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- (from the article "Cook Islands") ...fauna, though a few goats, horses, and other animals have also been introduced. Some native birds became extinct in the 19th century after Europeans introduced cats. The
- Kakhovka Reservoir
- (from the article "Dnieper River") ...the Dnieper again passes into a wide valley with a high right bank (130 feet near Nikopol, 260 feet near Kherson). The slopes of the river there are very slight. ...
- Kakiemon ware
- Japanese porcelain made primarily during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) by the Sakaida family, who established kilns at Arita, near the port of Imari in the province of Hizen (now in ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kakinada
- city, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. Although a seaport, it is now little used because the anchorage is 5 to 6 miles (8 to 10 km) offshore. Because it ...
- Kakinomoto Hitomaro
- poet venerated by the Japanese since earliest times. He was also Japan's first great literary figure. [1 Related Articles]
- Kakiouzis, Mihalis
- (from the article "Basketball") ...cope with the ferocious perimeter defense of the Spanish, who never trailed after Felipe Reyes put them ahead 10-9. Juan Carlos Navarro and Jorge Garbajosa led Spain with 20 points ...
- Kakogawa
- city in Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies in the lower valley of the Kako River. A prosperous river port during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), it was industrialized after ...
- Kakongo
- former African kingdom that was located on the Atlantic coast, north of the mouth of the Congo River (present-day Angola, in the Cabinda exclave), between the kingdoms of Ngoyo and ...
- Kakoulima Massif
- (from the article "Guinea") ...consists of level plateaus broken by deeply incised valleys and dotted with sills and dikes, or exposed structures of ancient volcanism resulting in resistant landforms of igneous rock, such as ...
- Kakrak
- (from the article "Central Asian arts") ...Nowshirvan, near Bamian, a 4th-century painting of a Sasanian king flanked by attendants survives. The murals in Bamian's 5th-century temple of Kakrak include one of a deified king of Sasanian ...
- Kakshaal Range
- (from the article "Tien Shan") ...4,600 metres), while the elevations of the depressions that separate them vary from 6,000 to 10,500 feet (1,800 to 3,200 metres). The most important ranges are Borkoldoy, Dzhetym, At-Bashy, and ...
- kakuet
- (from the article "Kipsikis") Kipsikis do not live in villages but rather are organized in hamlets of adjacent homesteads, called kakuet, that serve as both political and economic units. Farming activities are coordinated through ...
- kakungu
- (from the article "art, African") ...panels. Tudansi masks, worn by the young men at their initiation into manhood and decorated with polychrome and raffia collars, are topped with animal figures. The dramatically painted kakungu mask ...
- Kakure Kirishitan
- (Japanese: "Hidden Christians"), descendants of the first Japanese converts to Christianity who, driven underground by 1650, managed to maintain their faith in secret for more than two centuries. See Kirishitan. [1 Related Articles]
- Kakusthavarman
- (from the article "Kadamba Family") ...the title Dharmamaharajadhiraja ("Lawful King of Kings"), was probably the king of Kuntala defeated by the Vakateka king Vindhyaseva. His grandson Kakusthavarman (reigned c. 425-450) was a powerful ruler involved ...
- Kakuta, Mitsuyo
- (from the article "Literature") ...story "Tokage" ("Lizard"). Eimi Yamada's 2005 work Fumi zekka ("Superb Flavours") was filmed, which gained her even more readers. Ito's wife, Mitsuyo Kakuta, proved to be one of the most ...
- Kakwa
- (from the article "Uganda") ...was overthrown before they could be put into effect. Obote had relied heavily on the loyalty of Idi Amin, but Amin had been building support for himself within the army ...
- Kal
- (from the article "Anatolian religion") ...a bird and a hare, as on the Kultepe seals, and he stands on a stag, his sacred animal. From descriptions of the statues it appears that this is the ...
- kala
- (from the article "South Asian arts") Some major examples of religious folk dances are the dindi and kala dances of Maharashtra, which are expressions of religious ecstasy. The dancers revolve in a circle, beating short sticks ...
