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Kankakee River ... Kantorowicz, Hermann

Kankakee River: navigable stream rising near South Bend, northern Indiana, U.S., and flowing south and west approximately 135 miles (217 km) to be joined by the Iroquois River near Kankakee, Ill. It continues in a northwesterly direction to meet the Des Plaines ...
Kankan: town, eastern Guinea. Located at the head of navigation of the Milo River (a tributary of the Niger), it was founded as a caravan centre (salt, gold, kola nuts) by Soninke merchants in the 18th century.
Kankrin, Egor Frantsevich, Count: Russian minister of finance (1823-44) under Nicholas I. An extreme fiscal conservative, he resisted most efforts to modernize the Russian state. He was created a count in 1829.
Kanmon Tunnel: world's first under-ocean tunnel, stretching 2.25 miles (about 3.5 km) between the islands of Honshu and Kyushu in Japan. During its construction (1936-44), nearly every known tunneling technique was employed: rock tunneling by drilling and blasting, shield tunneling in soft ...
Kannada language: language of the Dravidian family, spoken in southwestern India; it is the official language of Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state.
Kannada literature: the literature written in Kannada, which, like the other languages of South India, is of the Dravidian family. The earliest records in Kannada are inscriptions dating from the 6th century AD onward. The earliest literary work is the Kavirajamarga (c. ...
Kannauj: city, central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. Kannauj is situated near the Ganges River, northwest of Kanpur, with which it has road and rail connections. Its name probably has more popular spellings than any other place-name in India. Kannauj has ...
Kanniyakumari: town, southern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India. The town is situated on Cape Comorin, which is the southernmost point on the Indian subcontinent. Kanniyakumari is a tourist and pilgrimage centre noted for its Siva temple and its Gandhi memorial. Legend ...
Kannon: in Japanese Buddhism, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy. See Avalokitesvara.
Kano: historic kingdom and traditional emirate in northern Nigeria. According to the Kano Chronicle (1890s), the best-known native history of the Hausa people, the Kano kingdom was founded as one of the Hausa Bakwai ("Seven True Hausa States") in 999 by ...
Kano: city and capital of Kano state, northern Nigeria, on the Jakara River. It was traditionally founded by Kano, a blacksmith of the Gaya tribe who in ancient times came to Dalla Hill in the locality in search of iron. The ...
Kano: state, northern Nigeria. It was formed in 1968 from Kano province, and in 1991 its northeastern portion was split off to form Jigawa state. It consists of wooded savanna in the south and scrub vegetation in the north and is ...
Kano Eitoku: original name Kano Kuninobu fifth-generation scion of the famous Kano family of Japanese artists who created the style of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574-1600) screen paintings.
Kano Masanobu: chief painter to the Ashikaga shoguns (family of military rulers who governed Japan from 1338 to 1573) and founder of the hereditary line of artists who, as official painters to the shoguns, dominated Japanese painting for more than 300 years ...
Kano Motonobu: great master of Japanese painting.
Kano Naonobu: seventh-generation member of the Kano family of Japanese artists, who served as painter to the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu, and founded the Kobikicho branch of the Kano family.
Kano Sanraku: original name Kano Mitsuyori sixth-generation member of the famous Kano family of painters to the Japanese shoguns.
Kano school: family of artists who painted in a style developed in Japan in the 15th-19th century. For seven generations, more than 200 years, the leading Japanese artists came from this family, and the official style remained in their hands for another ...
Kano Tanyu: original name Kano Morinobu most influential Kano painter of the Tokugawa period in Japan.
kanon: (Greek: "canon"), one of the main forms of Byzantine liturgical office; it consists of nine odes, based on the nine biblical canticles of the Eastern Christian Church. (Compare canonical hours.) The kanon is thought to have originated in Jerusalem in ...
Kanoya: city, Kagoshima prefecture (ken), Kyushu, Japan, in the central part of the Osumi Peninsula. The city developed rapidly with the establishment of an air base of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1936. After World War II the ...
Kanphata Yogi: member of an order of religious ascetics in India that venerates the Hindu deity Lord Siva. Kanphata Yogis are distinguished by the large earrings they wear in the hollows of their ears (kan-phata, "ear split"). They are sometimes referred to ...
Kanpur: city, south-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies southwest of Lucknow, on the Ganges River. Kanpur was only a village when it and the surrounding territory were acquired in 1801 by the British, who made it one of their ...
Kansa: North American Indian people of Siouan linguistic stock who lived along the Kansas and Saline rivers in what is now central Kansas. They are related to the Omaha, Osage, Quapaw, and Ponca. The Kansa were a semi-sedentary people who combined ...
Kansan Glacial Stage: major division of Pleistocene deposits and time in North America (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 2,500,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Kansan glaciation followed the Aftonian Interglacial Stage and preceded the Yarmouth Interglacial Stage, both periods ...
