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- (from the article "telecommunications media") ...telecommunication since the 1970s, there are very few remaining slots for GEO satellites operating at frequencies below 17 gigahertz. This has led to the development of satellites operating in the ...
- K collection
- (from the article "Nineveh") ...the plan of which has been mostly recovered and has overall dimensions of about 600 by 630 feet. It comprised at least 80 rooms, of which many were lined with ...
- K meson
- (from the article "antimatter") ...particles had also been discovered; all these particles are now known to have corresponding antiparticles. Thus, there are positive and negative muons, positive and negative pi-mesons, and the K-meson and ...
- K'enting National Park
- (from the article "P'ing-tung") ...and has one of the largest experimental forests in Southeast Asia. A 126-square-mile (326-square-kilometre) area in the Heng-ch'un Peninsula was designated in 1982 as Taiwan's first national park (K'enting National ...
- K'Naan
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...global music of recent years; in 2007 the trend continued as African artists worked with Western rock musicians or produced their own distinctive form of hip-hop. The most successful newcomer ...
- K'ou Ch'ien-chih
- Taoist who organized many of the ceremonies and rites of the Taoist cult and reformulated its theology. His influence was such that he had Taoism established as the official state ... [1 Related Articles]
- K'u-erh-kan Pass
- (from the article "Sinkiang, Uygur Autonomous Region of") ...feet, the central part of the range forms an almost impenetrable barrier to movement from north to south. There are passes on the west and east such as the Karakoram ...
- k'uei
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...that it was totemic or related to shamanic empowerment; or that its dual structure represented the inseparable forces of creation and destruction. Other creatures on the bronzes are the k'uei ...
- K'uei Hsing
- in Chinese mythology, a brilliant but ugly dwarf who as the god of examinations became the deity of scholars who took imperial examinations. [1 Related Articles]
- K'un-ts'an
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") The landscapes of K'un-ts'an (or Shih-ch'i), who became a somewhat misanthropic abbot at a Buddhist monastery near Nanking, also express a feeling of melancholy. His works were typically inspired by ...
- K'ung, H.H.
- banker and businessman who was a major figure in the Chinese Nationalist government between 1928 and 1945.
- K'ung-ch'ueh River
- (from the article "Tibet") ...rivers also begin in the west. The Hsiang-ch'uan River (Tibetan Langqen Kanbab: "Out of the Elephant's Mouth") flows west to become the Sutlej River in western India; the K'ung-ch'ueh River ...
- K-boat
- (from the article "submarine") All World War I-era submarines were propelled by diesels on the surface and by electric motors submerged, except for the British Swordfish and K class. These submarines, intended to operate ...
- K-class asteroid
- (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") ...precursor materials. Some C-class asteroids are known to have hydrated minerals on their surfaces, whereas Ceres, a G-class asteroid, probably has water present as a layer of permafrost. K- and ...
- K-complex
- (from the article "sleep") ...second) activity. Stage 2 is a relatively low-voltage EEG tracing characterized by intermittent, short sequences of waves of 12-14 hertz ("sleep spindles") and by formations called K-complexes-biphasic wave forms that ...
- K-lines
- (from the article "Sun")
- K-motif
- (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") On Mangaia, the surface of virtually every decorated object was incised with the so-called K-motif, a dense pattern of cross-hatching interspersed with zigzags and concentric diamonds. Mangaian deities were represented ...
- K-selected population
- (from the article "population ecology") ...variable and uncertain environment. Because mortality occurs randomly in this setting, quantity of progeny rather than quality of care serves the species better. In another strategy, called K-selected, populations tend ...
- K-T boundary
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...origin of gliding by millions of years, but it also showed that early mammals had more diverse lifestyles than previously thought. A study of mammal assemblages across the Cretaceous-Tertiary, or ...
- K-term
- (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") In astronomical literature where solar motion solutions are published, there is often employed a "K-term," a term that is added to the equations to account for systematic errors, the stream ...
