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Kansas Anymore
Kansas Anymore is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Role Model, released on July 19, 2024, and inspired by a breakup and homesickness for Maine.
Kansas City Athletics
Kansas City Athletics (1955–1967), the American League club between the Philadelphia and Oakland eras; owned by Arnold Johnson, accused of being a Yankees farm team, then Charles Finley, who moved it to Oakland.
Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs, NFL AFC West franchise founded 1959 by Lamar Hunt as the Dallas Texans, renamed Chiefs in 1963. Four Super Bowl wins (IV, LIV, LVII, LVIII); leaving Arrowhead for a Kansas domed stadium in 2031.
Kansas City crime family
Kansas City crime family, also called the Civella clan, a Kansas City, Missouri Italian-American Mafia family born under the Pendergast machine, led by Nick Civella, notorious for Las Vegas casino skimming, now a small remnant reportedly led by John Sciortino.
Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City International Airport, coded MCI from its original name Mid-Continent International Airport, is a commercial airport 15 miles northwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, opened in 1972.
Kansas City metropolitan area
The Kansas City metropolitan area, also known as Greater Kansas City, is a fourteen-county metro area straddling the Missouri–Kansas state line, with an estimated population of 2,270,682 in 2025.
Kansas City Monarchs
Kansas City Monarchs, Negro Leagues baseball franchise (1920-1965) founded by J.L. Wilkinson; won 10 pennants and the 1924 and 1942 Negro World Series, pioneered portable night baseball in 1930, and fielded Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, and Buck O'Neil.
Kansas City National Security Campus
The Kansas City National Security Campus is a Department of Energy facility in Kansas City, Missouri, producing most nonnuclear components, over 80%, of U.S. nuclear weapons.
Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals, MLB American League Central franchise founded as a 1969 expansion team owned by Ewing Kauffman; two-time World Series champions (1985, 2015), currently planning a downtown Crown Center ballpark opening in 2030.
Kansas City Scouts
Kansas City Scouts, NHL expansion team 1974-76 at Kemper Arena; awarded 1972 for $6 million; 27-110-23 all time; became Colorado Rockies in 1976 and New Jersey Devils in 1982.
Kansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern was an American Class I freight railroad connecting the central United States with Mexico, acquired by Canadian Pacific in 2023 to form CPKC.
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas (KCK), seat of Wyandotte County, is the third-largest Kansas city, consolidated with the county since 1997 as the Unified Government, home to Kansas Speedway and Sporting KC, and future site of the Chiefs' domed stadium.
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri: largest city in Missouri at the Kansas and Missouri rivers junction; 508,090 residents (2020), 521,220 (2025 est.); known for jazz, barbecue, fountains; Royals moving downtown, Chiefs leaving for Kansas.
Kansas Democratic Party
Kansas Democratic Party (KDP): state Democratic Party affiliate based in Topeka, chaired by Jeanna Repass, about 24.6% of Kansas voters; distinguished by the 1932 Senate drought, closed primaries, and competitive governor's races.
Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), headquartered in Topeka, is the Kansas state agency overseeing highways, transit, aviation, and rail, successor to the Kansas State Highway Commission created in 1917.
Kansas discography
Kansas discography: 16 studio albums (1974 Kansas to 2020 The Absence of Presence), 7 live albums, and compilations by the Topeka progressive rock band, with eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums, and the hits Carry On Wayward Son and Dust in the Wind.
Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas Jayhawks: athletic teams of the University of Kansas, NCAA Division I FBS, Big 12 Conference, crimson and blue, mascots Big Jay and Baby Jay; known for the Jayhawk symbol, Rock Chalk chant, Allen Fieldhouse, and football at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
Kansas Jayhawks football
Kansas Jayhawks football: University of Kansas team in the Big 12, Lawrence, Kansas. 126 seasons since 1901, 559-673-54, 5 conference titles (last 1968), 14 bowls, home at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, coached by Lance Leipold.
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball: University of Kansas Division I program in the Big 12, based at Allen Fieldhouse. Four NCAA titles (1952, 1988, 2008, 2022), coach Bill Self, among the all-time wins leaders.
Kansas Speedway
Kansas Speedway: 1.5-mile tri-oval in Kansas City, Kansas, opened 2001, hosting two NASCAR Cup races yearly; STAR Bonds-financed anchor of Village West and Hollywood Casino district.
Kansas State University
Kansas State University (K-State), public land-grant university in Manhattan, Kansas; first operational land-grant institution under the 1862 Morrill Act, chartered February 1863, opened September 2, 1863 with 52 students; 21,283 students in fall 2026 across Manhattan, Salina, and Olathe campuses.
Kansas State Wildcats football
Kansas State Wildcats football, Kansas State University's FBS team in the Big 12 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan. Four conference titles (2003, 2012, 2022 among them); transformed under coach Bill Snyder from one of college football's worst programs.
Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball
Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball: Manhattan, Kansas college program since 1903, also called K-State; 1,750+ wins, 32 NCAA appearances, four Final Fours (1948, 1951, 1958, 1964), home at Bramlage Coliseum, the Octagon of Doom.
Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, sponsored by Stephen A. Douglas and signed by Franklin Pierce, organized Kansas and Nebraska Territories, repealed the Missouri Compromise, adopted popular sovereignty, and triggered Bleeding Kansas and the founding of the Republican Party.
Kansei censorship
Kansei censorship was the tightening of publishing controls in Japan during the Kansei Reforms from 1787 under Matsudaira Sadanobu, whose 1790 edict punished Santō Kyōden and Tsutaya Jūzaburō.
Kansei Edict
The Kansei Edict (寛政異学の禁, Kansei igaku no kin) was a 1790 Tokugawa shogunate regulation designating Zhu Xi Neo-Confucianism as the only orthodox learning at the Shōheikō academy in Edo.
Kansei Matsuzawa
Kansei Matsuzawa, "The Tokyo Toe," Japanese placekicker from Ichikawa; self-taught via YouTube, Hawai'i consensus All-American (.867 FG), first Japanese-born player signed by an NFL team (Raiders, 2026 UDFA).
Kansei Rangaku suppression
The Kansei Rangaku suppression (蘭学取締) was an 1790 edict by Edo shogunate senior councilor Matsudaira Sadanobu that restricted Western learning, Dutch contact, and publishing during the Kansei Reforms.
Kansei Reforms
The Kansei Reforms (寛政の改革) were a program of austerity, fiscal retrenchment, and social control by the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, led by Matsudaira Sadanobu from 1787 to 1793 and reversing Tanuma Okitsugu's mercantile policies.
Kanshan power station
Kanshan power station (国家电投上海电力贾汪发电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Jiawang, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, with two 600 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2006 and 2007.