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Kafr al-Shaykh: town, capital of Kafr al-Shaykh muhafazah (governorate) of the central Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, bordering the Mediterranean. The town is situated in a fertile plain about ...
Kafr al-Shaykh: muhafazah (governorate) in the central Nile delta, Lower Egypt, with the Rosetta Branch of the river to the west and ad-Daqahliyah governorate to the east. It was ...
Kafue: town, south-central Zambia, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Lusaka, the national capital. The town is located on the northern bank of the Kafue River, whose water is diverted ...
Kafue National Park: park, south-central Zambia. Established in 1950 and located about 200 miles (322 km) west of Lusaka, the park covers an area of 8,650 square miles (22,400 square km) and consists ...
Kafue River: river rising on the Congo (Kinshasa)-Zambia border. It meanders generally southward until it turns west near the Lukanga Swamp (which it drains). The river then flows south and finally east ...
Kafur, Abu al-Misk: Ethiopian slave who, as vizier under the Ikshidid dynasty, was de facto ruler of Egypt from 946 to 966 and de jure ruler from then until his death.
Kaga: city, Ishikawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Daishoji River. The city was created in 1958 by the amalgamation of the city of Daishoji with several towns, including ...
Kagame, Alexis: Rwandan poet, historian, and Roman Catholic priest who introduced the written art, both in his own language, Kinyarwanda, and in French, to his country.
Kagamigahara: city, Gifu ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, east of Gifu city. Upon the Meiji Restoration in 1868, an army base was established in the city. It was taken over by the ...
Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich: Soviet Communist Party leader and supporter of Joseph Stalin.
Kagawa: smallest ken (prefecture) of Shikoku, Japan, facing the Inland Sea opposite Okayama prefecture, Honshu. Its area of 727 square miles (1,883 square km) includes Shodo and other offshore islands. The ...
Kagawa Kageki: Japanese poet and literary scholar of the late Tokugawa period (1603-1867) who founded the Keien school of poetry.
Kagawa Toyohiko: Christian social reformer, author, and leader in Japanese labour and democratic movements who focused attention upon the poor of Japan.
Kagera River: most remote headstream of the Nile River and largest tributary of Lake Victoria, rising in Burundi near the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika. It is formed at the confluence of ...
Kagoshima: city and ken (prefecture), southernmost Kyushu, Japan, including the island groups of Osumi, Tokara, and Amami. It occupies an area of 3,539 square miles (9,167 square km). Its southern coast ...
kagu: (Rhynochetus jubatus), nearly extinct and virtually flightless bird of New Caledonia, sole member of the family Rhynochetidae (order Gruiformes). About 55 cm (22 inches) long, it is a chunky bird ...
Kagwa, Sir Apolo: katikiro (prime minister) of Buganda (1890-1926) and the leading figure in the semiautonomous development of the Ganda (Baganda) people under British authority.
Kahanamoku, Duke Paoa: (b. August 26, 1890, near Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii [now in U.S.]-d. January 22, 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii), Hawaiian surfer and swimmer who won three Olympic gold medals for the United States ...
Kahane, Meir: American-born Israeli political extremist and rabbi who campaigned for self-protection of Jews.
Kahlo, Frida: Mexican painter noted for her intense, brilliantly coloured self-portraits painted in a primitivistic style. Though she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist. She was married to ...
Kahn, Albert: industrial architect and planner known for his designs of American automobile factories. In his time he was considered the world's foremost industrial architect and the "father of modern factory design."
Kahn, Florence Prag: American public official who, after winning her husband's seat in the U.S. Congress following his death, established herself as an effective representative in her own right.
Kahn, Gustave: French poet and literary theorist who claimed to be the inventor of vers libre ("free verse").
Kahn, Herman: American physicist, strategist, and futurist best known for his controversial studies of nuclear warfare.
Kahn, Louis I.: American architect whose buildings, characterized by powerful, massive forms, made him one of the most discussed architects to emerge after World War II.
