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Parent topics
United States of America: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. [e]
Subtopics
Cities and towns
- Grand Island: A city located on the Platte River in the central part of Nebraska; estimated population (2006) 45,000. [e]
- Omaha: The largest city in Nebraska, located on the Missouri River; estimated population (2006) 420,000. [e]
- Lincoln: 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
State governemnt
U.S. Senate
- Ben Nelson: 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: U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska); Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs [e]
U.S. House of Representatives
Jeff Fortenberry: U.S. Representative (R-Nebraska), U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Republican Study Committee [e]- Adrian Smith: A member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican) representing the 3rd Congressional District of Nebraska. [e]
- Lee Terry: A member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican) representing the 2nd Congressional District of Nebraska. [e]
Social, cultural, and educational
Industry and agriculture
- Ogallala aquifer: Add brief definition or description
- Corn: Add brief definition or description
- Irrigation: Add brief definition or description
Geographical and geological features
- Great Plains: 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]
- Loup River: Add brief definition or description
- Missouri River: 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]
- Niobrara River: Add brief definition or description
- Platte River: 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]
- Republican River: Add brief definition or description
- Sand Hills: Add brief definition or description
Noteworthy places
People
- Red Cloud: Add brief definition or description
William Jennings Bryan: (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) American politician, Democratic presidential nominee and lawyer in the Scopes Trial. [e]
Federal
U.S. Military installations
- Offutt Air Force Base: 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]
- F. E. Warren Air Force Base: A geographically immense United States Air Force base, spreading across Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming, containing the overall headquarters, Twentieth Air Force, of the operational land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States, as well as approximately one-third of the missiles [e]
Federal lands
- Oglala National Grassland: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest: Add brief definition or description
Nebraska history
- Louisiana Purchase: Add brief definition or description
- Oregon Trail: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Kearney: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Robinson: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851): Add brief definition or description
- Kansas Nebraska Act: Add brief definition or description
- Homestead Act of 1862: Add brief definition or description
- Pony Express: Add brief definition or description
- Unnion Pacific Railroad: Add brief definition or description
- Pacific Railroad Act of 1862: Add brief definition or description
- Dust bowl: Add brief definition or description
- Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description
- O Pioneers!: Add brief definition or description
- My Ántonia: Add brief definition or description
- Meyer v. Nebraska: Add brief definition or description
- Arbor Day: Add brief definition or description