St. Louis
About St. Louis
St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while its metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million. It is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the second-largest in Illinois. The city's combined statistical area is the 20th-largest in the United States.
On the show — 16 mentions total
The last time golf was in the Olympics before this was in 1904. It was at St. Louis, and there were 77 players, 74 of them were American, and three of them were Canadian, and a Canadian won.
from No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill, 2016-08-26 at 00:15:52 · read transcript
Other times St. Louis came up
Because this is bullshit he just landed well the stuff in the air was useless it was a very interesting Olympics it was only 12 countries competed in the 1904 Olympics and it largely was because no one wanted to go to St. Louis they just thought it's too far away it's inaccessible so but the Americans said okay well we'll just put more people in so 81% of the people who competed in the 1904 Olympics were Americans so there were 630 athletes in.
280: No Such Thing As A Permanently Latvian Bear, 2019-08-02 · listen
Another thing is, it's not a great spectator spot, is it? It got called competitive floating. It's the least... spectatory sport imaginable. It happened once in St. Louis in 1904. And there were lots of reviews at the time, which were pretty negative. People said the competitors merely throw themselves heavily in the water and float along like icebergs in the shipping lanes. This was in St. Louis in 1904.
No Such Thing As A Permanently Latvian Bear, 2019-08-02 · listen
His family came from Scotland and from the north of England. His mum was born in Carlisle. He visited the Lake District for the first time in 1896. He went there five times altogether. He was a cycling fanatic. A lot of people say he was the first person in the state of North Carolina to get on a bike. He used to do that.
128: No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill, 2016-08-26 · listen
In that same race there was a Cuban postman called Andarin Carval and he arrived at the last minute and he'd lost all of his money in New Orleans so he had to hitchhike to St. Louis and he'd hardly eaten anything so he stopped off at an orchard on route to have a snack on some apples which turned out to be rotten and so despite having strong stomach cramps throughout the whole of the race he.
No Such Thing As An Interesting Riddle, 2018-07-13 · listen
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No Such Thing As A Million Dollar Bill put 2 places on the map.
- Lake Geneva · France
Coordinates: 38.6272, -90.1978