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- (from the article "gravitation") ...of gravity have been devised: timing the free fall of an object and timing the motion under gravity of a body constrained in some way, almost always as a pendulum. ...
- kathak
- one of the main forms of classical dance-drama of India, other major ones being bharata-natya, kathakali, manipuri, kuchipudi, and orissi. Kathak is indigenous to northern India and developed under the ... [3 Related Articles]
- kathakali
- one of the main forms of classical dance-drama of India, other major ones being bharata-natya, kathak, manipuri, kuchipudi, and orissi. It is indigenous to southwestern India (Kerala) and is a ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kathakata
- (from the article "West Bengal") ...mythological and historical topics to contemporary themes, are popular both in the countryside and in urban areas. The kavi is an impromptu duel in musical verse between village poets. The ...
- Katharevusa Greek language
- a "purist" variety of modern Greek, which until 1976 was the official written language of Greece. Katharevusa was used in government and judiciary documents as well as in most newspapers ... [4 Related Articles]
- Katharina
- the shrew of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The play revolves around Katharina's transformation into the ideal wife. [1 Related Articles]
- Katharine
- (from the article "Love's Labour's Lost") ...and Dumaine (Dumain)-debate their intellectual intentions. Their plans are thrown into disarray, however, when the Princess of France, attended by three ladies (Rosaline, Maria, and Katharine), arrives on a diplomatic ...
- Katharine
- (from the article "Henry VIII") ...denounced Cardinal Wolsey, lord chancellor to King Henry VIII, for corruption and treason, is himself arrested, along with his son-in-law, Lord Abergavenny. Despite the king's reservations and Queen Katharine's entreaties ...
- kathenotheism
- (from the article "Hinduism") ...to wane. The peculiar theism of the Rigveda-in which any one of several different gods might be hailed as supreme and the attributes of one god could be transferred to ...
- Katherine
- town, north-central Northern Territory, Australia. It lies along the Katherine River and on the Stuart Highway, 165 miles (266 km) southeast of Darwin. The river was explored in 1862 by ...
- Katherine Gorge National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...the basis for intensive experimentation in cropping along the riverbanks. Beef is processed in Katherine for export. Some gold is found in the upper reaches of the Katherine River, and ...
- Katherine Group
- (from the article "English language") ...accordingly. All five Middle English dialects (Northern, West Midland, East Midland, South Western, and South Eastern) went their own ways and developed their own characteristics. The so-called Katherine Group of ...
- Katherine River
- (from the article "Katherine") town, north-central Northern Territory, Australia. It lies along the Katherine River and on the Stuart Highway, 165 miles (266 km) southeast of Darwin. The river was explored in 1862 by ...
- Kathiawar Peninsula
- peninsula in southwestern Gujarat state, west-central India. It is bounded by the Little Rann (marsh) of Kachchh (Kutch; north), the Gulf of Cambay (east), the Arabian Sea (southwest), and the ... [5 Related Articles]
- kathina
- (from the article "vassa") ...in which every monk, irrespective of rank or seniority, agrees willingly to receive instruction from any other monk in the monastery if he acts improperly. The lively
- Kathiri
- (from the article "Kathiri sultanate") ...at Saywun (Say'un), once extended from the Wadi Hadramawt, an intermittent stream, northward to the Rub' al-Khali, the vast southern Arabian desert. The Kathiri tribe dominated the Hadhramaut from about ...
- Kathiri sultanate
- former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, in the inland Hadhramaut region now included in Yemen. The sultanate, with its capital at Saywun (Say'un), once extended from the Wadi ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kathmandu
- capital of Nepal. It lies near the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers, at an elevation of 4,344 feet (1,324 metres) above sea level. It was founded in 723 ... [11 Related Articles]
- Kathmandu Valley
- (from the article "Himalayas") In some valleys, like the Vale of Kashmir and the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, lakes formed temporarily and then filled with Pleistocene deposits. After drying up some 200,000 years ago, ...
