• Astoria is an unincorporated community in northeastern Wright County, in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. The community is located at an elevation of 1227...
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  • Illinois Astoria Township, Fulton County, Illinois Astoria, Missouri Astoria, Queens, New York Astoria Boulevard Astoria Boulevard station Astoria Park Astoria...
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    The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and condominium residence in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. The structure...
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    The Waldorf-Astoria originated as two hotels, built side by side by feuding relatives, on Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, United States. Built in...
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    The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation's longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains...
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    Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804–06, between St. Louis, Missouri and the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon. Like the Great River Road, it is marked along...
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    river in March 1811, the Tonquin crew began building what became Fort Astoria. The ship left supplies and men to continue work on the station and ventured...
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    Pacific Fur Company (category Astoria, Oregon)
    constructed at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811, Fort Astoria (present-day Astoria, Oregon). The destruction of the company vessel the Tonquin later...
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    USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the...
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    Andrew Cherng (category University of Missouri alumni)
    Mandarin Oriental hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and rebranded it as a Waldorf Astoria. The total acquisition price for the property was $214 million. In February...
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    Hunt's party arrived on February 15, 1812. The trip from Missouri to the future site of Astoria, Oregon took 340 days. According to his own account, Hunt...
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  • Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Kansas and there are Astorias in Illinois, Missouri, and Oregon. In Astoria, Oregon, the primary elementary school, a filming...
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    Peggy Cherng (category University of Missouri alumni)
    Mandarin Oriental hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and rebranded it as a Waldorf Astoria. The total acquisition price for the property was $214 million. As of November...
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    areas and Columbia River region. His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria (established in April 1811) was the first United States community on the...
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    Lewis and Clark Expedition (category Missouri River)
    Lewis and ten other members of the group in St. Charles, Missouri, then went up the Missouri River. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide of the...
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    Jesse James (category Deaths by firearm in Missouri)
    leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his...
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    Huckabee's strongest county in Missouri. Hartville (county seat) Mansfield Mountain Grove (partly in Texas County) Norwood Astoria Boyer Cedar Gap Dawson Duggan...
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  • Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held May 3–4, 1979, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, New York. The league also held a supplemental draft...
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  • expedition led by Wilson Price Hunt. The party expanded west from Missouri to Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811–12. He is best known...
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    casinos in Minnesota List of casinos in Mississippi List of casinos in Missouri List of casinos in Nevada List of casinos in New Jersey List of casinos...
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    Peter Stark notes the similarities between the two women in his book Astoria: both women were originally based in the then-small settlement of St. Louis...
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  • the first lightship on the Pacific Coast of the United States, docked in Astoria, Oregon Columbia Rediviva, commonly known as the Columbia, a maritime fur...
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    end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Astoria, the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery, before embarking...
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    and rival, William. The complex became known as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The Waldorf-Astoria would later be the host location to the U.S. inquiries into...
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    The Astoria Center of Israel is a Conservative Jewish synagogue located at 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, United States...
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    Ginger Rogers (category Actresses from Kansas City, Missouri)
    Paramount contract—under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens—and moved with her mother to Hollywood. When she got to...
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    after US 20 and US 6. The western end of the highway is at US 101 in Astoria, Oregon; the eastern end is at Virginia Avenue, Absecon Boulevard, and...
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  • Glamorgan. General Warren  United States The steamboat was wrecked at Astoria, Missouri with the loss of 42 lives. George Thacker  United States The ship...
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    Idaho Sacagawea River in Montana Sacajawea State Park in Pasco, Washington Astoria, Oregon – Sacagawea and Baby by Jim Demetro: a life-size bronze statue...
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    club. This attribution is due to Albert Stevens Crockett of the Waldorf-Astoria, writing in the 1930s: Cocktails Old-Fashioned Whiskey This was brought...
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