Saint Louis

a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri: the largest city in the state; university; major industrial centre. Pop.: 332 223 (2003 est.)

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Saint Louis (Independent City), Missouri

1200 Market St
Saint Louis, MO 63103
Phone: (314) 622-3201
Fax: (314) 622-4061
stlouis.missouri.org

On the central-eastern border of MO on the Mississippi River, 11 mi. below its confluence with the Missouri River. In 1763 site was selected by Pierre Laclede Liguest (1724?-78), partner in Maxent, Laclede and Company; settled 1764; chartered as city 1822. Busiest inland port on the Mississippi River; in early 1800s known as the "Gateway to the West." Manufacturing city (transportation equipment, automobile production); home of Anheuser-Busch, largest beer-producer in U.S. Name Origin: For Louis IX (1214-70), crusader king of France, canonized in 1297

Area (sq mi):: 66.15 (land 61.92; water 4.23) Population per square mile: 5561.40
Population 2005: 344,362 State rank: 3 Population change: 2000-20005 -1.10%; 1990-2000 -12.20% Population 2000: 348,189 (White 42.90%; Black or African American 51.20%; Hispanic or Latino 2.00%; Asian 2.00%; Other 3.00%). Foreign born: 5.60%. Median age: 33.70
Income 2000: per capita $16,108; median household $27,156; Population below poverty level: 24.60% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $24,685-$27,236
Unemployment (2004): 9.10% Unemployment change (from 2000): 0.90% Median travel time to work: 25.10 minutes Working outside county of residence: 41.40%

Cities with population over 10,000:

Saint Louis (343,279)

See other counties in Missouri.

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Oregon rolled off the next five points and when Saint Louis again got within 11 at 48-37, the Ducks scored the next seven points to pull away for a 74-57 win over the Billikens in the third round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday night at HP Pavilion.

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The Saint Louis that emerged from the canonization process was in part a product of that dispute over royal and papal leadership, but the representation of Saint Louis hardly ends there.

The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages

"Our 'student first' philosophy guides our academic, spiritual and extra-curricular experiences as the foundation for our students' success in their future," says Father Allen DeLong, Saint Louis School President.

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I imagine the title Saint Louis, Missouri, 5/31/75 was Shore's way of saying that Stanley Goodman represented Saint Louis, Missouri.

Positive I.D

She was on the faculty of the Saint Louis Conservatory and Schools for the Arts, now the Saint Louis Symphony Music School.

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Saint Louis de Montfort confirms that tradition, which has been upheld by the popes in different encyclicals through the centuries, until Paul VI, who, for the sake of exactitude, ceased to allude to it.

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The French company Saint Louis Sucre (Worms and Cie) has successfully completed negotiations on the takeover of the Silesian sugar holding Slaska Spolka Cukrowa (SSC), a combination of sixteen sugar producers, according to a representative of the French group quoted by the Polish media.

SAINT LOUIS SUCRE COMPLETES TAKEOVER OF POLISH HOLDING COMPANY, SSC