a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri | a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain |
a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union | general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War; crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend Carthage and was defeated (247-182 BC) |
the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis | |
a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri | |