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  • Kanō Kuninobu (Japanese painter)
    fifth-generation scion of the famous Kanō family of Japanese artists who created the style of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574–1600) screen paintings....
  • Kano’ languages (Asian language)
    ...primarily in Myanmar (Burma) and secondarily in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Yunnan province in China. The members of the Palaungic branch are somewhat controversial but are generally given as Kano’ (Danau, or Danaw), Mang, and sometimes Lamet (which are often grouped in the Khmuic branch), as well as the many languages classified within the Palaung-Riang, Angkuic, and Waic subbranches o...
  • Kanō Masanobu (Japanese painter)
    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 with their “Japanized” Chinese painting style....
  • Kanō Mitsuyori (Japanese painter)
    sixth-generation member of the famous Kanō family of painters to the Japanese shoguns....
  • Kanō Morinobu (Japanese painter)
    most influential Kanō painter of the Tokugawa period in Japan....
  • Kanō Motonobu (Japanese painter)
    great master of Japanese painting....
  • Kanō Naonobu (Japanese painter)
    seventh-generation member of the Kanō family of Japanese artists, who served as painter to the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu, and founded the Kobikichō branch of the Kanō family....
  • Kanō Sanraku (Japanese painter)
    sixth-generation member of the famous Kanō family of painters to the Japanese shoguns....
  • Kanō school (Japanese art)
    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 century or more. Throughout their history the family served military masters, and the lofty and moral symbolism of the Kanō tradition was at the...
  • Kanō Tanyū (Japanese painter)
    most influential Kanō painter of the Tokugawa period in Japan....
  • Kanoldt, Alexander (German artist)
    ...director of the Mannheim Kunsthall. In a 1925 exhibition assembled at the Kunsthalle, Hartlaub displayed the works of the members of this group: George Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Georg Schrimpf, Alexander Kanoldt, Carlo Mense, Georg Scholz, and Heinrich Davringhausen....
  • kanōn (Eastern Orthodoxy)
    (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 kanōn is thought to have originated in Jerusalem in the 7th or 8th century to replace the biblical canticles in the morning off...
  • Kanonagirk’  (collection by John IV of Odzun)
    Also credited to John is the Kanonagirk’ (“Corpus of Canon Law”), the first collection of church legislation in the Armenian Church....
  • Kanonenkönig, Der (German industrialist)
    German industrialist noted for his development and worldwide sale of cast-steel cannon and other armaments. Under his direction the Krupp Works began the manufacture of ordnance (c. 1847)....
  • Kanopos (ancient city, Egypt)
    ancient Egyptian city on the western coast of the Nile River delta, in Al-Iskandariyyah muḥāfaẓah (governorate). The Canopic branch of the Nile is entirely silted up, but on the shore about 2 miles (3 km) from Abū Qīr there are extensive remains, including the temple of the Greco-Egyptia...
  • Kanoya (Japan)
    city, Kagoshima prefecture (ken), Kyushu, Japan, in the central part of the Ōsumi Peninsula. The city developed rapidly with the establishment of an air base of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1936. After World War II the base was taken over by the Japanese Self-Defense Force. The city retains its rural character, however, producing sweet potatoes and ...
  • Kānphaṭa Yogi (Hindu ascetic)
    member of an order of religious ascetics in India that venerates the Hindu deity Lord Śiva. Kānphaṭa Yogis are distinguished by the large earrings they wear in the hollows of their ears (kān-phaṭa, “ear split”). They are sometimes referred to as tantric (esoteric) sannyāsins (ascetics), bec...
  • Kanpur (India)
    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 frontier stations. In 1857, during the Indian Mutiny, the British troops in the town were massacred by native forces. The survivors are said to have been thrown into...
  • kanrei (Japanese official)
    ...of its Kamakura predecessor (see above The establishment of warrior government), setting up a Mandokoro, Monchūjo, and Samurai-dokoro. But after the appointment of Hosokawa Yoriyuki as kanrei, this post became the most important in the bakufu government. The official business of the Mandokoro was to control the finances of the bakufu; and later the Ise family, who......
  • Kanrin Maru (ship)
    Trained as a naval officer, Katsu was appointed to command the Kanrin Maru, the first Japanese ship to sail to the West (1860). The voyage took him to the United States, and after his return to Japan he worked to modernize the Japanese navy and develop the country’s coastal defenses. He also became the leader of the moderate faction within the Tokugawa shogunate, but his effort to re...
