| | - King Lear
- tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1605-06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on Shakespeare's unrevised working papers. The text of the First ... [13 Related Articles]
- King Leopold Ranges
- mountain chain of northern Western Australia, forming the southwestern edge of the Kimberley Plateau. It comprises a well-dissected escarpment extending from Collier Bay southeast for 150 miles (240 km). Averaging ...
- king list
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") Very little can be said about northern Assyria during the 2nd millennium BC. Information on the old capital, Ashur, located in the south of the country, is somewhat more plentiful. ...
- king mackerel
- (from the article "mackerel") ...keels on either side of the tail base. There are several species, among them: the barred Spanish mackerel (S. commerson), an Indo-Pacific fish said to weigh up to 45 kg ...
- king of kings
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...consisted of three classes: the warriors or aristocracy, the priests, and the farmers or herdsmen. Crosscutting these divisions was a tribal structure based on patrilineal descent. The title king of ...
- King of Wartnaby, John Leonard King, Baron
- British industrialist (b. August 1917?, Brentwood, Essex, Eng.-d. July 12, 2005, Wartnaby, Leicestershire, Eng.), privatized the struggling state-owned British Airways (BA) and elevated it from a debt of some $1 ...
- king penguin
- (from the article "penguin") ...breed only once each year. Certain species, such as the Cape, or African, penguin (Spheniscus demersus), probably other members of this genus, and the little penguin, breed twice a year. ...
- King Philip's War
- (1675-76), in British-American colonial history, war between Indians and English settlers, the bloodiest conflict in 17th-century New England, temporarily devastating the frontier communities but eventually eradicating native resistance to the ... [9 Related Articles]
- King Rama IX Royal Park
- (from the article "Bangkok") ...Thai religious paintings. There are also collections of Dvaravati and Khmer sculpture, in addition to examples of Thai and Chinese pottery and porcelain. In 1987 the 200-acre (80-hectare) King Rama ...
- King Ranch
- largest ranch in the United States, composed of a group of four tracts of land in southeastern Texas, totaling approximately 825,000 acres (333,800 hectares).
- King Records
- (from the article "King Records") Record store owner Syd Nathan established King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1943. Situated just across the Ohio River from more rural, Southern-oriented Kentucky, Nathan recorded country acts who came ...
- King Saud University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") Riyadh's numerous educational institutions accommodate students at all levels of learning. King Sa'ud University (1957) and Islamic University of Imam Muhammad ibn Sa'ud (1953) are both national universities. In addition, ...
- king snake
- any of seven species of moderate- to large-sized terrestrial snakes found from southeastern Canada to Ecuador. Adults generally range in length from 1 to 1.5 metres (3.3 to 5 feet), ...
- King Solomon's Mines
- (from the article "Timna'") ...identified remnants of ancient smelting operations at Timna', complete with crude furnaces and slag heaps, as being of the Egyptian pharaonic and Solomonic periods. The ancient mines, called Mikhrot Shelomo ...
- King Sound
- inlet of the Indian Ocean, northern Western Australia, measuring 90 miles by 35 miles (145 km by 56 km). Its entrance is flanked by Cape Leveque to the west and ...
- king vulture
- (from the article "vulture") The king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is the most colourful vulture. The head and neck are red, yellow, and bluish; the eyes are white with red eye-rings; the body is buff ...
- King William Island
- island, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, western Nunavut territory, between Victoria Island and Boothia Peninsula. The island is separated from the mainland (Adelaide Peninsula) by the Storis Passage and Simpson ... [1 Related Articles]
- King William pine
- (from the article "Tasmanian cedar") ...forests of Tasmania. Two of the species are small trees, 6 to 12 metres (20 to 40 feet) tall and 1 to 1.5 metres (3 to 5 feet) in circumference, ...
- King William's Town
- town, Eastern Cape province, South Africa, west of East London. Founded as a missionary station in 1826, King William's Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British ...
- King William's War
- (1689-97), North American extension of the War of the Grand Alliance, waged by William III of Great Britain and the League of Augsburg against France under Louis XIV. Canadian and ... [3 Related Articles]
- King's Antiquary
- (from the article "museums, history of") ...his outstanding collection of art. In England Henry VIII gave his attention to music and thus did not form a collection of significance. He was responsible, however, for the appointment ...
- King's Bridge
- (from the article "Edinburgh") ...the south to rapid expansion. In the same period Waterloo Bridge, with its Regency Arch (1820), opened the eastern slopes of Calton Hill (northeast of the Castle Rock) to Regency ...
- King's Chamber
- (from the article "Giza, Pyramids of") ...Chamber and to a great slanting gallery that is 151 feet (46 metres) long. At the upper end of this gallery, a long and narrow passage gives access to the ...
