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- long, narrow defile just west of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of the ancient city of Thebes and was the burial site of almost all the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward
- Australian pilot who, with a three-man crew, flew the Atlantic from Portmarnock, Ire., to Harbour Grace, Nfd., June 24-25, 1930. He was also the first to cross the mid-Pacific by ...
- Kingsley, Charles
- Anglican clergyman and writer whose successful fiction ranged from social-problem novels to historical romances and children's literature. [5 Related Articles]
- Kingsley, Dorothy
- American screenwriter who began by writing radio comedy routines for Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen and went on to write, co-write, or collaborate on a series of Esther Williams movies ...
- Kingsley, Henry
- English novelist and brother of Charles Kingsley. Henry is best known for Ravenshoe (1861), in which the hero fights in the Crimean War. [2 Related Articles]
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
- English traveler who, disregarding the conventions of her time, journeyed through western and equatorial Africa and became the first European to enter parts of Gabon.
- Kingsley, Sidney
- (SIDNEY KIRSHNER), U.S. playwright (b. Oct. 18, 1906, New York, N.Y.--d. March 20, 1995, Oakland, N.J.), explored the social ills of the Depression era in exhaustively researched and realistic plays, ...
- Kingsley, Sir Ben
- British actor recognized for playing a wide range of roles, including that of the title character in Gandhi (1982), for which he won an Academy Award for ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- American writer and political activist whose best-known novels concern the strength and endurance of the poor and disenfranchised people of the American Southwest.
- Kingsport
- city, Sullivan county, northeastern Tennessee, U.S., on the Holston River, near the Virginia border, about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Knoxville. The area was settled in the late 1700s ...
- Kingston
- town, southeastern Tasmania, Australia, lying on the Browns River, which flows into the estuary of the Derwent River. First settled in 1804, the area was known as Brown's River. By ...
- Kingston
- city, seat (1683) of Ulster county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River (there bridged), at the mouth of Rondout Creek, 54 miles ...
- Kingston
- village in South Kingstown town (township), Washington county, southern Rhode Island, U.S. It developed after 1700 at the crossroads of the Pequot Indian Trail and the road to Tower Hill ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kingston
- city, seat (1792) of Frontenac county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, at the point where it joins the St. Lawrence River, 135 miles (220 km) ...
- Kingston
- city, capital, and chief port of Jamaica, sprawling along the southeastern coast of the island, backed by the Blue Mountains. It is famous for its fine natural harbour, which is ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kingston Trio, the
- American folk group that helped spark the folk music revival of the 1960s. The original members were Dave Guard (b. Oct. 19, 1934, San Francisco, Calif., U.S., -d. March 22, ...
- Kingston upon Hull
- city and unitary authority, geographic county of East Riding of Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Humber estuary at its junction ...
- Kingston upon Thames
- royal borough and outer borough of London, part of the historic county of Surrey. It lies on the south bank of the River Thames about 12 miles (19 km) southwest ...
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- American writer, much of whose work is rooted in her experience as a first-generation Chinese American. [1 Related Articles]
- Kingstown
- capital and chief port of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Located on the southwestern end of the island of Saint Vincent, the town overlooks Kingstown ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kingsville
- city, seat (1913) of Kleberg county, southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the coastal plain, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Corpus Christi and 153 miles (246 km) south of ...
- Kingswood
- town, unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, historic county of Gloucestershire, England, situated directly east of the city of Bristol. Kingswood was closely associated with the 18th-century Methodist leaders George Whitefield ...
- Kingu
- (from the article "Mesopotamian religion") ...more and more unbearable. At last these gods succeeded in rousing her to resistance, and she created a mighty army with a spearhead of monsters to destroy the gods. She ...
- Kinguele
- waterfall and site of a hydroelectric complex on the Mbei River of Gabon. Kinguele is situated near Kango and is about 95 miles (150 km) by road east of Libreville, ...
- Kinh Duong
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...the first ruler of the Vietnamese people was King De Minh, a descendant of a mythical Chinese ruler who was the father of Chinese agriculture. De Minh and an immortal ...
- Kinich Ahau
- (from the article "Itzamna") Itzamna was sometimes identified with the remote creator deity Hunab Ku and occasionally with Kinich Ahau, the sun god. The moon goddess Ixchel, patron of womanly crafts, was possibly a ...
- Kinigi, Sylvie
- economist and politician who served as prime minister of Burundi from July 1993 to February 1994. [1 Related Articles]
- kinin
- (from the article "hormone") Blood contains kinins, which are polypeptides that originate in the blood and perhaps elsewhere; bradykinin, for example, causes contraction of most smooth muscles and has a very potent action in ...
