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- ranks among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in the Islamic world. [1 Related Articles]
- kashif
- (from the article "Egypt") ...comprising both Ottoman and local corps. The collection of taxes and the administration of the four provinces into which Egypt was divided were assigned to inspectors (kashifs). ...
- Kashihara
- city, Nara ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the southern corner of Nara-bonchi (Nara Basin). Of cultural importance since prehistoric times, the city is important to Japanese archaeology. The Kashihara palace ...
- kashim
- (from the article "Deg Xinag") ...for a fairly large group were complemented by seasonal fishing and hunting camps that sheltered a few families each. The centre of village life was a large semisubterranean lodge called ...
- Kashiwa
- city, Chiba ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Joban Line (railway), northeast of Tokyo city. It was formed in 1954 by the merger of the towns of Kashiwa and Kogane ...
- Kashiwazaki
- city, Niigata ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the Kashiwazaki plain, facing the Sea of Japan. During the Tokugawa era (1603-1867), it was a post town on the Hokuriku-kaido (Hokuriku Highway), ...
- Kashka River
- (from the article "Uzbekistan") ...miles (1 to 5 cubic kilometres) of water annually, compared with 9.6 cubic miles in 1959. The southern rivers tributary to the Amu Darya-the Surkhan and Sherabad, followed by the ...
- 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 ...
- Kashmir
- region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. It is bounded to the northeast by the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang and to the east by the Tibet Autonomous Region (both parts ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kashmir earthquake
- (Oct. 8, 2005), disastrous earthquake centred in the Pakistan-administered portion of the Kashmir region and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, also affecting adjacent parts of India and Afghanistan. ...
- Kashmir goat
- (from the article "Selected breeds of goats") animal-hair fibre forming the downy undercoat of the Kashmir goat and belonging to the group of textile fibres called specialty hair fibres. Although the word cashmere is sometimes incorrectly applied ...
- Kashmir Saivism
- (Sanskrit: Recognition), an important religio-philosophical system of India that worships Lord Siva as the supreme reality. The school is idealistic and monistic, as contrasted with the realistic and dualistic school ... [5 Related Articles]
- kashmir shawl
- type of woolen shawl woven in Kashmir. According to tradition, the founder of the industry was Zayn-ul-'Abidin, a 15th-century ruler of Kashmir who introduced weavers from Turkistan. Although woolen shawls ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kashmir, Vale of
- intermontane valley, western Jammu and Kashmir state, northern India. Lying wholly within the Indian-administered portion of the Kashmir region, it is flanked by the main range of the Himalayas on ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kashmiri
- (from the article "Himalayas") ...the tall, fair Indo-Europeans. In the Outer Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indo-Europeans are called the Dogri dynasty. In the Vale of Kashmir the same group is represented ...
- Kashmiri language
- language spoken in the Vale of Kashmir and the surrounding hills. By origin it is a Dardic language, but it has become predominantly Indo-Aryan in character. Reflecting the history of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kashmiri literature
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of modern novelists and lyric poets from Bangladesh are impressive. To the north, where Islam came in the 14th century, a number of classical themes in Islamic lore were elaborated ...
- kashruth
- in Judaism, regulations that prohibit the eating of certain foods and require that other foods be prepared in a specified manner. The term also denotes the state of being kosher ...
- Kashta
- Kushite king who Egyptianized Nubia and conquered Upper Egypt. He was the brother and successor of Alara and the father of Piye (Piankhi), who conquered the rest of Egypt, and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kashtiliash IV
- (from the article "Tukulti-Ninurta I") (reigned c. 1243-c. 1207 BC), king of Assyria who asserted Assyrian supremacy over King Kashtiliashu IV, ruler of Kassite-controlled Babylonia to the southeast, and subjugated the mountainous region to the ...
- Kashua, Sayed
- (from the article "Literature") The novel of Sayed Kashua (Va-yehi boker; "Let It Be Morning") and the poems of Salman Matsalhah (Ehad mi-kan; "In Place"), both Arab Israelis writing in Hebrew, posed intriguing questions ...
