(from the article "India") ...Delhi. The Kuru-Pancala, still dominant in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab area, were extending their control southward and eastward; the Kuru capital had reportedly been moved from Hastinapura to Kaushambi when the ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...room placed before the west entrance. At Antioch in Syria an octagonal structure, called the Golden House because of its gilded roofing, was begun as early as 327 by Constantine. ...
also called Canakya, or Visnugupta, Canakya also spelled Chanakya Hindu statesman and philosopher who wrote a classic treatise on polity, Arthasastra (Eng. trans., 3rd ed., 1929), a compilation of almost ... [9 Related Articles]
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(from the article "Sasanian kings*") ...and destroyed the great Zoroastrian fire temple; in 627 he entered the Tigris provinces. Khosrow II attempted no resistance, and a revolution followed in which he was defeated and slain ...
commercial town and modern seaport of Greek Macedonia and capital of the nomos (department) of Kavala. It lies along the Gulf of Kavalas in the northern Aegean Sea. Since 1924 ...
British novelist and short-story writer known for her semiautobiographical surreal fiction dealing with the themes of mental breakdown and self-destruction.
(from the article "Kavango") The Bantu-speaking Kavango people, who are the main inhabitants of the area, comprise six different tribes. They practice dryland cultivation of cereals, as the irrigation potential of the river has ...
geographic region, northeastern Namibia. It is separated mostly by the Okavango River from Angola on the north, includes the western part of Namibia's Caprivi Strip to the northeast, and is ...
town and island, capital of Lakshadweep union territory, India. Kavaratti lies in the Arabian Sea about 215 miles (346 km) west-southwest of Calicut and the Malabar Coast of southern India. ...
(from the article "Kavaratti") town and island, capital of Lakshadweep union territory, India. Kavaratti lies in the Arabian Sea about 215 miles (346 km) west-southwest of Calicut and the Malabar Coast of southern India. ...
(from the article "dragoman") ...ceased to exist, especially since the passing of the Ottoman Empire, although in the latter part of the 20th century many embassies in the Arab world still employed an interpreter-courier ...
(from the article "Tamilnad Uplands") ...the nuclei of towns such as Vellore, Krishnagiri, Dindigul, Coimbatore, and Erode. The Muslim rule extended from about 1650 to about 1800, when the region came under the domain of ...
(from the article "Iranian religion") Except for a mostly legendary line of eastern Iranian kings, the kavis, the last of whom was Zoroaster's patron Vishtaspa (Greek Hystapes), the only historical information on the relation of ...
(from the article "West Bengal") ...traditional open-air performances that are now changing from predominantly mythological and historical topics to contemporary themes, are popular both in the countryside and in urban areas. The kavi is an ...
(from the article "Indic writing systems") ...The Thai writing system is thought by scholars to be derived from that of the Khmer, the Burmese and Lao systems from that of Mon, and the Buginese and Batak ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") One branch of modern Persian literature is closely connected with a group of Persian authors who lived in Berlin after World War I. There they established the Kaviani Press (named ...
chief port of the island of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Located on Balgai Bay at the island's northern tip, it is a port of call for ...
great salt desert of central Iran. Located in a basin southeast of the Elburz Mountains, it is approximately 240 miles (390 km) wide. The desert is distinguished by salt crust, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...of how the mythical king Prahlada's faith and devotion to Vishnu saved him from destruction and restored the moral order. The first great Assamese poet was Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (14th ...
(from the article "South Asian arts") ...of the Tamil Cola Empire (10th-13th centuries), saw an awakening of neighbouring literatures: Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam. The first extant Kannada work is the 9th-century Kavirajamarga ("The Royal Road of ...
natural area set aside for research in the natural sciences, at the western end of the Caucasus Mountains, in southwestern Russia. It includes the upper reaches of the Malaya Laba, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms") Eleazar was an angelologist, not only in his mystic theories of theurgy (the art of persuading or compelling supernatural beings to one's bidding) but also in his writings on the ...
in Judaism, the attitude or frame of mind that is appropriate when one performs religious duties, especially prayer. The 12th-century philosopher Moses Maimonides recommended that to attain kavvanah when praying, ... [1 Related Articles]
highly artificial Sanskrit literary style employed in the court epics of India from the early centuries AD. It evolved an elaborate poetics of figures of speech, among which the metaphor ... [4 Related Articles]
ancient Egyptian colony in Cush (Kush; modern Sudan) on the east bank of the Nile River, 4 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) north of Dunqulah. It was excavated ...
Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. His melancholic lyricism echoes an ancient Japanese literary tradition in the modern idiom. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "World War II") For the dry season of 1943-44 both the Japanese and the Allies were resolved on offensives in Southeast Asia. On the Japanese side, Lieutenant General Kawabe Masakazu planned a major ...
