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Kansan Glacial Stage: major division of Pleistocene deposits and time in North America (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 2,500,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Kansan glaciation followed the Aftonian ...
Kansas: constituent state of the United States of America. The state's 82,277 square miles (213,098 square km) are bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the ...
Kansas City: city, Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, western Missouri, U.S. Located on the Missouri River at the confluence with the Kansas River, the city is contiguous with Kansas City, Kansas, forming ...
Kansas City: city, seat (1866) of Wyandotte county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers and is contiguous with Kansas City, Missouri. When the Lewis ...
Kansas City Group: division of Late Carboniferous rocks (320 to 286 million years ago) in the United States. The division was named for exposures studied in the region of Kansas City, Mo. Rocks ...
Kansas City Star: evening daily newspaper published in Kansas City, Missouri, the leading paper of the region and one of the great newspapers of the United States.
Kansas City style: music associated with jazz musicians who, though not all born there, were based around Kansas City, Mo., during the 1930s: pianists Pete Johnson and Mary Lou Williams; singer Big Joe ...
Kansas River: stream in northeastern Kansas, U.S. It is formed by the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers at Junction City and is joined by the Big Blue River near ...
Kansas State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning consisting of two campuses. The main campus is a land-grant institution located in Manhattan, Kan., U.S., offering a full range of undergraduate and graduate ...
Kansas, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning with a main campus in Lawrence, Kan., U.S. Its Medical Center campus is in Kansas City, and there is also a medical campus in ...
Kansas-Nebraska Act: (May 30, 1854), in the antebellum period of U.S. history, critical national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories, affirming the concept of popular sovereignty (q.v.) over ...
Kansei reforms: series of conservative measures promoted (largely during the Kansei era [1789-1801]) by the Japanese statesman Matsudaira Sadanobu between 1787 and 1793 to restore the sinking financial and moral condition of ...
kanshitsu: (Japanese: "dry lacquer"), technique of Japanese sculpture and decorative arts in which a figure or vessel is fashioned with many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer, the surface details ...
Kansk: city, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), central Russia, on the Kan River where it is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Founded in 1640 as a Russian fort, it is ...
Kansu: sheng (province) of China. Administratively a part of the Northwest region, it reaches into the geographic centre of the country. It is bordered by Mongolia to the north, the Inner ...
Kant, Immanuel: German philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in the theory of knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism and Idealism.
Kantemir, Antiokh Dmitriyevich: distinguished Russian statesman who was his country's first secular poet and one of its leading writers of the classical school.
Kantemir, Dmitry: Romanian Dimitrie Cantemir statesman and scientist, the greatest member of the distinguished Romanian-Russian family of Cantemir. He was prince of Moldavia (1710-11) and later imperial chancellor of Peter the Great ...
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss: American social scientist and writer whose interests centred on the dynamics of corporate culture, management approaches, and corporate change.
kantharos: drinking cup in Attic Greek pottery from the period of the red-figure and black-figure styles (qq.v.). The kantharos is in the form of a deep cup, with loop-shaped handles arising ...
Kantianism: either the system of thought contained in the writings of the epoch-making 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant or those later philosophies that arose from the study of Kant's writings and drew ...
Kanto Plain: plain that is the most extensive lowland in Japan, located in central Honshu, facing the Pacific Ocean. Its 6,244 square miles (16,172 square km) contain the capital city, Tokyo, and ...
Kanto Range: mountain range, on Honshu, Japan, lying to the west of the Kanto Plain. Extending 80 miles (130 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to ...
Kanton Atoll: largest and northernmost of the Phoenix Islands, a coral group situated in the west-central Pacific Ocean and constituting part of Kiribati. Located 1,630 miles (2,610 km) southwest of Hawaii, Kanton's ...
Kantor, MacKinlay: American author and newspaperman whose more than 30 novels and numerous popular short stories include the highly acclaimed Andersonville (1955; filmed for television 1996), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the ...
Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich: Soviet mathematician and economist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Economics with Tjalling Koopmans for their work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.
Kantorowicz, Hermann: German teacher and scholar whose doctrine of free law (Freirechtslehre) contributed to the development of the sociology of law.