- Kashubian
- (from the article "Pomorskie") ...Two-thirds of the province's population is urban. The largest cities are Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot, which together make up the Trojmiasto ("Tri-city") conurbation. The Kashubs, a Slavic group that lives ...
- Kashubian language
- (from the article "Poland") ...terms of numbers of speakers) are Great Polish (spoken in the northwest), Little Polish (spoken in the southeast), Mazovian, and Silesian (Slezanie). Mazovian shares some features with Kashubian, whose remaining ...
- Kashyapa I
- (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...put an end to this dynasty and, briefly, to Sinhalese rule in 432. Dhatusena (reigned 459-477) defeated the Pandyas and reestablished Sinhalese rule with the line of Moriya kings. His ...
- Kasia
- (from the article "Deoria") ...industry is sugar milling. Major crops grown in the surrounding agricultural area include sugarcane, rice, oilseeds, and pulses; there are also a number of sugar-processing factories. Nearby Kasia (ancient Kusinagara), ...
- Kasimbazar
- (from the article "Baharampur") ...are important industries. Constituted a municipality in 1876, it is the site of a hospital, the Bengal Silk Technological Institute, and several colleges affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Kasimbazar, ...
- Kasimdzhanov, Rustam
- (from the article "Chess") The top seed, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, fell at the semifinal stage in the quickplay tiebreaker to Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan. The quick time limit favoured younger players, and the ...
- Kasimov
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...Mahmud's brothers, however, fled for sanctuary to Vasily II of Moscow, who set up a puppet khanate for one of them (Kasim) at Gorodets-on-the-Oka (thereafter renamed Kasimov). The khanate of ...
- Kasimov Tatar language
- (from the article "Tatar language") ...Turkey, and China. There are numerous dialectal forms. The major Tatar dialects are Kazan Tatar (spoken in Tatarstan), Western or Misher Tatar, as well as the minor eastern or Siberian ...
- Kasimovian Stage
- third of four internationally defined stages of the Pennsylvanian Subsystem, Carboniferous System, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Kasimovian Age (306.5 to 303.9 million years ago). The name is taken ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kasiski, Friedrich W.
- (from the article "cryptology") The graph shows the extent to which the raw frequency of occurrence pattern is obscured by encrypting the text of this article using the repeating key DECEPTIVE. Nevertheless, in 1861 ...
- Kaska
- member of an ancient Anatolian people who inhabited the remote valleys between the northern border of the Hittite kingdom and the Black Sea. The Kaskans did not have a written ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kaska
- (from the article "American Subarctic peoples") ...justify the delineation of the Western Subarctic into two subareas. The first, drained mostly by the northward-flowing Mackenzie River system, is inhabited by the Chipewyan, Beaver, Slave, and Kaska nations. ...
- Kaskaskia
- village, Randolph county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It is situated on Kaskaskia Island in the Mississippi River, just west of Chester. Kaskaskia Island is the only portion of Illinois located west ...
- Kaskaskia River
- partly navigable stream in central and southern Illinois, U.S. It rises in Champaign county near Urbana and flows southwest to enter the Mississippi River north of Chester, in Randolph county, ...
- Kaskaskia Sequence
- (from the article "epeirogeny") ...are the Sauk Sequence (Late Precambrian to mid-Ordovician; about 650 to 460 million years ago), the Tippecanoe Sequence (mid-Ordovician to Early Devonian; about 460 to 400 million years ago), the ...
- Kaslik, Vaclav
- Czech composer and conductor who produced operas for theatre and television.
- Kasonke
- (from the article "Western Africa") ...today, as shown on the accompanying map, are the following: the Wolof of Senegal, the Serer to the south, and the Mande-speaking peoples to the east, comprising such subgroups as ...
- Kasori E
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...some of which may have been related to a snake cult. The Otamadai type, produced by lowland peoples, was coloured dirt-brown with a mica additive and is somewhat more restrained ...
