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- Irish abbot, monastic founder, and missionary who contributed to the conversion of the Picts. He is one of the most popular Celtic saints in Scotland (where he is called Kenneth) ...
- Kennett, Jeff
- (from the article "Victoria") In the early 1990s the state's economy began a gradual recovery. The election of 1992 brought in a coalition government led by Jeff Kennett that almost immediately began implementing a ...
- Kennewick
- city, Benton county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Columbia River, opposite Pasco and immediately southeast of Richland. Laid out in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company, Kennewick ...
- Kennewick Man
- (from the article "Native American") This issue reached a crisis point with the 1996 discovery of skeletal remains near the town of Kennewick, Wash. Subsequently known as Kennewick Man (among scientists) or the Ancient One ...
- Kenney Dam
- (from the article "Nechako River") major tributary of the Fraser River, in central British Columbia, Canada. It originates at Kenney Dam and flows eastward for nearly 150 miles (240 km), draining the Nechako Plateau into ...
- Kenney, Annie
- (from the article "Pankhurst, Emmeline") ...the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which she founded in 1903 in Manchester. The union first attracted wide attention on Oct. 13, 1905, when two of its members, Christabel ...
- kenning
- concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. A kenning is commonly a simple stock compound such as "whale-path" ... [3 Related Articles]
- keno
- gambling game played with cards (tickets) bearing numbers in squares, usually from 1 to 80. A player marks or circles as many of these numbers as he wishes up to ...
- Kenora
- town, Kenora district, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the Lake of the Woods, 300 miles (480 km) northwest of Thunder Bay. The Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post ...
- Kenoran orogeny
- a Precambrian thermal event on the Canadian Shield that occurred 2.5 billion years ago (± 150 million years). Rocks affected by the Kenoran event represent some of the oldest rocks ...
- Kenosha
- city, seat (1850) of Kenosha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pike River, just north of the Illinois state line. Founded in ...
- Kenroku Garden
- (from the article "Kanazawa") ...remained under their jurisdiction for approximately 300 years. The walls, gates, and a few buildings of the Maeda family's castle remain, giving the city the atmosphere of traditional Japan. Kenroku-en, ...
- Kenseito
- (from the article "Japan") ...house. These arrangements proved unsatisfactory, however, when party leaders raised their sights. In 1898 Itagaki and Okuma combined forces to form a single party, the Constitutional Party (Kenseito), and were ...
- Kensett, John Frederick
- American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists.
- Kensington and Chelsea
- royal borough in inner London, part of the historic county of Middlesex, on the north bank of the River Thames west of the City of Westminster. The borough of Kensington ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kensington Gardens
- park lying almost completely within the borough of Westminster, London; a small portion is in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It covers an area of 275 acres (111 hectares) ...
- Kensington Glass Works
- (from the article "Dyott, Thomas W.") ...in the country. Among his better-selling products were Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges and Vegetable Nervous Cordial. As his medicines required many bottles, in 1833 he purchased the Kensington (Pennsylvania) Glass ...
- Kensington Oval
- (from the article "Bridgetown") ...to replace a building destroyed in a hurricane of 1780. The General's House in Queen's Park, northeast of the cathedral, is now used as a theatre and art gallery. Northwest ...
- Kensington Palace
- royal palace in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Its grounds border the extensive Kensington Gardens to the east. [2 Related Articles]
- Kensington Stone
- supposed relic of a 14th-century Scandinavian exploration of the interior of North America. Most scholars deem it a forgery, claiming linguistically that the carved writing on it is many years ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kent
- one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kent
- county, northeastern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a coastal plain bordered by the Sassafras River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Chester River to the south, and Chesapeake ...
- Kent
- county, west-central Rhode Island, U.S., lying between Connecticut to the west and Narragansett Bay to the east. The Pawtuxet River flows through the county's northeastern corner. The county was created ...
- Kent
- city, Portage county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on the Cuyahoga River, immediately northeast of Akron. The site was first settled in about 1805 by John and Jacob Haymaker and was called ...
- Kent
- (from the article "Delaware") ...the Middle Atlantic seaboard. It is the second smallest state in the country and one of the most densely populated. The state is organized into three counties-from north to south, ...
- Kent
- administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying along the English Channel at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. A line of chalk hills (the North Downs) running from west ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kent and Strathern, Edward Augustus, duke of, Earl Of Dublin
- fourth son of King George III of Great Britain, father of Queen Victoria.
- Kent State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent, branch campuses in Ashtabula and East Liverpool, and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kent's Cavern
- large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, Eng., that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Reverend J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825-29), ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kent, Edmund Plantagenet, 1st earl of
- youngest brother of England's King Edward II, whom he supported to the forfeit of his own life.
