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- hilly upland in central and eastern Kazakhstan, occupying about one-fifth of the republic. It is a peneplain, the mountainous Paleozoic foundation of which had already been worn down into an ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kazakh
- an Asiatic Turkic-speaking people inhabiting mainly Kazakhstan and the adjacent parts of the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang in China. The Kazakhs emerged in the 15th century from an amalgam ... [23 Related Articles]
- Kazakh literature
- the body of literature, both oral and written, produced in the Kazakh language by the Kazakh people of Central Asia. [1 Related Articles]
- Kazakh rug
- floor covering woven by villagers living in western Azerbaijan and in a number of towns and villages in northern Armenia and the adjacent southern part of Georgia. The weavers are ...
- Kazakhstan
- country of Central Asia. It is bounded on the northwest and north by Russia, on the east by China, and on the south by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and the Aral ... [35 Related Articles]
- Kazakhstan, flag of
- national flag consisting of a light blue field with a yellow sun and flying eagle in the centre and a yellow ornamental band at the hoist. The flag's width-to-length ratio ...
- Kazakhstania
- (from the article "Silurian Period") ...of Siberia assumed an orientation rotated 180° from its present alignment (as recognized by the inverted position of Lake Baikal). A huge Siberian platform sea extended southward. Similarly, Kazakhstania was ...
- Kazakov, Yury Pavlovich
- Soviet short-story writer who worked in the classic Russian lyrical style of Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin. [1 Related Articles]
- Kazakstan Academy of Sciences
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...began in the years after 1989. The study of Kazakh history, literature, and culture, long slighted in general education, now receives appropriate attention in school curricula. The institutes in the ...
- Kazakstan, history of
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") Historycollectivization impactUnion of Soviet Socialist RepublicsThe Party versus the peasantsOne of the most destructive effects of collectiviza
- Kazan
- capital city, Tatarstan republic, western Russia. It lies just north of the Samara Reservoir on the Volga River, where it is joined by the Kazanka River. The city stretches for ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kazan Basin
- (from the article "Permian Period") ...sands, red beds, and evaporites. Many intracratonic basins-such as the Anadarko, Delaware, and Midland basins in the western United States; the Zechstein Basin of northwestern Europe; and the Kazan Basin ...
- Kazan Cathedral
- (from the article "Saint Petersburg") ...private residences of the nobility) and several churches, of which the most prominent are St. Peter's Lutheran Church (1833-38), St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Church (1763-83), and the Kazan Cathedral (1801-11). ...
- Kazan State University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") In autumn 1887 Lenin enrolled in the faculty of law of the imperial Kazan University (later renamed Kazan [V.I. Lenin] State University), but within three months he was expelled from ...
- Kazan Tatar
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...Kyrgyz-the Kazaks were the first to respond to the impact of Russian culture. Their early contacts with their new masters had in the main been carried out through intermediaries-Kazan Tatars, ...
- Kazan Tatar language
- (from the article "Tatar language") ...of Altaic languages. It is spoken in the republic of Tatarstan in west-central Russia and in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and China. There are numerous dialectal forms. The major Tatar dialects ...
- Kazan, Elia
- Turkish-born American director and author, noted for his successes on the stage, especially with plays by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, and for his critically acclaimed films. [6 Related Articles]
- Kazanian Stage
- (from the article "Permian Period") ...to the Capitanian Stage plus a portion of the Wordian Stage) in its upper part. The upper portion of these nonmarine beds was subsequently shown to be Early Triassic in ...
- Kazankina, Tatyana
- Soviet athlete who won three Olympic gold medals and set seven world records in women's running events during the 1970s and '80s. [1 Related Articles]
- Kazanluk
- town, central Bulgaria. It lies in the Kazanluk basin, 2 miles (3 km) north of the Tundzha River. The area is famous for its roses, which are made into attar ...
- Kazanluk Tomb
- (from the article "Kazanluk") The Kazanluk Tomb, discovered in 1944 on the outskirts of town, is a Thracian burial tomb of an unknown ruler from the 4th or 3rd century BC. The fine murals ...