Kahn, Otto Hermann: banker and patron of the arts who played an important role in reorganizing the U.S. railroad systems.
Kahn, Reuben Leon: American immunologist best known for his investigations of blood reactions, which led him to develop an efficient test for syphilis.
Kahn, Robert Elliot: American electrical engineer, one of the principal architects of the Internet.
Kahneman, Daniel: Israeli-born psychologist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his integration of psychological research into economic science. His pioneering work examined human judgment and decision making under ...
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry: German-born French art dealer and publisher who is best known for his early espousal of Cubism and his long, close association with Pablo Picasso.
Kahoolawe: volcanic island, Maui county, Hawaii, U.S. It lies 6 miles (10 km) off the southwestern shore of Maui island, from which it is separated by the Alalakeiki Channel. It is ...
Kahr, Gustav, Ritter von: (knight of ) conservative monarchist politician who served briefly as prime minister and then was virtual dictator of Bavaria during the anti-leftist reaction of the early 1920s.
Kahramanmaras: city, southern Turkey, at the edge of a fertile plain below Ahir Mountain, east-northeast of Adana. The city is near the southern outlet of three important passes through the Taurus ...
Kahului: city, Maui county, on the northern coast of Maui island, Hawaii, U.S. Situated on Kahului Bay, it lies 2 miles (3 km) east of Wailuku. Beginning in the late 19th ...
Kahun: ancient Egyptian town, its site lying in modern al-Fayyum muhafazah (governorate). It was erected for the overseers and workmen employed in constructing the Pyramid of Illahun, built by Sesostris II ...
Kai Islands: island group of the southeastern Moluccas, lying west of the Aru Islands and southeast of Seram, in the Banda Sea. The group, which forms part of Maluku
Kaibara Ekiken: philosopher, travel writer, and pioneer botanist of the early Tokugawa period (1603-1867) who set forth the Confucian doctrines in simple language that could be understood by Japanese of all classes. ...
Kaidu: Mongol khan (reigned 1269-1301), the great-grandson of Genghis Khan, grandson of Ogodei, and a leader of the opposition to Kublai Khan's rule over the Mongol empire. Kaidu controlled Turkistan and, ...
Kaieteur Falls: cataract on the Potaro River, west-central Guyana. After a sheer drop of 741 feet (226 m) over the edge of a sandstone plateau, the falls have eroded a gorge, 5 ...
Kaifu Toshiki: politician and government offical who served as prime minister of Japan in the period 1989-91.
Kaigetsudo Ando: also called Okazaki Genshichi early Japanese painter of Ukiyo-e, or scenes of the transient world of daily life.
Kaiho Yusho: major Japanese screen painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period.
Kaikei: Japanese sculptor who helped establish the traditional pattern of Buddhist sculpture.
Kaikoura Range: twin mountain chains, South Island, New Zealand, paralleling the island's northeastern coast for 60 miles (100 km). The name, meaning "to eat crayfish," has its origin in Maori myth. The ...
Kailas Range: one of the highest and most rugged parts of the Himalayan Mountain system, located in the southwestern part of the Tibet autonomous ch'u (region), China. The range has a roughly ...
Kailua-Kona: resort area, Hawaii county, on the west-central coast of Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. The western coast of the island of Hawaii is known as Kona, and Kailua is its largest ...
Kailua-Lanikai: twin residential communities, southeastern Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. Extending along Kailua Bay, they lie 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Honolulu and just south of Kaneohe. According to Hawaiian legend, ...
Kailyard school: late 19th-century movement in Scottish fiction characterized by a sentimental idealization of humble village life. Its name derives from the Scottish "kail-yard," a small cabbage patch usually adjacent to a ...
Kainan: city, Wakayama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on Wakanoura Bay. It was formed in 1934 with the merger of the towns of Kuroe, Hiigata, and Uchiumi. The city has been known ...
kainite: a naturally occurring double salt, hydrated potassium and magnesium sulfate-chloride, KMgSO₄Cl·3H₂O. It has been found only in potash deposits with other salts as a product of metamorphism. It is the ...
