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The Nebraska Portal Migratingsandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) depart their overnight roosting area in thePlatte River nearKearney, Nebraska, at dawn (2015).  Nebraska (/nəˈbræskə/ ⓘnə-BRASS-kə) is a landlockedstate in theMidwestern region of theUnited States. It bordersSouth Dakota to the north;Iowa to the east andMissouri to the southeast, both across theMissouri River;Kansas to the south;Colorado to the southwest; andWyoming to the west. Nebraska is the16th-largest state by land area, with just over 77,220 square miles (200,000 km2). With a population of over 2 million as of 2024, it is the38th-most populous state and theeighth-least densely populated. Nebraska'scapital isLincoln, and itsmost populous city isOmaha, which is on theMissouri River. Nebraska was admitted into the United States in 1867, two years after the end of theAmerican Civil War. TheNebraska Legislature is unlike any other American legislature in that it isunicameral, and its members are elected without any official reference topolitical party affiliation. Nebraska is one of only two states (Maine being the other) that divide electoral college votes by district, and is not winner-take-all. Nebraska is composed of two major land regions: theDissected Till Plains and theGreat Plains. The Dissected Till Plains region consists of gently rolling hills and contains the state's largest cities, Omaha and Lincoln. The Great Plains region, occupying most of western Nebraska, is characterized by treelessprairie. Eastern Nebraska has ahumid continental climate while western Nebraska is primarilysemi-arid. The state has wide variations between winter and summer temperatures; the variations decrease in southern Nebraska. Violentthunderstorms andtornadoes occur primarily during spring and summer, and sometimes in autumn. TheChinook wind tends to warm the state significantly in the winter and early spring. Indigenous peoples, includingOmaha,Missouria,Ponca,Pawnee,Otoe, and various branches of theLakota (Sioux) tribes, lived in the region for thousands of years beforeEuropean discovery and exploration. The state is crossed by many historic trails, including that of theLewis and Clark Expedition. The completion of theTranscontinental Railroad through Nebraska and passage of theHomestead Acts led to rapid growth in the population ofAmerican settlers in the 1870s and 1880s and the development of a large agriculture sector for which the state is known to this day. (Full article...) Selected article -show another Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908) (Ponca official orthography:Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ/Macunajin; other spellings:Ma-chú-nu-zhe,Ma-chú-na-zhe orMantcunanjin pronounced[mãtʃuꜜnãʒĩꜜ]) was aPonca chief andNative American civil rights leader who successfully argued inU.S. District Court in 1879 inOmaha that Native Americans are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right ofhabeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law. His first wife Zazette Primeau (Primo), daughter of Lone Chief (also known as Antoine Primeau), mother of Prairie Flower and Bear Shield, was also a signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case. (Full article...) Selected biography -show another Crawford in 1909 Samuel Earl Crawford (April 18, 1880 – June 15, 1968), nicknamed "Wahoo Sam", was an Americanoutfielder inMajor League Baseball (MLB). Crawford batted and threw left-handed, stood 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). Born inWahoo, Nebraska, he had a shortminor league baseball career before rapidly rising to the majors with theCincinnati Reds in 1899. He played for the Reds until 1902. (Full article...) Counties(clickable map) General images -load new batchThe following are images from various Nebraska-related articles on Wikipedia.
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