During a year marked by such notable events in Japan as the defeat of the long-ruling Liberal-Democratic Party and the wedding of Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada, Saburo Kawabuchi ...
city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the northern Musashino plateau. It developed around a castle built by the Ota family in the 15th century and prospered as a post ...
city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the alluvial plain of the Ara River, just north of Tokyo. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) it was a post town ...
(from the article "Fuji, Mount") On the northern slopes of Mount Fuji lie the Fuji Five Lakes (Fuji Goko), comprising, east to west, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Sai, Lake Shoji, and Lake Motosu, all ...
South American Indian peoples of the Brazilian Mato Grosso. In the 18th and early 19th centuries they were driven out of their original home along the upper Tapajos River by ... [1 Related Articles]
deepwater port lying along Kawaihae Bay, on the northwestern coast of Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It marks the northernmost point of a 40-mile (65-km) stretch known as the "Gold Coast," ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "arts, East Asian") The first plays in Japan consciously based on Western models were those arranged and acted in by Kawakami Otojiro. Kawakami's first plays were political and nationalistic in intent. After he ...
Japanese businessman (b. Jan. 30, 1912, Hamakita, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan-d. May 25, 2002, near Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan), was the visionary president of the Yamaha Corp. for three decades (1950-77 ...
When Nobuhiko Kawamoto, president of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., visited Soichiro Honda a few months before the legendary industrialist's death in 1991, he said to the old man, "You left ...
city, Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the west bank of the Ina River. Using the river water, the city produces dyed cloth and bleached and tanned leather. ...
(from the article "publishing, history of") ...existed in Japan in the form of yomiuri ("sell and read," as the papers were sold by reading them aloud) or kawara-ban ("tile-block printing," ...
city, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 2001 by the merger of the former town of Lindsay and the other communities constituting what until the amalgamation had been Victoria ...
chain of 14 lakes in southeastern Ontario, Canada. They stretch across Peterborough and Victoria counties, just north and west of Peterborough and 30-70 miles (50-115 km) northeast of Toronto. Ranging ...
city and port, Kanagawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, between Tokyo and Yokohama. Kawasaki is included in the Keihin Industrial Zone. Almost completely destroyed in World ... [2 Related Articles]
major Japanese manufacturer of transportation equipment and machinery and an important member of the Kawasaki group of industries. The company maintains head offices in both Kobe and Tokyo.
Japanese film director Naomi Kawase was awarded the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes (France) International Film Festival for her motion picture Mogari no mori (2007; The Mourning Forest), which ...
(from the article "Shinto") ...founded by Kurozumi Munetada (1780-1850); Konko-kyo (Konko is the religious name of the founder of this group and means, literally, "golden light") by Kawate Bunjiro (1814-83); and Tenri-kyo (tenri means ...
town and valley of Upper Egypt, situated about 30 miles (48 km) north of the Aswan High Dam in Aswan muhafazah (governorate). The town, an agricultural marketplace and a sugarcane-processing ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Middle East, ancient") ...recent excavations and surface explorations have proved that irrigation around the upper Tigris and Euphrates, as well as their tributaries, dates from the early 6th millennium BC (e.g., at al-Kawm ...
(from the article "Tarim River") The Tarim is formed by the confluence of the Kaxgar (Kashgar) and Yarkand (Yarkant) rivers in the far west; flowing northeastward from this confluence, the river is then joined some ...
(from the article "primate") ...rhythms and are insectivorous and also eat gums, while the slightly larger, but equally diurnal, tamarins (genus Saguinus) are more omnivorous. An approximate cutoff point of 500 grams (Kay's threshold, ...
(from the article "computer") Two computer scientists at PARC, Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, published a paper in the early 1970s describing a vision of a powerful and portable computer they dubbed the Dynabook. ...
(from the article "Modern Jazz Quartet") ...in jazz forms, and consistently high performance standards sustained over a long career. For most of its existence it was composed of Milt Jackson, vibes; John Lewis, piano; Percy Heath, ...
(from the article "language") ...covers much of the range of the two Russian words goluboy and siny. While the actual colour vocabularies of languages differ, however, recent research by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay ...
(from the article "Anatolia") After the death of Kay-Khusraw II in 1246, the Seljuq realm was divided among his three sons. The eldest, 'Izz ad-Din Kay-Ka'us II (ruled 1246-60), assumed the rule in the ...
(from the article "Theodore I Lascaris") ...not only against the Crusaders but also against David Comnenus, a rival Greek emperor in Trebizond to the east on the Black Sea, and against the Seljuq Turks. When the ...
(from the article "Anatolia") 'Ala' ad-Din Kay-Qubadh was succeeded by his eldest son Ghiyas ad-Din Kay-Khusraw II (1237-46), who reached the throne by killing his two half brothers and their Ayyubid mother along with ...
