Kansas

Kansas Kansas has many state parks and the popular place is the monument rocks and the castle rocks. The monument rocks and the castle rocks have fossils in ancient chalks in plain western Kansas which is a spectacular landmark. The chalk was deposited during the Cretaceous period of geological history about 80 million years ago, when the central interior was covered by sea. The fossils were like shark teeth, fish bones, even dinosaur bones, and other sea creatures. The fossils in the chalk

Kansas: Beneath the Surface Kansas is home to many interesting places and things, like the world’s largest ball of twine in Cawker City, or S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden in Lucas. What if I told you that some of Kansas’s most interesting attractions are located just beneath your shoes. Don’t believe me? Check out these six unique places located below the Kansas prairies. 1. Strataca - Hutchinson Since the Permian Wellington Formation was first tapped into in 1887, the salt industry in Hutchinson

artist that grew up on a farm in Kansas. John was influenced by nature and made wildly known artwork out of it. While living at the farm he was inspired for his painting “Kansas Cornfield”. This oil on canvas was completed in 1933 and now hangs in the Wichita Art Museum. This painting was one of the first artworks acquired by the Wichita Art Museum. The time on the piece gives the sense of John Curry’s Kansas has not changed. Like every piece of art, the painting “Kansas Cornfield” has meaning behind

Essay 15 November, 2016 Home Is Where The Heart Is I will forever remember my fourth grade choir class. We went to the Kansas State Capitol and sang "Home on the Range" for the Senators, Represenatatives, and anyone who happened to be passing by. These infamous words of Brewster Higley stick out in my mind when I read our writing prompt; what are the benefits of living in rural Kansas? What are the benefits of living on See if you can use a synonym to seemingly increase your vocabulary our Home on

Living in Southwest Kansas there is always a need for water no matter what it is for. The importance of water in Kansas is getting dramatic due to the Ogallala Aquifer shrinking in size on a daily basis. There are thousands of things that can possibly go wrong because of our diminishing water supply. The impact that water has on our town is significant, hundreds of possible predicaments can occur because we would no longer have the aquifer, however, there are many ways we can prolong our water supply

The move to Fort Scott, Kansas was one of the weirds days of my life so I thought. You see, I had never in my whole life been outside of the Kansas City area until I was forced to leave my grandparent’s home. Kansas City was the only place that I knew. The sounds of police cars going up and down the streets all night with sirens. To the waking in the middle of the night with red and blue lights flashing though the curtains and every now and then to the sound of gun shots or even the smell of BBQ

what the rest of the country thinks, the state of Kansas is a very diverse state. Each town and county has a multitude of factors that directly affect the overall population of that town and county. In eastern Kansas there are quite a few large towns and cities that are interconnected together by the U.S. interstate system. In fact all ten of the largest cites in Kansas are in the eastern half of the state. This is not the case in western Kansas, were there are a lot of small town that are connected

While the events in Kansas spurred debates in Congress and in many ways added to the growing divide between North and South, the violence did not spread outside of Kansas and there were no large scale battles between proslavery and antislavery groups. Much of the credit for the maintenance of relative law and order is owed to the United States Army. The Army acted as a peace keeping force between the two opposing political factions, often called in by the Governor to assist in disbanding militias

In 1980 the Kansas City Hyatt-Regency Hotel opened, with the main attraction being the atrium bridged by 3 walkways on the second, third, and fourth floors which were suspended from the hotel lobby roof. These three walkways stretched a distance of 37 meters and were suspended from the atrium’s roof by 32 millimetre diameter rods (Delatte, 2009). On 17 July 1981, just over a year after the opening during a dance, two of the walkways collapsed killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others (Delatte

Kansas is widely known for its vast open plains and big, dramatic sunsets that captivate people’s attention for tens of thousands of miles. Kansas is also known for its great variability in temperatures throughout its seasons. There are a fair amount of rain, snow and wind throughout the state, corresponding to the seasons but the continental climate occasionally produces varying temperature changes (Travelks). Three years ago, what I thought was only supposed to be any other November night, turned