- K-theory
- (from the article "mathematics") ...in the 1960s, work chiefly by Grothendieck and the English mathematician Michael Atiyah showed how the study of vector bundles on spaces could be regarded as the study of cohomology ...
- K-type star
- (from the article "star") ...indicate the presence of familiar metals, including iron, calcium, magnesium, and also titanium oxide molecules (TiO), particularly in the red and green parts of the spectrum. In the somewhat hotter ...
- K2
- the world's second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 m]), second only to Mount Everest. K2 forms part of the Karakoram Range (Himalayas) and lies partly in China and partly on ... [6 Related Articles]
- ka
- in ancient Egyptian religion, with the ba and the akh, a principal aspect of the soul of a human being or of a god. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Ka'b
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...tradition that calls the tongues of the poets "the keys of the treasures beneath the Divine Throne." The old, traditional literary models were still faithfully followed: a famous ode by ...
- Ka'bah
- small shrine located near the centre of the Great Mosque in Mecca and considered by Muslims everywhere to be the most sacred spot on Earth. Muslims orient themselves toward this ... [11 Related Articles]
- Ka'beh-ye Zardusht
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...It was unknown until 1938, when expeditions sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago discovered a long inscription on the walls of an Achaemenian building known as ...
- Ka'us I
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...1192-96, 1205-11), seized Konya in 1205 with the aid of the Greek lord Maurozomes and the frontier Turkmens. Under this ruler and his two sons and successors, 'Izz ad-Din Ka'us ...
- Ka'usiyeh dynasty
- (AD 665-c. 1006), branch of the Bavand dynasty, which ruled in Tabaristan (now Mazandaran, northern Iran). [2 Related Articles]
- Ka-shun Gobi
- (from the article "Gobi") The Ka-shun Gobi is bounded by the spurs of the Tien Shan to the west and the Pei Mountains to the south and rises to elevations as high as 5,000 ...
- Kaaden, Treaty of
- (from the article "Ulrich") ...of the Swabian League and with the aid of Francis I, Ulrich returned to Wurttemberg in 1534; and Ferdinand, who was preoccupied with war against the Turks, agreed to his ...
- Kaahumanu
- favourite queen of Kamehameha I and acting regent of Hawaii in 1823-32. [3 Related Articles]
- Kaala, Mount
- (from the article "Waianae Range") ...small, narrow valleys. The range's northern part ends in steep coastal cliffs (750 to 1,000 feet [225 to 300 metres]), while its southern slopes have an even gradient as they ...
- Kaali jarv Craters
- group of eight meteorite craters on Saaremaa Island in the Baltic Sea, 12 miles (20 km) northeast of Kingisepp, Estonia. The largest is 333 feet (110 m) in diameter, with ...
- Kaapvaal Craton
- (from the article "Africa") The African continent essentially consists of five ancient Precambrian cratons (Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Congo, and West African) that were formed between about 3.6 and 2.0 billion years ago and that ...
- Kaarta
- (from the article "Bambara states") two separate West African states, one of which was based on the town of Segou, between the Senegal and Niger rivers, and the other on Kaarta, along the middle Niger ...
- Kaba lock
- (from the article "lock") ...is applied to the bolt. The basic types, however, remain the Bramah, lever, Yale, and combination locks, though innumerable variations have been made, sometimes combining features of each. The Swiss ...
- Kaba, Mount
- (from the article "Bengkulu") ...which are surmounted by both active and extinct volcanoes, run parallel to the coast and traverse the length of the province. Mount Seblat rises to an elevation of 7,818 feet ...
- Kababish
- nomadic people of the desert scrub of northern Kordofan region, Sudan, numbering about 70,000. Of mixed origins, including some Arab ancestry, they have been described as a loose tribal confederation ... [2 Related Articles]
- kabaddi
- (from the article "Bangladesh") ...Summer Games in Los Angeles. Indigenous games of the "touch-and-run" type, however, remain among the favourites of children and youths. One such game, called kabadi, requires each ...
- Kabah
- (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The nearby centre of Kabah, connected to Uxmal by a ceremonial causeway, has an extraordinary palace completely faced with masks of the Sky Serpent. Other major Puuc sites are Sayil, ...
