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Kelaa des Srarhna, el-: town, provincial capital, and province (established 1973), Tensift region, western Morocco. The town, located about 47 mi (75 km) northeast of Marrakech, is a local market centre in the eastern part of the province; its name means the "Citadel of ...
Kelantan: state (negeri), northeastern West Malaysia (Malaya); mountainous jungles form its boundaries with Thailand (northwest) and the states of Perak (west), Pahang (south), and Terengganu (east). Its 5,765-sq-mi (14,931-sq-km) area is almost entirely formed by the valley of the Sungai (River) ...
Kellar, Harry: first great magician native to the United States. Called the "dean of magic" and "the most beloved magician in history," he was the most popular magician from 1896 until 1908.
Kellas, Eliza: American educator, best remembered for her strong and effective leadership of the Emma Willard School in Troy.
Keller, Ferdinand: Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian who conducted the first systematic excavation of prehistoric Alpine lake dwellings, at Obermeilen on Lake Zurich. He thus initiated the study of similar remains elsewhere in Switzerland and Europe, from which much was learned about Late ...
Keller, Gottfried: the greatest German-Swiss narrative writer of the late 19th-century realistic school.
Keller, Helen: American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities.
Kellermann, Bernhard: German journalist and writer best known for his novel Der Tunnel (1913; The Tunnel, 1915), a sensational technical-utopian work.
Kellermann, Francois-Christophe, Duc De Valmy: French general whose defeat of a Prussian army at Valmy in September 1792 halted an invasion that threatened the Revolutionary regime in France.
Kelley, Florence: social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States.
Kellgren, Johan Henrik: poet considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment and once called Sweden's "national good sense."
Kellogg: city, Shoshone county, northern Idaho, U.S. It is situated in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of the Bitterroot Range. Established as a prospecting camp in 1893 and originally called Milo, it was renamed (1894) to honour Noah S. Kellogg, discoverer ...
Kellogg Company: leading American producer of ready-to-eat cereals and other food products. Kellogg's Corn Flakes was one of the earliest and remains one of the most popular breakfast cereals in the United States. Headquarters are in Battle Creek, Mich.
Kellogg, Clara Louise: American opera singer, the first native American prima donna and the first to achieve success in Europe.
Kellogg, Frank B.: U.S. secretary of state (1925-29) whose most important achievement was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929.
Kellogg, John Harvey: American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry.
Kellogg, Louise Phelps: American historian who wrote extensively on the American Northwest.
Kellogg, W K: American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States.
Kellogg-Briand Pact: (Aug. 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.
Kells, Book of: illuminated gospel book (MS. A.I. 6; Trinity College Library, Dublin) that is a masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style. It is probable that the illumination was begun in the late 8th century at the Irish monastery on the Scottish island ...
Kelly, Ellsworth: American painter and sculptor who was a leading exponent of the hard-edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined.
Kelly, Emmett: American circus clown, best known for his role as "Weary Willie," a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose.
Kelly, Gene: American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion picture director whose athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique, transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public's conception of male dancers.
Kelly, George: playwright, actor, and director whose dramas of the 1920s reflect the foibles of the American middle class with a telling accuracy.
Kelly, Grace: American actress of films and television, known for her stately beauty and reserve. She starred in 11 motion pictures before abandoning a Hollywood career to marry Rainier III, prince de Monaco, in 1956.
Kelly, Hugh: British dramatist, critic, and journalist who was, for a time, a serious rival of the playwright Oliver Goldsmith in the London theatre, after his play False Delicacy (staged in 1768) scored a triumph in opposition to Goldsmith's Good-Natur'd Man.
Kelly, John B.: American oarsman who won 126 consecutive races in single sculls in 1919 and 1920, a record that included a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. Kelly also won the double sculls event (with his cousin Paul Costello) ...
Kelly, Ned: most famous of the bushrangers, Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century.
Kelly, Walt: American creator of the comic strip "Pogo," which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire.
Kelly, William: American ironmaster who invented the pneumatic process of steelmaking, in which air is blown through molten pig iron to oxidize and remove unwanted impurities. Also patented by Sir Henry Bessemer of Great Britain, this process produced the first inexpensive steel, ...
keloid: fibrous tissue overgrowth occurring in scars. Usually only the skin layers are affected in this manner; scars of the mucous membranes or deeper tissues do not form keloids. Keloids are sometimes equated with fibrous tumours, but most pathologists do not ...
Kelowna: city, southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies 80 miles (129 km) north of the U.S. (Washington) border, on the east shore of Okanagan Lake (there bridged), 284 miles (457 km) east-northeast of Vancouver. Kelowna originated around a mission established about ...
kelp: any of numerous large seaweeds found in colder seas and belonging to the order Laminariales (about 30 genera) of brown algae. The term applies also to the ash produced by the incineration of various seaweeds. Until early in the 19th ...
kelp crab: Pacific species of spider crab (q.v.).
Kelsen, Hans: Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law, who formulated a kind of positivism known as the "pure theory" of law.
Kelsey, Henry: British mariner and explorer of the Canadian plains who played a significant role in the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Kelso: small burgh (town) and agricultural market centre, Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Roxburghshire, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the River Tweed at the head of the Merse, a rich agricultural plain south of the Lammermuir Hills. The town ...
Kelso: city, seat (1932) of Cowlitz county, southwestern Washington, U.S., on the Cowlitz River, immediately northeast of Longview. Built on the site of the Cowlitz Indian village of Tiahanakshih, the area that became Kelso was settled in 1847 by Peter Crawford, ...
kelvin: base unit of thermodynamic temperature measurement in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as 10027,316 of the triple point (equilibrium among the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases) of pure water. The kelvin is also the fundamental unit ...
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron: Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist, who profoundly influenced the scientific thought of his generation.
Kemal, Namik: Turkish prose writer and poet who greatly influenced the Young Turk and Turkish nationalist movements and contributed to the westernization of Turkish literature.
Kemal, Yashar: Turkish novelist of Kurdish descent best known for his stories of village life and for his outspoken advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed.
Kemalpasazade: also called Ibn Kemal, Ibn Kemal Pasa, or Semseddin Ahmet Ibn Suleyman Ibn Kemal Pasa historian, poet, and scholar who is considered one of the greatest Ottoman historians.
Kemble, Adelaide: celebrated singer and member of the famous theatrical family Kemble.
Kemble, Charles: theatrical manager, the first to use appropriately detailed historical sets and costumes on the English stage, and an actor noted for his supporting roles in several Shakespeare plays, but at his best in comedy.
Kemble, Elizabeth: nee Satchell English actress of great ability whose career was subordinated to that of her husband, George Stephen Kemble. Elizabeth Satchell was a talented performer when she married Kemble in 1783, and for several years they acted together, with critics ...
Kemble, Fanny: popular English actress who is also remembered as the author of plays, poems, and reminiscences, the latter containing much information about the stage and social history of the 19th century.
Kemble, George Stephen: English actor and theatrical manager.
Kemble, Henry Stephen: English actor of popularity but modest attainments, a member of the famous Kemble theatrical family.
Kemble, John Philip: popular English actor and manager of the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres in London, where his reforms improved the status of the theatrical profession. He played heavy dramatic roles in the artificial and statuesque style then in vogue. His ...
Kemble, Maria Theresa: English singer, dancer, and actress who married the actor and theatrical manager Charles Kemble.