- Kazantzakis, Nikos
- Greek writer whose prolific output and wide variety of work represent a major contribution to modern Greek literature. [3 Related Articles]
- Kazantzidis, Stelios
- Greek folk singer (b. Aug. 29, 1931, Athens, Greece-d. Sept. 14, 2001, Athens), used his expressive vocal interpretations to capture the joys as well as the melancholy longings of Greeks ...
- Kazaure
- town and traditional emirate in Jigawa state, northern Nigeria. The town has been the emirate's headquarters since 1819. It was founded by Dan Tunku, a Fulani warrior who was one ...
- Kazbek, Mount
- (from the article "Caucasus") ...km) or more. The main axis of the system contains, in addition to Mount Elbrus, Mount Dombay-Ulgen (Dombey-Yolgen; 13,274 feet [4,046 metres]), in the western sector; Mounts Shkhara, Dykhtau, and ...
- Kazembe
- the largest and most highly organized of the Lunda kingdoms (see Luba-Lunda states) in central Africa, and the title of all its rulers. At the height of its power (c. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kazembe III
- (from the article "Zambia") ...Zambians in exchange for cotton cloth. During the later 18th century, slave-owning Goans and Portuguese mined gold and hunted elephants among the southern Chewa. Their activities were reported to Kazembe ...
- Kazerun
- town, southwestern Iran. It is situated on a plain among high limestone ridges on the north-south trunk road. The town is extensive, with well-built houses. It is surrounded by date ...
- kaziasker
- (from Arabic qadi, "judge," and 'askar, "army"), the second highest officer in the judicial hierarchy of the Ottoman Empire; he ranked immediately after the shaykh al-Islam, the head of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kazim Karabekir
- (from the article "Ataturk, Kemal") Mustafa Kemal avoided dismissal from the army by officially resigning late on the evening of July 7. As a civilian, he pressed on with his retinue from Sivas to Erzurum, ...
- Kazim Rashti, Sayyid
- (from the article "Bab, the") At an early age, 'Ali Mohammad became familiar with the Shaykhi school of the Shi'ite branch of Islam and with its leader, Sayyid Kazim Rashti, whom he had met on ...
- Kazimierz Dolny
- (from the article "Lubelskie") Two of the most visited towns in the province are Zamosc and Kazimierz Dolny. The Old City of Zamosc, a fine example of an Italianate Renaissance town, became a UNESCO ...
- Kazin, Alfred
- American critic and author noted for his studies of American literature and his autobiographical writings. [2 Related Articles]
- Kazincbarcika
- (from the article "Miskolc") ...centuries, now part of Miskolc proper, has been modernized since World War II; it has a large iron- and steelworks, produces heavy machinery and machine tools, and has a large ...
- Kazinczy, Ferenc
- Hungarian man of letters whose reform of the Hungarian language and attempts to improve literary style had great influence. [3 Related Articles]
- Kazinga Channel
- (from the article "East African lakes") ...the deepest part (367 feet) is in the west under the Congo Escarpment, receives the Rutshuru River as its principal affluent. On the northeast it is connected with Lake George ...
- Kaziranga National Park
- scenic natural area in north-central Assam state, northeastern India. It is situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra River, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Jorhat on the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kazmir, Scott
- (from the article "Tampa Bay Rays") In 2008 the newly renamed Rays engineered one of the greatest turnarounds in professional sports history. Behind the leadership of manager Joe Maddon and the play of young stars Scott ...
- kazoku
- in Japan, the unified, crown-appointed aristocracy of the period 1869-1947, which replaced the feudal lords. The kazoku ("flower family") class was created in 1869 as part of the Westernizing reforms ...
- kazoo
- (from the article "mirliton") ...or device in which sound waves produced by the player's voice or by an instrument vibrate a membrane, thereby imparting a buzzing quality to the vocal or instrumental sound. A ...
