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19 unusual facts about Lawrence, Kansas


Al Christy

Ladesich would continue to appear in Calvin films (and ones produced by Centron Corporation in Lawrence, Kansas) until the early 1980s.

Barbara Brackman

Barbara Brackman (born July 6, 1945) is a quilt historian and author, currently residing in Lawrence, Kansas.

Before Our Hearts Explode!

Before Our Hearts Explode! is the second album by Lawrence, Kansas-based band, Fourth of July.

BR549

Before moving to Nashville and forming BR5-49, Chuck Mead played in a band called Homestead Grays, a roots-rock outfit based in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas.

Camp Onway

As the story goes, he died while packing his car to go to Lawrence, Kansas with the Order of the Arrow (OA).

Fourth of July on the Plains

Fourth of July on the Plains is the debut album by Lawrence, Kansas-based band, Fourth of July.

Kannon Shanmugam

Shanmugam grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and was co-valedictorian of his class at Lawrence High School.

Kansas Department of Agriculture

When a confederate named Quantrill raided the town, he burned the Society's records along with a large part of Lawrence.

Keith Loneker

When Loneker isn’t auditioning for movie roles, he is a substitute teacher at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas.

In his spare time, he coaches little league football in Lawrence, Kansas.

Man from Delmonte

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, West and his family relocated to Lawrence, Kansas.

Mark Hennessy

Mark Hennessy (born Mark Tom Hennessy) is the singer for the band Paw, from Lawrence, Kansas inn the USA.

Right Between the Ears

Beginning the late 1980s, however, full-length radio plays were de-emphasized in favor of Saturday Night Live-style comedy sketches, and by 1990 the show became an all-comedy offering, broadcast regularly over KANU-FM, the NPR station licensed to the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Sobasina cutleri

The species is named for salticid specialist Bruce Cutler of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Sri Srinivasan

His family, including two younger sisters, migrated in the late 1960s to Lawrence, Kansas.

The Not So Late Show

It premiered in 2011, takes place in Lawrence, Kansas and features a monologue and skits that take a comedic look at local, national, and international current events.

Tom Keegan

Tom Keegan (born March 22, 1959) is an American sportswriter and author who currently is sports editor at the Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kansas.

Ubuntu User

Linux New Media is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices of its US subsidiary, Linux New Media USA, LLC, in Lawrence, Kansas.

Victor Papanek

Victor Papanek (22 November 1923, Vienna – 10 January 1998, Lawrence, Kansas) was a designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures.


1925 Colored World Series

During the World Series, Kansas City's regular lineup consisted of Frank Duncan at catcher, Lemuel Hawkins at first base, Newt Allen at second, Newt Joseph at third, Dobie Moore at shortstop, Wade Johnston in left field, Hurley McNair in center, and George Sweatt in right.

Abilene Network

The name Abilene was chosen because of the project's resemblance, in ambition and scope, to the railhead in Abilene, Kansas, which in the 1860s represented the frontier of the United States for the nation's railroad infrastructure.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Battle of the St. Lawrence

U-43’s failed attack on SQ-43 off Gaspé resulted in “one of the most effective counterattacks during the St. Lawrence battle. It was stated that” Six depth charges from the Bangor-class minesweeper Gananoque knocked out it's lights, blew the battery circuit breaker and activated a torpedo in one of the sub’s stern tubes.

California Conquest

Arturo Bordega and Julia Lawrence eventually travel to Fort Ross, where they are able to capture Fredo Brios (as well as a fictional Russian princess, Helena de Gagarine, and a high-ranking Russian army officer), and otherwise manage to thwart the treasonous conspiracy.

Charles E. Kearney

He along with Kersey Coates and Robert T. Van Horn persuaded the railroad to build a cutoff of their line from Cameron, Missouri to Kansas City for the first bridge across the Missouri River which opened in 1869.

Charlie Davies

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a child Davies was encouraged to play soccer and coached by his father Kofi Davies, an immigrant from the Gambia.

Daniel Biles

Biles was one of three candidates recommended by the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission to Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

Dick Frahm

Herald Samuel Frahm (April 11, 1906 – October 19, 1977) was an American football halfback for the Staten Island Stapletons, the Boston Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the St. Louis/Kansas City Blues of the 1934 version of the American Football League.

Dikeou Collection

In September 2006, the exhibition space again doubled to include seven more artists: Janine Gordon, Lawrence Seward, Tracy Nakayama, Chris Gilmour, Lisa Kereszi, Serge Onnen, and Devon Dikeou herself.

Edward Buehler Delk

Among his most famous works were Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture buildings in the 1920s for Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols and Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips.

FC Kansas City

On December 12, 2012, FC Kansas City announced that Vlatko Andonovski, a former professional player and head coach of the Kansas City Kings of the PASL and Missouri Olympic Development Program (ODP), would be head coach of the team.

Fokker F.10

On March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after a wing separated in flight, killing all eight on board, including football coach Knute Rockne.

Fort Lawrence

Fort Edward, Fort Lawrence and Fort Anne were all supplied by and dependent on the arrival of Captains Cobb, Rogers or Taggart, in one of the government sloops.

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.

