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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
Kansas City, Missouri's first highrise is the New York Life Insurance Building, completed in 1890. It has twelve floors at a height of 180 feet (55 m) and is the first local building with elevators. After the New York Life Building was completed, Kansas City followed the national trend of constructing a plethora of buildings above ten stories.
The Kansas City Missouri Temple was announced concurrently with the Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Calgary Alberta, Córdoba Argentina, and Rome Italy temples. On October 22, 2009, the Kansas City Council approved The Meadows at Searcy Creek First Plat, the subdivision of the Shoal Creek development where the temple is located.
The Kansas City Star and its associated publication the Kansas City Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for their 16 months of investigative coverage of the collapse. [ 31 ] A memorial was dedicated by Skywalk Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization established for victims of the collapse, on November 12, 2015, in Hospital Hill Park across ...
The building was designed in 1885 by Frederick Elmer Hill of the New York City architecture firm of McKim, Mead & White.Hill, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1882, came to Kansas City in 1885 initially to oversee the construction of his design but ended up staying until 1901, when he designed other notable buildings.
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The Kansas City Star is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. [7] Other papers published in the city include: The Call, local African-American news, weekly [8] Kansas City Business Journal, business news, weekly [9] The Kansas City Globe, local African-American news, weekly [10] Kansas City Hispanic News, local Hispanic news, weekly [11]
Kansas City's overlapping initials appear inside a white arrowhead instead of an oval and are surrounded by a thin black outline. [1] From 1960 to 1973, the Chiefs had grey facemask bars on their helmets, but changed to white bars for 1974.