- kala
- (from the article "dravya") ...and infinite. Only pudgala is perceptible, and only jiva has consciousness. Added later by the Digambara sect, a sixth category of
- kala-azar
- (from the article "kala-azar") infectious disease that is a type of leishmaniasis (q.v.).characteristics and treatmentleishmaniasis...species of Leishm
- Kalabadhi
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...wisdom in rather cryptic language (thereby contributing to the profundity of Arabic vocabulary), and the handbooks of religious teaching produced in eastern Arab and Persian areas (Sarraj, Kalabadhi, Qushayri, and, ...
- Kalabagh
- (from the article "Pakistan") ...far from complete, but some two dozen different types of exploitable minerals have been located. Iron ore deposits are mostly of poor quality. The most extensive known reserves are situated ...
- Kalabalala Tank
- (from the article "dam") ...earthen dams of moderate height (in some cases of great length) were built by the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka after the 5th century BC to form reservoirs or tanks for ...
- Kalabari
- (from the article "African dance") ...and dances that have a therapeutic function culminating in a ceremony in which the initiate publicly joins the members of the society to perform the Ajun-Kpa dance. The female spirit ...
- Kalabari language
- (from the article "Ijoid languages") ...Ijo were among the first West Africans to come into contact with Europeans; thus the Ijo language is believed to be one of the first Nigerian languages written. As a ...
- Kalacakra-tantra
- (Sanskrit: "Wheel of Time Tantra"), chief text of a divergent, syncretistic, and astrologically oriented school of Tantric Buddhism that arose in northwestern India in the 10th century. The work represents ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kalach-na-Donu
- (from the article "Don River") ...8,900 cubic feet per second, but flows range from 1,500 to approximately 395,000 cubic feet per second. There are corresponding variations as the annual flow increases downstream. At the city ...
- Kalachi-Jo-goth
- (from the article "Karachi") ...called Caranjee, Crochey, Krotchey, Currachee, and Kurrachee. All its names are believed to be derived from the Sindhi name of the original settlement that initially stood on the spot-Kalachi-Jo-goth (meaning ...
- Kalacuri Dynasty
- any of several dynasties in Indian history, disparately placed in time and space. Apart from the dynastic name and perhaps a belief in common ancestry, there is little in known ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalacuri Dynasty
- (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") Two other Kalacuri families are known to history: the Kalacuris of Sarayupara and the Kalacuris of Ratanpur. The Sarayupara family ruled a territory along the banks of the Sarayu (modern ...
- Kalacuri Dynasty
- (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") The Ratanpur Kalacuris, who first ruled from Tummana and later from Ratanpur (16 miles [26 km] north of Bilaspur), were distantly related to, and feudatories of, the Tripuri Kalacuris. Beginning ...
- Kalacuri Dynasty
- (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") Another Kalacuri dynasty rose to power in the Deccan and spanned the period 1156-81. This family traced its origin to Krsna, conqueror of Kalanjara and Dahala in Madhya Pradesh, but ...
- Kalacuri Dynasty
- (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") The best known Kalacuri family in Indian history ruled in central India, with its base at the ancient city of Tripuri (modern Tewar). Its origin is placed about the beginning ...
- Kalahari
- a large, basinlike plain of the interior plateau of southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kalahari Craton
- (from the article "Africa") The African continent essentially consists of five ancient Precambrian cratons (Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Congo, and West African) that were formed between about 3.6 and 2.0 billion years ago and that ...
- Kalahari Gemsbok National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...best-known national parks, Kruger National Park, with Mozambique's Limpopo National Park and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park. Another is Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, which links South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park with ...
- kalak
- (from the article "Tigris-Euphrates river system") The traditional vessel for downstream transportation on both rivers was the kalak-a raft of timber supported on inflated goatskins. Kalaks could carry loads of up to 35 tons, including men ...
- Kalaka
- (from the article "Kalakacaryakatha") ...icons in small panels; but gradually they become more elaborate, with scenes from the lives of the various Jaina saviours as told in the Kalpa-sutra and from the adventures of ...