- kinkajou
- an unusual member of the raccoon family (see procyonid) distinguished by its long, prehensile tail, short muzzle, and low-set, rounded ears. Native to Central America and parts of South America, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kinkaku Temple
- (from the article "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu") ...Court life assumed a luxurious air; high positions in government went to Zen Buddhist monks; and many magnificent temples and palaces were built, the most famous being the Golden Pavilion ...
- Kinkel, Gottfried
- German poet who owes his reputation chiefly to his sympathy with the Revolutions of 1848. [1 Related Articles]
- Kinkhvariyeh dynasty
- (from the article "Bavand Dynasty") ...by myth and legend. The Bavands can be divided into three distinct lines: the Ka'usiyeh (665-c. 1006), the Espahbadiyeh (1074-1210), and the Kinkhvariyeh (c. 1238-1349).
- Kinki
- chiho (region), west-central Honshu, Japan. It includes the ken (prefectures) of Hyogo, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama, and Mie and the fu (urban prefectures) of Kyoto and Osaka. Its name is derived ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kinki
- (from the article "Japan") ...("Eastern") language. After the 17th century there was a vigorous influx of the Kamigata (Kinai) dialect, which was the foundation of standard Japanese. Among the Western dialects, the Kinki dialect ...
- Kinks, the
- influential 1960s British Invasion group who infused their rhythm-and-blues beginnings with sharp social observation and the theatricality of the British music hall, becoming an English archetype. The principal members were ...
- Kinnell, Galway
- American poet who examined the primitive bases of existence that are obscured by the overlay of civilization. His poems examine the effects of personal confrontation with violence and inevitable death, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kinnersley, Ebenezer
- British colonial contemporary of Benjamin Franklin in the investigation of electricity and inventor of an electrical air thermometer (c. 1755). He also sought to find ways in which to protect ...
- Kinney National Services, Inc.
- (from the article "Time Warner Inc.") ...Sunset Strip (1958) were made. In 1967 Jack Warner sold his remaining stake in the company to Seven Arts Productions. Two years later Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc., was bought by ...
- Kinnock, Neil, Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty
- British politician who was leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. [2 Related Articles]
- kinnor
- ancient Hebrew lyre, the musical instrument of King David. According to the Roman Jewish historian Josephus (1st century AD), it resembled the Greek kithara (i.e., having broad arms of a ...
- Kino, Eusebio
- Jesuit missionary, cartographer, rancher, and explorer in Spanish service, founder of numerous missions in the Pimeria Alta region, now divided between the Mexican state of Sonora and the U.S. state ... [2 Related Articles]
- kino-glaz theory
- (from the article "Vertov, Dziga") Soviet motion-picture director whose kino-glaz ("film-eye") theory-that the camera is an instrument, much like the human eye, that is best used to explore the actual happenings of real life-had an ...
- kinocilium
- (from the article "ear, human") ...nerve fibres and nerve endings, and underlying connective tissue. The sensory cells are called hair cells because of the hairlike cilia-stiff, nonmotile stereocilia and flexible, motile kinocilia-that project from their ...
- kinorhynch
- any of the approximately 150 species of microscopic marine invertebrates of the phylum Kinorhyncha, widely distributed in the world's oceans. Kinorhynchs live mostly in the muddy bottoms of shallow seas ...
- Kinoshita Junji
- playwright, a leader in the attempt to revitalize the post-World War II Japanese theatre.
- Kinoshita Keisuke
- one of Japan's most popular motion-picture directors, known for satirical social comedies. [1 Related Articles]
- Kinosternidae
- (from the article "Kinosternidae") family of American turtles. See also mud turtle; musk turtle.
- Kinroku
- (from the article "nishiki-e") Japanese polychrome woodblock prints of the Ukiyo-e (q.v.) school that were first made in 1765. The invention of the technique is attributed to Kinroku, and its greatest early master was ...
- Kinross
- small burgh (town), Perth and Kinross council area, historic county of Kinross-shire, Scotland, located on Loch Leven. The burgh, 30 miles (50 km) north of Edinburgh along the motorway (superhighway) ...
- Kinross House
- (from the article "Kinross-shire") ...cropland. Kinross, the principal town, lies along Loch Leven. Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned (1567-68) in Lochleven Castle, on an island in the lake. Another architectural landmark is Kinross ...
- Kinross-shire
- historic county in central Scotland, which lies entirely within Perth and Kinross council area. It encompasses the basin of the lake known as Loch Leven and the surrounding rim of ...
- Kinsale
- market town and seaport of County Cork, Ireland. It is situated on Kinsale Harbour, at the estuary of the River Bandon. The present town dates mainly to the 18th century, ...
- kinsei daimyo
- (from the article "daimyo") The kinsei ("early modern") daimyo, as the daimyo of the Tokugawa period were called, differed from their predecessors in being more nearly petty monarchs within their domains. Their own samurai ...
