A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 kainite ... Kaledin, Aleksey Maksimovich kainite a naturally occurring double salt, hydrated potassium and magnesium sulfate-chloride, KMgSO4Cl·3H2O. It has been found ... [1 Related Articles] Kainji Dam (from the article "Kainji Lake") Kainji Dam (opened in 1969), the largest of the dams on the Niger, is 215 ... Kainji Lake reservoir on the Niger River, on the border between Niger and Kebbi states, in western ... [1 Related Articles] Kainji Lake National Park (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") Kainji Lake National Park (2,062 square miles [5,341 square km]) contains the Borgu and Zugurma ... Kainji languages (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The 40 Kainji languages are scattered over a wide area from Lake Kainji in the ... Kaio (from the article "Wrestling") ...sumo tournaments in 2004. His 35 consecutive victories to start the year constituted a record ... kaioraora (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...or to assist the chanter), paatere (chants by women in rebuttal of gossip or slander, ... Kaipara Harbour inlet of the Tasman Sea indenting northwestern North Island, New Zealand. It is the largest ... Kaiping coal mines (from the article "China") ...government management to a government-supervised and merchant-managed method. Leading among the several enterprises of the ... Kairos (from the article "Tillich, Paul") ...movement, whose members believed that the impending cultural breakdown was a momentous opportunity for creative ... Kairouan town located in north-central Tunisia. The town, one of the holy cities of Islam, lies ... [3 Related Articles] Kairouan, Great Mosque of (from the article "minaret") ...was made from the highest roof in the vicinity of the mosque. The earliest minarets ... Kairov, Ivan Andreyevich Soviet educator and public education official responsible for numerous works dealing with pedagogical theory. Kaisariani (from the article "Hymettus, Mount") ...1 BC), have long since vanished, but there is beekeeping as in antiquity. An extensive ... Kaiser Family Foundation (from the article "Confronting Childhood Obesity") ...to them (in 2004 food and beverage companies spent over $10 billion on marketing fattening ... Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (from the article "health maintenance organization") ...of health care plan was pioneered by the Ross-Loos Medical Group in California, U.S., in ... Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (from the article "Eiermann, Egon") Perhaps his most popular work is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (1956-63), a symbol of ... Kaiser, Georg leading German Expressionist dramatist. [1 Related Articles] Kaiser, Henry J. American industrialist and founder of more than 100 companies including Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, and ... Kaiser-Frazer Corporation (from the article "automotive industry") ...for military needs. There was also a great demand for automobiles. This situation invited several ... Kaiserslautern city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies between the Haardt Mountains ... Kaisheim Altar (from the article "Holbein, Hans, The Elder") ...of Sigmund Holbein and Leonhard Beck, he painted the high altar of the Dominican monastery ... Kaishinto a leading Japanese political party from its founding in 1882 by the democratic leader Okuma ... [3 Related Articles] kaishu in Chinese calligraphy, a stylization of chancery script developed during the period of the Three ... [3 Related Articles] Kaitaia town, northern North Island, New Zealand. It lies 4.5 miles (7 km) above the mouth ... [1 Related Articles] Kaitangata town, southeastern South Island, New Zealand. It lies 4 miles (6 km) above the mouth ... Kaithal city, north-central Haryana state, northwestern India. Said to have been founded by Yudhisthira, a Pandava ... Kaitoku-do (from the article "Japan") ...their warrior-administrators in both civil and military skills. Thus, learning and culture arose in the ... Kaitorete Spit (from the article "Ellesmere, Lake") ...several streams, principal of which is the Selwyn (entering through a delta from the north), ... Kaituma River (from the article "Guyana") ...in 1848 as South America's first rail line, was discontinued in the 1970s, ending passenger ... Kaiyuan city, southern Yunnan sheng (province), southwestern China. It was established in 1276 ... Kaizuku Amazons (from the article "The Japanese Women's Volleyball Team: The Hardest Part") ...introduction of volleyball as an Olympic event. The sport enjoyed wide popularity in the host ... Kajanus, Robert Finnish conductor and composer who championed Finnish national music. Kaji Tsunekichi (from the article "enamelwork") ...family continued the trade until the late 19th century, making use, on a small scale, ... Kajikawa Family Japanese lacquerware artists whose school in Edo (now Tokyo) flourished for more than 200 years. Kajinek, Jiri (from the article "Media and Publishing") Imprisoned murderer Jiri Kajinek was paid to star in an advertising campaign by Czech pop ... Kajkavian (from the article "Slavic languages") ...the form for 'what?'