Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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"Missourians count among their ranks: Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Sara Teasdale, Tennessee Williams, William S. Burroughs, William Least Heat Moon, Joseph Pulitzer, J. William Fulbright, Walt Disney, Walter Cronkite, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Jesse James." -from the Writer's Almanac, which recognized it was on this day in 1821 that Missouri was admitted into the Union.

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