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- French general whose defeat of a Prussian army at Valmy in September 1792 halted an invasion that threatened the Revolutionary regime in France. [1 Related Articles]
- Kelley Barnes dam
- (from the article "Toccoa") ...Christian school. Toccoa (probably from Cherokee toccoa, "beautiful") Falls, a cascade 186 feet (57 metres) high on Toccoa Creek, is on the campus. In November 1977 the Kelley Barnes earthen ...
- Kelley Park
- (from the article "San Jose") There is an extensive system of municipal and regional parks. Kelley Park, along Coyote Creek, includes a zoo, a Japanese garden, and an outdoor historic museum of restored and replicated ...
- Kelley, Clarence Marion
- American law-enforcement official who in 1973 became the first permanent director of the FBI after the 49-year reign of J. Edgar Hoover; he served until 1978 and in that time ...
- Kelley, David E.
- As creator of three different successful shows airing on three competing networks during the 1997-98 TV season, writer and producer David E. Kelley was unique in the world of television. ...
- Kelley, DeForest
- American actor best identified by his role as Dr. Leonard ("Bones") McCoy on the popular science-fiction television series Star Trek (1966-69); he reprised the role in six Star Trek films; ...
- Kelley, Florence
- social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States. [3 Related Articles]
- Kelley, John Adelbert
- American marathoner (b. Sept. 6, 1907, West Medford, Mass.-d. Oct. 6, 2004, South Yarmouth, Mass.), ran the Boston Marathon a record 61 times. He ran his first Boston Marathon in ...
- Kelley, Oliver Hudson
- (from the article "Granger movement") The Granger movement began with a single individual, Oliver Hudson Kelley. Kelley was an employee of the Department of Agriculture in 1866 when he made a tour of the South. ...
- Kelley, William
- (from the article "1985: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of...
- Kellgren, Johan Henrik
- poet considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment and once called Sweden's "national good sense." [2 Related Articles]
- Kelling, George L.
- (from the article "police") ...Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety, a groundbreaking article published in 1982, the American political commentator James Q. Wilson and the American criminologist George L. Kelling maintained that the ...
- Kellogg
- city, Shoshone county, northern Idaho, U.S. It is situated in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of the Bitterroot Range. Established as a prospecting camp in 1893 and originally called Milo, ...
- Kellogg Company
- leading American producer of ready-to-eat cereals and other food products. Kellogg's Corn Flakes was one of the earliest and remains one of the most popular breakfast cereals in the United ...
- Kellogg, Brown & Root
- (from the article "Outsourcing War-The Surge in Private Military Firms") Despite these problems, PMFs are now called upon to deliver services previously considered the domain of military personnel. Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) runs the only permanent U.S. base in ...
- Kellogg, Clara Louise
- American opera singer, the first U.S.-born prima donna and the first American singer to achieve success in Europe.
- Kellogg, Frank B.
- U.S. secretary of state (1925-29) whose most important achievement was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy. He was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kellogg, John Harvey
- American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry. [5 Related Articles]
- Kellogg, Louise Phelps
- American historian who wrote extensively on the American Northwest.
- Kellogg, W K
- American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States. [5 Related Articles]
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- (Aug. 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I. [9 Related Articles]
- Kells, Book of
- illuminated gospel book (MS. A.I. 6; Trinity College Library, Dublin) that is a masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style. It is probable that the illumination was begun in the late ... [8 Related Articles]
- Kells, Council of
- (from the article "Malachy, Saint") ...for the pallium, Malachy died at Clairvaux in the arms of Bernard. The establishment of a regular hierarchy in the Irish church-the object of his life-was realized at the Council ...
- Kellwasser Event
- (from the article "Devonian Period") ...episodes: the Taghanic Event, which formerly was used to draw the boundary between the Middle and Upper Devonian, was a marked period of extinction for goniatites, corals, and brachiopods; the ...
- kelly
- (from the article "petroleum production") ...pipe also transmits the rotary motion to the bit from a turntable at the surface. The top piece of the drill pipe is a tube of square (or occasionally six- ...
- Kelly Act
- (from the article "airplane") ...introduction of aircraft beacons helped, but the low altitudes at which most contemporary planes could operate continued to plague service. Commercial flying began in earnest in 1925 when, under the ...
- Kelly Air Base
- (from the article "San Antonio") ...the northeast, is headquarters of the Air Education and Training Command. Brooks, in the southeastern part of the city, is the site of the School of Aerospace Medicine. The region's ...
