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Garden City – Cutting Horse Capital [10] Girard – Printing Capital of the Nation [11] Haysville – Peach Capital of Kansas [4] Jennings – Czech Us Out [12] Kansas City. KCK [13] Heart of America [14] Kirwin – Goose Capital [5] La Crosse – Barbed Wire Capital of the World [15] Lansing – City With a Future [16] Lawrence. River City ...
City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [ 2 ] are also believed to have economic value. [ 1 ]
Cuba – Mural City [9] Hannibal. America's Hometown [10] The Bluff City [11] Independence – Where the Trails Start and the Buck Stops [12] Jefferson City. City of Thomas Jefferson [13] J.C. Jeff; Kansas City. BBQ Capital of the World [14] City of Fountains [15] Cowtown [14] Jazz Capital of the World [14] K.C. (inspiring the nickname of Casey ...
The editorial board of the Kansas City Times supported such an action, writing, in 1878, “Kansas City, Mo., is the legitimate outgrowth of the state of Kansas. In everything but a line on the ...
City of Kansas City, a 1947 to 1968 Wabash Railroad streamliner train; City of St. Louis, a Union Pacific streamliner train called City of Kansas City from 1968 to 1971, USS Kansas City, the name of several U.S. Navy ships
The South is known for having their own lingo. But these six phrases are pretty unique to the Peach state. Do you know them all?
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.
Kansas City briefly had four short-term major league baseball teams between 1884 and 1915: the Kansas City Unions of the short-lived Union Association in 1884, the Kansas City Cowboys in the National League in 1886, a team of the same name in the then-major league American Association in 1888 and 1889, and the Kansas City Packers in the Federal ...