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The School of Advanced Military Studies Crest

The School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) is one of four United States Army schools that make up the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This "enormously rigorous" graduate school comprises three programs: the larger Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP); the Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program (ASLSP), a Joint Military Professional Education II (JPME II) certified senior service college program for senior field-grade officers, and the Advanced Strategic Planning and Policy Program (ASP3), which supports officers in obtaining doctorates from civilian schools.

The school educates future leaders of the United States Armed Forces, its allies, and the Interagency at the graduate level to be agile and adaptive leaders who think critically at the strategic and operational levels to solve complex ambiguous problems. The student body is small but diverse and comprises members of each of the US armed forces, various US government agencies, and allied military forces. Graduates of AMSP are colloquially known as "Jedi Knights".^[a] (Full article...)

July–August 1541

Coronado explores Kansas

April 30, 1803

Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed

May 30, 1854

Kansas Territory organized

July 29, 1859

Constitution adopted by convention

January 29, 1861

Kansas becomes 34th state

August 21, 1863

Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

Spring 1879

Exodusters

February 19, 1881

First state to Constitutionally prohibit alcohol

1890s

Populist Revolt

July 1951

Great Flood of 1951

May 17, 1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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• Nickname: The Sunflower State
• Capital: Topeka
• Largest city: Wichita
• Governor: Laura Kelly (D)
• Total area: 213,096 square kilometers (82,277 square miles)
• Population (2000 census): 2,688,418
• Date admitted to the Union: January 29, 1861
• Senators: Jerry Moran (R), Roger Marshall (R)
• Representatives: Tracey Mann (R), Jake LaTurner (R), Ron Estes (R), Sharice Davids (D)

• Amphibian: Barred tiger salamander
• Fish: Channel catfish
• Bird: Western meadowlark
• Flower: Sunflower
• Insect: European honey bee
• Mammal: Bison
• Motto: Ad astra per aspera, or "To the stars through difficulties"
• Reptile: Ornate Box turtle
• Song: "Home on the Range"
• Tree: Populus angustifolia

"Woman of the Century"

Elizabeth Williams Champney (February 6, 1850 – October 13, 1922) was an American author of novels and juvenile literature, as well as travel writing, most of which featured foreign locations. Champney's observations and experiences during her European travels were published in Harper's Magazine, and also in The Century Magazine. She published eighty or more articles in Harper's and Century, including a series on Portugal, and papers entitled "A Neglected Corner of Europe", and "In the Footsteps of Futuney and Regnault". After her return to the United States, Champney wrote fifteen books; novels, stories for juveniles, and historical works under cover of stories, mostly adapted to young people. Her novels were originally directed mainly at young girls, including the Witch Winnie series and the Vassar Girls Abroad series, but she later wrote romantic semi-fictional fables of castles, such as The Romance of the Feudal Chäteaux (1899). The novels included, Bourbon Lilies, and Romany and Rue. Of the juveniles, All Around a Palette, and Howling Wolf and His Trick Pony were the most popular. The historical series included Great Grandmother Girls in New France and in Mexico. Her husband, James Wells Champney, was an artist. Their summer home was in Deerfield, Massachusetts, while the winter residence was in New York. (Full article...)