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unusual facts about Crossroads, Kansas City


John Stewart Muller

It had its East Coast premiere on November 7, 2008, at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival followed shortly thereafter by its Midwest premiere and limited theatrical release on November 14, 2008, at the Screenland Theatre in the Crossroads, Kansas City.


1954 Philadelphia Athletics season

The 1954 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 51 wins and 103 losses, 60 games behind AL Champion Cleveland in their 54th and final season in Philadelphia, before moving to Kansas City, Missouri for the following season.

2003 Big 12 Championship Game

The 2003 Big 12 Championship Game was played on December 6, 2003 in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

2011 Missouri River Flood

All six major dams along the Missouri River released record amounts of water to prevent overflow which led to flooding threatening several towns and cities along the river from Montana to Missouri; in particular Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; South Sioux City, Nebraska, Sioux City, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri, as well as putting countless smaller towns at risk.

Adam Crossett

Matthew Adam Crossett (born March 14, 1985 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American football punter/Kicker (American football) in the National Football League for the Indianapolis Colts.

Albert Frederick Mutti

From there he moved to Savannah becoming the Founding Pastor of the Crossroads Ecumenical Cooperative Parish.

Alexander Caldwell

Caldwell died in Kansas City, Missouri in 1917, and is interred at Mount Muncie Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Barbara Clegg

After writing for several radio and television serials, including for Crossroads and a radio dramatisation of The Chrysalids, Clegg was asked to submit ideas for the science fiction television series Doctor Who in 1981.

Barregarrow

Located between the twelfth and thirteenth milestones on the famous TT course, the crossroads is a landmark on the famous road racing course.

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation.

Becky Fischer

Fischer was approached in 2004 by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady about filming her "Kids on Fire" camp outside Devils Lake, North Dakota, as well as portions of her "Changing the World through Prayer Conference" at Christ Triumphant Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri (a suburb of Kansas City), where Fischer is ordained.

Burnsville Performing Arts Center

Past performances include the Girl Singers of the Hit Parade, Larry Carlton, Louie Anderson, Lori Lane, Richard Marx, Church Basement Ladies, Melissa Manchester, Bill Engvall, Nick Colionne, Celtic Crossroads, Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rob Lake, Tommy Emmanuel, Sinbad, Ralphie May, Dakota Valley Symphony, Chameleon Theater Circle, Miss Minnesota USA/Teen USA, and Cirque D’Or.

Butch Reed

Butch Reed started wrestling in 1978 in the Kansas City territory after attending the University of Central Missouri and briefly playing professional football for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Butlers Cross

It is located south of the main parish, on the crossroads between the road from Ellesborough to Little Kimble, and the road from Terrick to Chequers.

Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul

It is situated in the Place de l'Indépendence in the Ville Nouvelle, a crossroads between Avenue Habib Bourguiba and Avenue de France, opposite the French embassy.

Charles R. Forbes

On December 16, 1927, after the publication of his New York World article, Forbes testified before a grand jury in Kansas City that concerned his statement in the article that alleged narcotics was easily obtained at USP Leavenworth.

Colorado MahlerFest

The music director and founder of MahlerFest is conductor Robert Olson, who currently serves on the faculty of the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

Courtney McCool

Courtney Lynn McCool (born April 1, 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American gymnast, who was a team member in the 2004 Summer Olympics women's artistic gymnastic team.

Crossroads Caring Scotland

There are 47 Crossroads services throughout Scotland, supported by the national office based in George Square, Glasgow.

David Catania

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Catania is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center.

Dodge City War

Short was discussing the matter with Governor George Washington Glick in Kansas City, and Bat Masterson called in favors from old friends including Wyatt Earp, Charlie Bassett, Johnny Millsap, Shotgun John Collins, Texas Jack Vermillion, and Johnny Green.

Don Angell

He went on to represent the region in the U.S. Olympic Trials boxing finals held in Kansas City, Missouri, losing in the quarter finals.

Đurđevića Tara Bridge

It is located at the crossroads between Mojkovac, Žabljak and Pljevlja, between the villages of Budečevica and Trešnjica.

Edge city

Garreau's classic example of an edge city is the information technology center, Tysons Corner, Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. As recently as the end of World War II, it was a country crossroads, but it now has more office space than downtown Atlanta.

Edythe Baker

After her mother died around 1910 she was sent to Kansas City, Missouri to live, and attended a convent.

Frank Teschemacher

Frank Teschemacher (March 13, 1906 in Kansas City, Missouri – March 1, 1932 in Chicago) was an American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist, associated with the "Austin High" gang (along with Jimmy McPartland, Bud Freeman and others).

