Missouri
Missouri is a Midwestern state that was admitted to the Union as a slave state on August 10, 1821. Its nickname is the "Show Me State". Its capital is Jefferson City and its largest cities are, respectively, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield. Missouri borders Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
Gun Laws
The minimum age to purchase or own a handgun is 21, and the minimum age to get a concealed carry permit is 23.[Citation Needed]
Miscellaneous
The term "Missouri" comes from an Algonquin word roughly translating to "river of the big canoes". [1]
St. Louis hosted the World's Fair in 1904, where the ice cream cone was invented. [2]
The mule is the state animal.
The term "iron curtain" referring to the line separating Communist countries from non-Communist contries in Europe was first used by Winston Churchill at a speech in Fulton.
Notable Missourians
- Former Attorney General John Ashcroft used to live in Springfield.
- Five star general Omar Bradley was from Clark.
- Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was from Hannibal.
- Poet T.S. Eliot was from St. Louis.
- Political commentator Rush Limbaugh is from Cape Girardeau.
- President Harry Truman lived in Lamar and Independence.
- Journalist Catherine J. Sambark
- Agricultural scientist George Washington Carver, born in Diamond Grove
- Film director and actor John Huston, born in Nevada
- Outlaws Jesse James and Frank James, born in Clay County
- US Army General John J. Pershing, born near Laclede
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