- Kelly, Andrea
- (from the article "Curling") ...by Canada in the semifinal and finished with a bronze medal. Switzerland's Tania Grivel captured the women's world junior title with a 10-2 victory over Stina Viktorsson of Sweden. Canada's ...
- Kelly, Barbara
- Canadian-born actress enjoyed widespread popularity as a regular panelist on the long-running British edition of the television quiz show What's My Line? (1951-63; 1984-87) and as the host of ...
- Kelly, Charles
- (from the article "Terry, Ellen") ...rearing their children. Before joining Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in 1878, she completed a successful season at the Court Theatre. In 1877 she received a divorce from Watts and ...
- Kelly, David
- (from the article "Literature") ...of electromagnets powerful enough to raise an ironmonger's anvil." Bodanis politicized the prize by donating the £10,000 (about $18,400) he received to the family of government scientist David Kelly, who ...
- Kelly, Denis
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...The UN Inspector, David Farr's sparky, satiric rewrite of Nikolay Gogol's comedy about a nonentity mistaken for a government official. In addition, Hampstead Theatre had a big success with Denis ...
- Kelly, Edward
- (from the article "alchemy") This was not altogether to the alchemist's advantage. In 1595 Edward Kelley, an English alchemist and companion of the famous astrologer, alchemist, and mathematician John Dee, lost his life in ...
- Kelly, Edward J.
- (from the article "Chicago") ...a long string of Democratic mayors. Cermak, however, fell two years later to an assassin's bullet intended for U.S. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was visiting the city. The new ...
- Kelly, Ellsworth
- American painter and sculptor who was a leading exponent of the hard-edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined. [1 Related Articles]
- Kelly, Emmett
- American circus clown, best known for his role as "Weary Willie," a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose.
- Kelly, Gene
- American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion picture director whose athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique, transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public's ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kelly, George
- (from the article "humanistic psychology") The concept of the self is a central focal point for most humanistic psychologists. In the "personal construct" theory of American psychologist George Kelly and the "self-centred" theory of American ...
- Kelly, George
- playwright, actor, and director whose dramas of the 1920s reflect the foibles of the American middle class with a telling accuracy.
- Kelly, Grace
- American actress of films and television, known for her stately beauty and reserve. She starred in 11 motion pictures before abandoning a Hollywood career to marry Rainier III, prince de ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kelly, Howard Atwood
- (from the article "Osler, Sir William, Baronet") In 1888 Osler became the first professor of medicine in the new Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore. There he joined William H. Welch, chief of pathology, Howard A. ...
- Kelly, Hugh
- British dramatist, critic, and journalist who was, for a time, a serious rival of the playwright Oliver Goldsmith in the London theatre, after his play False Delicacy (staged in 1768) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kelly, John B.
- American oarsman who won 126 consecutive races in single sculls in 1919 and 1920, a record that included a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. Kelly also ...
- Kelly, Kevin
- (from the article "globalization, cultural") ...in theories of the "virtual state," a new system of world politics that is said to reflect the essential chaos of 21st-century capitalism. In Out of Control (1994), author Kevin ...
- Kelly, Machine Gun
- bootlegger, small-time bank robber, and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico in the 1920s and '30s. Abetted by his wife, Kathryn (nee Cleo Coleman), whom ...
- Kelly, Margaret
- Irish-born French dancer and choreographer (b. June 24, 1910, Dublin, Ire.-d. Sept. 11, 2004, Paris, France), was a professional chorus-line dancer by the time she was 14 and in 1932 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kelly, Michael
- American journalist (b. March 17, 1957, Washington, D.C.-d. April 3, 2003, south of Baghdad, Iraq), was a fierce and courageous reporter, editor, and columnist. Kelly's reporting and investigative work at ...
- Kelly, Molly
- Australian Aboriginal icon (b. c. 1917, Jigalong, W.Aus., Australia-d. Jan. 13, 2004, Jigalong), walked, with her younger sister and a cousin, some 1,600 km (1,000 mi) home from the settlement ...
- Kelly, Ned
- most famous of the bushrangers, Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century. [2 Related Articles]
- Kelly, R.
- American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who became one of the best-selling rhythm-and-blues artists of the 1990s and early 2000s. Kelly is known for his gospel-tinged vocal delivery and highly ...
- Kelly, Thomas Joseph
- American aerospace engineer (b. June 14, 1929, New York, N.Y.-d. March 23, 2002, Cutchogue, N.Y.), led the team of engineers that designed the Lunar Excursion Module Eagle, ...
