63 résultats pour "kansas"
- Kansas City (Kansas).
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Kansas - geography.
at the adjoining cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Its chief headstreams are the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, which join to form the KansasRiver at Junction City. Each of the headstreams has numerous tributaries. The Kansas River proper is only 270 km (170 mi) long, but the Smoky Hill River has a lengthof 870 km (540 mi), and the Republican River has a length of 720 km (450 mi). The main tributary flowing into the Kansas River is the Big Blue River. The Arkansas Rive...
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Kansas - USA History.
at the adjoining cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Its chief headstreams are the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, which join to form the KansasRiver at Junction City. Each of the headstreams has numerous tributaries. The Kansas River proper is only 270 km (170 mi) long, but the Smoky Hill River has a lengthof 870 km (540 mi), and the Republican River has a length of 720 km (450 mi). The main tributary flowing into the Kansas River is the Big Blue River. The Arkansas Rive...
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Kansas City (Missouri) - geography.
vicinity of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church is where many Italian immigrants settled. The West Side, bordering the Armourdale industrial district, is a Hispanic area. Blackneighborhoods comprise a large area south of downtown, and the neighborhoods east of the central business district have been mainly black for generations. An extensivearea of black and mixed race neighborhoods borders the central business district of Kansas City, Kansas. Many neighborhoods in northeastern Kansas City are inhab...
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Kansas City (Missouri) - geography.
Major institutions of higher education in Kansas City are a branch (established in 1929) of the University of Missouri, Avila College (1916), Rockhurst College (1910),DeVry Institute of Technology (Missouri) (1931), and the Kansas City Art Institute (1885). Schools in neighboring suburbs include Park University (1875), in Parkville,and William Jewell College (1849), in Liberty. Baptist, Nazarene, and Methodist theological schools are also located in the area. Midwest Research Institute, one of t...
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- Kansas City (Missouri).
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NCAA Basketball Men's Division I Champions
Year
Champion
Coach
Runner-up
Score
1939
Oregon
Howard Hobson
Ohio State
46-33
1940
Indiana
Branch McCracken
Kansas
60-42
1941
Wisconsin
Harold Foster
Washington
2. Now Oklahoma State.3. Now Texas-El Paso.4. Standing vacated because team included ineligible players. Source: National Collegiate Athletic Association.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz, motion picture about a girl from rural Kansas who travels to a magical land, based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.
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Kansas - Facts and Figures.
Native Americans 0.9 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 5.5 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 76.8 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 7 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 453 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 272 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 12.3 percent (2006) Number...
- Kansai ou Kinki.
- Ramey Samuel, né en 1942 à Colby (Kansas), artiste lyrique américain.
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Ernest Hemingway
Enfant de Chicago, Hemingway acheva sa scolarité en 1917, puis il partit à
Kansas City où il trouva un emploi de reporter au Star.
Enfant de Chicago, Hemingway acheva sa scolarité en 1917, puis il partit à Kansas City où il trouva un emploi de reporter au Star. Lors de l'entrée en guerre des États-Unis, Hemingway, réformé de l'armée pour une ancienne blessure à l' œ il, s'engagea sous les ordres de la Croix Rouge. Chauffeur d'ambulance, il fut gravement blessé en Italie et rapatrié. Après son rétablissement, il épousa la première de ses quatre femmes et repartit pour l'Europe, où il travailla comme correspondant pour le S...
- Parker (Charles Christopher, dit Charlie), 1920-1955, né à Kansas City, saxophoniste et chef d'orchestre américain.
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Super Bowl Winners
Super
Bowl
Date
Winner, Conference
Loser, Conference
I
1/15/67
Green Bay Packers, NFL
Kansas City Chiefs,
XLI 2/4/2007 Indianapolis Colts, AFCChicago Bears, NFC 2917Tony DungyLovie Smith Miami Gardens, FL XLII 2/3/2008 New York Giants, NFCNew England Patriots, AFC 1714Tom CoughlinBill Belichick Glendale, AZ Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Lincoln: "The Monstrous Injustice of Slavery"
Abraham Lincoln had settled into his Illinois law practice in 1854 when the United States Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
slavery from its claims of 'moral right,' back upon its existing legal rights, and its arguments of 'necessity.' Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it; and therelet it rest in peace. Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it. Let North and South—let allAmericans—let all lovers of liberty everywhere—join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved ita...
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James Buchanan.
John Slidell. Slidell was instructed to insist that Mexico recognize the annexation of its former province, Texas, and that it pay certain long-standing claims of UnitedStates citizens. As payment for the claims, Slidell was told to press for the Mexican territory lying between Texas and the Pacific Ocean. The American demands werenot met, and soon afterward the Mexican War broke out in 1846. D3 Cuba While secretary of state, Buchanan also tried to further one of his favorite projects, the purc...
