Notable modern Omaha inventions include: the bobby pin and the "pink hair curler", at Omaha's Tip Top; Butter Brickle Ice Cream and the Reuben sandwich, conceived by a chef at the then-Blackstone Hotel on 36th and Farnam Streets; cake mix, developed by Duncan Hines, then a division of Omaha's Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the forerunner to today's ConAgra Foods; center-pivot irrigation by the Omaha company now known as Valmont Corporation; Raisin Bran, developed by Omaha's Skinner Macaroni Co.; the ski lift, in 1936, by Omaha's Union Pacific Corp; the "Top 40" radio format, pioneered by Todd Storz, scion of Omaha's Storz Brewing Co., and head of Storz Broadcasting, which was the first in the U.S. to use the "Top 40" format at Omaha's KOWH Radio; and the TV dinner, developed by Omaha's Carl Swanson Co. There are a lot of notable things from Omaha but as a child going to visit here in the summers with my grandparents, it seemed very boring, I remember asking one of my uncles what there was to do in omaha and he told me "well you can drink or chew gum", he wasn't far off the mark, I chewed a lot of gum here.
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium:Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is nationally renowned for its leadership in animal conservation and research. Evolving from the public Riverview Park Zoo established in 1894, today the zoo includes several notable exhibits. It features the largest cat complex in North America; "Kingdoms of the Night" is the world's largest nocturnal exhibit and indoor swamp; the Lied Jungle is one of the world's largest indoor rainforests, and the "Desert Dome" is one of the world's largest indoor deserts, as well as the largest glazed geodesic dome in the world. The zoo is Nebraska’s top paid attendance attraction and has welcomed more than 25 million visitors over the past 40 years.
I saw animals here that I've never seen before in my life and I've been to a lot of zoo's, it was really amazing and very big, give yourself 2 days.
Wall "Town alongside the Badlands" is a town in Pennington County, South Dakota, United States.
The town is most famous for the Wall Drug Store, which opened as a small pharmacy in 1931 during the Depression, but eventually developed into a large roadside tourist attraction.
Wall Drug includes a western art museum, a chapel based on the one found at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa, and an 80-foot (24 m) apatosaurus (formerly brontosaurus) that can be seen right off Interstate 90. It was designed by Emmet Sullivan who also created the dinosaurs at Dinosaur Park in Rapid City and Dinosaur World in Arkansas.
Wall Drug earns much of its fame from its self-promotion. Billboards advertising the establishment can be seen for hundreds of miles throughout South Dakota and the neighboring states. In addition, many visitors of Wall Drug have erected signs throughout the world announcing the miles to Wall Drug from famous locations.
Most of Wall Drug's advertisement billboards can be found on an approximately 650-mile-long (1,050 km) stretch of Interstate 90 from Minnesota to Billings, Montana.
Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres (379.306 sq mi; 98,240 ha) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The park is managed by the National Park Service.
For 11,000 years, Native Americans have used this area for their hunting grounds. Long before the Lakota were the little-studied paleo-Indians, followed by the Arikara people. Their descendants live today in North Dakota as a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes. Archaeological records combined with oral traditions indicate that these people camped in secluded valleys where fresh water and game were available year round. Eroding out of the stream banks today are the rocks and charcoal of their campfires, as well as the arrowheads and tools they used to butcher bison, rabbits, and other game. From the top of the Badlands Wall, they could scan the area for enemies and wandering herds. If hunting was good, they might hang on into winter, before retracing their way to their villages along the Missouri River. By one hundred and fifty years ago, the Great Sioux Nation consisting of seven bands including the Oglala Lakota, had displaced the other tribes from the northern prairie.
Aspects of American homesteading began before the end of the American Civil War;
however, it did not affect the Badlands until the 20th century. Then,
many hopeful farmers traveled to South Dakota from Europe or the eastern United States
to try to seek out a living in the area. The standard size for a
homestead was 160 acres (65 ha). Being in a semi-arid, wind-swept
environment, this proved far too small of a holding to support a family.
In 1916, in the western Dakotas, the size of a homestead
was increased to 640 acres (260 ha). Cattle grazed the land, and crops
such as winter wheat and hay were cut annually. However, the Great Dust Bowl
events of the 1930s, combined with waves of grasshoppers, proved too
much for most of the settlers of the Badlands. Houses, which had been
built out of sod blocks and heated by buffalo chips, were abandoned.
Those who remained today ranch and raise wheat.
The Prairie dog has made a permanent home here at the badlands, you can see hundreds of there burrows. These guys may not be welcome everywhere else but here they help regrow the black-footed ferret population, the most endangered land mammal in North America. They live in the old abandoned prairie dog homes as well as eating them.
Some kind of rocky mountain big horn sheep crossing the road.
They were being baaahhhd.
Big horned Sheep, just having some lunch, trying not to be bothered by the paparazzi.
Lots of animals, Lots of fun, the badlands were beautiful I'm really glad we came, so much color and life.
Until we meet again, be kind to one another.
