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King Country: geographical region in North Island, New Zealand. Lying west of Lake Taupo and south of Hamilton, it embraces an area of 7,000 sq mi (18,000 sq km). It is bordered ...
king crab: (Paralithodes camtschatica), marine crustacean of the order Decapoda. This edible crab is found in the shallow waters off Japan and along the coast of Alaska. It also inhabits the Bering ...
King George Sound: one of the finest natural harbours of Western Australia's south coast. An inlet of the Indian Ocean, the sound, with a surface area of 35 square miles (91 square km), ...
King George's War: (1744-48), American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession, third and inconclusive struggle between France and Great Britain for mastery of the North American continent.
King Island: island in Bass Strait, 50 miles (80 km) off the northwestern coast of Tasmania, Australia. About 40 miles by 15 miles (64 km by 24 km), with an area of ...
King James Version: English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under the auspices of James I of England. Of 54 scholars approved by James, 47 laboured in six groups at three locations ...
King John: chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written perhaps in 1594-96 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an authorial manuscript that may have been copied and ...
King Khalid Military City: city, northeastern Saudi Arabia. The city, under construction in the early 1980s, was being built by U.S. Army engineers after developing the nearby port of Ra's al-Mish'ab on the Persian ...
King Lear: tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1605-06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on Shakespeare's unrevised working papers. The text of the First ...
King Leopold Ranges: mountain chain of northern Western Australia, forming the southwestern edge of the Kimberley Plateau. It comprises a well-dissected escarpment extending from Collier Bay southeast for 150 miles (240 km). Averaging ...
King Philip's War: (1675-76), in British-American colonial history, war between Indians and English settlers, the bloodiest conflict in 17th-century New England, temporarily devastating the frontier communities but eventually eradicating native resistance to the ...
King Ranch: largest ranch in the United States, composed of a group of four tracts of land in southeastern Texas, totaling approximately 825,000 acres (333,800 hectares).
king salmon: (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) prized North Pacific food and sport fish of the family Salmonidae. It weighs about 10 kg (22 pounds) to twice that and is silvery with round black spots. ...
king snake: any of seven species of moderate- to large-sized terrestrial snakes found from southeastern Canada to Ecuador. Adults generally range in length from 1 to 1.5 metres (3.3 to 5 feet), ...
King Sound: inlet of the Indian Ocean, northern Western Australia, measuring 90 miles by 35 miles (145 km by 56 km). Its entrance is flanked by Cape Leveque to the west and ...
King William Island: island, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, western Nunavut territory, between Victoria Island and Boothia Peninsula. The island is separated from the mainland (Adelaide Peninsula) by the Storis Passage and Simpson ...
King William's Town: town, Eastern province, South Africa, west of East London. Founded as a missionary station in 1826, King William's Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria ...
King William's War: (1689-97), North American extension of the War of the Grand Alliance, waged by William III of Great Britain and the League of Augsburg against France under Louis XIV. Canadian and ...
king's evil: scrofula (q.v.), or struma, a tuberculous swelling of the lymph glands, once popularly supposed to be curable by the touch of royalty. The custom of touching was first adopted in ...
King's Lynn: town and seaport, King's Lynn and West Norfolk borough, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, England. The town lies along the estuary of the Great Ouse River as it enters ...
King's Lynn and West Norfolk: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Norfolk, eastern England. The borough is bounded by the North Sea on the north and its shallow bay, the Wash, on the northwest. ...
King's Men: English theatre company known by that name after it came under royal patronage in 1603. Its previous name was the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Considered the premier acting company in Jacobean ...
King, Albert: American blues musician who created a unique string-bending guitar style that influenced three generations of musicians.
King, B.B.: American guitarist and singer who was a principal figure in the development of blues and from whose style leading popular musicians drew inspiration.
King, Billie Jean: American tennis player whose influence and playing style elevated the status of women's professional tennis beginning in the late 1960s. In her career she won 39 major titles, competing in ...