- Kasparov, Garry
- Russian chess master who became the world chess champion in 1985. [6 Related Articles]
- Kasperle
- most prominent puppet character in Germany and Austria, where Kasperltheater became synonymous with puppet theatre. The character developed in late 17th-century Austria from Hanswurst, the cunning peasant servant of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kaspi
- (from the article "Caspian Sea") world's largest inland body of water, lying to the east of the Caucasus Mountains and to the west of the vast steppe of Central Asia. Its name derives from the ...
- Kasprowicz, Jan
- Polish poet and translator who made an enormous range of classical and modern European literature available to Polish readers. [2 Related Articles]
- Kasra'i, Seyavush
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...yet very feminine poetry. Her free verses, interpreting the insecurities of the age, are full of longing; though often bitter, they are yet truly poetic. Poems by such critically minded ...
- Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival
- (from the article "Plattsmouth") ...The contemporary economy is based on manufacturing (including retail supplies and industrial equipment), agriculture (mainly soybeans and corn [maize]), health care, services, and tourism. The Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival, ...
- Kass, Leon
- (from the article "ethics") ...prohibited. Others viewed cloning as a violation of human dignity, because it would mean that human beings could be designed by other humans. This objection was forcefully stated by the ...
- Kassa
- (from the article "Los Islands") ...(Coral) and several smaller islets. Tamara, the largest (8 miles [13 km] long and 1-2 miles [1.6-3 km] wide), has the highest point of elevation (499 feet [152 m]). Only ...
- Kassak, Lajos
- poet and novelist, the first important Hungarian working-class writer. [1 Related Articles]
- Kassala
- traditional region, east-central Sudan. It is bordered on the east by Ethiopia. The Atbara River, an important tributary of the Nile, flows northwestward through Kassala and causes seasonal floods during ...
- Kassala
- town, northeastern Sudan, near the Ethiopian border. Founded in 1834 as an Egyptian garrison, it was occupied by the Mahdists (1885-94) and briefly by the Italians (1940-41). Kassala is built ...
- Kassandra
- promontory, westernmost of the three prongs of the Chalcidice Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece, projecting into the Aegean Sea. It is a part of the nomos (department) of Khalkidhiki. Upon the narrow ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kassar, 'Ali al-
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...like the company of Salamah Hijazi, used music to such an extent that their productions approached being labelled opera or operetta. Others, like that of 'Ali al-Kassar, specialized in downright ...
- Kassebaum, Nancy Landon
- U.S. senator, the first woman elected to the Senate who was not a widow taking her husband's seat. [2 Related Articles]
- Kassel
- city, Hessen Land (state), central Germany. It lies along the Fulda River, which is a navigable tributary of the Weser River, 90 miles (145 km) northeast of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kassel gloss
- (from the article "Romance languages") ...by plus sano 'more healthy' and cecinit 'he sang' by cantavit), but for the most part only lexical items merit comment. Another well-known glossary, known as the Kassel (or Cassel) ...
- Kasserine
- town in west-central Tunisia. The town is an important market, road, and rail junction and is the centre of an irrigated agricultural area. Kasserine Pass, to the northwest, was the ...
- Kasserine Pass
- (from the article "World War II") ...in the north and Gafsa in the south. West of Fa'id, the 21st Panzer Division, under General Heinz Ziegler, destroyed 100 U.S. tanks and drove the Americans back 50 miles. ...
- Kassin + 2
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...the rock band that had been hailed as Brazil's answer to the Beatles in the '60s, released a live album to celebrate their return to the scene after nearly 30 ...
- Kassininae
- (from the article "Anura") ...intercalary cartilages present; 3 or 4 tarsals; aquatic larvae; 19 genera, 226 species; adult size 1.5-8.7 cm (0.5-3 inches); 4 subfamilies: Hyperoliinae (Africa and Madagascar), Kassininae (Africa), Leptopelinae (Africa), and ...
