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Going Ape About Habitat at the Kansas City Zoo
Flatland’s curiousKC teams explains what happened, and why, to the Great Ape House at the Kansas City Zoo.
Terror in the Heartland: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping
Much of the twisty, grizzly story behind the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping has never been fully told. And one key element of Kansas City’s crime of the century remains tantalizingly unresolved.
Finding the Heart of the Kansas City Metro Area
curiousKC goes in search of the population center of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Taco Bell’s Seven Layers of Mystery
Flatland’s curiousKC team explores whether Kansas City is home of the first enclosed Taco Bell restaurant.
Big Tree “A Living Monument” in Old Northeast
After Ben Jones moved into a house in Northeast Kansas City, he
Bringing Out the Dead: The Great Stockyard Fire of 1917
One of the biggest agricultural disasters in Kansas City history occurred in 1917, when a fire scorched the stockyard in the West Bottoms, leaving thousands of dead cattle and hogs charred in its wake.
In Kansas and Missouri, Immigrants are Rooted in the Agriculture Workforce
This curiousKC report looks at immigrant labor in agriculture today and its history. We spoke with an economist, an immigration attorney and former farmworker to learn more.
Tiny Toys, Big Museum
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures in Kansas City has more tiny items than visitors might imagine.
Backers Continue Push for a Walt Disney Museum in Kansas City
Speeding up or down 31st Street at Forest Avenue, it’s easy to miss the wall-sized mural, “Thank You, Walt Disney.” That location was once the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Disney’s first professional film studio and apartment, which lasted for only one year in 1923. However, in the past 20 years or so, an organization called “Thank You,…
The Story Behind Naming a Restaurant “Sambo’s”
The curiousKC team explores the history behind the naming of the Sambo’s restaurant chain, which once had more than 1,100 locations across the country.