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Kerry Head: (from the article "Kerry") ...Atlantic peninsulas of southwestern Ireland are in Kerry. These consist of mountainous ridges, in places intersected by deep valleys and generally surrounded by lowlands. The four peninsulas are the Kerry ...
Kerry, John: U.S. senator who was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004. [11 Related Articles]
Kerschensteiner, Georg: German educational theorist and reformer who was a leader in the growth of vocational education in Germany.
Kersey, John, the Younger: (from the article "dictionary") Thus far, the English lexicographers had all been men who made dictionaries in their leisure time or as an avocation, but in 1702 appeared a work by the first professional ...
Kershaw: county, central South Carolina, U.S., northeast of Columbia. The Lynches River forms the northeastern border. The county is also drained by the Wateree River, which is impounded by Wateree Dam ...
Kerst, Donald W.: (from the article "particle accelerator") ...but, when the target of one beam is another beam, the number of particles interacting is much smaller: the rate of interactions is proportional to the product of the currents ...
Kersting, Georg Friedrich: (from the article "painting, Western") ...expands the ideas of Friedrich, adding Carus' own more-scientific approach to natural phenomena. Other important painters influenced by Friedrich were Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, a landscape painter, and Georg Friedrich Kersting, ...
Kertajaya: (from the article "Kadiri") ...of Bali. Kadiri could not control Sumatra, however, because the Srivijaya empire, though by now in decline, was still predominant in the region. The last king of Kadiri was Kertajaya, ...
Kertanagara: last king (1268-92) of Tumapel (or Singhasari) in Java, still venerated among the Javanese as one of their greatest rulers. He united Java, extended his influence over Sumatra, and resisted ... [5 Related Articles]
Kertarajasa: (from the article "Indonesia") ...expedition in 1292, but Kertanagara was killed by a Kadiri rebel, Jayakatwang, before the invaders landed. Jayakatwang in his turn was quickly overthrown by Kertanagara's son-in-law, later known as Kertarajasa, ...
Kertesz, Andre: Hungarian-born American photographer known for his lyrical, spontaneous pictures of everyday life. His work exerted a strong influence on 20th-century magazine photography. [3 Related Articles]
Kertesz, Imre: Hungarian author best known for his semiautobiographical accounts of the Holocaust. In 2002 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Kerulen: (from the article "Mongolia") ...northward across the Russian border and into Lake Baikal; the Mongolian portion of the Selenge valley is in the north-central portion of the country. Mongolia's other major rivers, the Onon ...
kerygma and catechesis: in Christian theology, respectively, the initial proclamation of the gospel message and the oral instruction given before baptism to those who have accepted the message. Kerygma refers primarily to the ... [4 Related Articles]
Kerygma of Peter: (from the article "biblical literature") ...of the Twelve Apostles (and its later revisions, such as the Didascalia Apostolorum, or the "Teaching of the Apostles," and the Apostolic Constitutions), and the Kerygma of Peter, a favourite ...
keryx: inviolable ancient Greek messenger. In Homer's time, the keryx was simply a trusted attendant or retainer of a chieftain. The role of kerykes expanded, however, to include acting as inviolable ...
kes: (from the article "Sikhism") ...carry arms and never cut their hair (so that at least the men would never be able to deny their identity as Khalsa Sikhs), the wearing of the "Five Ks"-
Kes-Dhari: (from the article "Sikhism") One group, the Kes-Dhari, is composed of Sikhs who wear the kes, uncut hair, required as one of the Five Ks, and includes all those whom the ...
Kesava Misra: (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...("In Defense of the Logician"; c. 1150), Vallabha's Nyayalilavati ("The Charm of Nyaya"; 12th century), Kesava Misra's Tarkabhasa ("The Language of Reasoning"; c. 1275), Annam Bhatta's Tarkasamgraha...
Kesavasut: (from the article "South Asian arts") The modern period in Marathi poetry began with Kesavasut and was influenced by 19th-century British Romanticism and liberalism, European nationalism, and the greatness of the history of Maharashtra. Kesavasut declared ...
Kesennuma: city, northeastern Miyagi ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan. It lies on the deeply indented Pacific Ocean coast at the head of Kesennuma Bay, which shelters the city's ...
Kesey, Ken: American writer who was a hero of the countercultural revolution and the hippie movement of the 1960s. [2 Related Articles]
Keshab Chunder Sen: Hindu philosopher and social reformer who attempted to incorporate Christian theology within the framework of Hindu thought. [4 Related Articles]
Keshedan: (from the article "Afghanistan") ...a transitional Neanderthal skull fragment in association with Mousterian-type tools was discovered; the remains are of the Middle Paleolithic Period, dating to about 30,000 years ago. Caves near Aq Kupruk ...
kesi: Chinese silk tapestry woven in a pictorial design. The designation kesi, which means "cut silk," derives from the visual illusion of cut threads that is created by ... [3 Related Articles]
keski: (from the article "Sikhism") ...interpretation of one of the Five Ks. Instead of accepting the kes, or uncut hair, they maintain that the command really stands for keski, ...
