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unusual facts about Derby, Kansas



1925 Colored World Series

During the World Series, Kansas City's regular lineup consisted of Frank Duncan at catcher, Lemuel Hawkins at first base, Newt Allen at second, Newt Joseph at third, Dobie Moore at shortstop, Wade Johnston in left field, Hurley McNair in center, and George Sweatt in right.

2007 Kansas State Wildcats football team

Auburn quarterback Brandon Cox threw a touchdown pass to Gabe McKenzie with 2:01 remaining in the fourth quarter and Antonio Coleman returned a fumble for a score moments later to give No. 18 Auburn a 23-13 win over Kansas State.

2011 Kansas State Wildcats football team

Klein finished with 139 yards rushing and 74 yards passing, nearly becoming the first Kansas State quarterback since Allen Webb in 2004 to eclipse 100 yards in each category.

Abilene Network

The name Abilene was chosen because of the project's resemblance, in ambition and scope, to the railhead in Abilene, Kansas, which in the 1860s represented the frontier of the United States for the nation's railroad infrastructure.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Awsworth

Awsworth once had a station on the Great Northern (later LNER) line from Nottingham to Derby which crossed the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct, closed in September 1964.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 71

U.S. Route 71 Bypass (Kansas City) was the original name for a highway that connected Harrisonville, Missouri to just south of Platte City, Missouri, where it rejoined US 71 Highway near Kansas City International Airport.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Braille flag

Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, along with 16 others, co-sponsored a bill asking the 110th Congress to place the Braille flag as a monument to Americas' blinded veterans, blind service members, and other blind Americans at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Charles E. Kearney

He along with Kersey Coates and Robert T. Van Horn persuaded the railroad to build a cutoff of their line from Cameron, Missouri to Kansas City for the first bridge across the Missouri River which opened in 1869.

Daniel Biles

Biles was one of three candidates recommended by the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission to Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

Daniel D. Crabtree

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Crabtree to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to the seat vacated by Judge John Watson Lungstrum, who took senior status on November 2, 2010.

Dick Frahm

Herald Samuel Frahm (April 11, 1906 – October 19, 1977) was an American football halfback for the Staten Island Stapletons, the Boston Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the St. Louis/Kansas City Blues of the 1934 version of the American Football League.

Earl of Courtown

His youngest son Sir Lionel Stopford was a Colonel and Honorary Major-General in the Derby Regiment and Irish Guards.

Edward Buehler Delk

Among his most famous works were Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture buildings in the 1920s for Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols and Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips.

Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Six weeks after the first Lady Derby's death, at the age of 44 on 14 March 1797, he married the actress Elizabeth Farren, daughter of George Farren, on 1 May 1797.

FC Kansas City

On December 12, 2012, FC Kansas City announced that Vlatko Andonovski, a former professional player and head coach of the Kansas City Kings of the PASL and Missouri Olympic Development Program (ODP), would be head coach of the team.

Fokker F.10

On March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after a wing separated in flight, killing all eight on board, including football coach Knute Rockne.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

Humber derby

The most recent derby took place on 9 November 2013 with a 0-0 draw in the F.A. Cup First Round between Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United at Blundell Park, meaning a further meeting will take place in a replay at Glanford Park.

Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis was first discovered in 1870 by Benjamin Franklin Mudge, a professor from Kansas State Agricultural College who recovered the initial fossils from the North Fork of the Solomon River in Kansas, USA.

In the Spirit of Things

In the Spirit of Things is the 11th studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music).

Irene Bennett Brown

Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas and when she was nine years old, moved with her family from Kansas to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

Kansas City Journal-Post

The construction of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869 was to make Kansas City the dominant city in the region.

KCCC

KCCC-LP, a low-power radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Hays, Kansas, United States

Kevin Möhwald

He made his debut for the club in December 2011, as a substitute for Nils Pfingsten-Reddig in a Thuringia derby against Carl Zeiss Jena which Erfurt lost 1–0.

