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Photo by: David Kelly / For The Times #ArkansasCity #Kansas #WSU #AncientSettlement #Etzanoa #SouthCentralKansas Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate. There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here — just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes. Yet there’s always been something — something just below the surface. Locals have long scoured fields and river banks for arrowheads and bits of pottery, amassing huge collections. Then there were those murky tales of a sprawling city on the Great Plains and a chief who drank from a goblet of gold. A few years ago, Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist and archaeology professor at  Wichita State University , began piecing things together. And what he’s found has spurred a rethinking of traditional views on the early settlement of the Midwest, while potentially filling...

#Tornadoes #Thunderstorms #Kansas #Texas Born from  thunderstorms ,  tornadoes  can cause immense devastation, ripping apart homes and tossing cars like toys. Tornadoes can happen any time of the year, but there are distinct seasons for twisters in different parts of the country, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's  Storm Prediction Center  (SPC). On average, around 1,200 tornadoes are reported in the U.S. every year, more than any country in the world. "There is a general northward shift in 'tornado season' in the U.S. from late winter through midsummer," the SPC says. "The peak period for tornadoes in the  Southern Plains , for example, is during May into early June. On the  Gulf Coast , it is earlier during the spring; in the Northern Plains and upper  Midwest , it is June or July." According to NOAA, some parts of the world are much more prone to tornadoes than others....