closed bonnetlike headdress, apparently of Byzantine origin, rising from a circlet and usually equipped with hanging ornaments, or pendilia, on each side. Its form is retained in the mitres of prelates of the Greek Orthodox church.
city and administrative centre of Kamensky rayon (sector), Altay kray (region), south-central Russia. A port on the Ob River, it was founded in 1670 and designated an urban settlement in 1915 and became a city in 1925. Its economic base ...
original name Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld Old Bolshevik and prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great ...
city, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia, on the Seversky ("Northern") Donets River. Founded in 1686 as a Cossack settlement, it became a city in 1927. Once a major coal-mining centre of the eastern Donets Basin, it primarily manufactures agricultural and ...
city, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia, at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset rivers. The first state iron foundry in the Urals, Kamensky Zavod, was established there in 1700-01. The modern city specializes in the production of aluminum and ...
Dutch winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his work on low-temperature physics and his production of liquid helium. He discovered superconductivity, the almost total lack of electrical resistance in certain materials when cooled to a temperature ...
small, intimate theatre founded in Moscow in 1914 by the Russian director Aleksandr Tairov (q.v.) to support his experimental synthetic theatre that incorporated all theatrical arts-ballet, opera, music, mime, and drama-as an alternative to the naturalistic presentations of Konstantin Stanislavsky's ...
object of worship in Shinto and other indigenous religions of Japan. The term kami is often translated as "god," "lord," or "deity"; but it also includes other forces of nature, both good and evil, which, because of their superiority or ...
(Japanese: "god-shelf"), in the Shinto religion of Japan, a miniature shrine, the centre of daily worship in a household or a shop. The kamidana usually consists of a small cupboard or shelf on which are displayed articles of veneration and ...
any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks. The practice was most prevalent from the Battle of Leyte Gulf, ...
town, southeastern Congo (Kinshasa). The town is an important centre on the Lubumbashi-Ilebo rail line at the junction of branch lines northward to Kindu and to Kalemie, a port with connections to eastern Africa. The town has air services to ...
historic centre of the highland Maya, located near modern Guatemala City, Guat. The site was inhabited from the Formative Period (1500 BC-AD 100) until its decline after the Late Classic Period (c. AD 600-900). About 200 burial sites from the ...
river, western Ontario, Can. It rises in Dog Lake and, after a crooked course of 60 miles (95 km), empties into Thunder Bay, an arm of Lake Superior. It has many rapids and cataracts, notably the wide Kakabeka Falls (154 ...
city, southern British Columbia, Can. It lies astride the confluence of the North and South Thompson rivers near their expansion into Kamloops Lake and adjacent to the Kamloops Indian Reserve, 220 miles (355 km) by road northeast of Vancouver. It ...
in Theravada Buddhist tradition, one of the objects of mental concentration or a stage of meditation employing it. According to Visuddhi-magga (a 5th-century CE Pali text by Buddhaghosa), there are 40 kammatthanas; an individual ...
50th emperor of Japan, who established the Japanese capital at Heian-kyo, where it remained until 1868. His accomplishments laid the basis for the Heian period (794-1185).
poet and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry, one of the major figures in the history of Japanese poetics. He is best known as a classic example of the man of sensibility turned recluse and as the author of Hojo-ki (1212; ...
one of the earliest representatives of the Kokugaku ("National Learning") school, a movement to restore the true Japanese spirit by a return to ancient traditions and culture. The school was revived in World War II in connection with resurgent nationalism.
last king of the 17th dynasty (c. 1630-1540 BC) of Egypt, who opened hostilities with the Hyksos, the west Semitic invaders who had seized part of Egypt in the 17th century BC. Following the death of his father, Seqenenre, Kamose ...
(Japanese: "white barrier"), in Japanese history, office of chief councillor or regent to an adult emperor. The post was created in the Heian period (794-1185) and was thereafter customarily held by members of the Fujiwara clan. Officially serving on behalf ...
capital and largest city of Uganda. It occupies a series of hills at an elevation of about 3,900 feet (1,190 metres) and is situated in the southern part of the country, just north of Lake Victoria. Lying just north of ...
gemeente (commune) and port, Overijssel provincie, north-central Netherlands. It is situated on the southwest side of the IJssel River near its influx into Lake Ketel.
town, western Thailand. It lies along the Ping River and is an old walled settlement with notable ruins and temples and a museum. Rice cultivation is the main economic activity in the surrounding area, and teak is cut in the ...
town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies on the right bank of the Mekong River and is an important river port about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Phnom Penh, the national capital. It has a major airfield, a cotton-textile mill, ...
town, central Cambodia. Kampong Chhnang is located just west of the Sab River and has port facilities. It is connected to Phnom Penh, the national capital, by a national highway route and railway.
a new town, autonomous municipality, and the only deepwater port of Cambodia, situated on a peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand. The port is connected with Phnom Penh, the national capital, by two major highways. It was first opened to ...
town, south-central Cambodia. The town lies along the Tnaot River at the foot of the Damrei ("Elephant") Mountains and astride a national highway linking Phnom Penh, the national capital, with Kampong Saom, the country's principal seaport.
town, southern Cambodia. Kampot is located near the mouth of the Koh Sla River. In the 19th century it was the country's chief port, but this function was taken over in the 1950s by Kampong Saom. It is connected to ...
town, eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Whitesand rivers, just west of the Manitoba border, 167 miles (268 km) northeast of Regina.
city, Volgograd oblast (province), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River and the Volgograd reservoir. In 1697 Peter I the Great built a fort, Petrovsk, to protect workmen attempting to construct a canal between the Volga and Don ...
river, chiefly in Kiangsi sheng (province), China. The Kan River is one of the principal southern tributaries of the Yangtze River. Its headwaters rise in Kwangtung province, where the Ta-yu Mountains divide southwestern Kiangsi from Kwangtung. This upper stream is ...
city in southern Kiangsi sheng (province), China. Kan-chou is a natural route centre at the confluence of the various river systems that branch off from the north-south route to Nan-ch'ang. Although Kan-chou has no rail connections, highways lead from ...
Chinese spoken primarily in Kiangsi and Kwangtung provinces but also spoken in Fukien province and in other widely scattered areas, including settlements in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The best known of these languages is the Hakka of Mei county in ...
two parallel modern Japanese syllabaries (katakana and hiragana), each of which independently represents all the sounds of the Japanese language. Although each derives its simple elements from Chinese characters, the two serve different purposes and differ stylistically.
city, seat (1864) of Kane county, southwestern Utah, U.S., on Kanab Creek, at the foot of Vermillion Cliffs, just north of the Arizona line. Settlement was first made in 1864 around Fort Kanab (from a Paiute Indian word meaning "willow") ...
one of the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands chain, southwestern Alaska, U.S. The uninhabited island measures 30 miles (50 km) long and 4 to 8 miles (6.5 to 13 km) wide; its northern tip is the site of the ...
Japanese writer of humorous light fiction who brought a traditional satirical art to bear on the peculiarities of Japanese society in the process of Westernization.
ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, located south of Tokyo and bordered by Tokyo Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the south. It occupies an area of 928 square miles (2,403 square km). The eastern coast is an important ...
(March 31, 1854), Japan's first treaty with a Western nation. Concluded by representatives of the United States and Japan at Kanagawa (now part of Yokohama), it marked the end of Japan's period of seclusion (1639-1854). The treaty was signed as ...
(Hawaiian: "Person," or "Man"), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in Queensland, Australia, on sugar plantations or cattle stations or as servants in towns. The islanders were first introduced into Queensland ...
