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Tallmadge Amendment of 1819 (Draft)
TALLMADGE AMENDMENT TALLMADGE AMENDMENT, a bill proposed on 13 February 1819 by Rep. James Tallmadge of New York to amend Missouri enabling legislation by forbidding the further introduction of slavery into Missouri and declaring that all children born of slave parents after the admission of the... Read more |
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Joseph Orville Shelby
Joseph Orville Shelby 1830-97, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, b. Lexington, Ky. He made a considerable fortune in rope manufacturing in Kentucky and Missouri. While in Missouri he participated in the Kansas-Missouri border war on the proslavery side. When the Civil War... Read more |
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Oto
Oto , Native North Americans, also called the Otoe, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Oto had a Plains area type of culture. At one time, with the Iowa and the Missouri, they formed part of the Winnebago nation, N... Read more |
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Missouri (river)
Missouri river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. The length of the combined Missouri-Mississippi system from the headwaters of the Missouri to the... Read more |
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Gatling Gun
Gatling Gun. The precursor of the modern machine gun was invented in 1862 by Richard J. Gatling. Born in North Carolina, Gatling had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he invented and manufactured agricultural machines. Previous attempts at designing an automatically reloading multishot gun were... Read more |
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1793-1864, American ethnologist, b. near Albany, N.Y. He gave enormous impetus to the study of Native American culture and may be regarded as the foremost pioneer in Native American studies. As a young man, Schoolcraft abandoned his family's glassmaking business and made a... Read more |
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Saint Francis (river)
Saint Francis river, c.470 mi (760 km) long, rising in the hills of SE Missouri and flowing S through NE Arkansas to join the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark. The river forms part of the Arkansas-Missouri border. Wappapello Dam (completed 1941), near Poplar Bluff, Mo., forms a reservoir. The... Read more |
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Marias
Marias , river, c.210 mi (340 km) long, rising in several branches in NW Montana near the Continental Divide and flowing SE to the Missouri River near Fort Benton. It receives the Teton River. The Marias is used for irrigation. Tiber Dam (completed 1956), located in the lower course, is part of the... Read more |
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University of Missouri
University of Missouri at Columbia (main campus), Rolla, Kansas City, and St. Louis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1839, opened 1841. It is the oldest state university W of the Mississippi; its journalism school was the first (1908) in the world. There are medical schools... Read more |
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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise 1820-21, measures passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a series of crises concerning the extension of slavery. By 1818, Missouri Territory had gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state. Its settlers came largely from the South,... Read more |
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Alumni of Geology B.S. Program Express Strong Support for Field Geology and...
...rated "summer Field Geology course" 3.77, higher...the B.S. program in geology, only 1.8% of the...classroom experiences. INTRODUCTION As with most public...country, Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU...S.) programs in geology, are ... |
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ROLLA TO HOST SUMMER CAMPS
...The University of Missouri at Rolla issued...and explosives to geology and spaceships...the University of Missouri-Rolla campus...include: Minority Introduction to Technology in...experience. MAYA (Missouri Academy for Youth... |
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Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
...of his book is that geology, not merely geography...may thank, or blame, geology for the gold rush itself...hiked, and studied geology along some two thousand...reader gets a broad introduction to geological principles...Skidmore University of ... |
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The Science Shelf.(Book review)
...Understanding of Biosystems: An Introduction to Biophysics, a superb...college library science, geology, and technical collections. Roadside Geology of Missouri Charles G. Spencer Mountain...history. "Roadside Geology of ... |
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Xeric limestone prairies of eastern United States: review and synthesis.
Abstract Introduction Physiography Bedrock Geology Soils Climate Vegetation...to as "glades" (Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois...physiographic distribution, geology, soils, climate...Plains of west-central Missouri, on the Eastern Glaciated... |
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MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES TO OBSERVE EARTHQUAKE AWARENESS WEEK
The Missouri Department of Natural...the Division of Geology and Land Survey...will include an introduction to the park's...computer systems. Missouri State Senator Robert...Management Agency and the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission... |
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A geoarchaeological assessment of bison kill site preservation in the Little...
...localities in the Little Missouri Badlands of western...western North Dakota INTRODUCTION It has long been evident...body of data on the geology and stratigraphy of...gathered from the Little Missouri Badlands of western...Quaternary when the Little ... |
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Teaching with Catastrophe: Topographic Map Interpretation and the Physical...
...a university-level Introduction to Physical Geography...various geography and geology courses. INTRODUCTION...geography and physical geology. Topographic map interpretation...geography and physical geology laboratory manuals ... |
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Following in Their Footsteps: Tales from Materials Science and Engineering...
...journals/JOM/0602/Roncone-0602.html. INTRODUCTION As a child, James Staley, Jr., was amazed...up, Richard Hagni, then a professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR), did consulting fieldwork... |
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1. Introduction.(DANAU SENTARUM ESSAYS: MEMORIAL IN HONOR OF REED WADLEY)
...botany, earth sciences, ecology, geology, geography, law and soil science...of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, from 2001 until his illness...the age of 45. Prior to his work in Missouri, he spent three years in the Netherlands... |
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