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Football Players to Eat Corn, Not Bugs
Bugeaters and Cornhuskers:
Years ago University of Nebraska football players were called the Bugeaters, after the state-wide nickname which came from Nebraska's ...
Postmaster Pulls Letter Out of His Hat
Post Office in a Hat:
"The first postmaster of Omaha was Alfred D. Jones, who, since there was no post office building, carried the letters in his hat as he went about ...
Shaking Loose the Rain
"Years ago pioneers believed that rain followed the plow; the evaporation from land surfaces and the conservation of run-off water caused a proportionate increase in the ...
Lincoln Car Drives Itself
Auto-driving demonstration equipment (Source: Leland M. Hancock, Lincoln, NSHS 10582-7)
This M-1 vehicle detector is from the first automatic driving demonstration ...
Lubber the Horse
Lubber, the horse, was born in 1921 at the Miller Ranch in Holt County, Nebraska. He was owned by A. E. Ponton and Sons of Battle Creek, and exhibited in various ...
Pan of Fudge
Six girls and their bemused-looking chaperone pose in a pennant-bedecked room, possibly at York College (York, Nebraska) in about 1910.
Many food historians trace the ...
World’s Largest Ball of Stamps
Boys and Girls Town of Omaha is known around the world for many positive things. Adding to its fame, it houses the world's largest ball of stamps.
Preliminary Operation Survival Plan
This Preliminary Operational Survival Plan names Columbus as the new capital of Nebraska in the event of Lincoln's destruction by a nuclear attack.
Source: Nebraska ...
Fallout Shelters are for Cows Too
In 1963 the Roberts Dairy Company of Omaha conducted a two-week survival test for thirty-five cows, one bull, and two unfortunate university students in a concrete ...
“Cesspool of Politics”
In 1859 Nebraska Territorial Secretary J. Sterling Morton asked the U.S. Treasury for money to build a privy at the capitol building in Omaha. Mother Nature was ...
Still-Tasty Bagel Makes Perilous Journey
Members of the Heinrich family of Sutton, Nebraska, are said to have brought these bagels with them on their ocean voyage from Germany to the United States in the 1870s. ...
Armadillo Basket
Decline in Armadillo Population Linked to Fashionable Basket Increase
Armadillo baskets became popular after the 1902 New York World's Fair, where they were first ...
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