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Kennet: district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, in the east-central part of the county, about midway between Bristol and London. Kennet is a rural district of rolling chalk uplands, including Marlborough Downs (about 400 to 950 feet [120 ...
Kenneth I: also called Kenneth Macalpin first king of the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts and so of Scotland north of a line between the Forth and Clyde rivers.
Kenneth II: king of the united Picts and Scots (from 971), son of Malcolm I.
Kenneth III: king of the Scots (from 997), son of Dub and grandson of Malcolm I. He succeeded to the throne perhaps after killing his cousin Constantine III (reigned 995-997); he was himself killed at Monzievaird by Malcolm (son of Kenneth II), ...
Kenneth, Saint: Irish abbot, monastic founder, and missionary who contributed to the conversion of the Picts. He is one of the most popular Celtic saints in Scotland (where he is called Kenneth) and in Ireland (where he is called Canice) and patron ...
Kennewick: city, Benton county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Columbia River, opposite Pasco and immediately southeast of Richland. Laid out in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company, Kennewick is surrounded by farm country producing alfalfa, corn (maize), beans, ...
kenning: concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. A kenning is commonly a simple stock compound such as "whale-path" or "swan road" for "sea," "God's beacon" for "sun," or ...
keno: gambling game played with cards (tickets) bearing numbers in squares, usually from 1 to 80. A player marks or circles as many of these numbers as he wishes up to the permitted maximum, after which he hands in, or registers, ...
Kenora: town, Kenora district, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the Lake of the Woods, 300 miles (480 km) northwest of Thunder Bay. The Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post on Old Fort Island (1790), and lumbering in the locality ...
Kenoran orogeny: a Precambrian thermal event on the Canadian Shield that occurred 2.5 billion years ago (± 150 million years). Rocks affected by the Kenoran event represent some of the oldest rocks in North America and occur in the Superior Province surrounding ...
Kenosha: city, seat (1850) of Kenosha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pike River, just north of the Illinois state line. Founded in 1835 by settlers from New York, it was first called ...
Kensett, John Frederick: American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists.
Kensington and Chelsea: royal borough in inner London, part of the historic county of Middlesex, on the north bank of the River Thames west of the City of Westminster. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea forms part of London's fashionable West End district; ...
Kensington Gardens: park in the borough of Westminster, London. It covers an area of 275 acres (111 hectares) and is bordered by the grounds of Kensington Palace (west), Bayswater (north), South Kensington (south), and Hyde Park (east). A winding band of roads ...
Kensington Palace: royal palace in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Its grounds border the extensive Kensington Gardens to the east.
Kensington Stone: supposed relic of a 14th-century Scandinavian exploration of the interior of North America. Most scholars deem it a forgery, claiming linguistically that the carved writing on it is many years out of style; a few scholars, notably Robert A. Hall, ...
Kent: administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying along the English Channel at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. A line of chalk hills (the North Downs) running from west to east forms the spine of the county; north of ...
Kent: county, west-central Rhode Island, U.S., lying between Connecticut to the west and Narragansett Bay to the east. The Pawtuxet River flows through the county's northeastern corner. The county was created in 1750 and named for Kent, Eng. There is no ...
Kent: one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom that received the first Roman mission to the Anglo-Saxons, and ...
Kent: county, central Delaware, U.S., bounded by the Smyrna River (north), the Delaware River and Bay (east), the Mispillion River (south), and Maryland (west). Principal waterways are the Choptank, Leipsic, Murderkill, and St. Jones rivers. Several conservation areas occupy the Delaware ...
Kent: city, Portage county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on the Cuyahoga River, immediately northeast of Akron. The site was first settled in about 1805 by John and Jacob Haymaker and called Riedsburg. It was later named Franklin Mills, and when incorporated as ...
Kent: county, northeastern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a coastal plain bordered by the Sassafras River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Chester River to the south, and Chesapeake Bay to the west. The county, named for Kent, Eng., ...
Kent and Strathern, Edward Augustus, duke of, Earl Of Dublin: fourth son of King George III of Great Britain, father of Queen Victoria.
Kent State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent and two-year colleges in Ashtabula, East Liverpool, and Salem, and in Geauga, Stark, Trumbull, and Tuscarawas counties. The ...
Kent's Cavern: large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, Eng., that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Reverend J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825-29), was perhaps first to proclaim this fact. Excavations (1865-80) made ...
Kent, Edmund Plantagenet, 1st earl of: youngest brother of England's King Edward II, whom he supported to the forfeit of his own life.
