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).
Beowulf is now widely taught and is often presented as the first important work of English literature, creating the impression that Beowulf is in some way the source of the English canon. But because it was not widely read until the 1800s and not widely regarded as an important artwork until the 1900s, Beowulf has had little direct impact on the development of English poetry.