- Kathodi
- (from the article "Rajasthan") ...in India, inhabit the districts of Bhilwara, Chittaurgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara, Udaipur, and Sirohi and are famous for their skill in archery. The Grasias and nomadic Kathodis live in the Mewar ...
- katholou
- (from the article "philosophy, Western") ...world. The last chapters of his Posterior Analytics show, on the contrary, that he merely replaced Plato's transcendent Forms with something (katholou) corresponding to ...
- Kati Bihu
- (from the article "Assam") ...festival. Known also as Bhogali Bihu (from bhog, meaning enjoyment and feasting), it is a time of community feasts and bonfires. The third Bihu festival, the Kati ...
- Katihar
- town, northeastern Bihar state, northeastern India. Katihar is situated east of the Saura River, a tributary of the Ganges. It is a major road and rail junction with railway workshops ...
- Katima Mulilo Rapids
- (from the article "Zambezi River") The Zambezi then enters a stretch of rapids that extends from Ngonye (Sioma) Falls south to the Katima Mulilo Rapids, after which for about 80 miles it forms the border ...
- Katip Celebi
- Turkish historian, geographer, and bibliographer. [1 Related Articles]
- Katipunan
- ("Supreme Worshipful Association of the Sons of the People"), Filipino nationalist organization founded in 1892 to oppose Spanish rule. The organization numbered anywhere from 100,000 to 400,000 members. The Filipino ... [2 Related Articles]
- Katkov, Mikhail Nikiforovich
- Russian journalist who exercised a high degree of influence in government circles during the reigns of Alexander II (reigned 1855-81) and Alexander III (reigned 1881-94). [1 Related Articles]
- Katla
- (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...square km). Only a few miles inland from the Atlantic, it reaches its highest elevation, 5,466 feet (1,666 m) above sea level, in Eyjafjalla Glacier. The southeastern part of the ...
- Katmai National Park and Preserve
- large area of wilderness and unique geologic features in southwestern Alaska, U.S., at the head of the Alaska Peninsula on Shelikof Strait. Katmai was designated a national monument in 1918 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Katmai, Mount
- (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") volcanic region, southern Alaska, U.S., 265 miles (425 km) southwest of Anchorage. The valley was created in 1912 by the eruption of the Novarupta and Mount Katmai volcanoes. Its name ...
- Katna
- ancient Syrian city, Syria. It prospered especially during the 2nd millennium BC and was frequently named as Qatanum in the royal archives of Mari on the Euphrates. Excavations there in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kato Hiroyuki, Danshaku
- Japanese writer, educator, and political theorist who was influential in introducing Western ideas into 19th-century Japan. After the fall of the shogunate in 1868, he served as one of the ...
- Kato Kiyomasa
- Japanese military leader who helped both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu in their attempts to unify Japan. As an ardent Buddhist, he also led the struggle to ban Christianity from ...
- Kato Sawao
- Japanese gymnast, who won eight Olympic gold medals as a member of the Japanese team that dominated men's gymnastics during the 1960s and '70s. [2 Related Articles]
- Kato Shirozaemon
- (from the article "Seto ware") ...in Seto by one of the so-called Six Ancient Kilns of Japan. It was first produced in the later Kamakura period toward the close of the 13th century. The origin ...
- Kato Takaaki
- Japanese prime minister in the mid-1920s whose government and policies were considered the most democratic in Japan before World War II. [1 Related Articles]
- Kato Yosabei
- (from the article "pottery") ...16th century the Seto kilns were removed for a time to the Gifu Prefecture of Mino Province, where they received the protection of the feudal baron (daimyo) of Toki. The ...
- Kato, Shizue Hirota
- Japanese feminist and political leader (b. March 2, 1897, Tokyo, Japan-d. Dec. 22, 2001, Tokyo), began in the 1920s to campaign for women's rights and was the first woman to ...
- Katona, Jozsef
- Hungarian lawyer and playwright whose historical tragedy Bank ban achieved its great reputation only after his death.
- Katoomba
- town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies in the Blue Mountains at an elevation of 3,337 feet (1,017 metres).
