Michael Phelps

In April 11, 2005 Phelps was a guest judge in the Miss USA beauty pageant. 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. Phelps cannot swim for the team, however, because his endorsement deal with Speedo has caused him to forfeit his amateur status. The University of Missouri is Missouri's statewide public university system, having campuses in Saint Louis, Kansas City, Columbia and Rolla. Phelps is also serving as a volunteer assistant coach and is taking classes, intending to major in sports marketing or sports management. 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. Phelps is following his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, who left Phelps' previous swim team to become the head swimming coach of the University of Michigan varsity swim team. (see [1] (http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/6d7ce/515/) and [2] (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.asp)).

As of 2005, Phelps is attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. People from Missouri have a reputation for being skeptical. He was also fined $250, required to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting, and to give speeches to students at three high schools by June 1, 2005. There is an idiom "being from Missouri" which relates to the state's unofficial slogan: "show me" (which even appears on their license plates). On December 29, 2004, Phelps was sentenced to 18 months of probation. Springfield is the headquarters of the Assemblies of God. Phelps pled guilty to driving while impaired, avoiding charges of driving under the influence, underage drinking and failure to stop at a stop sign. 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.

His specific blood alcohol content was not released because of police policy, although in the state of Maryland, the legal limit is .08. Kansas City is the headquarters for the Church of the Nazarene. Phelps, who was 19 at the time (21 is the legal drinking age in the U.S.), was arrested and cited for driving under the influence of alcohol. Louis. On November 4, 2004, Phelps was arrested in Salisbury, Maryland for driving under the influence after being pulled over for running a stop sign in his 2005 Land Rover with two friends. A number of religious organizations have their headquearters in Missouri, including the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, which has its headquarters in Kirkwood, outside St. Phelps graduated Towson High School in the Spring of 2004. Louis.

See also: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Approximately 1 out of 5 Missourians are Roman Catholics; many of those live in central Missouri as well as around Kansas City and St. NBC Olympic coverage of the 2004 games always showed him listening to his iPod with Bose headphones before competing. Baptists, Methodists, and Lutherans account for most of those belonging to the Protestant faiths. This gave Phelps an automatic entry into the medley relay, but as he was exhausted from the many races he had competed in over the preceding week, he gave up the butterfly leg to Crocker. The American medley team went on to win the event in world record time, and since he had raced in a preliminary heat of the medley relay, Phelps was also awarded a gold medal along with the team members that competed in the final. Two-thirds of Missourians are Protestants. Traditionally, the olympian who places highest in a individual event will be automatically given the corresponding leg of the 4x100m medley relay. The religious affiliaitions of the people of Missouri are:.

On August 20, in the 100m butterfly final, Phelps defeated American teammate Ian Crocker (who holds the world record in the event) by just 0.04 seconds. There were 11.7% (637,891) Missourians living below the poverty line in 1999. On August 14, 2004, he won his first Olympic gold, in the 400m individual medley, setting another new world record (4:08.26). The median household money income for 1999 was $37,934 with the 1999 Per Capita Money Income of $19,936. The episode only made it yet more clear that Phelps's participation in at least some of the relay events would depend solely on his performance in the individual events. There were 2,194,594 househoulds with 2.48 people per household. They claimed that Phelps is not a top swimmer in the event and his presence could compromise the US team's performance in the name of what was called a "media circus" for Phelps to win eight gold medals. The homeownership rate in 2000 was 70.3% with the mean value of the owner occupied dwelling being $89,900.

4x100m freestyle team, publicly criticized the possibility of allowing Phelps to swim in the event. The mean commute time to work was 23.8 minutes. and Jason Lezak, both of whom were aiming to be on the U.S. 81.3% were high school graduates (higher than the national average) while 21.6% had a bachelor's degree or higher. Only a few days before the beginning of the swimming competition in Athens 2004, however, Gary Hall Jr. The 1997 birth and death rates were:. Had he won seven golds, he would have been eligible for a US $1 million bonus from his sponsor, Speedo. 2.7% of Missourians are foreign-born, and 5.1% speak a language other than English at home.

However, he did win eight medals in one Olympics, a feat only achieved by Aleksandr Dityatin, a gymnast, in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Females made up approximately 51.4% of the population. As his 4x100m freestyle relay team only won a bronze medal, and he personally placed for bronze in the 200m freestyle, he fell just short of that record. 6.6% of its population were reported as under 5, 25.5% under 18, and 13.5% were 65 or older. Phelps had the chance to break that record in 2004 by competing in eight swimming events: the 200m freestyle, the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly, the 100m backstroke, the 200m backstroke, the 200m individual medley, the 400m individual medley, the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay. The five largest ancestry groups in Missouri are: German (23.5%), Irish (12.7%), American (10.5%), English (9.5%), French (3.5%). Phelps' dominance brought comparisons to Puerto Rican-American swimmer, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record. The racial makeup of the state is:.

He won the 2003 Sullivan Award. Major cities include Saint Louis and Kansas City. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics. As of 2003, the population of Missouri was 5,704,484. Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. Tourism, services and wholesale/retail trade follow manufacturing in importance. In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:09.09) and in June, he broke the world record in the 200m individual medley (1:56.04). 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.

At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Phelps also broke the world record for the 400m individual medley and set American marks in the 100m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. Other minerals mined are lead, coal, portland cement and crushed stone. Five months after Sydney, Phelps broke the world record in the 200m butterfly and then broke his own record again at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (1:54.58). Missouri has vast quantities of limestone. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. As of 2001, there were 108,000 farms, the second largest number in any state after Texas. Michael Phelps appeared at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years at the age of 15. Missouri is ranked 6th in the nation for the production of hogs and 7th for cattle.

Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and world-record holder (as of 2004). 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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