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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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., ...
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).
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
