The Whigs had been irreparably split by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

In 1988, Morrison won the Regional Heavyweight Title – Kansas City Golden Gloves from Donald Ellis and advanced to the National Golden Gloves in Omaha, Nebraska, where he lost a split decision to Derek Isaman.

Following the 1964 season, an undefeated Alabama team lost to Texas in the 1965 Sugar Bowl, while an undefeated Arkansas team ( which defeated Texas in Austin that season ) beat Nebraska in the 1965 Cotton Bowl, which caused the national championship to be split between the two schools.

Despite their different rules, only once has either state split its electoral votes: Nebraska in 2008, giving 4 votes to Republican John McCain and one to Democrat Barack Obama ( who swept Maine ).

: NFTY-MV is split into two Subregions: Western, which comprises Kansas City, MO, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, and SLIID ( St. Louis Illinois Iowa District ), which comprises Missouri ( except for Kansas City ), Iowa, and Illinois.

Nebraska also had a split highway, with the split between Tekamah and Winnebago between 1935 and 1957.

At the split, K-9 continues west to Lenora, and US-283 resumes a straight northerly direction until the city of Norton, where after crossing U. S. Route 36, it reaches Nebraska later.

* The Midwest Hiawatha — used the Milwaukee Road's mainline across Illinois and Iowa to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Omaha, Nebraska ( the train split into two parts in Manilla, Iowa ); and

The two groups split up after reaching Nebraska, and while Dull Knife's party was eventually forced to surrender near Fort Robinson, Little Wolf's group made their way to Montana where there were finally allowed to remain.

Past Norton, US-383 split from US-36 and resumed northeast, reaching an intersection with US-183 near Woodruff a short distance south of the Nebraska border.

" What constitutes an undue burden is a value judgment, argued Scalia ; it should therefore be no surprise that the Court split on whether the Nebraska statute constitutes an undue burden.

Led by Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, George W. Norris of Nebraska, and Hiram Johnson of California, they fought the conservatives in a series of bitter battles that split the GOP and allowed the Democrats to take control of Congress in 1910.

In 1954, this area code was split: eastern Nebraska retained 402, and western Nebraska was placed in area code 308.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.

* 1909: Greek Town, a successful Greek immigrant community in South Omaha, Nebraska is burnt to the ground and its residents are forced to leave town.

The USAF nuclear component was then officially combined with the United States Navy's strategic nuclear component, its Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) submarines, to form United States Strategic Command ( USSTRATCOM ), which is headquartered at SAC's former complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

In Connecticut the affiliate is the Concerned Citizens Party ; in Nebraska the affiliate has recently changed its name from " The Nebraska Party " to " The Nebraska Independent Party ".

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

" Bryan would say little that he had not said before — the text is similar to that of a speech he gave at Crete, Nebraska a week before the convention — but he would give the convention its voice.

In 1961, Indiana Standard reorganized its marketing giving its American Oil Company unit responsibility for its retail operations nationwide under the Standard name inside the Indiana Standard marketing area ( Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming ) and under the American name outside that region.

Boys Town, formerly Girls and Boys Town and Father Flanagan's Boys ' Home, is a non-profit organization dedicated to caring for its children and families, with national headquarters in the village of Boys Town, Nebraska.

Just six days after its submission, Nebraska and Wisconsin were the first states to ratify the amendment.

This brought executions of this type to an end in Nebraska, the only remaining state to retain electrocution as its sole method of execution for murder.

Nine of its members are in Minnesota, with three members in South Dakota, two members in North Dakota and one member each in the states of Iowa and Nebraska.

Within North America, there are northern pike populations in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, Utah, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, New York, Idaho, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec ( pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces ), Alaska, the Ohio Valley, the upper Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Great Lakes Basin and surrounding states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Oklahoma.

When Lieutenant John Pershing, the future Army general, was appointed as a military instructor at the University of Nebraska while attending its law school, he and Dawes became acquainted and formed a lifelong friendship.

Keya Paha County is the most Republican of all the counties in Nebraska, with 82. 7 % of its 707 registered voters registered as Republicans.

Sources differ on the origin of its name: some hold that it was named after a Democratic Pennsylvania Congressman, John Littleton Dawson, while others believe that it was named after Jacob Dawson, an early Nebraska settler.

The county is within the Sand Hills region of Nebraska, the dunes which lent the region its name being the end result of the last ice age, known as the Pinedale glaciation.

Owing to its size as Nebraska's largest county by area, Cherry County borders a total of eleven counties, more than any other county in Nebraska.

In all but two states, Maine and Nebraska, the presidential candidate winning a plurality of votes wins all of the electoral votes, a practice called the unit rule.

