American pianist and composer known for his ragtime works, including "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899) and the opera Treemonisha (1911). |
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A city of southwest Missouri near the Kansas border west of Springfield. It grew in the 1800s as a center of lead and zinc mining. |
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