Japanese motion-picture director whose 9 12-hour trilogy, Ningen no joken (The Human Condition:No Greater Love, 1959; Road to Eternity, 1959; A Soldier's Prayer, 1961), a monumental criticism of war, ...
magic drum used for trance induction and divination by the Lapp shaman, or noiade. The drum consisted of a wooden frame, ring, or bowl over which a membrane of reindeer ...
city and capital of Hyogo ken (prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. Kobe, its neighbouring city Osaka, and nearby Kyoto are the centres of the Keihanshin Industrial Zone, the second largest urban ...
city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), western Germany. It lies at the junction of the Rhine and Moselle (Mosel) rivers (hence its Roman name, Confluentes) and is surrounded by ...
in German folklore, mischievous household spirit who usually helps with chores and gives other valuable services but who often hides household and farm tools or kicks over stooping persons. He ...
short-necked lute of Middle East origin; it was known in Byzantium as the pandourion and made its way into neighbouring regions from Persia by means of Islamic conquests and migrations. ...
large wilderness area in northwestern Alaska, U.S. It is part of a vast region of national parks, monuments, and preserves located north of the Arctic Circle that stretches for hundreds ...
ethnic group of the Bodo people, dispersed over parts of Assam and Bengal. While their original language is a Tibeto-Burman dialect, large sections of the group in the 20th century ...
East German athlete who collected a remarkable 16 individual and team world records in outdoor sprints, as well as 14 world records in indoor events. In her only Olympic Games, ...
German physician and one of the founders of bacteriology. He discovered the anthrax disease cycle (1876) and the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis (1882) and cholera (1883). For his discoveries in ...
(knight of) Austrian scholar who compiled the most complete chronological catalog of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works, which are identified almost universally by the letter "K" (for Kochel) or "KV" (for ...
ken (prefecture), southern Shikoku, Japan, stretching in an arc around Tosa Bay of the Pacific Ocean. It is the largest prefecture on the island, with an area of 2,744 square ...
genus of annual plants, of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), native primarily to Eurasia. The commonly cultivated garden species is summer cypress (K. scoparia), sometimes known as standing, or Belvedere, cypress. ...
lowermost and oldest major division of the Lower Cretaceous rocks and time in Japan (the Cretaceous Period began about 136,000,000 years ago and lasted about 71,000,000 years). The Kochian Stage ...
Russian-born writer and ballet librettist who collaborated with ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev during the last years of the Ballets Russes, then became a major influence on post-World War II French ...
Turkish minister and reformer, a notable early observer of the Ottoman decline. Originally from Albania, Kocu Bey was sent to Constantinople, where he was educated in the Imperial Palace. He ...
Japanese novelist and essayist whose stories of heroic characters balanced the more romantic tendency of his rival, Ozaki Koyo, in creating a new literature for early modern Japan.
town, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, at an elevation of 7,300 ft (2,225 m) in the Palni Hills. Created in 1845 by U.S. missionaries and British civil servants ...
city, Tokyo Metropolis (to), Honshu, Japan, in the Musashino Plateau, on the Shinjuku Line (railway). The surrounding area was developed as an agricultural region after the construction of a water ...
Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 for his work in algebraic geometry and complex analysis. See the table of Fields Medalists.
prominent composer and authority on Hungarian folk music. He was also important as an educator not only of composers but also of teachers and, through his students, contributed heavily to ...
city, Kodiak Island, southern Alaska, U.S. It is situated on Chiniak Bay, on the northeastern coast of Kodiak Island. Founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov, manager in America for ...
