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Nebraska is a state touched by South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. The population is 1.9 million, and the capital city is in Lincoln, with Omaha being its biggest community. The dissected till plains part of the state have rolling hills, and Omaha and Lincoln lie there. Western Nebraska belongs to the great plains and is a treeless prairie. Eastern Nebraska includes a humid continental climate, and western Nebraska is semi-arid. The eastern geograhy is on central time, and the western is mountain time. The Missouri, Platte, Niobrara, and Republican Rivers circulate throughout the state. The highest area in Nebraska is 5,424 feet.

Nebraska ended up being a state in 1867. The capital was originally in Omaha however was relocated to Lincoln later. Nebraska's population expanded in the last quarter of the ninetieth century as the prairies open up to settlers. Inventions like barbed wire, windmills, and the plow also contributed to population growth.

Edwin Perkins of Haskin invented Kool-Aid in 1927. Cliff Hillegass of Rising City began Cliff's Notes. Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett call Omaha home base. Mutual of Omaha, TD Ameritrade, InfoUSA, West Corporation, Woodmen of the World, Valmont Industries, Union Pacific, and Kiewit have home offices in Omaha. Ameritas, Sandhills Publishing, Nelnet, Hudl and Duncan Aviation call Lincoln home. The Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte is the world's biggest.

Things invented in Omaha include the pink hair curler at Tip Top, butter brickle ice cream and the Rueben sandwich at the Blackstone Hotel, cake mix, center-pivot irrigation at Valmont, Raisin Bran at Skinner Macaroni, Top 40 radio at KOWH, and the Frozen Dinner at Swanson Foods.

Small towns around Lincoln were annexed over the years and ended up being separate areas. These communities include University Place, Belmont, Bethany, College View, Havelock, and West Lincoln. The city has actually had 45 neighborhoods. Downtown Lincoln has more than doubled its consumer population in the last 10 years, increasing house and rent prices.