Kansas

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Topeka, KS

Population, Largest City, and Capital

• The population in Kansas is 2,688,418 people.
• The largest city is Wichita with 382,368 people.
• The state capital is Topeka, KS.

Fun Facts

• The first Pizza Hut was made in Kansas.
• Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States.
• At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower from Abilene was the 34th President of the United States.
• A ball of twine in Cawker City measures over 38' in circumference and weighs more than 16,750 pounds and is still growing.

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Famous Person

• Dee Wallace Stone (1948 - ) Is an American motion picture and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in several popular films. These include the starring role as Elliot's separated mother in the Steven Spielberg film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), her widest seen role. In total, she has appeared in more than 85 films. Born in Kansas City, KS

State song and symbols

• Home on the http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Kansas/kansasstatesong.html
• by Brewster Higley & Dan Kelley
• Verse 1:Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam,�Where the deer and the antelope play,�Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,�And the skies are not cloudy all day.Chorus:Home, home on the range,�Where the deer and the antelope play,�Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,�And the skies are not cloudy all day.Verse 2:Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,�The breezes so balmy and light,�That I would not exchange my home on the range�For all the cities so bright.Verse 3:Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand�Flows leisurely down the stream;�Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along�Like a maid in a heavenly dream.Verse 4:The red man was pressed from this part of the West,�He's likly no more to return�To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever�Their flickering campfires burn.Verse 5:How often at night when the heavens are bright�With the light of the glittering stars,�Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed�If their glory exceeds that of ours.Verse 6:Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours;�The curlew I love to hear scream;�And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks�That graze on the mountain-tops green.Verse 7:Then I would not exchange my home on the range,�Where the deer and the antelope play;�Where seldom is heard a discouraging word�And the skies are not cloudy all day.