Hundreds of Kansas National Guard members deploy for Kuwait
Indiana National Guard 5-19th ADT Returns from Afghanistan
5-19th ADT Returns from Afghanistan. Video by 2nd Lt. Brian Weitzeil | Indiana National Guard, Joint Force Headquarters | Date: 04.09.2013. Indiana National Guard Soldiers of the 5-19th Agribusiness Development team return from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan. Includes sound bites from Sharla Stevens, 5-19th ADT Operations NCO. Also available in high definition. HD Video.
La Plata, Missouri USA - Virtual Railfan LIVE
This is a live stream of La Plata, Missouri, USA, for people who enjoy watching trains.
Actual start date: May 19, 2017
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La Plata, MO, in Northern Missouri, is located on BNSF Railway's Marceline Subdivision at milepost 312.7, part of their Southern Transcon, the former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) mainline between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Joint Civil Disturbance Training
Soldiers with the 35th Military Police Company, Kansas Army National Guard and Security Forces Airmen with the 184th Intelligence Wing and 190th Air Refueling Wing, Kansas Air National Guard, conducted civil disturbance training together in Topeka Sept. 21, 2016. (U.S. Army National Guard video by Sgt. Zach Sheely/Released)
Grissom Air Museum
Brief tour of this informative historical museum next door to the Grissom Air Reserve Base near Peru, IN
Dutchtown Cemetery Chemung NY Revolutionary War Soldiers and War of 1812.MOV
Dutchtown Cemetery Chemung NY Revolutionary War Soldiers and War of 1812 Small hilltop cemetery. Sullivan Clinton Revolutionary War Campaign Battle fought in Lowman NY near by.
International officers learning from U.S. military in Kansas
KSNT News
Oregon National Guard shout out to Oregon Ducks: 2LT Travis West
Oregon Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Travis C. West, Platoon Leader for Charlie Co., 1-82 CAV, gives a shout out to the Oregon Ducks. Video by Master Sgt. Tom Hovie, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs Office.
The History of the Pittsburg Purple Dragon
Pittsburg High School's mascot is the Purple Dragon. But why?
The Missouri River: Starting Point for the Western Trails, by Travis Boley
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The Missouri River: Starting Point for the Western Trails, by Travis Boley, Association Manager for the Oregon-California Trails Association - Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
Big Muddy Speakers Series (Kansas City) hosted by
Healthy Rivers Partnership (
Lakeside Nature Center ( and
RiverRelief (
at the Westport Coffeehouse Theater (
For many pioneers headed west, the Missouri River served as the
first leg in their journey to the Western Trails. Travis Boley,,
rethinks the Missouri River in terms of its unique status as a
waterway that doubles as a National Historic Trail.
He is already engaged in creating a 40 mile hiking/biking trail
in the shared historic corridor of the Oregon/California/Santa Fe
Trail from Sugar Creek, Missouri to Gardner, Kansas. It will
intersect with the Katy Trail Extension at 63rd and Blue Ridge
Blvd. in Raytown, Missouri making it possible for hikers and
bikers to easily access the Missouri River at the former Wayne
City Landing near present day Sugar Creek, Missouri.
His grander vision includes opening up wide swaths of the
Missouri River shoreline to allow similar non-motorized access to
our metro area’s riverfront, including trails that connect the
remaining historic sites from the Lewis & Clark Expedition and
the old riverboat landings for the wagon roads. This concept
would fully realize the idea that Congress established in the
1968 National Trails Act, which called for the building of
“retracement” trails in such corridors to forever preserve these
corridors.
Kansas | Wikipedia audio article
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).
Project Nike
Project Nike, (Greek: Νίκη, Victory, pronounced [nǐːkɛː]), was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for developing the Nike Ajax were re-used for a number of functions, many of which were given the Nike name (after Nike, the goddess of victory from Greek mythology). The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for many types of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research.
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The Evidence of Things Seen and Unseen
President Donald Trump's full 'MAGA' rally in Mississippi
President Trump is holding another rally Tuesday night, his third in four days. Tonight's rally is in Southaven, Mississippi and is scheduled to begin at 7:40 p.m. ET.
On Tuesday, the president is stumping for Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to replace Senator Thad Cochran but faces a special election on Nov. 6 against Democrat Mike Epsy and Republican Chris McDaniel. The president was supposed to hold a rally in Mississippi last month, but postponed it due to Hurricane Florence.
