missouri state symbols. missouri’s nickname is the “show-me state.” term coined by u.s....
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Missouri State Symbols
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NICKNAME
Missouri’s nickname is the “Show-Me State.”
Term coined by U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver in 1899
"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
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STATE CAPITAL
Jefferson City Pop. 40,771 (Metro area is 140,000) About 150 miles from Kansas City
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JEFFERSON CITY
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STATE BIRD
Bluebird Symbol of happiness 6.5 to 7 in long Common from early spring until late
November
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STATE INSECT
Honeybee
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STATE SONG
The Missouri Waltz Adopted June 30th, 1949 First written in 1914
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MISSOURI WALTZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8YmBHmBf-I&feature=related
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STATE TREE
Flowering Dogwood Usually less than 40 feet tall Greenish-yellow flower clusters
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FLOWERING DOGWOOD
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STATE FLOWER
White Hawthorn Blossom Also called the “Red Haw” or “White
Haw” More than 75 different species grow in
Missouri Member of the Great Rose Family
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WHITE HAWTHORN BLOSSOM
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MISSOURI - DID YOU KNOW? Missouri was named after a tribe called Missouri Indians;
meaning "town of the large canoes” In 1865 Missouri became the first slave state to free its slaves The first ever parachute jump was in St. Louis in 1912 Ice Tea was first served at the 1904 Word’s Fair in St. Louis,
along with the Ice Cream Cone Kansas City has more miles of boulevards than Paris and more
fountains than any city except Rome. Kansas City has more miles of freeway per capita than any
metro area with more than 1 million residents The tallest man on record was from St. Louis, he was 8 feet 11
inches
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