Closest Airport to Leavenworth, KS. The closest airport is Kansas City International Airport (MCI). Distance from Kansas City International Airport to Leavenworth is 18,0 kilometers (11,2 miles).ansas City International Airport is located approximately 17,2 kilometers (10,7 miles) northwest of Gladstone and about 18,0 kilometers (11,2 miles) east of Leavenworth.
Author Neil Gaiman and screenwriter Roger Avary wrote a screen adaptation of Beowulf in May 1997 (they had met while working on a film adaptation of Gaiman's The Sandman in 1996, before Warner Bros. canceled it).
The beginning of Beowulf, before the author starts telling the story, tells the reader what makes a hero in Anglo-Saxon culture. That way, the reader who is not from that era can understand the actions and conflicts of the heroes in the story by understanding how it would have seemed to a contemporary reader.