- Katowice
- city and capital, Slaskie wojewodztwo (province), south-central Poland. It lies in the heart of the Upper Silesia coalfields. [1 Related Articles]
- Katrina, Hurricane
- tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States in late August 2005. The hurricane and its aftermath claimed more than 1,800 lives, and it ranked as the costliest natural disaster ... [40 Related Articles]
- Katsh, Abraham Isaac
- Polish-born American educator and researcher who was a scholar of Judaica and was credited with the addition of modern Hebrew to the curricula of American colleges; during the Cold War ...
- Katsina
- historic kingdom and emirate in northern Nigeria. According to tradition, the kingdom, one of the Hausa Bakwai ("Seven True Hausa States"), was founded in the 10th or 11th century. Islam ...
- Katsina
- state, north-central Nigeria. It was formed from the northern half of Kaduna state in 1987. Katsina is bordered by the Republic of Niger to the north and by the Nigerian ...
- Katsina
- town, capital of Katsina state, northern Nigeria, near the Niger border. Probably founded about 1100 near Ambuttai, which was the residence of Katsina's Hausa kings and the annual meeting place ... [2 Related Articles]
- Katsu Kaishu, Count
- Japanese naval officer who reformed his country's navy and played a mediatory role in the Meiji Restoration-the overthrow in 1868 of the shogun (hereditary military dictator of Japan) and restoration ...
- Katsu Shintaro
- Japanese actor whose portrayal of Zatoichi, a blind master swordsman, in a series of motion pictures and on television brought him fame and influenced similar films in Hong Kong and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Katsukawa Shunsho
- (from the article "printmaking") ...first to exploit the nishiki-e, or full-colour print. He was also the first to colour print backgrounds and to use blind embossing extensively to give his prints three-dimensional textures. Katsukawa ...
- Katsura
- (from the article "Kyoto") ...came to figure prominently between the 11th and 16th centuries, when warrior-monks from its Tendai Buddhist monastery complex frequently raided the city and influenced politics. The Kamo and Katsura rivers-before ...
- Katsura Imperial Villa
- group of buildings located in the southwest suburbs of Kyoto, Japan. The complex was originally built as a princely estate in the early 17th century and lies on the bank ... [1 Related Articles]
- katsura mono
- (from the article "Noh theatre") ...a sacred story of a Shinto shrine; the second, shura mono ("fighting play"), centres on warriors; the third, katsura mono ("wig play"), has a ...
- Katsura Taro, Koshaku
- Japanese army officer and statesman who served three times as prime minister of Japan. [4 Related Articles]
- katsura tree
- (species Cercidiphyllum japonicum), upright, gracefully branching tree native to China and Japan, and the only remaining member of the family Cercidiphyllaceae. It is a handsome ornamental tree planted widely for ...
- Katsusaka
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") Three distinct vessel styles were produced during the Middle Jomon. The Katsusaka type, produced by mountain dwellers, has a burnt-reddish surface and is noted especially for extensive and flamboyant applied ...
- Katsuta
- city, Ibaraki ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Naka River, northeast of Mito, the prefectural capital. The city developed rapidly as an industrial site for the Hitachi Company, ...
- Kattakurgan
- city, east-central Uzbekistan, in a thickly populated oasis in the Zeravshan River valley. It began in the 18th century as a centre of trade and handicrafts and now has various ...
- Katte, Hans Hermann von
- (from the article "Frederick II") ...and family feud culminated spectacularly in 1730, when Frederick was imprisoned in the fortress of Kustrin after planning unsuccessfully to flee initially to France or Holland. Lieutenant Hans Hermann von ...
- Kattegat
- ("Cat's Throat"), strait forming part of the connection between the Baltic and North Seas. The strait trends north-south between the Jutland (Jylland) peninsula and Sjaelland (Zealand) island of Denmark (west ... [1 Related Articles]
- katti
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...green and framed in a white bow-shaped sweep from ears to chin. Heroes such as Rama, Laksmana, Krishna, Arjuna, and Yudhisthira fall into this category. (2) Katti ("knife"), haughty and ...
