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  2. Kappa Omicron Phi - Wikipedia

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    Kappa Omicron Phi was founded by six students and their teacher at Northwest Missouri State College (now Northwest Missouri State University) on December 11, 1922. [2] [3] [4] Its purpose was personal development and scholastic and intellectual excellence for female students who were studying home economics. [5]

  3. The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and ...

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    Part 2: The Widening Frontier (1795–1815). Covers "The reach of government and the authority of law spread across the western county" (chapter 4), "Diverse economies moving towards commercial ends" (chapter 5), and "Many varied societies emerge across the western country" (chapter 6). Part 3: The first great migration (1815–1830).

  4. List of airline bankruptcies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Terms of an employee contract negotiated over years can be eliminated in months through Chapter 11. Terms of the Railway Labor Act, amended in 1936 to cover airlines, prevent most labor union work actions before, during and after an airline bankruptcy. Continental Airlines declared bankruptcy, Chapter 11, a second time in December 1990.

  5. Winny v. Whitesides - Wikipedia

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    Winny v. Whitesides alias Prewitt (1 Mo. 472, 1824 WL 1839 [1824]) was the first freedom suit heard by the Supreme Court of Missouri.The case established the state's judicial criteria for an enslaved person's right to freedom.

  6. Platte Purchase - Wikipedia

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    When Missouri entered the Union, its western border was established as "a meridian line passing through the middle of the mouth of the Kansas river, where the same empties into the Missouri river, thence, from the point aforesaid north, along the said meridian line, to the intersection of the parallel of latitude which passes through the rapids of the river Des Moines, making the said line ...

  7. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Due Process Clause of the Constitution was partly based on common law and on Magna Carta (1215), which had become a foundation of English liberty against arbitrary power wielded by a ruler. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] The idea of Separation of Powers inherent in the Constitution was largely inspired by eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers, such ...

  8. Northwest Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    Federal Hall served as the nation's seat of government in 1787, when the Northwest Ordinance was passed into law. On July 13, 1937, the U.S. Post Office issued a 3-cent commemorative stamp to mark the 150th anniversary of the Northwest Territory as defined by the Ordinance of 1787.

  9. General Order No. 11 (1863) - Wikipedia

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    General Order No. 11. Headquarters District of the Border, Kansas City, August 25, 1863. 1. All persons living in Jackson, Cass, and Bates counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon included in this district, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mills, Pleasant Hill, and Harrisonville, and except those in that part of Kaw Township, Jackson County ...