| | - Kikunae Ikeda
- (from the article "monosodium glutamate") white crystalline substance, a sodium salt of the amino acid glutamic acid, that is used to intensify the natural flavour of certain foods. MSG was first identified as a flavour ...
- Kikutake Kiyonori
- post-World War II Japanese architect particularly concerned with the problems of a changing world.
- Kikuyu
- Bantu-speaking people who live in the highland area of south-central Kenya, near Mount Kenya. In the late 20th century the Kikuyu numbered more than 4,400,000 and formed the largest ethnic ... [10 Related Articles]
- Kikuyu Central Association
- (from the article "Kenya") ...used by European settlers as they attempted to gain more direct representation in colonial politics. At the outset, political pressure groups developed along ethnic lines, the first one being the ...
- Kikuyu grass
- (from the article "weed") The introduction of alien organisms is hazardous in that these same organisms may become pests in the new habitat. Kikuyu grass, which was introduced into California to prevent soil erosion ...
- Kikwete, Jakaya
- (from the article "Tanzania") ...sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 39,384,000 | De facto capital: Dar es Salaam; only the legislature meets in Dodoma, the longtime planned capital | Chief of state and head ...
- Kikwit
- town and river port, southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies along the Kwilu River, which is a tributary of the Kasai River. European settlement of the site began ...
- Kilauea
- the world's largest active volcanic mass, located on southeastern Hawaii Island, Hawaii, U.S. The central feature of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kilauea ("Much Spreading") is an elongated dome built of ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kilauea Iki
- (from the article "Kilauea") Kilauea Iki, a crater directly east of Kilauea, erupted spectacularly in 1959, creating a 400-foot- (120-metre-) deep lake of molten lava and Puu Puai (Gushing Hill), a cinder cone near ...
- Kilauea Lighthouse
- (from the article "Kauai") ...attractions include Waimea Canyon (known as the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific"), Huleia and Kilauea Point national wildlife refuges, Russian Fort Elizabeth State Park (built 1816), and Kilauea Lighthouse, which ...
- Kilbourn v. Thompson
- (from the article "legislative investigative powers") ...committees regularly began to summon witnesses to testify about proposed legislation. In 1857 it provided criminal penalties for witnesses who refuse to answer questions, although in Kilbourn v. Thompson (1881), ...
- Kilburn, Tom
- British engineer and coinventor of the first working computer memory. Kilburn also designed and built the first stored-program computer and led a team that produced a succession of pioneering computers ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kilby, Jack
- American engineer and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected transistors on a single microchip. In 2000 Kilby was a corecipient, with Herbert Kroemer and ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kildall, Gary
- (from the article "computer") As was the case with large computers, the creation of application software for the machines waited for the development of programming languages and operating systems. Gary Kildall developed the first ...
- Kildare
- county in the province of Leinster, east-central Ireland. It comprises part of the lowland west of the Wicklow Mountains and part of the Irish central lowland. County Kildare is bounded ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kildare
- market town, County Kildare, Ireland. The Protestant cathedral church (1229) is dedicated to St. Brigit of Ireland, who founded a community there in the 5th century. Restoration of the church ...
- Kildare family
- (from the article "Ireland") The substitution (1485) of Tudor for Yorkist rule in England had no apparent effect in Ireland, where the ascendancy of the Fitzgerald earls of Kildare, established when Thomas, 7th earl, ...
- Kildare, Garret More, 8th earl of
- (from the article "Ireland") ...England had no apparent effect in Ireland, where the ascendancy of the Fitzgerald earls of Kildare, established when Thomas, 7th earl, was created lord deputy in 1471, had passed (1477) ...
- Kildare, Garret Og, 9th earl of
- (from the article "Ireland") On Kildare's death (1513) the deputyship passed to his son Garret Og (Young Gerald), 9th earl of Kildare, who continued, though less impressively, to dominate the country. But James, 10th ...
- Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of
- leader of a major Irish rebellion against King Henry VIII of England. The failure of the uprising ended the Fitzgerald family's hereditary viceroyalty of Ireland and led to the tightening ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kildonan
- historical district within the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Situated on both sides of the Red River, it comprises the former cities of East Kildonan and West Kildonan and ...
- Kilenge
- (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") ...is today-expected to begin his career as an apprentice to a known master, often working on preparatory tasks or the less-demanding details of a project. In some parts of Melanesia, ...
- Kiley, Dan
- American landscape architect (b. Sept. 2, 1912, Boston, Mass.-d. Feb. 21, 2004, Charlotte, Vt.), helped design the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mo., with Eero Saarinen. Though inspired by ...
- Kiley, Richard Paul
- American actor who was the versatile veteran of countless stage, screen, and television roles but was most readily defined by his Tony Award-winning portrayal of Don Quixote in the Broadway ...
- Kilgore
- city, on the Gregg-Rusk county line, northeastern Texas, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) west of the border with Louisiana. The city is part of the Longview-Kilgore-Gladewater-Tyler oil complex in ...
- Kilgore, Merle
- American country-music figure (b. Aug. 9, 1934, Chickasha, Okla.-d. Feb. 6, 2005, Mexico), had a versatile career that included stints as a singer and guitarist, songwriter, film actor, manager, and ...
- Kilgore, Thomas, Jr.
- American religious leader who led two prominent national Baptist organizations and played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement, working with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and helping ...
- Kili
- coral island in the Ralik chain of the Marshall Islands, west-central Pacific Ocean. It is about 230 acres (93 hectares) in area. Islanders from Bikini, site of U.S. atomic-bomb tests, ...
- Kilian, Saint
- missionary bishop who, with his companions Saints Colman and Totnan, gave his life for the Christianization of Thuringia and eastern Franconia. At Wurzburg, in about 689, all three were beheaded ...
- kilim
- pileless floor covering handwoven in most places where pile rugs are made. The term is applied both generally and specifically, with the former use referring to virtually any ruglike fabric ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kilimanjaro
- volcanic massif in northeastern Tanzania, near the Kenya border. Its central cone, Kibo, rises to 19,340 feet (5,895 metres) and is the highest point in Africa. Kilimanjaro lies about 100 ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") The mountains are an important tourist attraction. Kilimanjaro National Park covers the mountain from 6,000 feet to the summit, and other parks include Mount Kenya above 10,200 feet, the moorland ...
- kilin
- (from the article "dress") ...is yellow (the colour worn only by emperors and their families in China), and it is patterned with ho-o birds and kilin (Japanized versions ...
- kilippattu
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...and Gatha ("Song"). Such grafting reached its full flowering in the 16th-century poet Eluttaccan (Father [or Leader] of Letters), who popularized the kilippattu ("parrot song"), a genre in which the ...
- Kilis
- town, extreme southern Turkey. It lies near the Syrian border north of Aleppo, Syria, and is often identified with the ancient town of Kilisi mentioned in Assyrian records. It was ...
- Kiliwa
- (from the article "northern Mexican Indian") The remnants of the Baja California Indians-the Tipai (Diegueno), Akwa'ala (Paipai), and Kiliwa-live in ranch clusters and other tiny settlements in the mountains near the American border. Speaking Yuman languages ...
- Kiliya
- city, southwestern Ukraine, on the Kiliya Branch of the Danube River, just north of the border with Romania. Kiliya dates back to at least the 10th century AD, though Greeks ...
- Kilkeel
- fishing port and seaside resort, at the mouth of the River Kilkeel, Newry and Mourne district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the foot of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kilkenny
- county, province of Leinster, southeastern Ireland. It is bounded by Counties Laoighis (north), Carlow and Wexford (east), Waterford (south), and Tipperary (west). The principal rivers are the Barrow, Suir, and ...
- Kilkenny
- city, municipal borough, and seat of County Kilkenny, Ireland. It lies on both banks of the River Nore, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Waterford. The ancient capital of ...
