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neděle 29. března 2015

USA(Missouri) - St.Louis

Official seal of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis  is a city and port in the U.S. state of Missouri. The city developed along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which forms Missouri's border with Illinois. In 2010St. Louis was founded in 1764 by Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau and named after Louis IX of France
Busch Stadium (also referred to informally as "New Busch Stadium" or "Busch Stadium III") is the home of the St. Louis Cardinals, of MLB.
OwnerSt. Louis National Baseball Club Inc.
OperatorSt. Louis National Baseball Club Inc.[1]
Capacity43,975
46,861 (with standing 
SurfaceKentucky Bluegrass
Construction
Broke groundJanuary 17, 2004; 11 years ago
OpenedApril 4, 2006; 8 years ago (MLB exhibition)
April 10, 2006; 8 years ago(MLB)
Construction cost$365 million
($427 million in 2015 dollars[7])
ArchitectPopulous
HOK
Kennedy Associates/Architects Inc.
Project managerClayco Corp.
Structural engineerBliss & Nyitray, Inc
Services engineerM-E Engineers, Inc.
General contractorHunt/Kwame



A bronze statue of baseball Stan Musial outside of Busch Stadium, St. Louis

středa 20. srpna 2014

USA(Missouri) - Columbia

City seal
Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city of 115,276 people in the U.S. state of Missouri. Founded in 1818 as the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, the fourth most populous urban area in Missouri. The city is near the Missouri River between the Ozark Plateau and the Northern Plains.
The Sanford F. Conley House in Columbia, Missouri is an ornate nineteenth century residence in the Italianate architectural style. Built in 1868 as a residence for the Conley family the house was near the University of Missouri campus. After being added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 the house was purchased by the university and houses the school's "excellence in teaching" program

Built1868
ArchitectUnknown
Architectural styleItalianate

USA(Missouri) - Kansas City

Official seal of Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City or K.C. is a city of 464,310 people, making it the largest municipality in the U.S. state of MissouriMuch of urban Kansas City sits atop bluffs overlooking the rivers and river bottoms areas. Kansas City proper is bowl-shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by limestone and bedrock cliffs that were carved byglaciers. Kansas City is situated at the junction between the Dakota and Minnesota ice lobes during the maximum late Independence glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch. The Kansas and Missouri rivers cut wide valleys into the terrain when the glaciers melted and drained. A partially filled spillway valley crosses the central portion of Kansas City, Missouri. This valley is an eastward continuation of Turkey Creek valley. It is the closest major city to the geographic centre of the contiguous United States, or "Lower 48".
View from Kansas City.













The original design by William Morris for the initial word "Aprochen", used in the Kelmscott Press edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896). The design carries a note to the wood-engraver C.E.Keates and appears at the beginning of Book 5, page 535, of Troilus and Criseyde.












Stadiums in Kansas City