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Kurnberger, Ferdinand
Austrian writer known for his participation in the Austrian revolution of 1848 and the Dresden rebellion of 1849.
Kurnell
historic site on the southern side of the entrance to Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Kurnell was the first landing place in Australia of Captain James Cook on April ...
Kurnool
city, west-central Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies at the confluence of the Tungabhadra and Hindri rivers, about 240 miles (385 km) northwest of the city of Madras. Kurnool ...
Kuroda Kiyotaka, Count
(Hakushaku) Japanese statesman who played a leading role in the Meiji Restoration, the 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate and reestablishment of imperial rule in Japan. He served as prime ...
Kuroda Nagamasa
noted Japanese warrior who rendered important service to two leaders, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, in their campaigns to dominate Japan.
Kurokawa Kisho
Japanese architect who was one of the leading members of the Metabolist movement in the 1960s and '70s. In his later work he achieved increasingly poetic qualities.
Kurosawa Akira
first Japanese film director to win international acclaim, with such films as Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954),
Kuroshio
strong surface oceanic current of the Pacific Ocean, the northeasterly flowing continuation of the Pacific North Equatorial Current between Luzon of the Philippines and the east coast of Japan. The ...
Kurozumi-kyo
prototype of the contemporary "new religions" of Japan, named for its founder, Kurozumi Munetada (1780-1850), a Shinto priest of the area that is now Okayama prefecture. The believers venerate the ...
Kurri Kurri
town, now part of Greater Cessnock, eastern New South Wales, Australia. It was laid out in 1902 as a centre for the surrounding coalfields, its name coming from an Aboriginal ...
Kursk
oblast (province), western Russia. The oblast is centred on Kursk city. It extends across the southern end of the Central Russian Upland. The surface is a rolling plateau, broken by ...
Kursk
city and administrative centre of Kursk oblast (province), western Russia. It lies along the upper Seym River, about 280 miles (450 km) south of Moscow. Kursk is one of the ...
Kursk, Battle of
(July 5-August 23, 1943), unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia, during World War II. The salient was a bulge in the ...
kuru
infectious, fatal degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that occurs primarily among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
Kurukh language
a member of the North Dravidian subfamily of Dravidian languages, spoken by some 1.8 million people of the Oraon tribes of the Chota Nagpur plateau of east-central India. It is ...
Kurukshetra
city, northeastern Haryana state, northwestern India. It is connected by road and rail with Delhi (south) and Ambala (north). Now united with Thanesar, it is an important Hindu pilgrimage centre. ...
Kuruman
town, Northern Cape province, South Africa. It is located in the northeastern corner of the province and is distantly southwest of Johannesburg. Originally a missionary station (1821), it later became ...
Kurumba
a people living in the Cardamom and Nilgiri hills, west-central Tamil Nadu state, southern India. Originally pastoralists, the Kurumba were probably identical with or closely related to the Pallavas. With ...
Kurume
city, Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan. It lies at the centre of the Tsukushi Plain, on the Chikugo River. It was a castle town during the 17th century and a ...
Kurunegala
town, west-central Sri Lanka (Ceylon). It is situated 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Kandy amid steep hills that were used as citadels during its early history.
Kurylowicz, Jerzy
Polish historical linguist who was one of the greatest 20th-century students of Indo-European languages. His identification of the source of the Hittite consonant h in 1927 substantiated the existence of ...
Kurz, Hermann
German writer chiefly known for two powerful historical novels, Schillers Heimatjahre (1843; "Schiller's Homeland Years") and Der Sonnenwirt (1855; "The Proprietor of the Sun Inn"), both critical of the existing ...
Kurzeme
moraine region of western Latvia, roughly corresponding to the historic state of Courland (q.v.). Kurzeme is elevated slightly above the coastal plains of the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of ...
Kusanagi
(Japanese: "Grass-Mower"), in Japanese mythology, the miraculous sword that the sun goddess Amaterasu gave to her grandson Ninigi when he descended to earth to become ruler of Japan, thus establishing ...
Kusch, Polykarp
German-American physicist who, with Willis E. Lamb, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater ...