(from the article "Anatolia") ...and took refuge in Crimea, where he died in 1279. His brother Rukn ad-Din was executed in Aksaray in 1265 by order of the Parvana, who enthroned the child Ghiyas ...
(from the article "Anatolia") ...lord Maurozomes and the frontier Turkmens. Under this ruler and his two sons and successors, 'Izz ad-Din Ka'us I (1211-20) and 'Ala' ad-Din Kay-Qubadh I (1220-37), the Anatolian Seljuqs achieved ...
(from the article "Anatolia") ...chieftains. Backed by Mongol generals and Iranian bureaucrats, his younger brothers Rukn ad-Din Qilich Arslan IV (1248-65) and 'Ala' ad-Din Kay-Qubadh II (1249-57) were installed east of the Kizil. From ...
(from the article "Anatolia") ...assistance to regain control. Mongol interference and Turkmen fractiousness continued to dominate the last decades of Seljuq rule. While it is recorded that 'Ala' ad-Din Kay-Qubadh III (1298-1303) was put ...
original surname Kay physician, public-health reformer, and chief founder of the English system of publicly financed elementary education. [1 Related Articles]
tribal league that was formed sometime before the 3rd century AD in the area west of the Naktong River in southern Korea. The traditional date for the founding of the ...
Korean board zither with 12 silk strings, 12 movable bridges, and a convex upper surface. Fashioned from paulownia wood, it forms a rectangle about 160 cm (62 inches) long and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Karen") ...languages of the Sino-Tibetan family. They are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, differing linguistically, religiously, and economically. One classification divides them into White Karen and Red Karen. ...
one of the two common types of canoe used for recreation and sport. It originated with the Eskimos of Greenland and was later also used by Alaskan Eskimos. It has ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Fredriksson, Gert") Swedish kayaker, who dominated the sport between 1948 and 1960, winning seven world championships in kayaking events and eight Olympic medals, including six gold.
in Hindustani music (q.v.), a musical form based on a Hindi song in two parts that recur between expanding cycles of melodic and rhythmic improvisation. In a standard performance a ... [1 Related Articles]
indigenous people of central Borneo, grouped with the Kenyah and several lesser groups under the general name Bahau. Numbering about 27,000 in the late 20th century, the Kayan are settled ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") ...of any caste, having once acquired political power, could also acquire a genealogy connecting him with the traditional lineages and conferring Kshatriya status. A number of new castes, such as ...
(from the article "Smith, Patti") ...poetry and living with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Her performance-driven poetry readings soon took on a musical component, and from 1971 she worked regularly with the guitarist and critic Lenny ...
British writer and illustrator (b. Aug. 21, 1908, Simla, India-d. Jan. 29, 2004, Lavenham, Suffolk, Eng.), captured life in India and Afghanistan during the Raj in her immensely popular novel ...
American comedian and singer who electrified audiences with his showstopping rendition of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" in the Broadway production of Guys and Dolls (1950); the portly performer ...
(from the article "novel") ...literature set in an imaginary county in Mississippi, belongs to the category as much as the once-popular confections about Sussex that were written about the same time by the English ...
(from the article "turtle") In tracing back the history of the other turtle suborder, Cryptodira, Kayentachelys aprix of the Late Jurassic (some 150 million years ago) is almost assuredly a cryptodire; it is also ...
town, western Mali, western Africa. It lies along the Senegal River. Kayes is both the terminus of Senegal River traffic and an important stop on the Mali Railway (Regie des ...
(from the article "Islamic arts") ...this and other orders have imitated his style (though without reaching the same level of poetic truth and human warmth). Among the later poets claimed by the Bektashis may be ...
(from the article "Rwanda") ...November 1959 eventually transformed itself into an organized political movement aimed at the overthrow of the monarchy and the vesting of full political power in Hutu hands. Under the leadership ...
(from the article "metalwork") ...19th century brought about a revival of pewter production; and individual firms succeeded in making original, well-designed pieces that are often of considerable aesthetic importance. The firm of Kayser in ...
city, central Turkey. It lies at an elevation of 3,422 feet (1,043 metres) on a flat plain below the foothills of the extinct volcano Mount Ereiyes (ancient Mount Argaeus, 12,852 ... [1 Related Articles]
floor covering handwoven in or around the city of Kayseri in central Turkey. The best-known rugs from this district are those produced in the 20th century, largely for sale to ...
Laotian political leader and revolutionary who was a communist leader from 1955 and, following the overthrow of the 600-year-old monarchy (1975), ruler of Laos. [1 Related Articles]
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(from the article "branchiopod") ...in pouches, hatch as nauplius larvae; worldwide except Antarctica; in fresh water, rarely in brackish water, most frequently in temporary pools. Early Jurassic; large carapace covers part of trunk; ...
member of the Turkic language family (a subfamily of the Altaic languages), belonging to the northwestern, or Kipchak, branch. The Kazak language is spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and in the ... [4 Related Articles]