Kesri, Sitaram: (from the article "Indian National Congress") ...number of seats ever in the Lok Sabha, becoming Parliament's third largest party. Rao subsequently resigned as prime minister and, in September, as party president. He was succeeded as president ...
Kessel, Barney: American jazz musician (b. Oct. 17, 1923, Muskogee, Okla.-d. May 6, 2004, San Diego, Calif.), was a pioneer electric guitarist in 1940s swing and bebop bands and the noted short ...
Kessel, Phil: (from the article "Ice Hockey") ...trying to make inroads into an often-unreceptive American audience (as continuing low television ratings would suggest). Another rookie made headlines in dramatic fashion: Boston Bruins forward Phil Kessel was diagnosed ...
Kesselring, Albert: field marshal who, as German commander in chief, south, became one of Adolf Hitler's top defensive strategists during World War II. [3 Related Articles]
Kessler, Ethel: (from the article "graphic design") ...transparent; to stretch, scale, and bend elements; to layer type and images in space; and to combine imagery into complex montages. For example, in a United States postage stamp from ...
Kessler, Harry, Count: (from the article "typography") ...(except for initials) and relied upon carefully chosen types and painstaking presswork to make its effect. The most cosmopolitan of the German presses was the Cranach, conducted at Weimar by ...
Kessler, Mikkel: (from the article "Boxing") ...Wales, on April 7 to see him stop Peter Manfredo, Jr. (U.S.), in the third round. Calzaghe returned to the same venue on November 3 and won a 12-round unanimous ...
Kesteven, Parts of: formerly one of the three separately administered divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire, England. It now forms two county districts: North Kesteven and South Kesteven. Both are part of ...
kestrel: any of several small birds of prey of the genus Falco (family Falconidae) known for their habit of hovering while hunting. Kestrels prey on large insects, birds, and small mammals. ...
Kestutis: grand duke of Lithuania (1381-82) who defended his country's western borders against the Teutonic Knights. [5 Related Articles]
Keswick: town (parish), Allerdale district, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Cumberland, England. It lies at the north end of the Derwent Water (lake), below the peak of Skiddaw. Keswick ...
Keszthely: (from the article "Balaton, Lake") ...regions around the lake are inhabited by a rich and interesting variety of plant and animal life. There is a wildlife reserve in the Tihany Peninsula, and another one in ...
Ket: indigenous people of central Siberia who live in the Yenisey River basin; in the late 20th century they numbered about 500. Certain traits of the Ket suggest a southerly origin. ... [3 Related Articles]
Ket language: one of two surviving members of the Yeniseian family of languages spoken by about 500 people living in central Siberia. (The other, a moribund close relative called Yug [Yugh], or ... [4 Related Articles]
Ket River: (from the article "Ob River") ...Chulym, shortly below the confluence of the Shegarka River from the left. Successive tributaries along the northwesterly course, after the Chulym, include the Chaya and the Parabel (both left), the ...
Ket's Rebellion: (from the article "Ket, Robert") English leader of the Norfolk rising of 1549, which was afterwards known as Ket's Rebellion. He was either a tanner or, more probably, a small landowner.
Ket, Robert: English leader of the Norfolk rising of 1549, which was afterwards known as Ket's Rebellion. He was either a tanner or, more probably, a small landowner.
Keta: town, southeastern Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean, near the Volta River mouth. It is built on a sandspit separating the Atlantic from the Keta Lagoon. ...
ketamine: (from the article "Health and Disease") Severely depressed people who had not responded to at least two antidepressant medications benefited from a single low-dose injection of ketamine, a drug that was developed in the early 1960s ...
Ketch, Jack: English executioner notorious for his barbarous inefficiency; for nearly two centuries after his death his nickname was popularly applied to all of England's executioners.
Ketcham, Henry King: American cartoonist (b. March 14, 1920, Seattle, Wash.-d. June 1, 2001, Pebble Beach, Calif.), was the creator of the Dennis the Menace comic strip, which daily chronicled the antics and ...
Ketchel, Stanley: American professional boxer, considered by some boxing historians to be the greatest fighter in the history of the middleweight division.
Ketchikan: city, port of entry, southeastern Alaska, U.S. Situated on southwestern Revillagigedo Island and part of the Alexander Archipelago, it lies 235 miles (380 km) south of Juneau. The site was ...
ketchup: seasoned pureed condiment widely used in the United States and Great Britain. American ketchup is a sweet puree of tomatoes, onions, and green peppers flavoured with vinegar and pickling spice ...
