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Featured article: August 4, 2007

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor was the American wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. After two unsuccessful marriages, she allegedly became the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales in 1934. Two years later, after the prince's accession as King-Emperor of the British Empire, he proposed marriage. The monarch's desire to wed a twice-divorced American, with two living ex-husbands and a reputation as an opportunist, caused a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, which ultimately led to the king's abdication in order to marry "the woman I love". After the abdication, the former king was created Duke of Windsor by his brother, George VI; Edward married Wallis six months later. Following her marriage, she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor, without the style "Her Royal Highness". Before, during and after World War II, the Windsors were suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi sympathisers. In the 1950s and 1960s, she and the duke shuttled between Europe and the United States, living a life of leisure as society celebrities. After his death in 1972, the duchess lived in seclusion and was rarely seen in public. Her private life has been a source of much speculation, and she remains a controversial figure in British history. (more...)

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Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in May 1865. The black ribbon around his left arm is a sign of mourning over Abraham Lincoln's death. During the American Civil War, Sherman received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.

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Featured list: List of Kansas birds
The List of Kansas birds lists every wild bird species ever seen in the U.S. state of Kansas, based on the list published by the Kansas Birds Records Committee of the Kansas Ornithological Society. The following markings are used. (A) = Accidental occurrence based fewer than 10 records, and unlikely to occur regularly. (E) = Extinct; a recent member of the avifauna that no longer exists. (Ex) = Extirpated; no longer occurs in area of interest, but other populations still exist elsewhere. (I) = Introduced population established solely as result of direct or indirect human intervention; synonymous with non-native and non-indigenous. (H) - Hypothetical: Birds that have had a credible sighting reported, but have not been documented with a specimen or with a suitable photograph. The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. These are birds that are modified for an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils. There are 131 species world wide, 61 North American species, and 43 Kansas species. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygna autumnalis (A) Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygna bicolor Greater White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons Snow Goose, Chen caerulescens Ross's Goose, Chen rossii Canada Goose, Branta canadensis Cackling Goose, Branta hutchinsonii Brant, Branta bernicla Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus Wood Duck, Aix sponsa Gadwall, Anas strepera Eurasian Wigeon, Anas penelope (H) See full list...

Featured list: List of Kansas birds

The List of Kansas birds lists every wild bird species ever seen in the U.S. state of Kansas, based on the list published by the Kansas Birds Records Committee of the Kansas Ornithological Society. The following markings are used.

(A) = Accidental occurrence based fewer than 10 records, and unlikely to occur regularly.
(E) = Extinct; a recent member of the avifauna that no longer exists.
(Ex) = Extirpated; no longer occurs in area of interest, but other populations still exist elsewhere.
(I) = Introduced population established solely as result of direct or indirect human intervention; synonymous with non-native and non-indigenous.
(H) - Hypothetical: Birds that have had a credible sighting reported, but have not been documented with a specimen or with a suitable photograph.

The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. These are birds that are modified for an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils. There are 131 species world wide, 61 North American species, and 43 Kansas species.

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygna autumnalis (A)
Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygna bicolor
Greater White-fronted Goose, Anser albifrons
Snow Goose, Chen caerulescens
Ross's Goose, Chen rossii
Canada Goose, Branta canadensis
Cackling Goose, Branta hutchinsonii
Brant, Branta bernicla
Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator
Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus
Wood Duck, Aix sponsa
Gadwall, Anas strepera
Eurasian Wigeon, Anas penelope (H)
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