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Kama: in the mythology of India, the god of love. During the Vedic age, he personified cosmic desire, or the creative impulse, and is called the first-born of the primeval chaos ...
Kama River: river in west-central Russia. Rising in the Upper Kama Upland of Udmurtia, it flows north, then east, south, and southwest for 1,122 miles (1,805 km) until it enters the Volga ...
kama-dhatu: in Buddhism, the realm of feeling. See arupa-loka.
kama-loka: in Buddhism, the world of feeling. See arupa-loka.
kamacite: meteoritic mineral consisting of iron alloyed with 5 to 7 percent nickel. It is found in iron meteorites and comprises all the metal in hexahedrites; it also is a principal ...
Kamaishi: city, Iwate Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, facing Kamaishi Bay on the Pacific Ocean. Kamaishi was a small fishing village until magnetite was discovered in the area in 1727, and Japan's ...
Kamakura: city, Kanagawa Prefecture (ken), Honshu, Japan, on the Pacific Ocean, south of Yokohama. Situated at the western base of the Miura Peninsula, it is enclosed on three sides by hills ...
Kamakura period: in Japanese history, the period from 1192 to 1333 during which the basis of feudalism was firmly established. It was named for the city where Minamoto Yoritomo set up the ...
Kamakura-bori: (Japanese: "Kamakura carving"), in Japanese lacquerwork, technique in which designs are carved in wood and then coated with red or black lacquer. Originally, it was an imitation of a Chinese ...
kamanja: stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, ...
Kamaraj, Kumaraswami: Indian statesman who rose from the Nadar (next-to-lowest) caste to become chief minister of Madras (later Tamil Nadu) and president of the Congress Party.
Kamaran: island in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, to which it belongs. The largest member of an archipelago, it is 22 square miles (57 square km) in area. ...
Kamares ware: style of painted pottery that flourished on Crete during the Middle Minoan period (c. 2100-c. 1550 BC). Surviving examples include ridged cups, small, round spouted jars, and large storage jars ...
Kamarhati: city, east-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Hooghly River and is part of the Calcutta urban agglomeration. The city's major industries include jute and ...
Kamarupa: ancient Indian state corresponding roughly to what is now the state of Assam in northeastern India. This region had many rulers but, being protected by natural fortifications, maintained fairly consistent ...
Kamba: Bantu-speaking people of Kenya. They are closely related to the neighbouring Kikuyu.
Kambalda: mining town, southern Western Australia. It lies 37 miles (60 km) south of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Gold was mined there from 1896 to 1906, but the site's modern importance dates from 1966, ...
Kamban, Gudmundur: one of Iceland's most important 20th-century dramatists and novelists. His work, which is anchored in a deep historical awareness, frequently criticized modern Western values and spoke in favour of compassion ...
Kamchatka: oblast (province), far eastern Russia. Kamchatka oblast includes the entire Kamchatka Peninsula and the southern end of the Koryak Mountains. It includes the Koryak autonomous okrug (district). The administrative centre ...
Kamchatka Peninsula: peninsula in far eastern Russia, lying between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east. It is about 750 miles (1,200 ...
Kamchatka River: river, far eastern Russia. It rises in the Sredinny ("Central") Range of the Kamchatka Peninsula and flows north and east about 478 miles (758 km) past Milkovo, head of shallow-draught ...
kame: moundlike hill of poorly sorted drift, mostly sand and gravel, deposited at or near the terminus of a glacier. A kame may be produced either as a delta of a ...
Kamehameha I: Hawaiian conqueror and king who, by 1810, had united all the Hawaiian islands and founded the Kamehameha dynasty, the most enduring and best-documented line of Hawaiian rulers.
Kamehameha II: king of Hawaii from 1819 to 1824, son of Kamehameha I.
Kamehameha III: king of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854, brother of Kamehameha II.
Kamehameha IV: Hawaiian sovereign known for his firm opposition to the annexation of his kingdom by the United States. As Kamehameha IV, he strove to curb the political power of the American ...
Kamehameha V: king of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872.
kamelaukion: closed bonnetlike headdress, apparently of Byzantine origin, rising from a circlet and usually equipped with hanging ornaments, or pendilia, on each side. Its form is retained in the mitres of ...
Kamen-na-Obi: city and administrative centre of Kamensky rayon (sector), Altay kray (region), south-central Russia. A port on the Ob River, it was founded in 1670 and designated an urban settlement in ...
Kamenev, Lev Borisovich: original name Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an ...
Kamenshek, Dorothy: American athlete, one of the stars of women's professional baseball, who was considered a superior player at first base and at bat.
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky: city, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia, on the Seversky ("Northern") Donets River. Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927. Once a major coal-mining centre ...
Kamensk-Uralsky: city, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia, at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset rivers. The first state iron foundry in the Urals, Kamensky Zavod, was established there in 1700-01. ...
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike: Dutch winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his work on low-temperature physics and his production of liquid helium. He discovered superconductivity, the almost total lack of ...
Kamerny Theatre: small, intimate theatre founded in Moscow in 1914 by the Russian director Aleksandr Tairov (q.v.) to support his experimental synthetic theatre that incorporated all theatrical arts-ballet, opera, music, mime, and ...
Kames, Henry Home, Lord: lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher.
kami: object of worship in Shinto and other indigenous religions of Japan. The term kami is often translated as "god," "lord," or "deity"; but it also includes other forces of nature, ...
kamidana: (Japanese: "god-shelf"), in the Shinto religion of Japan, a miniature shrine, the centre of daily worship in a household or a shop. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard ...
kamikaze: any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks. The ...
