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The site, known as Gumbo Point (Chapman 1959b:1–3), would certainly have given the tribe better access to Fort Orleans and, after the fort was abandoned, to traders ascending the Missouri River. France ceded Louisiana to Spain in November 1762, but it was five years later before a Spanish expedition reached St. Louis (Foley 1989:31–32).
Lorca formed around the Guadalentín River (in Arabic "mud river") in an arid valley. In fact, agriculture heavily depends on water transferred from the Tagus river in Central Spain. Irrigation channels were laid out all over the country by the Moors during the Middle Ages. These agricultural plains lie to the south of the main town in the ...
Starship, also known as Lorca and the Outlaws, and 2084, is a 1984 science fiction film directed by Roger Christian from a screenplay by Christian and Matthew Jacobs, and starring John Tarrant, Deep Roy, Donogh Rees, and Cassandra Webb. [2] The music for the film was written by Tony Banks of Genesis.
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The Manitou Bluffs, or Big Manitou Bluffs, are a series of cliffs and bluffs along the Missouri River in Boone County, Missouri. [1] They are made of Mississippian limestone that has been exposed by the erosive action of the Missouri River over time as it cuts into the Ozark Plateau. The bluffs are located between the towns of Rocheport and ...
The earliest recorded use of "Missouri" is found on a map drawn by Marquette after his 1673 journey, naming both a group of Native Americans and a nearby river. [1] However, the French rarely used the word to refer to the land in the region, instead calling it part of the Illinois Country . [ 1 ]
1980 U.S. Geological Survey Topographical map of a portion of Independence Missouri with a blurry red line superimposed, showing the route of the ancient "Great Osage Trail" which after 1825 was known as the first section of the Santa Fe Trail, destination New Mexico and Mexico.
A federal indictment unsealed Thursday charges 18 members of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club - including 16 Missouri men - in various violent assaults on rival gang members in 2022 and 2023.