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99 unusual facts about Kansas


2007 Kansas State Wildcats football team

The former walk-on from Riley, Kansas, moved into third-place in school history for career receiving yards with 2,418 and is just 39 yards from tying Michael Smith (1988–91) for second.

A Guest of Honor

During the tour, either in Springfield, Illinois, or Pittsburg, Kansas, someone associated with the company stole the box office receipts.

A. T. Hill

The site of the Pike flag incident was thought to be the Pawnee Indian Village Site near Republic, Kansas.

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.

Apatornis

The type specimen of A. celer, YPM 1451, was reportedly discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh in October of 1872 at Butte Creek in Logan County, Kansas.

Aquila, Inc.

Aquila has its roots in the Solomon Valley Milling Company founded in 1902 by Lemuel K. Green in Osborne, Kansas.

Before Our Hearts Explode!

Before Our Hearts Explode! is the second album by Lawrence, Kansas-based band, Fourth of July.

Blue Valley North High School

Blue Valley North High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Overland Park, Kansas, serving students in grades 9-12.

Blue Valley West High School

Blue Valley West High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Overland Park, Kansas, and one of five currently operated high schools in the Blue Valley Unified School District.

Bobby Adams

But Adams’ six-year tenure in Tacoma ended after the 1971 season, when Chicago moved its Triple-A affiliate to Wichita, Kansas.

California Trail Middle School

California Trail Middle School is located in Olathe, Kansas, one of nine middle schools in the Olathe Public Schools Unified School District (USD) 233.

Calvin Company

It was the child of Forrest ("F. O.") Calvin, a kid from Pleasanton, Kansas, who studied journalism and advertising at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s.

Camp Onway

As the story goes, he died while packing his car to go to Lawrence, Kansas with the Order of the Arrow (OA).

Campus High School

Campus High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Wichita, Kansas, serving students in grades 9-12.

Catharine, Kansas

Catharine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Catherine Township, Ellis County, Kansas, United States.

Centre High School

Centre High School is located 5 miles south of Lost Springs and 2 miles north of Lincolnville along U.S. Highway 77 in Kansas.

Chanute High School

Chanute High School is a public secondary school in Chanute, Kansas.

Chris Burnett Quartet

The Chris Burnett Quartet debuted with a performance on the main stage of the Roots Festival at Paola, Kansas in 2002.

Clarence R. Huebner

A farm boy from Bushton, Kansas, who spent almost seven years serving from private to sergeant in the 18th Infantry, Huebner received a regular commission in November 1916.

Colman Andrews

His father, Charles Robert Hardy Douglas Andrews, born in Effingham, Kansas, was a newspaperman, pioneering radio soap opera writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

Dakotasuchus

The type specimen was found in an iron-cemented sandstone concretion near Salina.

Dark territory

The Union Pacific Railroad uses dark territory on the Sharon Springs Subdivision in western Kansas, the Lost Springs Subdivision between Herington, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas, the Brownsville Subdivision in south Texas, as well as on several under-used lines in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Darrel Ray

Ray was raised a fundamentalist Christian in Wichita, Kansas, by parents who eventually became missionaries, and among family members highly involved in church life.

Dave Dallas

Dave Dallas was the 25th head football coach for the Ottawa University Braves located in Ottawa, Kansas and he held that position for eight seasons, from 1989 until 1996.

David Browning

On March 13, 1956, he was on a training flight in an AFJS Fury jet carrier fighter when the plane crashed near Rantoul, Kansas, killing Browning.

David Mackie

David Charles Mackie (January 1, 1836-August 9, 1910) a founder and builder of Scammon, Kansas.

David Sutherland Hibbard

After graduating from Princeton in 1896, Hibbard served as a pastor at a local church in Lyndon, Kansas for three years.

Defiance, Missouri

Because there was already a Parsons, Kansas on the Katy line, settlers considered other names, including Missouriton and Bluff City, before deciding on Defiance because of the hamlet's defiance of rival Matson, Missouri to get a station on the line.

