(from the article "economics") ...to the weakest element in mainstream economics: the assumption that economic agents are always perfectly informed of alternative opportunities. A follower of Mises and Hayek, American economist Israel Kirzner developed ...
(from the article "Luguru") In the mid-19th century an important east-west caravan route was established around the northern edge of the Uluguru Mountains. The Luguru were periodically raided for slaves by a man named ...
(from the article "mudang") ...formed a separate religious group of low social standing and seldom married into families on a higher social level. Daughters of such shamans became either mudang after proper training or ...
(from the article "Turkish literature") ...while pursuing a career in the military, which he left in 1950. He became one of Turkey's most influential poets during the post-World War II era. Choosing a simplified and ...
city, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city lies along the Congo River, just below Boyoma (formerly Stanley) Falls. It is the nation's major inland port after Kinshasa. Above ... [1 Related Articles]
city, Chiba ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the west coast of the Boso Peninsula, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Tokyo and on the east coast of ...
city, Kemerovo oblast (province), central Russia. It developed in the 1930s as an industrial and coal-mining centre. Much of the coal is used for coking. Kiselyovsk's engineering industries produce drilling ...
(from the article "Hungarian literature") The place of Sandor Kisfaludy in Hungarian literature is secured by his first work, Kesergo szerelem (1801; "Bitter Love"), a lyric cycle depending on a very thin narrative thread. Writing ...
ancient Mesopotamian city-state located east of Babylon in what is now south-central Iraq. According to ancient Sumerian sources it was the seat of the first postdiluvian dynasty; most scholars believe ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kishangarh") ...state, northwestern India. It is situated about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Jaipur on the banks of Lake Gundalao. The city, with its fort and palace, was founded in ...
city, central Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It is situated about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Jaipur on the banks of Lake Gundalao. The city, with its fort and palace, ...
18th-century school of the Rajasthani style of Indian painting that arose in the princely state of Kishangarh (central Rajasthan state). The school is clearly distinguished by its individualistic facial type ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anshar and Kishar") in Mesopotamian mythology, the male and female principles, the twin horizons of sky and earth. Their parents were either Apsu (the watery deep beneath the earth) and Tiamat (the personification ...
statesman whose term as prime minister of Japan (1957-60) was marked by a turbulent opposition campaign against a new U.S.-Japan security treaty agreed to by his government. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Japanese literature") The first truly modern playwright was probably Kishida Kunio, whose plays, with their contemporary settings, do not depend for their effects on elaborate scenery, music, or histrionics. Kishida was handicapped ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...it was instrumental in introducing Japanese artists to European Impressionism and Postimpressionism. Its publication period (1910-23) essentially spanned the Taisho era. The paintings of Kishida Ryusei (1891-1929) exemplify the extensive ...
city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, facing Osaka Bay. The city developed around the castle founded by the Wada family in the 14th century. It passed into the possession ...
(from the article "Qishon River") In modern times the river's mouth has been developed as part of the Haifa port complex. The Kishon Port (so spelled by the Israel Ports Authority) has a cargo wharf ...
Hungarian-born Israeli satirist (b. Aug. 23, 1924, Budapest, Hung.-d. Jan. 29, 2005, Appenzell, Switz.), after surviving the Holocaust and immigrating to Israel, wrote prolifically and gained a large and appreciative ...
town, east-central Bangladesh. It lies along the Kundali Khal River, which is navigable during the rainy monsoon season. Formerly noted for muslin manufacture, it was the site of a factory ...
group of some 120,000 people inhabiting a belt of hills covered by wooded savannas where Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia meet; they speak a language of the Atlantic branch of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Polish literature") ...freely, but the role of emigre publishers in promoting Polish literature remained quite visible.) Among those writers who stayed in Poland, many, including Pawel Jasienica and Stefan Kisielewski, were temporarily ...
(from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...of the Aleutian Islands, southwestern Alaska, U.S. They extend about 110 miles (175 km) southeast of the Near Islands and west of the Andreanof Islands. The largest of the islands ...
(genus Pitangus), either of two similar New World bird species of flycatchers (family Tyrannidae, order Passeriformes), named for the call of the great kiskadee, or derby flycatcher (P. sulphuratus). The ...
city, Bacs-Kiskun megye (county), central Hungary. It is in the region between the Danube and the Tisza rivers, formerly known as Kiskunsag (Little Kumania, from the immigrant Cuman [Hungarian: Kun] ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kiskunfelegyhaza") city, Bacs-Kiskun megye (county), central Hungary. It is in the region between the Danube and the Tisza rivers, formerly known as Kiskunsag (Little Kumania, from the immigrant Cuman [Hungarian: Kun] ...
