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Krishna: one of the most widely revered and most popular of all Indian divinities, worshipped as the eighth incarnation (avatar, or avatara) of the Hindu god Vishnu and also as a ...
Krishna: district, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, having an area of 3,372 sq mi (8,734 sq km). Known as a delta district, Krishna has irrigational canals that connect the backwaters ...
Krishna River: river in southern India, rising in Maharashtra state in the Western Ghats range near the old town of Mahabaleshwar, not far from India's west coast. It flows east to Wai ...
Krishnanagar: city, administrative headquarters of Nadia district, West Bengal state, northeastern India, just south of the Jalangi River. A road and rail junction, it is the major agricultural distribution centre for ...
Kristallnacht: the night of November 9-10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in ...
Kristensen, Knud: politician who, as leader of the first elected post-World War II Danish government, rekindled national hopes for the reacquisition of the historical territory of Schleswig from Germany. He also founded ...
Kristensen, Tom: Danish poet, novelist, and critic who was one of the central literary figures of the disillusioned generation after World War I.
Kristeva, Julia: Bulgarian-born French psychoanalyst, critic, and educator best known for her writings in structuralist linguistics, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and feminism.
Kristiansand: town, seaport, and seat of Vest-Agder fylke (county), southern Norway. Located on the Skagerrak (strait between Norway and Denmark) at the mouth of the Otra River, it has a spacious, ...
Kristianstad: former lan (county) of southern Sweden, extending between Skalder Bay on the Kattegat (strait) and Hano Bay on the Baltic Sea. Founded as a county in 1719, it was merged ...
Kristianstad: city, Skane lan (county), southern Sweden, lying on Hammar Lake and the Helge River. It was founded in 1614 by King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway as a border ...
Kristiansund: town and port, More og Romsdal fylke (county), western Norway. The town is situated on three tiny coastal islets facing the Norwegian Sea; its harbour is protected by an inlet ...
Kristinehamn: town and port, in the lan (county) of Varmland, west-central Sweden, on Vanern (lake). As early as the 14th century it was a trading centre known as Bro. It received ...
Krizanic, Juraj: Roman Catholic priest and scholar who became an early advocate of Pan-Slavism and of a program of cultural and social reform in Russia that foreshadowed the reforms made by Peter ...
Krk: island, the largest and most northern of Croatia's Adriatic islands. With an area of 158 square miles (410 square km), it reaches maximum elevation at Obzova, 1,824 feet (556 m). ...
Krleza, Miroslav: essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright who was a dominant figure in modern Croatian literature.
Kroc, Ray: American restaurateur and a pioneer of the fast-food industry with his worldwide McDonald's enterprise.
Krochmal, Nachman: Jewish scholar and philosopher; his major, seminal work, Moreh nevukhe ha-zeman (1851; "Guide for the Perplexed of Our Time"), made pioneering contributions in the areas of Jewish religion, literature, and ...
Krock, Arthur B.: principal political writer and analyst for The New York Times for a generation (1932-66). Krock became famous for his calm analysis of U.S. political and economic affairs and foreign relations. ...
Kroeber, A.L.: influential American anthropologist of the first half of the 20th century, whose primary concern was to understand the nature of culture and its processes. His interest and competence ranged over ...
Kroemer, Herbert: German-born physicist who, with Zhores Alferov and Jack S. Kilby, was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work that laid the foundation for the modern era of ...
Krogh, August: Danish physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1920 for his discovery of the motor-regulating mechanism of capillaries (small blood vessels).
Krokodil: (Russian: "Crocodile"), humour magazine published in Moscow, noted for its satire and cartoons.
Kroller-Muller State Museum: collection in Otterlo, The Netherlands, primarily of late 19th- and 20th-century art, especially paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. The museum is named after Mrs. H.E.L.J. Kroller-Muller, the institution's principal benefactor.
Kromdraai: South African paleoanthropological site best known for its fossils of Paranthropus robustus. Kromdraai is a limestone cave that has occasionally had openings to the surface. The remains of hominins (members ...
