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The American Royal began as a cattle show in 1899 in the Kansas City Stockyards. The name "American Royal" was inspired by a 1901 editorial in beef industry publication Kansas City Drovers Telegram titled "Call it the American Royal". The editorial said the Royal Agricultural Society of England has a similar event called the Royal Show.
The association was founded at the Marion Hotel in Little Rock on February 22, 1941, by prominent Arkansas citizens and scholars. Its mission upon establishment was “to promote interest in the history of Arkansas, to locate, collect, and preserve historical material, and to publish scarce and important source material, and also historical articles, news, and notes”.
Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major professional sports leagues; three major league teams remain today. The Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs (), to reach the World Series (), and to win the World Series (1985; against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the "Show-Me Series").
These popular, individualized works of art will soon start showing up all across the Kansas City metro area. KC’s Parade of Hearts is back for 2024. See some of the 101 hearts that’ll dot the ...
No. 18 Ole Miss (6-2, 2-2 SEC) will square off against rival Arkansas (5-3, 2-2) for the 71st time when they play at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Saturday ...
The Plantation Agriculture Museum in Scott, Arkansas, is a local museum showcasing the agricultural history of the area. Located near the Pulaski County and Lonoke County line, approximately 12 mi (19 km) east of Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County), the museum park sits in the Arkansas River lowlands, near the north shore of Horseshoe Lake.
The National Park Service (NPS) maintains sixteen properties in the state, as well as Arkansas Post National Memorial, which preserves the history of the first European settlement in Arkansas. The NPS also offers historical museums at Bathhouse Row , Central High School National Historic Site , Fort Smith National Historic Site , and Pea Ridge ...
the Agricultural Wheel was a protest against the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the difficulties of a pioneer, primitive, sparsely-settled community attempting to adapt itself to a small-scale commercialized state of agriculture, the effects of one-crop farming, the share and crop-lean systems, lawlessness, and corruption in "high ...