- Kalakacaryakatha
- a noncanonical work of the Shvetambara ("White-robed") sect of Jainism, a religion of India. [1 Related Articles]
- Kalakaua
- king of Hawaii from 1874 to 1891. [1 Related Articles]
- kalam
- in Islam, speculative theology. The term is derived from the phrase kalam Allah (Arabic: "word of God"), which refers to the Qur'an, the sacred scripture of Islam. Those who practice ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kalamai
- industrial city and port of the southern Peloponnese and capital of the nomos (department) of Messenia, Greece. It lies along the Nedhon River at the head of the Gulf of ...
- kalamatianos
- (from the article "kalamatianos") a Greek chain dance, a form of the syrtos (q.v.).form of syrtossyrtosIn 1803 the surviving women of the war-torn town ...
- Kalamazoo
- city, seat (1830) of Kalamazoo county, southwestern Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Kalamazoo River, some 50 miles (80 km) south of Grand Rapids. A fur-trading post known as Kikalamazoo-a ...
- Kalamazoo College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. It is a liberal arts college dedicated to undergraduate studies. In addition to the arts and sciences, the college offers ...
- Kalambo Falls
- waterfall, the second highest uninterrupted fall in Africa (after Tugela Falls, South Africa), located on the Kalambo River near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the Tanzania-Zambia border. The ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kalamukha
- (from the article "Kapalika and Kalamukha") members of either of two groups of Shaivite (devotees of Shiva) ascetics most prominent in India from the 8th through the 13th century, notorious for their practices of worship, which ...
- kalanchoe
- (genus Kalanchoe), any of several species of succulent plants of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae), popular for their easy culture indoors.
- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
- (from the article "kalanchoe") ...devil's backbone (K. daigremontiana); and South American air plant (K. fedtschenkoi). A range of attractive pot plants, distinguished by their colourful flowers, have been derived from K. blossfeldiana; they are ...
- Kalanga
- (from the article "Zimbabwe") ...have populated what is now Zimbabwe for more than 10 centuries. Those who speak Ndebele are concentrated in a circle around Bulawayo, with Shona-speaking peoples beyond them on all sides-the ...
- Kalantiyaw, Code of
- one of the few written documents to survive from the pre-Spanish Philippine culture. The penal code was apparently written in 1433 and discovered on the island of Panay in 1614.
- Kalapuya language
- (from the article "Penutian languages") ...(two languages), Yakonan (two extinct languages), Yokutsan (three languages), and Maiduan (four languages)-plus Klamath-Modoc, Cayuse (extinct), Molale (extinct), Coos, Takelma (extinct), Kalapuya, Chinook (not to be confused with Chinook jargon, ...
- kalasa
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...(skandha), above which is a circular necking (griva), carrying a large grooved disc called the amalasaraka. On it rests a pot and a crowning finial (kalasa).
- Kalasan
- (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") Post-Borobudur candis illustrate the Buddhist doctrine in different ways. Kalasan, for example, built in the second half of the 8th century, was a large, square shrine on ...
- Kalasasaya
- (from the article "Tiwanaku") The principal buildings of Tiwanaku include the Akapana Pyramid, a huge platform mound or stepped pyramid of earth faced with cut andesite; a rectangular enclosure known as the Kalasasaya, constructed ...
- Kalashnikov, Mikhail Timofeyevich
- (from the article "small arm") ...a muzzle velocity of 2,330 feet per second. Historical evidence suggests that they were influenced by the Sturmgewehr, but to what extent remains uncertain. In 1947 they adopted a weapon ...
- Kalasin
- town, northeastern Thailand on the Khorat Plateau. It lies on the east bank of the Bao River on a major road from Khon Kaen to Sakon Nakhon. The area is ...
- Kalasoka
- (from the article "Saisunaga Dynasty") The reign of Sisunaga's son Kalasoka is known chiefly for two important events: the meeting of the second Buddhist Council at Vaisali and the shifting of the Magadhan capital to ...
- Kalat
- (from the article "Brahui") The 29 tribes owe a loose allegiance to the Brahui khan of Kalat, which has long been associated with the confederacy's destinies. A group of eight tribes forms what is ...
- Kalat
- town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The town, known locally as Kalat-e Baluch to distinguish it from Kalat-e Ghilzai (Qalat-e Ghelza'i) in Afghanistan, and Kalat-e Sewa after its legendary founder, occupies a ...