Durham School of the Arts

Ten members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church came from Topeka, Kansas to protest the show, the actors, and director, Douglas J. Graves.

Edward A. Clampitt

He was survived by his parents, living in Los Angeles, and his wife, Margaret M. Clampitt, and two daughters, Leah and Barbara, as well as a brother, L.A. Clampitt of San Fernando, and two sisters, Mrs. A.P. McBride of Independence, Kansas, and Mrs. R. Raskin of Los Angeles.

EMD E6

One was operated by the Midland Railway, in Baldwin City, Kansas but has since been sold and may become part of a future museum in Manly, Iowa or possibly be restored to operation.

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

The names of Flyboys were Jimmy Dye from Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, Floyd Hall from Sedalia, Missouri, Marve Mershon from Los Angeles, California, Warren Earl Vaughn from Childress, Texas, Dick Woellhof from Clay Center, Kansas Grady York from Jacksonville, Florida, Glenn Frazier from Athol, Kansas, and the Unidentified Airman, who was revealed to Bradley as Warren Hindenlang of Foxboro, Massachusetts after the publication of the hardcover edition.

Fourth of July on the Plains

Fourth of July on the Plains is the debut album by Lawrence, Kansas-based band, Fourth of July.

Francis Paul Prucha

Prucha joined the Society of Jesus in 1950 and was ordained in 1957 after studying at Saint Louis University and Saint Mary's College in St. Marys, Kansas.

Gardner Edgerton High School

Gardner Edgerton High School (commonly called GE or GEHS), is a public high school in Gardner, Kansas.

George A. Crawford

In 1857, along with Norman Eddy and others, he purchased and founded the city of Fort Scott, Kansas.

George T. Anthony

During Anthony's term, he was the first Kansas governor to read his message to the state legislature, the state's first telephone was installed, the town of Anthony, Kansas was named for him, and the Last Indian Raid in the state occurred near Fort Dodge.

Gray County Wind Farm

Gray County Wind Farm near Montezuma, Kansas is the largest wind farm in Kansas and the largest in the United States not mandated by a state regulatory commission.

Great Bend High School

Great Bend High School is a public high school located in Great Bend, Kansas, serving students in grades 9-12.

Greg Pryor

In 1995, he founded Life Priority, a nutritional supplements company, in Lenexa, Kansas.

I See Stars

On August 30 2013, all members were arrested in Saline County, Kansas for possessing and intending to use "hallucinogenic drugs", though it was not specified which drugs.

Isaiah Rider

Rider attended two junior colleges, Allen County Community College in Iola, Kansas, where he averaged just over 30 points per game; and Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California (33 points per game), before finding a home at UNLV.

James Fegan

In March 1868, he was assigned to escort a mule train carrying gunpowder from Fort Harker to Fort Dodge, Kansas.

Jonathan Quinn

Quinn is the current head college football coach for the MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers located in Olathe, Kansas.

Joseph L. Bristow

He edited several newspapers in Salina, Kansas before serving as a private secretary to Governor Edmund Morrill.

Kansas City Christian School

Kansas City Christian School is an independent Christian school located in Prairie Village, Kansas.

Kansas Democratic caucuses, 2008

Clinton only carried three counties in the state - Franklin, Linn and Miami (both Miami and Linn are situated along the state's border with Missouri where Clinton did far better).

Keith Loneker

When Loneker isn’t auditioning for movie roles, he is a substitute teacher at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas.

Ken Swenson

Kenneth ("Ken") Lloyd Swenson (born April 18, 1948 in Clay Center, Kansas) is a retired middle distance runner from the United States, who represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

KKAN

KKAN-FM, a defunct radio station (95.3 FM) formerly licensed to serve Phillipsburg, Kansas

KSNK

It is the only KSNW satellite to be licensed outside of Kansas and also outside of the Wichita market, although it covers the general Oberlin/Colby/Goodland area as well.

KYUU

KSMM (AM), a radio station (1470 AM) licensed to Liberal, Kansas, United States, which used the call sign KYUU from October 1988 to February 2008

Laura Lorson

Laura Lorson is public radio producer and host residing in Perry, Kansas.