Kusha
Buddhist school of philosophy introduced into Japan from China during the Nara period (710-784). The school takes its name from its authoritative text, the Abidatsuma-kusha-ron(Sanskrit:Abhidharma-kosa; q.v.), by the 4th- or ...
Kushan art
art produced during the Kushan dynasty from about the late 1st to the 3rd century AD in an area that now includes parts of Central Asia, northern India, Pakistan, and ...
Kushiro
city, Hokkaido ken (prefecture), eastern Hokkaido, Japan. It is situated along both banks of the Kushiro River where that river empties into the Pacific Ocean. The city was first settled ...
Kushk River
river in Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, formed by the confluence of two headstreams, the Aq Robat and the Galleh Chaghar, which rise in northwestern Afghanistan. The river flows northwestward, passing the ...
Kushn dynasty
ruling line descended from the Yuezhi, a people that ruled over most of the northern Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia during the first three centuries of the ...
Kushtia
city, west-central Bangladesh, lying just south of the Padma (Ganges) River. The city is connected by rail with Saidpur and Calcutta and is a trade centre containing cotton-textile and sugar ...
Kushukh
the Hurrian moon god. In the Hurrian pantheon, Kushukh was regularly placed above the sun god, Shimegi; his consort was Niggal (the Sumero-Akkadian Ningal). His home was said to be ...
Kushva
city, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia, at the foot of Mount Blagodat. Founded in 1735 after the discovery of iron-ore deposits on the mountain, it became a town in 1926, ...
Kuskova, Yekaterina Dmitriyevna
Russian political figure and publicist who opposed the Bolshevik government.
Kustanay
oblast (province), northern Kazakhstan, having an area of 44,200 square miles (114,500 square km). It contains a portion of the Turgay Lowland, which lies between the foothills of the Urals ...
Kusumi Morikage
Japanese painter of the early Tokugawa period (1603-1867) who excelled in painting farmers and common people.
Kusunoki Masashige
one of the greatest military strategists in Japanese history. Kusunoki's unselfish devotion and loyalty to the emperor have made him a legendary figure; after the imperial restoration of 1868, a ...
kut
trance ritual in Korean religion. See mudang.
Kut, Al-
city, eastern Iraq, capital of Wasit muhafazah (governorate). It lies along the Tigris River about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Baghdad. A relatively new city, Al-Kut ...
Kutahya
city, western Turkey. It lies along the Porsuk River, at the foot of a hill crowned by a ruined medieval castle. Kutahya, known as Cotyaeum in antiquity, lay on the ...
Kutaisi
city, west-central Georgia. It lies along the Rioni River where the latter emerges from the Caucasian foothills into a lowland. One of the oldest cities of Transcaucasia, it served at ...
Kutani ware
Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province (now in Ishikawa prefecture). The name "Old Kutani" refers to porcelain decorated with heavily applied overglaze enamels and produced in the Kaga mountain village ...
Kutchin
a group of Athabascan-speaking North American Indian tribes inhabiting the basins of the Yukon and Peel rivers in eastern Alaska and the Yukon Territory-a land of coniferous forests interspersed by ...
Kutenai
North American Indian tribe distributed over southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana. Their language is of uncertain classification, some authorities placing it in the Wakashan family and some ...
Kutna Hora
city, Stredocesky kraj (region), Czech Republic. It lies on the high tableland above the Vrchlice River, 44 miles (71 km) east of Prague.
kutnohorite
a carbonate mineral, calcium manganese carbonate [CaMn(CO3)2]. Confirmed as a naturally occurring species in 1955, it was originally found at Kutna Hora, Bohemia; it also occurs in Franklin, N.J., U.S., ...
Kuts, Vladimir
Soviet distance runner who held the world record in the 5,000-metre race (1954-55, 1957-65), the 10,000-metre race (1956-60), and the three-mile race (1954).
Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich, Prince
Russian army commander who repelled Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812).
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. The university comprises colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Visual ...