Kansas: constituent state of the United States of America. The state's 82,277 square miles (213,098 square km) are bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south, and Colorado on the west. Lying amid the westward-rising ...
Kansas City: city, Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, western Missouri, U.S. Located on the Missouri River at the confluence with the Kansas River, the city is contiguous with Kansas City, Kansas, forming part of a large urban complex that also includes Leavenworth, ...
Kansas City: city, seat (1866) of Wyandotte county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers and is contiguous with Kansas City, Missouri. When the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived at the river junction in 1806, ...
Kansas City Group: division of Late Carboniferous rocks (320 to 286 million years ago) in the United States. The division was named for exposures studied in the region of Kansas City, Mo. Rocks of the Kansas City Group underlie those of the Lansing ...
Kansas City Star: evening daily newspaper published in Kansas City, Missouri, the leading paper of the region and one of the great newspapers of the United States.
Kansas City style: music associated with jazz musicians who, though not all born there, were based around Kansas City, Mo., during the 1930s: pianists Pete Johnson and Mary Lou Williams; singer Big Joe Turner; trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page; saxophonists Buster Smith, Ben ...
Kansas River: stream in northeastern Kansas, U.S. It is formed by the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers at Junction City and is joined by the Big Blue River near Manhattan. Flowing east into the Missouri River at Kansas City ...
Kansas State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning consisting of two campuses. The main campus is a land-grant institution located in Manhattan, Kan., U.S., offering a full range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It comprises the Division of Biology, the A.Q. ...
Kansas, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning with a main campus in Lawrence, Kan., U.S. Its Medical Center campus is in Kansas City, and there is also a medical campus in Wichita. The university includes the College of Liberal Arts and ...
Kansas-Nebraska Act: (May 30, 1854), in the antebellum period of U.S. history, critical national policy change concerning the expansion of slavery into the territories, affirming the concept of popular sovereignty (q.v.) over congressional edict. In 1820 the Missouri Compromise had excluded slavery ...
Kansei reforms: series of conservative measures promoted (largely during the Kansei era [1789-1801]) by the Japanese statesman Matsudaira Sadanobu between 1787 and 1793 to restore the sinking financial and moral condition of the Tokugawa government.
kanshitsu: (Japanese: "dry lacquer"), technique of Japanese sculpture and decorative arts in which a figure or vessel is fashioned with many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer, the surface details being subsequently modelled with a mixture of lacquer, sawdust, powdered ...
Kansk: city, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), central Russia, on the Kan River where it is crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Founded in 1640 as a Russian fort, it is a centre of the Kansk-Achinsk lignite basin, which in the ...
Kansu: sheng (province) of China. Administratively a part of the Northwest region, it reaches into the geographic centre of the country. It is bordered by Mongolia to the north, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the northeast, the Hui Autonomous Region ...
Kant, Immanuel: German philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in the theory of knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism and Idealism.
Kantemir, Antiokh Dmitriyevich: distinguished Russian statesman who was his country's first secular poet and one of its leading writers of the classical school.
Kantemir, Dmitry: Romanian Dimitrie Cantemir statesman and scientist, the greatest member of the distinguished Romanian-Russian family of Cantemir. He was prince of Moldavia (1710-11) and later imperial chancellor of Peter the Great of Russia.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss: American social scientist and writer whose interests centred on the dynamics of corporate culture, management approaches, and corporate change.
kantharos: drinking cup in Attic Greek pottery from the period of the red-figure and black-figure styles (qq.v.). The kantharos is in the form of a deep cup, with loop-shaped handles arising from the bottom of the body and extending high above ...
Kantianism: either the system of thought contained in the writings of the epoch-making 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant or those later philosophies that arose from the study of Kant's writings and drew their inspiration from his principles. Only the latter is the ...
Kanto Plain: plain that is the most extensive lowland in Japan, located in central Honshu, facing the Pacific Ocean. Its 6,244 square miles (16,172 square km) contain the capital city, Tokyo, and constitute the most productive and populous area of the country. ...
Kanto Range: mountain range, on Honshu, Japan, lying to the west of the Kanto Plain. Extending 80 miles (130 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to west, it forms the physical division between Kanto region (chiho; ...
Kanton Atoll: largest and northernmost of the Phoenix Islands, a coral group situated in the west-central Pacific Ocean and constituting part of Kiribati. Located 1,630 miles (2,610 km) southwest of Hawaii, Kanton's circular coral reef, occupying 3.5 square miles (9 square km), ...
Kantor, MacKinlay: American author and newspaperman whose more than 30 novels and numerous popular short stories include the highly acclaimed Andersonville (1955; filmed for television 1996), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the American Civil War.
Kantorovich, Leonid Vitalyevich: Soviet mathematician and economist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Economics with Tjalling Koopmans for their work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.
Kantorowicz, Hermann: German teacher and scholar whose doctrine of free law (Freirechtslehre) contributed to the development of the sociology of law.