(from the article "Karman, Theodore von") ...to increase technological efficiency. In 1911 he made an analysis of the alternating double row of vortices behind a bluff body (one having a broad, flattened front) in a fluid ...
(from the article "Hungarian literature") Sentimentalism found its exponents in Jozsef Karman and Gabor Dayka. Karman's only work of importance, Fanni hagyomanyai (1794; "The Memoirs of Fanny"), is a novel of sentiment written in the ...
(from the article "Karman, Theodore von") Von Karman was the third of five children of Maurice and Helene von Karman. His father, a professor at the University of Budapest and commissioner of the Ministry of Education, ...
Hungarian-born American research engineer best known for his pioneering work in the use of mathematics and the basic sciences in aeronautics and astronautics. His laboratory at the California Institute of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "New Frontiers in Radio") ...and Sirius-since they debuted in 2001 and 2002, respectively. A spate of high-profile signings in 2004, however, topped by on-air talent Stern and Sirius's new chief executive, Mel Karmazin, the ...
(Hebrew: "Vineyard of God"), town, northern Israel, in the Valley of Bet Kerem, on the boundary of Upper and Lower Galilee, just off the main east-west highway from 'Akko (Acre) ...
(from the article "art and architecture, Anatolian") ...the southern plains and valleys are here replaced by a pattern of crenellated stone towers and buttresses adapted to the natural beauty of a rocky landscape. The excavation of two ...
(from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") ...the Varanasi area at the expense of the Palas; he also had substantial success against the Kalyani Calukyas. The reign of Gangeyadeva's son Karna (reigned 1041-73) represents a high point ...
(from the article "Karnal") ...city, east-central Haryana state, northwestern India. It lies along the west bank of the Yamuna River and is just east of the Western Yamuna Canal. The name is said to ...
village located in Qina muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt, which has given its name to the northern half of the ruins of Thebes on the east bank of ... [7 Related Articles]
city, east-central Haryana state, northwestern India. It lies along the west bank of the Yamuna River and is just east of the Western Yamuna Canal. The name is said to ...
(Feb. 24, 1739), battle between the forces of Nadir Shah, an Iranian adventurer, and Muhammad Shah, the Mughal emperor of India, at Karnal, 70 miles (110 km) north of Delhi; ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Nepal") The major rivers of Nepal-the Kosi, Narayani (Gandak), and Karnali, running southward across the strike of the Himalayan ranges-form transverse valleys with deep gorges, which are generally several thousand feet ...
(from the article "Helsingborg") Of the ancient fortifications, only Karnan (the "Keep") has survived. Other notable buildings are the town hall (1897), in North German Gothic style; the concert hall (1931); the 13th-century Gothic-style ...
major watercourse of the Chittagong region, Bangladesh. Rising in the Mizo Hills of Mizoram state, northeastern India, it flows about 170 miles (270 km) south and southwest through the southeastern ... [1 Related Articles]
linguistic region of the Deccan Plateau, south-central India, generally corresponding to Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state. Of irregular shape, and defined as the area in which Kannada (Kanarese) is spoken, Karnataka ... [1 Related Articles]
state of India, located on the western coast of the subcontinent. It has an area of 74,051 square miles (191,791 square kilometres). It is bounded by the states of Goa ... [10 Related Articles]
coastal lowlands in western Karnataka state, southwestern India, with an area of about 4,000 sq mi (10,000 sq km). It is bounded by the Arabian Sea on the west, the ...
plateau in Karnataka state, southern India. The name of the plateau is derived from Karnad (Land of Black Soil). The plateau has an area of about 73,000 sq mi (189,000 ... [1 Related Articles]
style of architecture employed largely in the Karnataka (formerly Mysore) area of southern India. Closely allied to the South Indian style, it developed a distinctive idiom in the mid-12th century ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Germany") ...the Berlin International Film Festival in February; the Theatertreffen Berlin ("Berlin Theatre Meeting"), featuring productions from throughout the German-speaking world; and the Karneval der Kulturen ("Carnival of Cultures"), a festival ...
(from the article "death") ...considered an essential prerequisite to a diagnosis of death. Anxieties had become so widespread following the publication of some of U.S. author Edgar Allan Poe's macabre short stories that Count ...
(from the article "card game") ...game without any special suit, or trump suit, along with playing cards, reached Europe in the 14th century, likely by passage through the Islamic world. The earliest game known by ...