- Kalaupapa National Historical Park
- (from the article "Molokai") ...coffee and sweet potatoes among the leading exports. Kaunakakai, the chief village, is on the south coast and has a small harbour. Tourism is not significant on Molokai. Notable attractions ...
- Kalaupapa Peninsula
- peninsula on the northern shore of Molokai island, Hawaii, U.S. Occupying a 5-square-mile (13-square-km) plateau unsuited to agriculture, the peninsula is isolated from the rest of the island by 2,000-foot ...
- Kalavria
- (from the article "Poros") ...of the nomos (department) of Attiki, Greece. It actually comprises two islands totaling 9 square miles (23 square km), the larger of which is the wooded, limestone island of Kalavria, ...
- Kalavria
- (from the article "Poros") ...wooded, limestone island of Kalavria, separated from the village of Galatas on the mainland by a narrow channel, or poros, whence the collective name. Between the channel and Kalavria is ...
- Kalavrita
- (from the article "Greece") ...Two of the defendants were released on parole on July 10, having served three-fifths of their sentences. In other legal news, on February 15 the European Court of Justice ruled ...
- Kalawao
- (from the article "Kalaupapa Peninsula") ...of an ancient Hawaiian agricultural village, whose major crops were taro and sweet potatoes. Archaeological evidence has revealed a once densely populated settlement containing many religious sites. Kalawao village, on ...
- Kalb
- (from the article "Umayyad Dynasty") ...mawali (non-Arab Muslims) by placing all Muslims on the same footing, without respect of nationality, led to financial crisis, while the recrudescence of feuds between southern (Kalb) and northern (Qays) ...
- Kalb River, Al-
- river, west-central Lebanon, flowing westward and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea north of Beirut. Apart from a small section near the coast the river is seasonal; in summer its only ...
- Kalb, Johann
- prominent German officer who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolution.
- Kalderash
- (from the article "Rom") ...Roma recognize divisions among themselves with some sense of territoriality emphasized by certain cultural and dialectal differences. Some authorities delineate three main confederations: (1) the Kalderash (smiths who came from ...
- Kaldor, Nicholas
- (from the article "economic growth") Other models of growth also illustrate this distinction between demand-determined and supply-determined growth. The British economist N. Kaldor assumed that there is a mechanism at work generating full employment. Simply ...
- kale
- (species Brassica oleracea, Acephala group), loose-leafed, edible plant derived from the cabbage of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) and including several forms. Common, or Scotch, and Buda kale are among the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kaleb, Vjekoslav
- (from the article "Croatian literature") ...atmosphere that followed Yugoslavia's break with the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1948, new prose writers included Ranko Marinkovic (Kiklop [1965; "The Cyclops"]) and Vjekoslav Kaleb (Divota prasine ...
- Kaledin, Aleksey Maksimovich
- Russian Imperial Army officer and Cossack leader who was one of the first to organize military resistance against the Bolsheviks after their accession to power in Russia (October 1917, Old ...
- Kaleida Labs, Inc.
- (from the article "Apple Inc.") ...agreement with Motorola, Inc., to develop a next-generation RISC (reduced-instruction-set computing) chip, known as the PowerPC, Apple and IBM created two new software companies, Taligent, Inc., and Kaleida Labs, Inc., ...
- kaleidoscope
- optical device consisting of mirrors that reflect images of bits of coloured glass in a symmetrical geometric design through a viewer. The design may be changed endlessly by rotating the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalemi
- town, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, central Africa. It is a port on the west bank of Lake Tanganyika where the Lukuga River exits, and it has an airport ...
- kalemiye
- (from the article "Ottoman Empire") ...or askeriye) institution, which was responsible for expanding and defending the empire and keeping order and security within the sultan's dominions; the administrative, or scribal (kalemiye), institution, organized as the ...
- Kalendae
- (from the article "calendar") ...the Roman republican calendar method of numbering the days of the month. Compared with the present system, the Roman numbering seems to run backward, for the first day of the ...
- Kalene Hill
- (from the article "Zambezi River") The Zambezi rises out of a marshy bog near Kalene Hill, Zambia, about 4,800 feet (1,460 metres) above sea level, and flows some 20 miles before entering Angola, through which ...