Kanuma: city, Tochigi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies at the eastern foot of the Ashio Highlands. The central part of the city was a post town during the Tokugawa period ...
kanun: the tabulation of administrative regulations in the Ottoman Empire that supplemented the Shari'ah (Islamic law) and the discretionary authority of the sultan.
Kanuri: African people, the dominant element of the population of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria and also found in large numbers in southeastern Niger. The Kanuri language is classified as belonging ...
Kanuri language: language within the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Kanuri consists of two main dialects, Manga Kanuri and Yerwa Kanuri (also called Beriberi, which they consider pejorative), spoken in ...
Kanye: village, southern Botswana. It lies along a main road southwest of Gaborone, the national capital. It is one of the country's largest villages and the traditional headquarters of the Bangwaketse ...
Kanze school: school of no theatre (q.v.) known for its emphasis on beauty and elegance. The school was founded in the 14th century by Kan'ami (q.v.), who founded the Yuzaki-za (Yuzaki troupe), ...
Kao Ninga: artist who painted some of the earliest Japanese suiboku works-a Chinese-inspired style of monochromatic ink painting favoured by Zen Buddhist priest-painters. His portrait of Kanzan, a mythical figure who represents ...
Kao-hsiung: hsien (county), southwestern Taiwan. With an area of 1,078 square miles (2,793 square km), it is bordered by the hsiens of T'ai-nan and Chia-i (north), T'ai-tung and Hua-lien (east), and ...
Kao-hsiung: shih (municipality) and major international port in southwestern Taiwan, with an area of 59 square miles (154 square km). The site has been settled since the later part of the ...
Kao-tsu: the founder and first emperor of the T'ang dynasty (618-907).
Kao-tsu: founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), under which the Chinese imperial system assumed most of the characteristics that it was to retain until it was ...
Kao-tsung: third emperor of the T'ang dynasty and husband of the empress Wu Hou (625-705). He expanded the T'ang empire into Korea.
Kao-tsung: first emperor of the Southern Sung dynasty (1127-1279). He fled to the South when the nomadic Juchen tribesmen overran North China and captured Kao-tsung's father, the abdicated emperor Hui-tsung (reigned ...
Kaokoland: geographic region, northwestern Namibia. It is inhabited by the Bantu-speaking Herero, Ovahimba, and Ovatjimba nomadic pastoralists. Kaokoland is bordered by Angola and the Kunene River to the north, the Owambo ...
Kaolack: town, west-central Senegal. It lies on the right bank of the Saloum River, 95 miles (150 km) southeast of Dakar. An ocean and river port with an important export trade ...
kaolin: soft white clay that is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of china and porcelain and is widely used in the making of paper, rubber, paint, and many other products. ...
kaolinite: group of common clay minerals that are hydrous aluminum silicates; they comprise the principal ingredients of kaolin (china clay). The group includes kaolinite and its rarer forms, dickite and nacrite, ...
kaolisol: soil that is formed under the heat and heavy rainfall of the tropics, which leaches out the silica and the bases. Thus, the soil is silica-poor; highly weathered, sometimes to ...
Kaonde: a Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the northwestern region of Zambia. Their wooded highlands average 4,000 feet (1,220 m) in elevation; to the southeast begin open plains noted for their abundant ...
Kapaa: city, Kauai county, on the east-central coast of Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Sugarcane and pineapple plantations once dotted the region around Kapaa. Rice was also grown, and Chinese merchants once ...
kapala: cup made of a human skull, frequently offered by worshipers to the fierce Tantric deities of Hindu India and Buddhist Tibet. In Tibet the skull cup is displayed on the ...
Kapalika and Kalamukha: members of either of two groups of extreme Hindu ascetics most prominent in India during the medieval period (10th-11th centuries), notorious for their practices of worship, which were said to ...
Kapfenberg: town, Bundesland Steiermark (federal province of Styria), southeast central Austria, at the confluence of the Murz and Thorlbach rivers just northeast of Bruck. Founded around a fortress in the late ...
Kapila: Vedic sage and founder of the system of Samkhya, one of six schools of Vedic philosophy.
