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Title
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Geology of Greater Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, United States of America
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Description
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Article focusing on the geological history of the Kansas City area. The offers provide: a historical background covering the city's early development, an overview of the area's geology, a summary of its geotechnical characteristics, its geologic materials and constraints, the area's seismicity, a summary of the region's environmental concerns, and an overview of the major engineered structures and use of underground space.
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Date
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1988
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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The Connie Sets a Record
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Description
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Reflection by author on her career with United Press and her two-day press trip to promote Trans World Airlines' "The Constellation," nicknamed The Connie. Its maiden flight was February 1, 1946, from New York with a stop over in Kansas City and on to Los Angeles. The memorable return flight, where the co-pilot was knocked unconscious during severe weather, landed safely where "seven ambulances and half a dozen fire trucks" were standing by. The pilot, Jack Frye, flew the Constellation "coast-to-coast in seven hours and twenty-seven minutes, setting a new transcontinetal record."
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Date
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2007-09-29
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Missouri Battlefield Receives Grant
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Description
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Article under "Camp Talk" column of the magazine. States that the "Newtonia (Missouri) Battlefields Protection Association (NBPA) recently received a grant of $146,050 from the American Battlefield Protection Program toward the purchase of a significant portion of the site of the battles that occurred there during the Civil War." Newtonia is located in southwest Missouri and was the site of two battles.
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Date
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2003
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Water-Works Operation: Water Softening at Kansas City
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Description
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Report of the expensive but needed water softening operation by the Water Department, due to Kansas City's water's "high degree of hardness, averaging about 215 ppm (parts of sediment per million units of water) and reaching a maximum, during winter months...of as much as 350 ppm."
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Date
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1942-05
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Gubernatorial Candidates
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Description
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Photos and descriptions of gubernatorial candidates William Stone (of Missouri), William Warner (of Missouri), and Abraham Smith (of Kansas).
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Date
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1892-11-05
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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The Senate and Its Leaders
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Description
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Portrait and description of John Ingalls, national senator from Kansas, "now president pro tem," with descriptions also of fellow national senators "Mr. Plumb, of Kansas," "Mr. Vest, of Missouri," and "Mr. Cockrell," also of Missouri.
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Date
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1890-04
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Ten Missouri Artworks that Help Us Understand Our History
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Description
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Ten artworks with brief descriptions connecting them to Missouri history, including Thomas Hart Benton's The Social History of Missouri, George Caleb Bingham's Gen. Order No. 11, Greta Kempton's Portrait of the Truman Family, and Donald Judd's Large Stack. Items are held by the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Nelson-Atkins Museum. and various other collections.
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Date
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2020-07
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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The General's Tour: Porter's Campaign in Northeast Missouri and the Palmyra Massacre
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Description
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Article about battle sites including that of the Palmyra Massacre in the Civil War campaign of General Porter in northeast Missouri. Photos and descriptions of several towns, including Hannibal, Palmyra, Steffenville, Newark, Kirksville, Bibliegrove, Memphis, Shelbina, Santa Fe, and Fulton, plus the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site.
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Date
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2000-02-01
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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How to Remember 'This Damnable Guerrilla Warfare'
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Description
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Bands of guerrilla fighters roamed throughout the state of Missouri during the Civil War, resulting in violence that "tended to hyper-local and hyper-personal." This article uses four individual stories to illustrate why Missourians had difficultly crafting a master narrative about the events of the war, instead creating a "patchwork" of memories and traumas to explain their experiences. Included are stories of William Brown and the Lawrence Massacre; the Lakenan Family and the Centralia Massacre; Louis Meyer and guerrilla raids on Emma, Missouri; and James Rigg and the violence he witnessed by pro-Union militiamen.
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Date
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2013-06
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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National Gallery of Art Post to Native Jackson Countian
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Description
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Biography of "Jackson County's own W. Howard Adams, first president of the revitalized Jackson County Historical Society, and early leader in the development of state arts councils in America," with photo.
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Date
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1969
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Object Type
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Magazine
