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The Lyric Theatre was a theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story structure designed by Owen Saylor and Payson opened on December 18, 1926, as the Ararat Shrine Temple. It cost the Shriners $1 million and had a seating capacity of 3,000.
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
The areas of Greater Downtown in the center city, and sections near I-435 and I-470 in the south, and Highway 152 in the north are the only areas of Kansas City, Missouri, to have an increase in population, with the Northland population growing the most. [63] Even so, the population of Kansas City as a whole from 2000 to 2010 increased by 4.1%.
Midtown/Plaza is entirely within Kansas City, Missouri with a population of 40,355. [7] It is just south of downtown, and bounded by 31st Street on the north, the state line on the west, West Gregory Boulevard (71st Street) on the south, and Troost Avenue on the east. Midtown/Plaza, the core of the metropolitan area, has many cultural ...
A family from Chihuahua, Mexico, prays at a hilltop shrine on the road from Nambe, N.M., to the Santuario de Chimayo in 2014. (Jeremy Wade Shockley / Associated Press)
Gotham, Kevin Fox. "Missed opportunities, enduring legacies: School segregation and desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri." American Studies (2002): 5-41. online; Gotham, Kevin Fox. "A city without slums: Urban renewal, public housing, and downtown revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60.1 (2001 ...
Union Cemetery is the oldest surviving public cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. [3] [4] [5] It was founded on November 9, 1857, as the private shareholder-owned corporation, Union Cemetery Assembly. As a commercial enterprise remote from city limits, its 49 acres (20 ha) became a well-funded and remarkably landscaped destination by 1873.
Albert I. Beach (1883–1939), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri [6] Joseph Boggs (1749–1843), army officer, moved from Old Westport Cemetery in 1915 [ 7 ] Daniel Boone III (1809–1880), and Mary Constance Philibert Boone (1814–1904), early Kansas City founders who settled in the area that later became Forest Hill Cemetery [ 8 ]