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research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha, Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses?
over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?
some weather records include a 57.8°C (136°F) air temperature in Libya, 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe, and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska?
the Camp Dump Strike in Omaha was Nebraska's first organized labor strike and the first to receive national attention?
when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974, it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system?
the Christian Specht Building is the only existing building with a cast iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built there?
in the 1898 case Smyth v. Ames, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared a Nebraska railroad tariff law unconstitutional?
in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Charlie Abbey became the first person from Nebraska to play in Major League Baseball after making his debut in 1893?
Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero?
Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross-Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
Reuben Gaylord, the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska"?
early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska, its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?
despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska?
Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska?