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- (from the article "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 ...
- Kalimpong
- city, extreme northern West Bengal state, northeastern India, just east of the Tista River. The city, a Himalayan hill station, is linked by road with Darjeeling, Siliguri, and Baghdogra and ...
- Kalina
- (from the article "Native American music") The circum-Caribbean area includes the zone along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana; some native peoples of this area include the Arawak, Palikur, Kalina, Waiwai, ...
- Kaline, Al
- professional baseball player, an outfielder who was a preeminent fielder and hitter, batting and throwing right-handed.
- Kalinga
- ancient territorial subdivision of east-central India, corresponding to northern Andhra Pradesh, most of Orissa, and a portion of Madhya Pradesh. Strictly, it stretched no farther south than the Godavari River, ... [8 Related Articles]
- Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich
- communist leader and statesman who was the formal head of the Soviet state from 1919 until 1946.
- Kalinina
- (from the article "Moscow") ...Ring itself has been widened to form a broad highway with multiple lanes in each direction and with overpasses where it is intersected by the main radial routes. In the ...
- Kaliningrad
- oblast (province), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kaliningrad
- city, seaport, and administrative centre of Kaliningrad oblast (region), Russia. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian federation. Kaliningrad ... [2 Related Articles]
- kaliophilite
- (from the article "kaliophilite") variety of the mineral nepheline (q.v.).nephelinenephelineCarnegieite is synthetic, high-temperature nepheline. Kali
- Kalir, Eleazar
- (from the article "mahzor") ...various rites show considerable variety, principally owing to the adoption of different religious hymns (piyyutim) and liturgical compositions. Piyyutim composed by such celebrated medieval poets as Eleazar Kalir abound in ...
- Kalisch, Treaty of
- (from the article "Yorck von Wartenburg, Johann, Graf") ...invading army in Russia. During Napoleon's disastrous retreat, he concluded the Tauroggen Convention with the Russians, neutralizing his force. The Prussian king Frederick William III signed the Treaty of Kalisch ...
- Kalisky, Rene
- Belgian writer of Polish descent who is best known for the plays he wrote in the last 12 years of his life.
- Kalispel
- (from the article "Plateau Indian") ...the Shuswap, Lillooet, and Ntlakapamux (Thompson) tribes. The Interior Salish live mostly in the Upper Columbia area and include the Okanagan, Sinkaietk, Lake, Wenatchee, Sanpoil, Nespelim, Spokan, Kalispel, Pend d'Oreille, ...
- Kalispell
- city, seat (1894) of Flathead county, northwestern Montana, U.S. The city lies in the Flathead Valley near the head of Flathead Lake. It is the western gateway to Glacier National ...
- Kalisz
- city, Wielkopolskie wojewodztwo (province), west-central Poland, situated on the Prosna River.
- Kalisz Privilege
- (from the article "Poland") ...however, began to play an important role in the country's economy-namely, the Jews escaping persecution in the west. Boleslaw V (the Chaste) of Great Poland granted to the Jews the ...
- Kalisz, Treaty of
- (from the article "Poland") ...on the part of a state still much weaker than the Teutonic Knights, Bohemia, or Hungary. Between 1340 and the 1360s, however, Poland expanded by roughly one-third, acquiring a larger ...
- Kaliya
- (from the article "Sedom") Sedom was established in 1937, when potash works were built there as a branch of the Palestine Potash Company at Kaliya, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. There ...
- kaliyuga
- (from the article "eschatology") ...mahayuga and is to last 1,200 "cosmic" years (432,000 years). An age of strife and disorder, decadence, and degeneration, the kaliyuga will, according to Hinduism, be brought ...
- Kalka, battle of the
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") ...and Afghanistan were destroyed, and, by 1223, Mongol armies had crossed the Caucasus. Although an important Russo-Kipchak force was defeated on May 31, 1223, at the battle of the Kalka, ...
- Kalka-shandi, al-
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...("Paths of Discernment in the Realms of the Great Cities") of al-'Umari (1301-48) was chiefly strong on history, geography, and poetry. A third Egyptian, al-Qalqashandi (1355/56-1418), compiled a more important ...
- Kalkbrenner, Friedrich
- German-born French pianist, composer, and teacher whose compositions, mainly for piano, exhibit an emphasis on virtuosity.
- Kalkin
- final avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu, who is yet to appear. At the end of the present Kali age, when virtue and religion have disappeared and the world ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalla, Jusuf
- (from the article "Indonesia") SBY's relations with Vice Pres. Jusuf Kalla deteriorated markedly during 2006-07. Kalla, who was also chair of Golkar, the largest party, had publicly contradicted the president on a number of ...
- Kallai, Gyula
- Hungarian politician who helped restore communist rule in Hungary after the 1956 pro-democracy uprising and later held numerous government positions, including that of prime minister, 1965-67 (b. June 1, 1910--March ...