Kromeriz: city, Jihomoravsky kraj (region), Czech Republic, on the Morava River, northeast of Brno. The city dates from 1110, after which it was acquired by the bishops of Olomouc. It is ...
Krone, Julie: American jockey, the first woman to win the prestigious Belmont Stakes.
Kronecker, Leopold: German mathematician whose primary contributions were in the theory of equations and higher algebra.
Kronoberg: lan (county), part of the traditional landskap (province) of Smaland, southern Sweden. Kronoberg consists of a rolling plateau of woods and marshland. Of its ...
Kronotsky Nature Reserve: natural area set aside for research in the natural sciences, on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern Russia. The reserve, established in 1934, has current boundaries that date ...
Kronshtadt: naval port, Leningrad oblast ("region"), northwestern Russia. It lies on Kotlin Island near the head of the Gulf of Finland. Peter I (the Great) captured the island ...
Kronshtadt Rebellion: (March 1921), one of several major internal uprisings against Soviet rule in Russia after the Civil War (1918-20), conducted by sailors from the Kronshtadt naval base. It greatly influenced the ...
Kronstam, Henning: Danish dancer and artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. He was known as an outstanding interpreter of roles in a variety of choreographic styles.
Kroonstad: town, northern Free State province, South Africa. Founded in 1855, it served briefly as the Boer capital of the Orange Free State (March 13-May 11, 1900) after the fall of ...
Kropotkin: city, Krasnodar kray ("territory"), western Russia, on the Kuban River. Founded in the 19th century as Romanovsky Khutor, it was renamed in 1921 for the geographer and ...
Kropotkin, Peter Alekseyevich: Russian revolutionary and geographer, the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement. Although he achieved renown in a number of different fields, ranging from geography and zoology to sociology and history, ...
Krosno: city, Podkarpackie wojewodztwo (province), extreme southeastern Poland. Set on the sloping plains of the Lower Beskid mountain range amid forests of beech and white fir, the city ...
Kroto, Sir Harold W.: English chemist who, with Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl, Jr., was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their joint discovery of the carbon compounds called fullerenes.
Kroumirie: mountainous region with extensive forests of cork-oak in northwestern Tunisia. One of the best-watered regions in North Africa (40 to 60 inches [1,000 to 1,500 mm] a year), it extends ...
Kru: any of a group of peoples inhabiting southern Liberia and southwestern Cote d'Ivoire. The Kru languages constitute a branch of the Niger-Congo family.
Kru languages: a branch of the Niger-Congo language family that consists of some 24 languages (or language clusters) spoken by some three million Kru people living in the forest regions of southwestern ...
Kruczkowski, Leon: Polish novelist and playwright remembered for his novelistic presentation of Poland's past and social problems.
Krudener, Barbara Juliane, Freifrau von: nee Von Vietinghoff mystic visionary who renounced a life of pleasure amid the Russian nobility and won as a convert Tsar Alexander I, through whom she influenced the making of ...
Krueger, Walter: U.S. Army officer whose 6th Army helped free Japanese-held islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. He was regarded as one of the foremost strategists and tacticians in ...
Kruger National Park: formerly the largest national park in South Africa. It was located in Northern province and Mpumalanga province, west of the Lebombo Mountains on the Mozambique border. Established in part in ...
Kruger telegram: (Jan. 3, 1896), a message sent by Emperor William II of Germany to President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic (or the Transvaal), congratulating him on repelling the Jameson ...
Kruger, Barbara: American artist who challenged cultural assumptions by manipulating images and text in her photographic compositions.
Kruger, Paul: farmer, soldier, and statesman, noted in South African history as the builder of the Afrikaner nation. He was president of the Transvaal, or South African Republic, from 1883 until his ...
Krugersdorp: town, Gauteng province, South Africa. It lies on the Witwatersrand (ridge), at an elevation of 5,709 feet (1,740 m), northwest of Johannesburg. A mining and industrial centre, it was founded ...