- Kattowitz Conference
- (from the article "Pinsker, Leo") Pinsker's authorship was soon discovered, and a newly formed Zionist group, Hibbat Ziyyon ("Love of Zion"), made him one of its leaders. In 1884 he convened the Kattowitz (Katowice, Pol.) ...
- Katu
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...peoples-such as the Rade (Rhade), Jarai, Chru, and Roglai-speak Austronesian languages, linking them to the Cham, Malay, and Indonesian peoples; others-including the Bru, Pacoh, Katu, Cua, Hre, Rengao, Sedang, Bahnar, ...
- Katuic languages
- (from the article "Austroasiatic languages") language of northeastern Thailand, northern Cambodia, and parts of southern Laos. It belongs to the Katuic branch of the Mon-Khmer language family, itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock. Spoken ...
- Katun
- (from the article "Altai Mountains") As a result of these differential geologic forces, the highest ridges in the contemporary Altai-notably the Katun, North (Severo) Chu, and the South (Yuzhno) Chu-tower more than 13,000 feet (4,000 ...
- Katun
- (from the article "Altai Mountains") The Altai proper and the Mongolian Altai are crisscrossed by a network of turbulent, rapid rivers fed mainly by melted snow and summer rains, which occasion spring and summer floods. ...
- Katwijk
- gemeente (municipality), western Netherlands. The municipality, comprising Katwijk aan Zee and Katwijk aan den Rijn, lies along the North Sea at the mouth of the Old Rhine River. The Old ...
- katydid
- any of numerous, predominantly nocturnal insects related to crickets and grasshoppers, noted for their loud mating calls. Katydids have large hind legs and are distinguished by their extremely long, threadlike ... [2 Related Articles]
- Katyn Massacre
- mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Katyusha
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...World War II was limited. Extensive use was made of barrage, ripple-fired rockets. Both A-frame and truck-mounted launchers were used. The Soviets mass-produced a 130-millimetre rocket known as the Katyusha. ...
- Katz, Alex
- American figurative painter known for his large-scale, simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and, later, the American landscape through understated but monumental ...
- Katz, Amron Harry
- American physicist whose studies in aerial reconnaissance made possible the use of space satellites for collecting military intelligence as well as information to be used in conserving resources and aiding ...
- Katz, Dovid
- (from the article "Yiddish literature") Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz was born in the United States and later moved to Vilna. In 1992, under the name Heershadovid Menkes, he published the first of three books of ...
- Katz, Janina
- (from the article "Literature") ...in history with Den hellige Knud (Slaegten, Bind 1), the first in a series on the family founded by Valdemar Dane, Knud (Canute) the Holy's liege. In Drengen fra dengang ...
- Katz, Jerrold J.
- (from the article "logic, philosophy of") ...logic" has been claimed by the U.S. linguist George Lakoff. Among the many conflicting and controversial developments in this area, special mention may perhaps be made of attempts by Jerrold ...
- Katz, Sir Bernard
- German-born British physiologist who investigated the functioning of nerves and muscles. His studies on the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine-which carries impulses from nerve fibre to muscle fibre or from ... [1 Related Articles]
- Katzav, Moshe
- (from the article "Israel") ...is the proclaimed capital of Israel (since Jan. 23, 1950) and the actual seat of government, but recognition has generally been withheld by the international community | Chief of state: ...
- Katzenberg, Jeffrey
- In September 1994 Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, resigned in a dispute with his longtime boss, Michael Eisner, head of Walt Disney Co. Within days Katzenberg founded DreamWorks ... [1 Related Articles]
- Katzir, Ephraim
- Russian-born scientist and politician who was the fourth president of Israel (1973-78).
- Kau Desert
- (from the article "Kilauea") Kilauea is bordered by the volcano of Mauna Loa (west and north), the Kau Desert (southwest), Ainahou Ranch (south), and a tropical fern jungle (north-northeast). The littoral Kau Desert consists ...