- King's Chamber
- (from the article "Wardrobe") Originally part of the King's Chamber, the Wardrobe, a small adjacent room in which kings kept their clothes and treasures, first became a distinct government agency in the late 12th ...
- King's College
- (from the article "London, University of") ...(now University College) in 1826; instruction began in 1828. Its application for a royal charter was refused because the college admitted Roman Catholics, Jews, and other non-Anglicans. In 1829 King's ...
- king's evil
- scrofula (q.v.), or struma, a tuberculous swelling of the lymph glands, once popularly supposed to be curable by the touch of royalty. The custom of touching was first adopted in ... [2 Related Articles]
- king's holly plant
- (from the article "big tree") ...largest of all trees in bulk; once reputed as the oldest living thing, the largest stumps examined in tree-ring studies were found to be less than 4,000 years old (bristlecone ...
- King's House
- (from the article "Brussels") ...This square, with its elaborately decorated 17th-century guildhalls, lies at the heart of the Old Town. It is occupied on its south side by the imposing Town Hall and on ...
- King's Indian Defense
- (from the article "chess") ...ideas about the centre by analyzing openings to find dynamic, tactical play regardless of pawn coordination or centre control. For example, David Bronstein and Isaac Boleslavsky showed in the King's ...
- King's Lynn
- town and seaport, King's Lynn and West Norfolk borough, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, England. The town lies along the estuary of the Great Ouse River as it enters ...
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- borough (district), administrative and historic county of Norfolk, eastern England. The borough is bounded by the North Sea on the north and its shallow bay, the Wash, on the northwest. ...
- King's Men
- English theatre company known by that name after it came under royal patronage in 1603. Its previous name was the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Considered the premier acting company in Jacobean ... [11 Related Articles]
- King's Mound
- (from the article "Kerch") ...centre, and in the 5th century it became the capital of the kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus. Abundant archaeological evidence of its wealth occurs in catacombs and burial mounds, notably ...
- King's Peace
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...front. A revitalized Athens, supported by Persia, created a balance of power in Greece, and eventually Artaxerxes was able to step in, at the Greeks' request, and dictate the so-called ...
- King's Scholar
- (from the article "Eton College") Today, as throughout the school's history, Eton names about 14 King's Scholars, or Collegers, each year, for a schoolwide total of 70. The selection is based on the results of ...
- King's Stanley
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...at Ditherington, Shropshire (1796-97), is one of the first iron-frame buildings, though brick walls still carry part of the load and there are no longitudinal beams. The cloth mill at ...
- king's yellow
- (from the article "orpiment") ...from Western artists until the 18th century, when production of artificial arsenic trisulfide was begun. Because of its extreme toxicity, it was abandoned, except for a very fine grade called ...
- King, Alan
- American comedian (b. Dec. 26, 1927, New York, N.Y.-d. May 9, 2004, New York City), was renowned for his satiric monologues delivered in an agitated manner. He began his comedic ...
- King, Albert
- American blues musician who created a unique string-bending guitar style that influenced three generations of musicians.
- King, B.B.
- American guitarist and singer who was a principal figure in the development of blues and from whose style leading popular musicians drew inspiration. [2 Related Articles]
- King, Ben E.
- (from the article "Drifters, the") ...Moore (b. 1934Selma, Ala.). Principal members of the second incarnation included Ben E. King (original name Benjamin Earl Nelson; b. Sept. 28, 1938Henderson, N.C.),...
- King, Billie Jean
- American tennis player whose influence and playing style elevated the status of women's professional tennis beginning in the late 1960s. In her career she won 39 major titles, competing in ... [2 Related Articles]
- King, Carol Weiss
- American lawyer who specialized in immigration law and the defense of the civil rights of immigrants.
- King, Carole
- (from the article "The Brill Building") ...Brill Building pop music (actually located across the street at 1650 Broadway) was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Brill Building-era songwriting teams such as Gerry Goffin ...
- King, Clarence
- American geologist and mining engineer who organized and directed the U.S. Geological Survey of the 40th parallel, an intensive study of the mineral resources along the site of the proposed ... [4 Related Articles]
- King, Coretta Scott
- American civil rights activist, who was the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. [2 Related Articles]
- King, Don
- American boxing promoter known for his flamboyant manner and outrageous hair styled to stand straight up. He first came to prominence with his promotion of the 1974 "Rumble in the ... [3 Related Articles]
- King, Earl
- American rhythm-and-blues musician and songwriter (b. Feb. 7, 1934, New Orleans, La.-d. April 17, 2003, New Orleans), played an incandescent guitar and wrote a number of songs that became standards ...
- King, Ernest Joseph
- American admiral who was commander in chief of U.S. naval forces and chief of naval operations throughout most of World War II. He masterminded the successful U.S. military campaign against ...
