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The Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) are governed by a non-partisan elected school board, the USD 259 Board of Education (BoE), which has seven members. Six members are nominated by voters in six geographically defined board districts throughout the overall school district. There is one nominee from each district.
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys. While lasting less than a minute on October 26, 1881, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century. Taking place in the Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the battle has ...
Lawrence, Kansas Bleeding Kansas 1 [6] Pro-slavery mob [7] vs abolitionist civilians Pottawatomie massacre [8] May 24–25, 1856 Franklin County, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 5 Free-Staters [9] vs Pro-slavery settlers [10] Battle of Black Jack [11] June 2, 1856 near modern Baldwin City, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas Border Ruffians [12] vs Free-Staters ...
The Battle of Kansas (also known as the "Battle of Wichita" [ 1]) was the nickname for a project to build, modify, and deliver large quantities of the world's most advanced bomber to the front-lines in Europe, and then to the Pacific, although because of delays in production, it was used only in the Pacific. The "battle" began as the first.
The Battle of the Books at Wikisource. " The Battle of the Books " is a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy.
John Jakes described the battle as a massacre in the final book of the North and South trilogy, Heaven and Hell, published in 1987. [110] The 1991 television film Son of the Morning Star, based on Evan S. Connell's non-fiction book of the same name, presented the battle from the points of view of Kate Bighead (Cheyenne) and Elizabeth Custer. It ...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. The Bible with Sources Revealed. The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists. Blood, Money & Power. Bond Girls Are Forever. The Book of Bunny Suicides. Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders.
Hays is located in northwestern Kansas at the intersection of Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 183, Hays is 134 miles (216 km) northwest of Wichita, 256 miles (412 km) west of Kansas City, and 311 miles (501 km) east-southeast of Denver.