- Kilkenny Castle
- (from the article "Kilkenny") Kilkenny Castle, perhaps the city's most famous landmark, stands on an eminence of 100 feet (30 metres) overlooking the Nore. It was burned in 1175 but was rebuilt in the ...
- Kilkenny, Statute of
- (from the article "Ireland") ...an effort to restore control but achieved little more than a definition of the status quo. Edward III's son, Lionel, duke of Clarence, as viceroy from 1361 to 1367 passed ...
- kill
- (from the article "handball") Any shot beyond an opponent's reach is called a placement. The most effective placement is a kill, in which the ball rebounds at a height so low that it is ...
- Killaloe
- town, County Clare, Ireland. It lies on the west bank of the River Shannon, between Mount Bernagh and the Arra Mountains. The town is connected with Ballina, on the opposite ...
- Killanin, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron
- Irish author and businessman who in 1972 succeeded Avery Brundage as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after having served as IOC vice president since 1968. [1 Related Articles]
- Killarney
- market town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. It lies near the Killarney lakes, famed for their beauty, about 45 miles (70 km) north-northwest of Cork. Rising steeply to the west ...
- Killarney Provincial Park
- wilderness park, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the northern shore of Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. Established in 1964, it has an area of 132 sq mi (342 sq km), including ...
- killdeer
- (Charadrius, sometimes Oxyechus, vociferus), American bird that frequents grassy mud flats, pastures, and fields. It belongs to the plover family of shorebirds (Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes). The killdeer's name is suggestive ...
- Killebrew, Harmon
- (from the article "Minnesota Twins") ...game of the series. The Senators returned to the World Series again in 1925 and 1933, but they lost in both appearances. In 1954 the Senators added one of baseball's ...
- Killeen
- city, Bell county, central Texas, U.S., west of Temple, 65 miles (105 km) north of Austin. Laid out (1882) as Palo Alto by the Santa Fe Railway and named for ...
- killer bee
- (from the article "bee") The so-called killer bee is a hybrid between an African subspecies and European subspecies of honeybee. The Africanized honeybee subspecies was accidentally released in Brazil in 1957 during an attempt ...
- killer T cell
- (from the article "immune system") ...Still others are so large that phagocytes cannot ingest them. Such cells, however, can be attacked by killer cells present in the blood and lymphoid tissues. Killer cells, which may ...
- killer whale
- largest member of the dolphin family (Delphinidae). The killer whale is easy to identify by its size and striking coloration: jet-black on top and pure white below with a white ... [3 Related Articles]
- Killian, James Rhyne, Jr.
- American statesman and academic administrator who was instrumental in the formation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) both as chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee and as ... [1 Related Articles]
- Killian, Lewis M.
- (from the article "social movement") Killian advances still another typology based on the direction of the change advocated or opposed. A reactionary movement advocates the restoration of a previous state of social affairs, while a ...
- killifish
- any of a few hundred species of usually elongated fishes of the family Cyprinodontidae (order Atheriniformes), found worldwide, especially in the tropics of Africa and the New World. They inhabit ... [2 Related Articles]
- Killigrew, Thomas
- English dramatist and playhouse manager who was better known for his wit than for his plays, although some of the jokes in The Parson's Wedding (acted c. 1640) were appropriated ... [3 Related Articles]
- Killing, Wilhelm
- (from the article "mathematics") The most influential worker in this direction was the Norwegian Sophus Lie. Lie, and independently Wilhelm Killing in Germany, came to suspect that the systems of partial differential operators they ...
- Killingsworth, Edward Abel
- American architect (b. Nov. 4, 1917, Taft, Calif.-d. July 6, 2004, Long Beach, Calif.), designed elegant modernist houses in southern California and luxury hotels in Hawaii, Indonesia, and South Korea. ...