Kapital, Das: one of the major works of the 19th-century economist and philosopher Karl Marx (1818-83), in which he expounded his theory of the capitalist system, its dynamism, and its tendencies toward ...
Kapiti Island: uninhabited island at the northern entrance to Cook Strait, 5 miles (8 km) off the mouth of the Waikanae River, southwestern North Island, New Zealand. It is 9 square miles ...
Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich: Soviet physicist who was a corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978 for his research in magnetism and low-temperature physics. He discovered that helium II (the stable form ...
Kaplan, Justin: American writer, biographer, and book editor, best known for his acclaimed literary biographies of Mark Twain, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.
Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem: American rabbi, educator, theologian, and religious leader who founded the influential Reconstructionist movement in Judaism.
Kapodistrias, Ioannis Antonios, Count: Greek statesman who was prominent in the Russian foreign service during the reign of Alexander I (reigned 1801-25) and in the Greek struggle for independence.
kapok: seed-hair fibre obtained from the fruit of the kapok tree or the kapok tree itself. The kapok is a gigantic tree of the tropical forest canopy and emergent layer. Common ...
Kapoor, Raj: Indian motion-picture actor and director whose Hindi-language films were popular throughout India, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China.
Kaposi sarcoma: rare and usually lethal cancer of the tissues beneath the surface of the skin or of the mucous membranes. The disease can spread to other organs, including the liver, lungs, ...
Kaposvar: town, seat of Somogy megye (county), southwestern Hungary. On hills flanking the upper valley of the Kapos River (which flows northeast to the Sio), it is the chief market town ...
Kapp, Wolfgang: reactionary Prussian politician who led the Kapp Putsch (1920), which attempted to overthrow the fledgling Weimar Republic and establish a rightist dictatorship.
kappa: in Japanese folklore, a type of vampirelike lecherous creature that is more intelligent than the devilish oni (q.v.) and less malevolent toward men. Kappa are credited with having taught the ...
kappa organism: gram-negative symbiotic bacterium found in the cytoplasm of certain strains of the protozoan Paramecium aurelia. These bacteria, when released into the surroundings, change to P particles that secrete a poison ...
Kappel Wars: (1529 and 1531), two conflicts of the Swiss Reformation. The name derives from the monastery of Kappel, on the border between the cantons of Zurich and Zug.
Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius: Dutch astronomer who used photography and statistical methods in determining the motions and distribution of stars.
Kapuas River: chief waterway of western Indonesian Borneo. The river rises in the Kapuas Hulu Mountains in the central part of the island and flows 710 miles (1,143 km) west-southwest, reaching the ...
Kapuni: locality in Taranaki local government region, a natural-gas and oil field south of Mount Egmont, western North Island, New Zealand. Petroleum from the locality is piped to Auckland and Wellington, ...
Kapurthala: city, north-central Punjab state, northwestern India. Kapurthala was founded in the 11th century. In 1780 it became the capital of the princely state of Kapurthala, and it remained the capital ...
Kapuskasing: town, Cochrane district, east-central Ontario, Canada. It lies along the Kapuskasing River. Known as MacPherson until 1917, when it received its present Indian name, the town originated in 1914 as ...
Kara Koyunlu: Turkmen tribal federation that ruled Azerbaijan and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468.
Kara Mustafa Pasa, Merzifonlu: Ottoman grand vizier (chief minister) in 1676-83, who in 1683 led an unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna.
Kara Sea: marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off western Siberia (Russia), between the Novaya Zemlya islands (west), Franz Josef Land (northwest), and the Severnaya Zemlya islands (east). It is connected ...
Kara-Bogaz-Gol Gulf: inlet of the eastern Caspian Sea in northwestern Turkmenistan. With an area of 4,600-5,000 square miles (12,000-13,000 square km), it averages only 33 feet (10 m) in depth and has ...
Kara-e: 618-907). It was chiefly composed of imaginative landscapes in the Chinese manner and illustrations of Chinese legends and tales.
kara-yo: (Japanese: "Chinese style"), one of the three main Japanese styles of Buddhist temple architecture in the Kamakura period (1192-1333). Kara-yo originally followed Chinese forms that featured strict symmetry on a ...