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Jocko Podcast 76 with Charlie Plumb - 6 Years a POW at The Hanoi Hilton
Join the conversation on Twitter: @jockowillink @CaptPlumb @echocharles
0:00:00 - Opening.
0:03:59 - Intro to Capt. Charlie Plumb. I'm No Hero (book)
0:16:43 - Vietnam War and Flight Training.
0:29:15 - Deployment to Vietnam.
0:44:14 - Shot Down.
0:59:07 - The Hanoi Hilton.
2:26:35 - Release from The Hanoi Hilton.
2:30:44 - Life after Imprisonment.
2:38:40 - Reflections and Lessons Learned.
3:01:06 - Support, Cool Onnit, JockoStore stuff, with Jocko White Tea and Psychological Warfare (on iTunes). Extreme Ownership (book), (Jocko's Kids' Book) Way of the Warrior Kid, and The Muster 003.
3:12:25 - Closing Gratitude.
List of aerospace museums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:20 1 Afghanistan
00:00:37 2 Argentina
00:00:59 3 Australia
00:01:09 3.1 Australian Capital Territory
00:01:24 3.2 New South Wales
00:02:26 3.3 Northern Territory
00:02:46 3.4 Queensland
00:03:22 3.5 South Australia
00:03:37 3.6 Victoria
00:04:20 3.7 Western Australia
00:04:42 4 Austria
00:05:29 5 Belarus
00:05:49 6 Belgium
00:06:27 7 Brazil
00:07:07 8 Bulgaria
00:07:17 8.1 Sofia
00:07:35 8.2 Plovdiv
00:07:49 9 Burma
00:08:03 10 Cambodia
00:08:18 11 Canada
00:08:27 11.1 Alberta
00:09:04 11.2 British Columbia
00:09:28 11.3 Manitoba
00:10:06 11.4 Newfoundland and Labrador
00:10:21 11.5 Nova Scotia
00:10:49 11.6 Ontario
00:11:41 11.7 Quebec
00:12:13 11.8 Saskatchewan
00:12:29 12 Chile
00:12:50 13 China
00:14:00 14 Colombia
00:14:24 15 Croatia
00:14:37 16 Cuba
00:14:47 16.1 Havana
00:15:04 16.2 Matanzas
00:15:18 17 Czech Republic
00:16:06 18 Denmark
00:16:48 19 Ecuador
00:17:05 20 El Salvador
00:17:20 21 Estonia
00:17:34 22 Finland
00:18:10 23 France
00:20:34 24 Germany
00:24:22 25 Greece
00:25:02 26 Hungary
00:25:35 27 Iceland
00:25:50 28 India
00:26:19 29 Indonesia
00:26:34 30 Iran
00:26:58 31 Ireland
00:27:16 32 Israel
00:27:34 33 Italy
00:28:21 34 Japan
00:28:30 34.1 Honshu
00:29:15 34.2 Hokkaido
00:29:43 35 Laos
00:29:58 36 Latvia
00:30:12 37 Lebanon
00:30:26 38 Lithuania
00:30:41 39 Malaysia
00:31:04 40 Malta
00:31:19 41 Mexico
00:31:44 42 Nepal
00:32:04 43 Netherlands
00:32:54 44 New Zealand
00:33:38 45 Nigeria
00:33:51 46 Norway
00:34:25 47 Pakistan
00:34:39 48 Peru
00:34:54 49 Philippines
00:35:13 50 Poland
00:36:09 51 Portugal
00:36:31 52 Republic of China (Taiwan)
00:36:53 53 Romania
00:37:17 54 Russia
00:39:02 55 Saudi Arabia
00:39:17 56 Serbia
00:39:31 57 Singapore
00:39:45 58 Slovakia
00:40:04 59 South Africa
00:40:32 60 South Korea
00:40:55 61 Spain
00:41:36 62 Sri Lanka
00:41:51 63 Sweden
00:42:36 64 Switzerland
00:43:02 65 Taiwan
00:43:21 66 Thailand
00:43:36 67 Turkey
00:44:10 68 Ukraine
00:44:37 69 United Kingdom
00:44:47 69.1 England
00:48:34 69.2 Isle of Man
00:48:49 69.3 Northern Ireland
00:49:04 69.4 Scotland
00:49:30 69.5 Wales
00:49:45 70 United States
00:49:55 70.1 Alabama
00:50:11 70.2 Alaska
00:50:31 70.3 Arkansas
00:50:41 70.4 Arizona
00:50:57 70.5 California
00:54:34 70.6 Colorado
00:55:16 70.7 Connecticut
00:55:39 70.8 Delaware
00:55:53 70.9 Florida
00:57:00 70.10 Georgia
00:57:31 70.11 Hawaii
00:57:52 70.12 Idaho
00:58:18 70.13 Illinois
00:59:16 70.14 Indiana
01:00:11 70.15 Iowa
01:00:31 70.16 Kansas
01:01:05 70.17 Kentucky
01:01:33 70.18 Louisiana
01:01:54 70.19 Maine
01:02:13 70.20 Maryland
01:02:48 70.21 Massachusetts
01:03:09 70.22 Michigan
01:03:55 70.23 Minnesota
01:04:48 70.24 Mississippi
01:05:04 70.25 Missouri
01:05:39 70.26 Montana
01:05:53 70.27 Nebraska
01:06:08 70.28 Nevada
01:06:29 70.29 New Hampshire
01:06:51 70.30 New Jersey
01:07:20 70.31 New Mexico
01:07:57 70.32 New York
01:09:19 70.33 North Carolina
01:10:16 70.34 North Dakota
01:10:44 70.35 Ohio
01:11:51 70.36 Oklahoma
01:12:11 70.37 Oregon
01:12:34 70.38 Pennsylvania
01:13:10 70.39 Rhode Island
01:13:27 70.40 South Carolina
01:13:42 70.41 South Dakota
01:14:05 70.42 Tennessee
01:14:26 70.43 Texas
01:16:15 70.44 Utah
01:16:35 70.45 Vermont
01:16:51 70.46 Virginia
01:17:51 70.47 Washington
01:18:36 70.48 Washington, D.C.
01:18:57 70.49 Wisconsin
01:19:17 70.50 Wyoming
01:19:31 71 Venezuela
01:19:46 72 Vietnam
01:20:22 73 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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This is a list of aerospace museums and museums that contain significant aerospace-related exhibits throughout the world. The aerospace museums are listed alphabetically by country and their article name.
