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1. World's Largest Ball of Twine: Started by Frank Stoeber in 1953, the World's Largest Ball of Twine now weighs in at almost nine tons and is compri...  
2. Jayhawks: Nickname for the University of Kansas athletic teams. KU is known for its basketball program, but has done increasi...  
3. KU: A common acronym (albeit in reverse order) for the University of Kansas. The reverse ordering of the letters helps ...  
4. Air Capital of the World: Wichita is known as the "Air Capital of the World." Wichita is home to a number of aircraft companies, including Bo...  
5. White Castle: White Castle is the fast food burger chain infamous for its hamburgers called "sliders". It was founded in Wichita ...  
6. Dust Bowl: Yes, that was a devastating dust storm
7. Black blizzards: A term for the massive dust storms suffered in the Southern Plains in the 1930s.
8. Rabbit drive: In the 1930s in the Dust Bowl, thousands of jackrabbits came out of the hills to the towns and farms in the area. L...
9. Dust pneumonia: a disorder caused by exposure to dust storms within the 1930s  
10. Black Sunday: April 14, 1935. On this day, the worst dust storm was said to hit the Dust Bowl in the Southern Plains. Winds were ...
11. Okies: People who left Oklahoma, heading west for better farming conditions or better lives. This word expanded to all tho...
12. ToPikachu: In 1998, Topeka Mayor Joan Wagnon renamed the Kansas capital "ToPikachu" for a day as part of a promotional event t...  
13. Google, Kansas: Google, Kansas: One small step up from "Topikachu"  
14. White Owl: A white-bearded man, formally Jimmy Neal, who is known for his eccentric dress and dance at Kansas Jayhawks basketb...  
 
 
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Dubbed "Touchdown Jesus" by Notre Dame alumni, "The Word of Life," constructed by Millard Sheets, is a mural on the face of the university's Hesburgh Library. Easily viewed from the football stadium, the piece features the looming figure of the resurrected Jesus with arms raised like a referee signaling a touchdown.

This is what many Pinkberry-crazed people call their precious frozen yogurt dessert.

Milwaukee nickname for a heavy citrus soda, such as squirt or 50/50.

A perennial New York dessert featured on Seinfeld, usually consisting of a round, cake-like cookie topped with half-vanilla and half-chocolate icing. Also referred to as the Half and Half Cookie.

1. Also referred to as the Ban roll-on building, just as a similar building in Portland, Oregon is called.

2. A common nickname for the Second and Seneca Building because of its resemblance to the blue, dome-headed droid in Star Wars.