King, Carol Weiss: American lawyer who specialized in immigration law and the defense of the civil rights of immigrants.
King, Clarence: American geologist and mining engineer who organized and directed the U.S. Geological Survey of the 40th parallel, an intensive study of the mineral resources along the site of the proposed ...
King, Coretta Scott: American civil rights activist, who was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King, Don: American boxing promoter known for his flamboyant manner and outrageous hair styled to stand straight up. He first came to prominence with his promotion of the 1974 "Rumble in the ...
King, Ernest Joseph: American admiral who was commander in chief of U.S. naval forces and chief of naval operations throughout most of World War II. He masterminded the successful U.S. military campaign against ...
King, Frank: U.S. comic-strip artist who created "Gasoline Alley," a long-popular comic strip notable for its sympathetic picture of small-town life.
King, Franklin Hiram: American agricultural scientist, inventor of the cylindrical tower silo. He also invented a gravity system of ventilation for dairy barns that was widely used until electrically powered blowers became commonly ...
King, Gregory: English genealogist, engraver, and statistician, best known for his Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England, 1696, first published in 1801, which gives the ...
King, Henry: English poet and Anglican bishop whose elegy for his wife is considered one of the best in the English language.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to ...
King, Rufus: a founding father of the United States, who helped frame the federal Constitution and effect its ratification. An active Federalist senator and able diplomat, he ran unsuccessfully for vice president ...
King, Stephen: American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century.
King, W.L. Mackenzie: prime minister of Canada (1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48) and leader of the Liberal Party, who helped preserve the unity of the English and French populations of Canada.
King, William Rufus de Vane: 13th vice president of the United States (1853) in the Democratic administration of Franklin Pierce. Although elected and sworn in as vice president, he did not live to perform any ...
King-Crane Commission: commission appointed at the request of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to determine the attitudes of the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine toward the ...
Kingaroy: town, southeastern Queensland, Australia, in the South Burnett area. It originated in 1886 as Kingaroy Paddock, deriving its name from the Aboriginal term kingerroy, meaning "red ant," and was proclaimed ...
kingbird: any of 13 species of birds of the genus Tyrannus (family Tyrannidae) noted for their pugnacity. Although only about 20 cm (8 inches) long, a kingbird will chase birds as ...
kingfish: any of various fishes, among them certain species of mackerel (q.v.) and a drum (q.v.) of the genus Menticirrhus.
kingfisher: any of about 90 species of birds making up the family Alcedinidae (order Coraciiformes), many of whom fish for their food.
Kingi, Wiremu: Maori chief whose opposition to the colonial government's purchase of tribal lands led to the First Taranaki War (1860-61) and inspired the Maoris' resistance throughout the 1860s to European colonization ...
Kingis Quair, The: (c. 1423; "The King's Book"), love-dream allegory written in Early Scots and attributed to James I of Scotland. It marks the beginning of the golden age of Scottish literature. Sometimes ...
kinglet: any of about four species of birds of the genus Regulus, of the songbird family Sylviidae; some consider them a separate subfamily, Regulinae. These round-bodied, short-billed little birds are usually ...
Kingman: city, seat (1887) of Mohave county, Arizona, U.S. Since 1882 Kingman has been the shopping and shipping centre for sparsely settled northwestern Arizona. The city was named for Lewis Kingman, ...
Kingman Reef: reef, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Northern Line Islands in the west-central Pacific Ocean, 920 miles (1,480 km) southwest of Honolulu. A barren atoll with a deep ...
Kingo, Thomas: clergyman and poet whose works are considered the high point of Danish Baroque poetry.
Kings Canyon National Park: scenic area in the Sierra Nevada, east-central California, U.S. It lies adjacent to and north of Sequoia National Park and is under the same administration; Yosemite National Park is about ...