  • Kansa (people)
    North American Indians of Siouan linguistic stock who lived along the Kansas and Saline rivers in what is now central Kansas. It is thought that the Kansa had migrated to this location from an earlier prehistoric territory on the Atlantic coast. They are related to the Omaha, Osage, Quapaw, and Ponca....
  • Kansai (region, Japan)
    ...toward the city of Kyōto, the region is now included in the larger Keihanshin Industrial Zone. Neither of these zones is a political entity, but the larger of the two corresponds to the Kansai, one of Japan’s traditional cultural areas. The Kansai, a region of ancient cities to the west (sai) of the mountain barrier (kan) near Mount Fuji, is the birthplace of the......
  • Kansai International Airport (airport, Ōsaka, Japan)
    ...Ōsaka with Kōbe, Kyōto, and Nagoya. Ōsaka has two major airports. The older one is located near suburban Itami, to the north of the city, and handles domestic air traffic. Kansai International Airport opened in 1994 to handle the city’s growing international air traffic. This airport is built on a man-made island in Ōsaka Bay and is connected to the mai...
  • Kansan Glacial Stage (geology)
    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 of moderate climatic conditions. The Kansan Glacial Stage was named for deposits studied in northeastern Kansas, although ...
  • Kansas (state, United States)
    constituent state of the United States of America. It is bounded by Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, Oklahoma to the south, and Colorado to the west. Lying amid the westward-rising landscape of the Great Plains of the North American continent, Kansas became the 34th state o...
  • Kansas City (Missouri, United States)
    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, Olathe, Overland Park...
  • Kansas City (Kansas, United States)
    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, it was the site of several Osage and ...
  • Kansas City Athletics (American baseball team)
    ...City (Missouri), Minneapolis, and Buffalo (New York) to Baltimore (the first of two American League teams to be called the Baltimore Orioles), Washington, D.C. (the Senators), Philadelphia (the Athletics), and Boston (the Red Stockings). American League teams also were established in Detroit, Michigan (the Tigers), and Milwaukee (the first of two teams to be named the Milwaukee Brewers),......
  • Kansas City Chiefs (American football team)
    ...and several theatre organizations. Kemper Arena (1975) hosts concerts, conventions, shows, and sports events. The Harry S. Truman Sports Complex houses Kansas City’s professional gridiron football (Chiefs) and baseball (Royals) teams in two side-by-side stadiums; the city also has a professional soccer (football) team (Wizards). Crown Center, an 85-acre (34-hectare) cultural and business...
  • “Kansas City Evening Star, The” (American newspaper)
    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 Group (rocks, United States)
    division of Late Carboniferous rocks (318 million to 299 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 Group and overlie those of the Pleasanton Group, all of which are included within the Missourian Series. The Kansas City Group consists of six limestone formation...
  • Kansas City International Airport (airport, Kansas City, Missouri, United States)
    ...passengers and other complications related to building operation. In practice, building lengths tend to be limited to approximately 800 metres (2,650 feet). Examples of the linear design occur at Kansas City International Airport in Missouri, U.S., Munich Airport in Germany, and Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris....
  • Kansas City Monarchs (American baseball team)
    From 1924 through 1927, the NNL and ECL champions met in a Negro World Series. The NNL’s Chicago American Giants won two championships and the Kansas City Monarchs won one, as did the Hilldale Club, representing the ECL. The ECL succumbed to financial weakness in the spring of 1928. The NNL, bereft of the management acumen and foresight of Foster, who was hospitalized for mental illness in....
  • Kansas City Royals (American baseball team)
    ...franchise outside the United States) and San Diego, California (the Padres), bringing the National League to 12 teams. In the American League in 1969, new franchises in Kansas City, Missouri (the Royals), and Seattle, Washington (the Pilots), brought that league to 12 teams, and both leagues were divided into Eastern and Western divisions....
  • Kansas City Star (American newspaper)
    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)
    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 Webster, and Lester Young; bassist-bandleader Walter Page...