- King, Frank
- U.S. comic-strip artist who created "Gasoline Alley," a long-popular comic strip notable for its sympathetic picture of small-town life. [1 Related Articles]
- King, Franklin Hiram
- American agricultural scientist, inventor of the cylindrical tower silo. He also invented a gravity system of ventilation for dairy barns that was widely used until electrically powered blowers became commonly ...
- King, George
- (from the article "New Religious Movement") ...carried beings who had come to Earth to promote world peace and personal development. The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, led by Gabriel Green, and the Aetherius Society, organized ...
- King, Graham
- (from the article "2006: Best Picture") Other Nominees
- King, Gregory
- English genealogist, engraver, and statistician, best known for his Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England, 1696, first published in 1801, which gives the ...
- King, Henry
- English poet and Anglican bishop whose elegy for his wife is considered one of the best in the English language.
- King, Ivan R.
- (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...stellar dynamics, which takes into account the kinds of orbits that stars have in the cluster, encounters between these member stars, and the effects of exterior influences. The American astronomer ...
- King, James Gore
- (from the article "Weehawken") ...of its Delaware Indian place-name; one holds that it means "corn (maize) land," others allude to "trees" and "mills." Highwood, the estate of New York banker James Gore King, was ...
- King, John
- (from the article "Burke, Robert O'Hara") ...But about midway, at the Barcoo River (Coopers Creek), the impatient Burke decided to make the rest of the trip accompanied only by his second in command, William John Wills, ...
- King, Lester Charles
- (from the article "continental landform") ...groundwork laid by Davis for geomorphic evolution was further developed in a rather special fashion in 1924 by Walther Penck of Germany, and subsequently (1953) championed with variations by Lester ...
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to ... [25 Related Articles]
- King, Mervyn
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...that the consumer price index had risen by 3.1% over the previous 12 months. As this was more than one point above the 2% target set for the Bank of ...
- King, Michael
- New Zealand historian and biographer (b. Dec. 15, 1945, Wellington, N.Z.-d. March 30, 2004, near Maramarua, N.Z.), wrote accessible scholarly works on New Zealand history and culture, both Maori and ... [1 Related Articles]
- King, Pee Wee
- American bandleader and songwriter (b. Feb. 18, 1914, Milwaukee, Wis.-d. March 7, 2000, Louisville, Ky.), was an innovative and colourful figure in country music who co-wrote the classic hit "Tennessee ...
- King, Peter
- (from the article "Locke, John") ...and comfort in this household. Many of his friends visited him there: Sir Isaac Newton, who came to discuss the Epistles of St. Paul, a subject of great interest to ...
- King, Philip Gidley
- (from the article "New South Wales") ...to New South Wales it was considered necessary for close control to be exercised by those in authority. The naval governors who successively ruled between 1788 and 1808, Arthur Phillip, ...
- King, Phillip Parker
- (from the article "Alligator Rivers") three perennial rivers, northeastern Northern Territory, Australia, that empty into Van Diemen Gulf, an inlet of the Timor Sea. They were explored in 1818-20 by Captain Phillip Parker King, who ...
- King, Richard
- (from the article "King Ranch") The King Ranch was established by Richard King, a steamboat captain born in 1825 in Orange county, New York. Drawn to Texas by the Mexican War (1846-48), King piloted a ...
- King, Rufus
- a founding father of the United States, who helped frame the federal Constitution and effect its ratification. An active Federalist senator and able diplomat, he ran unsuccessfully for vice president ...
- King, Stephen
- American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- King, Stephenson
- (from the article "Saint Lucia") ...Castries | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Dame Pearlette Louisy | Head of government: Prime Ministers Sir John Compton and, from May 1 (acting to September ...
- King, Tom
- (from the article "Turpin, Dick") ...to a butcher, but, having been detected at cattle stealing, he joined a notorious gang of deer stealers and smugglers in Essex. When the gang was broken up, Turpin in ...
- King, Victor L.
- (from the article "coordination compound") ...rival Blomstrand-Jorgensen chain theory but also to demonstrate unequivocally that hexacoordinate cobalt(+3) possesses an octahedral configuration. Shortly after he and his American student Victor L. King resolved (split) [CoCl(NH3)(en)2]Cl2 into ...
- King, W.L. Mackenzie
- prime minister of Canada (1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48) and leader of the Liberal Party, who helped preserve the unity of the English and French populations of Canada. [6 Related Articles]
- King, William Rufus de Vane
- 13th vice president of the United States (1853) in the Democratic administration of Franklin Pierce. Although elected and sworn in as vice president, he did not live to perform any ... [1 Related Articles]
- King-Crane Commission
- commission appointed at the request of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to determine the attitudes of the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine toward the ...
- Kingaroy
- town, southeastern Queensland, Australia, in the South Burnett area. It originated in 1886 as Kingaroy Paddock, deriving its name from the Aboriginal term kingerroy, meaning "red ant," and was proclaimed ...
