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missouri.gif (2073 bytes) Missouri
"the twenty fourth state"

   quarter struck by
  the mint on
   July 17,  2003
Connecticut
The quarter's stateside face depicts
Admitted to Union: August 10, 1821 Bits of History
Update:
What event occurred on October 24, 1929 and was called "Black Thursday"? It started what era in the United States history?
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The boyhood home of Mark Twain in Hannibal, Missouri. Author of the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
Order Admitted: 24
Capital: Jefferson City
Largest City: Kansas City
Nickname: Show Me State
State Bird: Bluebird
State Flower: Hawthorn
State Tree:
State Motto: "The Welfare of the People shall be the Supreme Law"
State Name Origin:
From the river "Ohio" which is an Irquoian Indian name meaning "great river".


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