What is the origin of the name Missouri for which the river is named?
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The Missouri Indians.
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Actually, they're not EXACTLY the longest rivers on their continents.\nAmazon and Nile, yes.\nBut the longest river in North America is the Mississippi-Missouri system. To track the longest river, you have to start at the mouth of the Mississippi (near New Orleans), travel generally northward to a point north of St. Louis, at which point you turn left and follow the Missouri River to Montana (where various streams join to form the Missouri). So the Mississippi (which begins in Minnesota) is NOT the longest river in North America, but the SOUTHERN HALF of the Mississippi River is PART of the longest river in North America.
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Milwaukee received its name from the Indian word Millioke which means "The Good Land", or "Gathering place by the water." Another interpretation is "beautiful or pleasant lands".[4] Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names: Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, and Milwaucki. For many years, printed records gave the name as "Milwaukie". A Short History of Milwaukee, by William George Bruce, gives the story of Milwaukee's final name:\n\n"[O]ne day during the thirties of the last century a newspaper calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, and Milwaukee it has remained until this day."[5] \nMilwaukeeans themselves confuse outsiders in their pronunciation of the name. It is often pronounced close to M'waukee, which is humorously observed on some T-Shirts sold.
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The Colorado River that originates in the Rocky Mountains and flows through the Grand Canyon. The Hoover Dam forms a lake known as Lake Mead that extends upstream as far as the mouth of the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River eventually drains into the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) in Mexico. \nhttp://www.desertusa.com/colorado/coloriv/du_coloriv.html\n\nThere are other rivers named the Colorado River, one of which flows through Austin, Texas and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Moselle,+MO\nInfo: "Moselle is in Franklin County, in the Saint Louis metro area. \nThe community was named for region in France\n\nThe community is in the Central Standard time zone.\n\nThe latitude of Moselle is 38.386N. The longitude is -90.897W. Elevation is 509 feet.\n\nFormer and merged names include:\n· Moselle Iron Furnace\n\n19th-century lead-mining town"\nhttp://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20516\n\nWikipedia Info: "Moselle is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, and is largely abandoned. It is located about five miles northeast of St. Clair. The community was incorporated as a town in 1860 (having since being disincorporated) and is named after the Moselle River or Moselle département in France.\n\nThe community elevation is 493 feet above sea level and is near the mouth of the Bourbeuse River, where it flows into the Meramec River.\n\nThe town had a depot of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, and was a shipping point for the Moselle Iron Works, located about a mile southeast, on the banks of the Meramec River. The Moselle Iron Furnace Stack, active 1825-1849, is on the National Register of Historic Places."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moselle,_Missouri
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The New River in West Virginia flows south to north, from the mountains of Virginia to the Kanawha River, then on to the Ohio River.  The Nile River also flows south to north.  I think there are a couple others as well.
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The name itself comes from either the Ojibwe, a Native American language spoken around the river's headwaters, or some other closely related Algonquian language, meaning "great river."
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Well, if you live around Missouri, there is Current River by Salem, Missouri.  It is a fun time and you can going canoeing
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World's Shortest River\n\nThe Roe River is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's shortest river. The Roe flows 200 feet between Giant Springs and the Missouri River near Great Falls. The Roe River competes with the D River in Lincoln City, Oregon for the title of the shortest river. Both rivers have been measured on different occasions, with lengths varying from 58 feet to 200 feet. Schoolchildren in Great Falls campaigned successfully to have the Roe River placed in the Guinness Book of World Records. \n\nThe source of the Roe River, Giant Springs, is the largest freshwater spring in the United States. The longest river in the state is the Missouri River. The Missouri flows 1,029 miles, from Three Forks to the North Dakota border.
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do you know what part of missouri? I have relatives in St Joseph and ill check with them.
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1659-1660 French fur traders Groseilliers and Radisson explore western end of Lake Superior and environs.\n\n1673 French explorers Marquette and Joliet discover the upper portion of the Mississippi River.\n\nMay 11, 1858 (the 32d state to enter the Union)\n\nThe name Minnesota comes from Dakota Indian word Minisota ("sky tinted waters") Not Gerry Minnesota
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The river Jordan in some cases. It was to the Hebrews 'the river of judgement', the name is a compilation of its 2 spring heads, "Jor" and "Dan". If you have a Bible look in the back, it runs from the sea of Galilee to the Dead sea.
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Louis was the King of France. The French explorers named it that.\n\n1682  The French explorer Sieur de La Salle, the first to descend the Mississippi to its mouth, took possession "of the country known as Louisiana," and named it for the reigning monarch of France, Louis XIV. \n\nAnnual events Mardi Gras, and the Louisiana Folk Life Festival.
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WOW I GREW UP IN JOPLIN ARE YOU FROM MISSOURI? I VOTE WEBB CITY
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There are a lot of Springfield in the US, and Matt Groening chose the name on purpose. Nobody knows it, and nobody will ever know.
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cause the river was  a meaning of life\n\n:> peace\n.
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Word History: We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning “Indiana resident” is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including “a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,” reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana. As a nickname, Hoosier was but one of a variety of disparaging terms for the inhabitants of particular states arising in the early 19th century. Texans were called Beetheads, for example; Alabamans were Lizards; Nebraskans were Bug-eaters; South Carolinians were Weasels, and Pennsylvanians were Leatherheads. People in Missouri might have had it worst of allthey were called Pukes. Originally, these names were probably taken up by people living in neighboring states, but belittled residents adopted them in a spirit of defiant pride, much as American colonists turned the derisive term Yankee into a moniker for their spirit of rebellion. Today, most of these frontier nicknames have disappeared from the landscape. A few like Okie still exist with much of their original animus. Others survive as nicknames for the sports teams of state universitiesthe North Carolina Tarheels, the Ohio Buckeyes, and so onfighting words only on the playing field or court.