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Luella Agnes Owen was a female pioneer in the fields of speleology, geography, and geology.

By the middle of 1940, Europe was engulfed in war. On September 16, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed legislation authorizing selective service registration in the United States.

Jessie Housley was a successful Missouri artist and educator in the mid-twentieth century. She was born on March 27, 1905, in St.

When pundits make lists of the foods most associated with St. Louis, they often include such cuisine as toasted ravioli, pork steaks, pizza with Provel cheese, and, for sweet tooths, gooey butter cake and frozen-custard concretes.

Log City was a filling station, tourist camp, store, and café on Route 66 in Jasper County, Missouri.

In 1932, George B. Morrow, a merchant and farmer from Iberia, Missouri, purchased three and a half acres of land at the western edge of Springfield on West Kearney Street, which had become part of Route 66 through the city.

Inez Parker Griggs was a poet who lived in Rolla, Missouri. The daughter of formerly enslaved individuals, she began publishing her poetry in 1898.

When Wayne E. Powers, a US Army private from Missouri, was arrested for desertion on March 22, 1958, it sparked an international incident in which President Dwight D.