- Kassite
- member of an ancient people known primarily for establishing the second, or middle, Babylonian dynasty; they were believed (perhaps wrongly) to have originated in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. First ... [9 Related Articles]
- Kassite period
- (from the article "kudurru") ...curse on those who violated the rights conferred. The kudurrus are important not only for economic and religious reasons but also as almost the only works of art surviving from ...
- Kastalsky, Aleksandr
- (from the article "Russian chant") ...in some monasteries resisting the introduction of polyphonic music. The restoration of Russian chant gained momentum in the early years of the 20th century and is best exemplified in the ...
- Kastamonu
- city, north-central Turkey. It is situated near the Gok (ancient Amnias) River. It lies in a sparsely populated high basin south of the densely populated Black Sea coastal plain. As ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kastanozem
- one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Kastanozems are humus-rich soils that were originally covered with early-maturing native grassland vegetation, ...
- Kasteelberg
- (from the article "South Africa") While traces of ancient herding camps tend to be extremely rare, one of the best-preserved finds is at Kasteelberg, on the southwest coast near St. Helena Bay. Pastoralists there kept ...
- Kastellorizon
- easternmost of the Dodecanese (q.v.) group of islands in the Aegean Sea, Greece, just off the southwestern coast of Turkey. Kastellorizon has an area of 3 square miles (7.3 square ...
- Kastler, Alfred
- French physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966 for his discovery and development of methods for observing Hertzian resonances within atoms.
- Kastner, Erich
- German satirist, poet, and novelist who is especially known for his children's books. He was the most durable practitioner of the style of witty, laconic writing associated with the highbrow ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kastoria
- town, capital of the nomos (department) of Kastoria, Macedonia, northern Greece. The town stands on a promontory reaching out from the western shore of Lake Kastorias. The lake is formed ...
- Kasugai
- city, Aichi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies just northeast of Nagoya, the prefectural capital. Army arsenals were constructed nearby in 1939, and many of their workers were moved into ...
- Kasumigaseki
- (from the article "Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area") ...point for roads to the provinces, was the unchallenged mercantile centre of Edo. Today Ginza, farther south, is more important, even though it is not the largest retail district in ...
- Kasumigaseki Building
- (from the article "Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area") Skyscrapers are a relatively recent phenomenon, dating only from the completion (1968) of the 36-story Kasumigaseki Building just south of the government ministries. Until then, aesthetic and engineering considerations had ...
- Kasungu
- town, central Malawi. The economy of Kasungu depends mainly on tobacco production, and tourism in the city has developed with the opening of the nearly 914-square-mile (2,367-square-km) Kasungu National Park ...
- Kasur
- city, eastern Punjab province, Pakistan. It lies on the border of India about 30 miles (50 km) south of Lahore. Traditionally it is said to have been founded by Kusa, ...
- Kasyanov, Mikhail
- (from the article "Russia") Area: 17,075,400 sq km (6,592,800 sq mi) | Population (2004 est.): 144,315,000 | Capital: Moscow | Chief of state: President Vladimir Putin | Head of government: Prime Ministers ...
- Kasym Khan
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...across the steppes east of the Caspian and north of the Aral Sea as far as the upper Irtysh River and the western approaches to the Altai Mountains. Under Burunduk ...
- kata
- (from the article "karate") ...commonly last about three minutes, to a decision, if neither contestant has scored a clean "killing" point in the estimation of the judges. Contests of form (kata) ...
- kata thermometer
- (from the article "anemometer") ...of airspeed, and a meter in the electrical circuit of the hot wire can be calibrated to indicate airspeed. This device is useful for very low airspeeds, below about 5 ...
- katabasia
- (from the article "troparion") ...refers to the 11 hymns used only in the morning office; hypakoe (from "to respond") was originally a responsorial hymn (having soloist-chorus alternation); katabasia (from "to descend") refers to the ...