Bundesland (federal state), southern Austria, bordered by Bundeslander Salzburg (north and east) and Steiermark (Styria; north), on the south by Slovenia and Italy, and on the west by East Tirol. ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pittosporaceae") ...are commonly known as Australian laurel. Tobira, or house-blooming mock orange (P. tobira), is a popular aromatic hedge plant in warm climates but a handsome indoor plant elsewhere. Karo (P. ...
Spanish-born Jewish author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Bet Yosef ("House of Joseph"). Its condensation, the Shulhan 'arukh ("The Prepared Table," or "The Well-Laid Table"), is ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Shastan") ...to but more difficult than that of the neighbouring Yurok, as Shastan villages were generally confined to narrow ridges of canyons, and their food supply was less plentiful. Like the ...
(from the article "North American Indian languages") ...native American plants and animals. Among the Indians, the type and degree of linguistic adaptation to European culture has varied greatly, depending on sociocultural factors. For example, among the Karok ...
a Swedish institute for medical education and research, founded in 1810. The primary interest of the institute is research; it has achieved international renown for its biomedical research in particular. ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hungary") In August Bethlen resigned. His successor, Gyula, Count Karolyi, was unable to cope with the situation. Political agitation mounted, and on Oct. 1, 1932, Horthy appointed as prime minister the ...
Hungarian statesman who before World War I desired a reorientation of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy toward friendship with states other than Germany. He also advocated concessions to Hungary's non-Magyar subjects. After ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "art and architecture, Egyptian") The casting of large-scale bronze figures achieved its highest point in the late New Kingdom down to the 25th dynasty. The outstanding example from this period is the figure of ...
town, northern Malawi, situated on the western shore of Lake Nyasa. By 1877 Karonga had become the stronghold of the notorious Arab slaver Mlozi. The modern town was founded, however, ...
arid to semiarid geographic region of Eastern Cape, Western Cape, and Northern Cape provinces, South Africa. The Karoo is best defined by its vegetation, which consists of assorted succulents and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...acquired property in areas that have numerous specimens of plants that are in danger of becoming extinct. It has set aside eight such sites throughout South Africa as regional gardens ...
geologic system of rocks outcropping over a 1,560,000-square-kilometre (600,000-square-mile) area of Africa from the Equator south to the Cape of Good Hope. The time span of the Karoo System extends ... [5 Related Articles]
Polish-born concert pianist survived a Nazi concentration camp in part on the strength of her musical talent. She made her professional debut in Berlin in 1929 with the Berlin Philharmonic ...
island of the Dodecanese group in the Aegean Sea, Greece. The principal town of the 116-square-mile (301-square-kilometre) island is Pigadhia in the south behind Pigadhia Bay. Closely tied to the ...
(from the article "Ural Mountains") ...Urals, extends for more than 140 miles south to the Shchugor River. This section contains the highest peaks of the entire range, including Mount Narodnaya (6,217 feet [1,895 metres]) and ...
Finnish sculler who won gold medals in three consecutive Olympic single sculls events (1976, 1980, 1984). His Olympic success, coupled with world championships in 1979 and 1985, tied him with ... [1 Related Articles]
mountain range, western Central African Republic. The range rises to 4,625 feet (1,410 m) at Mount Ngaoui, the highest point in the country. The granite hills, split by southwest-northeast fractures, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "cave") Pavement karst is decorated with an array of small landforms created by differential solution. These are collectively known as karren. Karren include solutionally widened joints (kluftkarren, or cleftkarren), small runnels ...
Swiss chemist who investigated the constitution of carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B2, for which he shared the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Sir Norman Haworth of Great ...
city, northeastern Turkey. Kars is situated on a plateau 5,740 feet (1,750 metres) above sea level on the Kars River, a tributary of the Aras River, near the border with ...
Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Michel Fokine's avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe. [2 Related Articles]
city, southern Uzbekistan, in the Karshi oasis, on the Kashka River. At least 1,000 years old, it lay on the caravan route from Samarkand and Bukhara to Afghanistan and India; ...
(from the article "Kashkadarya") oblast (province), southern Uzbekistan. Created in 1964, it has an area of 10,950 sq mi (28,400 sq km) and consists largely of the Karshi Steppe, an extensive foothill plain intersected ...
former town, west-central Turkey. It is located on the north shore of the Gulf of Izmir, and it constitutes a northwestern district of Izmir city. Karsiyaka is a shipbuilding centre ...
