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Title
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Kansas City, This Is Your Life: 10 Events That Molded Who We Are
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Description
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Illustrations and description "of Kansas City's top 10 defining moments: (1) the Ice Age and its shaping of Kansas City's terrain as "the West Coast of the country"; (2) Missouri statehood in 1821; (3) township status in 1850; (4) the Civil War; (5) the Hannibal Bridge; (6) "[t]he 1895 designation of Independence Avenue, from Woodland to Gladstone, as our very first mile of boulevard"; (7) first Convention Hall in 1899 and Union Station in 1914; (8) 1925 City Charter; (9) urban sprawl following World War II; and (10) "the 1984 court-ordered desegregation of the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools."
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Date
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2000-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