Leloup

LeLoup, Kansas, unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kansas, United States

Lewis William Walt

Lewis William Walt was born on February 16, 1913, in Wabaunsee County, Kansas.

Mabee Arena

Mabee Arena is a 1,500-seat indoor arena in Salina, Kansas.

Mark D. Miller

Mark was born in Scranton, Kansas, the son of Amos B. Miller and Mary Martindale Miller.

Mary Monnett Bain

Mary Monnett Bain (born Mary Monnett) (September 21, 1833, Ohio - July 30, 1885, Osawatomie, Miami County, Kansas), following her mother's death, came into a very large sum of money.

Masterworks Chorale

by Galen Marshall (born 1934 in Greensburg, Kansas), and currently conducted by Dr. Bryan Baker, the mixed chorus presently consists of 90 members, and performs a wide variety of music from the Renaissance and Baroque to modern masterpieces.

Matt Fulks

Fulks, a native of Overland Park, Kansas, lives in the Kansas City area with his wife and three kids.

Mike Redwine

Redwine was the head coach for the MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers located in Olathe, Kansas.

Mike Schreiner

Born in WaKeeney, Kansas on June 9, 1969, Schreiner grew up as a farm-kid, helping his parents.

Monte Robbins

From 2002 to 2010, he was the president and chief executive officer of CapWest Mortgage Corporation in Overland Park, Kansas.

Nathan Leeper

Nathan Leeper (born June 13, 1977 in Greensburg, Kansas) is a retired American high jumper.

Never Picture Perfect

Recorded = 1989
OmniSound Recording Studio
(Nashville, Tennessee)
Big Dog Studio
(Wichita, Kansas)
The Pond
(Franklin, Tennessee

Nicole Ohlde

Nicole Katherine Ohlde (born March 13, 1982 in Clay Center, Kansas) is an American professional basketball player.

Olathe North High School

Olathe North is the oldest of four high schools in Olathe, Kansas.

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.

Peabody-Burns Junior/Senior High School

The Burns Grade School, which included a junior high, was closed in Burns, Kansas.

Pensacola, Oklahoma

The Union Army commandeered Pensacola as a supply station between Fort Scott, Kansas and Fort Gibson, I. T. during the Civil War.

Piano Technicians Guild

The Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) is an American organization for Registered Piano Technicians, headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas.

Prairie Trail Middle School

Prairie Trail is one of the nine middle schools in Olathe, Kansas.

Ralph W. Beiting

He received the Meeker Award from Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1997; and the Lincoln Award from Northern Kentucky University in 1998, which said, "This award represents a commitment to service, fidelity to noble causes and sense of turning challenges into opportunities."

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.

Red Hills, Kansas

The Red Hills is the name of a physiographic region located mostly in Clark, Comanche and Barber counties in southern and central Kansas.

Right Between the Ears

Beginning the late 1980s, however, full-length radio plays were de-emphasized in favor of Saturday Night Live-style comedy sketches, and by 1990 the show became an all-comedy offering, broadcast regularly over KANU-FM, the NPR station licensed to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Sandra Myers

Sandra Myers (born 9 January 1961 in Little River, Kansas) is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States.

Scott J. Jones

She is the President of Reece Construction Company, with offices in Scandia, Kansas; Salina, Kansas; and Prosper, Texas.

Sennett and Bertha Kirk House

A long-time friend Manford Schoonover wrote in Kirk's obituary, "there are a score or more of men in Anderson County who owe their start in life to his help financially, and by council and friendship."

Shawnee Mission North High School

The SM North area has a population of approximately 52,000 and includes the communities of Merriam, Mission, northern Overland Park, Roeland Park, Countryside and Eastern Shawnee.

Shirley Opera House

The Shirley Opera House, located at 503 Main St. in Atwood, Kansas, was built in 1907.

Shuvel

Original members Jeff Hollinger (vocals), Isaac Ayala (vocals) and Kyle Hollinger (drums) formed the band in 1997 in Wichita, Kansas.