- kabaka
- (from the article "Buganda") Buganda was one of several small principalities founded by Bantu-speaking peoples in what is now Uganda. It was founded in the late 14th century, when the kabaka, or ruler, of ...
- Kabaka Yekka
- (from the article "Uganda") ...support throughout the country apart from Buganda, and of the Democratic Party (DP), which was based in Buganda and led by Kiwanuka, conservative Ganda leaders set up their own rival ...
- Kabakov, Aleksandr
- (from the article "Literature") Among other prose works, special mention was due Aleksandr Kabakov's new novel, Vsyo popravimo ("All Fixed"), which described an intellectual's attempts to adapt to changing conditions in the period stretching ...
- Kabakov, Ilya
- (from the article "Russia") ...Stalinist years than did literature. It was not until the 1960s and '70s that a new group of artists, all of whom worked "underground," appeared. Major artists included Ernst Neizvestny, ...
- Kabalevsky, Dmitry
- Soviet composer of music in a nationalistic Russian idiom, whose music also found an international audience.
- kabane
- (Japanese: "family name"), hereditary title that denoted the duty and social rank of an individual within the Japanese sociopolitical structure from the late 5th to the late 7th century. Titles, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kabardian
- (from the article "Caucasian peoples") ...territory). Among the many peoples that make up the two smaller northern groups, the Chechens, who constitute the majority of the population of Chechnya republic in southwestern Russia, and the ...
- Kabardian language
- language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria republic, in southwestern Russia, in the northern Caucasus. It is related to the Abkhaz, Abaza, Adyghian, and Ubykh languages, which constitute the Abkhazo-Adyghian, or Northwest Caucasian, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- republic in southwestern Russia, on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. It is divided into three main relief regions. In the south is the Greater Caucasus, the crest ...
- Kabarega
- (from the article "Bunyoro") ...the Bantu-speaking agricultural peasantry. The kingdom continued to expand under its priest-kings until about 1800, when it started to lose territory to its neighbour, Buganda. Bunyoro's last ruler, Kabarega, was ...
- kabary
- (from the article "Madagascar") ...from the family tomb, wrapped in new lamba especially woven for that purpose, and placed again in the tomb after the delivery of a
- Kabayeva, Alina
- (from the article "Gymnastics") In the rhythmic gymnastics competition, Russia's Alina Kabayeva, who had finished with the individual bronze medal in 2000, was able to capture the gold in 2004. Kabayeva's teammate Irina Chashina ...
- Kabba
- town, Kogi state, south-central Nigeria, in the Yoruba Hills (elevation 1,300 feet [400 m]). It lies near the Osse River, at the intersection of roads from Lokoja, Okene, Ikare, Ado-Ekiti, ...
- Kabbah, Ahmad Tejan
- (from the article "Sierra Leone") Area: 71,740 sq km (27,699 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 5,866,000 | Capital: Freetown | Head of state and government: Presidents Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and, from September 17, ...
- Kabbala
- esoteric Jewish mysticism as it appeared in the 12th and following centuries. Kabbala has always been essentially an oral tradition in that initiation into its doctrines and practices is conducted ... [30 Related Articles]
- Kabelvag
- historical village of the Lofoten island group, northern Norway. It is on the southern shore of Austvagoya island, just southwest of Svolvaer, chief town of the Lofoten. Kabelvag was founded ...
- Kabetogama Peninsula
- (from the article "Voyageurs National Park") The park consists of a network of lakes-the largest of which are Rainy (partly in the park), Namakan, and Kabetogama-and connecting streams in the heart of the North Woods. The ...
- Kabi, Martinho Ndafa
- (from the article "Guinea-Bissau") ...sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 1,472,000 | Capital: Bissau | Chief of state: President Joao Bernardo Vieira | Head of government: Prime Ministers Aristides Gomes and, from April ...