(Ursus arctos middendorffi), variety of grizzly bear found on Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. It is the largest of living land carnivores. See grizzly bear.
island, southern Alaska, U.S. It lies in the Gulf of Alaska and is separated from the Alaska Peninsula by Shelikof Strait, 30 miles (50 km) off the Alaskan coast and ...
composer and teacher who had a strong impact on his own and younger generations of French composers, including the group called "Les Six" by critic Henri Collet.
statesman and prime minister of Austria from 1900 to 1904, who engaged in an ambitious economic expansion program for the Habsburg monarchy but fell because he could not resolve the ...
town, Steiermark Bundesland (federal state), southern Austria, west of Graz. Koflach received market rights in 1170 but did not achieve town status until 1939. It is a rail terminus and ...
town, southeastern Ghana. It lies in the Densu River basin, near the southeastern base of the Kwahu Plateau. Koforidua is one of the country's oldest cocoa-producing centres. With the completion ...
capital, Yamanashi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. Kofu lies in the fertile Kofu Basin, west of Tokyo. Long a centre of sericulture, the city adjusted to the decline in silk demand ...
city, Ibaraki ken (prefecture), eastern Honshu, Japan. It lies at the confluence of the Omoi and Watarase rivers. An important river port, Koga was a castle town and post town ...
(Japanese: "Ancient Learning"), one of three schools of Neo-Confucian studies that developed in Japan during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867). See Neo-Confucianism.
Romanian statesman and reformer, one of the founders of modern Romanian historiography, who became the first premier of the nation of Romania formed by the union of the Danubian principalities ...
city, Tokyo to (metropolis), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the Chuo Main Line railway, west of Tokyo city. During the mid-Tokugawa period (1603-1867) several settlements were established in the area. ...
city, Roskilde amtskommune (county commune), eastern Sjaelland (Zealand), Denmark. The city lies on Koge Bay of The Sound (Oresund). First mentioned in the 11th century and chartered in 1288, it ...
state, central Nigeria. It was created in 1991 from portions of eastern Kwara and western Benue states. Kogi is bordered by the states of Benue to the east; Ondo, Edo, ...
the largest of the three kingdoms into which ancient Korea was divided until 668. Koguryo is traditionally said to have been founded in 37 BC in the Tongge River basin ...
Korean visual-arts style characteristic of the Koguryo kingdom (37 BC-AD 668) of the Three Kingdoms period. The Koguryo were a horse-riding northern people, and their art was powered by the ...
the diamond with the longest history for an extant stone, though its early history is controversial. Originally a lumpy Mughal-cut stone that lacked fire and weighed 191 carats, it was ...
volcanic range, northern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. The mountains extend 21 miles (34 km) north from Waimea to Upolu Point and reach a high point at Kaumu o Kaleihoohie (5,480 ...
town, south-central North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. The town lies just north of the Kohat Toi River at the entrance to the Kohat Pass, through which a military road was opened ...
town, capital of Nagaland state, northeastern India. The town lies in the Naga Hills, 30 miles (48 km) southeast of the railroad at Dimapur. Kohima was the point of the ...
chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990 and of the reunified German nation from 1990 to 1998. He presided over the integration of East Germany into West Germany in ...
German immunologist who in 1984, with Cesar Milstein and Niels K. Jerne, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing a technique for producing monoclonal ...
German luger who at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria, won the first Olympic luge competition. He was one of the most successful lugers in the history of the ...
German psychologist and a key figure in the development of Gestalt psychology, which seeks to understand learning, perception, and other components of mental life as structured wholes.
(Brassica oleracea, Gongylodes group), form of cabbage of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), first described in the 16th century, of European origin. Its most distinctive feature is the greatly enlarged stem ...
German physicist who investigated the properties of electrolytes (substances that conduct electricity in solutions by transfer of ions) and contributed to the understanding of their behaviour.
agency, a special tribal area attached to Balochistan province, Pakistan. The agency is located in a semi-arid mountainous region; the ranges rise in a series of terraces west of the ...
Austrian-born American physicist who, with John A. Pople, received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award recognized their individual work on computations in quantum chemistry. Kohn's share of the ...
city, Estonia, near the Gulf of Finland. Founded in 1900 and incorporated in 1946, it lies on the Tallinn-St. Petersburg road and railway. Its principal industry is the processing of ...
town, east-central Sierra Leone, adjacent to Sefadu. It is a trade centre for rice, palm oil and kernels, and cattle (from Guinea). Much of the town's development is attributed to ...
