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Kennedy, Joseph P.: American businessman and financier who served in government commissions in Washington, D.C. (1934-37), and as ambassador to Great Britain (1937-40). He was the father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy ...
Kennedy, Robert F.: U.S. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961-63). Later U.S. senator (1965-68), he was assassinated while campaigning for the presidential nomination.
Kennedy, Walter: Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his flyting (Scots dialect: "scolding") with his professional rival William Dunbar. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which the two poets alternate in heaping ...
Kennedy, William: American author and journalist whose novels feature elements of local history, journalism, and supernaturalism.
Kennelly, Arthur Edwin: U.S. electrical engineer who made innovations in analytic methods in electronics, particularly the definitive application of complex-number theory to alternating-current (ac) circuits.
Kenner mission: in U.S. history, secret attempt on the part of the Confederacy in 1864 to elicit European recognition in exchange for Southern abolition of slavery.
Kennet: district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, in the east-central part of the county, about midway between Bristol and London. Kennet is a rural district of rolling chalk ...
Kenneth I: also called Kenneth Macalpin first king of the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts and so of Scotland north of a line between the Forth and Clyde rivers.
Kenneth II: king of the united Picts and Scots (from 971), son of Malcolm I.
Kenneth III: king of the Scots (from 997), son of Dub and grandson of Malcolm I. He succeeded to the throne perhaps after killing his cousin Constantine III (reigned 995-997); he was ...
Kenneth, Saint: Irish abbot, monastic founder, and missionary who contributed to the conversion of the Picts. He is one of the most popular Celtic saints in Scotland (where he is called Kenneth) ...
Kennewick: city, Benton county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Columbia River, opposite Pasco and immediately southeast of Richland. Laid out in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company, Kennewick ...
kenning: concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. A kenning is commonly a simple stock compound such as "whale-path" ...
keno: gambling game played with cards (tickets) bearing numbers in squares, usually from 1 to 80. A player marks or circles as many of these numbers as he wishes up to ...
Kenora: town, Kenora district, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the Lake of the Woods, 300 miles (480 km) northwest of Thunder Bay. The Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post ...
Kenoran orogeny: a Precambrian thermal event on the Canadian Shield that occurred 2.5 billion years ago (± 150 million years). Rocks affected by the Kenoran event represent some of the oldest rocks ...
Kenosha: city, seat (1850) of Kenosha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pike River, just north of the Illinois state line. Founded in ...
Kensett, John Frederick: American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists.
Kensington and Chelsea: royal borough in inner London, part of the historic county of Middlesex, on the north bank of the River Thames west of the City of Westminster. The borough of Kensington ...
Kensington Gardens: park in the borough of Westminster, London. It covers an area of 275 acres (111 hectares) and is bordered by the grounds of Kensington Palace (west), Bayswater (north), South Kensington ...
Kensington Palace: royal palace in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Its grounds border the extensive Kensington Gardens to the east.
Kensington Stone: supposed relic of a 14th-century Scandinavian exploration of the interior of North America. Most scholars deem it a forgery, claiming linguistically that the carved writing on it is many years ...
Kent: city, Portage county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on the Cuyahoga River, immediately northeast of Akron. The site was first settled in about 1805 by John and Jacob Haymaker and called Riedsburg. ...
Kent: one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom ...
Kent: county, central Delaware, U.S., bounded by the Smyrna River (north), the Delaware River and Bay (east), the Mispillion River (south), and Maryland (west). Principal waterways are the Choptank, Leipsic, Murderkill, ...
Kent: county, northeastern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a coastal plain bordered by the Sassafras River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Chester River to the south, and Chesapeake ...
Kent: county, west-central Rhode Island, U.S., lying between Connecticut to the west and Narragansett Bay to the east. The Pawtuxet River flows through the county's northeastern corner. The county was created ...
Kent: administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying along the English Channel at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. A line of chalk hills (the North Downs) running from west ...
Kent and Strathern, Edward Augustus, duke of, Earl Of Dublin: fourth son of King George III of Great Britain, father of Queen Victoria.
Kent State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent and two-year colleges in Ashtabula, East Liverpool, and ...
Kent's Cavern: large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, Eng., that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Reverend J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825-29), ...
Kent, Edmund Plantagenet, 1st earl of: youngest brother of England's King Edward II, whom he supported to the forfeit of his own life.
Kent, James: jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries. As ...
Kent, Rockwell: painter and illustrator whose works, though never radically innovative, represented scenes of nature and adventure with such vividness and drama that he became one of the most popular U.S. artists ...
Kent, William: English architect, interior designer, landscape gardener, and painter, a principal master of the Palladian architectural style in England and pioneer in the creation of the "informal" English garden.
Kentau: city, south-central Kazakstan, on the slopes of the Qaratau Range. Formed in 1955 from several settlements, Kentau (Kazak: "Ore Mountains") is a rapidly growing mining city with a plant for ...
Kentigern, Saint: abbot and early Christian missionary, traditionally the first bishop of Glasgow and the evangelist of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Cumbria in southwestern Scotland. Little else is known about him ...
Kenton, Stan: American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers and thrust formal education and big-band jazz together into what became the stage (or ...
Kentucky: constituent state of the United States of America. Rivers define Kentucky's boundaries except on the south, where it shares a border with Tennessee along a nearly straight line of about ...
Kentucky coffee tree: (species Gymnocladus dioica), plant of the pea family (Fabaceae), native in North American woods from New York and southern Ontario to Oklahoma. In colonial times the seeds of the tree ...
