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Hallmark Cards and their Nebraska Roots
Read more about the Hall Brothers and the beginning of Hallmark in this Nebraska History Magazine article from 2008.
Looking back to his ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Sledding on the Winnebago Reservation
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. In today’s #ThrowbackThursday photo five children from the Winnebago Reservation have sleds at the ready for a day of fun in a ...
Kool-Aid Invented in Hastings, Nebraska
Hastings inventor Edwin Perkins had problems marketing his Fruit Smack, a liquid drink concentrate. Packaged in bottles, the product was expensive to ship and often ...
How a Nebraska company changed Americans’ eating habits
Gerry Thomas, University of Nebraska alumnus and salesman for Omaha-based C. A. Swanson and Sons has been credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1954. The concept ...
Was the Reuben Sandwich invented in Omaha?
According to Omaha lore, the Reuben Sandwich was dreamed up at Omaha's Blackstone Hotel in 1925 by Reuben Kulakofsky, a local grocer, to feed a group of late-night poker ...
Was the McRib invented in Nebraska?
Rumor has it that McDonalds' McRib® Sandwich was invented in Nebraska. That rumor is not exactly true.
In 1972 Professor Roger Mandingo of the University of Nebraska ...
Great Navy of the State of Nebraska
The Great Navy of the State of Nebraska began in 1930 when Governor Charles W. Bryan went on vacation and Lieutenant Governor T. W. Metcalfe took over the affairs of ...
Nebraska builds a better mousetrap
Nebraska manufacturers have produced everything from cigars to concrete mixers. This little gem is a Delusion mousetrap invented by John H. Morris of Seward. Morris ...
Enola Gay built in Nebraska
In February 1941 the Glenn L. Martin Company and the U.S. government began plans for an aircraft assembly plant at Fort Crook, Nebraska. At its peak in November 1943, ...
Nebraska Was Once a Leader in the U.S. Aviation History
In the early 1920s Charles Lindbergh, one of America's most celebrated pilots, learned to fly at the Lincoln Flying School, operated by Ray Page of the Lincoln Standard ...
Nebraska’s One-Hit Wonder in the Year 2525
In 1968 Nebraskans Denny Zager and Rick Evans, as the rock group Zager & Evans, recorded the darkly prophetic In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus). Considered ...
Nebraska’s WWI Hospital in France
During World War I, US military hospitals in France were built and staffed by volunteers. Responding to urgent demand for medical care, the University of Nebraska’s ...
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