Famke Janssen

She is best known for her roles in Lord of Illusions, Rounders, X-Men, Deep Rising and X2. Additionally, Missouri has several regional public universities in different parts of the state, the largest being Missouri State University (after heated political debate in Jefferson City, the name was changed from Southwest Missouri State University in spring 2005) having the second largest student enrollment after University of Missouri-Columbia. Soon after, she appeared in the first Pierce Brosnan James Bond film GoldenEye making an impression on the cinema world as Xenia Onatopp. The University of Missouri is Missouri's statewide public university system, having campuses in Saint Louis, Kansas City, Columbia and Rolla. After studying stagecraft at Columbia University she moved to Los Angeles where she appeared in guest roles on TV series (such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Melrose Place). Missouri's public school system includes kindergarten to 12^th grade and requires all children between the ages of 7-16 inclusive to be enrolled in a school. in 1984 she began her professional career as a model and worked for Yves Saint Laurent. (see [1] (http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/6d7ce/515/) and [2] (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.asp)).

When she moved to the U.S. People from Missouri have a reputation for being skeptical. Janssen was born in Amsterdam. There is an idiom "being from Missouri" which relates to the state's unofficial slogan: "show me" (which even appears on their license plates). Famke Janssen (born November 5, 1965) is a Dutch actress. Springfield is the headquarters of the Assemblies of God. X-Men 3 (2006) - Jean Grey/Phoenix. Independence, outside of Kansas City, is the headquarters for the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), and the Latter Day Saints group Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Hide and Seek (2005) - Katherine Carson. Kansas City is the headquarters for the Church of the Nazarene. Eulogy (2004) - Judy. Louis. X2 (2003) - Jean Grey. A number of religious organizations have their headquearters in Missouri, including the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, which has its headquarters in Kirkwood, outside St. I Spy (2002) - Special Agent Rachel Wright. Louis.

Don't Say a Word (2001) - Aggie Conrad. Approximately 1 out of 5 Missourians are Roman Catholics; many of those live in central Missouri as well as around Kansas City and St. Made (2001) - Jessica. Baptists, Methodists, and Lutherans account for most of those belonging to the Protestant faiths. Jean Grey. Two-thirds of Missourians are Protestants. X-Men (2000) - Dr. The religious affiliaitions of the people of Missouri are:.

Circus (2000) - Lily. There were 11.7% (637,891) Missourians living below the poverty line in 1999. Love & Sex (2000) - Kate Welles. The median household money income for 1999 was $37,934 with the 1999 Per Capita Money Income of $19,936. House on Haunted Hill (1999) - Evelyn Stockard-Price. There were 2,194,594 househoulds with 2.48 people per household. Faculty, The (1998) - Miss Elizabeth Burke. The homeownership rate in 2000 was 70.3% with the mean value of the owner occupied dwelling being $89,900.

Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The (1998) - Fiona. The mean commute time to work was 23.8 minutes. Rounders (1998) - Petra. 81.3% were high school graduates (higher than the national average) while 21.6% had a bachelor's degree or higher. Celebrity (1998) - Bonnie. The 1997 birth and death rates were:. RPM (1998) - Claudia Haggs. 2.7% of Missourians are foreign-born, and 5.1% speak a language other than English at home.

James. Females made up approximately 51.4% of the population. Deep Rising (1998) - Trillian St. 6.6% of its population were reported as under 5, 25.5% under 18, and 13.5% were 65 or older. Gingerbread Man, The (1998) - Leeanne. The five largest ancestry groups in Missouri are: German (23.5%), Irish (12.7%), American (10.5%), English (9.5%), French (3.5%). Monument Ave. (1998) - Katy (known internationally as Snitch). The racial makeup of the state is:.

City of Industry (1997) - Rachel Montana. Major cities include Saint Louis and Kansas City. Dead Girl (1996) - Treasure. As of 2003, the population of Missouri was 5,704,484. GoldenEye (1995) - Xenia Onatopp. Tourism, services and wholesale/retail trade follow manufacturing in importance. Lord of Illusions (1995) - Dorothea Swann. Missouri produces the most lead of all of the states in the Union with most of these mines in the central eastern portion of the state. Missouri also ranks first or near first among the production of lime.

Sara Lee Jaffee. Other minerals mined are lead, coal, portland cement and crushed stone. Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes (1994) - Dr. Missouri has vast quantities of limestone. Fathers & Sons (1992) - Kyle Christian. As of 2001, there were 108,000 farms, the second largest number in any state after Texas. Missouri is ranked 6th in the nation for the production of hogs and 7th for cattle.

The agriculture products of the state are beef, soybeans, pork, dairy products, hay, corn, poultry, and eggs. Major industries include aerospace, transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals, printing/publishing, electrical equipment, light manufacturing. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Missouri's total state product in 2003 was $195 billion. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $29,464, 27^th in the nation. For example, Mark Twain, who grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, in Life on the Mississippi described his upbringing as in "the South".

Although now generally considered part of the Midwest, Missouri was once thought of as Southern. The Bootheel area was the focus of the great New Madrid Earthquake of 1811 - 1812. It is here that one finds cotton and rice production. It is also the most fertile.

This region is the lowest, flattest and wettest part of the state. The southeastern part of the state is home to the Bootheel, part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain or Mississippi embayment. Francois Mountains. Southern Missouri is the home of the Ozark mountains, a dissected plateau surrounding the Precambrian igneous St.

Springfield, Missouri in southwestern Missouri lies on the Ozark plateau. Oklahoma. E. Kansas, and N.

E. The Ozark plateau begins south of the river and extends into Arkansas, S. Here, gentle rolling hills remain behind from a glacier that once had extended from the north to the Missouri River. North of the Missouri River lie the northern plains that stretch into Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.

Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee; on the south by Arkansas; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the latter two across the Missouri River.). Main Article: Geography of Missouri
. The executive branch is headed by the Governor. Superior and inferior courts are also provided.

The Judicial department consists of a supreme court consisting of 7 judges. The Senate consists of 34 members from districts divided such that the population of each district is approximately equal. The House of Representatives has 163 members that are apportioned based on the last decennial census. These bodies comprise the General Assembly of the State of Missouri.

The legislative branch consists of two bodies, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The current constitution of Missouri, the fourth constitution for the state, was adopted in 1945 and provides for three branches of government, the legislative, judicial and executive branches. House of Representatives. Missouri has nine seats in the U.S.

Talent (Republican). "Kit" Bond (Republican) and James M. senators are Christopher S. Missouri's two U.S.

The capital of Missouri is Jefferson City and the current governor of the state is Matt Blunt (Republican). Main Article: Law and Government of Missouri
See: List of Missouri Governors. Missouri was the starting point for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the Civil War, Missouri, a slave state, was split with portions adhering to the Union, and others seceding with the southern states.

It earned the nickname "Gateway to the West" because it served as a departure point for settlers heading to the west. Originally part of the Louisiana Purchase, Missouri was admitted as a state in 1821 as part of the Missouri Compromise. Main Article: History of Missouri. USS Missouri was named in honor of this state.

The Mississippi and Missouri rivers are the two large rivers which flow through this state. Post Office abbreviation for Missouri is MO and the state public university's main branch is located in Columbia. The state's nickname is the Show-Me (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.asp) State; the U.S. Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning "canoe", is a Midwestern state of the United States with Jefferson City as its capital.

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