Kentucky Derby: one of the classic American horse races, established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track, Louisville, Kentucky. With the Preakness Stakes (run ...
Kentucky Lake: one of the largest man-made lakes in the eastern United States, situated in Marshall, Calloway, Lyon, and Trigg counties, southwestern Kentucky, U.S.; its southern extremity overlaps into Tennessee. The lake ...
Kentucky River: tributary of the Ohio River in north-central Kentucky, U.S., and navigable along its 259-mile (417-km) course by means of locks. It is formed by the confluence of North, Middle, and ...
Kentucky State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of colleges of arts and sciences, professional studies, schools of business and public administration, ...
Kentucky, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. It includes the Chandler Medical Center, also in Lexington, and Lexington Community College. The campus consists of 12 colleges offering ...
Kenya: strategically located country of East Africa. Bisected horizontally by the equator and vertically by the 38th meridian (east), it is bordered on the north by Ethiopia and The Sudan, on ...
Kenya African National Union: Kenyan political party. Organized in 1960, KANU was one of two major political parties formed in preparation for independence-the other party, the Kenya African Democratic Union, was ultimately absorbed by ...
Kenya, history of: history of the area from the 19th century to the present.
Kenya, Mount: volcano, central Kenya, lying immediately south of the Equator. It is the second highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro, which is located some 200 miles (320 km) to the south. ...
Kenyah: indigenous people of Sarawak and Indonesian Borneo, grouped with the Kayan or under the general name Bahau. In the late 20th century the Kenyah were reported to number 23,000. They ...
Kenyatta, Jomo: African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963-64) and then the first president (1964-78) of independent Kenya.
Kenyon College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Gambier, Ohio, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Episcopal church. Kenyon offers bachelor's degree programs in the performing arts, ...
Kenyon, Dame Kathleen: English archaeologist who excavated Jericho to its Stone Age foundation and showed it to be the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement.
Keohane, Nannerl Overholser: American academician and administrator who gained particular prominence when she became the first woman president of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Keokuk: Sauk Indian orator and politician who became chief by ceding Indian lands to win white support and by rallying opposition to his own tribe's resistance leaders.
Keokuk: city, Lee county, extreme southeastern Iowa, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (bridged to Hamilton, Illinois) at the mouth of the Des Moines River, about 40 miles (65 km) ...
Keonjhar: town, northern Orissa state, eastern India. Keonjhar is a trade centre for the farm and forest products of the surrounding area. Handloom weaving is also important. The town contains an ...
Kepes, Gyorgy: Hungarian-born American painter, designer, photographer, teacher, and writer who had considerable influence on many areas of design.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion: in astronomy and classical physics, laws describing the motions of the planets in the solar system. They were derived by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, whose analysis of the observations ...
Kepler's Nova: one of the few supernovae (violent stellar explosions) known to have occurred in the Milky Way Galaxy. Jan Brunowski, Johannes Kepler's assistant, first observed the phenomenon in October 1604; Kepler ...
Kepler, Johannes: German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion, conventionally designated as follows: (1) the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; (2) the time ...
Keplerian telescope: instrument for viewing distant objects, the basis for the modern refractive telescope, named after the great German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Its eyepiece, or ocular, is a convex (positive, or convergent) ...
Keppel Bay: inlet of the Pacific Ocean, indenting eastern Queensland, Australia. It is about 30 miles (48 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide and is protected from the sea by ...
Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, Baron Elden: English admiral and politician whose career as a seagoing commander ended in a controversy of political origin during the American Revolution.
Keppler, Joseph: Austria-born American caricaturist and founder of Puck, the first successful humorous weekly in the United States.
Ker: in ancient Greek religion, a destructive spirit. Popular belief attributed death and illness to the action of impersonal powers, often spoken of in the plural (Keres). The word was also ...
Kerala: state of India. It has an area of 15,005 square miles (38,863 square kilometres), only about 1 percent of the total area of the country. The state stretches for 360 ...
Kerala Plains: narrow strip of coastland, southwestern India, fronting the Arabian Sea to the west and constituting almost all of Kerala state and most of the Malabar Coast (q.v.). With an area ...
Kerang: town, northern Victoria, Australia, on the Loddon River. It was settled in 1857; its name is derived from an Aboriginal term meaning "cockatoo," "parasite," or "moon." Declared a shire in ...
keratin: fibrous structural protein of hair, nails, horn, hoofs, wool, feathers, and of the epithelial cells in the outermost layers of the skin. The polypeptide chains of keratin are arranged in ...
keratitis: inflammation of the cornea, the transparent portion of the eyeball that is in front of the iris and pupil. There are several varieties. Often there is inflammation of both the ...
keratosis: any protuberance on the skin resulting from the overdevelopment of the horny outermost covering of the skin, or epidermis, the main constituent of which is the protein keratin, which is ...
Kerch: city and seaport, Crimea republic, southern Ukraine, on the western shore of the Strait of Kerch at the head of a small bay. Founded in the 6th century BC by ...
Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich: moderate socialist revolutionary who served as head of the Russian provisional government from July to October 1917 (Old Style).
Keres, Paul: Estonian chess grandmaster, three times chess champion of the U.S.S.R., three times European champion, and a member of the winning Soviet team at seven world Chess Olympiads.
Kerguelen cabbage: (species Pringlea antiscorbutica), plant resembling the common cabbage and belonging to the same family (Brassicaceae). It was named for Kerguelen Island. The leaves of the plant contain a pale-yellow, highly ...