- Killington Peak
- (from the article "Green Mountains") ...and having a maximum width of 36 miles (58 km). Many peaks rise above 3,000 feet (900 metres), with the loftiest being Mount Mansfield (4,393 feet [1,339 metres]; highest point ...
- Killy, Jean-Claude
- French skier, a dominant figure in men's international Alpine skiing competitions from 1965 through 1968 and a popular sports personage known for his irreverent behaviour. [2 Related Articles]
- Kilmainham Treaty
- (from the article "Parnell, Charles Stewart") ...his release, conducted in the main through Capt. William O'Shea, a "moderate" Home Rule member, whose wife had been Parnell's mistress since 1880. A settlement was reached, the so-called Kilmainham ...
- Kilmarnock
- industrial town, East Ayrshire council area, historic county of Ayrshire, southeastern Scotland. It lies along Kilmarnock Water south of the metropolitan complex of Glasgow. [1 Related Articles]
- Kilmer, Joyce
- American poet known chiefly for his 12-line verse entitled "Trees."
- kiln
- oven for firing, drying, baking, hardening, or burning a substance, particularly clay products but originally also grain and meal. The brick kiln was a major advance in ancient technology because ... [9 Related Articles]
- kilning
- (from the article "malt") ...by adding moisture and is arrested by removing the moisture before the young plant grows out of its seed covering. The malting process itself consists of three stages: steeping, germination, ...
- kilocalorie
- (from the article "Approximate energy expenditure for activity levels") In a popular use of the term calorie, dietitians loosely use it to mean the kilocalorie, sometimes called the kilogram calorie, or large Calorie (equal to 1,000 calories), in measuring ...
- kiloelectron volt
- (from the article "particle accelerator") ...joule. A flying mosquito has about a trillion times this energy. However, in a television tube, electrons are accelerated through more than 10,000 volts, giving them energies above 10,000 eV, ...
- kilogram
- basic unit of mass in the metric system, equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept at the International Bureau of Weights and ... [3 Related Articles]
- kilojoule
- (from the article "nutrition, human") ...joule is the energy expended when one kilogram is moved a distance of one metre by a force of one newton. The relatively higher levels of energy in human nutrition ...
- kilometre
- (from the article "kilometre") unit of length equal to 1,000 metres and the equivalent of 0.6214 mile (see metric system).TABLESInternational System of Units (SI)Interna
- kilopascal
- (from the article "pascal") ...in honour of the French mathematician-physicist Blaise Pascal (1623-62). A pascal is a pressure of one newton per square metre; this unit is inconveniently small for many purposes, and the ...
- kiloton
- (from the article "thermonuclear bomb") Thermonuclear bombs can be hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful than atomic bombs. The explosive yield of atomic bombs is measured in kilotons, each unit of which equals ...
- Kilpi, Volter
- Finnish novelist and social critic who was an exponent of the modern experimental novel.
- Kilrain, Jake
- (from the article "boxing") ...professional fighters on the side of the Queensberry rules. He claimed the world heavyweight championship in 1882 under the London bare-knuckle rules, and in 1889 he defended his title against ...
- Kilroy-Silk, Robert
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...12 of the U.K.'s 78 seats in the European Parliament. UKIP's vote reflected not only disenchantment among many voters with the EU and the Conservative Party but also support for ...
- kilt
- knee-length skirtlike garment that is worn by men as a major element of the traditional national garb of Scotland. (The other main component of Highland dress, as the traditional male ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kilwa
- former Islamic city-state on an island off the coast of what is now southern Tanzania. Founded in the late 10th century by settlers from Arabia and Iran, it became one ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kim Chong-hui
- the best-known Korean calligrapher of the 19th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Kim Dae Jung
- South Korean politician, who became a prominent opposition leader during the tenure of President Park Chung Hee. He became the first opposition leader to win election to his country's presidency ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kim Dae-gon, Saint
- the first Korean Catholic priest.