Kainji Lake: reservoir on the Niger River, on the border between Niger and Kebbi states, in western Nigeria. It was created in 1968 by the construction of the Kainji Dam and covers ...
Kaipara Harbour: inlet of the Tasman Sea indenting northwestern North Island, New Zealand. It is the largest drowned river system of the North Auckland Peninsula and was formed when the sea flooded ...
Kairov, Ivan Andreyevich: Soviet educator and public education official responsible for numerous works dealing with pedagogical theory.
Kaiser, Georg: leading German Expressionist dramatist.
Kaiser, Henry J.: American industrialist and founder of more than 100 companies including Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, and Kaiser Cement and Gypsum.
Kaiserslautern: city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies between the Haardt Mountains (Pfalzer Wald) and the Saar-Nahe-Bergland (Nordpfalzer Bergland), northeast of Saarbrucken. It is surrounded by the ...
Kaishinto: a leading Japanese political party from its founding in 1882 by the democratic leader Okuma Shigenobu until its merger with several smaller parties in 1896. It generally represented the urban ...
kaishu: in Chinese calligraphy, a stylization of chancery script developed during the period of the Three Kingdoms and Western Jin (220-316/317) that simplified the lishu script into a ...
Kaitaia: town, Northland local government region, northern North Island, New Zealand. It lies 4.5 miles (7 km) above the mouth of the Awanui River, on the North Auckland Peninsula. In 1833 ...
Kaitangata: town, Otago local government region, southeastern South Island, New Zealand. It lies 4 miles (6 km) above the mouth of the Matau, a branch of the Clutha River. First settled ...
Kaithal: city, north-central Haryana state, northwestern India. Said to have been founded by Yudhisthira, a Pandava king in the ancient epic poem the Mahabharata, Kaithal was later a Muslim cultural centre. ...
Kajanus, Robert: Finnish conductor and composer who championed Finnish national music.
Kajikawa Family: Japanese lacquerware artists whose school in Edo (now Tokyo) flourished for more than 200 years.
kaka: New Zealand species of parrot (q.v.).
Kakadu National Park: extensive natural and cultural region in Northern Territory, Australia. The park, which covers an area of some 7,700 square miles (20,000 square km), lies in the area of the Alligator ...
Kakamega: town, southwestern Kenya, located at an elevation of about 5,100 feet (1,550 metres). The British developed Kakamega for defensive purposes in 1903, and by 1920 it had become the district ...
kakapo: giant flightless nocturnal parrot (family Psittacidae) of New Zealand. With a face like an owl, a posture like a penguin, and a walk like a duck, the extraordinarily tame and ...
Kakata: city, western Liberia, on the road from Monrovia to Gbarnga. It is the site of the Booker Washington Institute (1929; Liberia's first vocational and agricultural school), the Kakata Rural Teacher ...
kakemono: in Japanese art, scroll painting intended to be hung on a wall. See scroll painting.
Kakiemon ware: Japanese porcelain made primarily during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) by the Sakaida family, who established kilns at Arita, near the port of Imari in the province of Hizen (now in ...
Kakinada: city, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. Although a seaport, it is now little used because the anchorage is 5 to 6 miles (8 to 10 km) offshore. Because it ...
Kakinomoto Hitomaro: poet venerated by the Japanese since earliest times. He was also Japan's first great literary figure.
Kakogawa: city in Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies in the lower valley of the Kako River. A prosperous river port during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), it was industrialized after ...
Kakongo: former African state, founded about the 15th century on the Atlantic coast between the kingdoms of Loango (north) and Ngoy (south). It extended from what is now central Cabinda eastward ...
Kakure Kirishitan: (Japanese: "Hidden Christians"), descendants of the first Japanese converts to Christianity who, driven underground by 1650, managed to maintain their faith in secret for more than two centuries. See Kirishitan.
kala-azar: infectious disease that is a type of leishmaniasis (q.v.).