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- 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 capital, by ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Kamprad, Ingvar
- While the phrase "some assembly required" might fill the average consumer with dread, in 2003 Swedish businessman Ingvar Kamprad had millions of people around the world eagerly reaching for a ...
- Kampuchea People's Revolutionary Party
- (from the article "Cambodia") ...political parties in Cambodia are the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), the FUNCINPEC Party, and the Sam Rainsy Party. The CPP is a noncommunist party descended from the pro-Vietnam and communist ...
- Kampusch, Natascha
- (from the article "Austria") ...Holocaust-denial laws in Europe, but the verdict was still harsher than many legal experts had predicted. The global media descended on Austria again in August following reports that 18-year-old Natascha ...
- Kamran
- (from the article "Afghanistan") The Barakzay were now dominant. This situation incited the jealousy of Kamran, Mahmud's eldest son, who seized and blinded Fath Khan. Later Shah Mahmud had him cut to pieces.
- Kamsa
- (from the article "Krishna") ...They relate how Krishna (literally "black," or "dark as a cloud") was born into the Yadava clan, the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, sister of Kamsa, the wicked king of ...
- Kamula, Mount
- (from the article "Ukraine") ...and gorges, some more than 1,000 feet (300 metres) deep. On the west the Dnieper Upland is abutted by the rugged Volyn-Podilsk Upland, which rises to 1,545 feet (471 metres) ...
- Kamun Temple
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") Buddhist bronze shrines for sarira were sometimes placed inside stone pagodas. The best example is from the western pagoda of the Kamun Temple site. It is a square platform on ...
- kamut
- (from the article "Ancient Grains") New U.S. health guidelines issued in January 2005 recommending three daily servings of whole grains did not hurt demand for heirloom grains. Food manufacturers used spelt and kamut, ancient relatives ...
- Kamvounia Mountains
- (from the article "Greece") ...northwest-southeast-trending spurs thrusting out from the main Pindus mass. A number of distinctive basins and plains lie amid these upland ribs. The northernmost, a rather broken spur called the Kamvounia ...
- 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 Chung-k'o
- (from the article "Daoism") Among the less welcome visitors at the Han court had been a certain Gan Zhongke. At the end of the 1st century BCE, he presented to the emperor a "Classic ...
- kan wa kan
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...were added several that utilized the colloquial form of the Arabic language (the quma, for example, and the kan wa kan). But the two ...
- Kan'ami
- Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of no drama. [6 Related Articles]
- Kan'an, Ghazi
- (from the article "Syria") ...in early June adopted minor reforms and occasioned the resignation of longtime Vice Pres. 'Abd al-Halim Khaddam. Two weeks before the publication of the Mehlis report, Minister of the Interior ...
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- kana-zoshi
- (from the article "Japanese literature") The general name for the prose composed between 1600 and 1682 is kana-zoshi, or "kana books," the name originally having been used to distinguish popular writings in ...
- Kanab
- city, seat (1864) of Kane county, southwestern Utah, U.S., on Kanab Creek, at the foot of Vermilion Cliffs, just north of the Arizona line. Settlement was first made in 1864 ...
- Kanada
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") The Vaisesika-sutras were written by Kanada, a philosopher who flourished c. 2nd-4th centuries. The system owes its name to the fact that it admits ultimate particularities (visesa). The metaphysics is, ...
- Kanada Tokumitsu
- (from the article "Hito-no-michi") ...words "perfect liberty" and a Japanese term for "church"). Hito-no-michi was a development of an earlier religious movement, Tokumitsu-kyo, named after its founder, Kanada Tokumitsu (1863-1919), who taught that the ...
- kanaga
- (from the article "Mali, flag of") ...federation and its member states was to have equal vertical stripes of green-yellow-red with a black stylized human figure in the centre, his arms raised toward heaven. This symbol, known ...
- 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 ...
- Kanaga Volcano
- (from the article "Kanaga Island") ...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 km) wide; its northern ...
- Kanagaki Robun
- Japanese writer of humorous fiction who brought a traditional satirical art to bear on the peculiarities of Japanese society in the process of modernization.
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- kanak
- (from the article "New Caledonia") Melanesians make up more than two-fifths of the population and Europeans about one-third. Their differing cultures have given rise to two distinct ways of life, known as
- Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front
- (from the article "New Caledonia") ...The French government granted complete self-government in territorial affairs under the Lemoine Statute of 1984, but the Independence Front rejected the statute and reconstituted itself as the Kanak Socialist National ...