Polish-born Resistance hero (b. April 24, 1914, Lodz, Pol.-d. July 13, 2000, Washington, D.C.), as a member of the Polish Resistance during World War II, endured considerable hardship to infiltrate ...
(from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") ...and Radusa, run in a northwest-southeast direction. The highest peak, reaching 7,828 feet (2,386 metres), is Maglic, near the border with Montenegro. In the south and southwest is the Karst, ...
terrain usually characterized by barren, rocky ground, caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, and the absence of surface streams and lakes. It results from the excavating effects of underground water on massive ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Georgia") ...watershed between the basins of the Black and Caspian seas. In central Georgia, between the cities of Khashuri and Mts'khet'a (the ancient capital), lies the inner high plateau known as ...
(from the article "Nanak") The remaining years of his life were spent in Kartarpur, another village of central Punjab. Tradition holds that the village was actually built by a wealthy admirer to honour Nanak. ...
influential high priest of Zoroastrianism, whose aim was to purge Iran of all other religions, especially the eclectic Manichaeism founded by the 3rd-century Persian prophet Mani. What little is known ... [4 Related Articles]
driving and racing miniature, skeleton-frame, rear-engine automobiles called karts, or GoKarts. The sport originated in the United States in the 1950s after the kart had been devised from unwanted lawn-mower ... [1 Related Articles]
Javanese noblewoman whose letters made her an important symbol for the Indonesian independence movement and for Indonesian feminists. [1 Related Articles]
family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken south of the chief range of the Caucasus. A brief treatment of Kartvelian languages follows. For full treatment, ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kultepe") ...that time, Indo-European Hittites had already settled in Anatolia and assimilated into the indigenous population. From about the 20th to the 18th century BC there existed a number of Assyrian ...
(from the article "Tanzania") ..."field marshal" John Okello, it won considerable support from the African population. Thousands of Arabs were massacred in riots, and thousands more fled the island. Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, leader ...
(from the article "Tanzania") ...and Pemba were preceded by violent clashes between supporters of the two main parties, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and the Civic United Front (CUF), but went ahead as scheduled on ...
river in southwestern Iran, a tributary of the Shatt al-Arab, which it joins at Khorramshahr. It rises in the Bakhtiari Mountains west of Esfahan and follows a tortuous course trending ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Palni Hills") ...in the west, consist of rolling hills covered with coarse grasses; dense forests grow in the valleys. Peaks include Vandaravu, 8,376 feet (2,553 m); Vembadi Shola, 8,221 feet (2,505 m); ...
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...the nose is green, black squares frame the eyes, and two red spots decorate the forehead. A feathery gray beard, a large furry coat, and bell-shaped headgear give the illusion ...
town, central Burundi. The town, located on the Ndurumu River (a tributary to the Ruvubu), is a market centre with a government dispensary and a place of worship for Roman ...
(from the article "Slovakia") ...(1857; "Incognito") and Zmierenie (1862; "The Reconciliation"). The best-known Slovak playwright of the 20th century was Peter Karvas, author of The Diplomats,
mining city, northeastern Czech Republic. The city is situated east of Ostrava, on the eastern bank of the Olse River, near the Polish frontier. In 1949 its municipal area was ...
(from the article "Karnataka Coast") ...the northern, or Udipi, region produces rice and pulse (legumes). Industries are mostly located at Mangalore, an important regional centre and major coffee port of India, and at Udipi. The ...
(from the article "Isar River") river, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. Rising at an elevation of 5,741 feet (1,750 m) in the Karwendelgebirge, just northeast of Innsbruck, Austria, the Isar runs west and then north ...
(from the article "Burundi, flag of") The leading traditional symbol of Burundi was an ancient drum, Karyenda, which had a semidivine status. The mwami ("ruler") alone could interpret the messages of Karyenda and ...
(from the article "fungus") ...of two protoplasts (the contents of the two cells), brings together two compatible haploid nuclei. At this point, two nuclear types are present in the same cell, but the nuclei ...
(from the article "protozoan") ...2 cells; more than 7,000 described species, of which the majority are free-living.Long, wormlike ciliates that may be extremely contractile; in some, 1 of the surfaces may be ...
