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Encyclopedia: Wichita, Kansas

Wichita, also known as the Air Capital of the World, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, as well as a major aircraft manufacturing hub and cultural center. In July of 2006, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Wichita ninth on its list of the 10 best big cities to live in the United States. The city is home to six major aircraft manufacturing companies and McConnell Air Force Base. Wichita is located in South Central Kansas on the Arkansas River, and is the county seat of Sedgwick County.

Wichita is the 51st largest city in the United States with an estimated population of 354,865 in the year 2005. The Wichita Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which encompasses Sedgwick, Butler, Harvey, and Sumner counties, has a 2004 estimated population of 584,671 persons residing in 245,159 households, making it the 82nd largest MSA in the United States. The Wichita-Winfield Combined Statistical Area also includes Cowley County and has an estimated population of 618,641.

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How to say "Wichita, Kansas" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	威奇托 (堪萨斯州)
	(Japanese)	ウィチタ
	(German)	Wichita (Kansas)
	(Spanish)	Wichita (Kansas)
	(French)	Wichita

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Carlos Mayans

Carlos Mayans is mayor of the city of Wichita, Kansas as of April 2003. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1949 and immigrated to the United States shortly after Cuba's communist uprising...

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List of people from Kansas

, Kansas (but born in Texas). Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize winner in Economics born and raised in Wichita... City, Kansas. Kirstie Alley (born 1955), actress, Wichita, Kansas. Don Johnson (born 1959), actor, born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. Loren Entz, western artist, Whitewater, Kansas. Blackbear Bosin...

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Flour bomb

elevator in Wichita, Kansas which killed 7 people. For full instructions see: [1...

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Roe Messner

Roe Messner was an American writer born Ronald Roe Messner and later married to Tammy Faye Bakker in 1993. He was co-author of a book Building For The Master: By Design (0940609002). He was the founder of the now bankrupt Wichita, Kansas based church builder Messner Construction, which was the...

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Blackbear Bosin

Corps during World War II and spent most of his adult life in Wichita, Kansas. Collections Bureau of..., D.C. Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma Wichita Art Association Gallery, Wichita, Kansas Wichita Art Museum, Kansas. Private Collection, Stevan Allen, Morgan Hill, California...

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ICTMF

ICTMF - This is the preferred name for Wichita, Kansas used by young (or old) punks, emo kids, and indie rock-ers. The "ICT" part is the airport code for Wichita's MidContinent Airport and the "MF" part should be pretty clear. If you want to visit Wichita and blend in with the natives, just say...

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Annette Daniels

The mezzo-soprano Annette Daniels (born 10 September 1961 - 1 April 2004) was an American opera singer. Daniels was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. She graduated from Wichita State University with a M.A. in Voice Performance and French. Daniels appeared with a variety of opera companies in the...

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List of television stations in Kansas

stations Channel 3: KSNW - (NBC) - Wichita "KSN 3" Channel 8: KPTS - (PBS) - Wichita "Kansas Public...: KAKE - (ABC) - Wichita "ABC Kansas" Channel 11: KTWU - (PBS) - Topeka Channel 12: KWCH - (CBS... Kansas" Channel 27: KSNT - (NBC) - Topeka Channel 33: KWCV - (WB) - Wichita "WB 33 Kansas" Channel 36...

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College of Emporia

called the "Athens of Kansas." In March 1909, the Lewis Academy, a Presbyterian school in Wichita, Kansas, consolidated with the College of Emporia. In 1884 William Allen White enrolled at the College of... The College of Emporia was established in 1882, in Emporia, Kansas and was associated with the...

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Interstate 35

, Oklahoma Wichita, Kansas Kansas City, Missouri Des Moines, Iowa Minneapolis, Minnesota (I-35W) Saint..., Oklahoma - I-235 Wichita, Kansas - I-235 Spur to Wichita, Kansas and Salina, Kansas - I-135 (see.... I-135, which branches off in Wichita, Kansas, is 95 miles long. It carried the designation I-35W...

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