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Missouri (see pronunciation) ... On May 22, 2011, a massive EF-5 tornado killed 158 people and destroyed roughly one-third of the city of Joplin. The tornado caused ...
Missouri's highest recorded temperature is 118 °F (48 °C) at Warsaw and Union on July 14, 1954, while the lowest recorded temperature is −40 °F (−40 °C) also at Warsaw on February 13, 1905. Located in Tornado Alley , Missouri also receives extreme weather in the form of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
This is a list of destroyed heritage of the United States. The year of demolition is marked in parentheses. This is a list of cultural-heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster , sorted by state.
Missouri was initially settled predominantly by Southerners, who traveled up the Mississippi River.Many brought slaves with them. Missouri entered the Union in 1821 as a slave state following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in which Congress agreed that slavery would be illegal in all territory north of 36°30' latitude, except Missouri.
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
Missouri left Task Force 58 on 5 May to return to Ulithi; in the course of her operations off Okinawa, she claimed five aircraft shot down and another probable kill, along with partial credit for another six aircraft destroyed. [16] While en route, Missouri refueled from a fleet oiler that also brought the ship's new commander, Captain Stuart S ...
Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Secretary of Jay Ashcroft and state Sen. Bill Eigel have clashing visions for Missouri in the Aug. 6 primary for governor. The race could be a ‘watershed moment’ for the ...
George S. Park, founder of Parkville, Missouri, published his antislavery views in the local Parkville Luminary in 1855; in response, his newspaper offices were raided by a mob and its presses were destroyed. [110] Missouri politicians who opposed slavery took care to avoid political repercussions. [110]