- Kent, James
- jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries. As ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kent, Julie
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...Bocca with a rousing send-off in June at the Metropolitan Opera House. Likewise, an especially celebratory performance of Romeo and Juliet was given to mark the 20th anniversary of ballerina ...
- Kent, Mary Louisa Victoria, duchess of
- (from the article "Victoria") Victoria, by her own account, "was brought up very simply," principally at Kensington Palace, where her closest companions, other than her German-born mother, the Duchess of Kent, were her half ...
- Kent, Rockwell
- painter and illustrator whose works, though never radically innovative, represented scenes of nature and adventure with such vividness and drama that he became one of the most popular U.S. artists ...
- Kent, William
- English architect, interior designer, landscape gardener, and painter, a principal master of the Palladian architectural style in England and pioneer in the creation of the "informal" English garden. [5 Related Articles]
- Kentau
- city, south-central Kazakhstan, on the slopes of the Qaratau Range. Formed in 1955 from several settlements, Kentau (Kazak: "Ore Mountains") is a rapidly growing mining city with a plant for ...
- kentauromachia
- (from the article "Theseum") ...only over the east and west fronts and the east ends of the sides. The eastern frieze represents a battle scene with seated deities on either hand, the western one ...
- Kente, Gibson
- South African playwright (b. July 23, 1932, East London, S.Af.-d. Nov. 7, 2004, Soweto, S.Af.), introduced musical theatre to the impoverished townships of South Africa. Considered the founding father of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kentigern, Saint
- abbot and early Christian missionary, traditionally the first bishop of Glasgow and the evangelist of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Cumbria in southwestern Scotland. Little else is known about him ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kentish
- (from the article "Old English language") Four dialects of the Old English language are known: Northumbrian in northern England and southeastern Scotland; Mercian in central England; Kentish in southeastern England; and West Saxon in southern and ...
- Kenton, Stan
- American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers and thrust formal education and big-band jazz together into what became the stage (or ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kentridge, William
- South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism he revealed in these ...
- Kentrosaurus
- (from the article "dinosaur") ...3.7 metres (12 feet) in height and 9 metres in length, probably weighed two tons, and had a broad, deep body. Not all varieties of the Stegosauria were this large; ...
- Kentucky
- constituent state of the United States of America. Rivers define Kentucky's boundaries except on the south, where it shares a border with Tennessee along a nearly straight line of about ... [12 Related Articles]
- Kentucky bluegrass
- (from the article "bluegrass") Of the more than 50 species found in the United States, Kentucky bluegrass (P. pratensis) is the best-known. It was introduced from Eurasia and is a popular lawn and pasture ...
- Kentucky coffee tree
- (species Gymnocladus dioica), plant of the pea family (Fabaceae), native in North American woods from New York and southern Ontario to Oklahoma. In colonial times the seeds of the tree ...
- Kentucky Dam
- (from the article "Kentucky Lake") ...into Tennessee. The lake is 184 miles (296 km) long and has more than 2,300 miles (3,700 km) of shoreline; its average area is about 260 square miles (673 square ...
- Kentucky Derby
- one of the classic American horse races, established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track, Louisville, Kentucky. With the Preakness Stakes (run ... [9 Related Articles]
- Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp.
- (from the article "Agriculture and Food Supplies") ...requirements for the trans-fat content of packaged foods came into effect in January, and food manufacturers and restaurant chains were taking steps to eliminate trans fat from their products. Kentucky ...
- Kentucky ham
- (from the article "ham") Hams of various regions of North America and Europe are noted for their distinctive qualities resulting from unique combinations of hog-raising and meat-processing techniques. The renowned Kentucky hams of the ...
- Kentucky Lake
- one of the largest man-made lakes in the eastern United States, situated in Marshall, Calloway, Livingston, Lyon, and Trigg counties, southwestern Kentucky, U.S.; its southern extremity overlaps into Tennessee. The ...
- Kentucky rifle
- (from the article "shooting") The flintlock Kentucky rifle, produced from about 1750 by American gunsmiths from Germany and Switzerland, provided great accuracy to 180 metres (200 yards), then a long range. Virtually every village ...
- Kentucky River
- tributary of the Ohio River in north-central Kentucky, U.S., and navigable along its 259-mile (417-km) course by means of locks. It is formed by the confluence of North, Middle, and ...
- Kentucky running set
- (from the article "square dance") ...comparable dances called the contra, or longways dance, for a double file of couples, and from the round dance for a circle of couples. Historians trace the origin of the ...
