* 1959-1961 Chairman, SubCommittee on Education, Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights

The other members of the Advisory Council are: Mr. Nils Bruzelius, Executive Editor and Vice-President for Publications, Environmental Working Group, Dr. Gail H. Cassell, Ph. D., vice president of scientific affairs and distinguished research scholar for infectious diseases, Eli Lilly and Company ; Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist, Google ; Ambassador James Franklin Collins, director and senior associate and diplomat in residence, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Rita Colwell, Chairman and President of CosmosID ; Dr. Loren R. Graham, professor of history and science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Dr. William V. Harris, president and CEO of the Science Foundation Arizona ; Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, senior fellow and former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Dr. Najmedin Meshkati, Professor of Civil / Environmental Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California ; Dr. Richard Murphy, Ph. D., former president and CEO of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ; and Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

* Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and member of CRDF Global's Advisory Council

In February 1994, Smith took on the role of honorary chairman and official spokesman for the Missouri Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

The UP's Missouri River Bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha directly connected the Union Pacific mainline to the East in 1873.

* Council Bluffs / Omaha proposed by Thomas C. Durant via an extension of his proposed Mississippi and Missouri Railroad via the new Union Pacific Railroad.

The principal advantages of Council Bluffs / Omaha were that it was well north of the Civil War fighting taking place in Missouri, was the shortest route to South Pass break in the Rockies in Wyoming, and would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement.

On the visit Lincoln rode the SJ & H railroad and visited railroad locations in Missouri and Kansas before going to Council Bluffs.

The Union Pacific would not connect Omaha to Council Bluffs until completing the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge in 1873.

In 1847 Young led a small, especially picked fast-moving group of men and women from their Winter Quarters encampments near Omaha, Nebraska, and their approximately 50 temporary settlements on the Missouri River in Iowa including Council Bluffs, Iowa.

( See: Missouri River settlements ( 1846 – 1854 )) The Mormons established about 50 temporary towns including the town of Kernsville Iowa ( renamed Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1852 ) on the east bank of the Missouri River opposite the mouth of the Platte River.

( A physical connection between Omaha, Nebraska and the statutory Eastern terminus of the Pacific road at Council Bluffs, Iowa located immediately across the Missouri River was also not finally established until the opening of UPRR railroad bridge across the river on March 25, 1873, prior to which transfers were made by ferry operated by the Council Bluffs & Nebraska Ferry Company.

* Member of the International Council, Institute for Global Legal Studies of Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 2001

St. Charles is a charter city under the Missouri Constitution with a City Council as the governing body, consisting of one member for each of the ten wards, each serving a three-year term.

Heart of America Council serves Scouts in Missouri and Kansas.

Ozark Trails Council serves Scouts in Missouri and Kansas.

The Pony Express Council is based in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and also serves Scouts in Kansas.

All of North Dakota is in the Northern Lights Council ( NLC ), formed in 1974 when several councils ( Red River Valley Council-Fargo, Lake Agassiz Council-Grand Forks, Missouri Valley Council-Bismarck, and Great Plains Council-Dickinson ) were merged into one.

Great Rivers Council ( 653 ) is based in Columbia, Missouri and serves Scouts in 33 counties in Mid-Missouri.

Heart of America Council serves Scouts in Missouri and Kansas.

Ozark Trails Council is based in Springfield, Missouri, and serves Scouts in Missouri and Kansas.

The day passed without incident in spite of the warning of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri: `` Baker, you will have the streets of our American cities running with blood on registration day ''.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

Research at Fayette, Missouri on oxidation ponds has shown that the BOD in the treated effluent varied from 30 to 53 mg/l with loadings from 8 to 120 lb.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence, Missouri.

In Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, car dealerships continue to operate under blue-law prohibitions in which an automobile may not be purchased or traded on a Sunday.

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

He had a solo spot on the Opry ; but when that was cut, Atkins moved on to KWTO-AM in Springfield, Missouri.

Atchison and A. W. Doniphan would fall out over the politics proceeding the Civil War and on which direction Missouri should proceed.

In 1991, Atchison was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, and a bronze bust depicting him is on permanent display in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol.

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

' This is Miss Missouri Martin's way of saying she sees no diamond on Miss Billy Perry ’ s finger.

The lawsuit claims that waste sludge from the production of leather, containing high levels of hexavalent chromium, was distributed to farmers in northwest Missouri to use as fertilizer on their fields.

Granite was used for setts on the St. Louis, Missouri | St. Louis Mississippi River | riverfront and for the piers of the Eads Bridge ( background )

The subspecies ( or species, depending on the source ) Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi is confined to the Ozarks of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri while Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis is found in the rest of the aforementioned states.

Some hellbender populations — namely a few in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee — have historically been noted to be quite abundant, but several anthropogenic maladies have converged on the species such that it has seen serious population decline throughout its range.

The Ozark hellbender was successfully bred in captivity for the first time at the St. Louis Zoo, in a joint project with the Missouri Department of Conservation, hatching on Nov. 15, 2011.

The turning point came with the debate on the Missouri Compromise in 1820 when he broke with his friend John C. Calhoun, who became the most outspoken national leader in favor of slavery.

* 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

His official records note that Yoakum was born in Missouri, but he told a story of being born in Arizona, in 1888, as a Navajo Indian on the Window Rock Navajo reservation.