- Kinsella, Thomas
- Irish poet whose sensitive lyrics deal with primal aspects of the human experience, often in a specifically Irish context.
- Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
- a nonprofit corporation affiliated with Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S., founded in 1947 under the sponsorship of the zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey, with whose pioneering studies of American sexual ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kinsey, Alfred Charles
- American zoologist and student of human sexual behaviour. [5 Related Articles]
- Kinshasa
- largest city and capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies about 320 miles (515 km) from the Atlantic Ocean on the south bank of the Congo River. ... [8 Related Articles]
- kinship
- system of social organization based on real or putative family ties. The modern study of kinship can be traced back to mid-19th-century interests in comparative legal institutions and philology. In ... [40 Related Articles]
- kinship terminology
- in anthropology, the system of names applied to categories of kin standing in relationship to one another. The possibilities for such nomenclature would seem limitless, but anthropologists have identified a ... [8 Related Articles]
- Kinski, Klaus
- intense, eccentric German actor of Polish descent who had a stage and film career of more than 40 years and who was best known for his riveting performances in the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kinsley, Apollo
- (from the article "automobile") ...buses were running in Paris about 1800. Oliver Evans of Philadelphia ran an amphibious steam dredge through the streets of that city in 1805. Less well-known were Nathan Read of ...
- Kinston
- city, seat (1791) of Lenoir county, east-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies at the head of navigation on the Neuse River, about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Goldsboro. Settled ...
- Kinta Valley
- West Malaysia (Malaya), one of the most productive and easily worked tin regions in the world. Formed by the Sungai (River) Kinta (a tributary of the Sungai Perak), the valley ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kintai-kyo
- (from the article "Iwakuni") ...family, Iwakuni has grown into a major industrial city and is the centre of a petrochemical-producing region that extends northward to Otake, in Hiroshima prefecture. Iwakuni is noted for its ...
- kinu
- (from the article "dress") Two-piece costumes appear to have been worn regularly during the 7th and 8th centuries, the jackets of this period being called kinu, the men's trousers
- Kinubi
- (from the article "creole languages") ...varieties that emerged from contacts between primarily non-European languages. Examples from Africa include Sango, a creole based on the Ngbandi language and spoken in the Central African Republic; Kinubi, based ...
- Kinugasa Teinosuke
- first Japanese motion-picture director to present his story from the point of view of one of the characters and thus create a subjective world in a film. He also pioneered ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kinyeti, Mount
- (from the article "Istiwa'iyah, Al-") ...of the country. The Imatong and Dongotona mountains rise along the border with Uganda and dominate the eastern part of the region. The Imatongs are in fact the highest mountains ...
- Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill
- American pioneer and writer, remembered for her accounts of the indigenous peoples and settlers of early Chicago and the Midwest.
- kiosk
- originally, in Islamic architecture, an open circular pavilion consisting of a roof supported by pillars. The word has been applied to a wide variety of architectural elements. The summer palaces ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kiowa
- North American Indians of Kiowa-Tanoan linguistic stock who are believed to have migrated from what is now southwestern Montana into the southern Great Plains in the 18th century. Numbering some ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kiowa Apache
- (from the article "Kiowa") ...are believed to have migrated from what is now southwestern Montana into the southern Great Plains in the 18th century. Numbering some 3,000 at the time, they were accompanied on ...
- Kiowa-Tanoan languages
- (from the article "Azteco-Tanoan languages") a major grouping (phylum or superstock) of American Indian languages that includes the large Uto-Aztecan language family and the small Kiowa-Tanoan language family of New Mexico and Oklahoma. The Uto-Aztecan ...
- Kipahulu Valley
- (from the article "Haleakala National Park") ...National Park (now Hawaii Volcanoes National Park) in 1916, Haleakala Crater was redesignated a separate park in 1961. The 47-square-mile (122-square-km) park now includes that volcanic crater, Kipahulu Valley (added ...
- Kipalan, Sir Albert
- (from the article "Papua New Guinea") The search for a new governor-general continued for months after the Supreme Court ruled that the elections of Sir Albert Kipalan and Sir Pato Kakaraya were null and void. Acting ...
- Kiparissia, Gulf of
- broad inlet of the Ionian Sea of the western Peloponnese, Greece, about 35 mi (55 km) in width. Flanking the shallow estuary of the Alpheius, the chief river of the ...
- Kipchak
- a loosely organized Turkic tribal confederation that by the mid-11th century occupied a vast, sprawling territory in the Eurasian steppe, stretching from north of the Aral Sea westward to the ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kipchak
- (from the article "Dates of 2004") ...Resorts, Inc., announces that it has reached a preliminary debt-restructuring agreement that may make it possible for the company to avoid having to file for bankruptcy.
