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).
Pagan Burial Rites in the Epic of Beowulf-Pagan Burial Rites in the Epic of Beowulf Scores of essays are written about the Christian influence on the Beowulf poet. Most notable Beowulf scholars such as Klâber, Robinson and Whitelock do not fail to address the matter.