(from the article "Jewish calendar") ...Tammuz (June-July), Av (July-August), Elul (August-September), Tishri (Ethanim [September-October]), Heshvan, or Marheshvan (Bul [October-November]), Kislev (November-December), Tevet (December-January), Shevat (January-February), and Adar (February-March). The 13th month of the leap year, ...
city, Stavropol kray (region), southwestern Russia. It lies along the Podkumok River in the Caucasus foothills just southwest of Pyatigorsk. Founded in 1803 as a spa based on abundant local ...
seaport, southern Somalia. It lies along the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Jubba River. Founded in 1872 by the sultan of Zanzibar, the town was taken by the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Japan") ...by mountains and volcanoes of the southern part of the East Japan Volcanic Belt. Intermontane basins are sandwiched between the lofty, partially glaciated central mountain knots of the Akaishi, Kiso, ...
(from the article "western Africa, history of") ...by invaders who may well have been ancestral to the Mossi-Dagomba state builders. Examples of these survived in Borgu into colonial times. An interesting corpus of legends-such as that of ...
a touch or caress of the lips upon the lips, cheek, hand, or feet of another to signify affection, greeting, reverence, or sexual attraction. [1 Related Articles]
town and administrative capital of Kissidougou region, southeastern Guinea, West Africa. It is located at the intersection of roads from Faranah, Gueckedou, and Kankan. The town was founded in the ...
river in central Florida, U.S., flowing between Lakes Kissimmee (north) and Okeechobee (south). It originally had a course of about 100 miles (160 km), but in the 1960s it was ...
(from the article "Representative venomous animals that inflict a sting") An important member of this family is the kissing bug (Melanolestes picipes). Its common name derives from the fact that it usually bites humans on the face around the mouth. ...
(from the article "perciform") ...include cichlids, butterfly fishes (Chaetodontidae), angelfishes (Pomacanthidae), labyrinth fishes (suborder Anabantoidei) such as the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) and the kissing gourami (Helostoma temmincki), and various gobies (Gobiidae), blennies, ...
American political scientist, who, as adviser for national security affairs and secretary of state, was a major influence in the shaping of foreign policy from 1969 to 1976 under Presidents ... [17 Related Articles]
town, capital of Nyanza province, Kenya, on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria. It is the commercial, industrial, and transportation centre of western Kenya, serving a hinterland populated by almost ... [1 Related Articles]
black brocade cloth that covers the most sacred shrine of Islam, the Ka'bah (q.v.) in Mecca. A new kiswah is made in Egypt every year and carried to Mecca by ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Life Sciences") The researchers worked with a strain of wild-type (normal) mice and related heterozygous mice that carried an engineered mutant allele of a gene called Kit. Each wild-type mouse had a ...
small fiddle with a muted tone, carried by dancing masters in their pockets in the 16th-18th century. A last descendant of the medieval rebec, the kit evolved as a narrow, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "fox") Sometimes considered as two species, V. velox (swift fox) and V. macrotis (kit fox); large-eared pale foxes of the western North American plains (swift ...
(from the article "Addison, Joseph") In London Addison renewed his friendship with Somers and Halifax and other members of the Kit-Cat Club, which was an association of prominent Whig leaders and literary figures of the ...
(from the article "Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area") There are two large sakariba (amusement districts) in the city. Kita ("The North") is located just south of Osaka railway station, where the city's highest-priced land is found. Kita has ...
(from the article "Okawa Shumei") Okawa was graduated in philosophy from the University of Tokyo in 1911 and became an early associate of the other famous right-wing advocate of the period, Kita Ikki. Together they ...
(from the article "Japanese literature") ...Christianity in the 16th century, was treated in several moving novels by Endo Shusaku, notably Chimmoku (1966; Silence). The novels of Kita Morio were ...
city, northern Ibaraki ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. The western part of the city occupies hills that slope toward the rest of the ...
(Japanese: North Kyushu), city, Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, on the Shimonoseki and Tsushima straits. It was created in 1963 by the amalgamation of the cities of Wakamatsu, Yawata (Yahata), ...
Japanese warrior, statesman, and author of the influential politico-historical treatise Jinno shotoki ("Record of the Legitimate Succession of the Divine Emperors"), which set forth the mystic and nationalist doctrine that ...
(from the article "Physical Sciences") ...of the highly reactive gas, however, is difficult, because the gas explodes when compressed under a pressure of more than two atmospheres (about 2 kg/cm2) at room temperature. In 2005 ...
(from the article "Swimming") ...led off the U.S.'s winning 4 × 100-m medley relay with a world record of 53.45 sec for the 100-m backstroke; the U.S. relay team finished in the world record ...
(Japanese: Kitakami Range), mountain range, in northeastern Honshu, Japan, paralleling the Pacific coast and extending for about 155 mi (250 km) from southern Aomori Prefecture, through Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, ... [2 Related Articles]
city, northeastern Hokkaido, Japan, facing the Sea of Okhotsk at the confluence of the Tokoro-gawa (Tokoro River) and the Muka-gawa. It occupies 163 sq mi (421 sq km) on the ...
(Japanese: Kitami Range), mountain range, northeastern Hokkaido, Japan, extending 180 mi (290 km) along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. The range is basically an upwarped block except in ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Tensho Kotai Jingu-kyo") ("Dancing Religion"), one of the "new religions" of Japan that have emerged in the post-World War II period. It was founded by Kitamura Sayo (1900-67), a peasant of Yamaguchi Prefecture, ...
(from the article "Serrano") ...Indian group speaking a Uto-Aztecan language and originally inhabiting a mountainous region of what is now southern California. Serrano means "mountain dweller" in Spanish. One band, the Kitanemuk, lived in ...
By 2003 actor-writer-director Takeshi Kitano had established himself as one of Japan's most prominent media personalities. He appeared weekly in up to eight prime-time shows on Japanese television and was ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...and Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), Yanagi engendered a robust, charming type of ceramic which recalled the wares that appealed to tea masters of the Muromachi and Momoyama periods. Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959) ...
Japanese physician and bacteriologist who helped discover a method to prevent tetanus and diphtheria and, in the same year as Alexandre Yersin, discovered the infectious agent responsible for the bubonic ... [4 Related Articles]
rayon (sector) of the city of Moscow, bordering the Kremlin on the east, Staraya and Novaya squares on the west, and the Moskva River on the south and including the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "'Ayn Jalut, Battle of") ...caliphate, had fallen to the Mongols under the Il-Khan Hulegu in 1258, and the last 'Abbasid caliph had been put to death. In 1259 the Mongol army, led by the ...
(from the article "building construction") ...fire resistance. Gypsum board forms the substrate to which a number of other materials, including thin wood-veneered plywood and vinyl fabrics, can be applied with adhesives. In wet areas such ...
(from the article "purslane") ...leaves and flowers that open in the sunlight. The common purslane (P. oleracea), or pusley, is a widespread weed, recognizable by its small yellow flowers. P. oleracea sativa, known as ...
(from the article "building construction") Other widely used plumbing fixtures include kitchen sinks, usually of cast iron or pressed steel with a ceramic porcelain coating, or of stainless steel; automatic dishwashing machines; and automatic washing ...
(from the article "Bratby, John Randall") British painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s as a member of the Kitchen Sink School, a group of British social-realist artists who paralleled the literary Angry Young Men ...
(from the article "restaurant") ...of the world's finest chefs, including Georges-Auguste Escoffier, who organized the kitchens for the luxury hotels owned by Cesar Ritz, developing the so-called brigade de cuisine, or kitchen team, consisting ...
(from the article "English literature") ...man and replacing staid mannerliness on stage with emotional rawness, sexual candour, and social rancour, Look Back in Anger initiated a move toward what critics called "kitchen-sink" ...
city, regional municipality of Waterloo, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It is situated in the Grand River valley, 60 miles (95 km) west-southwest of Toronto. Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and settled ...
British field marshal, imperial administrator, conqueror of The Sudan, commander in chief during the South African War, and (perhaps his most important role) secretary of state for war at the ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "nature, philosophy of") Philosophical criticism of genetic reductionism persisted, however, culminating in the 1980s in a devastating critique by the Australian philosopher Philip Kitcher, who denied the possibility, in practice and in principle, ...
