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A Cosmosphere in the Plains

Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on display in the world? The answer is in a most unexpected place…..

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Inside the Kansas Salt Mines

When you think of healthy jobs, mining doesn’t leap to the top of many people’s lists. However, in Kansas, people are welcome to explore far…

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Going Underground

We’ve sunk to a new level to bring you this program. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve lost our morals or values, we just had to…

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Eisenhower’s Birthplace

This President was born in Texas, but always claimed Kansas as his home…..

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Restoring Masterpieces

To say Joe Newell restores pool tables is like saying Michelangelo was just a painter. The work Joe does is a masterpiece itself, taking them…

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Pool Table Restoration

In the middle of farm country, you can find one of the nation’s experts on this game, not to mention he’s an expert craftsman that…

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The Union Station Massacre

Some say this event was the spark that created today’s FBI. It was a crime that made national headlines and still leaves a literal mark…

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Jim Thorpe

In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood two decades later. He was…

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A Star Athlete

When you think of historically great collegiate football programs, names like Notre Dame, Penn State and Alabama might come to mind. Most people don’t name…

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The Events at Osawatamie, Kansas

The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. However, one could make a…

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