- kingbird
- any of 13 species of birds of the family Tyrannidae noted for their pugnacity. Although only about 20 cm (8 inches) long, a kingbird will chase birds as large as ...
- kingdom
- (from the article "biogeographic region") ...on it. The limits of a region are determined by mapping the distributions of taxa; where the outer boundaries of many taxa occur, a line delimiting a biogeographic region is ...
- kingdom
- (from the article "The four-kingdom scheme of classification") ...considerations exemplify the difficulties inherent in producing a generally accepted classification, even at the highest levels. Since the earliest attempts at classifying the living world into two kingdoms, Plantae and ...
- kingfish
- (from the article "kingfish") any of various fishes, among them certain species of mackerel (q.v.) and a drum (q.v.) of the genus Menticirrhus.for more specific content on this topic
- kingfish
- (from the article "drum") ...Atlantic Ocean; the white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) of the eastern Pacific; the freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), a silvery, lake-and-river fish of the Americas; the kingfish, or whiting (Menticirrhus saxatilis), of ...
- kingfisher
- any of about 90 species of birds in three families, noted for their spectacular dives into water. They are worldwide in distribution but are chiefly tropical. They have large heads, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kingi, Wiremu
- Maori chief whose opposition to the colonial government's purchase of tribal lands led to the First Taranaki War (1860-61) and inspired the Maoris' resistance throughout the 1860s to European colonization ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kingis Quair, The
- (c. 1423; "The King's Book"), love-dream allegory written in Early Scots and attributed to James I of Scotland. It marks the beginning of the golden age of Scottish literature. Sometimes ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kingkitsarat
- (from the article "Sai Ong Hue") ...pretender and secured the city. In 1700 he declared himself king, and in 1705 he moved the Prabang Buddha, sacred religious statue and symbol of royalty, from Luang Prabang to ...
- kingklip
- (from the article "cusk eel") ...Some cusk eels are found in shallow water, but most are deep-water fish, growing no longer than 0.6 metre (2 feet); however, two species exceed 1.5 metres (5 feet) in ...
- Kinglake, Alexander W.
- (from the article "nonfictional prose") ...writers of note include the multinational Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), who interpreted Japan with sensitivity and insight. Earlier, two other Westerners wrote on Asia, the English historian Alexander W. Kinglake (1809-91), ...
- kinglet
- any of six species of small songbirds of the family Sylviidae. Although among the smallest of songbirds (weighing less than 10 grams [0.4 ounce]), they are able to survive cold ...
- Kingman
- city, seat (1887) of Mohave county, Arizona, U.S. Since 1882 Kingman has been the shopping and shipping centre for sparsely settled northwestern Arizona. The city was named for Lewis Kingman, ...
- Kingman Reef
- coral reef, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Northern Line Islands, west-central Pacific Ocean. The reef is located about 920 miles (1,480 km) southwest of Honolulu. It is ...
- Kingo, Thomas
- clergyman and poet whose works are considered the high point of Danish Baroque poetry.
- kingoku
- (from the article "Japan") ...after the 10th century, in which kuni were amalgamated according to their distance from Kyoto. The larger units were kingoku, or proximate
- Kings Canyon National Park
- scenic area in the Sierra Nevada, east-central California, U.S. It lies adjacent to and north of Sequoia National Park and is under the same administration; Yosemite National Park is about ...
- Kings County
- (from the article "Prince Edward Island") ...longitude. On the south the Northumberland Strait separates the island by about nine miles from the mainland provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There are three counties: Prince, Queens, ...
- Kings County
- county in southeastern New York, U.S., that is coextensive with the Borough of Brooklyn (q.v.), New York City. It was formed in 1683, has an area of 71 square miles ...
- Kings Mountain National Military Park
- (from the article "Gastonia") ...automotive parts and tools. Gaston College (1963) is nearby at Dallas, and Belmont Abbey College (1876) is just to the east. The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium is ...
- Kings Mountain, Battle of
- (October 7, 1780), in the American Revolution, American victory over a loyalist detachment in South Carolina during the British campaign in the South. To stem the British advance into North ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kings Peak
- highest point (13,528 feet [4,123 metres]) in Utah, U.S., located 80 miles (130 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta Mountains and the Ashley National Forest. It was ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kings River
- (from the article "Kings Canyon National Park") The park's most spectacular feature is Kings Canyon on the South Fork Kings River (a tributary of the Kings River), carved by glacial action. The granite walls of the canyon ...
- kings' saga
- (from the article "saga") After Saemundr Sigfusson, Icelandic and Norwegian authors continued to explore the history of Scandinavia in terms of rulers and royal families, some of them writing in Latin and others in ...
- Kings, books of
- two books of the Hebrew Bible or the Protestant Old Testament that, together with Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 and 2 Samuel, belong to the group of historical books (Deuteronomic ... [2 Related Articles]
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