- Kim Dong Moon
- (from the article "Badminton") ...unseeded Indonesian Taufik Hidayat, who won the gold medal with a final-round victory over South Korea's Shon Seung Mo. The men's doubles competition featured an all-South Korean gold-medal match as ...
- Kim Duk-gu
- (from the article "boxing") ...A fighter's risk of incurring brain injury while boxing is hotly debated between devotees of the sport and the medical community. This issue came to the fore in 1982 when ...
- Kim Ga Young
- (from the article "Billiard Games") ...Professional Billiard Association (WPBA), commented that the level of play had risen so much in the women's ranks that it had become difficult for anyone to dominate. Ireland's Julie Kelly ...
- Kim Hong-do
- one of the first Korean artists to depict the common people in his work. [1 Related Articles]
- Kim Il-sung
- communist leader of North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994. He was the nation's premier from 1948 to 1972, chairman of its dominant Korean Workers (Communist) Party from ... [8 Related Articles]
- Kim Jae Kyu
- South Korean military officer and head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) who, on Oct. 26, 1979, assassinated the South Korean president, Park Chung Hee. [1 Related Articles]
- Kim Jong Il
- North Korean politician, son of the former North Korean premier and (communist) Korean Workers' Party (KWP) chairman Kim Il-sung, and successor to his father as ruler of North Korea. [13 Related Articles]
- Kim Jong Nam
- (from the article "Korea, Democratic People's Republic of") Succession rumours swirled with the reappearance in June of Kim Jong Il's eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, who paid his first visit to North Korea since his arrest in Japan ...
- Kim Ki-ch'ang
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Pyon Kwan-shik, and No Su-hyon. After World War II traditional painting began to assume a modern mode of expression, as may be seen in the works of a group of ...
- Kim Ki-duk
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...Haebyonui yoin ("Woman on the Beach"), an endearing, thoughtful comedy-drama about a film director's relationship ditherings, marked by its improvisational, conversational flow. Kim Ki-duk, another prized director, fell a little ...
- Kim Ki-su
- (from the article "boxing") ...Korean War and the division of the peninsula. South and North Korean boxers earned some 20 Olympic medals during the last half of the 20th century, and South Korea saw ...
- Kim Ok-kyun
- (from the article "Sino-Japanese War") In 1894, however, Japan, flushed with national pride in the wake of its successful modernization program and its growing influence upon young Koreans, was not so ready to compromise. In ...
- Kim Sang-Man
- Korean publisher (b. Jan. 19, 1910, Puan, North Cholla province, Korea--d. Jan. 26, 1994, Seoul, South Korea), as the publisher of Dong-A Ilbo, the country's most influential newspaper, was an ...
- Kim Soon Kwon
- By 1999 the devastating famine in North Korea had claimed an estimated 100,000 to 3,000,000 lives. As the global community pondered ways to help the country end its food shortage, ...
- Kim Woo Choong
- In March 1998 Kim Woo Choong, founder and chairman of the Daewoo Group, among the four largest conglomerates in South Korea, took over as chairman of the Federation of Korean ...
- Kim Young Sam
- South Korean politician, moderate opposition leader, and president from 1993 to 1998. [4 Related Articles]
- Kim Yu Na
- (from the article "Ice Skating") ...fourth women's world champion, and Mao Asada was second, giving Japan two medals in the same event for the first time. Another Japanese, Yukari Nakano, was fifth. Meanwhile, South Korean ...
- Kim, Helen
- (from the article "Christianity") ...grow in less than a century to about one-third of the country's population. Evangelistic and self-supporting Korean churches were known throughout Asia for their effective promotion of Bible study. Helen ...
- Kimball, Florence Page
- (from the article "Price, Leontyne") ...Wilberforce, Ohio, in 1948 did she decide to seek a career as a singer. She studied for four years at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, where ...
- Kimball, Kay
- (from the article "Kimbell Art Museum") collection of world art in a classic modern building, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., founded by Kay Kimbell, an industrialist and art patron. Kimbell and his wife established the Kimbell ...
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