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No mountains border Kansas. Kansas is flat if there were mountains then they wouldn't have tornadoes. Now, Colorado borders Kansas and Colorado has the Rocky mountains but those run up the western side of the state.
The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dug potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River.
Technically, the mistletoe is now the state emblem since then Governor Brad Henry signed a bill making the Oklahoma Rose the official state flower.The mistletoe was chosen as the territorial state flower and then state flower back in 1890 when the state had a very hard winter and mistletoe was one of the few flowers that did not suffer that year."Mistletoe a controversial choice for Oklahoma state flower" News Oklahoma.http://newsok.com/article/3683115
The Purple Iris is generally considered to be the State Flower. Some may think that the Passion Flower is the State Flower and this was the case until 1973 when the General Assembly officially adopted the Iris, but then did not specify the colour. Purple is now generally accepted
Many people belived in these mythical birds and now is mascots and a nickname
yes as long as your a resident of kansas now its a different state.
They originally lived near the Arkansas River in what is now the state of Kansas.
Kansas city, Kansas
The origin of this name is Arabic. The meaning of the name is literally flower of heaven. Muslims believe there is a specific flower in heaven that is called eshaal. Check out any good Arabic web site and look up the meaning of Eshaal. Ciao for now
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'Bleeding Kansas' - a clash of terrorists from the two sections, when Kansas was voting whether to be a slave state or a free state. This is now seen as a curtain-raiser for the Civil War. Some say these were the first shots of the war.