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Komisarjevsky, Theodore: Russian theatrical director and designer, one of the most colourful figures of the European theatre of his time. Of Russian parentage-his father was the opera singer Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky-he immigrated ...
Komissarzhevskaya, Vera Fyodorovna, Countess Muravyova: Russian actress and producer whose career linked the practice of the aristocratic Russian theatre with many of those who would eventually establish the avant-garde theatre after the Russian Revolution.
Komitas: ethnomusicologist and composer who created the basis for a distinctive national musical style in Armenia.
Kommamur Canal: canal in eastern Andhra Pradesh state and northeastern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. It was constructed section by section between 1806 and 1882 along the backwaters of the Coromandel Coast, ...
Komodo: island of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi (province), Indonesia. The island, which has an area of approximately 200 square miles (520 square km), lies ...
Komodo dragon: (Varanus komodoensis), largest extant lizard species, of the monitor lizard family Varanidae. It occurs on Komodo Island and a few neighbouring islands of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. Almost ...
Komoe National Park: national park, northeastern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It was established as a national park in 1968 by extending and converting the former Bouna-Komoe game reserve. Comprising approximately 4,440 square miles ...
Komoe River: river in West Africa, rising 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta), and forming part of the Burkina Faso-Cote d'Ivoire boundary before entering Cote ...
komondor: large Hungarian sheepdog breed taken to Europe in the 9th century by the Magyars, who kept it primarily to protect, rather than to herd, their flocks. A powerful, heavy-boned dog, ...
Komotini: agricultural town of western Thrace (Thraki), and capital of the nomos (department) of Rodhopi, Greece. It lies 14 miles (23 km) by road south of the Bulgarian border. In the ...
Komparu Zempo: no dramatist and actor, grandson of no actor and dramatist Komparu Zenchiku.
Komparu Zenchiku: no actor and playwright who also wrote critical works on drama. Zenchiku, who married a daughter of the actor Zeami Motokiyo, was trained in drama by Zeami and Zeami's son ...
Komsomol: in the history of the Soviet Union, organization for young people aged 14 to 28 that was primarily a political organ for spreading Communist teachings and preparing future members of ...
Komsomolsk-na-Amure: city in Khabarovsk kray (territory), far eastern Russia, on the Amur River. Founded in 1932 on the site of the small village of Permskoye, the town was ...
Komsomolskaya Pravda: (Russian: "Young Communist League Truth"), morning daily newspaper published in Moscow that was the official voice of the Central Council of the Komsomol, or Communist youth league for young people ...
komungo: zitherlike musical instrument of Korea, invented in the 7th century AD by Korean musician Wang San-ak, and corresponding to the Chinese ch'in and Japanese koto. There are three movable bridges ...
Komura Jutaro: Japanese diplomat of the Meiji period and negotiator of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
Komuz languages: a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family formed by a group of related languages spoken in the border area that separates Ethiopia from The Sudan. The Komuz group consists of ...
Kon Tum: town in the central highlands, south-central Vietnam. In 1851 French Roman Catholic missionaries established the first Vietnamese settlement near Kon Tum, at a site 140 miles (225 km) south-southeast of ...
Kon-Tiki: raft in which the Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed in 1947 from the western coast of South America to the islands east of Tahiti. Heyerdahl was interested ...
Konarak: historic village, east-central Orissa state, eastern India, on the Bay of Bengal coast. It is famous for its 13th-century temple, the Surya Deula. Formerly called the Black Pagoda, it was ...
Konarski, Stanislaw: Roman Catholic priest and political writer, who influenced the reform of education in Poland.
Kondilis, Georgios: Greek general, one of a number of army officers who repeatedly intervened in, and disrupted the course of, parliamentary politics in Greece. Although a supporter of the republic when it ...
Kondratev, Nikolay D: Russian economist and statistician noted among Western economists for his analysis and theory of major (50-year) business cycles-the so-called Kondratev's waves.
Konev, Ivan Stepanovich: one of the outstanding Soviet generals in World War II, who was a leader of the offensive against the Germans.
Kong River: river in Laos and Cambodia rising in the Annamitique Mountains in central Vietnam southwest of Hue. It flows between the Bolovens Plateau of southern Laos and the mountains in a ...
konghou: Chinese multistringed, plucked instrument of the harp family. It first appeared in the Han period (206 BC-AD 220) and was popular as an orchestral and a solo instrument until about ...