Since in most states the legislature wants to increase the voting power of the majority, all states except Maine and Nebraska ( explained below ) use a winner-take-all system ( as opposed to a majority electoral system ) where the candidate who wins the most popular votes in a state wins all of that state's electoral votes.

In Maine and Nebraska, the apportionment of electoral votes parallels that for Senators and Congressional Representatives.

Both of these states have relatively few electoral votes ( for the 2004 election, Maine had 4 and Nebraska had 5 ; the minimum is 3 ) and are usually not considered swing states ( Maine is generally considered a Democratic-leaning state while Nebraska is typically thought to be a Republican state ).

In all states except Maine and Nebraska, the candidate that wins the most votes in the state receives all its electoral college votes ( a " winner takes all " system ).

From 1969 in Maine, and from 1991 in Nebraska, two electoral votes are awarded based on the winner of the statewide election, and the rest ( two in Maine, three in Nebraska ) go to the highest vote-winner in each of the state's congressional districts.

Rather than assigning all 9 of the state's electors to the candidate with a plurality of popular votes, under the amendment, Colorado would have assigned presidential electors proportionally to the statewide vote count, which would be a unique system ( Nebraska and Maine assign electoral votes based on vote totals within each congressional district ).

In early 1853 the House of Representatives passed a bill by a 107-to-49 vote that organized the Nebraska Territory in land west of Iowa and Missouri.

The Burlington and Missouri proposed to develop a line from Lincoln through Columbus and into northwestern Nebraska, and urged the citizens of Platte County to vote a bond of $ 100, 000 for construction expenses.

Rich Glover, a defensive lineman from Nebraska finished 3rd in the 1972 vote -- which was won by his Cornhusker teammate Johnny Rodgers.

" However, in 2011, after an extended campaign to retain its membership and a close, contentious vote, Nebraska became the only institution to be removed from the AAU membership by a vote of the membership ( a few other institutions had voluntarily resigned.

Although many people believed Hagel had no chance of winning, he won a " stunning upset " in the election, receiving 56 % of the vote, winning virtually all demographic groups including many black precincts that had always voted Democratic in previous elections, and becoming the first Republican in twenty-four years to win a Senate seat in Nebraska.

Six years later in 2002, Hagel overwhelmingly won re-election with over 83 % of the vote, the largest margin of victory in any statewide race in Nebraska history.

Douglas defended his Kansas Nebraska Act, which replaced the Missouri Compromise ban on slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north and west of Missouri with popular sovereignty, which allowed residents of territories such as the Kansas to vote either for or against slavery.

Though the party had its strongest roots in the east coast, the best result for the NAP was in Nebraska, where they had a well-known candidate in independent state senator Ernie Chambers who received 1. 6 % of the vote.

Sam Houston had upset many voters with his pro-Union position, association with the Know Nothings during 1855, and his vote against the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed his conviction by a vote of 4 to 2.

Johnson said that Phillips had been " anointed by Squirt Yerger in a Jackson hotel room ," a reference to Republican chairman Wirt Adams Yerger, Jr., who served from 1956 to 1966. the first such candidate since 1947, when a former governor of Nebraska, George L. Sheldon, polled 2. 5 percent of the Mississippi gubernatorial general election vote.

He petitioned to be included on the 1974 ballot for Governor of the state of Nebraska and also ran for Governor in 1994, receiving 0. 44 % of the vote.

The act divided the region into the Kansas and Nebraska territories, whose residents would separately vote on whether to allow slavery within each jurisdiction's borders.

From 1855 – 1857, Sibley was part of the forces trying to control conflict in Bleeding Kansas, where hundreds of new settlers arrived to vote on the question of slavery, provoked by the 1854 Kansas – Nebraska Act.

The final vote on CC participation in the UCC merger took place at the 1956 General Council, meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.

While Tom Osborne carried most of the Omaha and Lincoln areas — which cast more than two-thirds of Nebraska's vote — Heineman won by large-enough margins in western and central Nebraska to secure the nomination.

Heineman defeated Democratic nominee David Hahn in the November 7, 2006, general election, capturing 73. 4 percent of the vote — one of the most lopsided victories for a gubernatorial race in Nebraska history.

" In Stenberg v. Carhart the United States Supreme Court struck down the Nebraska law with Sandra Day O ' Connor providing the swing vote for the five-to-four decision because the law did not allow for the use of the procedure even when the mother's health would be put at greater risk by another abortion procedure.

In 1978, Stenberg ran for Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, coming in fourth in the Republican primary with just 13 % of the vote.