- Kauai
- volcanic island, Kauai county, Hawaii, U.S. It lies 72 miles (116 km) northwest of Oahu island across the Kauai Channel. The northernmost and geologically the oldest of the major Hawaiian ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kauffer, Edward McKnight
- (from the article "Art Deco") ...artist-jewelers Raynmond Templier, Jean Fouquet Rene Robert, H.G. Murphy, and Wiwen Nilsson; and the figural sculptor Chiparus. The fashion designer Paul Poiret and the graphic artist Edward McKnight Kauffer represent ...
- Kauffman, Ross
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski's Born into Brothels won the Academy Award and the International Documentary Association Award for feature documentaries. Their film told the story of the children of ...
- Kauffmann, Angelica
- painter in the early Neoclassical style who is best known for her decorative wall paintings for residences designed by Robert Adam. [1 Related Articles]
- Kaufman, Bob
- innovative African-American poet who became an important figure of the Beat movement. [1 Related Articles]
- Kaufman, Boris
- (from the article "1954: Other Winners") ...George Seaton for The Country GirlMotion Picture Story: Philip Yordan for Broken LanceStory and Screenplay: Budd Schulberg for On the WaterfrontCinematography, Black-and-White: Boris Kaufman for On the WaterfrontCinematography, Color: Milton ...
- Kaufman, Charlie
- (from the article "2004: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman; story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor ...
- Kaufman, George S.
- American playwright and journalist, who became the stage director of most of his plays and musical comedies after the mid-1920s. He was the most successful craftsman of the American theatre ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kaufman, Irving Robert
- U.S. judge who presided over the celebrated Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case in 1951 and sentenced them to death in the electric chair after finding them guilty of having conspired ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kaufman, Terrence
- (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") ...levels of relatedness are specified, including glottochronological figures (c = centuries), which are Swadesh's, except for Mixe-Zoque, Mayan, and Xincan, which are those of the U.S. linguist Terrence Kaufman. Family ...
- Kaufmann, Konstantin Petrovich
- general who conquered vast territories in Central Asia for the Russian Empire and ruled Russian Turkistan for two decades. [2 Related Articles]
- Kaufmann, Yehezkel
- (from the article "biblical literature") The whole field of biblical study, including exegesis, is cultivated most intensively in Israel. Yehezkel Kaufmann (1890-1963) produced the encyclopaedic History of Israelite Religion from Its Beginnings to the End ...
- Kaukauveld
- westward extension of the Kalahari (desert) in Namibia and extreme northwestern Botswana, locally called the omaheke (sandveld). It has an area of about 32,000 square miles (83,000 square km), lies ...
- Kaulbach, Wilhelm von
- painter, illustrator, and muralist associated with the German Romantic movement.
- Kaumari
- (from the article "Saptamatrka") ...in Hinduism, a group of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is the sakti, or female counterpart, of a god. They are Brahmani, Mahesvari, Kaumari, Vaisnavi, Varahi, Indrani, and Camunda, or ...
- kaunakes
- (from the article "dress") ...BCE a woven woolen fabric replaced the sheepskin, but the tufted effect was retained, either by sewing tufts onto the garment or by weaving loops into the fabric. Named
- Kaunas
- town, southern Lithuania. It lies at the head of navigation on the Neman (Lithuanian Nemunas) River, there joined by the tributary Viliya (Lithuanian Neris) River.
- Kaunda, Kenneth
- politician who led Zambia to independence in 1964 and served as that country's president until 1991. [3 Related Articles]
- Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton von
- Austrian state chancellor during the eventful decades from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the beginning of the coalition wars against revolutionary France (1792). Kaunitz was responsible for the foreign ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kaura Namoda
- town, northeastern Sokoto State, northern Nigeria, on the Gagere River (a tributary of the Rima). Originally a small settlement of Maguzawas (an animistic Hausa people), it was ruled by the ...
- Kaurava
- (from the article "Mahabharata") ...i.e., of Vishnu). Although it is unlikely that any single person wrote the poem, its authorship is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa, who appears in the work as the ...
- kauri pine
- (Agathis australis), a resinous timber conifer of the family Araucariaceae, native to the North Island of New Zealand. The tree sometimes reaches 45 metres (150 feet) in height, with a ... [1 Related Articles]
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