Keteleeria: genus in the family Pinaceae, containing three to seven species of coniferous evergreen trees, native to Southeast Asia. The trees resemble true firs (members of the genus Abies) but have ...
ketene: any of a class of organic compounds containing the functional grouping C&doublehorzbond;C&doublehorzbond;O; the most important member of the class being ketene itself, CH₂&doublehorzbond;C&doublehorzbond;O, which is used in the manufacture of ... [2 Related Articles]
ketjak: (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") ...they have been chosen from among girls untrained in dance. The dance's purpose is to entice Supraba to the village to gain her blessing when evil forces threaten. In the ...
keto acid: (from the article "carboxylic acid") The 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-hydroxycarboxylic acids all lose water upon heating, although the products are not the same. The 2-hydroxy acids form cyclic dimeric esters (formed by the esterification ...
keto-enol tautomerism: (from the article "acid-base reaction") Acids and bases both bring about the establishment of an equilibrium between ketones (or aldehydes) and their enol forms, which contain a hydroxyl group directly attached to a doubly bonded ...
ketoacidosis: (from the article "diabetes mellitus") Before the isolation of insulin in the 1920s, most patients died within a short time after onset. Untreated diabetes leads to ketoacidosis, the accumulation of ketones (products of fat breakdown) ...
ketoconazole: (from the article "drug") A number of drugs have antiandrogenic effects. Some were designed for this purpose, but others were developed for some other therapeutic goal. For example, ketoconazole, an antifungal drug, blocks the ...
Ketoff, Paolo: (from the article "electronic instrument") ...in the early 1960s enabled electronic instrument designers to incorporate all the basic synthesizer features in relatively small, convenient instruments. The Synket, built by the Italian engineer Paolo Ketoff in ...
ketone: any of a class of organic compounds characterized by the presence of a carbonyl group in which the carbon atom is covalently bonded to an oxygen atom. The remaining two ... [6 Related Articles]
Ketoprak: (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") Two other types of popular theatre, ketoprak and ludruk, were performed in Java by 150 to 200 professional troupes. Ketoprak, created ...
ketosis: metabolic disorder marked by high levels of ketones in the tissues and body fluids, including blood and urine. With starvation or fasting, there is less sugar than normal in the ... [2 Related Articles]
Ketou plateau: (from the article "Benin") ...Aplahoue (or Parahoue), and Zagnanado. The plateaus consist of clays on a crystalline base. The Abomey, Aplahoue, and Zagnanado plateaus are from 300 to 750 feet high, and the Ketou ...
ketoxime: (from the article "amine") ...the loss of a CO₃²⁻ group, leads to a primary amine of one less carbon atom (i.e., RCONH₂ becomes RNH₂). The Beckmann rearrangement, by which a ketoxime, R₂C&doublehorzbond;NOH, is rearranged ...
Ketpen Range: (from the article "Tien Shan") ...Sayram. The Ili depression is bounded to the south by the highest mountains in the central Tien Shan-the Halik Mountains, reaching heights up to 22,346 feet (6,811 metres), and the ...
Ketteler, Wilhelm Emmanuel, Baron von: social reformer who was considered by some to have been Germany's outstanding 19th-century Roman Catholic bishop.
Kettering: (from the article "Kettering") town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. From the 17th century Kettering was a centre for the production of woolen cloth, and later of silk and ...
Kettering: city, Montgomery county, southwestern Ohio, U.S. It lies immediately south of Dayton, in the Miami River valley. Stone quarries first attracted settlers to the site, which was organized in 1841 ...
Kettering: town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England. From the 17th century Kettering was a centre for the production of woolen cloth, and later of silk and ...
Kettering, Charles F.: American engineer whose inventions, which included the electric starter, were instrumental in the evolution of the modern automobile. [3 Related Articles]
Ketterle, Wolfgang: German-born physicist who, with Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein ...
kettle: in geology, depression in a glacial outwash drift made by the melting of a detached mass of glacial ice that became wholly or partly buried. The occurrence of these stranded ... [2 Related Articles]
Kettle Creek, Battle of: (from the article "Washington") ...by the Stephen Heard family from Virginia in 1773, it was laid out in 1780 and was one of the first U.S. communities to be named in honour of George ...
kettle gong: percussion instrument of the Bronze Age cultures of China, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. It was used mainly in rainmaking rites. Some kettle gongs from northern Vietnam are dated between the ... [2 Related Articles]
kettle lake: (from the article "kettle") ...of outwash atop the irregular glacier terminus. Kettles may range in size from 5 m (15 feet) to 13 km (8 miles) in diameter and up to 45 m in ...
kettledrum: percussion instrument in which a membrane is stretched over a hemispheric or similar-shaped shell and held taut, usually by a hoop with rope lacings, adjusting screws, or various mechanical devices; ... [5 Related Articles]
ketubba: formal Jewish marriage contract written in Aramaic and guaranteeing a bride certain future rights before her marriage. Since Jewish religious law permits a man to divorce his wife at any ... [2 Related Articles]
Ketupa: (from the article "fish owl") any of several species of owls of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes). They live near water and eat fish as well as small mammals and birds. The several Asian species ...
