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1. Wyandot Nation (Wyandot Nation of Kansas)
   Provides early history. 2-01

2. Orphan Trains of Kansas (Dipasquale and Stafford)
   Original works regarding the shipping of orphaned children West dated during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Part of the Kansas Collection

3. Articles of the Kansas Collection
   Original works dating from the late 1800's and early 1900's.

4. Lincoln, Abraham (Excellent Drawing from the Kansas Collection)

5. Roosevelt, Theodore (Excellent Drawing from the Kansas Collection)

6. Kansas History (The Kansas Collection)
   Provides excellent original works dating from the mid-1800's through the early 1900's.

7. Organic Compounds and Carbon (Kansas State University - Davis)
   "By definition all organic compounds contain carbon. They have covalent bonds not ionic ones, and have relatively low melting and boiling points." 6-01

8. Genetics Lessons (University of Kansas Medical Center)
   Provides lessons related to genetics and ethics related to biotechnology. 1-04

9. -02-25-05 Kansas AG Seeks Abortion Records (Fox News)
   "The Kansas attorney general, a staunch opponent of abortion, has demanded the medical records of nearly 90 woman and girls who had late-term abortions (search), saying he needs the material to investigate crimes."
   
   "The two abortion clinics involved in the case say the state has no right to such personal information and are fighting the request in the Kansas Supreme Court (search)." 11-04

10. -09-15-06 Ann Richards Leaves Legacy of Inclusion (KansasCity.com)
    "One of Richards' lifelong goals, and ultimately one of the greatest legacies of the former governor who died Wednesday, was to open public service to groups that were historically underrepresented." 09-06

11. Kansas (Yahoo)
    Provides a list of cities with city guides. 11-01

12. Kansas Schools on the Net (Yahoo)
    Provides schools on the Net by grade level, state, and then city. 11-01

13. Kansas City Star (Newspaper)

14. Kansas (Weber Publications)
    Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Topeka. 10-00

15. Kansas Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
    Includes Greater Kansas City Community and Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City Foundation. 10-02

16. Tallgrass Prairies - Flint Hills (National Park Service)
    Discusses the preservation and management of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. 4-01

17. Tallgrass Prairies - Flint Hills History (ParkTrust)
    Provides a history of the preservation and management of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. 4-01

18. Obama Background (CNN News)
    "Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, born in Hawaii, raised in Chicago, was an little-known Illinois state Senator as recently as late last year."
    
    "Now, he's the state's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, the subject of major features in The New Yorker and The New Republic magazines, the odds-on favorite to win the seat being vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald -- and he's getting the Democratic convention's glamour slot, giving the keynote address in the heart of prime time." 7-04

19. Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri (SacandFoxCasino)
    "The Treaty of 1837 removed the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri into Kansas across the Missouri river to the Great Nemaha Reservation in Doniphan and Brown Counties. The Missouri band became officially known as the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska." 10-04

20. -11-01-05 Dramatic Closed Session in the Senate (MSNBC News)
    "On a quiet Indian summer afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid dramatically wrenched the political agenda from the Republican majority Monday by forcing the Senate into secret session."
    
    "Reid’s gambit was designed to prod Republicans to agree to speed up 'Phase II' of the investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, into how spy data was used or misused in the prelude to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003." 11-05

21. Pentecostal Movement (Oral Roberts University)
    "The Pentecostal movement is by far the largest and most important religious movement to originate in the United States. Beginning in 1901 with only a handful of students in a Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, the number of Pentecostals increased steadily throughout the world during the Twentieth Century until by 1993 they had become the largest family of Protestants in the world. With over 200,000,000 members designated as denominational Pentecostals, this group surpassed the Orthodox churches as the second largest denominational family of Christians, surpassed only by the Roman catholics." 01-06

22. -08-24-07 Editorial: Bush's Risky Vietnam Comparison (Time.com)
    "Politically, President Bush has reached the point all gamblers fear: being so far down that higher stakes start to look worth the risk. Public support for his handling of the war in Iraq is already abysmal, with 70% against him and only 25% still in his camp. So perhaps he felt he had very little to lose when Wednesday, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Mo., he effectively doubled down, arguing not only that America needs to stay in Iraq until a stable democracy can take root, but also implying we should have done the same in Vietnam a generation ago." 08-07

23. -04-10-08 Immigration, Families, and the Law (CNN News)
    "They became one of an estimated 2 million mixed families, where at least one member is a citizen or lawfully living in the country and the other isn't. The vast majority of those families, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, involve an illegal parent and legal children -- yet another shade of this country's ongoing immigration conundrum."
    
    "El Centro Inc., a Hispanic advocacy group in the Kansas City area, said its 2006 survey showed 63 percent of Hispanics questioned said they lived in some type of mixed family status." 04-08

24. Bike Commuting By the Numbers (U.S. News)
    "Transportation planners in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark have invested heavily in bicycle paths and lanes, discouraged the use of cars, and gone to great efforts to protect the legal rights and safety of cyclists. A few stats:"
    
    "1 percent of trips in the United States are made on a bicycle. That's 10 percent in Germany, 18 percent in Denmark, and 27 percent in the Netherlands. In Portland, Ore., 3.5 percent of trips to work are made by bike, the highest share among the 50 largest American cities. The lowest: Kansas City, Mo., at a paltry 0.02 percent." 08-08

25. -04-16-09 Spending Billions While Avoiding Waste (U.S. News)
    With the $787 billion from the stimulus package beginning to roll out of Washington's coffers, the money is arriving in places like Columbus, Ohio, where it's covering the salaries of 25 police cadets, and Kansas, where it's funding the widening of U.S. 69 outside of Kansas City. But even as economists debate whether the cash injection will kick-start the economy, there's plenty of concern about how much will actually get to its intended destination."
    
    "Watchdog groups say that while it's still early, the White House's commitment to openness and minimizing waste, including launching the Recovery.gov website, is heartening. They applaud the appointment of Earl Devaney to head a new stimulus oversight board. While inspector general of the Interior Department, Devaney directed the investigation that led to lobbyist Jack Abramoff's imprisonment." 04-09

26. Missouri Community Foundations (Foundation Center)
    Includes Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and St. Louis Community Foundation. 10-02