- Kallar
- (from the article "Shahi Family") ...is recorded of the history of the long line until the last king, Lagaturman, who reigned at the end of the 9th century and who was thrown in prison by ...
- Kallas, Siim
- (from the article "Estonia") ...Estonia stood out among acceding EU members in that it obtained two high-profile appointments: Toomas Hendrik Ilves as a vice chairman of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and Siim ...
- Kallawaya
- (from the article "Bolivia") ...to reduce the infant mortality rate, which is still among the highest on the continent, and provide basic care to rural and poor communities. Folk medicine thrives in some rural ...
- Kallay, Benjamin
- Austro-Hungarian statesman who was concurrently imperial minister of finance and chief secretary for Bosnia for more than two decades (1882-1903). [1 Related Articles]
- Kallay, Miklos
- politician who, as prime minister of Hungary in World War II, unsuccessfully attempted to extricate his country from the German alliance. [1 Related Articles]
- Kallen, Lucille
- American comedy writer who was the sole woman on the team that from 1950 to 1954 created the comedy sketches for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's classic television series
- Kallenberg, H. F.
- (from the article "basketball") ...was either Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania) or the University of Iowa. C.O. Bemis heard about the new sport at Springfield and tried it out with his students at Geneva ...
- Kallergis, Dimitrios
- statesman prominent in the early years of Greek independence.
- Kallesvara
- (from the article "South Asian arts") With the 10th century, the Karnatic idiom begins to show an increasing individuality that culminates in the distinctive style of the 12th century and later. The Kallesvara temple at Kukkanur ...
- kallikrein
- (from the article "renal system") Another substance that causes the dilation of blood vessels, the enzyme kallikrein, may also exert an influence on renal blood flow. Kallikrein is secreted by renal tubules and is added ...
- Kallman, Chester
- (from the article "Auden, W H") ...About the House (1965), and City Without Walls (1969) are sequences of poems arranged according to an external pattern (canonical hours, types of landscape, rooms of a house). With Chester ...
- Kallmann syndrome
- (from the article "endocrine system, human") ...hypothalamic-releasing hormones. A subset of patients with hypogonadism have isolated gonadotropin-releasing hormone deficiency and loss of the sense of smell (anosmia). This disorder is called Kallmann syndrome and is usually ...
- Kallstroemia
- (from the article "Zygophyllales") In Kallstroemia the petals and stamens spread horizontally from the pistil when the flower opens in the morning. The stigma is receptive to pollen carried in by insects (bees, wasps, ...
- kallu
- (from the article "eastern Africa") ...in prayer and sacrifice as the guardian of social morality and as the source of all things, good and bad. Waqa's special agents on earth are the sacred dynasties, or ...
- Kalma, Douwe
- (from the article "Frisian literature") In 1915 Douwe Kalma launched the Young Frisian Movement, which challenged younger writers to break radically with the provincialism and didacticism of past Frisian literature. This break had been anticipated ...
- Kalman, Emmerich
- Hungarian composer, one of the leading exponents of the last era of Viennese operetta.
- Kalman, Tibor
- Hungarian-born American graphic designer (b. July 6, 1949, Budapest, Hung.-d. May 2, 1999, near San Juan, P.R.), was considered a revolutionary for his innovative designs, his dislike of the usual ...
- Kalmar
- lan (county) of southeastern Sweden, in Gotaland region, on the Baltic Sea. It has two distinct parts: the mainland, forming the eastern part of the traditional landskap (province) of Smaland, ...
- Kalmar
- city, port, and capital of the lan (county) of Kalmar, southeastern Sweden. Built partly on two small islands, it lies on Kalmar Sound, which separates mainland Sweden from the island ...
- Kalmar Castle
- (from the article "Kalmar") ...the city, and several historic buildings date from that period: the Italian Renaissance cathedral (1666-1700); the residence of the governor (1674); and the town hall (1680). The 13th-century Kalmar Castle ...
- Kalmar Union
- Scandinavian union formed at Kalmar, Sweden, in June 1397 that brought the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark together under a single monarch until 1523. [6 Related Articles]
- Kalmar War
- (1611-13), the war between Denmark and Sweden for control of the northern Norwegian coast and hinterland, which resulted in Sweden's acceptance of Denmark-Norway's sovereignty over the area. [1 Related Articles]
- kalmia
- any of about seven species of evergreen shrubs constituting a genus (Kalmia) in the heath family (Ericaceae). All the species occur in North America and the West Indies, and one ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalmia Gardens
- (from the article "Darlington") Kalmia Gardens, the Coker College arboretum, contains a virtually complete cross section of South Carolina terrain, along with hundreds of varieties of flora native to the Atlantic seaboard. H.B. Robinson ...