- Kazuhisa Inao
- (from the article "Baseball") On November 13 Hall of Fame pitcher Kazuhisa Inao died in a Fukuoka hospital at age 70. Inao, who played 14 seasons (1956-69) with the Nishitetsu (later Seibu) Lions, retired ...
- Kazulin, Alyaksandr
- (from the article "Belarus") ...a contentious and violent presidential election campaign. Four candidates were registered for the March 19 election: Pres. Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Liberal Democratic Party leader Syarhey Haidukevich, Alyaksandr Kazulin of the Social ...
- Kazvin
- city, Markazi (Tehran) ostan (province), north-central Iran, in a wide, fertile plain at the southern foot of the Elburz Mountains. Originally called Shad Shahpur, it was founded ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kazym
- (from the article "Ob River") ...wide-is crisscrossed by the braided channels of the river and dotted with lakes. Below Peregrebnoye the river divides itself into two main channels: the Great (Bolshaya) Ob, which receives the ...
- KDKA
- (from the article "Pennsylvania") ...and Country Gentleman. Andrew Carnegie of Pittsburgh was noted for the establishment of libraries throughout the country. The world's first commercial radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting in ...
- Ke Ga, Point
- the easternmost point of Vietnam, lying along the South China Sea. The promontory, rising to 2,316 feet (706 m) above the sea, lies southeast of Tuy Hoa and is a ...
- ke-yi
- (Chinese: "matching the meaning"), practice by Chinese Buddhists of borrowing from Taoist and other philosophical texts phrases with which to explain their own ideas. According to tradition, ke-yi was first ...
- Kea
- westernmost of the Cyclades (q.v.) group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Kea lies about 13 miles (21 km) east of the southern tip of Attica. With an area ...
- kea
- (from the article "kea") New Zealand parrot species of the subfamily Nestorinae. See parrot.keaKea (Nestor notabilis).Markus Koljonen
- Kean University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Union, New Jersey, U.S. It comprises schools of Business, Government and Technology; Education; Liberal Arts; and Natural Sciences, Nursing and Mathematics. Master's degree ...
- Kean, Charles
- English actor-manager best known for his revivals of Shakespearean plays. [6 Related Articles]
- Kean, Edmund
- one of the greatest of English tragic actors, a turbulent genius noted as much for his megalomania and ungovernable behaviour as for his portrayals of villains in Shakespearean plays. [4 Related Articles]
- Kean, Ellen
- nee Ellen Tree one of the finest English actresses of her day and the wife of the actor Charles Kean, with whom she performed. [1 Related Articles]
- Keane, Bob
- (from the article "Valens, Ritchie") Valens grew up in suburban Los Angeles in a family of Mexican-Indian extraction. While in high school, he used an electric guitar made in shop class to front a band ...
- Keane, John Brendan
- Irish playwright and novelist (b. July 21, 1928, Listowel, County Kerry, Ire.-d. May 30, 2002, Listowel), eschewed as subject matter both the popular romantic mythology of Ireland and the vibrant ...
- Keane, Molly
- Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright whose subject is the leisure class of her native Ireland. [1 Related Articles]
- Keaney, Frank W.
- (from the article "basketball") Coaching strategy changed appreciably over the years. Frank W. Keaney, coach at Rhode Island University from 1921 to 1948, is credited with introducing the concept of "fast break" basketball, in ...
- Kearney
- city, seat (1874) of Buffalo county, south-central Nebraska, U.S. It lies on the north bank of the Platte River, about 130 miles (210 km) west of Lincoln. Pawnee Indians were ...
- Kearny, Stephen Watts
- U.S. Army officer who conquered New Mexico and helped win California during the Mexican War (1846-48). [2 Related Articles]
- Keate Award
- (from the article "South Africa") ...annexation of Basutoland in 1868 began a series of movements toward consolidation that included the British seizure of the diamond fields from the competing Griqua, Tlhaping, and Boers in 1871 ...
- Keate, Robert W.
- (from the article "South Africa") ...zone was simultaneously claimed by the Orange Free State, the South African Republic, the western Griqua under Nicolaas Waterboer, and southern Tswana chiefs. At a special hearing in October 1871, ...