Hanna Mangan-Lawrence

In 2005, she won "Acrobat of the Year – International – Senior" at the Gymnastics Australia National Awards.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis was first discovered in 1870 by Benjamin Franklin Mudge, a professor from Kansas State Agricultural College who recovered the initial fossils from the North Fork of the Solomon River in Kansas, USA.

In the Spirit of Things

In the Spirit of Things is the 11th studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music).

Irene Bennett Brown

Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas and when she was nine years old, moved with her family from Kansas to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

Jane Smith

Jane Lawrence (1915–2005), married name Jane Lawrence Smith, American actress and opera singer

Jay Lawrence

A well in demand television actor in Hollywood, Lawrence's acting career spanned from 1950 to 1979, and he would appear in both dramatic, variety show and sitcom projects such as The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950), the original TV Dragnet program in 2 appearances in 1995 and 1959, Get Smart (1968), and Mayberry R.F.D. (1968).

John P. Koehler

He served as the head football coach at Lawrence Institute in Wisconsin, now Lawrence University, from 1904 to 1905, at the University of Denver from 1906 to 1910, and at Marquette University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a career college football record of 39–29–4.

Kanchana

Muni 2: Kanchana, 2011 Tamil horror comedy film directed by Raghava Lawrence

Kansas City Journal-Post

The construction of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869 was to make Kansas City the dominant city in the region.

KCCC

KCCC-LP, a low-power radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to Hays, Kansas, United States

KICT

KICT-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Wichita, Kansas, United States

KK-theory

It was influenced by Atiyah's concept of Fredholm modules for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, and the classification of extensions of C*-algebras by Brown–Douglas–Fillmore (Lawrence G. Brown, Ronald G. Douglas, Peter Arthur Fillmore 1977).

Larry Nixon

Lawrence "Larry" Nixon (born September 3, 1950 - Bee Branch, Arkansas) is a professional fisherman whose career started at the 1977 Florida Invitational in Welaka, Florida.

Lawrence County, Missouri

All of Lawrence County is a part of Missouri’s 29th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Jack Goodman (R-Mount Vernon.

Lee Tafanelli

Tafanelli joined the Kansas Army National Guard in 1980 and receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers through Army ROTC at Pittsburg State University in 1982.

London Calling!

The basis of London Calling! began at the Swiss resort of Davos in Christmas 1922, when Coward presented a musical outline of a new project involving himself and Lawrence, to benefactor, Edward William Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom, who was also a friend of André Charlot.

Milt Newton

During this time, he was a starting forward on Kansas' 1988 national championship team and joined teammate and Final Four Most Outstanding Player Danny Manning on the all tournament team.

Orentius

Orentius and Patientia (d. 240), Christian martyr and saint, father of St. Lawrence

Paper cup

Dixie Cup is the brand name for a line of disposable paper cups that were first developed in the United States in 1907 by Lawrence Luellen, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who was concerned about germs being spread by people sharing glasses or dippers at public supplies of drinking water.

Patricia McIlrath

McIlrath's desire to establish both a training ground for professional theatre artists in Kansas City, and a venue in the city at which audiences could attend professional theatre rivaling the caliber of that produced in New York City, corresponded with the work of numerous other well-known members of the Regional Theatre Movement, such as Margo Jones, Zelda Fichandler, Michael Murray, and Tyrone Guthrie.

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.

Randall Terry

When Kansas obstetrician George Tiller was murdered while serving as an usher in his Wichita church on the morning of May 31, 2009, Terry immediately issued a statement critical of Tiller.

Richard Van Gelder

Among his colleagues in the Mammal Department at the AMNH were Karl Koopman, Marie A. Lawrence, Guy Musser, and Sydney Anderson.

Roy Lee Williams

However, Williams came under immediate suspicion for involvement with organized crime, particularly Kansas City Crime Boss Nicholas Civella.

Samuel Orace Dunn

He learned the printing trade after graduating from high school, was editor of the Quitman, (Mo.) Record (1895–96) and associate editor of the Maryville, (Mo.) Tribune (1896–1900); from 1900 to 1904 was a reporter, and later editorial writer, on the Kansas City Journal, and in 1904-07 was connected with the Chicago Tribune as railroad editor and editorial writer.

School District of Slinger

The School District of Slinger educates students from K4 through 12th grade residing in the southeastern Wisconsin municipalities of Slinger, Addison, St. Lawrence, Polk, and portions of Richfield, Jackson, Hartford, and West Bend, in Washington County, Wisconsin.

Selim Giray

Most recently, Dr. Giray performed Dvořák's violin concerto with the Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saëns, and Poème by Ernest Chausson with Hays Symphony Orchestra.

Sergio McClain

McClain's father, Wayne, coached Manual High School during its title run, and after Sergio graduated from Illinois, Wayne joined Bill Self's staff as an assistant coach, where he continued to work under Bruce Weber, eventually following Weber to Kansas State.

Transcontinental Air Transport

It initially offered a 48-hour train/plane trip with the first leg being on the Pennsylvania Railroad overnight from New York City to Columbus, Ohio, where passengers boarded a plane at Port Columbus International Airport that included stops in Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, and finally Waynoka, Oklahoma.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.