- Kalmit, Mount
- (from the article "Neustadt an der Weinstrasse") ...is held annually in the city, which is also the site of a training and research institute of viticulture and horticulture. The city's convenient location and picturesque setting at the ...
- Kalmus, Herbert
- (from the article "motion picture, history of the") One of the first successful subtractive processes was a two-colour one introduced by Herbert Kalmus's Technicolor Corporation in 1922. It used a special camera and a complex procedure to produce ...
- Kalmyk
- Mongol people residing chiefly in Kalmykia republic, in southwestern Russia. Their language belongs to the Oyrat (Oirat), or western, branch of the Mongolian language group. The Oyrat dialects are also ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kalmyk language
- (from the article "Altaic languages") Buryat (Buriat) and Kalmyk (Kalmuck) are also literary languages written in Cyrillic script. As the result of divergent spelling conventions and differences in vocabulary, written Khalkha and Buryat differ from ...
- Kalmykia
- republic in southwestern Russia, lying northwest of the Caspian Sea and west of the lower Volga River. On the east it reaches the Caspian shore, and in the northeast it ...
- Kalnoky von Korospatak, Gusztav Siegmund, Graf (count)
- Austro-Hungarian statesman who was minister of foreign affairs from 1881 to 1895. [1 Related Articles]
- Kalo-Ioannes
- (from the article "Uzun Hasan") ...in the west, the growing power of the Ottomans. Uzun Hasan entered into a series of alliances to secure his western flank. He made a major move in 1458 by ...
- Kalocsa
- town, Bacs-Kiskun megye (county), central Hungary, located just east of the Danube River. It was one of the bishoprics founded by the first king of Hungary, Stephen I, and its ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kalonymos family
- (from the article "Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms") Eleazar was a member of the eminent Kalonymos family, which gave medieval Germany many of its spiritual leaders and mystics; another member of that family, the semilegendary pietist Judah ben ...
- Kaloyan
- (from the article "Ivan Asen I") ...withdrew to the north, and, in alliance with the Kumans, conquered northern Bulgaria. In 1187 they checked the Byzantine army in Thrace; and, in the armistice that followed, their younger ...
- kalpa
- (from the article "eschatology") ...can be reenacted or influenced by religious ritual. Although the Hindu eschatological tradition involves no final consummation, it is characterized by great cycles (kalpas) of rise and ...
- kalpa
- (from the article "Hinduism") ...600 BCE), (5) jyotisa (luminaries), a system of astronomy and astrology used to determine the right times for rituals, and (6) kalpa (mode of ...
- Kalpa-sutra
- manual of Hindu religious practice, a number of which emerged within the different schools of the Veda, the earliest sacred literature of India. Each manual explains the procedures (kalpa) of ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kalpa-sutra
- a text held in great honour by the Svetambara sect of Jainism, a religion of India. It deals with the lives of the 24 Jaina saviours, the Tirthankaras; the succession ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kalpokas, Donald
- (from the article "Vanuatu") ...well as with the Soviet Union, China, Libya, and Cuba. In mid-1991, after no-confidence votes from both the VP's congress and Parliament, Lini was succeeded as party leader and as ...
- Kalri, Lake
- (from the article "Kotri") ...floods, generates hydroelectricity, and irrigates about 2.8 million acres (1.1 million hectares) in the region. Wheat, cotton, and rice are cultivated. The project also involved the formation of Kalri Lake ...
- kalsilite
- (from the article "nepheline") Carnegieite is synthetic, high-temperature nepheline. Kaliophilite is the high-temperature form of kalsilite, the potassium-rich variety of nepheline. Kaliophilite is unstable at normal temperatures and rarely occurs in nature.
- Kaltenborn, H. V.
- (from the article "The decision to use the atomic bomb") ...From the beginning, however, many Americans thought that the atomic bombs had changed the world in a profound way, one that left them with a feeling of foreboding. The influential ...
- Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
- Austrian Nazi, leader of the Austrian SS and subsequently head of all police forces in Nazi Germany. [1 Related Articles]
- Kalthoff system
- (from the article "repeating rifle") ...repeating flintlock firearms were developed in the early 1600s. One early magazine repeater has been attributed to Michele Lorenzoni, a Florentine gunmaker. In the same period, the faster and safer ...
- Kalu, Orji Uzor
- (from the article "Nigeria") ...by a desire to undermine the political aspirations of his opponents, especially Vice President Abubakar, who was known to have ambitions to succeed Obasanjo in office in 2007. Abia state ...
- Kaluga
- oblast (province), western Russia. It occupies an area in the upper Oka River basin southwest of Moscow oblast. Broad, often swampy valleys alternate with rolling hills of the Central Russian ...
- Kaluga
- city and administrative centre of Kaluga oblast (province), western Russia, west of Moscow on the Oka River. Founded in the 14th century as a stronghold against the Tatars on the ...