Kings County: county in southeastern New York, U.S., that is coextensive with the Borough of Brooklyn (q.v.), New York City. It was formed in 1683, has an area of 71 square miles ...
Kings Mountain, Battle of: (October 7, 1780), in the American Revolution, American victory over a loyalist detachment in South Carolina during the British campaign in the South. To stem the British advance into North ...
Kings Peak: highest point (13,528 feet [4,123 metres]) in Utah, U.S., located 80 miles (130 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta Mountains and the Ashley National Forest. It was ...
Kings, books of: two books of the Hebrew Bible or the Protestant Old Testament that, together with Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 and 2 Samuel, belong to the group of historical books (Deuteronomic ...
Kings, Valley of the: long, narrow defile just west of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of the ancient city of Thebes and was the burial site of almost all the ...
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward: Australian pilot who, with a three-man crew, flew the Atlantic from Portmarnock, Ire., to Harbour Grace, Nfd., June 24-25, 1930. He was also the first to cross the mid-Pacific by ...
Kingsley, Charles: Anglican clergyman, teacher, and writer whose novels, widely read in the Victorian era, influenced social developments in Britain. He was one of the first churchmen to support Charles Darwin's theories ...
Kingsley, Henry: English novelist whose books were popular for half a century and who is best known for Ravenshoe (1861) and The Hillyars and the Burtons (1865).
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta: English traveler who, disregarding the conventions of her time, journeyed through western and equatorial Africa and became the first European to enter parts of Gabon.
Kingsolver, Barbara: American writer and political activist whose best-known novels concern the strength and endurance of the poor and disenfranchised people of the American Southwest.
Kingsport: city, Sullivan county, northeastern Tennessee, U.S., on the Holston River, near the Virginia border, about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Knoxville. The area was settled in the late 1700s ...
Kingston: city, seat (1683) of Ulster county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River (there bridged), at the mouth of Rondout Creek, 54 miles ...
Kingston: village in South Kingstown town (township), Washington county, southern Rhode Island, U.S. It developed after 1700 at the crossroads of the Pequot Indian Trail and the road to Tower Hill ...
Kingston: city, seat (1792) of Frontenac county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, at the point where it joins the St. Lawrence River, 135 miles (220 km) ...
Kingston: town, southeastern Tasmania, Australia, lying on the Browns River, which flows into the estuary of the Derwent River. First settled in 1804, the area was known as Brown's River. By ...
Kingston: capital and chief port of Jamaica, sprawling along the southeastern coast of the island, backed by the Blue Mountains. It is famous for its fine natural harbour, which is protected ...
Kingston Trio, the: American folk group that helped spark the folk music revival of the 1960s. The original members were Dave Guard (b. Oct. 19, 1934, San Francisco, Calif., U.S., -d. March 22, ...
Kingston upon Hull: city and unitary authority, geographic county of East Riding of Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Humber estuary at its junction ...
Kingston upon Thames: royal borough and outer borough of London, part of the historic county of Surrey. It lies on the south bank of the River Thames about 12 miles (19 km) southwest ...
Kingston, Maxine Hong: American writer, much of whose work is rooted in her experience as a first-generation Chinese American.
Kingstown: capital and chief port of Saint Vincent Island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Located on the southwestern end of the island, the town overlooks ...
Kingsville: city, seat (1913) of Kleberg county, southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the coastal plain, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Corpus Christi and 153 miles (246 km) south of ...
Kingswood: town, unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, historic county of Gloucestershire, England, situated directly east of the city of Bristol. Kingswood was closely associated with the 18th-century Methodist leaders George Whitefield ...
Kinguele: waterfall and site of a hydroelectric complex on the Mbei River of Gabon. Kinguele is situated near Kango and is about 95 miles (150 km) by road east of Libreville, ...
kinkajou: an unusual member of the raccoon family (see procyonid) distinguished by its long, prehensile tail, short muzzle, and low-set, rounded ears. Native to Central America and parts of South America, ...