Southeast of Saline Secondary School

The school's enrollment is approximately 700 students from the communities of Gypsum, Assaria, Kipp, and Mentor.

Sri Srinivasan

His family, including two younger sisters, migrated in the late 1960s to Lawrence, Kansas.

St. Marys High School

Marys High School is a fully accredited public high school located in St. Marys, Kansas, serving students in grades 9–12.

Stephen Carls

Carls began teaching at Union University in 1983, and prior to that, taught at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas for twelve years.

Stoneburg, Texas

The town developed after the construction of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Texas Railway between Fort Worth, Texas and Salina, Kansas in 1893.

Streptozotocin

The soil sample in which the microbe turned up had been taken from Blue Rapids, Kansas, which can therefore be considered the birthplace of streptozotocin.

Turner Communications Group

On December 17, 1976 at 1:00PM, WTCG Channel 17's signal was beamed via satellite to its four cable systems in Grand Island, Nebraska; Newport News, Virginia; Troy, Alabama; and Newton, Kansas.

Ubuntu User

Linux New Media is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices of its US subsidiary, Linux New Media USA, LLC, in Lawrence, Kansas.

University of Kansas School of Business

The Anderson W. Chandler Lecture Series began in 1997 and is made possible by alumnus Anderson Chandler, CEO, president and director of Fidelity State Bank and Trust Co. in Topeka, Kansas.

Valley Heights Jr/Sr High School

Valley Heights Jr/Sr High School was built shortly after the formation of the Valley Heights Public School District in 1966, which serves the communities of Blue Rapids and Waterville, Kansas.

Ventria Bioscience

On September 29, 2006, Kansas officials announced an agreement to bring Ventria’s new bioprocessing facility to Junction City, Kansas.

Vernon Schmid

Vernon Schmid (born July 31, 1934 in Parsons, Kansas) is a poet, journalist, educator, clergyman, and syndicated columnist.

Victor Papanek

Victor Papanek (22 November 1923, Vienna – 10 January 1998, Lawrence, Kansas) was a designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures.

Wann, Oklahoma

The town was a station on the stage route between Coffeyville, Kansas and Bartlesville, Indian Territory.

William B. Ault

On 5 August 1939, less than a month before the start of World War II in Poland, Ault assumed command of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas, a billet in which he served into 1941.

William H. Tebbs

However, not long afterward the decision was made to name Oskaloosa as the county seat.


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.

Alamsyah Ratu Perwiranegara

After Indonesian independence August 17, 1945, Alamsjah sent to India to follow the military science education at the Senior Officer Course at Mhow and then continued his education at the General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

Ande Parks

The book details the time Truman Capote spent in Kansas while he worked on his literary masterpiece, In Cold Blood.

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.

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.

Chief Parker

On the long-running Smallville television series, the Kansas town is identified as part of the fictitious Lowell County, and law enforcement is overseen by the County Sheriff — first Ethan Miller (Mitchell Kosterman) and later Nancy Adams (Camille Mitchell).

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.

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.

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

Howard K. Gloyd

The Kansas Herpetological Society grants an annual scholarship named for Howard K. Gloyd and Edward Harrison Taylor.

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.

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

KCIU

KCIU-LP, a low-power radio station (103.7 FM) licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, United States

KICT

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

KSDP

The Kansas Democratic Party, the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas

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.

Max Falkenstien

This game was also held on Kansas' senior night, which honored senior players Christian Moody, Jeff Hawkins, Moulaye Niang, and Stephen Vinson in a post-game ceremony.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

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.

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".

Roy Lee Williams

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

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.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Thomas E. Gaddis

Birdman of Alcatraz was the story of Robert Stroud, the grandson of a Federal judge, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement after stabbing a guard to death in Leavenworth Federal prison in Kansas.

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.

United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, 2010

Freshman incumbent Republican Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, who was initially sent to Congress after defeating previous Congresswoman Nancy Boyda in 2008, was the only member of the Kansas congressional delegation to seek re-election this cycle.

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.