Freddie Sweetan

In part to an agreement with Sweetan and Leo Burke, Prosser and Sweetan( being the same person) began wrestling in the Kansas City-area as Killer Kox and K.O. Kox with Bob Geigel's NWA Central States.

Galen Tyrol

In the cliffhanger Season 3 finale, "Crossroads, Part II", he, along with Samuel Anders, Saul Tigh, and Tory Foster become aware that they are Cylons, based on hallucinatory music (which turns out to be a cover of "All Along The Watchtower" written by Bob Dylan) that only they can hear, and a "switch" Tyrol believes has gone off within them.

Georg Lurich

Lurich wrestled American world wrestling champion and title holder Frank Gotch in Kansas City in 1913, but lost what would be Gotch's final match.

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.

Guitar battle

Near the end of the 1986 film Crossroads, Eugene Martone (played by Ralph Macchio) has a guitar battle with Jack Butler (played by Steve Vai).

Isaac McCoy

McCoy, his son John, his daughter Delilah and her missionary husband Johnston Lykins, worked together as missionaries to the Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware), following them to what is now Kansas City, Missouri, on the border of Indian Territory and near their reservations.

Jonathan Addleton

He spent his early years with his parents in Upper Sind then attended the Murree Christian School, located at an old British Himalayan hill station near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District, Punjab province.

L. William Zahner

William Zahner III (b. June 30, 1955, in Kansas City, Missouri) is the president and CEO of Zahner, an architectural metal company in Kansas City, Missouri.

L.P. Cookingham Institute of Urban Affairs

Named after Laurie Perry Cookingham, the Institute promotes community building and development as a means to contribute to urban area revitalization through scholarship, practice and community engagement in the Kansas City area.

Machines of the Isle of Nantes

In the warehouses of the former shipyards in Nantes, the Machines of the Isle is created by two artists, François Delarozière (La Machine) and Pierre Orefice (Manaus association), visualising a travel-through-time world at the crossroads of the "imaginary worlds" of Jules Verne and the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci.

Masters of Harmony

Placing 4th in their first international competition in Kansas City (1989), they won gold the following year in San Francisco (1990).

Mateo Moreno

He grew up in the midwest town of Independence, once home of Harry S. Truman and Ginger Rogers, and attended Fort Osage High School and briefly attended Longview College and The University of Missouri Kansas City.

Micronesian American

Micronesians are also increasing rapidly in other places of the U.S. such as in Kansas City, Missouri, where the majority of the Micronesians are of Pohnpeian origin.

Nathaniel Muhammad

Nathaniel Musaaleh Muhammad, was the Nation of Islam minister of the Kansas City Mosque.

National Climatic Data Center

Processing of the climate data was accomplished at Weather Records Processing Centers at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kansas City, Missouri, and San Francisco, California, until January 1, 1963 when it became consolidated with the NWRC.

North Star Camp

The campers at North Star are boys aged 8–15 who come from all over the country (including Chicago, Texas, Nashville, Cleveland, Columbus, St. Louis, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, California, Florida, Kansas City, Omaha, and many more).

Nyanga, Cape Town

Nyanga is situated 26 kilometres from Cape Town along N2 highway, close to the Cape Town International Airport and next to the townships of Gugulethu and Crossroads.

Paul Randall Harrington

Harrington was born September 27, 1911 and educated in the Kansas City school system, from which he graduated in 1930, having been named one of the State of Kansas' 15 most outstanding high-school graduates.

Piano Technicians Guild

The Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) is an American organization for Registered Piano Technicians, headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas.

Prittlewell

Links between Prittlewell and Southend were improved in 1889 a road was built between the village crossroads by the church to Southend, named Victoria Avenue and in 1892, when Prittlewell railway station was built on the Great Eastern Railway linking Southend and London

Sandy DiPasquale

In 2008 DiPasquale moved his newest venture, Newport Television, to Kansas City, Missouri.

Stolin

Stolin grew up at the heart of the Polesia region on the river Haryn, at the crossroads of two important routes, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Haradok and Turaŭ, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kiev, that are now in Ukraine.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Walking Concert

The band takes its name from the line "Boy, you're gonna be a Walking Concert!", spoken by a music store clerk to Ralph Macchio's character in the 1986 film, Crossroads.

William B. Ault

On 5 August 1939, less than a month before the start of World War II in Poland, Ault assumed command of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas, a billet in which he served into 1941.


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