- Kelly, Walt
- American creator of the comic strip "Pogo," which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire. [1 Related Articles]
- Kelly, William
- American ironmaster who invented the pneumatic process of steelmaking, in which air is blown through molten pig iron to oxidize and remove unwanted impurities. Also patented by Sir Henry Bessemer ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kelly, William Russell
- American businessman who in 1965 became chairman of Kelly Services, Inc., which he had founded in 1946 to provide businesses with personnel for temporary assignments; the company grew from providing ...
- Kelman, Charles
- American ophthalmic surgeon (b. May 23, 1930, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. June 1, 2004, Boca Raton, Fla.), was posthumously awarded the 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for having revolutionized ...
- Kelmscott House
- (from the article "Hammersmith and Fulham") ...centre; Hurlingham Park; the grounds of Chelsea, Fulham, and Queen's Park Rangers football (soccer) clubs; and the British Broadcasting Corporation's television headquarters and main studios. Kelmscott House, for 18 years ...
- Kelmscott Press
- (from the article "Morris, William") The Kelmscott Press was started in 1891, with the printer and type designer Emery Walker as typographic adviser, and between that year and 1898 the press produced 53 titles in ...
- Kelo v. City of New London
- (from the article "United States") States stepped up protections for private property in the wake of the 2005 Supreme Court Kelo v. City of New London decision, which allowed the government to condemn property, arguably ...
- keloid
- fibrous tissue overgrowth occurring in scars. Usually only the skin layers are affected in this manner; scars of the mucous membranes or deeper tissues do not form keloids. Keloids are ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kelowna
- city, southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies 80 miles (129 km) north of the U.S. (Washington) border, on the east shore of Okanagan Lake (there bridged), 284 miles (457 km) ...
- kelp
- any of numerous large coastal seaweeds growing in colder seas and belonging to the order Laminariales (about 30 genera) of brown algae. Until early in the 19th century the ash ... [9 Related Articles]
- kelp crab
- (from the article "kelp crab") Pacific species of spider crab (q.v.).characteristicsspider crabThe kelp crab (Pugettia producta
- kelp goose
- (from the article "sheldgoose") Among the sheldgeese are several South American species of Chloephaga-the kelp goose (C. hybrida), the Magellan goose (C. picta), and the Andean goose (C. melanoptera)-and the Orinoco goose (Neochen jubatus). ...
- kelp gull
- (from the article "gull") The kelp gull (L. dominicanus) is a very wide-ranging black-backed species of the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica. The laughing gull (L. atricilla), a medium-sized bird with a black head, red ...
- Kelsen, Hans
- Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law, who formulated a kind of positivism known as the "pure theory" of law. [3 Related Articles]
- Kelsey, Henry
- British mariner and explorer of the Canadian plains who played a significant role in the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company. [1 Related Articles]
- Kelso
- small burgh (town) and agricultural market centre, Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Roxburghshire, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the River Tweed at the head of the Merse, a ...
- Kelso
- city, seat (1932) of Cowlitz county, southwestern Washington, U.S., on the Cowlitz River, immediately northeast of Longview. Built on the site of the Cowlitz Indian village of Tiahanakshih, the area ...
- Kelso
- (from the article "Arcaro, Eddie") ...honours in 1941, and Citation in 1948. He established a record of $645,145 earned by one horse (Citation) in a single season. In 1960-61, at the end of his career, ...
- Kelso, William M.
- The commemoration in May 2007 of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown-the first permanent English settlement in North America-carried heightened significance, given the wealth of archaeological findings about ...
- Kelud, Mount
- (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...feet (2,911 metres) near Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta) in central Java, erupts frequently-often causing extensive destruction to roads, fields, and villages but always greatly benefiting the soil. Mount Kelud (5,679 feet [1,731 ...
- kelvin
- base unit of thermodynamic temperature measurement in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as 10027,316 of the triple point (equilibrium among the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases) ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kelvin temperature scale
- (from the article "thermodynamics") ...32 °F and 212 °F, respectively. There are absolute temperature scales related to the second law of thermodynamics. The absolute scale related to the Celsius scale is called the Kelvin (K) scale, ...
- Kelvin wave
- (from the article "ocean") ...corresponds in general to the 180th meridian of longitude), bringing episodes of eastward wind reversals to that region of the ocean. These wind bursts excite extremely long ocean waves, known ...