- Kabila, Joseph
- On Jan. 26, 2001, Joseph Kabila was inaugurated as the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was the eldest son of the former president, Laurent Kabila, ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kabila, Laurent
- leader of a rebellion that overthrew President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire in May 1997. He subsequently became president and restored the country's former name, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [6 Related Articles]
- Kabir
- iconoclastic Indian poet-saint revered by Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs alike. [5 Related Articles]
- kabir
- (from the article "Arabia, history of") ...of varying size and importance, some quite small, with none exercising a dominating role over the others. Among the other three peoples the office of "elder" (kabir) ...
- Kabir Panth
- (from the article "Hinduism") The importance of these writers is not limited to literature. A small sect, the Kabirpanthis, acknowledges Kabir as its founder, but its importance is less than that of the vigorous ...
- Kabompo River
- (from the article "Zambezi River") ...is the Barotse, or Zambezi, Plain. The region is inundated during the summer floods, when it receives fertile alluvial soils. The main tributaries intersecting the river along the plains are ...
- Kaboyo, Prince
- (from the article "Toro") ...created the earliest centralized political organization in the area and that these people were succeeded by the Cwezi and then by the Bito-a Nilotic people who had come from the ...
- Kabti-ilani-Marduk
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") In 764, after an epidemic, the Erra epic, the myth of Erra (the god of war and pestilence), was written by Kabti-ilani-Marduk. He invented an original plot, which diverged considerably ...
- kabu nakama
- (from the article "Japan") ...them concentrate on rice farming. He tried to lower the prices of commodities in the cities through detailed regulations on the lives of townspeople. Tadakuni further ordered the dissolution of ...
- Kabua, Amata
- Marshallese politician who founded the Political Movement for the Marshall Islands Separation from Micronesia (1972) and served as president of the Marshall Islands from 1979 when the republic gained independence; ...
- Kabua, Emlain
- (from the article "Marshall Islands, flag of the") ...government was introduced there on May 1, 1979, the occasion was heralded by the hoisting of a national flag, which had been created in a flag design competition. The winning ...
- Kabuga, Felicien
- (from the article "Law") The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) continued to pressure Kenya to arrest Felicien Kabuga, a Rwandan who stood accused of having financed the genocidal activities of the Hutu in ...
- Kabuki
- traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in a highly stylized manner. A rich blend of music, dance, mime, and spectacular staging and costuming, it has been the ... [23 Related Articles]
- Kabuki juhachiban
- (from the article "Ichikawa Family") Danjuro VII (1791-1859), the greatest actor of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867), established the Kabuki juhachiban ("18 Grand Plays of Kabuki"), the special repertoire of the Ichikawa family. Danjuro IX ...
- Kabuki Theatre
- (from the article "Kabuki") At present, regular performances are held at the Kabuki Theatre (Kabuki-za)-with a capacity of 1,600-and the National Theatre, both in Tokyo. Other theatres have occasional performances. Troupes of Kabuki actors ...
- Kabul
- capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It lies along the Kabul River at an elevation of about 5,900 feet (1,800 metres) in the east-central part of the country. The nation's ... [11 Related Articles]
- Kabul Kuhestan
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...Marco Polo and his group is said to have passed along the Hindu Kush through the Badakhshan and Vakhan regions in the 13th century. The central section of the range, ...
- Kabul River
- river in eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, 435 miles (700 km) long, of which 350 miles are in Afghanistan. Rising in the Sanglakh Range 45 miles west of Kabul city, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kabul University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") Higher education has been limited to two institutions: Kabul University, founded in 1946 by the incorporation of a number of faculties, the oldest of which is the faculty of medicine, ...
- Kaburagi Kiyokata
- Japanese painter known for his works depicting Tokyo and its people in the Meiji era (1868-1912).
- Kabwe
- town, central Zambia. It is an important transportation and mining centre north of Lusaka on the Great North Road, at an elevation of 3,879 feet (1,182 metres). The Rhodesian Broken ...