Kongo: group of Bantu-speaking peoples related through language and culture and dwelling along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire, Congo (Brazzaville), in the north, to Luanda, Angola, in the south. ...
Kongo kingdom: major Bantu-speaking kingdom astride the Congo River in west-central Africa, probably founded in the 14th century. It was governed by a king, the manikongo, whose economic power was based upon ...
Kongo language: a Bantu language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Kongo is related to Swahili, Shona, and Bembe, among others. Kikongo is the name used by its speakers. ...
Kongs Fjord: inlet, Spitsbergen island, Arctic Ocean. Kongs Fjord is an arm of the Arctic Ocean measuring 16 miles (26 km) long and ranging in width from 4 to 9 miles (6 ...
Koniecpolski, Stanislaw: military and political leader of Poland who won major victories against the Turks, the Tatars, and the Swedes.
Koniggratz, Battle of: (July 3, 1866), decisive battle during the Seven Weeks' War between Prussia and Austria, fought at the village of Sadowa, northwest of the Bohemian town of Koniggratz (now Hradec Kralove, ...
Konigsberg, Albertus University of: institution of higher learning founded in Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), in 1544 by Albert, the first duke of Prussia. At first drawing its enrollment mainly from Prussia, Poland, and ...
Konigsmark, Maria Aurora, Countess von: German noblewoman and mistress of Augustus II the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland. She was for many years a powerful figure at the Saxon court.
Konigsmark, Philipp Christoph, Count von: alleged German lover of Sophia Dorothea, who was consort to the Hanoverian electoral prince George (later King George I of England). Their supposed relationship led to Konigsmark's death and to ...
Konigssee: lake, in Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies just south of Berchtesgaden, in a deep cut that is surrounded by sheer limestone mountains. Konigssee is one of the most ...
Konigswinter: city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies in the Seven Hills (Siebengebirge), on the right (east) bank of the Rhine River, just southeast of Bonn. ...
Konin: city, Wielkopolskie wojewodztwo (province), west-central Poland, situated on the banks of the Warta River, 61 miles (98 km) east of Poznan city and 60 miles south of ...
Koninck, Philips: Dutch painter of the Baroque period, celebrated for his panoramic landscapes. The influence of Rembrandt is paramount in the art of the earliest phase of his career, and it has ...
Konishi Yukinaga: Christian general who spearheaded the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592.
Konitz, Lee: American jazz musician, a leading figure in cool jazz and one of the most distinctive alto saxophonists.
Konkan: coastal plain of western India, lying between the Arabian Sea (west) and the Western Ghats (east). The plain stretches approximately 330 mi (530 km) from the Daman Ganga River north ...
Konko-kyo: Japanese religious movement founded in the 19th century, a prototype of the "new religions" that proliferated in post-World War II Japan. The movement was founded in 1859 by Kawate Bunjiro, ...
Konkoure River: river, rising in the Fouta Djallon plateau of west central Guinea, West Africa, and flowing in a westerly direction to the Atlantic just north of Sangareya Bay. The river's 188-mi ...
Kono, Tommy: American weightlifter who won Olympic and world championship medals in three different weight divisions.
Konoe Fumimaro: political leader and prime minister of Japan (1937-39, 1940-41), who tried unsuccessfully to restrict the power of the military and to keep Japan's war with China from widening into a ...
Konopnicka, Maria: author of short stories and one of the representative Positivist poets in Polish literature. (The Positivists espoused a system of philosophy emphasizing in particular the achievements of science.)
Konotop: city, centre of a rayon (sector), Sumy oblast (province), northern Ukraine. It was founded in 1652 as a fortress on Russia's frontier with Poland and the Crimean Tatars; it became ...
Konovalov, Aleksandr Ivanovich: liberal Russian factory owner and political figure; he played a supporting role in the provisional government that was overthrown during the Russian Revolution of November (October, old style) 1917, which ...
Konrad Von Marburg: English Conrad Of Marburg first papal inquisitor in Germany, whose excessive cruelty led to his own death. In 1214 he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to press his crusade ...