Ketuvim: the third division of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. Divided into four sections, the Ketuvim include: poetical books (Psalms, Proverbs, and Job), the Megillot, or Scrolls (Song of Solomon, ... [6 Related Articles]
Kety, Seymour Solomon: American psychiatrist (b. Aug. 25, 1915, Philadelphia, Pa.-d. May 25, 2000, Westwood, Mass.), was the 1999 recipient of an Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award for his contributions to the study ...
Keuper: (from the article "geochronology") ...and distribution. Based on his earlier work, Friedrich August von Alberti identified in 1834 these three distinct lithostratigraphic units, the Bunter Sandstone, the Muschelkalk Limestone, and the Keuper Marls and ...
keurrecht: (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...indirect taxation (e.g., excise duties), in order to raise money for necessary public works. Especially important to them was the right to frame their own laws; this legislative right (the ...
Kevin, Saint: one of the patron saints of Dublin, founder of the monastery of Glendalough.
Kevlar: (from the article "industrial polymers, major") ...or flame-resistant fabrics, bulletproof clothing, and fibre-reinforced composite materials. DuPont began to produce Nomex (its trademark for poly-meta-phenylene isophthalamide) in 1961 and Kevlar (the trademarked name of poly-para-phenylene terephthalamide) in ...
Kevorkian, Jack: In November and December 1993 Jack Kevorkian served two jail sentences on charges that he had violated the state's law against assisting in a suicide. In prison he threatened to ...
Kew Bulletin: (from the article "Kew Gardens") Among the publications of the institution are the Kew Bulletin (issued quarterly) and Kew Scientist (issued biannually). The Index Kewensis, which ...
Kew Gardens: botanical garden located at Kew, site of a former royal estate in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames. [6 Related Articles]
Kew House: (from the article "orangery") ...of orange trees were fruited in what became the most elaborate architectural feature of princely gardens. Many famous orangeries survive, notably those at the gardens of Versailles in France and ...
Kewanee: city, Henry county, northwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies about 45 miles (70 km) northwest of Peoria. Potawatomi, Winnebago, Sauk, and Fox Indians were early inhabitants of the area. Kewanee was ...
Keweenaw Bay: inlet of southern Lake Superior, indenting for 22 miles (35 km) the coast of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. The bay narrows from a maximum width of 12 miles ...
Keweenaw Peninsula: (from the article "Keweenaw Bay") ...of Michigan, U.S. The bay narrows from a maximum width of 12 miles (19 km) at its mouth, and it is the eastern outlet for the Keweenaw Waterway, which cuts ...
Keweenawan System: division of late Precambrian rocks and time in North America (the Precambrian began about 3.8 billion years ago and ended 540 million years ago). Rocks of the Keweenawan System are ...
Kewpie: (from the article "O'Neill, Rose Cecil") American illustrator, writer, and businesswoman remembered largely for her creation and highly successful marketing of Kewpie characters and Kewpie dolls.
key: (from the article "chess") ...also distinguished from studies by their general lack of resemblance to positions that typically arise in games. Strategy and general principles play no role in problems. The first move, called ...
key: (from the article "taxonomy") ...namely, identifying and making natural groups. The specimen or a group of similar specimens must be compared with descriptions of what is already known. This type of classification, called a ...
key: (from the article "wind instrument") ...because there was no hole to cover below the fundamental, d. Consequently, a seventh hole was bored between the sixth and the end of the transverse flute and oboe; it ...
key: in music, a system of functionally related chords deriving from the major and minor scales, with a central note, called the tonic (or keynote). The central chord is the tonic ... [9 Related Articles]
key: (from the article "data encryption") Computers encrypt data by applying an algorithm-i.e., a set of procedures or instructions for performing a specified task-to a block of data. A personal encryption key, or name, known only ...
key: (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...instead of keys as late as the 1440s, but a keyboard resembling the modern type existed in the 14th century, although the arrangement of naturals and sharps (corresponding to the ...
key: in locksmithing, an instrument, usually of metal, by which the bolt of a lock (q.v.) is turned. [1 Related Articles]
key: in machine construction, a device used to prevent rotation of a machine component, such as a gear or a pulley, relative to the shaft on which it is mounted. A ...
key: (from the article "information processing") In any collection, physical objects are related by order. The ordering may be random or according to some characteristic called a key. Such characteristics may be intrinsic properties of the ...