American circus clown, best known for his role as "Weary Willie," a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose.
American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion picture director whose athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique, transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public's ...
American actress of films and television, known for her stately beauty and reserve. She starred in 11 motion pictures before abandoning a Hollywood career to marry Rainier III, prince de ...
British dramatist, critic, and journalist who was, for a time, a serious rival of the playwright Oliver Goldsmith in the London theatre, after his play False Delicacy (staged in 1768) ...
American oarsman who won 126 consecutive races in single sculls in 1919 and 1920, a record that included a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. Kelly also ...
American ironmaster who invented the pneumatic process of steelmaking, in which air is blown through molten pig iron to oxidize and remove unwanted impurities. Also patented by Sir Henry Bessemer ...
fibrous tissue overgrowth occurring in scars. Usually only the skin layers are affected in this manner; scars of the mucous membranes or deeper tissues do not form keloids. Keloids are ...
city, southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies 80 miles (129 km) north of the U.S. (Washington) border, on the east shore of Okanagan Lake (there bridged), 284 miles (457 km) ...
any of numerous large seaweeds found in colder seas and belonging to the order Laminariales (about 30 genera) of brown algae. The term applies also to the ash produced by ...
Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law, who formulated a kind of positivism known as the "pure theory" of law.
city, seat (1932) of Cowlitz county, southwestern Washington, U.S., on the Cowlitz River, immediately northeast of Longview. Built on the site of the Cowlitz Indian village of Tiahanakshih, the area ...
small burgh (town) and agricultural market centre, Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Roxburghshire, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the River Tweed at the head of the Merse, a ...
base unit of thermodynamic temperature measurement in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as 10027,316 of the triple point (equilibrium among the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases) ...
Turkish prose writer and poet who greatly influenced the Young Turk and Turkish nationalist movements and contributed to the westernization of Turkish literature.
also called Ibn Kemal, Ibn Kemal Pasa, or Semseddin Ahmet Ibn Suleyman Ibn Kemal Pasa historian, poet, and scholar who is considered one of the greatest Ottoman historians.
theatrical manager, the first to use appropriately detailed historical sets and costumes on the English stage, and an actor noted for his supporting roles in several Shakespeare plays, but at ...
nee Satchell English actress of great ability whose career was subordinated to that of her husband, George Stephen Kemble. Elizabeth Satchell was a talented performer when she married Kemble in ...
popular English actress who is also remembered as the author of plays, poems, and reminiscences, the latter containing much information about the stage and social history of the 19th century.
popular English actor and manager of the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres in London, where his reforms improved the status of the theatrical profession. He played heavy dramatic roles ...
city and administrative centre of Kemerovo oblast (province), south-central Russia. Kemerovo lies along the Tom River near the foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains. The small village of Kemerovo was ...
oblast (province), south-central Russia. The oblast lies in the Tom River basin. The north-south valley of the basin is flanked by the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains on the east and by ...
town, northwestern Finland. It lies along the Gulf of Bothnia at the mouth of the Kemi River, north-northwest of Oulu. It was chartered in 1869, although the site had been ...
river in northern Finland. The country's longest river, it rises near the Russian border and flows generally southwest for about 300 mi (483 km) to the Gulf of Bothnia at ...
one of the most famous clowns of the Elizabethan era. Much of his reputation as a clown grew from his work as a member of the Chamberlain's Men (c. 1594-99), ...
Flemish religious painter and designer of tapestries, chiefly active in Sevilla, Spain, where he was called Pedro Campana. By 1537 he had settled in Sevilla and apparently remained there until ...
plateau region of northeastern Belgium occupying most of Antwerp province and northern Limburg province. It is a rather dry, infertile region of sandy soil and gravel, with pine woods interspersed ...
German pianist who specialized in the 19th-century German Classical and Romantic repertoire-especially the sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven-and in the music of Frederic Chopin.
town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies 25 miles (40 km) upstream from the coastal mouth of the Macleay River. Established in 1836, it was at first accessible only ...
city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It is situated on the Iller River in the heart of the Allgauer Alps, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of ...
Anglican bishop, hymn writer, royal chaplain to Charles II of England, and one of seven bishops who in 1688 opposed James II's Declaration of Indulgence, which was designed to promote ...
town and bituminous coalfields, northwestern Algeria. They lie in a hammada (stony desert region) situated at the northwestern edge of the Sahara 15 miles (24 km) west of Bechar. The ...
(species Hibiscus cannabinus), fast-growing plant of the mallow family Malvaceae and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. It is used mainly as a jute substitute. The plant grows ...
rugged wilderness area in southern Alaska, U.S., on the southern coast of Kenai Peninsula just west and southwest of Seward. Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, it became a national ...
town ("parish"), South Lakeland district, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Westmorland, England. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of the district. It is close to ...
English actor-managers, husband and wife, who, by their personal and professional example, brought social respectability to the acting profession and whose theatrical company trained many performers who afterward attained eminence.
mistress of the English king George I who had considerable political influence during his reign. She was a close friend of Robert Walpole, who said that she was "as much ...
American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal ...
American nuclear physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor for obtaining experimental evidence for the existence of the subatomic particles ...
town, kabupaten (regency), and capital of Sulawesi Tenggara provinsi ("province"), southeastern Celebes, Indonesia. It is a port on an inlet of Kendari Bay of the Banda Sea, located about 230 ...
("way of the sword"), traditional Japanese style of fencing with a two-handed wooden sword, derived from the fighting methods of the ancient samurai (warrior class). The unification of Japan about ...
British biochemist who determined the structure of the muscle protein myoglobin, which stores oxygen and gives it to the muscle cells when needed. For his achievement he shared the Nobel ...
Australian writer best known for his historical novels. Keneally's characters are gripped by their historical and personal past, and decent individuals are portrayed at odds with systems of authority.
town, southeastern Sierra Leone. Located on the government railway and at a gap in the Kambui Hills, the town is the centre of the Alluvial Diamond Mining Scheme Area and ...
member of a tribe of itinerant metalsmiths related to the Midianites and the Israelites who plied their trade while traveling in the region of the Arabah (the desert rift valley ...
port city, northern Morocco. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) above the mouth of the Sebou River. Before the French protectorate was established, Kenitra (Little Bridge) was a fort; ...
Lord Lochinvar Scottish Jacobite who was miscast as a leader in the rebellion of 1715 on behalf of James Edward, the Old Pretender, against King George I.
county, west-central Maine, U.S. It is a region of rolling lowlands with higher elevations on the northwest. Foremost among the county's many streams is the Kennebec River, which traverses it ...
river in west-central Maine, U.S. The Kennebec rises from Moosehead Lake and flows south for about 150 miles (240 km) to the Atlantic Ocean. It was explored by Samuel de ...
town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S. It is situated at the mouth of the Kennebunk River, on the Atlantic coast. It is adjacent to Kennebunk and lies 29 miles (47 ...
Arctic sea passage between Ellesmere Island, Canada (west), and northwestern Greenland (east). It is 16-24 mi (26-39 km) wide and extends northward for 110 mi from the Kane Basin to ...
U.S. senator (from 1963), a prominent figure in the Democratic Party and in liberal politics from the 1970s. He was the last surviving brother of President John F. Kennedy.
35th president of the United States (1961-63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty ...
