January 2011
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Ad astra per aspera! Happy 150th Birthday Kansas!
I know its been a while but Tumblr has been failing me a lot lately. What hasn’t failed me is the great state of Kansas. K-State v. KU should be a fantastic way to start Kansas Day right. You only turn 150 once so go out and celebrate!
December 2010
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Go K-State: Wildcats Are Big Apple Bound →
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K-State has accepted an invite to the Pinstripe Bowl. This is its first year and is played at the new Yankee Stadium. We will play Syracuse who we have played it two bowls games already beating them at the Fiesta Bowl in 1997 but losing to them at the Insight.com Bowl in 2001.
It’s been a…
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November 2010
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Life in the Shadow of BTK →
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d r o w n m e i n b e a u t y: Last night at a... →
nalina-m:
Last night at a SoHo showroom Kansas-based architect Dan Rockhill spoke about his work. He has two professional lives, one at an eponymous firm and another with the non-profit Studio 804. His role at Studio 804 is a lot like the late Samuel Mockbee’s at Rural Studio. Each semester…
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Vintage Wichita Postcards →
youknowyoulovemexoxojennifer:
A collection of cool and rare - I haven’t seen a lot of these - Wichita postcards through the years.
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Cats Save Family From Fire →
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The Ojanguren family in Baldwin City, Kansas, were saved yesterday from a fire that destroyed most of their house by their three cats, who woke them with their squealing. Unfortunately, the cats were not rescued by the owners nor the fire fighters and are missing.
In The News: The Unstable Edition: Twinkie diet... →
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(CNN) — Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on…
We’ve been covering this story for a few months and roughly 30 pounds...
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Outing Kansans: Vernon L. Smith
Vernon L. Smith was born in in Wichita where he attended Wichita North High School and Friends University. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Caltech in 1949, an M.A. in economics from KU in 1952, and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1955. He became a leader in academics and was a pioneer in the use of psychological and experimental...
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Outing Kansans: Jack Kilby
Jack Kilby was born and raised in Great Bend. In mid-1958, Kilby was a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments who did not yet have the right to a summer vacation. He spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design that was commonly called the “tyranny of numbers” and finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single ...
3 Jayhawks in the Top 25 Most Powerful Women List →
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News Around Kansas
Kansan Loses on Biggest Loser (Topeka Capital Journal)
Woman Robbed While Buying Bootlegged Booze (Wichita Eagle)
Tis the Season for Grad School Application Tips (Lawrence Journal World)
October 2010
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Only 90 days until Kansas Day!!!!!!
What will you dress up like on January 29th for Kansas’ 150th Birthday? Amelia Earhart? Ornate Box Turtle?