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James Buchanan
John Slidell. Slidell was instructed to insist that Mexico recognize the annexation of its former province, Texas, and that it pay certain long-standing claims of UnitedStates citizens. As payment for the claims, Slidell was told to press for the Mexican territory lying between Texas and the Pacific Ocean. The American demands werenot met, and soon afterward the Mexican War broke out in 1846. D3 Cuba While secretary of state, Buchanan also tried to further one of his favorite projects, the purc...
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American Civil War.
free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...
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American Civil War - U.
free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...
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Major League Baseball: Rookie of the Year by Season.
Rookie of the Year (American League).Year Player Team 1949 Roy Sievers (of) St. Louis Cardinals 1950 Walt Dropo (1b) Boston Red Sox 1951 Gil McDougald (3b) New York Yankees 1952 Harry Byrd (p) Philadelphia Athletics 1953 Harvey Kuenn (ss) Detroit Tigers 1954 Bob Grim (p) New York Yankees 1955 Herb Score (p) Cleveland Indians 1956 Luis Aparicio (ss) Chicago White Sox 1957 Tony Kubek (of/inf) New York Yankees 1958 Albie Pearson (of) Washington Senators 1959 Bob Allison (of) Washington Senators 196...
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Major League Baseball: Rookie of the Year by Season
Rookie of the Year (National League).
Year Player Team 1949 Roy Sievers (of) St. Louis Cardinals 1950 Walt Dropo (1b) Boston Red Sox 1951 Gil McDougald (3b) New York Yankees 1952 Harry Byrd (p) Philadelphia Athletics 1953 Harvey Kuenn (ss) Detroit Tigers 1954 Bob Grim (p) New York Yankees 1955 Herb Score (p) Cleveland Indians 1956 Luis Aparicio (ss) Chicago White Sox 1957 Tony Kubek (of/inf) New York Yankees 1958 Albie Pearson (of) Washington Senators 1959 Bob Allison (of) Washington Senators 1960 Ron Hansen (ss) Baltimore Orioles 1...
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- Etats-Unis. Kansas, cow-boy au féminin.
- Watson T om , né en 1949 à Kansas City, joueur de golf américain.
- Goff Bruce, 1904-1982, né à Alton (Kansas), architecte américain.
- Brooks Louise, 1906-1985, née à Cherryvale (Kansas), actrice américaine.
- Smith William Eugene, 1918-1978, né à Wichita (Kansas), photographe américain.
- Beery Wallace, 1885-1949, né à Kansas City (Missouri), acteur américain.
- Sutherland Earl Wilbur , 1915-1974, né à Burlingame (Kansas), physiologiste et biochimiste américain.
- Thomson Virgil, 1896-1989, né à Kansas City, compositeur et critique musical américain.
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American League: Gold Glove Award Winners.
1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...
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American League: Gold Glove Award Winners
American League: Gold Glove Award Winners (Pitcher).
1957 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1958 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1959 Sherm Lollar Chicago White Sox 1960 Earl Battey Washington Senators 1961 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1962 Earl Battey Minnesota Twins 1963 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1964 Elston Howard New York Yankees 1965 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1966 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1967 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1968 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1969 Bill Freehan Detroit Tigers 1970 Ray Fosse Cleveland Indians 1971 Ray Fosse Clev...
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Missouri - geography.
Saint Francois Mountains, at the eastern end of the crest of the dome. Only in these mountains have the sedimentary rocks been sufficiently eroded away so that theunderlying igneous rocks are exposed. They form the rounded, knoblike peaks of an old mountain range. The peaks project, in isolation or in clusters, between 230 and300 m (750 and 1,000 ft) above the surrounding sedimentary basins. One of these knobs, Taum Sauk Mountain, reaches 540 m (1,772 ft) above sea level and is thehighest point...
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Missouri - USA History.
Saint Francois Mountains, at the eastern end of the crest of the dome. Only in these mountains have the sedimentary rocks been sufficiently eroded away so that theunderlying igneous rocks are exposed. They form the rounded, knoblike peaks of an old mountain range. The peaks project, in isolation or in clusters, between 230 and300 m (750 and 1,000 ft) above the surrounding sedimentary basins. One of these knobs, Taum Sauk Mountain, reaches 540 m (1,772 ft) above sea level and is thehighest point...
