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Key Marco carvings: large group of carvings excavated at Key Marco in southern Florida that provide the finest extant examples of North American Indian wood carving through the 15th century. The coastal mud ...
Key West: city, seat (1824) of Monroe county, southwestern Florida, the southernmost city within the continental United States. It lies about 100 miles (160 km) from the mainland on a sand and ...
Key, David M: lawyer and Confederate Army officer who was appointed U.S. postmaster general by Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes in fulfillment of a campaign pledge made by Hayes during the disputed election of ...
Key, Ellen: Swedish feminist and writer whose advanced ideas on sex, love and marriage, and moral conduct had wide influence; she was called the "Pallas of Sweden."
Key, Francis Scott: U.S. lawyer, best known as the author of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Key, V O, Jr.: U.S. political scientist known for his studies of the U.S. political process and for his contributions to the development of a more empirical and behavioral political science.
keyboard instrument: any musical instrument on which different notes can be sounded by pressing a series of keys, push buttons, or parallel levers. In nearly all cases in Western music the keys ...
Keyes, Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron: British admiral who planned and directed the World War I raid on the German base at Zeebrugge, Belg., April 22-23, 1918, and thus helped to close the Strait of Dover ...
Keynes, John Maynard: English economist, journalist, and financier, best known for his economic theories (Keynesian economics) on the causes of prolonged unemployment. His most important work, The General Theory of ...
Keynes, John Neville: British philosopher and economist who synthesized two poles of economic thought by incorporating inductive and deductive reasoning into his methodology.
Keynes, Richard Darwin: British physiologist who was the first to trace the movements of sodium and potassium during the transmission of a nerve impulse by using radioactive sodium and potassium.
Keynesian economics: body of ideas set forth by John Maynard Keynes in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935-36) and other works, intended to provide a theoretical ...
Keyser: city, seat (1866) of Mineral county, eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S. It lies on the North Branch Potomac River, 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Cumberland, Maryland. Settled in ...
Keyser, Hendrick de: most important Dutch sculptor of his day and an architect whose works formed a transition between the ornamental style of the Dutch Renaissance and the classicism of the 17th century.
Keyser, Thomas de: Dutch Baroque painter and architect, best known for his portraiture of leading civic figures in Amsterdam.
Keyserling, Hermann Alexander, Count von: German social philosopher whose ideas enjoyed considerable popularity after World War I.
Keystone Kops: in silent-film comedies, insanely incompetent police force, dressed in ill-fitting, unkempt uniforms, that appeared regularly in Mack Sennett's slapstick farces from 1914 to the early 1920s. They became enshrined in ...
Kezilahabi, Euphrase: Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar writing in Swahili.
KGB: foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet era the KGB's responsibilities also included the protection of the country's political leadership, the supervision of border ...
Kgositsile, Keorapetse: South African poet and essayist whose writings focus on Pan-African liberation as the fruit of informed heroism and compassionate humanism. Kgositsile's verse uniquely combines indigenous South African with black American ...
Khabarovsk: kray (region), far eastern Russia. The kray includes the Yevreyskaya (Jewish) autonomous oblast (province). Its focus is the basin of the lower Amur River, flanked by the Sikhote-Alin mountains (south) ...
Khabarovsk: city and administrative centre of Khabarovsk kray (region), far eastern Russia. Khabarovsk lies along the Amur River just below its confluence with the Ussuri. The town was named after the ...
Khabur River: river, an important tributary of the Euphrates River. It rises in the mountains of southeastern Turkey near Diyarbakir and flows southeastward to Al-Hasakah, Syria, where it receives its main tributary, ...
Khachaturian, Aram: Soviet composer best known for his Piano Concerto (1936) and his ballet Gayane (1942), which includes the popular, rhythmically stirring Sabre Dance.
Khadijah: the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad (the founder of Islam), whom she met when she was the widow of a wealthy merchant and had become prosperous in the management ...
Khafre: fourth king of the 4th dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 BC) of Egypt and builder of the second of the three Pyramids of Giza.
Khai Dinh: emperor of Vietnam in 1916-25 and an advocate of cooperation with the colonial power, France.
