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  1. 105 relations: African Americans, Alaska Natives, All-news radio, American Community Survey, AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network, Area code 785, Big Easel, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Brewster, Kansas, Brook Berringer, CBS, Census, Charles I. Sparks, Cheyenne, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Christian contemporary hit radio, City, City commission government, City manager, City of license, Classic rock, Colby, Kansas, Colorado, Country music, County seat, Dave Jones (American football), Deanell Reece Tacha, Denver, Deseret News, EPodunk, European Americans, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Information Processing Standards, Federal Judicial Center, Full-service radio, Geobytes, Geographic Names Information System, George Armstrong Custer, Goodland, Indiana, Great Plains, Harry D. Felt, Helicopter, High Plains (United States), Humid continental climate, Interstate 70 in Kansas, John Wayne Delehant, K-27 (Kansas highway), Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, ... Expand index (55 more) »

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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All-news radio

All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news.

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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AN/URC-117 Ground Wave Emergency Network

The Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) was a US Air Force command and control communications system, deployed briefly between 1992 and 1994, intended for use by the United States government to facilitate military communications before, during and after a nuclear war.

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Area code 785

Area code 785 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for most of the northern part of the U.S. state Kansas.

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Big Easel

The Big Easel is an installation art piece, created by Canadian artist Cameron Cross, and located in the town of Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia.

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Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

The Biographical Directory of Federal Judges is a publication of the Federal Judicial Center providing basic biographical information on all past and present United States federal court Article III judges (those federal judges with life tenure).

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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (Bioguide) is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress.

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Brewster, Kansas

Brewster is a city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States. Goodland, Kansas and Brewster, Kansas are cities in Kansas.

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Brook Berringer

Brook Warren Berringer (July 9, 1973 – April 18, 1996) was an American quarterback for the University of Nebraska football team in the mid-1990s.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Charles I. Sparks

Charles Isaac Sparks (December 20, 1872 – April 30, 1937) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) was an American Class I railroad.

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Christian contemporary hit radio

Christian contemporary hit radio (sometimes abbreviated as Christian CHR) is a radio format that is common in the United States and Australia focusing on playing current and recent music as determined by the contemporary Christian music Top 40.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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City commission government

City commission government is a form of local government in the United States.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city in the council–manager form of city government.

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City of license

In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.

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Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s.

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Colby, Kansas

Colby is a city in and the county seat of Thomas County, Kansas, United States. Goodland, Kansas and Colby, Kansas are cities in Kansas.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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David Ray Jones (born August 10, 1947) is a former American football wide receiver who played three seasons with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL).

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Deanell Reece Tacha

Deanell Reece Tacha (born January 26, 1946) is a retired United States circuit judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a multi-platform newspaper based in Salt Lake City, published by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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EPodunk

ePodunk was a website that profiled communities in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the UK.

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European Americans

European Americans are Americans of European ancestry.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Federal Judicial Center

The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts.

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Full-service radio

Full service radio is a type of radio format characterized by a mix of music programming and a large amount of locally-produced and hyperlocal programming, such as news and discussion focusing on local issues, news, sports coverage, interviews, call-in segments, and sometimes religious content.

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Geobytes

Geobytes is a global company that provides geolocation and anti-spam software.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

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Goodland, Indiana

Goodland is a town in Grant Township in Newton County, Indiana.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.

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Harry D. Felt

Admiral Harry Donald Felt (June 21, 1902 – February 25, 1992) was an aviator in the United States Navy who led U.S. carrier strikes during World War II and later served as commander in chief of Pacific Command (CINCPAC) from 1958 to 1964.

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.

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High Plains (United States)

The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Interstate 70 in Kansas

Interstate 70 (I-70) is a mainline route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States connecting Cove Fort, Utah, to Baltimore, Maryland.

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John Wayne Delehant

John Wayne Delehant (September 3, 1890 – April 20, 1972) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

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K-27 (Kansas highway)

K-27 is an approximately north–south state highway that parallels Kansas' western border with Colorado.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area.

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Kansas Department of Transportation

The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is a state government organization in charge of maintaining public roadways of the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Kansas Supreme Court

The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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KBSL-DT

KBSL-DT (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Goodland, Kansas, United States, serving northwestern Kansas as an affiliate of CBS.

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KGCR

KGCR is a Christian radio station broadcasting on 107.7 FM, licensed to Goodland, Kansas, serving Northwestern Kansas.

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Kidder fight

The Kidder Fight (or Kidder Massacre), of July 2, 1867 refers to a skirmish near what is now Goodland, Kansas involving a detachment of ten enlisted men and an Indian scout of the United States 2nd Cavalry under the command of Second Lieutenant Lyman S. Kidder who were attacked and wiped out by a mixed Lakota and Cheyenne force.

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KLOE

KLOE (730 AM) is a radio station that serves western Kansas from the town of Goodland, Kansas.

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KWCH-DT

KWCH-DT (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, serving the Wichita area as an affiliate of CBS.

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KWGB

KWGB (97.9 FM) is a country music radio station serving western Kansas from Colby, Kansas, United States.

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Lincoln Journal Star

The Lincoln Journal Star is an American daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital and home of the University of Nebraska.

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List of counties in Kansas

This is a list of counties in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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List of townships in Kansas

The U.S. state of Kansas is divided into 1,404 townships in 105 counties.

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Marla Luckert

Marla Jo Luckert (born July 20, 1955) is the chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court appointed by Governor Bill Graves on November 20, 2002, and sworn on January 13, 2003.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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McCook, Nebraska

McCook is a city in and the county seat of Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States.

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Wichita is a major center of media in Kansas.

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Mike Friede

Michael Gordon Friede (born September 22, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions and New York Giants.

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Milo Baughman

Milo Ray Baughman, Jr. (October 7, 1923 – July 23, 2003) born in Goodland, Kansas, was a modern furniture designer.

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Mountain Time Zone

The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time (UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−06:00).

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Nielsen Audio

Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Northwest Kansas Technical College

Northwest Kansas Technical College is a public technical college in Goodland, Kansas, United States.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Pre-kindergarten

Pre-kindergarten (also called Pre-K or PK) is a voluntary classroom-based preschool program for children below the age of five in the United States, Canada, Turkey and Greece (when kindergarten starts).

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Republican River

The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, rising in the High Plains of eastern Colorado and flowing east U.S. Geological Survey.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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Sherman County, Kansas

Sherman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the title of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel (TWC) is an American pay television channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group.

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Tinker Keck

Tinker "Ty" Keck (born August 10, 1976 in Colby, Kansas) is a Hollywood fitness trainer, former NFL defensive back for the New York Giants and XFL's Los Angeles Xtreme and former actor.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Wichita, Kansas

Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. Goodland, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas are cities in Kansas.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States)

The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Second Dragoons, is an active Stryker infantry and cavalry regiment of the United States Army.

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See also

1887 establishments in Kansas

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodland,_Kansas

Also known as Goodland High School, Goodland, KS, History of Goodland, Kansas, UN/LOCODE:USGLD.

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