- Kabwe cranium
- fossilized skull of an extinct human species (genus Homo) found near the town of Kabwe, Zambia (formerly Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia), in 1921. It was the first discovered remains of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kabyle
- Berber people of Algeria inhabiting a partially mountainous region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the southern slopes of the Great Kabylie mountains and from Dellys to Cape Aokas. Numbering ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kabyle
- (from the article "Yambol") town, east-central Bulgaria, on the Tundzha (Tundja) River. North of the present town are the ruins of Kabyle (or Cabyle), which originated as a Bronze Age settlement in the 2nd ...
- Kabyle language
- (from the article "Kabyle") ...Numbering about 2,000,000 in the late 20th century, they are mainly Muslims with a few Christians and are predominantly agricultural, growing grains and olives and herding goats. Their language, Kabyle ...
- Kabylie
- mountainous coastal region in northern Algeria, between Algiers and Skikda. It comprises: (1) the Great Kabylie (Grande Kabylie) or Djurdjura Mountains bounded on the west by the Isser River and ... [1 Related Articles]
- kacapi
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...which reached China from Persia a number of centuries ago; it is the only representative of the box zither in East Asia. Indonesian chamber music often uses a
- kacca
- (from the article "dietary law") ...who provide honorific services. Food is regarded as pakka if it contains ghee (clarified butter), which is a very costly fat and which is believed to promote health and virility. ...
- kacch
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...Ks"-kes or kesh (uncut hair), kangha (comb), kacch (short trousers), kara (steel bracelet), and
- Kacchi
- (from the article "India") ...trading post at Lothal on the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay), as well as many other sites, some of which are major. West of the Indus River a number of important ...
- Kacchi
- (from the article "Sindhi language") ...Indo-Aryan language spoken in the province of Sindh, Pakistan, and in the neighbouring Rann of Kutch and Kathiawar Peninsula in India. The standard Sindhi dialect is Vicholi. Kacchi, spoken in ...
- kacchi ghori
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...ghoomar, danced by women in long full skirts and colourful chuneris (squares of cloth draping head and shoulders and tucked in front at the waist). Especially spectacular are the kacchi ...
- Kach Party
- (from the article "Kahane, Meir") There Kahane formed the Kach Party and stirred nationalist fervor against Arabs, whom he campaigned to remove (violently, if necessary) from Israel and all Israeli-occupied areas. He won a seat ...
- Kacha
- (from the article "Khakass") ...to Khakassia republic in central Russia. The general name Khakass encompasses five Turkic-speaking groups that differ widely in their ethnic origin as well as in their culture and everyday life: ...
- Kachari
- (from the article "Bodo") The Kachari tribe is divided into clans named after aspects of nature (e.g., heaven, earth, rivers, animals, and plants). Descent and succession to property are in the male line. They ...
- Kachchh, Gulf of
- northeastern arm of the Arabian Sea, extending between the Rann of Kachchh (a salt waste) and the Kathiawar Peninsula of west-central India. Reaching eastward for some 110 miles (180 km), ...
- Kachchh, Rann of
- saline mudflats, west-central India and southern Pakistan. The Great Rann covers an area of about 7,000 square miles (18,000 square km) and lies almost entirely within Gujarat state, India, along ... [8 Related Articles]
- Kachemak culture
- a culture found around the Kachemak Bay of the southern Kenai Peninsula in central southern Alaska. It is divided into three phases, the oldest of which may date back as ...
- Kachin
- tribal peoples occupying parts of northeastern Myanmar (Burma) and contiguous areas of India (Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland) and China (Yunnan). The greatest number of Kachin live in Myanmar (roughly 590,000), ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kachin Hills
- heavily forested group of highlands situated in the northeasternmost section of Myanmar (Burma). They range north-south and are bordered on the northwest by Arunachal Pradesh state of India, on the ...
- kachina
- in traditional religions of the Pueblo Indians of North America, any of more than 500 divine and ancestral spirit beings who interact with humans. Each Pueblo culture has distinct forms ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kachina Bridge
- (from the article "Natural Bridges National Monument") The largest bridge, Sipapu, rises 220 feet (67 metres) above the streambed and has a span of 268 feet (82 metres). The Kachina and Owachomo bridges are, respectively, 210 and ...
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