Kamil Pasa, Mehmed: Turkish army officer who served four times as Ottoman grand vizier (chief minister).
Kamil, al-Malik al-: sultan (from 1218) of the Ayyubid line, who ruled Egypt, Palestine, and Syria during the Fifth and Sixth crusades.
Kamil, Mustafa: also called Mustafa Kamil Pasha lawyer, journalist, and Egyptian nationalist who was a founder of the National Party.
Kamina: town, southeastern Congo (Kinshasa). The town is an important centre on the Lubumbashi-Ilebo rail line at the junction of branch lines northward to Kindu and to Kalemie, a port with ...
Kaminaljuyu: historic centre of the highland Maya, located near modern Guatemala City, Guat. The site was inhabited from the Formative Period (1500 BC-AD 100) until its decline after the Late Classic ...
Kaministiquia River: river, western Ontario, Can. It rises in Dog Lake and, after a crooked course of 60 miles (95 km), empties into Thunder Bay, an arm of Lake Superior. It has ...
Kaminska, Ida: Polish-born Yiddish performer and theatre manager who achieved international stature.
Kamloops: city, southern British Columbia, Can. It lies astride the confluence of the North and South Thompson rivers near their expansion into Kamloops Lake and adjacent to the Kamloops Indian Reserve, ...
kammatthana: in Theravada Buddhist tradition, one of the objects of mental concentration or a stage of meditation employing it. According to Visuddhi-magga (a 5th-century CE Pali text by ...
Kammerer, Paul: Austrian biologist who claimed to have produced experimental evidence that acquired traits could be inherited.
Kammu: 50th emperor of Japan, who established the Japanese capital at Heian-kyo, where it remained until 1868. His accomplishments laid the basis for the Heian period (794-1185).
Kamo Chomei: poet and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry, one of the major figures in the history of Japanese poetics. He is best known as a classic example of the man of ...
Kamo Mabuchi: one of the earliest representatives of the Kokugaku ("National Learning") school, a movement to restore the true Japanese spirit by a return to ancient traditions and culture. The school was ...
Kamose: last king of the 17th dynasty (c. 1630-1540 BC) of Egypt, who opened hostilities with the Hyksos, the west Semitic invaders who had seized part of Egypt in the 17th ...
kampaku: (Japanese: "white barrier"), in Japanese history, office of chief councillor or regent to an adult emperor. The post was created in the Heian period (794-1185) and was thereafter customarily held ...
Kampala: capital and largest city of Uganda. It occupies a series of hills at an elevation of about 3,900 feet (1,190 metres) and is situated in the southern part of the ...
Kampan: sometimes called the finest Tamil poet, whose principal achievement is the epic Iramavataram (Rama's Incarnation).
Kampen: gemeente (commune) and port, Overijssel provincie, north-central Netherlands. It is situated on the southwest side of the IJssel River near its influx into Lake ...
Kampfer, Engelbert: German traveler whose writings are a valuable source of information on 17th-century Iran and Japan.
Kamphaeng Phet: town, western Thailand. It lies along the Ping River and is an old walled settlement with notable ruins and temples and a museum. Rice cultivation is the main economic activity ...
Kampong Cham: town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies on the right bank of the Mekong River and is an important river port about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Phnom Penh, the ...
Kampong Chhnang: town, central Cambodia. Kampong Chhnang is located just west of the Sab River and has port facilities. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by a national highway ...
Kampong Saom: a new town, autonomous municipality, and the only deepwater port of Cambodia, situated on a peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand. The port is connected with Phnom Penh, the national ...
Kampong Spoe: town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies along the Tnaot River at the foot of the Damrei ("Elephant") Mountains and astride a national highway linking Phnom Penh, the national capital, with ...
Kampong Thum: town, north-central Cambodia. Kampong Thum lies along the Sen River and is linked to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by national highway routes.
Kampot: town, southern Cambodia. Kampot is located near the mouth of the Koh Sla River. In the 19th century it was the country's chief port, but this function was taken over ...
Kamsack: town, eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Whitesand rivers, just west of the Manitoba border, 167 miles (268 km) northeast of Regina.
Kamyshin: city, Volgograd oblast (province), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River and the Volgograd reservoir. In 1697 Peter I the Great built a fort, Petrovsk, to protect workmen ...
Kan River: river, chiefly in Kiangsi sheng (province), China. The Kan River is one of the principal southern tributaries of the Yangtze River. Its headwaters rise in Kwangtung province, where the Ta-yu ...
Kan'ami: Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of no drama.
Kan-chou: city in southern Kiangsi sheng (province), China. Kan-chou is a natural route centre at the confluence of the various river systems that branch off from the north-south route to ...
kana: two parallel modern Japanese syllabaries (katakana and hiragana), each of which independently represents all the sounds of the Japanese language. Although each derives its simple elements from Chinese characters, the ...
Kanab: city, seat (1864) of Kane county, southwestern Utah, U.S., on Kanab Creek, at the foot of Vermillion Cliffs, just north of the Arizona line. Settlement was first made in 1864 ...
Kanaga Island: one of the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands chain, southwestern Alaska, U.S. The uninhabited island measures 30 miles (50 km) long and 4 to 8 miles (6.5 to 13 ...
Kanagaki Robun: Japanese writer of humorous light fiction who brought a traditional satirical art to bear on the peculiarities of Japanese society in the process of Westernization.
Kanagawa: ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, located south of Tokyo and bordered by Tokyo Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the south. It occupies an area of 928 square ...
Kanagawa, Treaty of: (March 31, 1854), Japan's first treaty with a Western nation. Concluded by representatives of the United States and Japan at Kanagawa (now part of Yokohama), it marked the end of ...