The Local Show - June 20, 2013
This week: Orthopedic treatments for dogs that may soon be put to work on humans. The Art of the Car Concours is coming back to town. Drones are in the news and on campus in Manhattan, Kansas.
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a military aerial refueling aircraft. It and the Boeing 707 airliner were developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype. The KC-135 was the US Air Force's first jet-powered refueling tanker and replaced the KC-97 Stratotanker. The KC-135 was initially tasked to refuel strategic bombers, but was used extensively in the Vietnam War and later conflicts such as Operation Desert Storm to extend the range and endurance of US tactical fighters and bombers.
The KC-135 entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1957; it is one of six military fixed-wing aircraft with over 50 years of continuous service with its original operator. The KC-135 is supplemented by the larger KC-10. Despite increased maintenance costs, studies conclude many of the aircraft could be flown until 2040. The aircraft will eventually be replaced by the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus.
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African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) | Wikipedia audio article
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African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954)
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The African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
Two United States Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), which upheld separate but equal racial segregation as constitutional doctrine, and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which overturned Plessy—serve as milestones. This was an era of new beginnings, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, were very successful but left little lasting legacy, while others, such as the NAACP's painstaking legal assault on state-sponsored segregation, achieved modest results in its early years but made steady progress on voter rights and gradually built to a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
After the Civil War, the US expanded the legal rights of African Americans. Congress passed, and enough states ratified, an amendment ending slavery in 1865—the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment only outlawed slavery; it provided neither citizenship nor equal rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified by the states, granting African Americans citizenship. All persons born in the US were extended equal protection under the laws of the Constitution. The 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated that race could not be used as a condition to deprive men of the ability to vote. During Reconstruction (1865–1877), Northern troops occupied the South. Together with the Freedmen's Bureau, they tried to administer and enforce the new constitutional amendments. Many black leaders were elected to local and state offices, and many others organized community groups, especially to support education.
Reconstruction ended following the Compromise of 1877 between Northern and Southern white elites. In exchange for deciding the contentious Presidential election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, supported by Northern states, over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, the compromise called for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South. This followed violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled Southern white Democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the South. The compromise and withdrawal of Federal troops meant that white Democrats had more freedom to impose and enforce discriminatory practices. Many African Americans responded to the withdrawal of federal troops by leaving the South in what is known as the Kansas Exodus of 1879.
The Radical Republicans, who spearheaded Reconstruction, had attempted to eliminate both governmental and private discrimination by legislation. That effort was largely ended by the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give Congress power to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals or businesses.