KICT

KICT-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Wichita, Kansas, United States

Killamarsh

The first was the North Midland Railway route from Derby to Leeds, later part of the Midland Railway and later still the LMS, whose station was Killamarsh West, located on the section known as the "Old Road": the original direct route between Chesterfield and Rotherham avoiding Sheffield.

L. William Zahner

William Zahner III (b. June 30, 1955, in Kansas City, Missouri) is the president and CEO of Zahner, an architectural metal company in Kansas City, Missouri.

Lee Tafanelli

Tafanelli joined the Kansas Army National Guard in 1980 and receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers through Army ROTC at Pittsburg State University in 1982.

Little Valley Speedway

The last of these is labeled the "Western New York Championship" and determines who represents the county in the Great New York State Fair derby.

Midland Mainline

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley Line (avoiding Derby) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, before heading west along the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester Piccadilly.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Milt Newton

During this time, he was a starting forward on Kansas' 1988 national championship team and joined teammate and Final Four Most Outstanding Player Danny Manning on the all tournament team.

Patricia McIlrath

McIlrath's desire to establish both a training ground for professional theatre artists in Kansas City, and a venue in the city at which audiences could attend professional theatre rivaling the caliber of that produced in New York City, corresponded with the work of numerous other well-known members of the Regional Theatre Movement, such as Margo Jones, Zelda Fichandler, Michael Murray, and Tyrone Guthrie.

Paul Randall Harrington

Harrington was born September 27, 1911 and educated in the Kansas City school system, from which he graduated in 1930, having been named one of the State of Kansas' 15 most outstanding high-school graduates.

Phipps Hornby

Hornby's sister Charlotte Margaret later married her cousin Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, and the close association between the Earls of Derby and the Hornby family would play a significant role in Phipps Hornby's career and politics.

Randall Terry

When Kansas obstetrician George Tiller was murdered while serving as an usher in his Wichita church on the morning of May 31, 2009, Terry immediately issued a statement critical of Tiller.

Richard Berkley

Richard L. Berkley (born 1931), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 1979–1991

Riverton, Kansas

The famous Rainbow Bridge, about two miles (3 km) west of town, was the site where in the year 2000, musician Brad Paisley performed the song (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 for the TLC (TV channel) special "Route 66: Main Street America".

Roller derby in Australia

To address this issue, in 2011, some roller derby enthusiasts worked on starting a new league as a student organisation at Australian National University.

Roy Lee Williams

However, Williams came under immediate suspicion for involvement with organized crime, particularly Kansas City Crime Boss Nicholas Civella.

Roy Nielsen

Operation Derby initially focused on black propaganda directed towards German soldiers, but they also issued the undercover magazine Fritt Land, and distributed the bi-weekly magazine Håndslag (produced in Sweden) and the monthly magazine Det frie Norge (from the Norwegian government in London).

Samuel Orace Dunn

He learned the printing trade after graduating from high school, was editor of the Quitman, (Mo.) Record (1895–96) and associate editor of the Maryville, (Mo.) Tribune (1896–1900); from 1900 to 1904 was a reporter, and later editorial writer, on the Kansas City Journal, and in 1904-07 was connected with the Chicago Tribune as railroad editor and editorial writer.

Selim Giray

Most recently, Dr. Giray performed Dvořák's violin concerto with the Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saëns, and Poème by Ernest Chausson with Hays Symphony Orchestra.

Sergio McClain

McClain's father, Wayne, coached Manual High School during its title run, and after Sergio graduated from Illinois, Wayne joined Bill Self's staff as an assistant coach, where he continued to work under Bruce Weber, eventually following Weber to Kansas State.

Transcontinental Air Transport

It initially offered a 48-hour train/plane trip with the first leg being on the Pennsylvania Railroad overnight from New York City to Columbus, Ohio, where passengers boarded a plane at Port Columbus International Airport that included stops in Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, and finally Waynoka, Oklahoma.

Trevor Peters

Trevor Deshawn Peters (born 19 March 1990) is an international footballer for the British Virgin Islands who plays as a striker for Virgin Gorda Ballstars and Cloud County Community College in Kansas.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.


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