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The myth was one of the explanations offered by Greco-Roman mythology for the origin of the cornucopia, a symbol of agricultural abundance. Benton sets the scene during harvest time in the U.S. Midwest. The mural was formerly displayed at a department store in Kansas City, Missouri, and is now in the collections of the Smithsonian. It was the ...
The Overland Park shootings were two shootings that occurred on April 13, 2014, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas United States. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one ...
Lee McBee (March 23, 1951 – June 24, 2014) [1] was an American electric blues musician, singer and harmonica player from Kansas City, Missouri.. Though he was primarily a regional blues act in the midwest, McBee gained national attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work with Mike Morgan and the Crawl [2] and with his band the Passions.
The word "cornucopia" is derived from two Latin words: cornu, meaning "horn," and copia, meaning "plenty." A frequent presence in Greek and Roman folklore, the overflowing cornucopia was often ...
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On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history, was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889.The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place to settle.
Clayton McGeeney, Ricky Johnson and David Harrington were found dead in Jordan Willis' Kansas City backyard on Jan. 9, 2024 — criminal charges have not been levied in their deaths.