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It lies along the Loukkos River. Kschessinska, Mathilde prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the first Russian dancer to master ... [1 Related Articles] Ksemaraja (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...Pratyabhijna-vimarsini ("Reflections on Recognition"), and Tantraloka ("Lights on the Doctrine") in the 10th century, and ... Kshatriya second highest in ritual status of the four varnas, or social classes, ... [12 Related Articles] Kshitigarbha bodhisattva ("buddha-to-be") who, though known in India as early as the 4th century CE, became ... [1 Related Articles] ksour (from the article "Morocco") ...barley, vegetables, and other crops are grown in the date-palm understory. Much settlement in this ... Ku (from the article "Hawaiian") The Hawaiians held a vague belief in a future existence. They had four principal gods-Kane, ... ku (from the article "Japan") ...regional centres-generally administer several prefectures together. Designated cities (shitei toshi), which must ... Ku band (from the article "satellite communication") ...The two bands that have been in use longest, and still carry the most traffic, ... [2 Related Articles] ku fa yung pi (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...resonance, life-motion"), an enigmatic and much debated phrase that means that the painter should endow ... Ku Hung-chung (from the article "arts, East Asian") While the few figure painters in northern China, such as Hu Huai, characteristically recorded hunting ... Ku Klux Klan either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that have employed terror in pursuit of their ... [11 Related Articles] Ku Sang South Korean poet (b. Sept. 16, 1919, Seoul, S.Kor.-d. May 11, 2004, Seoul), first gained ... Ku'ara (from the article "Asalluhe") in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity, city god of Ku'ara, near Eridu in the southern marshland ... Ku-ling (from the article "Kiangsi") ...on the south bank of the Yangtze 87 miles north of Nan-ch'ang, is the principal ... ku-shih (from the article "Chinese literature") ...it was recorded in final form for the first time in about 550. Yueh-fu songs, ... Kuahuqiao (from the article "agriculture, origins of") Another site dating to about the same period is Kuahuqiao, located near Hangzhou Bay. The ... kuala (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") The home sanctuary of the Udmurt is a kuala, a primitive log cabin near the ... Kuala Belait town and port, western Brunei. It is the capital of Belait district, located at the ... [1 Related Articles] Kuala Kangsar town, northwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies along the Perak River and the main west ... Kuala Kelawang (from the article "Malaysia") ...hover around 90 °F (32 °C); temperatures are lower in the interior highland regions. The ... Kuala Lipis town, central Peninsular (West) Malaysia, situated along the Jelai River. It is a commercial centre ... Kuala Lumpur capital of Malaysia. The city is located in west-central West (Peninsular) Malaysia, midway along the ... [8 Related Articles] Kuala Terengganu city and port, northeastern Peninsular (West) Malaysia, at the mouth of the Terengganu River, on ... Kuamachi (from the article "Native American religions") ...the first worlds and the ascent of the stars into the heavens. Notably, the Makiritare ... Kuan Mountain (from the article "T'ai-tung") ...of Hua-lien (north) and Kao-hsiung and P'ing-tung (southwest) and by the Philippine Sea (east). Thickly ... Kuan Ti Chinese god of war. Kuan-chung (from the article "Shensi") ...the difficult and costly transportation of vast quantities of grain and provisions from the eastern ... Kuan-yin in Chinese Buddhism, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy. See Avalokitesvara. Kuan-yin Hall (from the article "arts, East Asian") The style of the 10th century is exemplified in the Kuan-yin Hall of the Tu-le ... Kuantan city situated on the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula, West Malaysia. It lies at ... kub-kob (from the article "dress") Footwear was in the form of sandals, shoes, or boots, with the toes slightly turned ... [2 Related Articles] Kuba a cluster of about 16 Bantu-speaking groups in southeastern Congo (Kinshasa), living between the Kasai ... [2 Related Articles] Kuba former African kingdom in the interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bounded to ... [1 Related Articles] Kuba carpet floor covering from the Caucasus woven in the vicinity of Kuba (now Quba) in northern ... [1 Related Articles] Kubaba goddess of the ancient Syrian city of Carchemish. In religious texts of the Hittite empire ... 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It lies at the foot of ... Kucher, Karol Kennedy American ice skater (b. 1931/32, Shelton, Wash.-d. June 25, 2004, Seattle, Wash.), was-along with her ... Kuching city, capital and chief port of Sarawak, East Malaysia, on northwestern Borneo. The city was ... [1 Related Articles] kuchipudi one of six classical dance styles of India. Kuchipudi is indigenous to the state of ... [1 Related Articles] Kuchler, Georg von (from the article "World War II") On September 1, 1939, the German attack began. Against northern Poland, General Fedor von Bock ... Kuchlug Khan (from the article "Iran") ...from the Khwarezm-Shahs' humiliating tributary status to an infidel power. But the coup de grace ... [4 Related Articles] Kuchma, Leonid Ukrainian engineer and politician who became prime minister (1992-93) and the second president of independent ... 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Kuczynski, Pedro Pablo (from the article "Peru") ...Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero resigned in protest, a move that under Peruvian law required the ... Kudamatsu city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. Located on a deep cove ... Kudelka, James (from the article "Performing Arts") The directorship at the National Ballet of Canada changed shortly after the company brought then ... Kuder-Richardson formula (from the article "psychological testing") ...(for estimating the increased reliability expected to result from increase in test length). More commonly ... Kudirka, Vincas Lithuanian physician, writer, and patriot who, through an underground literary-political journal, Varpas (1889-1905; "The Bell"), ... [1 Related Articles] kudoki (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...in this case maebiki) or vocal parts (maeuta) before the entrance of the dancer. The ... Kudowa Zdroj (from the article "Dolnoslaskie") ...Park, known for its unusual eroded sandstone formations. Popular health resorts include Polanica Zdroj, Duszniki ... Kudsi, Nazim al- Syrian political leader who served as president for 18 months in 1961-63 before being ousted ... kudu any of certain handsome, slender antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla). The ... kuduo (from the article "art, African") ...or were representations recalling well-known proverbs. Asante weavers developed a style of great technical mastery, ... Kudur-Mabuk (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") The tendency toward decentralization had begun in the Old Babylonian period with Isin. It concluded ... kudurru (Akkadian: "frontier," or "boundary"), type of boundary stone used by the Kassites of ancient Mesopotamia. ... [4 Related Articles] kudyattam (from the article "acting") ...has provided specifications for the representation of emotions down to the smallest gesture for nearly ... [2 Related Articles] Kudymkar city and administrative centre of Komi-Permyak autonomous okrug (district), Perm oblast (province), western Russia. It ... kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata, or P. thunbergiana), twining perennial vine that is a member of a genus ... [1 Related Articles] kuei (Chinese: "ghost," or "demon"), in indigenous Chinese religion, a troublesome spirit that roams the world ... [2 Related Articles] Kuenen, A. K. (from the article "religions, classification of") ...from C.P. Tiele, a 19th-century Dutch scholar and an important pioneer in the scientific study ... Kufah medieval city of Iraq that was a centre of Arab culture and learning from the ... [8 Related Articles] Kufic script in calligraphy, earliest extant Islamic style of handwritten alphabet that was used by early Muslims ... [5 Related Articles] Kufrah, Al- oasis group (about 30 miles [48 km] long and 12 miles [19 km] wide), southeastern ... Kufstein town, western Austria. It lies along the Inn River, between two ranges, the Kaiser Mountains ... Kufuor, John On Jan. 7, 2001, Ghanaian politician John Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) began ... [5 Related Articles] Kuga Sorta (Mari: "Big Candle"), pacifist and theocratic movement among the Mari (or Cheremis), a Finno-Ugric tribal ... Kugitangtau (from the article "Turkmenistan") ...into Kazakhstan. Topographically, four-fifths of Turkmenistan consists of the southern part of the Turan Plain. ... Kugler, Franz (from the article "Burckhardt, Jacob") ...of Berlin, where his talents were acknowledged by two eminent teachers of ancient history, August ... kugyol (from the article "Korean literature") ...endings. A more extended system of transcription, called hyangch'al, followed shortly thereafter, in which entire ... Kuh-e Belqeys (from the article "Takht-e Soleyman") Kuh-e Belqeys is located about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Takht-e Soleyman. The highest ... Kuharic, Franjo Cardinal Croatian Roman Catholic cleric (b. April 15, 1919, Pribic, Yugos.-d. March 11, 2002, Zagreb, Croatia), ... kuhli loach (from the article "loach") ...fishes. Among these are the clown loach (Botia macracanthus), an orange fish about 13-30 centimetres ... Kuhlia (from the article "aholehole") any of several species of fishes constituting the family Kuhliidae (order Perciformes). Various members of ... Kuhlmann, Richard von German foreign minister for 10 months during World War I, who led the German delegation ... Kuhn, Adalbert German language scholar and folklorist who founded a new school of comparative mythology based on ... Kuhn, Bowie Kent American sports executive and lawyer strove to uphold the integrity of Major League Baseball ... [1 Related Articles] Kuhn, David (from the article "Villon, Francois") ...conception reinforced by the 19th-century Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud, who saw him as the "accursed ... Kuhn, Fritz Julius (from the article "German-American Bund") In 1939 the Bund's national leader, Fritz Julius Kuhn, was prosecuted for grand larceny (misappropriating ... Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (from the article "Kahn, Otto Hermann") ...to the London branch of Berlin's Deutsche Bank and became a British citizen. The banking ... [2 Related Articles] Kuhn, Maggie American social activist who was central in establishing the group that became known as the ... [1 Related Articles] Kuhn, Richard German biochemist who was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on carotenoids ... [1 Related Articles] Kuhn, Roland (from the article "mental disorder") ...tricyclic (so called because of its three-ringed chemical structure) antidepressant drug, imipramine, was originally designed ... Kuhn, Thomas S. American historian of science noted for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), one of the ... 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