. A third main group of Serbo-Croatian dialects, spoken in northwestern Croatia, ... Kaka In January 2008 Brazilian-born association football (soccer) player Kaka, AC Milan's spectacular playmaking midfielder, was ... [1 Related Articles] kaka (from the article "kaka") New Zealand species of parrot (q.v.).kakaKaka (Nestor meridionalis).Duncan WrightKaka (from the article "African dance") ...between the sexes. In the Otufo initiation rites for girls among the Ga of Ghana, ... Kaka, Moussa (from the article "Niger") ...most serious incident occurred on August 11, when raiders stopped a bus on the Trans-Sahara ... Kakabeka Falls (from the article "Kaministiquia River") ...western Ontario, Can. It rises in Dog Lake and, after a crooked course of 60 ... Kakadu National Park extensive natural and cultural region in Northern Territory, Australia. The park, which covers an area ... kakaki (from the article "African music") ...uses, some serve for signaling. In West Africa, side-blown ivory or horn instruments may transmit ... Kakamega town, southwestern Kenya, located at an elevation of about 5,100 feet (1,550 metres). The British ... kakapo giant flightless nocturnal parrot (family Psittacidae) of New Zealand. With a face like an owl, ... [2 Related Articles] Kakaraya, Sir Pato (from the article "Papua New Guinea") The search for a new governor-general continued for months after the Supreme Court ruled that ... Kakata city, western Liberia, on the road from Monrovia to Gbarnga. It is the site of ... Kakatiya (from the article "Warangal") city, northern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies along the Madras-Kazipet-Delhi railway. Warangal was ... kakegoe (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...called in both drum parts mitsuji, although they do not always play a pattern with ... kakemono (from the article "kakemono") in Japanese art, scroll painting intended to be hung on a wall. See scroll painting.kakemono kakerori (from the article "Cook Islands") ...fauna, though a few goats, horses, and other animals have also been introduced. Some native ... Kakhovka Reservoir (from the article "Dnieper River") ...the Dnieper again passes into a wide valley with a high right bank (130 feet ... Kakiemon ware Japanese porcelain made primarily during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) by the Sakaida family, who established ... [5 Related Articles] Kakinada city, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. Although a seaport, it is now little used ... Kakinomoto Hitomaro poet venerated by the Japanese since earliest times. He was also Japan's first great literary ... [1 Related Articles] Kakiouzis, Mihalis (from the article "Basketball") ...cope with the ferocious perimeter defense of the Spanish, who never trailed after Felipe Reyes ... Kakogawa city in Hyogo ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies in the lower valley of the ... Kakongo former African kingdom that was located on the Atlantic coast, north of the mouth of ... Kakoulima Massif (from the article "Guinea") ...consists of level plateaus broken by deeply incised valleys and dotted with sills and dikes, ... Kakrak (from the article "Central Asian arts") ...Nowshirvan, near Bamian, a 4th-century painting of a Sasanian king flanked by attendants survives. The ... Kakshaal Range (from the article "Tien Shan") ...4,600 metres), while the elevations of the depressions that separate them vary from 6,000 to ... kakuet (from the article "Kipsikis") Kipsikis do not live in villages but rather are organized in hamlets of adjacent homesteads, ... kakungu (from the article "art, African") ...panels. Tudansi masks, worn by the young men at their initiation into manhood and decorated ... Kakure Kirishitan (Japanese: "Hidden Christians"), descendants of the first Japanese converts to Christianity who, driven underground by ... [1 Related Articles] Kakusthavarman (from the article "Kadamba Family") ...the title Dharmamaharajadhiraja ("Lawful King of Kings"), was probably the king of Kuntala defeated by ... Kakuta, Mitsuyo (from the article "Literature") ...story "Tokage" ("Lizard"). Eimi Yamada's 2005 work Fumi zekka ("Superb Flavours") was filmed, which gained ... Kakwa (from the article "Uganda") ...was overthrown before they could be put into effect. Obote had relied heavily on the ... Kal (from the article "Anatolian religion") ...a bird and a hare, as on the Kultepe seals, and he stands on a ... kala (from the article "South Asian arts") Some major examples of religious folk dances are the dindi and kala dances of Maharashtra, ... kala (from the article "dravya") ...and infinite. Only pudgala is perceptible, and only jiva ... kala-azar (from the article "kala-azar") infectious disease that is a type of leishmaniasis (q.v.).characteristics and treatment Kalabadhi (from the article "Islamic arts") ...wisdom in rather cryptic language (thereby contributing to the profundity of Arabic vocabulary), and the ... Kalabagh (from the article "Pakistan") ...far from complete, but some two dozen different types of exploitable minerals have been located. ... Kalabalala Tank (from the article "dam") ...earthen dams of moderate height (in some cases of great length) were built by the ... Kalabari (from the article "African dance") ...and dances that have a therapeutic function culminating in a ceremony in which the initiate ... Kalabari language (from the article "Ijoid languages") ...Ijo were among the first West Africans to come into contact with Europeans; thus the ... Kalacakra-tantra (Sanskrit: "Wheel of Time Tantra"), chief text of a divergent, syncretistic, and astrologically oriented school ... [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 ... Kalachi-Jo-goth (from the article "Karachi") ...called Caranjee, Crochey, Krotchey, Currachee, and Kurrachee. All its names are believed to be derived ... Kalacuri Dynasty any of several dynasties in Indian history, disparately placed in time and