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  2. Paleontology in Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 189–190 Ten years later, in 1877, a scout and rancher named Captain James H. Cook discovered a Miocene bone bed in Sioux County now known as the Agate Springs Quarries or Agate Bone Beds. These rich deposits are so dense with bones that a single forty foot slab of sandstone preserved more than 4,300 bones from at least 1,700 individual ...

  3. Ashfall Fossil Beds - Wikipedia

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    Bite-marks on some bones show that local predators (the carnivorous bone-crunching dog Aelurodon) scavenged some of the carcasses, but no predator remains have yet surfaced. There are also abundant clues to the region's ecology, indicating a savanna of grassland interspersed with trees that luxuriated in a warmer, milder climate than today's.

  4. Rik Bonness - Wikipedia

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    Born in Borger, Texas, Bonness played high school football at Bellevue High School in Bellevue, Nebraska, a suburb south of Omaha. He graduated in 1972 and then received a scholarship to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln , the two-time defending national champions under head coach Bob Devaney .

  5. Omaha people - Wikipedia

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    The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska ... "Ancestral Bones Reinterpreting the Past of the Omaha". Humanities, Vol. 23/Number 6. Archived from the original on 2018-01-11

  6. Giant human skeletons - Wikipedia

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    Three bone fragments of the named "Giant of Castelnau" compared to a regular-size humerus (centre), according to Georges Vacher de Lapouge. " Giant of Castelnau " refers to three bone fragments (a humerus , tibia , and femoral mid-shaft) discovered by Georges Vacher de Lapouge in 1890 in the sediment used to cover a Bronze Age burial tumulus ...

  7. List of founding figures of Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    The following people were founding figures of Omaha, Nebraska. Their period of influence ranges from 1853 through 1900. Their period of influence ranges from 1853 through 1900. The original founding event to establish the City of Omaha was recorded as a picnic on July 4, 1854.

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  9. Nathan Phillips (activist) - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Phillips (born February 22, 1954), also known as Sky Man, is an Omaha Native American political activist known for his role in the 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation in Washington, D.C. Early life