There are 54 different spellings for
"Kansas" other than the one used today.
At the Kansas State University's College of
Veterinary Medicine, waterbeds for horses are used in surgery.
The Beecher Bible and Rifle Church near Wamego
was used during the Civil War era to store and smuggle rifles
that came in boxes marked "Bibles."
The movies Ride With The Devil, Mars Attacks!,
Picnic, Paper Moon, The Day After, Sarah Plain and Tall, Mr.
And Mrs. Bridge, Kansas, Nice Girls Don't Explode, Where Pigeons
Go to Die, Cross of Fire, In Cold Blood, and Truman were all
filmed in Kansas.
Oral Roberts began his evangelistic career
in Kinsley in the 1930s.
The first newspaper in Kansas was written
in Shawnee Indian language.
Kansas won the award for Most Beautiful License
Plate for the "wheat plate" in 1981.
Dodge City is the 2nd windiest city in the
United States.
The musical group "Kansas" was originally
from Topeka.
At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry
pie in Kansas.
Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman practiced law in Leavenworth.