(from the article "Cyprus") The major rivers in Cyprus originate in the Troodos Mountains. The Pedieos, which is the largest, flows eastward toward Famagusta Bay; the Serakhis flows northwestward and the Karyotis northward to ...
(from the article "diagnosis") Chemical, radiological, histopathologic, and electrodiagnostic procedures can diagnose basic defects in patients suspected of genetic disease. These include chromosome karyotyping (in which chromosomes are arranged according to a standard classification ...
(from the article "Korean literature") The kasa developed at about the same time as the sijo. In its formative stage, kasa borrowed the form of the Chinese tz'u (lyric poetry) or fu (rhymed prose). The ...
river in central Africa. It is the chief southern tributary of the Congo River, into which, at Kwamouth, Congo (Kinshasa), 125 miles (200 km) above Malebo (Stanley) Pool, it empties ...
(from the article "Indian philosophy") ...philosopher, is said to have held the view that the finite individual becomes identical with Brahman after going through a process of purification. Another interpreter, Kasakrtsna, holds that the two ...
historical kingdom founded by the Imbangala about 1630 along the upper Cuango River (in present-day Angola). By the mid-17th century the kingdom of Kasanje had risen to become a dominant ... [4 Related Articles]
city, southwestern Okayama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, facing the Inland Sea. It was an old temple town until its port flourished during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867). The opening of a ...
(from the article "Sundanese") ...well as marriage, birth, and death ceremonies, conform closely to the Javanese pattern, though often mixed with elements of Hindu origin. The Sundanese language, like Javanese, has status styles: kasar ...
statesman and first president of the independent Congo republic from 1960 to 1965, who shortly after independence in 1960 ousted the Congo's first premier, Patrice Lumumba, after the breakdown of ... [4 Related Articles]
(Arabic: "acquisition"), a doctrine in Islam adopted by the theologian al-Ash'ari (d. 935) as a mean between predestination and free will. According to al-Ash'ari, all actions, good and evil, are ...
(from the article "Algiers") ...the upper slopes of the hills and has preserved much of its architectural character of high, blank-walled houses and narrow, winding streets. The Muslim section is dominated by the fortress ...
Japanese diplomat (b. Jan. 12, 1903, Chiba, Japan-d. May 21, 2004, Kamakura, Japan), in 1955 became Japan's first ambassador to the United Nations. A career diplomat, he was on the ...
American portrait photographer who was one of the founders of the influential Photo-Secession group and who is best known for her evocative images of women and domestic scenes. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Etah") ...by both the Upper and Lower Ganges canals, this region contains a fertile area between the river's present channel and its ancient bed to the southwest. Wheat, cotton, and sugarcane ...
(from the article "buckwheat") ...percent protein, 2 percent fat, and small amounts of vitamins B1 and B2. In eastern European cookery the hulled kernels, or groats, cooked and served much like rice, are called ...
(from the article "1972: Other Winners") ...and Original Song Score: Ralph Burns for CabaretSong Original for the Picture: "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure; music and lyrics by Joel Hirschhorn and Al KashaHonorary Award: Charles ...
city, west-central Iran. It lies in a desert at the eastern foot of the Central Iranian Range, on a once-important caravan route. It is also on the southeastern branch of ...
(from the article "pottery") Kashan is chiefly famous for its tiles, in fact the words kashi or kashani ("of Kashan"), are commonly used as synonyms for tile (and have been incorrectly applied to tilework ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...several times in Persian. The most famous version, though a rather turgid one, is called Anvar-e soheyli ("Lights of Canopus") and was composed by a famous mystic, Hoseyn Wa'ez-e Kashefi ...
(Arabic: "uncovering," "revelation"), in Sufism (i.e., Islamic mysticism), the privileged inner knowledge that mystics acquire through personal experience and direct vision of God. The truths revealed through kashf cannot be ...
oasis city, western Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, far western China. Kashgar lies at the western end of the Tarim Basin, in a fertile oasis of loess (silt deposited by ... [4 Related Articles]
floor covering handwoven at Kashgar (Kashi) in Chinese Turkistan (now the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang). The Kashgar rugs are difficult to distinguish from the similar ones of Khotan (Hotan) ...
(from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...Desert, is bounded on the north by the Tien Shan, on the west by the Pamirs, on the south by the Kunlun Mountains, and on the northeast by the Dzungarian ...