- Kipchak Pass
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...adjacent Thalle Pass, used by Timur; the second was the Kushan Pass (slightly to the west of the present-day Salang road tunnel), which Alexander crossed southward; and the third was ...
- Kipchak-Uzbek
- (from the article "Kazak language") ...branch. The Kazak language is spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang in China but is also found in Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Afghanistan. The so-called ...
- Kipkoech, Paul
- Kenyan runner who captured the 10,000-m race at the 1987 world championships and was the first Kenyan gold medalist in a world track championship (b. Jan. 6, 1963--d. March 13, ...
- Kiplagat, Lornah
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") ...was timed at 58 min 33 sec in the second race. On December 2, just 22 days after his 21st birthday, Wanjiru won his debut marathon, run in Fukuoka, Japan, ...
- Kipling, Rudyard
- English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kipnis, Igor
- German-born American harpsichordist, teacher, and critic (b. Sept. 27, 1930, Berlin, Ger.-d. Jan. 23, 2002, Redding, Conn.), was perhaps the most eminent harpsichord player of his generation and made more ...
- kipper
- (from the article "fish processing") ...adding flavour to the final product. However, much of the fish smoked today is exposed to smoke just long enough to provide the desired flavour with little, if any, drying. ...
- Kipphardt, Heinar
- (from the article "Fact, Theatre of") German dramatic movement that arose during the early 1960s, associated primarily with Rolf Hochhuth, Peter Weiss, and Heinar Kipphardt. Their political plays examined recent historical events, often through official documents ...
- Kipping, Frederic Stanley
- British chemist who pioneered in the chemistry of silicones, organic derivatives of silicon. [1 Related Articles]
- Kipsikis
- largest ethnic group of the Southern Nilotic (Kalenjin) language group. They occupy the highlands around the town of Kericho in southwestern Kenya. Like other Nandi speakers, they originated in the ... [1 Related Articles]
- kipuka
- area of land ranging from several square metres to several square kilometres where existing rock of either volcanic or nonvolcanic origin has been completely surrounded, but not covered, by later ...
- Kipuka Puaula
- (from the article "Kilauea") ...feet (3-9 m) high. The Thurston Lava Tube, a 450-foot (135-metre) tunnel east of the caldera, was formed when a lava stream's outer crust hardened while the molten lava continued ...
- kipunji
- (from the article "mangabey") A fourth species of Lophocebus, L. kipunji, exists in two populations in the Eastern Arc forests of Tanzania: one in the Ndundulu forest in ...
- Kiradu
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The temples at Kiradu in Rajasthan, dating from the late 10th and 11th centuries, are early examples of the style shared by Rajasthan and Gujarat. The Somesvara temple (c. 1020) ...
- Kirakos Gandzaketsi
- (from the article "Hayton") king of Little Armenia, now in Turkey, from 1224 to 1269; the account of his travels in western and central Asia, written by Kirakos Gandzaketsi, a member of his suite, ...
- Kiraly, Karch
- American athlete who was the first volleyball player to win three Olympic gold medals and was considered one of the sport's greatest players, excelling at both indoor and beach volleyball. [1 Related Articles]
- Kiranti
- (from the article "Limbu") the second most numerous tribe of the indigenous people called Kiranti, living in Nepal on the easternmost section of the Himalayas between the Arun River and the border of Sikkim ...
- Kirantish languages
- (from the article "Table 42: Tibetic Languages*") ...below together with their most likely affiliation. Some scholars believe the Tibetic and Burmic divisions to be premature and that for the present their subdivisions (such as Bodish, Himalayish, Kirantish, ...
- Kirat
- (from the article "Himalayas") ...of the population, although large Tibeto-Burman groups are found throughout the country. They include the Newar, Tamang, Gurung, Magar, Sherpa and other peoples related to the Bhutia, and Kirat. The ...
- Kirby, Charles
- (from the article "fishing") ...in 1676). The use of a landing hook, now called a gaff, for lifting large hooked fish from the water was noted by Barker in 1667. Improved methods of fishhook ...
- Kirby, Durward
- American broadcaster and actor (b. Aug. 24, 1912, Covington, Ky.-d. March 15, 2000, Fort Myers, Fla.), parlayed his success as a radio announcer in the 1930s into a long and ...
- Kirby, Jack
- (JACOB KURTZBERG), U.S. comic-book artist (b. Aug. 28, 1917, New York, N.Y.--d. Feb. 6, 1994, Thousand Oaks, Calif.), as the undisputed king of the comics, helped create some 400 characters, ...
- Kirby, Rollin
- American political cartoonist who gave modern cartooning decisive impetus in the direction of graphic simplicity and high symbolic value.
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