- Kentucky State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of colleges of arts and sciences, professional studies, schools of business and public administration, ...
- Kentucky, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the state seal in the centre.
- Kentucky, University of
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. It includes the Chandler Medical Center, also in Lexington, and Lexington Community College. The campus consists of 12 colleges offering ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kenwood House
- (from the article "Camden") ...the church of St. George (1724) in Hanover Square. The parish church of Hampstead is a mid-18th century structure, whereas the late 17th-century Fenton House is a museum owned by ...
- Kenya
- country in East Africa famed for its scenic landscapes and vast wildlife preserves. Its Indian Ocean coast provided historically important ports by which goods from Arabian and Asian traders have ... [48 Related Articles]
- Kenya African Democratic Union
- (from the article "Kenya") The Kenya African National Union (KANU) has dominated Kenyan politics since its founding in 1960. Its principal opposition, the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), merged with KANU in 1964. Since ...
- Kenya African National Union
- Kenyan political party. Organized in 1960, KANU was one of two major political parties formed in preparation for independence-the other party, the Kenya African Democratic Union, was ultimately absorbed by ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kenya African Teachers College
- (from the article "Kenyatta, Jomo") Kenyatta returned to Kenya in September 1946 to take up leadership of the newly formed Kenya African Union, of which he was elected president in June 1947. From the Kenya ...
- Kenya African Union
- (from the article "Kenya, flag of") ...parts of the coastal regions of Kenya, but ultimately it was the native black population who chose the symbols reflected in the national flag. The leading political party after World ...
- Kenya Capsian tool complex
- (from the article "Stone Age") ...post-Gamblian dry phase, microlithic tools appear for the first time in an assemblage known as the Magosian. This was followed by the introduction into the area of a true blade ...
- Kenya Fauresmith tool complex
- (from the article "Stone Age") ...horizon, two distinct toolmaking traditions are found: the Kenya Stillbay, a Levalloisian derivative characterized by small- to medium-sized, bifacially flaked points or minute hand axes; and the Kenya Fauresmith, basically ...
- Kenya Federation of Labour
- (from the article "Mboya, Tom") ...trade-union movement. He was a key nationalist figure in the days of the Mau Mau rebellion by the Kikuyu tribe against European ownership of land. From 1953 to 1963 he ...
- Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service
- (from the article "Kenya") The Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service in Nairobi, housed in a building that was originally the Bank of India, holds an increasing number of government and historical documents and ...
- Kenya National Theatre
- (from the article "Kenya") The Kenya National Theatre, a part of the Kenya Cultural Centre, is the country's premier venue for drama. The affiliated National Theatre School (founded 1968) provides professional training for Kenyan ...
- Kenya People's Union
- (from the article "Kenya") ...believed that, by adopting a pro-Western, essentially capitalist economic policy, the government was neglecting the interests of poorer people. He broke with KANU to form a new opposition party, the ...
- Kenya Stillbay tool complex
- (from the article "Stone Age") ...of the use of the prepared striking-platform-tortoise-core (Levallois) technique in the production of flakes. In the next-younger horizon, two distinct toolmaking traditions are found: the Kenya Stillbay, a Levalloisian derivative ...
- Kenya Wildlife Services
- (from the article "Kenya") ...by relocating animals to areas where the human population is less dense. In an effort to ameliorate the problem, a "parks beyond parks" program was introduced in the mid-1990s by ...
- Kenya, flag of
- national flag consisting of horizontal stripes of black, red, and green separated by thinner stripes of white; in the centre are two crossed spears and a shield. The width-to-length ratio ...
- Kenya, history of
- (from the article "Kenya") It is known that human history in Kenya dates back millions of years, because it is there that some of the earliest fossilized remains of hominids have been discovered. Among ...
- Kenya, Mount
- volcano, central Kenya, lying immediately south of the Equator. It is the second highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro, which is located some 200 miles (320 km) to the south. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kenyah
- indigenous people of Sarawak and Indonesian Borneo, grouped with the Kayan or under the general name Bahau. In the late 20th century the Kenyah were reported to number 23,000. They ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kenyan literature
- (from the article "Kenya") Kenyan literature includes a large body of oral and written folklore, much of the latter collected by British anthropologists. During the colonial era, writers of European origin residing in Kenya, ...
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- (from the article "Australopithecus") ...tchadensis (7-6 mya), Orrorin tugenensis (6 mya), Ardipithecus kadabba and Ardipithecus ramidus (5.8-4.4 mya), Kenyanthropus platyops (3.5-3.2 mya), and three species of Paranthropus (2.3-1.2 mya). Remains older than 6 million ...
