středa 20. srpna 2014

USA(Missouri) - Kansas City

Official seal of Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City or K.C. is a city of 464,310 people, making it the largest municipality in the U.S. state of MissouriMuch of urban Kansas City sits atop bluffs overlooking the rivers and river bottoms areas. Kansas City proper is bowl-shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by limestone and bedrock cliffs that were carved byglaciers. Kansas City is situated at the junction between the Dakota and Minnesota ice lobes during the maximum late Independence glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch. The Kansas and Missouri rivers cut wide valleys into the terrain when the glaciers melted and drained. A partially filled spillway valley crosses the central portion of Kansas City, Missouri. This valley is an eastward continuation of Turkey Creek valley. It is the closest major city to the geographic centre of the contiguous United States, or "Lower 48".
View from Kansas City.













The original design by William Morris for the initial word "Aprochen", used in the Kelmscott Press edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896). The design carries a note to the wood-engraver C.E.Keates and appears at the beginning of Book 5, page 535, of Troilus and Criseyde.












Stadiums in Kansas City

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