Kuujjuaq
Eskimo (Inuit) village in Nord-du-Quebec region, northeastern Quebec province, Canada. It lies along on the Koksoak River, about 20 miles (30 km) above the latter's mouth on Ungava Bay. Kuujjuaq ...
Kuusinen, Otto V.
a founder of the Finnish Communist Party and secretary of the Communist International (Comintern) who was prominent in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
kuvasz
Hungarian breed of guard and shepherd dog whose reputation as a watchdog was unexcelled during the Middle Ages, when it was kept by kings and nobles. The breed originated many ...
Kuwait
city and national capital, eastern Kuwait. The city lies on the southern shore of Kuwait Bay of the Persian Gulf. Its name is derived from the Arabic
Kuwait
country of the Arabian Peninsula located in the northwestern corner of the Persian Gulf.
Kuwana
city, Mie ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It is situated on the delta of the Ibi, Nagara, and Kiso rivers. Mentioned as a hamlet as early as the ...
Kuwatli, Shukri al-
statesman who led the anticolonialist movement in Syria and became the nation's first president.
Kuyper, Abraham
Dutch theologian, statesman, and journalist who led the Anti-Revolutionary Party, an orthodox Calvinist group, to a position of political power and served as prime minister of The Netherlands from 1901 ...
Kuznets, Simon
Russian-born American economist and statistician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Kuznetsk Coal Basin
one of the largest producing coalfields of Russia, in Kemerovo oblast (province), south-central Russia. It lies in the basin of the Tom River between the Kuznetsk Alatau and Salair mountain ...
Kuznetsov, Anatoly Vasilyevich
Soviet writer noted for the autobiographical novel Babi Yar, one of the most important literary works to come out of World War II.
Kuznetsov, Vasily Vasilyevich
Soviet official and diplomat.
Kvaran, Einar Hjorleifsson
Icelandic journalist, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
Kvasir
in Norse mythology, a poet and the wisest of all men. Kvasir was born of the saliva of two rival groups of gods, the Aesir and the Vanir, when they ...
Kwa languages
a branch of the Niger-Congo language family consisting of 45 languages spoken by approximately 20 million people in the southern areas of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in ...
Kwahu Plateau
plateau, southern Ghana. It comprises the uplifted southern edge of the Volta River basin and extends for 160 miles (260 km) northwest-southeast from Wenchi to Koforidua. It forms the main ...
Kwajalein Atoll
coral formation in the Ralik (western) chain of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. The string of some 90 islets has a total land area ...
Kwakiutl
Indians of the northwest Pacific coast of North America. The Kwakiutl live in British Columbia, Canada, along the shores of the waterways between Vancouver Island and the mainland opposite. They ...
Kwan, Michelle
American figure skater, who was one of the most decorated athletes in the sport. Combining artistry and elegance with athleticism, she won more than 40 championships, including a record-tying nine ...
KwaNdebele
former nonindependent black state and enclave in central Transvaal province, South Africa, that was a self-governing "national state" for Transvaal Ndebele people from 1981 to 1994. KwaNdebele was located in ...
Kwando River
river in southern Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, forming for nearly 140 miles (225 km) the boundary between Angola and Zambia. Near the end of its course ...
Kwangju
city and provincial capital, South Cholla do (province), southwestern South Korea. It has the status of a special city (area 193 square miles [501 square km]) under the direct control ...
Kwangsi
autonomous region located in southern China. It is bounded by the Chinese provinces of Yunnan on the west, Kweichow on the north, Hunan on the northeast, and Kwangtung on the ...
Kwangtung
sheng (province) of South China. It is the southernmost of the mainland provinces and constitutes the region through which South China's trade is primarily channeled. Kwangtung has ...
Kwanza River
river in central Angola, rising about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Chitembo in the Bie Plateau at 5,000 feet (1,500 m). It flows northward for about 320 miles (510 ...
Kwanzaa
adaptation of an African harvest festival, celebrated from December 26 to January 1. It was created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of black studies at California State University ...
Kwara
state, west-central Nigeria. It is bounded by Benin to the west and by the Nigerian states of Niger to the north, Kogi to the east, and Ekiti, Dsun, and Oyo ...