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Nebraska - geography.
by natural resource districts to limit the rate of pumping for irrigation. C Climate Nebraska has a typical continental climate with wide seasonal variations in temperature. C1 Temperature Winter temperatures below -20°C (0° F) and summer temperatures in the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F) are common. The average January temperature varies from about -7° C (about 20° F) in the northeast to about -2° C (about 29° F) in the southwest. The average for July, thehottest month, ranges from about 26° C...
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Nebraska - USA History.
by natural resource districts to limit the rate of pumping for irrigation. C Climate Nebraska has a typical continental climate with wide seasonal variations in temperature. C1 Temperature Winter temperatures below -20°C (0° F) and summer temperatures in the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F) are common. The average January temperature varies from about -7° C (about 20° F) in the northeast to about -2° C (about 29° F) in the southwest. The average for July, thehottest month, ranges from about 26° C...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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Harry S.
B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...
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Harry S.
B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...
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Précocement indépendants, nés des courants migratoires les
plus variés fondus grâce au melting-pot, épris de libertés
démocratiques, persuadés de la supériorité du capitalisme libéral,
dotés de ressources abondantes, les États-Unis conservent leur
rôle de superpuissance.
suprême s'appelle la « Court of Appeals », les cours d'appel prennent le nom de « Appelate Courts » et les tribunaux de première instance, celui de « Supreme Courts ». Il n'existe pas de vraie hiérarchie entre les tribunaux fédéraux et les tribunaux des États de l'Union. Toutefois, en cas de divergence profonde sur un point de droit important entre les différents États, la Cour suprême des États-Unis peut accepter de juger une affaire sur pourvoi contre une décision de Cour suprême d'un...
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World Series Winners.
1974 Oakland Athletics Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 1975 Cincinnati Reds Boston Red Sox 4-3 1976 Cincinnati Reds New York Yankees 4-0 1977 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1978 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Baltimore Orioles 4-3 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Kansas City Royals 4-2 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers New York Yankees 4-2 1982 St. Louis Cardinals Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 1983 Baltimore Orioles Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 1984 Detroit Tigers San Diego Padres 4-1...
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World Series Winners
Year
Winning Team
Losing Team
Score
1903
Boston Americans
Pittsburgh Pirates
5-3*
1904
No Series
1 905
New York
1974 Oakland Athletics Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 1975 Cincinnati Reds Boston Red Sox 4-3 1976 Cincinnati Reds New York Yankees 4-0 1977 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1978 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Baltimore Orioles 4-3 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Kansas City Royals 4-2 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers New York Yankees 4-2 1982 St. Louis Cardinals Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 1983 Baltimore Orioles Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 1984 Detroit Tigers San Diego Padres 4-1...
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Herbert Hoover.
E Postwar Work Even after the armistice, the Allies continued their blockade around Germany. Hoover, in Europe again, worked to have it relaxed. He was appointed chairman of theAmerican Relief Administration to assist in the economic restoration of Europe, receiving from the U.S. Congress $100 million to fight famine and plague. In this officialrole, and afterward as a private citizen, Hoover oversaw the distribution of 46 million tons of food to people in 30 countries. He controlled shipping,...
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Herbert Hoover
E Postwar Work Even after the armistice, the Allies continued their blockade around Germany. Hoover, in Europe again, worked to have it relaxed. He was appointed chairman of theAmerican Relief Administration to assist in the economic restoration of Europe, receiving from the U.S. Congress $100 million to fight famine and plague. In this officialrole, and afterward as a private citizen, Hoover oversaw the distribution of 46 million tons of food to people in 30 countries. He controlled shipping,...
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New Mexico - geography.
New Mexico’s major river is the Río Grande, originating in southern Colorado, and flowing southward for 760 km (470 mi) through the state. Between the San LuisValley and Española Valley the river flows in a deep canyon known as the Río Grande Gorge; then, below White Rock Canyon, it flows through several valleys containingagricultural land. Most of the water of the Río Grande is used to irrigate these valleys. The Río Grande’s waterflow in New Mexico is extremely low. One of the major tributarie...
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New Mexico - USA History.
New Mexico’s major river is the Río Grande, originating in southern Colorado, and flowing southward for 760 km (470 mi) through the state. Between the San LuisValley and Española Valley the river flows in a deep canyon known as the Río Grande Gorge; then, below White Rock Canyon, it flows through several valleys containingagricultural land. Most of the water of the Río Grande is used to irrigate these valleys. The Río Grande’s waterflow in New Mexico is extremely low. One of the major tributarie...
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NCAA Basketball Men's Division I Champions.
2. Now Oklahoma State.3. Now Texas-El Paso.4. Standing vacated because team included ineligible players. Source: National Collegiate Athletic Association.