  • Kansas City, University of (university, Kansas City, Missouri, United States)
    ...first technological institutions in the United States; it was incorporated into the state university system in 1964. The campus at Kansas City was originally opened in 1933 as the privately owned University of Kansas City; it joined the system in 1963, the same year that the St. Louis campus was founded. Notable alumni of the University of Missouri include surgeon William Worrall Mayo and......
  • Kansas City–Omaha Kings (American basketball team)
    ...the Celtics in 1963, Cousy coached at Boston College (1963–69), where he guided the team to five postseason tournaments. He returned to professional basketball in 1969 as head coach of the Cincinnati Royals (and played in seven games that season). Cousy coached the team (which became the Kansas City–Omaha Kings in 1972) until November 1973. From 1975 to 1979 he served as......
  • Kansas College of Technology (university, Kansas, United States)
    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. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, colleges of Agriculture, Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Bu...
  • Kansas, flag of (United States state flag)
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  • Kansas Flyer, The (American athlete)
    American middle-distance runner who repeatedly broke world and national records for the mile in the 1930s....
  • Kansas Ironman, The (American athlete)
    American middle-distance runner who repeatedly broke world and national records for the mile in the 1930s....
  • Kansas River (river, United States)
    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 for a distance of about 170 miles (275 km), the Kansas dra...
  • Kansas State Agricultural College (university, Kansas, United States)
    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. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, colleges of Agriculture, Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Bu...
  • Kansas State College of Pittsburg (university, Pittsburg, Kansas, United States)
    public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Pittsburg, Kan., U.S. It comprises the College of Arts and Sciences, Gladys A. Kelce School of Business, the School of Education, and the School of Technology and Applied Science. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers a selection of master’s degree programs and specialist programs in education. The university ope...
  • Kansas State Normal School (university, Emporia, Kansas, United States)
    public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Emporia, Kan., U.S. It consists of the schools of Business and of Library and Information Management, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Teachers College. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers master’s degree programs in most areas and a doctorate in library studies. The university’s facilit...
  • Kansas State Teachers College (university, Emporia, Kansas, United States)
    public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Emporia, Kan., U.S. It consists of the schools of Business and of Library and Information Management, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Teachers College. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers master’s degree programs in most areas and a doctorate in library studies. The university’s facilit...
  • Kansas State Teachers College of Hays (university, Kansas, United States)
    public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Hays, Kan., U.S. It is part of the Kansas Regents System. The university consists of the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Health and Life Sciences, and a graduate school. In addition to undergraduate studies, Fort Hays State offers master’s degree programs in a range of academic areas. Campus facilities include ...
  • Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg (university, Pittsburg, Kansas, United States)
    public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Pittsburg, Kan., U.S. It comprises the College of Arts and Sciences, Gladys A. Kelce School of Business, the School of Education, and the School of Technology and Applied Science. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers a selection of master’s degree programs and specialist programs in education. The university ope...
  • Kansas State University (university, Kansas, United States)
    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. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, colleges of Agriculture, Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Bu...
  • Kansas, University of (university, Lawrence, Kansas, United States)
    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 Sciences and 12 schools offering study in such areas as law, engineering, business, architecture, and pharmacy. The Medical Center consists of the Schools o...
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act (United States [1854])
    (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 over congressional edict. In 1820 the Missouri Compromise had excluded slavery from that part of the Louisiana Purchase (except Missouri) north of the 36°30...
  • Kansei Code (law code, Japan)
    ...Western science; he himself had a large globe made, and he also imported a telescope from the Netherlands. He helped develop the first law code of the Tokugawa era (1603–1867). The resulting Kansei Code, not completed until after Yoshimune’s death, laid the basis for a more humane law than had previously been in existence. He retired in 1745 in favour of his son, although he acted...
  • Kansei reforms (Japanese government 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 art)
    (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 clay stone, and other materials. The technique has two varieties: hollow kanshitsu (called dakkatsu...
  • Kansk (Russia)
    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 early 1980s was being developed into one of the largest coal areas ...
  • Kansu (province, China)
    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 of Ningsia and the province of Shensi to the east, the Chinese provinces of Tsinghai and Szechwan to the south, and the Uighur Autonomous Reg...
  • Kant, Immanuel (German philosopher)
    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....
