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The Whiteford (Price) Archeological Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 14SA1, is an archaeological site located in a rural area between Salina and New Cambria, Kansas, United States. [2] [3] As a National Historic Landmark, it is an important Central Plains habitation site, with an unusually well-preserved burial complex. It is on ...
"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 ]
Several artifacts were found within a small mound with an unusual limestone crypt. Signs of habitation were discovered nearby. [6] Grave Creek Mound: Moundsville, West Virginia: 250 to 150 BCE Adena culture: At 69 feet (21 m) high and 295 feet (90 m) in diameter, the Grave Creek Mound is the largest conical type burial mound in the United States.
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 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 old domed building was nicknamed "Little Top" in contrast to the domed federal prison 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km) south which was nicknamed the "Big Top". [ 6 ] During World War I , two brothers named Joseph and Michael Hofer , died at Fort Leavenworth in 1918 after refusing to enlist or wear uniforms after they were drafted under the ...
Toby Dorr, formerly Toby Young, infamously helped John Manard break out of a Kansas prison in 2006. In a personal essay for TODAY, she shares more about her own journey to freedom.
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 ...