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Kansas (i/ˈkænzəs/) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans."
For thousands of years what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue. When officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly, when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States.
Anything for You may refer to:
Promises, promises step inside my head
This is the way things are done around here
Wake up, wake up, get up out of bed
I hear it's been a little crowded in there
Do you give a damn
I don't think you care
All I hear you saying is
I would do anything for you
I will make sure the sky is blue
I would do anything for you
Praying for a weakness
Make opportunities count
And you in the business
Of shooting off your mouth
Let's have a drink to your health
Have a toast to happiness
How 'bout dinner on the coast
I think I should laugh at this
Do you give a damn
I don't think I care
And all these worthy promises
I would do anything for you
I will make sure the sun shines through
I would do anything it's true
Time after time, life can be unusual
Driven by fears, I have to seem invincible
To everyday illusions of our minds
I would do anything for you
I will make sure the sky is blue
I would do anything for you