- Kelvin wedge
- (from the article "fluid mechanics") ...V has a fixed angle of 2 sin−1(13) = 39°. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) was the first to explain this, and so the V-shaped area is now known as the Kelvin ...
- Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
- Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist, who profoundly influenced the scientific thought of his generation. [17 Related Articles]
- Kemakeza, Sir Allan
- (from the article "Solomon Islands") ...km (10,954 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 482,000 | Capital: Honiara | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Nathaniel Waena | Head of government: Prime ...
- Kemal Bey, Yusuf
- (from the article "Ankara, Treaty of") (Oct. 20, 1921), pact between the government of France and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey at Ankara, signed by the French diplomat Henri Franklin-Bouillon and Yusuf Kemal Bey, the ...
- Kemal, (Mehmed) Namik
- Turkish prose writer and poet who greatly influenced the Young Turk and Turkish nationalist movements and contributed to the westernization of Turkish literature. [6 Related Articles]
- Kemal, Yasar
- Turkish novelist of Kurdish descent best known for his stories of village life and for his outspoken advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed. [3 Related Articles]
- Kemalpasazade
- also called Ibn Kemal, Ibn Kemal Pasa, or Semseddin Ahmet Ibn Suleyman Ibn Kemal Pasa historian, poet, and scholar who is considered one of the greatest Ottoman historians.
- Kemano penstock tunnel
- (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...Irrigation Tunnel in northern Colorado experienced only two significant rockfalls in 60 years, each easily repaired during a nonirrigation period. In contrast, a progressive rockfall on the 14-mile Kemano penstock ...
- kemari
- (from the article "sports") ...peoples as different as the Chinese and the Aztecs. If ball games were contests rather than noncompetitive ritual performances, such as the Japanese football game kemari, then ...
- Kembar
- (from the article "Gajah Mada") ...the most powerful figure in Majapahit. In 1331 a rebellion took place in Sadeng (eastern Java). Gajah Mada immediately sent a military expedition to the area, but a minister of ...
- Kemble, Adelaide
- celebrated singer and member of the famous theatrical family Kemble.
- Kemble, Charles
- theatrical manager, the first to use appropriately detailed historical sets and costumes on the English stage, and an actor noted for his supporting roles in several Shakespeare plays, but at ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kemble, Elizabeth
- nee Satchell English actress of great ability whose career was subordinated to that of her husband, George Stephen Kemble. Elizabeth Satchell was a talented performer when she married Kemble in ...
- Kemble, Fanny
- popular English actress who is also remembered as the author of plays, poems, and reminiscences, the latter containing much information about the stage and social history of the 19th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Kemble, George Stephen
- English actor and theatrical manager.
- Kemble, Henry Stephen
- English actor of popularity but modest attainments, a member of the famous Kemble theatrical family.
- Kemble, John Mitchell
- (from the article "diplomatics") ...Kehr. In comparison with the amount of work done in France and Germany, historical scholarship in England long paid relatively little attention to legal, as opposed to literary, records. Although ...
- Kemble, John Philip
- popular English actor and manager of the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres in London, where his reforms improved the status of the theatrical profession. He played heavy dramatic roles ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kemble, Maria Theresa
- English singer, dancer, and actress who married the actor and theatrical manager Charles Kemble. [1 Related Articles]
- Kemble, Priscilla
- nee Hopkins noted English actress and wife of the actor and theatrical manager John Philip Kemble.
- Kemble, Roger
- English actor and theatre manager and founder of the famous Kemble family.
- Kemeny, John
- (from the article "computer") ...it. Researchers created several such languages, most notably BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), which was invented in 1964 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, by John Kemeny and Thomas ...
- Kemeny, Zoltan
- Hungarian-born Swiss sculptor of dramatic metal reliefs. [1 Related Articles]
- Kemeny, Zsigmond, Baron
- (Baro) Hungarian novelist especially noted for his minute psychological analysis. [1 Related Articles]
- Kemerovo
- oblast (province), south-central Russia. The oblast lies in the Tom River basin. The north-south valley of the basin is flanked by the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains on the east and by ...
- Kemerovo
- city and administrative centre of Kemerovo oblast (province), south-central Russia. Kemerovo lies along the Tom River near the foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains. The small village of Kemerovo was ...
- Kemi
- town, northwestern Finland. It lies along the Gulf of Bothnia at the mouth of the Kemi River, north-northwest of Oulu. It was chartered in 1869, although the site had been ...
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