- Keating, Charles
- (from the article "McCain, John") ...the 1988 Republican National Convention. But McCain also became embroiled in the most spectacular case to arise out of the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, as a result ...
- Keating, Geoffrey
- (from the article "Celtic literature") ...of the Kingdom of Ireland"; Eng. trans., Annals of the Four Masters), a compilation of all available material on the history of Ireland to 1616, directed by Michael O'Clery. Geoffrey ...
- Keating, Paul
- politician who was leader of the Australian Labor Party and prime minister of Australia from December 1991 to March 1996. [1 Related Articles]
- Keating-Owen Act
- (from the article "Abbott, Grace") In 1917 Abbott became director of the child-labour division of the U.S. Children's Bureau. While employed there she administered the first federal statute limiting the employment of juveniles, the Keating-Owen ...
- keatite
- (from the article "Some physical properties of silica minerals") Keatite is a tetragonal form of silica known only from the laboratory, where it can be synthesized metastably in the presence of steam over a temperature range of 300° to ...
- Keaton, Buster
- American film comedian and director, the "Great Stone Face" of the silent screen, known for his deadpan expression and his imaginative and often elaborate visual comedy. [2 Related Articles]
- Keaton, Diane
- American motion-picture actress and director who achieved fame in quirky comic roles prior to gaining respect as a dramatic actress. [3 Related Articles]
- Keats, John
- English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through ... [9 Related Articles]
- Keban Dam
- (from the article "Tigris-Euphrates river system") ...in the Armenian Highland of northeastern Turkey. Considerably altered in the 20th century by water-control projects, they join to form the Euphrates at Keban, near Elazig, where the Keban Dam, ...
- Kebar Dam
- (from the article "dam") In Persia (modern-day Iran) the Kebar Dam and the Kurit Dam represented the world's first large-scale thin-arch dams. The Kebar and Kurit dams were built early in the 14th century ...
- Kebara
- paleoanthropological site on Mount Carmel in northern Israel that has yielded a trove of Neanderthal bones and associated artifacts.
- Kebara 2
- (from the article "Kebara") ...rich in archaeological remains, including multiple layers of large flat hearths, Middle Paleolithic tools, and animal bones, in addition to two infant skeletons, a young adult skeleton (known as Kebara ...
- Kebbi
- (from the article "Yauri") Muhammadu Kanta, founder of the Kebbi kingdom to the north, conquered Yauri in the mid-16th century; and Yauri, although essentially independent after Kanta's death (c. 1561), paid tribute to Kebbi ...
- Kebbi
- state, northwestern Nigeria. It was created in 1991 from the southwestern half of Sokoto (q.v.) state. Kebbi borders the nations of Niger to the west and Benin to the southwest, ...
- Kebede, Liya
- (from the article "Fashions") ...Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). In November Tom Ford introduced a pricey cosmetics line and a perfume, Youth Dew Amber Nude, marketed by Estee Lauder. ...
- kebelle
- (from the article "eastern Africa") ...exogamous kin groups. After the rise of the socialist regime in 1974, land reforms abolished these traditional rights. Control of the land was allocated to local peasant associations (called kebelles), ...
- Kebiishi
- body of police commissioners who constituted the only effective military force during Japan's Heian period (AD 794-1185). The Kebiishi was the backbone of the administration during this time, and its ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kebir, Rabah
- (from the article "Algeria") ...large and a declaration of allegiance to al-Qaeda by the major body, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). Nonetheless, one former leader of the banned Islamic Salvation Front ...
- Keble, John
- Anglican priest, theologian, and poet who originated and helped lead the Oxford Movement (q.v.), which sought to revive in Anglicanism the High Church ideals of the later 17th-century church. [2 Related Articles]
- Kebne, Mount
- (from the article "Norrbotten") ...Lappland landskap in the west. From the coast the land rises to the barren, mountainous frontier with Norway; this area contains the highest point in Sweden, Mount ...
