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Mississippian shell engraving
Mississippian shell engraving is the art of cutting designs into marine shell, chiefly circular gorgets, practiced in the southeastern United States from about 1000 to 1600.
Missives of sale
Missives of sale are the exchange of formal letters between buyer's and seller's solicitors that form the binding contract for property sale in Scots law, concluded by a final unqualified acceptance, usually using the Scottish Standard Clauses, with no deposit typically paid.
Missorium of Theodosius I
The Missorium of Theodosius I is a large ceremonial silver dish, probably made in 388 for the emperor's tenth anniversary, showing him enthroned with his co-rulers.
Missoula, Montana
Missoula, Montana: second-largest Montana city and Missoula County seat, founded 1860 as Hellgate trading post, home of the University of Montana (opened 1895); population 73,489 in 2020, at the Clark Fork and Bitterroot rivers.
Missouri
Missouri, the 24th state (August 10, 1821), capital Jefferson City, 18th largest by area at 68,746.4 square miles, population 6,154,913 in 2020, admitted via the Missouri Compromise as a slave state.
Missouri Bootheel
The Missouri Bootheel is the state's southeastern salient below 36°30′, added in 1820 through John Hardeman Walker's lobbying. An alluvial Mississippi Embayment plain, it is Missouri's cotton, rice, and peanut region.
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, 1820 US federal law: admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, banned slavery north of 36°30' in the Louisiana Territory; repealed 1854, voided by Dred Scott 1857.
Missouri Democratic Party
The Missouri Democratic Party is the Democratic Party's organization in Missouri, which calls itself the oldest political party established west of the Mississippi River and traces a legacy from Harry Truman.
Missouri Department of Transportation
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is the state agency responsible for Missouri's roads and bridges, maintaining the seventh largest state system in the nation.
Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act
The Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act (MEEIA) is a 2009 Missouri statute valuing utility demand-side investments equal to supply and allowing cost recovery.
Missouri Executive Order 44
Missouri Executive Order 44, the 1838 Mormon Extermination Order by Governor Lilburn Boggs, ordered Latter-day Saints exterminated or expelled from Missouri; rescinded by Governor Christopher Bond on June 25, 1976.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
The Missouri Pacific Railroad, known as the MoPac, was a Class I railroad radiating from St. Louis across the South and Southwest until its 1997 merger into Union Pacific.
Missouri Plan
The Missouri Plan, or Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan, adopted by initiative in November 1940, is a merit-based judicial selection method: a nonpartisan commission nominates three candidates, the governor appoints one, and voters later retain or reject the judge.
Missouri River
The Missouri River, the Mississippi's principal tributary, is regulated by six federal mainstem dams (Fort Peck through Gavins Point) under the Corps' Master Manual for eight authorized purposes, with major sediment, drought, and endangered-species consequences.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University, formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri founded in 1905 as a normal school, renamed in 2005 under Senate Bill 98, with a statewide public affairs mission and over 27,000 students.
Missouri Tigers football
Missouri Tigers football, the University of Missouri's FBS program (Mizzou), founded 1890, SEC Eastern Division member since 2012 after Big 12, Big Eight eras; 12 conference titles, 1960 team honored as national champions, home at Memorial Stadium/Faurot Field.
Missouri Tigers men's basketball
Missouri Tigers men's basketball: University of Missouri's SEC program in Columbia, playing at Mizzou Arena. 31 NCAA Tournament bids, 23-30 record, five Elite Eights, no Final Four; Norm Stewart won 634 games from 1967-99.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), formerly Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (1870) and University of Missouri-Rolla (1964), is a public STEM research university in Rolla, Missouri; Carnegie R1 since 2025, top Missouri public engineering school.
Missouri Valley Conference
Missouri Valley Conference (MVC, "The Valley"): Division I college athletic conference founded 1907 as the MVIAA, second-oldest in Division I, headquartered in St. Louis with 11 Midwestern members, 19 sports, and commissioner Jeff Jackson.
Missouri Valley Football Conference
The Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC), formerly the Gateway Conference, is an NCAA FCS football league founded in 1985 and renamed in June 2008. Headquartered in St. Louis, it holds an FCS-best 14 national championships, led by North Dakota State's ten.
Missouri Williams
Missouri Williams is an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, and editor living in London, known for The Doloriad (2022) and the Booker Prize-longlisted second novel The Vivisectors (2026).
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (M-K-T or MKT), nicknamed the Katy, linked Missouri and Kansas with Texas and was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north, in 1872.
Missouria
The Missouria (Niutachi, People of the River's Mouth) were a Chiwere Siouan tribe of the Missouri River valley who gave Missouri its name, allied with France under Bourgmont, and merged with the Otoe after smallpox and war.
Missulena
Missulena, mouse spiders, is an Australian mygalomorph spider genus (Actinopodidae) with bulbous heads, day-wandering colorful males, and funnel-web-like venom; severe envenoming is rare and treated with funnel-web antivenom.
Missundaztood
Missundaztood (M!ssundaztood) is Pink's second album, released November 2001 on LaFace/Arista; a pop-rock departure made with Linda Perry and Dallas Austin, selling 7 to 15 million copies and peaking at number 2 in the UK.
Missy Elliott
Missy Elliott (born Melissa Arnette Elliott, 1971), also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, and producer from Portsmouth, Virginia, whose 1997 debut Supa Dupa Fly launched a career that reshaped rap and R&B.
Missy Elliott discography
Missy Elliott discography: six studio albums 1997–2005 (Supa Dupa Fly through The Cookbook), the ICONOLOGY EP, Respect M.E. compilation, and features; most platinum albums by a woman rapper.
Missy Franklin
Missy Franklin (Melissa Jeanette Franklin, born 1995), American swimmer nicknamed Missy the Missile; five Olympic golds, 2012 London 200m backstroke world record 2:04.06, 11 World Championship titles, retired 2018.
Missy Higgins
Missy Higgins (Melissa Morrison Higgins), born 1983, is an Australian singer-songwriter from Melbourne who won Triple J's Unearthed competition in 2001 and earned multiple number-one albums.
Missy Hyatt
Missy Hyatt (Melissa Ann Hiatt, born 1963), the First Lady of Wrestling, American valet, manager, and commentator who worked WCCW, UWF, WWF, WCW, and ECW, managed Eddie Gilbert, the Steiners, and The Sandman, and was inducted into the WSU Hall of Fame in 2009.