"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959. "Kansas City" is one of Leiber and Stoller's "most recorded tunes, with more than three hundred versions", with several appearing in the R&B …

Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859.It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and …

In video games, Elden Ring wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards. American basketball player Brittney Griner and Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (pictured) are freed via a prisoner exchange.; In Germany, 25 members of a far-right group are arrested in connection with a coup d'état plot.; Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider are elected to the Federal Council, …

The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful …

The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri.The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division.. The team was founded in 1959 as the Dallas Texans by businessman Lamar Hunt, and was a charter member of the American …

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and …

The song was featured in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3. In 1988, "The Twist" again became popular due to a new recording of the song by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number 2 in the United Kingdom and number 1 in Germany. In 2014, Billboard magazine declared the song the "biggest hit" of the 1960s.

Kansas ist eine US-amerikanische Rockband, die 1972 im US-Staat Kansas aus einer Vereinigung der Musikergruppen White Clover und Proto-Kaw hervorging. Sie gilt als wichtigster amerikanischer Vertreter des klassischen Progressive Rock der 1970er Jahre. Zu ihrem Songrepertoire gehören die 1978 in den Top 10 platzierte Single Dust in the Wind, aber auch …

Film and television. Brave, a concept film based on the Marillion album; The Brave, a 1997 film starring Johnny Depp; Brave, a 2007 Thai film featuring Afdlin Shauki; Brave, a computer-animated film produced by Pixar and released by Disney; Brave, a Nigerian short film; Brave: Gunjō Senki, a 2021 live-action film adaptation of manga Gunjō Senki; The Brave, an …

Early gospel songs. The Two Gospel Keys recorded "You've Got to Move", which was released on a 78-rpm record in 1948. Emma Daniels (vocals and guitar) and Mother Sally Jones (vocals and tambourine) comprised the gospel music duo. Similar renditions followed by Elder Charles D. Beck (1949), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1950), the Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama (1953), …