- Kebnekaise
- mountain range in the lan (county) of Norrbotten, northern Sweden. It lies 25 miles (40 km) from the Norwegian border and about 103 miles (166 km) north of the Arctic ...
- Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
- (from the article "Claremont Colleges") ...five undergraduate schools (Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College) and two graduate ones (Claremont Graduate University and the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied ...
- Keck Observatory
- astronomical observatory located near the 4,200-metre (13,800-foot) summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on north-central Hawaii Island, Hawaii, U.S. Keck's twin 10-metre (394-inch) telescopes, housed in separate domes, constitute ...
- Keck Telescope
- (from the article "Keck Observatory") ...(13,800-foot) summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on north-central Hawaii Island, Hawaii, U.S. Keck's twin 10-metre (394-inch) telescopes, housed in separate domes, constitute the largest optical telescope system of ...
- Keckley, Elizabeth
- (from the article "African American literature") The short-lived era of Reconstruction in the United States (1865-77) elicited an unprecedented optimism from African American writers. Elizabeth Keckley, who rose from slavery in St. Louis to become the ...
- Kecskemet
- city of county status and seat of Bacs-Kiskun megye (county), central Hungary. Long established as a centre for handicrafts and cattle raising, it has also grown in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kede
- (from the article "Nupe") ...Nupoid group in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Nupe are organized into a number of closely related territorial groups, of which the Beni, Zam, Batache (Bataci), ...
- Kederis, Konstadinos
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") Greece was embarrassed the day before the Games began by events involving Olympic sprint medalists Konstadinos Kederis and Ekaterini Thanou. After missing their second drug test in a week, the ...
- Kedir, Mohammed
- (from the article "Miruts Yifter: Yifter the Shifter") ...in the 10,000 metres for his first gold medal, but a recurrence of his past misfortunes in the 5,000 seemed assured when, with less than 300 metres to go, Yifter ...
- Kediri
- traditional region of eastern Java, Indonesia. From the 11th to the early 13th century, Kediri was the dominant kingdom in eastern Java, renowned for its naval and commercial strength and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kediri
- city, Jawa Timur provinsi (province), eastern Java, Indonesia. It is situated on the Brantas River, at the foot of Mount Wilis, 65 miles (105 km) southwest of ...
- Kedleston Hall
- (from the article "Adam, Robert") The south front of Kedleston Hall (1757-59) provides an example of Adam's exterior treatment. His theme of a triumphal arch as the exterior expression of the domed interior hall is ...
- Kedrova, Lila
- Russian-born character actress (b. 1918/19?, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg], Russia-d. Feb. 16, 2000, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.), was an accomplished stage and screen actress in Europe, Canada, and Hollywood but ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kedu Plain
- (from the article "Indonesia") ...rulers at this time extended far beyond central Java, including its north coast. Yet the agricultural wealth of this small kingdom sustained vast religious undertakings; the monuments of the Kedu ...
- keel
- in shipbuilding, the main structural member and backbone of a ship or boat, running longitudinally along the centre of the bottom of the hull from stem to stern. It may ...
- keel
- (from the article "clupeiform") The ventral part of the body in the majority of clupeiform fishes forms a keel, the function of which is widely considered to be an adaptation for removing the sharp ...
- keel
- (from the article "Fabales") ...at the top, called the banner, or standard, that develops outside of the others before the flower has opened, two lateral petals called wings, and two lower petals that are ...
- keel block
- (from the article "harbours and sea works") Keel and bilge blocks, on which the ship actually rests when dry-docked, are of a sufficient height above the floor of the dock to give reasonable access to the bottom ...
- keel molding
- (from the article "molding") ...for a crown or a base. (3) A bird's beak, or thumb, molding is essentially similar to the cyma reversa, except that the upper convexity is separated from the lower ...
- Keel, Howard
- American actor-singer (b. April 13, 1919, Gillespie, Ill.-d. Nov. 7, 2004, Palm Desert, Calif.), had a booming baritone voice that, combined with his good looks, gained him the lead roles ...
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