On January 31, 2008, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas became the first zoo in the Americas to document parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons.

Category: Geography of Sedgwick County, Colorado

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-( West )

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-southwest

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-south

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The county should not be confused with the city of Wichita, which is located in Sedgwick County.

* Sedgwick County ( north )

Sedgwick County ( standard abbreviation: SG ) is a county located in the U. S. state of Kansas.

Sedgwick County is part of the Wichita metropolitan area.

Sedgwick County was founded in 1867, and named after John Sedgwick, who was a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Sedgwick County was the setting for the murders committed by the BTK strangler from 1974 until 1991.

Dennis Rader, an employee of the Sedgwick County city of Park City was arrested in early 2005 after he began sending incriminating letters taunting the police in 2004.

2005 Kansas Department of Transportation | KDOT Map of Sedgwick County (: File: Kansas official transportation map legend. png | map legend )

Sedgwick County is divided into twenty-seven townships.

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Until February 9, 1887, Weld County's boundaries included the area now comprising Weld County, Washington County, Logan County, Morgan County, Yuma County, Phillips County, and Sedgwick County.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

The period was established by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, where Britain's Cambrian rocks are best exposed.

Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in will. i. am's video " It's a New Day ", which was released following Barack Obama's 2008 presidential win.

The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian periods respectively.

Anning's correspondents included Charles Lyell, who wrote her to ask her opinion on how the sea was affecting the coastal cliffs around Lyme, as well as, Adam Sedgwick — one of her earliest customers — who taught geology at the University of Cambridge and who numbered Charles Darwin among his students.

The greater social respectability of the established church, in which some of Anning's gentleman geologist customers such as Buckland, Conybeare, and Sedgwick were ordained clergy, was also a factor.

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

Gouverneur K. Warren and John Sedgwick unsuccessfully attempted to dislodge the Confederates under Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson from Laurel Hill, a position that was blocking them from Spotsylvania Court House.

( Sedgwick was killed on May 9 and replaced by Wright.

So uncustomary was the French Aesthetic viewpoint that, when Pierrot made an appearance in an eponymous pantomime ( 1893 ) by Alfred Thompson, set to music by the American composer Laura Sedgwick Collins, The New York Times covered it as an event, even though it was only a student production.

She was later portrayed by Meredith Ostrom in the 2006 film, Factory Girl, which chronicles the life of fellow " Warhol Superstar ", Edie Sedgwick.

It was on this occasion that the President, Adam Sedgwick, referred to Smith as " the Father of English Geology ".

Sedgwick was named after John Sedgwick, who was a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

He is buried in the cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the " Sedgwick Pie ", since ( like his good friend Charles Eliot Norton ), he had married into the Sedgwick family.

As a relatively young lawyer, Sedgwick with Tapping Reeve pled the case of Brom and Bett vs. Ashley ( 1781 ), an early " freedom suit ", in county court for the slaves Elizabeth Freeman ( known as Bett ) and Brom.

* Theodore Sedgwick Wright, " Speech given during the dedication of the First Free Church of Schenectady, 28 December 1837 ", Emancipator, Black Abolitionist Archive, at University of Detroit Mercy

On returning to New York City, Warhol asked his scriptwriter, Ronald Tavel, to write a script for Sedgwick, “ something in a kitchen – something white, and clean, and plastic ", Warhol is to have said, according to Ric Burns ' Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film.

According to Post, Sedgwick started to fall asleep very quickly, and her breathing was, " bad – it sounded like there was a big hole in her lungs ", but he attributed that to her heavy smoking habit and went to sleep.

By about 1912 he became convinced that he had discovered what he called " the key to spiritual realization ", described by a later historian as " a set of numerological meditation exercises that bear little resemblance to either Sufism or Masonry " ( Sedgwick 2004: 66 ).

* Peter Sedgwick: " The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism ", History Workshop Journal, No. 17, Spring 1984.

It was originally presented by Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby & Michael Underwood, along with Ray Griffiths as " Ray, Head Of Security " and Peter Cocks as " The Doctor ", Karl Sedgwick, Robert Duncombe and Mark Dandridge as the " Agents Of Mayhem " and Laura Tilli & Jessica Tilli as " Tina and Gina " who supposedly answered phones.

" The Democratic Mistake: Godkin Lectures of 1909 ", Arthur George Sedgwick,

On 12 June 1888 Julius married socialite Alice Sedgwick Mankiewicz ( 1862-30 November 1945 ), nicknamed " Birdie ", whom he described as " bright-eyed, fair-haired, small, intelligent and musical ".

Sedgwick expressed concern for " our glorious maidens and matrons .... listening to the seductions of this author ; who comes before them with a bright, polished, and many-coloured surface, and the serpent coils of a false philosophy, and asks them again to stretch out their hands and pluck forbidden fruit ", who tells them " that their Bible is a fable when it teaches them that they were made in the image of God — that they are the children of apes and breeders of monsters — that he has annulled all distinction between physical and moral ", which in Sedgwick's view would lead to " a rank, unbending and degrading materialism " lacking the proper reading of nature as analogy to draw moral lessons from physical truths.

He read Explanations early in 1846 and thought " the spirit of, though not the facts, ought to shame Sedgwick ", while noting speculation and evidence suggesting that Chambers had written the books.

Charles was haunted by the absence of " Dear Henslow ", but on the last day met Sedgwick who was overjoyed to see him with his " dear family party ".

* Michael Sedgwick, " Albion ", in G. N.

* Scott Roeder, On April 1, 2010, in Wichita, KS, Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert sentenced Roeder to a " Hard 50 ", meaning no possibility of parole for 50 years, for the murder of Doctor George Tiller, the maximum sentence available in Kansas