space. Apart from ... [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 ... Kalacuri Dynasty (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") The Ratanpur Kalacuris, who first ruled from Tummana and later from Ratanpur (16 miles [26 ... Kalacuri Dynasty (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") Another Kalacuri dynasty rose to power in the Deccan and spanned the period 1156-81. This ... Kalacuri Dynasty (from the article "Kalacuri Dynasty") The best known Kalacuri family in Indian history ruled in central India, with its base ... Kalahari a large, basinlike plain of the interior plateau of southern Africa. It occupies almost all ... [7 Related Articles] Kalahari Craton (from the article "Africa") The African continent essentially consists of five ancient Precambrian cratons (Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Congo, and ... 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 ... kalak (from the article "Tigris-Euphrates river system") The traditional vessel for downstream transportation on both rivers was the kalak-a raft of timber ... Kalaka (from the article "Kalakacaryakatha") ...icons in small panels; but gradually they become more elaborate, with scenes from the lives ... 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 ... [7 Related Articles] Kalamai industrial city and port of the southern Peloponnese and capital of the nomos (department) of ... kalamatianos (from the article "kalamatianos") a Greek chain dance, a form of the syrtos (q.v.).form of syrtos Kalamazoo city, seat (1830) of Kalamazoo county, southwestern Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Kalamazoo River, ... Kalamazoo College private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. It is a liberal arts ... Kalambo Falls waterfall, the second highest uninterrupted fall in Africa (after Tugela Falls, South Africa), located on ... [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 ... kalanchoe (genus Kalanchoe), any of several species of succulent plants of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae), popular ... Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (from the article "kalanchoe") ...devil's backbone (K. daigremontiana); and South American air plant (K. fedtschenkoi). A range of attractive ... Kalanga (from the article "Zimbabwe") ...have populated what is now Zimbabwe for more than 10 centuries. Those who speak Ndebele ... Kalantiyaw, Code of one of the few written documents to survive from the pre-Spanish Philippine culture. The penal ... Kalapuya language (from the article "Penutian languages") ...(two languages), Yakonan (two extinct languages), Yokutsan (three languages), and Maiduan (four languages)-plus Klamath-Modoc, Cayuse ... kalasa (from the article "South Asian arts") ...(skandha), above which is a circular necking (griva), carrying a large grooved disc called the ... Kalasan (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") Post-Borobudur candis illustrate the Buddhist doctrine in different ways. Kalasan, for example, ... Kalasasaya (from the article "Tiwanaku") The principal buildings of Tiwanaku include the Akapana Pyramid, a huge platform mound or stepped ... Kalashnikov, Mikhail Timofeyevich (from the article "small arm") ...a muzzle velocity of 2,330 feet per second. Historical evidence suggests that they were influenced ... Kalasin town, northeastern Thailand on the Khorat Plateau. It lies on the east bank of the ... Kalasoka (from the article "Saisunaga Dynasty") The reign of Sisunaga's son Kalasoka is known chiefly for two important events: the meeting ... Kalat (from the article "Brahui") The 29 tribes owe a loose allegiance to the Brahui khan of Kalat, which has ... Kalat town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The town, known locally as Kalat-e Baluch to distinguish it from ... Kalaupapa National Historical Park (from the article "Molokai") ...coffee and sweet potatoes among the leading exports. Kaunakakai, the chief village, is on the ... Kalaupapa Peninsula peninsula on the northern shore of Molokai island, Hawaii, U.S. Occupying a 5-square-mile (13-square-km) plateau ... Kalavria (from the article "Poros") ...of the nomos (department) of Attiki, Greece. It actually comprises two islands totaling 9 square ... Kalavria (from the article "Poros") ...wooded, limestone island of Kalavria, separated from the village of Galatas on the mainland by ... Kalavrita (from the article "Greece") ...Two of the defendants were released on parole on July 10, having served three-fifths of ... Kalawao (from the article "Kalaupapa Peninsula") ...of an ancient Hawaiian agricultural village, whose major crops were taro and sweet potatoes. Archaeological ... Kalb (from the article "Umayyad Dynasty") ...mawali (non-Arab Muslims) by placing all Muslims on the same footing, without respect of nationality, ... Kalb River, Al- river, west-central Lebanon, flowing westward and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea north of Beirut. Apart ... 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 ... Kaldor, Nicholas (from the article "economic growth") Other models of growth also illustrate this distinction between demand-determined and supply-determined growth. The British ... kale (species Brassica oleracea, Acephala group), loose-leafed, edible plant derived from the cabbage of the mustard ... [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 ... Kaledin, Aleksey Maksimovich Russian Imperial Army officer and Cossack leader who was one of the first to organize ...

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