Krum: khan of the Bulgars (802-814) who briefly threatened the security of the Byzantine Empire. His able, energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and developed the rudiments of state ...
Krumbacher, Karl: German scholar who developed the modern study of Byzantine culture. His writings and seminars were the basis for the specialized training of Byzantine scholars from all parts of the world.
Krupa, Gene: American jazz drummer who won widespread fame during the swing era.
Krupp AG: former German corporation that was one of the world's principal steelmakers and arms manufacturers until the end of World War II. For the rest of the 20th century it was ...
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Alfried: German industrialist, last member of the Krupp dynasty of munitions manufacturers.
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gustav: German diplomat who married the heiress of the Krupp family of industrialists, Bertha Krupp, and took over operation of the family firm. At the time of their wedding, the Krupp ...
Krupp, Alfred: German industrialist noted for his development and worldwide sale of cast-steel cannon and other armaments. Under his direction the Krupp Works began the manufacture of ordnance (c. 1847).
Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna: revolutionary who became the wife of Vladimir I. Lenin, played a central role in the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party, and was a prominent member of the Soviet educational bureaucracy.
Krusenstern, Adam Johann: naval officer who commanded the first Russian expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the Earth (1803-06). Transporting a diplomatic mission bound for Japan and goods for delivery to ...
Krutch, Joseph Wood: American naturalist, conservationist, writer, and critic.
Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich: Russian writer of innocent-sounding fables that satirized contemporary social types in the guise of beasts. His command of colloquial idiom brought a note of realism to Russian classical literature. Many ...
krypton: chemical element, rare gas of Group 0 (noble gases) of the periodic table, forming very few chemical compounds. About three times heavier than air, krypton gas is colourless, odourless, and ...
Kryvyy Rih: city, Dnipropetrovsk oblast (province), Ukraine, situated at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers. Founded as a village by Zaporozhian Cossacks in the 17th century, it had only 2,184 ...
Ksar el-Boukhari: town, north-central Algeria. Lying along the Chelif River at the junction of the High Plateau and the Atlas Mountains, the town is almost totally surrounded by wooded mountain ridges. The ...
Ksar el-Kebir: city, northern Morocco. It lies along the Loukkos, or Lucus, River.
Kschessinska, Mathilde: prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the first Russian dancer to master 32 consecutive fouettes en tournant ("whipped turns" done in place and on one leg), a ...
Kshatriya: second highest in ritual status of the four varnas, or social classes, of Hindu India, traditionally the military or ruling class.
Kshitigarbha: bodhisattva ("buddha-to-be") who, though known in India as early as the 4th century CE, became immensely popular in China as Dicang and in Japan as Jizo. He is the saviour ...
Kst: city, central Sudan. It lies on the west bank of the White Nile River, about 65 miles (105 km) south of Al-Duwaym. Its basic agricultural economy is augmented by light ...
Ku Klux Klan: either of two distinct secret terrorist organizations in the United States, one founded immediately after the Civil War and lasting until the 1870s, the other beginning in 1915 and continuing ...
Kuala Belait: town, western Brunei. It lies along the Belait River near the South China Sea, west of Seria. It is the centre of an oil field that includes offshore wells. Kuala ...
Kuala Kangsar: town, northwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies along the Perak River and the main west coast road and rail network. The town was the site (1897) of the first conference ...
Kuala Lipis: town, central Peninsular (West) Malaysia, situated along the Jelai River. It is a commercial centre for nearby villages and the riverine indigenous people who inhabit the dense jungle to the ...
Kuala Lumpur: capital of Malaysia. The city is located in west-central West (Peninsular) Malaysia, midway along the west coast tin and rubber belt and about 25 miles (40 km) east of its ...
Kuala Terengganu: city and port, northeastern Peninsular (West) Malaysia, at the mouth of the Terengganu River, on the South China Sea. A sprawling city with wooden houses set on stilts amid trees, ...
Kuan Ti: Chinese god of war.
Kuan-yin: in Chinese Buddhism, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy. See Avalokitesvara.