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joplinmo.org. Joplin is a city in Jasper and Newton counties in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bulk of the city is in Jasper County, while the southern portion is in Newton County. Joplin is the largest city located within both Jasper and Newton Counties – even though it is not the county seat of either county ...
Pulitzer Prize (posthumous, 1976) Signature. Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [ 1 ] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, [ 2 ] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the " Maple Leaf Rag ", became the genre's first ...
Biographyis an American documentary television seriesand media franchisecreated in the 1960s by David L. Wolperand owned by A&E Networkssince 1987. Each episode depicts the life of a notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The show originally ran in syndicationin 1962–1964, and in 1979, on A&Efrom ...
NCAA Division II – The MIAA. Mascot. Roary the Lion. Website. www.mssu.edu. Missouri Southern State University (Missouri Southern, MSSU, or MoSo) is a public university in Joplin, Missouri. It was established in 1937 as Joplin Junior College. The university enrolled 4,087 students in Fall 2023.
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 72 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running United States television ...
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large and devastating multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the EF5 tornado began just west of Joplin and intensified very quickly, reaching a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city.
1903 Advertising poster for A Guest of Honor by Scott Joplin. A Guest of Honor (ISJ 54) [1] is the first opera created by celebrated ragtime composer Scott Joplin.The opera had two acts, followed the model of grand opera, [2] and followed the events surrounding the 1901 White House dinner hosted by President Theodore Roosevelt for the civil rights leader and educator Booker T. Washington.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [ 1 ] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...