- Kanaka
- (Hawaiian: "Person," or "Man"), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in Queensland, Australia, on sugar plantations or cattle stations or as ... [3 Related Articles]
- Kanaloa
- (from the article "Hawaiian") The Hawaiians held a vague belief in a future existence. They had four principal gods-Kane, Kanaloa, Ku, and Lono-and innumerable lesser gods and tutelary deities. Animals, plants, places, professions, families, ...
- Kananga
- city, south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated just east of the Lulua River, a tributary of the Kasai. It is on road and rail routes to Lubumbashi (southeast) and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kanapoi
- site of paleoanthropological excavations in northern Kenya southwest of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), best known for its fossils of Australopithecus anamensis, an early hominin (member of the human lineage) dating ...
- Kanapoi fossil
- (from the article "Kanapoi") site of paleoanthropological excavations in northern Kenya southwest of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf), best known for its fossils of Australopithecus anamensis, an early hominin (member of the human lineage) dating ...
- Kanara
- region along the Malabar Coast of the Arabian Sea, western Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, India. It is bounded on the east by the Western Ghats. Formerly divided between Bombay to ...
- kanareh
- (from the article "rug and carpet") ...some 18 × 8 feet (5.5 × 2.5 metres), is placed in the centre. Flanking the mian farsh are two runners, or kanarehs, which ...
- Kanaris, Konstantinos
- Greek naval officer and statesman who achieved fame for his exploits against the Turks during the War of Greek Independence (1821-32).
- Kanawha River
- river formed at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, U.S., by the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers. It flows 97 miles (156 km) in a northwesterly direction to enter the ...
- Kanazawa
- capital, Ishikawa ken (prefecture), Japan, on the Sai River. In the 16th century the city and the province of Kaga were given to the Maeda family, the richest daimyo family ...
- Kanazawa Bunko Museum
- (from the article "Japan") ...many warrior leaders developed a love of scholarship and a delight in waka poetry. One was Hojo Sanetoki, who collected Japanese and Chinese books and founded a famous library, the ...
- kanban system
- (from the article "operations research") A second Japanese technique, called kanban ("card"), also permits Japanese firms to schedule production and manage inventories more effectively. In the kanban system, cards or tickets are attached to batches, ...
- Kanchanaburi
- town, western Thailand, 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Bangkok. The Khwae Noi River joins the Klong River near Kanchanaburi. Built in the 18th century as a defense against Burmese ...
- Kanchenjunga
- world's third highest mountain (28,169 feet [8,586 m]), in the Himalayas on the Nepalese border with Sikkim, India, 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Darjeeling. The Kanchenjunga massif is in ... [4 Related Articles]
- kanchil
- (from the article "kanchil") any of several small chevrotains, or mouse deer, native to Southeast Asia. Formerly believed to be separate species, they are now generally thought to be varieties of the species Tragulus ...
- Kanchipuram
- town, northern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, on the Palar River and the Madras-Bangalore road and rail systems. One of the most ancient towns of southern India, it traces its ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kanchrapara
- town, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India, just east of the Hooghly River, part of the Calcutta urban agglomeration. The town, within Halisahar municipality, has one of the largest railway ...
- kanda-vina
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...has been either a low-caste occupation or an accomplishment to be savoured in the confines of the home. In India during the Vedic period there seem to have been stringed ...
- Kandahar
- (from the article "Afghanistan") The Kandahar region is a sparsely populated part of southern Afghanistan. The Durrani Pashtun, who have formed the traditional nucleus of Afghanistan's social and political elite, live in the area ...
- Kandahar
- city in south-central Afghanistan. It lies on a plain next to the Tarnak River, at an elevation of about 3,300 feet (1,000 metres). It is southern Afghanistan's chief commercial centre ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kandalaksha Hollow
- (from the article "White Sea") ...whose present form appears as a land's-end depression on the slope of the ancient structural block known as the Baltic Shield. The bottom of the sea is badly broken up. ...
- Kandariya Mahadeva
- (from the article "Khajuraho") ...sensual and, in a few instances, sexually explicit. The temples are divided into three complexes, of which the western is the largest and best known, containing the magnificent Shaivite temple ...
- Kandaswamy Kovil
- (from the article "Jaffna") ...1658. The name Jaffna is a Portuguese adaptation of a Tamil word meaning "port of the lyre." A fort and a church remain from the Dutch period, and near the ...
- Kandel, Eric
- Austrian-born American neurobiologist who, with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for discovering the central role synapses play in memory ...
