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The Schlaraffen, an exclusively male organization (many men of a mellower age and in secure positions), meet in midwinter (1 October – 30 April in the northern hemisphere) once per week in their Schlaraffen castle (equipped in the style of a knight's tavern from the Middle Ages) for "Sippungen" (gatherings which take place in the fixed ceremonial form of a knight's play).
On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history, was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...
Jon Hamm has addressed why he was picked to introduce the Kansas City Chiefs at the 2025 Super Bowl. "It was definitely a performance," Hamm, 53, joked during an appearance on Late Night with Seth ...
The Kansas City Athletic Club (1887–1997), moved to Kansas City, Kansas; The Kansas City Club (1882–2015), moved and merged into the University Club at the latter's premises; the merged club adopted the Kansas City Club name (2001); insolvent (2015) The Progress Club (1881–1928), moved and became the Oakwood Country Club [284]
The century-old building at the corner of West 11th Street and Baltimore Avenue has lived many lives: The Kansas City Athletic Club, Continental Hotel and Playboy Club have all called it home. In ...
With the AFC's No. 1 seed locked up, the Kansas City Chiefs rested their starters in Sunday's regular-season finale against the Broncos, a game that Denver won by 38 points to clinch the final ...
On the night of April 6, 1950, [3] Binaggio and his underboss, Charles "Mad Dog" Gargotta (a notorious enforcer within the Kansas City family), were called to meet some unknown persons at the First Ward Democratic Club near downtown Kansas City. Binaggio left his driver/bodyguard, Nick Penna, at the Last Chance saloon, at a tavern owned by the ...