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Kansas i/ˈkænzəs/ is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans". For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.
Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The band has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, The Best of Kansas), one platinum live album (Two for the Show) and a million-selling single, "Dust in the Wind". Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.
History
1970–73: Early years
In 1969, Lynn Meredith, Don Montre, Dan Wright and Kerry Livgren (guitars, keyboards, synthesizers) were performing in a band called The Reasons Why in their hometown of Topeka, Kansas. After changing the band's name to Saratoga, they started playing Livgren's original material with Scott Kessler playing bass and Zeke Lowe on drums.
Kansas is a census-designated place in northwestern Liberty Township, Seneca County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44841. It is located along State Route 635.
Kansas was platted in early 1855 along a line of the Lake Erie and Louisville Railroad. A short distance south of the community on State Route 635 is the Michaels Farm, which has been named a historic site.
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ALBUMS
- Song for America released: 2011
- Monolith released: 2011
- The Essential Kansas released: 2010
- There's Know Place Like Home released: 2009
- Playlist: The Very Best of Kansas released: 2008
- Two for the Show released: 2008
- Super Hits released: 2007
- Dust in the Wind released: 2004
- Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection released: 2004
- The Ultimate Kansas released: 2002
- Device-Voice-Drum released: 2002
- Dust in the Wind released: 2001
- Masque released: 2001
- Somewhere to Elsewhere released: 2000
- Dust in the Wind released: 1998
- Always Never the Same released: 1998
- King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents released: 1998
- Definitive Collection released: 1997
- Audio-Visions released: 1996
- Drastic Measures released: 1996
- Vinyl Confessions released: 1996
- Freaks of Nature released: 1995
- The Kansas Boxed Set released: 1994
- Carry On released: 1992
- Live at the Whisky released: 1992
- Dust in the Wind: The Best of Kansas released: 1991
- In the Spirit of Things released: 1988
- Power released: 1986
- The Best of Kansas released: 1984
- Kansas released: 1982
- Final Visions (disc 1) released: 1980
- Leftoverture released: 1976
- 1976-11-29: Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, USA released:
- 1980-11-20: Palladium, New York, NY, USA released:
- Monstruos Del Rock released:
- 1993-07-26: Dallas Alley, Dallas, TX, USA released:
- Platinum, Volume 2 released:
- Platinum, Volume 1 released:
- The Encore Collection released:
- Point of Know Return released:
Definitive Collection
Released 1997- Point of Know Return
- Carry on Wayward Son
- What's on My Mind
- Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel
- Song for America (live)
- The Wall (live)
- People of the South Wind
- Hold On
- Fight Fire With Fire
- Play the Game Tonight
- Tomb 19
- Stand Beside Me
- Hope Once Again
- Got to Rock On
- Reason to Be
- It Takes a Woman's Love (To Make a Man)
- Lonely Wind
- Dust in the Wind
1980-11-20: Palladium, New York, NY, USA
- [intro]
- Lohengrin (Wagner) / Point of Know Return
- Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel
- Paradox
- Hopelessly Human
- Cheyenne Anthem
- Dust in the Wind
- You Think You Got It Made / The Mask of the Great Deceiver
- Miracles Out of Nowhere (tape flip) / Loner
- Anything for You
- Don't Open Your Eyes
- Got to Rock On / No One Together / Relentless
- Hold on (closing credits, broadcasted prematurely)
- Portrait (He Knew) (cuts in)
- Carry On Wayward Son
1993-07-26: Dallas Alley, Dallas, TX, USA
- [intro]
- [untitled]
- Musicatto
- Point of Know Return
- Closet Chronicles
- The Wall
- Hold On
- Dust in the Wind
- Cheyenne Anthem
- On the Other Side (part 1)
- On the Other Side (part 2)
- Lonely Street / Dazed and Confused
- Child of Innocence
- Mysteries and Mayhem
- Portrait (He Knew)
- Carry On Wayward Son
- Down the Road
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