- Kander, Lizzie Black
- American welfare worker who created a popular cookbook that became a highly profitable fund-raising tool for the institution she served.
- Kandevan Pass
- (from the article "Elburz Mountains") ...side. There are likewise many gorges, by which the rivers find their way down one or another of the slopes. Only two passes allow a relatively easy crossing in a ...
- Kandi
- town, northeastern Benin, 325 miles (523 km) north of the capital Porto-Novo. Iron deposits of high quality are in the vicinity, but the town is mainly an agricultural centre, with ...
- Kandinsky, Wassily
- Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"; 1911-14) ... [18 Related Articles]
- Kandla
- town, northwestern Gujarat state, west-central India, a port on the Gulf of Kutch of the Arabian Sea. The port was opened on Kandla's natural deepwater harbour in the 1930s. Designed ...
- Kandler, Johann Joachim
- late Baroque sculptor who was a major innovator in European porcelain sculpture. [4 Related Articles]
- Kandy
- important independent monarchy in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at the end of the 15th century and the last Sinhalese kingdom to be subjugated by a colonial power. Kandy survived the attacks ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kandy
- city in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, at an elevation of 1,640 feet (500 metres). It lies on the Mahaweli River on the shore of an artificial lake that ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kandyan Convention
- (from the article "Kandy") ...was a failure. By 1815, however, the Kandyan chiefs became dissatisfied with their tyrannical king (of South Indian descent) and welcomed British intervention. In the ensuing agreement of 1815, the ...
- Kandyan dance
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The kandyan dance, shorn of occult ceremonies, is highly sophisticated and refined. It flourished under the Kandyan kings from the 16th through the 19th centuries, and today it is considered ...
- Kane
- (from the article "Hawaiian") The Hawaiians held a vague belief in a future existence. They had four principal gods-Kane, Kanaloa, Ku, and Lono-and innumerable lesser gods and tutelary deities. Animals, plants, places, professions, families, ...
- Kane, Bob
- American cartoonist who, with his partner, Bill Finger, created the comic-book characters Batman the Caped Crusader and Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's sidekick, as well as a collection of those ...
- Kane, Christopher
- (from the article "Fashions") ...femininity, respectively-were dubbed the "new school" by American Vogue, which praised their "very promising" spring-summer collections. Dalston (Eng.)-based Christopher Kane revived the '80s body-conscious minidress to spectacular effect: "Selling out ...
- Kane, Elisha Kent
- American physician and Arctic explorer who in 1850 led an unsuccessful expedition to northwestern Greenland to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. [3 Related Articles]
- Kane, Gil
- Latvian-born American comic book artist (b. April 6, 1926, Riga, Latvia-d. Jan. 31, 2000, Miami, Fla.), became a legend during his more than half-century-long career. His innovative and dramatic style ...
- Kane, John
- Scottish-born American artist who painted primitivist scenes of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Scotland.
- Kane, Paul
- (from the article "Canada") ...Europeans. Canadian painters were greatly influenced by the styles of their European roots, but their subject matter increasingly came to be Canadian locales and landscapes. In the mid-19th century Paul ...
- Kane, Sarah
- controversial British playwright who earned a reputation as an enfant terrible because of the graphic sex and violence and bleak outlook on life exhibited in her plays, beginning in 1995 ...
- Kane, Sheikh Hamidou
- Senegalese writer best known for his autobiographical novel L'Aventure ambigue (1961; Ambiguous Adventure), which won the Grand Prix Litteraire d'Afrique Noire in 1962. [1 Related Articles]
- Kane, Sir Richard
- (from the article "Balearic Islands") ...markets. These included almonds, peaches, apricots, carob, and tomatoes. Dry farming predominates, though the waterwheels and windmills that were introduced by the Muslims for irrigation persist. Sir Richard Kane, governor ...
- Kanebo, Ltd.
- (from the article "Japan") ...the nation's leading accounting firms, to cease business operations for two months after three of its accountants were arrested-they were later convicted-for having doctored the books of Kanebo, Ltd., a ...
- Kanehara, Hitomi, and Wataya, Risa
- In early 2004 two young female novelists-Risa Wataya and Hitomi Kanehara-shared Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize for promising new authors, and created a media sensation in Japan ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kanehara, Hitomi, and Wataya, Risa
- In early 2004 two young female novelists-Risa Wataya and Hitomi Kanehara-shared Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize for promising new authors, and created a media sensation in Japan ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kanem-Bornu
- African trading empire ruled by the Sef (Sayf) dynasty that controlled the area around Lake Chad from the 9th to the 19th century. Its territory at various times included what ... [14 Related Articles]
- Kanemaru, Shin
- Japanese politician (b. Sept. 17, 1914, Suwa village, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan--d. March 28, 1996, Yamanashi), served in three Cabinet posts and as deputy prime minister (1986-87), but his real power ...