Konrad Von Wurzburg: Middle High German poet who, during the decline of chivalry, sought to preserve the ideals of courtly life. Of humble origin, he served a succession of patrons as a professional ...
Konso: ethnolinguistic group located in the arid highlands of southwestern Ethiopia. Their sharply delimited traditional territory is surrounded by lands of Oromo peoples, to whom the Konso are culturally and linguistically ...
Konstantinovka: city, Donetsk oblast (province), eastern Ukraine, on the Krivoy Torets River. Before the October Revolution (1917) a small settlement with an ironworks, Konstantinovka developed in the Soviet era into a ...
Konstanz: city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It is situated where the Rhine River flows out of Lake Constance (Bodensee), adjacent to Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and within a small ...
Kontagora: town and traditional emirate, northwestern Niger state, western Nigeria, on the south bank of the Kontagora River. Umaru Nagwamatse, an adventurer of the ruling Fulani house of Sokoto (186 miles ...
kontakion: first important Byzantine poetic form, significant in early Byzantine liturgical music. The kontakion was apparently in use by the early 6th century, although the term occurs only in the 9th ...
Kontsevich, Maxim: Russian mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.
Konversationslexikon: (German: "Conversation Lexicon"), German encyclopaedia begun in 1796 by Renatus Gotthelf Lobel and C.W. Franke. The Konversationslexikon was the forerunner of the Brockhaus encyclopaedias. Originally conceived as an encyclopaedia for ...
Konwicki, Tadeusz: Polish writer, screenwriter, and film director known for his bitter novels about the devastations of war and ideology.
Konya: city, central Turkey. The city lies at an elevation of about 3,370 feet (1,027 m) on the southwest edge of the central Anatolian Plateau and is surrounded by a narrow, ...
Konya carpet: floor covering handwoven in or near the city of Konya in south-central Turkey. A group of early carpet fragments has been found in the 'Ala' al-Din Mosque of Konya and ...
Konzertstuck: musical composition for solo instrument and orchestra, usually in one movement, less frequently in several movements played without pause. The genre arose in the early Romantic era (c. 1800) as ...
Koobi Fora: a region of paleoanthropological sites in northern Kenya near Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf). The Koobi Fora geologic formation consists of lake and river sediments from the eastern shore of Lake ...
Kook, Abraham Isaac: Jewish mystic, fervent Zionist, and first chief rabbi of Palestine under the League of Nations mandate to Great Britain to administer Palestine.
kookaburra: (species Dacelo gigas), eastern Australian bird of the kingfisher family (Alcedinidae), whose call sounds like fiendish laughter. This gray-brown, woodland-dwelling bird reaches a length of 43 cm (17 inches), with ...
Kool and the Gang: American funk and pop band from Jersey City, N.J., that was one of the first successful self-contained black bands of the 1970s. The principal members were Khalis Bayyan (byname of ...
Koolau Range: mountains paralleling for 37 miles (60 km) the eastern coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. The range was formed by volcanic eruptions and has an average width of 13 miles ...
Koolhaas, Rem: Dutch architect known for buildings and writings that embrace the energy of modernity.
Koopmans, Tjalling C.: Dutch-born American economist who shared-with Leonid Kantorovich of the Soviet Union-the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975. The two men independently developed a rational method, called activity analysis, for allocating ...
Kooser, Ted: American poet whose verse was noted for its tender wisdom and its depiction of homespun America.
Kootenay National Park: national park in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Centred around the Kootenay River, the park occupies the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, adjacent to Banff and Yoho national parks at ...
Kootenay River: stream in western North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains west of Banff, Alta., Can. It flows southward through Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, Can., breaking out of the ...
Kopavogur: town, southwestern Iceland, situated on the southeastern shore of Faxa Bay, just to the south of Reykjavik, the nation's capital. A modern fast-growing residential suburb of the capital, Kopavogur was, ...
Koper: seaport in Slovenia, just southwest of Trieste (Italy). Formerly an island in the Adriatic Sea, it was connected to the mainland by a causeway (1825) and drainage works. It was ...
Kopet-Dag Range: mountain range on the border between Turkmenistan and Iran. It runs northwest-southeast for more than 400 miles (645 km), from near the Caspian Sea (northwest) to the Harirud (Turkmen: Tejen) ...