Khair-Eddine, Mohammed: French-language poet and novelist who was a leader among postindependence Moroccan writers seeking a new and distinctly Moroccan poetic voice.
Khairpur: city, Sindh province, south-central Pakistan. The city lies along the Khairpur East Canal, 11 miles (18 km) south of the Indus River. It was founded in 1783 by Mir (chief) ...
Khajraho: historical town, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is a famous tourist and archaeological site known for its sculptured temples dedicated to Siva (Shiva), Vishnu, and Jaina patriarchs.
Khakass: people who have given their name to Khakassia republic in central Russia. The general name Khakass encompasses five Turkic-speaking groups that differ widely in their ethnic origin as well as ...
Khakassia: republic in central Russia. The republic occupies the western half of the broad Minusinsk Basin on the upper Yenisey River. The Abakan River, a tributary of the Yenisey, forms the ...
khaki: light brown fabric used primarily for military uniforms. It is made with cotton, wool, or combinations of these fibres, as well as with blends of synthetic fibres. It is made ...
Khalaf, Salah: Palestinian political activist who was a founding member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and a close associate of PLO leader Yasir 'Arafat.
Khalid: king of Saudi Arabia (1975-82), who succeeded his half brother Faysal as king when Faysal was assassinated in 1975. A moderate influence in Middle East politics and a relatively retiring ...
Khalid al-Qasri: a governor of Iraq under the Umayyad caliphate.
Khalid ibn al-Walid: one of the two generals (with 'Amr ibn al-'As) of the enormously successful Islamic expansion under the Prophet Muhammad and his immediate successors, Abu Bakr and 'Umar.
Khalil ibn Ahmad, al-: Arab philologist who compiled the first Arabic dictionary and is credited with the formulation of the rules of Arabic prosody.
Khalil, al-Ashraf Salah ad-Din: Mamluk sultan of Egypt who completed his father Qala'un's campaign to drive the Franks from Syria. He captured Acre (now 'Akko, Israel) in the spring of 1291, and the remaining ...
Khalji Dynasty: (1290-1320), the second ruling family of the Muslim sultanate of Delhi. This dynasty, like the previous Slave dynasty, was of Turkish origin, though the Khalji tribe had long been settled ...
Khalkha: largest group of the Mongol peoples, constituting more than 80 percent of the population of Mongolia. The Khalkha dialect is the official language of Mongolia. It is understood by 90 ...
Khalsa: ("the Pure," from the Persian khales, "pure"), the dominant order of Sikhism. Most Sikh boys and girls undergo initiation into the Khalsa upon reaching puberty. The ceremony, called pahul ("baptism"), ...
Khama III: southern African chief who allied himself with British colonizers in the area.
Khama, Sir Seretse: first president of Botswana (1966-80), after the former Bechuanaland protectorate gained independence from Great Britain.
Khamastashar Mayo, Madinat: residential town, al-Qahirah (Cairo) muhafazah (governorate), Egypt. The town is a suburb of the industrial town of Hulwan and is located in the Wadi Hawf 2 miles ...
Khamenei, Ali: Iranian Shi'ite clergyman and politician who served as president of Iran (1981-89) and as that country's rahbar, or leader, from 1989. A religious figure of some significance, ...
Khamis Mushayt: city, southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is situated about 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Abha. Khamis Mushayt is located inland in a mountainous region with fertile soil. It is traditionally ...
Khammam: city, north-central Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies along the Central Railway, south-southeast of Warangal. The city is a trade and commercial centre. Rice, sorghum, corn (maize), and pulses ...
Khams: one of three regions into which the area of Central Asia inhabited by Tibetans is traditionally divided. During the 7th to 9th century AD, the central Tibetan kingdom was extended ...
khamseh: in Persian and Turkish literature, a set of five long epic poems composed in rhyming couplet, or masnavi, form. Khamseh takes its name from the five great epic poems written ...
khamsin: hot, dry, dusty wind in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula that blows from the south or southeast in late winter and early spring. It often reaches temperatures above 40° ...
khan: historically, the ruler or monarch of a Mongol tribe (ulus). At the time of Genghis Khan (early 13th century) a distinction was made between the title of khan and that ...
