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A former Kansas Historical Marker sign along U.S. Route 40 described it as follows: Several hundred years ago, perhaps more than a thousand, this valley was inhabited by men whose average height was probably well over six feet. These were not the indians of quivira, whose "7-foot warriors" Coronado described in 1541, but an even earlier people.
"Little Foot" (Stw 573) is the nickname given to a nearly complete Australopithecus fossil skeleton found in 1994–1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The front cover of the Kansas City Star newspaper, engraved on a copper plate, is displayed on stage during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at the National WWI Museum and ...
The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven. Since its 1789 establishment, 50 people have served as Vice President of the United States. Of these, 43 have died. The state with the most vice-presidential burial sites is New York with 10. Fifteen people have served as both president and as vice president.
A former prison employee, hoisting engineer Frank Young of Lansing, is seen working in this 1930 photo operating the coal mine shaft hoist in the Kansas State Penitentiary that carried inmates up ...
The bodies of two Kansas women who disappeared in the Oklahoma Panhandle in March were found in a chest freezer buried in a cow pasture, according to court records tied to five suspects who are ...
The Tobias-Thompson Complex, also known as the Little River Archeological District, is a complex of archaeological sites on the banks of the Little Arkansas River near Geneseo, Kansas, United States. The complex is an important set of sites that is one of the few in the region bridging the periods of prehistory and European contact, with a ...
The following year, on April 15, 1841, Chief Menominee died and was buried in Kansas; [42] he never returned to Indiana. In 1848 the Potawatomi moved further west to St. Marys, Kansas , 140 miles (230 km) northwest of Sugar Creek, where they remained until the Civil War . [ 63 ]