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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. [e]
Subtopics
Cities and towns
- Omaha, Nebraska [r]: The largest city in Nebraska, located on the Missouri River; estimated population (2006) 420,000. [e]
- Lincoln, Nebraska [r]: Capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska, on open prairie in the southeastern part of the state; population in 2020 was 291,383. [e]
Politics and government
- Dave Heineman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ben Nelson [r]: U.S. Senator, (D-Nebraska); Senate Committee on Agriculture; Senate Committee on Appropriations; Senate Armed Services Committee; Senate Committee on Rules and Administration; Moderate Dems Working Group [e]
- Mike Johanns [r]: U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska); Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs [e]
Industry and agriculture
- Ogallala aquifer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Corn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Irrigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Geographical features
- Great Plains [r]: A large area of semi-arid grasslands located east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River and extending from Texas northwards into southern Canada. [e]
- Chimney Rock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Platte River [r]: A river formed by the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers in southwestern Nebraska which flows eastwards from there through Nebraska for 310 miles until it empties into the Missouri River near Omaha. [e]
- Missouri River [r]: The longest river in the U.S., running more than 2000 miles from Montana until it joins the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri; it is highly dammed. [e]
People
- Red Cloud [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Jennings Bryan [r]: (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) American politician, Democratic presidential nominee and lawyer in the Scopes Trial. [e]
U.S. Military installations
- Offutt Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Omaha, Nebraska, which is the home of United States Strategic Command and the 55th Wing of C3I-ISR aircraft [e]
- Fort Kearney [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nebraska history
- Louisiana Purchase [r]: A land purchase of the entire Louisiana Territory in 1803 from France by the United States by President Thomas Jefferson. [e]
- Oregon Trail [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kansas Nebraska Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Homestead Act of 1862 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pony Express [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unnion Pacific Railroad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dust bowl [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Willa Cather [r]: Add brief definition or description
- O Pioneers! [r]: Add brief definition or description
- My Ántonia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Meyer v. Nebraska [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arbor Day [r]: Add brief definition or description
U.S. states and Canadian provinces of the Great Plains
- Alberta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saskatchewan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Manitoba [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Montana [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North Dakota [r]: Add brief definition or description
- South Dakota [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wyoming [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Colorado [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kansas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oklahoma [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Texas [r]: Add brief definition or description
Native American tribes