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PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
Miss Missouri. The Miss Missouri competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Missouri in the Miss America pageant. Hayley Leach of St. Louis was crowned Miss Missouri 2023 on June 17, 2023, at Missouri Military Academy in Mexico. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2024 in the Walt Disney Theatre ...
NRHP reference No. 69000313. Added to NRHP. April 16, 1969. The First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site is a state-owned property in St. Charles, Missouri, preserving the building that served as Missouri's capitol from 1821 to 1826. [4] The site is part of the St. Charles Historic District in the city's Riverfront neighborhood.
Website. Official website. The Miss Missouri USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Missouri in the Miss USA pageant. It is directed by Vanbros and Associates, based in Lenexa, Kansas. In 1993, Missouri joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system.
June 23, 1969 ; 54 years ago. The Missouri State Capitol is the home of the Missouri General Assembly and the executive branch of government of the U.S. state of Missouri. Located in Jefferson City at 201 West Capitol Avenue, it is the third capitol to be built in the city.
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), artist (born in Virginia but moved to central Missouri) Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913), author and theologian. Mark Bowden (born 1951), author, journalist. William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author ( Naked Lunch) Kate Chopin (1851–1904), author ( The Awakening) and early feminist.
Added to NRHP. December 16, 1981. The Confederate Memorial State Historic Site is a state-owned property occupying approximately 135 acres (55 ha) near Higginsville, Missouri. From 1891 to 1950, the site was used as an old soldiers' home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War. The Missouri state government then ...
The State Historical Society of Missouri, a private membership and state funded organization, is a comprehensive research facility located in Columbia, Missouri, specializing in the preservation and study of Missouri's cultural heritage. Established in 1898 by the Missouri Press Association and made a trustee of the state in 1901, the Society ...