Sometimes referred to as __________
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America, Kansas City is an incredible
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city at the center of the country
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a mecca for barbecue and jazz lovers
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alike, Kansas City has an interesting
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history and some incredible architecture.

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In this series I briefly touch on a
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city's history, population, _______
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as well as a few things that make it unique
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now let's meet Kansas City

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I always like to start by exploring how
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a city wound up being where it is today
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Kansas City is _______ near the
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confluence of the missouri and kansas
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rivers and the first permanent settlers
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of the area were French fur traders
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who'd made their way up the river from
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St Louis in _______

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about 10 years later a group of mormons
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_________and built the first school in
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the Kansas City area but were forced out
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by mob violence just two years later in
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that same year the town of Westport was
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established _________________ by
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becoming a terminus for the Oregon Santa
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Fe and California trails in 1850 it was
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renamed the town of kansas and then
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became kansas city in 1889.
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similar to most cities on the plains its
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population exploded with the arrival of
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railroads in 1865.

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today kansas city boasts a population of
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about 505,000 making it the ______ largest
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city in the country and the largest in
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the state of missouri if you've watched
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many of my other videos you'll know that
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i prefer to look at a city's metro
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population _____________ by
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their size kansas city has a metro
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population of 2.2 million which would
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make it the second largest city in
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missouri behind st louis which has 2.8
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million

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that makes kansas city the 31st largest
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city in the country ______________
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just behind cincinnati and just ahead of
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another Ohio city Columbus
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some of the recognizable companies
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headquartered in Kansas City include
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Hallmark cards AMC and H&R Block the
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kansas city area is also home to more
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than 25 colleges and
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universities call me _________but when it
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comes to cities i think appearances
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matter ________________ evaluating a city's
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skyline is my favorite part of making
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these videos

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Kansas city doesn't have a ______
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skyline but it's still a solid skyline
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in my opinion if you were to take the
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average height of its tallest five
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buildings it comes in as the 28th
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tallest skyline in the country which
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outperforms where it ranks in terms of
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population
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it's also taller than its in-state rival
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city of St Louis if you don't count the
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gateway arch as a building
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the tallest building in the city is the
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one Kansas City place which is the
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tallest commercial building in Missouri
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_____________

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one of Kansas City's nicknames is the
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city of fountains the city is home to
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over ______ fountains the most visited
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being the fountain in mill creek park
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the Kauffman Stadium where the Royals
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play is known for having fountains that
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span
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322 feet making them the largest
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privately owned fountains in the united
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states
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Kansas city is also famous for its
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barbecue several cities claim to have
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the best barbecue in the country but
Kansas city ________________ given
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that it has more barbecue restaurants
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per capita than any other city in the
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country.

just outside of downtown is the
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national world war one museum and
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memorial____________ the most
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comprehensive collection of world war
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one artifacts in the world which is a
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shocking fact to me it's considered to
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be one of the best museums in the
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country the memorial includes a 265 foot
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tall stone tower ___________ the Liberty
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tower

Kansas City's arrowhead stadium is
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the loudest stadium in the world it ______
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a Guinness world record with a crowd
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roar of 140.2
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decibels it's also the first NFL stadium
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to transmit instant replay which is
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something you just come to expect
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nowadays when _______________

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the Nelson Atkins museum of art was
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ranked by Yelp as the best museum in
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america in 2015. the museum is _________
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its encyclopedic collection of art for
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the giant badminton shuttlecocks on the
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park lawn
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the museum _________ in 2005 by building
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an award-winning architectural marvel
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known as the block building this
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building is primarily underground but
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has five glass pavilions that are
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_____________ lenses to bring in light

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earlier I had mentioned the importance
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of railroads and Kansas City's growth
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and even today Union Station is the
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_____________ rail station in Missouri
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the train station was built in 1914 and
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today has expanded to include several
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museums as well as a theater
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one of the first buildings that you'll
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notice when looking at the city is the
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Kauffman Center for the performing arts
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this eye-catching building is made up of
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two shells that each include a
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performance venue which are then
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connected by a large glass lobby and
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speaking of performances Kansas city is
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known for its jazz music it may not be
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the birthplace of jazz like New Orleans
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but it has its own style of the genre
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and it's considered one of the best
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cities for jazz in the world well that
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______________ my video about Kansas city if
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you enjoyed the video give it a like and
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check out some of my other videos about
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cities thanks for watching