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John Curry is an aspiring artist that grew up on a farm in Kansas. John was influenced by nature and made wildly known artwork out of it. While living at the farm he was inspired for his painting “Kansas Cornfield”. This oil on canvas was completed in 1933 and now hangs in the Wichita Art Museum. This painting was one of the first artworks acquired by the Wichita Art Museum. The time on the piece gives the sense of John Curry’s Kansas has not changed. Like every piece of art, the painting “Kansas

ranch working with cattle in addition to learning to ride and lasso. He quickly realized his natural talent with a rope. During his childhood, Will Rogers attended multiple schools including, but not limited to, Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri (BIOGRAPHY, n.d.). Will Rogers’ father, whom he had a rocky relationship with, set high expectations for him. His father starkly contrasted with his mother who was loving and easygoing. Despite

7, 1945 Thomas Whitecotton a former Captain with the Missouri Highway Patrol, accepted the position of Warden of the Missouri State Penitentiary. His mission? “clean up” the penitentiary. A year later, Missouri formed the Department of Corrections. Whitecotton, became its new Director. Together with Missouri Governor Phil Donnelly, the two set out to take control of Missouri's prisons. Prisoners at MSP rioted in September of 1954. The Missouri Highway Patrol and local law enforcement entered the

The Eye of the Needle The Eye of the Needle was always an iconic place along the Missouri until May 1997 when it collapsed under suspicious circumstances. On the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the White Cliffs of Montana was a signature site described by Lewis. One of the extraordinary landmarks was the Eye of the Needle, which Meriwether Lewis first described its scenery by comparing its magnificent rock formations to “elegant ranges of lofting freestone buildings, having their parapets well stocked

The Hyatt Regency Disaster Kansas City Missouri July 17th, 1981 A brief summary of the underlying mechanical and ethical of this failure as a part of Mechanical Analysis and Design. Written By: Austin Bruce Hasan Polat MCET-450.02 Professor William Leonard The Hyatt Regency Hotel, the newest hotel built in Kansas City Missouri featuring an open atrium design at its entrance with floating walkways suspended on the second, third, and fourth floors. Only one year after its

Kansas City Hyatt Collapse An investigation into the design flaw of two floating balconies above the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, is discussed in this report. The following investigation includes a closer look at disputes in design between the engineering consultants and the fabrication company, as well as an examination of load capacity. In the design, three walkways were intertwined between the second, third, and fourth floors above the hotel’s atrium (Leyendecker

Fish And Game Warden Ever wonder what a fish and game wardens do? A fish and game warden is a police officers who enforce the laws protecting wildlife and natural habitats, particularly as they apply to hunting, boating and conservation.(2) With 9 different subjects in my research will help give you a better understanding of what a fish and game warden job intel’s. The work for fish and game wardens can be from informing individuals about the park, investigating hunting accidents and issues warnings

Individual Exhibit Evaluation The home front exhibit portion highlighted Nodaway County and Northwest’s war efforts during World War I and II. This exhibit portion included a case and two panels on the wooden board on the reverse side of the introduction portion. Within the exhibit portion there are three large text panels, objects, object labels, an interactive and two title text panels. The location of this portion worked well because the topic was not about a specifically about the military

On the 23 of September 2017 around 7:30pm I went and saw Tim McGraw and Faith Hill preform their Soul 2 Soul tour at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. I have never seen either of the two preform live in concert only on shows like the Country Music awards until this date. Having been a fan of country music and growing up in a family who has always been fans of this genera of music, I have listened to them both since and have been a huge fan of them each since. I wanted to see them live not

of prior uncharged incidents of domestic violence, because the evidence denied Mr. Davis of his rights to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, and Article I, Section 10 of the Missouri Constitution, in that the evidence was more prejudicial than probative because it was too remote in time to be relevant to the charged crimes and had a prejudicial effect. A. Standard of Review A trial court has broad discretion over questions of