  • Kant, Krishan (vice president of India)
    Indian politician (b. Feb. 28, 1927, Kot Mohammad Khan, Punjab, India—d. July 27, 2002, New Delhi, India), devoted his entire life to Indian freedom, social welfare, and civil liberties and rose to become vice president in 1997. Kant, who came from a family of devout followers of Mohandas Gandhi, plunged into active politics while still a student and was imprisoned for his involvement in th...
  • Kant und die Epigonen (work by Liebmann)
    ...1834–53). In 1865 the order: “Zurück nach Kant!” (“Back to Kant!”) reverberated through the celebrated work of the young epistemologist Otto Liebmann, Kant und die Epigonen (“Kant and his Followers”), which was destined to extricate their spirits from the Positivistic morass and, at the same time, to divert the Germans from romantic...
  • Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis (astronomy)
    ...of stellar energy, binary and multiple star systems, and giant and dwarf stars. He also analyzed the breakup of rapidly spinning bodies under the stress of centrifugal force and concluded that the nebular hypothesis of Laplace, which stated that the planets and Sun condensed from a single gaseous cloud, was invalid. He proposed instead the catastrophic or tidal theory, first suggested by the......
  • Kanta, Muhammadu (ruler of Kebbi kingdom)
    ...Nigeria. It lies along the Sokoto (Kebbi) River at the intersection of roads from Argungu, Jega, and Bunza. An early settlement of the Kebbawa, a subgroup of the Hausa, it was captured about 1516 by Muhammadu Kanta, founder of the Kebbi kingdom; subsequently, it was incorporated into Kebbi, one of the banza bakwai (the seven illegitimate Hausa states), which extended over what is now......
  • Kantara Bridge, el- (bridge, Constantine, Algeria)
    ...The cliffs of the gorge, at its narrowest, are 15 feet (4.5 m) apart and at its greatest width are about 1,200 feet (365 m) apart. The gorge is crossed at the northeast angle of the city by the el-Kantara Bridge, a modern 420-foot (130-metre) structure built on the site of earlier bridges. North and south of the city are, respectively, a suspension bridge and a viaduct....
  • Kanté, Mory (African singer)
    During the 1980s several vocalists launched their international careers after breaking away from famous orchestras of the previous decade, notably Mory Kanté and Salif Keita (both from the Rail Band) and Youssou N’Dour (from the Star Band de Dakar). Keita and guitarist Kanté Manfila left the Rail Band together and made several albums with Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux (inclu...
  • Kantemir, Antiokh Dmitriyevich (Russian poet)
    distinguished Russian statesman who was his country’s first secular poet and one of its leading writers of the classical school....
  • Kantemir, Dmitry (Russian statesman)
    statesman, scientist, humanist, scholar, and the greatest member of the distinguished Romanian-Russian family of Cantemir. He was prince of Moldavia (1710–11) and later adviser of Peter the Great of Russia....
  • Kantemir, Dmitry Konstantinovich (Russian statesman)
    statesman, scientist, humanist, scholar, and the greatest member of the distinguished Romanian-Russian family of Cantemir. He was prince of Moldavia (1710–11) and later adviser of Peter the Great of Russia....
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (American social scientist)
    American social scientist and writer whose interests centred on the dynamics of corporate culture, management approaches, and corporate change....
  • Kanthapura (work by Rao)
    ...studied (B.A., 1929) at Nizam College, Hyderabad, and then left India for France to study literature and history at the University of Montpellier and the Sorbonne. His first novel, Kanthapura (1938), dealt with the Indian independence movement. After returning to India in 1939, he spent the war years editing a journal and engaging in underground activities against the.....
  • kantharos (cup)
    drinking cup in Attic Greek pottery from the period of the red-figure and black-figure styles. 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 the brim....
  • Kantianism (philosophy)
    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 concern of this article....
  • Kantipur (Nepal)
    capital of Nepal. It lies near the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers, at an elevation of 4,344 feet (1,324 metres) above sea level. It was founded in 723 by Raja Gunakamadeva. Its early name was Manju-Patan; the present name refers to a wooden temple (kath, “wood”; mandir, “temple...
  • “Kantische-Fries’sche Religionsphilosophie” (work by Otto)
    ...beyond the discoveries of the sciences and the generalized knowledge following from them. Five years later came his work, Kantische-Fries’sche Religionsphilosophie (1909; The Philosophy of Religion Based on Kant and Fries, 1931), a discussion of the religious thought of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Jacob Friedrich Fries, in which he sought to specify......