Kent, James: jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries. As chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery (1814-23), he ...
Kent, Rockwell: painter and illustrator whose works, though never radically innovative, represented scenes of nature and adventure with such vividness and drama that he became one of the most popular U.S. artists of the first half of the 20th century. Kent studied ...
Kent, William: English architect, interior designer, landscape gardener, and painter, a principal master of the Palladian architectural style in England and pioneer in the creation of the "informal" English garden.
Kentau: city, south-central Kazakstan, on the slopes of the Qaratau Range. Formed in 1955 from several settlements, Kentau (Kazak: "Ore Mountains") is a rapidly growing mining city with a plant for enriching polymetallic ores and reinforced concrete (ferroconcrete), transformer, and excavator ...
Kentigern, Saint: abbot and early Christian missionary, traditionally the first bishop of Glasgow and the evangelist of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Cumbria in southwestern Scotland. Little else is known about him except from late, dubious hagiographies.
Kenton, Stan: American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers and thrust formal education and big-band jazz together into what became the stage (or concert) band movement of the 1960s and '70s, involving thousands ...
Kentucky: constituent state of the United States of America. Rivers define Kentucky's boundaries except on the south, where it shares a border with Tennessee along a nearly straight line of about 425 miles (685 kilometres), and on its mountainous southeastern border ...
Kentucky coffee tree: (species Gymnocladus dioica), plant of the pea family (Fabaceae), native in North American woods from New York and southern Ontario to Oklahoma. In colonial times the seeds of the tree were used for coffee.
Kentucky Derby: one of the classic American horse races, established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track, Louisville, Kentucky. With the Preakness Stakes (run in mid-May) and the Belmont Stakes (early in June), it ...
Kentucky Lake: one of the largest man-made lakes in the eastern United States, situated in Marshall, Calloway, Lyon, and Trigg counties, southwestern Kentucky, U.S.; its southern extremity overlaps into Tennessee. The lake is 184 miles (296 km) long and has more than ...
Kentucky River: tributary of the Ohio River in north-central Kentucky, U.S., and navigable along its 259-mile (417-km) course by means of locks. It is formed by the confluence of North, Middle, and South forks near Beattyville in Lee county and empties into ...
Kentucky State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of colleges of arts and sciences, professional studies, schools of business and public administration, and Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of Leadership Studies. The ...
Kentucky, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. It includes the Chandler Medical Center, also in Lexington, and Lexington Community College. The campus consists of 12 colleges offering instruction in fields such as agriculture, business and economics, engineering, ...
Kenya: strategically located country of East Africa. Bisected horizontally by the equator and vertically by the 38th meridian (east), it is bordered on the north by Ethiopia and The Sudan, on the west by Uganda and Lake Victoria, on the south ...
Kenya, history of: history of the area from the 19th century to the present.
Kenya, Mount: volcano, central Kenya, lying immediately south of the Equator. It is the second highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro, which is located some 200 miles (320 km) to the south. The Mount Kenya area was added to UNESCO's World Heritage ...
Kenyah: indigenous people of Sarawak and Indonesian Borneo, grouped with the Kayan or under the general name Bahau. In the late 20th century the Kenyah were reported to number 23,000. They live near river headwaters, in close association with the Kayan, ...
Kenyatta, Jomo: African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963-64) and then the first president (1964-78) of independent Kenya.
Kenyon College: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Gambier, Ohio, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Episcopal church. Kenyon offers bachelor's degree programs in the performing arts, social sciences, humanities, and biological and physical sciences. There are ...
Kenyon, Dame Kathleen: English archaeologist who excavated Jericho to its Stone Age foundation and showed it to be the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement.
Keohane, Nannerl Overholser: American academician and administrator who gained particular prominence when she became the first woman president of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Keokuk: Sauk Indian orator and politician who became chief by ceding Indian lands to win white support and by rallying opposition to his own tribe's resistance leaders.
Keokuk: city, Lee county, extreme southeastern Iowa, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (bridged to Hamilton, Illinois) at the mouth of the Des Moines River, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Burlington. The first settler in the area, Samuel ...
Keonjhar: town, northern Orissa state, eastern India. Keonjhar is a trade centre for the farm and forest products of the surrounding area. Handloom weaving is also important. The town contains an old raja's palace and is the site of colleges affiliated ...
Kepes, Gyorgy: Hungarian-born American painter, designer, photographer, teacher, and writer who had considerable influence on many areas of design.