Canadian major general who, as one of the Allies' youngest generals during World War II, led the 4th Canadian Armoured Division in Normandy in 1944; although criticized for his division's ...
any of numerous birds of prey belonging to one of three subfamilies (Milvinae, Elaninae, Perninae) of the family Accipitridae. Typically, a kite is lightly built, with a small head, partly ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "measurement system") The Egyptian weight system appears to have been founded on a unit called the kite, with a decimal ratio, 10 kites equaling 1
oldest known heavier-than-air craft designed to gain lift from the wind while being flown from the end of a flying line, or tether. [1 Related Articles]
stringed musical instrument, one of the two principal types of ancient Greek lyres. It had a wooden soundboard and a box-shaped body, or resonator, from which extended two hollow arms ... [4 Related Articles]
westernmost of the three regions of Nunavut territory, Canada. It was designated the Central Arctic region of the Northwest Territories in 1981, being formed from the northern part of Fort ...
district municipality, on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. It lies at the head of the Douglas Channel, a deepwater fjord extending inland from Hecate Strait for 80 miles ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Stone Age") ...which may indicate woman's equal rights in Serovo community. Serovo people migrated to the steppe and deserts of Central Asia and Inner Mongolia. The period belongs to the 3rd millennium ...
(from the article "lighthouse") In 1901 the Briton Arthur Kitson invented the vaporized oil burner, which was subsequently improved by David Hood of Trinity House and others. This burner utilized kerosene vaporized under pressure, ...
(from the article "trickster tale") ...when he caught the first land like a fish and pulled it from the sea. The Australian Aborigine trickster Bamapana is known for his vulgar language, lustful behaviour, and delight ...
(from the article "astronomical observatory") Today, the site of the world's largest grouping of optical telescopes is atop Kitt Peak, near Tucson, in southern Arizona, U.S. Most of the telescopes are a part of the ...
astronomical observatory located on the Papago Indian Reservation 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Tucson, Ariz., U.S., at an elevation of 6,888 feet (2,100 metres). It was established in 1958 ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Armstrong") ...is named for John Armstrong, a military officer and diplomat who, during the French and Indian War, captured Kittanning (Sept. 8, 1756), the largest Delaware Indian town in western Pennsylvania. ...
in Judaism, a white robe worn in the synagogue on such major festivals as Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The rabbi wears it, as does the cantor, the blower of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "biblical literature") ...(1894, 1908, 1926) revised according to the Masora and early prints with variant readings from manuscripts and ancient versions. It was soon displaced by the Biblica Hebraica (1906, 1912) by ...
town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S., at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, on the Atlantic coast opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The town includes the communities of Kittery and Kittery ...
(Rissa tridactyla), oceanic gull, a white bird with pearl-gray mantle, black-tipped wings, black feet, and yellow bill. It nests on the North and South Atlantic coasts. Kittiwakes have evolved a ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "murrelet") Breeding in Alaska are the marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus), seen as far south as California, and Kittlitz's murrelet, (B. brevirostris), which reaches Japan. Most southerly is Xantus's murrelet (Endomychura hypoleucus), ...
American literary scholar and teacher, one of the foremost authorities of his time on the writings of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Sir Thomas Malory. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Literature") In The Willow Field William Kittredge followed in the tradition of A.B. Guthrie and delivered his version of the "great Montana novel," a beautifully written book that told the story ...
town, Dare county, northeastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies on Bodie Island, a narrow sand barrier (one of the Outer Banks) facing the Atlantic Ocean opposite Albemarle Sound. Immediately south ... [4 Related Articles]
city, northern Zambia, southern Africa. It is the third largest city in Zambia and is the main industrial and commercial centre of the copper-belt region. Founded in 1936, Kitwe grew ...
town, western Austria, in the Kitzbuhel Alps, at the southern foot of the Kitzbuheler Horn (6,548 feet [1,998 metres]). First mentioned in 1165 and chartered in 1271, it was held ...
range of the Eastern Alps in western Austria extending for 40 mi (65 km) between the Ziller (west) and Saalach (east) rivers. The highest points in the range are the ...
(from the article "Intelligent Design-Scientific Concept or Religious View?") ...equal-time statute, asserting that creationism by definition was not falsifiable. This trial and a few others like it formed the immediate context in which equal time for ID was litigated ...
(from the article "Swahili language") There are about 15 main Swahili dialects, as well as several pidgin forms in use. The three most important dialects are kiUnguja (or Kiunguja), spoken on Zanzibar and in the ...
