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WEST MINERAL, Kan. — The Eight Wonders of Kansas were announced today in Topeka by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, but Big Brutus isn’t one of them, said Betty Becker, manager of the 16-story tall electric coal shovel.

The Eight Wonders are:

The world’s largest hand-dug well in Greensburg;

The Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Barton and Stafford counties;

The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene;

The Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson;

The underground salt museum in Hutchinson;

Monument Rocks and Castle Rock, in Gove County;

The Cathedral of the Plains in Victoria and;

The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the Flint Hills, in Chase County.

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