oblast (province), south-central Russia. The oblast lies in the Tom River basin. The north-south valley of the basin is flanked by the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains on the east and by the lower Salair Ridge on the west. In the south ...
city and administrative centre of Kemerovo oblast (province), south-central Russia. Kemerovo lies along the Tom River near the foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau Mountains. The small village of Kemerovo was founded in the 1830s and merged with the village of ...
city, Lapin laani (province), northwestern Finland. It lies along the Gulf of Bothnia at the mouth of the Kemi River, north-northwest of Oulu. It was chartered in 1869, although the site had been inhabited for three centuries. The largest bridge ...
river in Lapin laani (province), northern Finland. The country's longest river, it rises near the Russian border and flows generally southwest for about 300 miles (483 km) to the Gulf of Bothnia at Kemi town. The river system is harnessed ...
one of the most famous clowns of the Elizabethan era. Much of his reputation as a clown grew from his work as a member of the Chamberlain's Men (c. 1594-99), of which he was part of the original company. Kempe ...
Flemish religious painter and designer of tapestries, chiefly active in Sevilla, Spain, where he was called Pedro Campana. By 1537 he had settled in Sevilla and apparently remained there until shortly before 1563, when he was appointed director of the ...
plateau region of northeastern Belgium occupying most of Antwerp province and northern Limburg province. It is a rather dry, infertile region of sandy soil and gravel, with pine woods interspersed among meadows of thin grass and heather. Poor drainage, especially ...
German pianist who specialized in the 19th-century German Classical and Romantic repertoire-especially the sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven-and in the music of Frederic Chopin.
town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies 25 miles (40 km) upstream from the coastal mouth of the Macleay River. Established in 1836, it was at first accessible only by sea via the harbour at Trial Bay. It was ...
city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It is situated on the Iller River in the heart of the Allgauer Alps, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Munich. A residence of the Alemannic dukes and the Frankish ...
Anglican bishop, hymn writer, royal chaplain to Charles II of England, and one of seven bishops who in 1688 opposed James II's Declaration of Indulgence, which was designed to promote Roman Catholicism.
town and bituminous coalfields, northwestern Algeria. They lie in a hammada (stony desert region) situated at the northwestern edge of the Sahara 15 miles (24 km) west of Bechar. The Kenadsa coalfields were discovered in 1907 but not mined until ...
(species Hibiscus cannabinus), fast-growing plant of the mallow family Malvaceae and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. It is used mainly as a jute substitute. The plant grows wild in Africa, where the fibre is sometimes known as ...
rugged wilderness area in southern Alaska, U.S., on the southern coast of Kenai Peninsula just west and southwest of Seward. Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, it became a national park in 1980. Its area is 1,047 square miles (2,712 ...
town ("parish"), South Lakeland district, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Westmorland, England. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of the district. It is close to the main route from London to Scotland via Carlisle and ...
English actor-managers, husband and wife, who, by their personal and professional example, brought social respectability to the acting profession and whose theatrical company trained many performers who afterward attained eminence.
mistress of the English king George I who had considerable political influence during his reign. She was a close friend of Robert Walpole, who said that she was "as much queen of England as ever any was."
American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones.
American nuclear physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor for obtaining experimental evidence for the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks.
town, kabupaten (regency), and capital of Sulawesi Tenggara provinsi ("province"), southeastern Celebes, Indonesia. It is a port on an inlet of Kendari Bay of the Banda Sea, located about 230 miles (370 km) northeast of Ujung Pandang (Makasar). Most of ...
("way of the sword"), traditional Japanese style of fencing with a two-handed wooden sword, derived from the fighting methods of the ancient samurai (warrior class). The unification of Japan about 1600 removed most opportunities for actual sword combat, so the ...
British biochemist who determined the structure of the muscle protein myoglobin, which stores oxygen and gives it to the muscle cells when needed. For his achievement he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Max Ferdinand Perutz in 1962.
Australian writer best known for his historical novels. Keneally's characters are gripped by their historical and personal past, and decent individuals are portrayed at odds with systems of authority.
town, southeastern Sierra Leone. Located on the government railway and at a gap in the Kambui Hills, the town is the centre of the Alluvial Diamond Mining Scheme Area and the site of the Government Diamond Office (1959), concerned with ...
member of a tribe of itinerant metalsmiths related to the Midianites and the Israelites who plied their trade while traveling in the region of the Arabah (the desert rift valley extending from the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of ...
port city, northern Morocco. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) above the mouth of the Sebou River. Before the French protectorate was established, Kenitra (Little Bridge) was a fort; the settlement and port, built by order of Marshal L.-H.-G. ...
Lord Lochinvar Scottish Jacobite who was miscast as a leader in the rebellion of 1715 on behalf of James Edward, the Old Pretender, against King George I.
county, west-central Maine, U.S. It is a region of rolling lowlands with higher elevations on the northwest. Foremost among the county's many streams is the Kennebec River, which traverses it from north to south and supplies hydropower for several cities. ...
river in west-central Maine, U.S. The Kennebec rises from Moosehead Lake and flows south for about 150 miles (240 km) to the Atlantic Ocean. It was explored by Samuel de Champlain between 1604 and 1605. Fort St. George, founded in ...
town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S. It is situated at the mouth of the Kennebunk River, on the Atlantic coast. It is adjacent to Kennebunk and lies 29 miles (47 km) southwest of Portland. The original settlement (1629) by Richard ...
Arctic sea passage between Ellesmere Island, Canada (west), and northwestern Greenland (east). It is 16-24 mi (26-39 km) wide and extends northward for 110 mi from the Kane Basin to the Hall Basin, forming part of the waterway between Baffin ...
U.S. senator (from 1963), a prominent figure in the Democratic Party and in liberal politics from the 1970s. He was the last surviving brother of President John F. Kennedy.
35th president of the United States (1961-63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated while riding ...
American businessman and financier who served in government commissions in Washington, D.C. (1934-37), and as ambassador to Great Britain (1937-40). He was the father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and two other sons who became notable politicians.
U.S. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961-63). Later U.S. senator (1965-68), he was assassinated while campaigning for the presidential nomination.
Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his flyting (Scots dialect: "scolding") with his professional rival William Dunbar. The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which the two poets alternate in heaping outrageous abuse on one another, is the outstanding example of ...
U.S. electrical engineer who made innovations in analytic methods in electronics, particularly the definitive application of complex-number theory to alternating-current (ac) circuits.
