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Branson Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Cape Girardeau Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Columbia Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Hannibal Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Jefferson City Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Rolla Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Kansas City Corporate Team Building – Missouri
St. Joseph Corporate Team Building – Missouri
St. Louis Corporate Team Building – Missouri
Springfield Corporate Team Building – Missouri
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FACTS ABOUT MISSOURI
A GREAT TEAM BUILDING LOCATION
Missouri is home one of the most awe-inspiring monuments in the USA, the Gateway Arch, standing 630 feet tall. This proud monument is a symbol constructed to memorialize the nation’s territorial expansion to the west. Missouri earned the nickname “Gateway to the West” because it served as a departure point for settlers heading to the west and was the starting point and the return destination of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Originally part of the Louisiana Purchase, Missouri was admitted as a state in 1821 as part of the Missouri Compromise. The word “Missouri” means “town of the large canoes,” and authorities have said the Indian syllables from which the word comes mean “wooden canoe people” or “he of the big canoe.”
The most widely known legend behind Missouri’s nickname, the “Show Me” State, attributes the phrase to Missouri’s U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver. It is said that when questioning the accuracy of a previous speaker’s remarks, he declared, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.”
Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase or not, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying. However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to represent the stalwart, conservative, non-credulous character of Missourians.
Famous people from Missouri include:
Maya Angelou – Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
David Rice Atchison – A Missouri native, held the office of president of the U.S. for one day in 1849.
Scott Bakula – Actor of television’s “Quantum Leap”
Yogi Berra – New York Yankee catcher that won 10 World Series
Chuck Berry – Singer known for “Johnny B. Goode”
Susan Elizabeth Blow – Teacher and founder of the nation’s first public kindergarten in St. Louis
Omar N. Bradley – Commanded the 12th Army Group in World War II
Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane) – frontierswoman
Dale Carnegie – businessman
George Washington Carver – educator, agricultural chemist
Walter Cronkite – TV newscaster
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) – Author famous for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
T.S. Eliot – Nobel Prize winning author of The Wasteland
Redd Foxx – actor, comedian
John Goodman – actor
Betty Grable – actress
Jean Harlow – actress
Edwin Hubble – astronomer
Jesse James – Famous outlaw killed by one of his own gang
Rush Limbaugh – Radio and television talk show host
James Cash Penney – Founder of the J.C. Penney Company
Harry S. Truman – The 33rd President of the United States
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