city in Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro. It lies on the Lepenica River, a tributary of the Morava. It is the chief city of the Sumadija region, in which at the ...
any of 12 species of highly venomous snakes belonging to the cobra family (Elapidae). Kraits live in Asian forests and farmland from Pakistan to southern China and southward into Indonesia. ...
(French-Arabic: Castle of the Knights), greatest fortress built by European crusaders in Syria and Palestine, one of the most notable surviving examples of medieval military architecture. Built at Qal'at al-Hisn, ...
volcano on Rakata Island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, Indonesia. Its explosive eruption in 1883 was one of the most catastrophic in history.
layer of winds that encircle the Earth in the lower stratosphere, at altitudes from 20 to 40 kilometres (about 12 to 25 miles), between latitudes 15° N and 15° S. ...
a fabulous Scandinavian sea monster perhaps imagined on the basis of chance sightings of giant squids. It appears in literature in a poem of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's juvenilia called "The ...
city and capital of Malopolskie wojewodztwo (province), southern Poland, lying on both sides of the upper Vistula River. One of the largest cities in Poland, it is ...
city in central Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro. It lies along the north bank of the Ibar River in a fertile agricultural region. The city's heavy industry includes the manufacture of ...
city, Donetsk oblast (province), eastern Ukraine. It lies on the bank of the Kazyonny Torets, which is a tributary of the north Donets River. The city developed from the end ...
American film producer and director who was noted for well-crafted films that touched on, without exploiting or exploring deeply, unconventional or controversial topics.
Dutch physicist who, with Ralph de Laer Kronig, derived important equations relating the absorption to the dispersion of light. He also predicted (1924) the existence of the Raman effect, an ...
Russian international chess grandmaster who defeated his countryman Garry Kasparov to win the Professional Chess Association world championship. The match was held in London from October 8 to November 2, ...
fossilized remains of at least 24 early Neanderthal adults and children, consisting of skulls, teeth, and other skeletal parts found in a rock shelter near the city of Krapina, northern ...
city, Donetsk oblast (province), eastern Ukraine. It is an old coal-mining centre of the Donets Basin coalfield, and mining began there in 1884. Krasnoarmiysk also has a ...
city and administrative centre of Krasnodar kray (region), southwestern Russia, lying along the Kuban River. Founded about 1793 as a Cossack guardpost on the Kuban frontier, it ...
kray (region), southwestern Russia, extending northward from the crest line of the Caucasus Mountains across the plains east of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov ...
coal-mining city, Luhansk oblast (province), eastern Ukraine. It lies on the Great (Bilsha) Kam'yanka River. Krasnodon was incorporated in 1938. It is important for the mining of bituminous coal. A ...
city and centre of a rayon (sector), Moscow oblast (province), western Russia, a few miles west of Moscow. Situated in the Moscow greenbelt, it was known as Banki before its ...
city, Perm oblast (province), western Russia. Krasnokamsk lies along the Kama River. Founded in 1929 as a settlement in connection with the development of a pulp and paper mill, it ...
town, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia. The town lies along the Turya River in the eastern foothills of the Northern Ural Mountains. Founded in 1758, it was called Turinskiye Rudniki ...
imperial Russian army officer and a commander of anti-Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War. During World War II he helped organize anti-Soviet Cossack units for the Germans and urged ...
city and administrative centre of Krasnoyarsk kray (region), east-central Russia. The city stands on both banks of the Yenisey River where the river is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. One ...
kray (region), east-central Russia. It occupies an area of Central Siberia and extends from the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean to the Sayan Mountains in the south. It ...
rayon (sector), St. Petersburg, northwestern Russia. The name Krasnoye Selo, meaning "beautiful village," has been in use since 1730, when it described three settlements located southwest of St. Petersburg. Krasnoye ...
city, Luhansk oblast (province), Ukraine, on the southern slopes of the Donets Hills. Originally established at the beginning of the 20th century as Krindachevka, it became the city of Krasnyy ...
ancient Greek vessel used for diluting wine with water. It usually stood on a tripod in the dining room, where wine was mixed. Kraters were made of metal or pottery ...
Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, and poet who has been compared with Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language. In German literature he ranks as an ...
German philosopher who attracted a considerable following, especially in Spain, where his disciples, known as krausistas, greatly influenced the direction of Spanish education in the late 19th and early 20th ...
range of high hills in southwestern Cambodia that is situated on a southeast-northwest axis and continues westward into the highland area around Chanthaburi, Thailand. The Kravanh Mountains extend (some discontinuously) ...
president of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994. For 30 years a Communist Party functionary, he converted to nationalist politics after the collapse of the Soviet regime. He was the first ...
American biochemist, winner with Edmond H. Fischer of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. They discovered reversible protein phosphorylation, a biochemical process that regulates the activities of proteins ...
German-born British biochemist who received (with Fritz Lipmann) the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in living organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as ...
a suite of lunar lavas, relatively enriched in certain elements, that were identified in the analysis of rock samples that Apollo astronauts brought back from the Moon. The elements include ...
city and port, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. The medieval city centre of Krefeld is situated 6 miles (10 km) west of the Rhine River. The ...
(German: "Circle"), any of the several imperial circles (administrative districts) of the Holy Roman Empire from the early 16th century until its dissolution in 1806, a period in which the ...
city, Poltava oblast (province), Ukraine. The city lies along the Dnieper River where it is crossed by the Kharkiv-Kirovohrad railway. Founded in 1571 as a fortress, Kremenchuk acquired city status ...
central fortress in medieval Russian cities, usually located at a strategic point along a river and separated from the surrounding parts of the city by a wooden-later a stone or ...
city, Niederosterreich Bundesland ("federal state"), northeastern Austria, at the confluence of the Danube (Donau) and Krems rivers, northwest of Vienna. Mentioned in 995 as an imperial fortress, it was chartered ...
a gold mineral that usually occurs in veins formed at low temperatures, as at Kalgoorlie, Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colo., U.S. A gold telluride (AuTe2), it forms orthorhombic crystals. Two ...
linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the Indo-European languages and showed how they were influenced by non-Indo-European languages, such as Etruscan. A work on Greek vase inscriptions ...
German salt-glazed stoneware produced at Kreussen, in Bavaria, from the late 16th century until c. 1730-32. Squat tankards with pewter lids, four- or six-sided flasks (Schraubflaschen), and pear- or globular-shaped ...
port, southwestern Cameroon, west-central Africa. It lies at the edge of the tropical rain forest zone, on the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean. Ivory, cocoa, timber, and coffee ...
in Germanic heroic legend, sister of the Burgundian kings Gunther, Gernot, and Giselher. In Norse legend she is called Gudrun, and the lays in which she appears are variant tales ...
any member of the crustacean suborder Euphausiacea or of the genus Euphausia within that suborder. The name is sometimes also used to refer to Euphausia superba, a single species. The ...
waterfall on the Krimmler River, a tributary of the upper Salzach, in Bundesland (federal state) Salzburg, west-central Austria. The highest cataract in the Austrian Alps, with a fall of 1,247 ...