Khan, Ali Akbar: composer, virtuoso sarod player, and teacher, active in presenting classical Indian music to Western audiences. Khan's music is rooted in the Hindustani (northern) tradition of Indian music.
Khan, Fazlur R.: Bangladeshi American civil engineer known for his innovations in high-rise building construction.
Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali: Pakistani singer who is considered one of the greatest performers of qawwali, a Sufi Muslim devotional music characterized by simple melodies, forceful rhythms, and wild improvisations that ...
Khanaqin: town, northeastern Iraq. Located 5 miles (8 km) from the Iranian border at a rail terminus, Khanaqin is a customs station and is situated on a main road that, before ...
Khandwa: city, southwestern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Located on the major roads leading from northern India to the Deccan region, it is identified with the Kognabanda of the Greek geographer ...
Khania: city and capital of Khania nomos (department), western Crete, Greece. It was the capital of Crete from 1841 to 1971. The city lies along the eastern corner ...
Khania, Gulf of: gulf on the northwestern coast of Crete, Greece. It is enclosed on the west by the north-south Rodhopos Peninsula, which rises to 2,454 feet (748 m) in Mount Titiron, and ...
Khanka, Lake: shallow lake on the boundary between Siberia (Russia) and China. Most of the lakeshore is in Primorsky kray (region) of Russia; the northern shore is in Heilungkiang sheng (province), China. ...
Khansa', al-: one of the greatest Arab poets, famous for her elegies.
Khanty and Mansi: western Siberian peoples, living mainly in the Ob River basin of central Russia. They each speak an Ob-Ugric language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages. Together they numbered ...
Khanty-Mansi: autonomous okrug (district), in Tyumen oblast (province), central Russia. The Khanty-Mansi national okrug was established in 1930 for the Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul) peoples, although the majority of the ...
Khanty-Mansiysk: city and administrative centre of Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug (district), a part of Tyumen oblast (province), Russia, in the West Siberian Plain. Situated on the Irtysh River near its confluence with ...
Khaqani: Persian poet, whose importance rests mainly on his brilliant court poems, satires, and epigrams.
Kharagpur: city, south-central West Bengal state, northeastern India, just south of the Kasai River. Originally only the railway suburb of Midnapore (Medinipur), Kharagpur is now an important rail junction, with workshops ...
kharaj: a special Islamic fiscal imposition that was demanded from recent converts to Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Kharan: town, north-central Balochistan province, Pakistan. It lies 6 miles (10 km) from the Baddo River. Long a caravan depot, it still trades in salt, millet, wheat, dates, melons, carpets, and ...
Kharg Island: small Iranian island in the northern Persian Gulf, 34 miles (55 km) northwest of the port of Bushire (Bushehr). In the 15th century the Dutch established a factory (trading station) ...
Khargon: city, southwestern Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just east of the Kundi River. It is a major agricultural-produce and timber market and is engaged in cotton ginning and rice and ...
Kharia: any of several groups of hill people living in the Chota Nagpur area of Orissa and Bihar states, northeastern India, and numbering more than 280,000 in the late 20th century. ...
Kharijah, Al-: town, capital of the muhafazah (governorate) of Al-Wadi al-Jadid (Arabic: "New Valley") and chief town of Al-Kharijah (Kharga) oasis, Egypt. The town's history dates back to the 25th dynasty (c. ...
Kharijite: the earliest Islamic sect, which traces its beginning to a religio-political controversy over the Caliphate.
Kharj, Al-: oasis, east-central Saudi Arabia. It lies southeast of Riyadh, the national capital, with which it is associated administratively. Situated around a series of deepwater pools, near which numerous ancient tombs ...
Kharkiv: city and administrative centre of Kharkiv oblast (province), northeastern Ukraine. It lies at the confluence of the Uda, Lopan, and Kharkiv rivers. It was founded about 1655 as a military ...
Kharkiv: oblast (province), northeastern Ukraine. The valley of the Donets River forms the axis of the oblast, which also covers the southern end of the Central Russian Upland. Most of the ...