Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., has a do-it-yourself quiz game called `` Benefit Bafflers '', which it distributes to employees.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

There are five separate U. S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the 1st Infantry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, Kansas ; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Exchange, Theater, Barracks, Franconia Inn, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing.

The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

Longform improvisation is especially performed in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and has a growing following in Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin and New Orleans.

This matter has been the subject of a number of cases before the Supreme Court, most notably Kansas v. Hendricks and United States v. Comstock in regard to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which does not require a conviction on sex offences, but only that the person be in federal custody and be deemed a " sexually dangerous person ".

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".

The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.

In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.

Since its inception in 1857, the City Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers ' markets in the midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the Kansas City community.

Kansas City has of spacious boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, five golf courses, five museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters, all overseen by the city's Parks and Recreation department.

The annual " Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival ", which attracts top jazz stars nationwide and large out-of-town audiences, has been rated Kansas City's " best festival.

Kansas City has many nonreligious, atheist, humanist, Naturalist and agnostic groups., such as the Kansas City Atheist Coalition.

In college athletics, Kansas City has been the home of the Big 12 College Basketball Tournaments.

However, the La Marle interpretation of Linear A has been rejected by John Younger of Kansas University showing that La Marle has invented erroneous and arbitrary new transcriptions based on resemblances with many different script systems at will ( as Phoenician, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Ethiopian, Cypro-Minoan, etc.

The field has grown considerably since the 1970s with the establishment of more journals, organizations, and conferences with ties to the science fiction scholarship community, and science fiction degree-granting programs such as those offered by the University of Liverpool and Kansas University.

Other candidates who received votes were Robby Wells from North Carolina, former football coach at Savannah State University ; Dr. Laurie Roth of Washington state, who has a radio talk-show program ; and Susan Ducey of Kansas.

Bourbon also has been made in California, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, and most likely in other U. S. states as well.

( The Marais des Cygnes is sometimes counted as part of the river, placing its headwaters in eastern Kansas and bringing its total length to over ).

Because league structures were shaky during the Great Depression and also because certain teams ( notably the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays ) frequently played entirely independent of the leagues, votes were not counted by league, but by geographical location.

-- The Orioles tonight retained the distinction of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision, this one to the Kansas City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3.

Located among small tributary valleys of the Missouri River, Columbia is roughly equidistant from St. Louis and Kansas City.

Missouri (,,, or, among others ) ( nickname The Show Me State ) is a U. S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

The Kansas case was unique among the group in that there was no contention of gross inferiority of the segregated schools ' physical plant, curriculum, or staff.

It occupies over ten percent of the county's land area and ranks fourth in population among all cities in Kansas.

The county has the highest median household income and highest per-capita income in Kansas and is among the most affluent in the United States, boasting the 19th highest median household income in 2000 and the 46th highest per-capita income in 2005.

Kenneth A. Spencer, whose father was among the founders of the company was to play an important role in Kansas and Missouri philanthropy.

" Jesuit Missionaries from Osage Mission ( now St. Paul, Kansas ) who worked among the Osages called the village " Little Town ," probably because the band of Osages who lived in the village were of the " Little Osage " division of the Osage People.

* Wally Joyner, former Major League Baseball player with the Anaheim Angels San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals ( among others )

" Green Goat " locomotives have been purchased by Canadian Pacific Railway, BNSF Railway, Kansas City Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad among others.

According to the journal DesignIntelligence, which annually publishes " America's Best Architecture and Design Schools ," the School of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Kansas was named the best in the Midwest and ranked 6th among all undergraduate architecture programs in the U. S in 2007.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games are: “ I ’ m a Jayhawk ", " Fighting Jayhawk ”, " Kansas Song ", " Sunflower Song ", " Crimson and the Blue ", " Red and Blue ", The " Rock Chalk Chant ", " Home on the Range " and “ Stand Up and Cheer .”

Based among poor, white cotton farmers in the South ( especially North Carolina, Alabama, and Texas ) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the plains states ( especially Kansas and Nebraska ), it represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to banks, railroads, and elites generally.

Martin '€™ s work can be found in major public collections in the United States, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY ; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art ; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C .; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

While fees for out-of-state residents for the 2010-2011 academic year are $ 13, 924, tuition at Wichita State for Kansas residents placed it as the exemplary public university, slightly beneath the weighted average tuition among Kansas's six public four-year universities.

The 2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings placed Texas Tech University at 302 worldwide, which tied it with fellow Big 12 schools, Oklahoma and Kansas State, among others.

The Champlin assets were rebranded as FINA stations in several Mid-Continent states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa among others.

Pat took part in recording some of the CDs by his older brother, trumpeter Mike Metheny, a jazz musician and a trumpet player based in Kansas City, Missouri, among them Day In-Night Out ( 1986 ) and more recently Close Enough for Love ( 2001 ).

He told Epstein that he was disappointed that Kansas City was not among the group's itinerary, and offered first $ 50, 000 and then $ 100, 000 if the Beatles would schedule a concert in the Missouri city.

Growth among the Mennonites and Amish was minimal until the arrival of Mennonite immigrants from Prussia, who settled in McPherson County, Kansas in 1875.

The peaceful relationship between settlers and the Indians of the Colorado and Kansas plains was maintained faithfully by the tribes, but sentiment grew among the Colorado settlers for Indian removal.

Mennonite Brethren were among the migration of Mennonites from Russia to North America between 1874 and 1880, settling mainly in Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.