- Kaluli
- (from the article "music and dance, Oceanic") For the Kaluli, a group of rain-forest dwellers in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, the American anthropologist Steven Feld has demonstrated the integration of diverse musical structures ...
- Kalulushi
- town, north-central Zambia, southern Africa. Kalulushi is located near the Congo (Kinshasa) border and is about 175 miles (280 km) north of Lusaka, with which it is connected by road. ...
- Kalundborg
- city, northwestern Sjaelland (Zealand), Denmark, situated on Kalundborg Fjord. A favourite royal seat in the European Middle Ages (chartered 1485), its castle was a frequent meeting place for the Danehof ...
- Kalush
- city, southwestern Ukraine. It is approximately 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Lviv and is on the Ivano-Frankivsk-Stryy rail line. The existence of Kalush was first mentioned in the 13th ...
- Kalutara
- town, southwestern Sri Lanka. The town, situated on the coast, is a fishing and trade centre. The local craft is making rope, baskets, and other articles from the fibre of ...
- Kalvar
- (from the article "India") ...at Kanchipuram. There is also frequent mention of the minor chieftains, the Vel, who ruled small areas in many parts of the Tamil country. Ultimately all the chiefdoms suffered at ...
- Kalvarienbergkirche
- (from the article "Eisenstadt") ...Burgenland was ceded to Austria in 1921. Eisenstadt's notable landmarks include the former castle of the Esterhazy princes (14th century; rebuilt 1663-72); the Mount Calvary Church (Kalvarienbergkirche), with the tomb ...
- Kalvis
- in Baltic religion, the heavenly smith, usually associated with a huge iron hammer. A smith in the tradition of the Greek Hephaistos and the Vedic Tvastr, Kalvis also seems to ...
- Kalvitis, Aigars
- (from the article "Latvia") ...sq km (24,938 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 2,274,000 | Capital: Riga | Chief of state: Presidents Vaira Vike-Freiberga and, from July 8, Valdis Zatlers | Head of government: ...
- Kalvos, Andreas Ioannidis
- Greek poet who brought an Italian Neoclassical influence to the Ionian school of poets (the school of Romantics from the seven Ionian islands). [1 Related Articles]
- Kalyan
- city, western Maharashtra state, western India, on the Ulhas River, northeast of Bombay, a part of the Greater Bombay urban agglomeration. A relatively unimportant trading centre in Roman times, Kalyan ...
- Kalyani
- (from the article "Bidar") The surrounding lowland area is drained by the Karanja River and produces millet, wheat, and oilseeds. Kalyani, 42 miles (68 km) west of Bidar, was the capital of the second ...
- Kalyani
- (from the article "Kanchrapara") ...jute milling is the major industry. A temple is dedicated to Krishna, and a religious festival is held annually. Just north of the temple lies a governmental land-development area, which ...
- Kam'yanets-Podilskyy
- city, western Ukraine, on the Smotrych River. The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century. Lying at ...
- Kama
- in the mythology of India, the god of love. During the Vedic age (2nd millennium-7th century BCE), he personified cosmic desire, or the creative impulse, and was called the firstborn ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kama River
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") ...Lobujya (Lobuche) River of Nepal, which flows southward as the Imja River to its confluence with the Dudh Kosi River. In Tibet the Rong River originates from the Pumori and ...
- kama-loka
- (from the article "kama-loka") in Buddhism, the world of feeling. See arupa-loka.Buddhist cosmologyBuddhismCosmology...share the ne
- kamaboko
- (from the article "fish processing") ...flesh, followed by heating, resulted in a natural gelling of the flesh. When the surimi was combined with other ingredients, mixed or kneaded, and steamed, various fish gel products called ...
- kamacite
- mineral consisting of iron alloyed with 5-7 percent nickel by weight and found in almost all meteorites which contain nickel-iron metal. It has a body-centred cubic structure and is sometimes ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kamaishi
- city, Iwate ken (prefecture), 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 ken (prefecture), 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [16 Related Articles]
- Kamakura realism
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Kei family, led by Kokei and his son Unkei. Inspired both by the exquisite idealism of the Nara-period works and by the fashion for realism found in Chinese Sung dynasty ...
- Kamakura shogunate
- (from the article "shogunate") ...1185; seven years later he assumed the title of shogun and established the first shogunate, or bakufu (literally, "tent government"), at his Kamakura headquarters. Eventually the Kamakura shogunate came to ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kamalpur Valley
- (from the article "Tripura") Central and northern Tripura is a hilly region crossed by four major valleys-from east to west, the Dharmanagar, Kailashahar, Kamalpur, and Khowai-carved out by northward-flowing rivers (the Juri, Manu and ...
- 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, ... [3 Related Articles]
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