24．Saint Louis University received a formal charter from the state of Missouri in 1832，making it the oldest University west of the Mississippi．
25．In 1889，Aunt Jemima pancake flour，invented at St．Joseph，Missouri，was the first self－rising flour for pancakes and the first ready－mix food ever to be introduced commercially．
26．The tallest man in documented medical history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from St．Louis．He was 8feet，11．1inches tall
27．Creve Coeur’s name means broken heart in French，comes from nearby Creve Coeur Lake．Legend has it that an Indian princess fell in love with a French fur trapper，but the love was not returned．According to the story，she then leapt from a ledge overlooking Creve Coeur Lake；the lake then formed itself into a broken heart．
28．The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811，centered in New Madrid，Missouri．The quake shook more than one million square miles，and was felt as far as 1，000miles away．
29．Anheuser－Busch brewery（酿酒厂）in St．Louis，Missouri is the largest beer producing plant in the nation．
30．During Abraham Lincoln’s campaign for the presidency，a dyed－in－the－wool Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County，Missouri，swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected．Tapley kept his word and his chin whiskers（腮须，胡须）went unshorn from November 1860until he died in 1910，attaining a length of twelve feet six inches．
31．President Harry S．Truman was born in Lamar，May 8，1884．
32．The first train of the Atlantic－Pacific Railway，which became the St．Louis－San Francisco Railway，or “Frisco”，arrived in 1870．
33．Callaway County was organized on November 25，1820and named for Captain James Callaway who was killed in a fight with Indians near Loutre Creek．
34．Missouri was named after a tribe called Missouri Indians；meaning “town of the large canoes”．
35．Situated within a day’s drive of 50％of the U．S．population，Branson and the Tri－Lakes area serves up to 65，000visitors daily．Branson has been a “rubber tire”destination with the vast majority of tourists arriving by vehicles，RVs and tour buses．Branson has also become one of America’s top motor coach vacation destinations with an estimated 4，000buses arriving each year．
36．Charleston holds the Dogwood－Azalea Festival annually on the 3rd weekend of April．“Charleston becomes a blooming wonderland（仙境，奇境）”．
37．Jefferson City，Missouri，the state’s capital，was named for Thomas Jefferson，the third President of the United States．
38．Missouri’s oldest community，Saint Genevieve，was founded as early as 1735．
39．In 1812Missouri was organized as a territory and later admitted the 24th state of the Union on August 10，1821．
40．In 1865Missouri became the first slave state to free its slaves．
41．Hermann，Missouri is a storybook（故事书，小说）German village with a rich wine－making and riverboat（内河船（如拖轮、大型平底船、划船等的））history that is proudly displayed in area museums．Built in 1836as the “New Fatherland”for German settlers，the town has achieved national recognition because of its quality wines and distinctive heritage．
42．Auguste Chouteau founded Saint Louis in 1764．
43．Laura Elizabeth Ingalls，writer of Little House on the Prairie grew up in Missouri．
44．“Madonna of the Trail”monument in Lexington tells the story of the brave women who helped conquer the west and is one of 12placed in every state crossed by the National Old Trails Road，the route of early settlers from Maryland to California．
45．Soybeans（大豆）bring in the most cash for Missourians as a crop．
46．Missouri Day is the third Wednesday in October．
47．On Sucker Day in Nixa，Missouri，school closes officially and the little town swells to a throng of 15，000hungry folks．All craving a taste of the much maligned（有害的）but delicious bottom dweller fish loathed（厌恶，憎恶）by almost everyone else．
48．Point of highest elevation：Taum Sauk Mountain，540meters（1，772feet）
49．State folk dance：square dance（方块舞）
50．State musical instrument：fiddle（小提琴）
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