice, the red represented valor, and the white stripe symbolized purity.The seal in the center boasts three bears, the larger two representing “courage” and “strength.” Ironically, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation, “The bears on the Great Seal of the State of Missouri are grizzly bears, which never resided in the state.”


State Bird:

Eastern Blue Bird


State Flower:

The White Hawthorn Blossom

State Tree:

Flowering Dogwood

Stet Mammal:
the Missouri Mule

State Quarter:

Missouri, admitted into the Union on August 10, 1821, themed the coin, Corps of Discovery. It highlights Lewis and Clark's historic return to St. Louis down the Missouri River, with the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Gateway Arch in the the background.

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Anheuser-Busch Brewery

What during the New Madrid earthquake of 1811?
The force of the land upheaval 15 miles south of New Madrid created Reelfoot Lake, drowned the inhabitants of an Indian village; turned the river against itself to flow backwards; devastated thousands of acres of virgin forest; and created two temporary waterfalls in the Mississippi.
Tri-State Tornado:

  • 219 mile path length

  • 3/4 mile average path width (some accounts of 1 mile wide—a record width)

  • 3 1/2 hours of continuous devastation

  • 1:01 p.m.—tornado touched down 3 miles NNW of Ellington, Missouri

  • 4:30 p.m.—tornado dissipated about 3 miles SW of Petersburg, Indiana

  • F5 tornado on the Fujita Scale, with winds perhaps in excess of 300 mph

  • 695 deaths—a record for a single tornado

  • 234 deaths in Murphysboro—a record for a single community from such a disaster

  • 33 deaths at the De Soto school—a record for such a storm (only bombings and gas explosions have taken higher school tolls)

  • 2,027 injuries

  • 15,000 homes destroyed

Joplin tornado damage

Cave Restaurant

Great Mastodon

Harry S Truman

Mound


Saint Louis University

First Stone House

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The James Gang


The Games originally were scheduled for Chicago, but the location was changed to St. Louis when Olympic organizing-committee officials decided to combine the Olympics with the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, a large fair celebrating the 100th anniversary of the U.S. acquisition of the Louisiana Territory.


The Missouri Fox Trotter

The Cave State

Missouri Waltz

Taum Sauk Mountain

St Francis River

Missouri River


By Jon Platek - Base map used was taken from the National Atlas, watershed map was from this site from the United States Geological Survey. The picture of the steamboat Robert E. Lee was from this file, which is public domain due to its age. The remaining work was done by the uploader., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9412752



Kansas City, Missouri

Aunt Jemima ad from 1909

the Gateway Arch

Tram Car in the Arch

Guess Who!?

Brad Pitt

Maya Angelou

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Yogi Berra

Ezekiel Elliott


Linda Blair

Joan Crawford

Walt Disney

John Goodman

Jean Harlow

Eminem

Sheryl Crow

Steve Walsh

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