- Kenyapithecus
- (from the article "Leakey, Louis S.B.") ...africanus, a common ancestor of both humans and apes that lived about 25 million years ago. At Fort Ternan (east of Lake Victoria) in 1962, Leakey's team discovered the remains ...
- Kenyatta Day
- (from the article "Kenya") ...holidays, as well as the Muslim festival 'Id al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Jamhuri, or Independence Day, is celebrated on December 12. Moi Day (recognizing Daniel arap Moi) ...
- Kenyatta National Hospital
- (from the article "Kenya") Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi is the country's chief referral and teaching institution, and there are also provincial and district hospitals. In rural areas, health centres and dispensaries offer diagnostic ...
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963-64) and then the first president (1964-78) of independent Kenya. [7 Related Articles]
- Kenyatta, Uhuru
- (from the article "Kibaki, Mwai") ...the election, Kibaki was involved in a car accident and suffered serious injuries. Although he was confined to a wheelchair, he continued his campaign and easily defeated Moi's chosen successor, ...
- kenyite
- (from the article "phonolite") Leucite phonolites are perhaps best known from the vicinity of Naples. Apachite, from the Apache Mountains, Texas, is an amphibole phonolite. Kenyite, from Mount Kenya, in east Africa, is rich ...
- Kenyon College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Gambier, Ohio, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Columbus. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Episcopal church. Kenyon ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kenyon, Dame Kathleen
- English archaeologist who excavated Jericho to its Stone Age foundation and showed it to be the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement. [2 Related Articles]
- Kenyon, John S.
- (from the article "dictionary") ...is preferable to be sparing in the use of labels and to allow the tone to become apparent from the illustrative examples. An important distinction was put forward in 1948 ...
- Kenzaburo Oe Prize
- (from the article "Literature") Oe made news of another kind in 2005. In October he announced the founding of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, to be given out starting in 2007 for a work published ...
- Keohane, Nannerl Overholser
- American academician and administrator who gained particular prominence when she became the first woman president of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
- Keokuk
- Sauk Indian orator and politician who became chief by ceding Indian lands to win white support and by rallying opposition to his own tribe's resistance leaders. [2 Related Articles]
- Keokuk
- city, Lee county, extreme southeastern Iowa, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (bridged to Hamilton, Illinois) at the mouth of the Des Moines River, about 40 miles (65 km) ...
- Keoladeo National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...(fly whisks), which have handles made of ivory, silver, or sandalwood, are famous. The town has several hospitals and two colleges affiliated with the University of Rajasthan. Nearby Keoladeo National ...
- Keonjhar
- town, northern Orissa state, eastern India. Keonjhar is a trade centre for the farm and forest products of the surrounding area. Handloom weaving is also important. The town contains an ...
- Kepaniwai Park and Heritage Gardens
- (from the article "Iao Valley") Kepaniwai Park and Heritage Gardens, near the valley entrance and Wailuku, has landscaped gardens representing Hawaii's various cultures. Iao Stream is dammed there to provide wading and swimming pools.
- Kepaniwai, Battle of
- (from the article "Iao Valley") ...(2.5-hectare) section of the valley featuring the Iao Needle is designated a state park and a national natural landmark. A bronze tablet at the base of the feature commemorates the ...
- Kepes, Gyorgy
- Hungarian-born American painter, designer, photographer, teacher, and writer who had considerable influence on many areas of design. [2 Related Articles]
- Kephart, Horace
- (from the article "Appalachian Mountains") ...United States was named for another pioneer explorer-scientist, Professor Elisha Mitchell, who fell to his death in 1857 while establishing the fact of this mountain's preeminence. It remained for Horace ...
- Kepler's first law of planetary motion
- (from the article "conic section") Conic sections found their first practical application outside of optics in 1609 when Johannes Kepler derived his first law of planetary motion: A planet travels in an ellipse with the ...
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- in astronomy and classical physics, laws describing the motions of the planets in the solar system. They were derived by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, whose analysis of the observations ... [8 Related Articles]
- Kepler's Nova
- one of the few supernovae (violent stellar explosions) known to have occurred in the Milky Way Galaxy. Jan Brunowski, Johannes Kepler's assistant, first observed the phenomenon in October 1604; Kepler ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kepler's second law of planetary motion
- (from the article "geometry") ...also substituted a complicated rule of motion (his "second law") for the relatively simple Ptolemaic rule that all motions must be compounded of rotations performed at constant velocity. Kepler's second ...
- Kepler's third law of planetary motion
- (from the article "mechanics") Equation (42) is a special case (for circular orbits) of Kepler's third law, which is discussed in the article celestial mechanics. Using the fact that v = 2pir/T, where 2pir ...
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