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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 ...
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 ...
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, [ 1 ] as well as her "electric" stage presence. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] In 1967, Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at the ...
Fred G. Hughes (newspaper publisher) Fred G. Hughes (August 16, 1915 – October 7, 1996) was an American FBI agent, president and chairman of the board of The Joplin Globe, philanthropist, and one of the founders of Missouri Southern State University. He was a resident of Joplin, Missouri and was married to the former Rebekah Harris Blair.
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.
Mercy Hospital Joplin, formerly known as St. John's Regional Medical Center, is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, USA. The hospital is famous for suffering devastating damage in the 2011 Joplin tornado. The original storm-ravaged building was demolished in 2013. Following a succession of temporary structures, the hospital reopened in a new ...
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), artist (born in Virginia but moved to central Missouri) Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913), author and theologian. Mark Bowden (born 1951), author, journalist. William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author (Naked Lunch) Kate Chopin (1851–1904), author (The Awakening) and early feminist.
Joplin in 1912. The following is a complete list of musical compositions by Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917). Scott Joplin was born in Arkansas in around 1867, just outside Texarkana, and was a street performer before settling in Sedalia, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, and finally New York City where he died in 1917