- Kalenjin
- any member of the Kipsikis (Kipsigis), Nandi, Pokot, or other related peoples of west-central Kenya, northern Tanzania, and Uganda who speak Southern Nilotic languages of the Nilo-Saharan language family. [2 Related Articles]
- Kalevala
- Finnish national epic compiled from old Finnish ballads, lyrical songs, and incantations that were a part of Finnish oral tradition. [8 Related Articles]
- Kalf, Willem
- one of the best known Dutch painters of still-life compositions.
- Kalgan
- city in northwestern Hebei sheng (province), northern China. Kalgan, the name by which the city is most commonly known, is from a Mongolian word meaning "gate in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalgoorlie
- town, south central Western Australia. Together with neighbouring Boulder to the south, it forms the principal settlement of the East Coolgardie goldfield, on the western fringe of the Nullarbor Plain ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kalhana
- (from the article "Rajatarangini") (Sanskrit: "River of Kings"), historical chronicle of early India, written in Sanskrit verse by the Kashmir Brahman Kalhana in 1148; it is justifiably considered to be the best and most ...
- Kali
- in Hinduism, goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or the black goddess (the feminine form of Sanskrit kala, "time-doomsday-death," or "black"). Kali's iconography, cult, and mythology commonly ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kali Gandak River Valley
- (from the article "valley") Probably the world's deepest subaerial valley is that of the Kali Gandaki River in Nepal. Lying between two 8,000-metre (26,000-foot) Himalayan peaks, Dhaulagiri and Annapurna, the valley has a total ...
- Kali Yuga
- (from the article "chronology") ..."order" (dharma) established in the first stage, the Krta Yuga, gradually decaying in the three others, the Treta, Dvapara, and Kali yugas. The respective durations of these ...
- Kalibangan
- ancient site of the Indus Valley Civilization, in northwestern India (now Rajasthan). This site, discovered by A. Ghosh (director general of the Archaeological Survey of India), is of archaeological significance ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kalibobo lighthouse
- (from the article "Madang") ...colony. It was abandoned by the Germans in 1899 because of the prevalence of malaria there. Australian administration after 1914 was followed in 1942-45 by Japanese occupation of the area. ...
- Kalidasa
- Sanskrit poet and dramatist, probably the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. The six works identified as genuine are the dramas Abhijnanasakuntala ("The Recognition of Sakuntala"), Vikramorvasi ("Urvasi Won by ... [6 Related Articles]
- Kalighat painting
- short-lived style of watercolour painting produced in the 19th century in India by artists in the Calcutta marketplace for sale to pilgrims visiting the Kalighat temple. The style is characterized ...
- Kaliman
- (from the article "comic strip") ...values with an instinctive comic exuberance that occasionally lapsed into didacticism. He appealed primarily to students and the professional classes. Most other Mexicans were more attracted to Kaliman, an asexual ...
- Kalimantan
- southern three-quarters of the island of Borneo (q.v.) that is politically part of Indonesia. Indonesians, however, use the word as a geographic term for the entire island. The origin of ...
- Kalimantan Barat
- provinsi ("province"), western Borneo, Indonesia, bounded on the north by the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, by the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan Timur on the northeast and Kalimantan Tengah on ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalimantan Selatan
- provinsi ("province"), southeastern Borneo, Indonesia, bounded by the Makassar Strait on the east, the Java Sea on the south, and the provinces of Kalimantan Tengah on the west and Kalimantan ...
- Kalimantan Tengah
- provinsi ("province"), south-central Borneo, Indonesia, bounded by Kalimantan Barat province on the northwest, Kalimantan Timur province on the north and northeast, Kalimantan Selatan province on the southeast, and the Java ...
- Kalimantan Timur
- provinsi ("province"), east-central Borneo, Indonesia, fronting the Celebes Sea to the northeast and the Makassar Strait to the southeast. It is bounded on the north and northwest by the East ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalimnos
- mountainous Greek island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Dodecanese group, 42 square miles (111 square km) in area. The capital, Kalimnos (Pothia), located at the head of an ...
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