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The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium is a 202-acre (82 ha) zoo founded in 1909 and is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive, Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States.The zoo has a Friends of the Zoo program to help promote the work of the zoo which sees over one million visitors a year.
The Battle of Maritsa or Battle of Chernomen (Serbian: Marička bitka / Маричка битка; Turkish: Çirmen Muharebesi, İkinci Meriç Muharebesi in tr. Second Battle of Maritsa) took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen (present-day Ormenio, Greece) on 26 September 1371 between Ottoman forces commanded by Lala Shahin Pasha and Evrenos, and Serbian forces commanded ...
This is a list of all National Historic Landmarks designated by the U.S. government in Kansas.There are 26 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Kansas. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.
Swope Park is a city park in Kansas City, Missouri. At 1,805 acres (7.30 km 2 ), it is the 51st-largest municipal park in the United States, and the largest park in Kansas City. [ 1 ] It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope , a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896.
Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City; Missouri Down Under Adventure Zoo, Van Buren; Promised Land Zoo, Eagle Rock and Branson; Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis; Wild Animal Adventure, Stanton; Wild Animal Safari, Strafford; Wonders of Wildlife Museum & Aquarium, Springfield
The Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, with exhibits and tours of the multi-story cash vault. Irish Museum and Cultural Center located in Kansas City's Union Station. Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, local area history and natural sciences museum in a Beaux-Arts mansion.
Monument Rocks (also Chalk Pyramids) are a series of large chalk formations in Gove County, Kansas, rich in fossils. The formations were the first landmark in Kansas chosen by the U.S. Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark. The chalk formations reach a height of up to 70 ft (21 m) and include formations such as buttes and ...
The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri. Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture , as well as the ...