- katabatic wind
- wind that blows down a slope because of gravity. It occurs at night, when the highlands radiate heat and are cooled. The air in contact with these highlands is thus ... [4 Related Articles]
- Katagum
- town and traditional emirate, Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, on the north bank of the Jamaare River (a tributary of the Hadejia). It was the seat of an emirate founded c. ...
- Katahdin, Mount
- highest point (5,268 feet [1,606 metres]) in Maine, U.S. It lies in Baxter State Park, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Millinocket, in Piscataquis county, in the east-central part of ... [2 Related Articles]
- katakana
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...versions of Chinese characters, known as man'yogana, were employed to represent Japanese phonetic sounds, and two even more abbreviated phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, were known in nascent form. ...
- Katanga
- historical region in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Lake Tanganyika to the east, Zambia to the south, and Angola to the west. The name Shaba, the region's name ... [7 Related Articles]
- Katanga
- (from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") ...at improving relations with Rwanda and Uganda, but as early as February there were reports that Mai-Mai fighters who had opposed the government during the civil war were again killing ...
- Katangan Complex
- major division of late Precambrian rocks (the Precambrian era began about 3.8 billion years ago and ended 540 million years ago) in central Africa, especially in Katanga province, Congo (Kinshasa). ... [1 Related Articles]
- Katanning
- town, southwestern Western Australia. Laid out in 1898, it probably derives its name from the Aboriginal term kartannin ("meeting place"). A market and service centre for the grain and sheep ...
- katapayadi
- (from the article "mathematics, South Asian") ..."Concrete numbers" seem to have been devised for just that purpose. Another useful technique, developed somewhat later (about 500 CE), was the so-called katapayadi system in which ...
- katar
- (from the article "dagger") ...wear and easy to draw, giving it advantages over the sword in many situations. The types include the wavy-bladed Malayan kris, the short, curved kukri used by the Gurkhas, the ...
- katari-be
- (from the article "epic") In Japan, there were in ancient times families of reciters (katari-be) whose duty was to hand down myths and legends by word of mouth and to narrate them during official ...
- katarimono
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...songs to his own accompaniment on the fiddle or lyre. In Japan, blind biwa players chant a narrative style of music known as katarimono; ...
- katauta
- a Japanese poetic form that consists of 17 or 19 syllables arranged in three lines of either 5, 7, and 5 or 5, 7, and 7 syllables. The form was ...
- Katay Don Sasorith
- Lao nationalist and author of eloquent resistance pamphlets in his youth, who later held many government posts, among them that of premier in 1954-56.
- Katayama Tetsu
- (from the article "Prime ministers of Japan") ...This was true of the first Yoshida Shigeru cabinet (1946-47), which implemented most of the early SCAP reforms only to be replaced by an equally transitory cabinet headed by the ...
- Katayev, Valentin
- Soviet novelist and playwright whose lighthearted, satirical treatment of postrevolutionary social conditions rose above the generally uninspired official Soviet style. [1 Related Articles]
- katchi
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...general classes of housing in Pakistan: pukka houses, built of substantial material such as stone, brick, cement, concrete, or timber; katchi (or
- katchi abadi
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...groups. Many urban households are unable to pay rent for the cheapest form of available housing and live in shacks in makeshift communities known collectively as katchi ...
- Kate
- (from the article "music and dance, Oceanic") This mixture of musical structures holds true for the few New Guinea groups whose music has been studied in its cultural context: the Monumbo, the Kate, the Watut, and the ...
- Kate Greenaway Medal
- (from the article "Literature") ...and outstanding" and the writing style "intelligent yet spare," while the Times called it "a modern The Catcher in the Rye." The recipient of the Kate Greenaway Medal was British ...
- Kateb Yacine
- Algerian poet, novelist, and playwright, one of North Africa's most respected literary figures.
- Kater's pendulum
- (from the article "pendulum") ...are various other kinds of pendulums. A compound pendulum has an extended mass, like a swinging bar, and is free to oscillate about a horizontal axis. A special reversible compound ...
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