- Kanembu
- (from the article "Chad, Lake") ...medieval period (9th to 16th century) the Lake Chad region was both an important refuge and an area in which diverse populations were consolidated by the authority of powerful kingdoms. ...
- Kanembu-Zaghawa languages
- (from the article "Chad") ...(2) the Mundang-Tuburi-Mbum languages, which are spoken by several hundred thousand people in southwestern Chad, (3) the Chado-Hamitic group, which is related to the Hausa spoken in Nigeria, (4) the ...
- Kaneohe
- town, Honolulu county, northeastern Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. Situated 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Honolulu, it spreads from the foothills of the Koolau Range to Kaneohe Bay. Like neighbouring ...
- Kaneohe Bay
- bay on the northeastern shore of Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. A major tourist destination, it contains clear, shallow waters and vivid underwater coral formations that can be viewed from glass-bottom ...
- Kang Il-sun
- (from the article "Poch'ongyo") Poch'ongyo was founded by Kang Il-sun (1871-1909), who initially gained a following by offering to cure illnesses through incantations and by medicine. The Japanese rulers of Korea, fearful that Poch'ongyo ...
- Kang Quantai
- (from the article "China") ...the 830s onward the first signs of unrest and banditry had appeared in the Huai valley and Henan, and trouble spread to the Yangtze valley and the south beginning in ...
- Kang Sheng
- Chinese communist official who is considered to have been one of the three or four most powerful individuals in the government during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). [2 Related Articles]
- Kang Youwei
- Chinese scholar, a leader of the Reform Movement of 1898 and a key figure in the intellectual development of modern China. During the last years of the empire and the ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kangaba
- (from the article "Malinke") The Malinke are divided into numerous independent groups dominated by a hereditary nobility, a feature that distinguishes them from most of their more egalitarian neighbours. One group, the Kangaba, has ...
- Kangaba
- (from the article "Sundiata") Sundiata was a Mandingo from the small kingdom of Kangaba, near the present Mali-Guinea border. Little is known about his early life. Mandingo oral traditions indicate that he was one ...
- Kangamiut dike swarm
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...is more than 500 km (311 miles) wide and 3,000 km (1,864 miles) long and extends in a northwesterly direction across the whole of Canada from the Arctic to the ...
- Kangar
- town, extreme northwest Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies 5 miles (8 km) east of the Thailand border, on the Perlis River. Kangar is the largest town in the Perlis region ...
- kangaroo
- any of six large species of Australian marsupials noted for hopping and bouncing on their hind legs. The term kangaroo, most specifically used, refers to the eastern gray kangaroo, the ... [7 Related Articles]
- Kangaroo Island
- third largest Australian offshore island, located at the entrance to the Gulf St. Vincent, South Australia, 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Adelaide. Its formation is that of a low, ...
- kangaroo mouse
- either of two species of leaping bipedal rodents found only in certain deserts of the western United States. They have large ears and a large head with fur-lined external cheek ...
- kangaroo rat
- any of 22 species of bipedal North American desert rodents with a tufted tail. Kangaroo rats have large heads and eyes, short forelimbs, and very long hind legs and feet. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Kangavar
- (from the article "art and architecture, Iranian") ...style, it had little to distinguish it from Greco-Mesopotamian or, for that matter, Greco-Indian art. Architecture of about 200 BC is represented by two "Greek" temples, at Kangavar and Khurha, ...
- Kangavarman
- (from the article "Kadamba Family") ...who, after being insulted by a Pallava official, took up a military career and acquired sufficient territory to bargain with the Pallavas for a feudal principality on the western coast. ...
- Kangding
- town, western Sichuan sheng (province) and capital of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China. Kangding is on the Tuo River, a tributary of the Dadu River, 62 miles ...
- Kangean Islands
- island group in the Java Sea, Jawa Timur provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. The Kangeans lie northwest of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara), some 75 miles (121 km) north of Bali, ...
- kangen
- (from the article "gagaku") ...music of the right, contained the rest. The flute and main drum of the two ensembles differ, and komagaku does not use strings. Purely instrumental performances of gagaku are called ...
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