  • Kantō, Northern (region, Japan)
    industrial region, east-central Japan, occupying portions of Gumma, Saitama, and Tochigi ken (prefectures). Situated just north of, and adjacent to, the Keihin (Tokyo-Yokohama) Industrial Zone, the area consists mostly of plains, interrupted by the Kantō Range and Echigo Range. Northern Kantō is neither an administrative nor a political entity....
  • Kantō Plain (region, Japan)
    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. The plain is located to the east of the Japanese mountain arc, where it bends from a north-south trend to an east-west direction, and is walled by mount...
  • Kantō Range (mountains, Japan)
    mountain range, on Honshu, Japan, lying to the west of the Kantō 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 Kantō region (chihō; east) and Chūbu region (west)....
  • Kantō Torishimari-deyaku (Japanese history)
    ...of the feudal system became even more grave. Even in the villages of Kantō, the seat of the bakufu, disturbances continued apace. The bakufu therefore set up an office called the Kantō Torishimari-deyaku (“Supervisors of the Kantō District”) to strengthen police control of the area, and it ordered the villages of Kantō to form associations...
  • Kantō-heiya (region, Japan)
    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. The plain is located to the east of the Japanese mountain arc, where it bends from a north-south trend to an east-west direction, and is walled by mount...
  • Kantō-sammyaku (mountains, Japan)
    mountain range, on Honshu, Japan, lying to the west of the Kantō 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 Kantō region (chihō; east) and Chūbu region (west)....
  • Kanton Atoll (atoll, Kiribati)
    largest and northernmost of the Phoenix Islands, a coral group, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. Located approximately 1,600 miles (2,600 km) southwest of Hawaii, Kanton’s circular coral reef encloses a lagoon extending 7 miles by 3 miles (11 km by 5 km)....
  • kantongerechten (Dutch court)
    In The Netherlands the ordinary administration of justice is entrusted exclusively to judges appointed for life; there is no jury system. There are cantonal courts (kantongerechten), which exercise jurisdiction in a whole range of minor civil and criminal cases. More-important cases are handled by one of the district courts (......
  • kantor (ecclesiastical official)
    in Judaism and Christianity, an ecclesiastical official in charge of music or chants....
  • Kantor, Benjamin McKinlay (American author)
    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....
  • Kantor, MacKinlay (American author)
    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 (Russian mathematician and economist)
    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 legal scholar)
    German teacher and scholar whose doctrine of free law (Freirechtslehre) contributed to the development of the sociology of law....
  • Kantrowitz, Arthur R. (American physicist)
    ...Richard J. Rosa operated the first truly successful MHD generator, producing about 10 kilowatts of electric power. By 1963 the Avco Research Laboratory, under the direction of the American physicist Arthur R. Kantrowitz, had constructed and operated a 33-megawatt MHD generator, and for many years this remained a record power output. The assumption in the late 1960s that nuclear power would......
  • KANU (political organization, Kenya)
    Kenyan political party. Organized in 1960, KANU was one of two major political parties formed in preparation for independence—the other party, the Kenya African Democratic Union, was ultimately absorbed by KANU after independence. Led by Jomo Kenyatta, the party officially advocated a strong central government in a socialist society. When Kenya became i...
  • Kanu y Gwynt (Welsh poem)
    ...king,” probably Athelstan of Wessex. Poetry outside the main bardic tradition is preserved in englyns (stanzas of three or four lines), a dialogue between Myrddin and Taliesin, and in Kanu y Gwynt (“The Song of the Wind”), a riddle poem that contains the germ of the later convention known as dyfaliad (kenning)....
  • Kanuku Mountains (mountains, Guyana)
    ...border, and it is crowned on the western frontier by the Pakaraima Mountains, which rise to 9,094 feet (2,772 metres) in Mount Roraima. The Rupununi Savanna is bisected by the east–west Kanuku Mountains, which rise to almost 3,000 feet....
  • Kanuma (Japan)
    city, Tochigi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies at the eastern foot of the Ashio Highlands. The central part of the city was a post town during the Tokugawa period (1603–1867); it later developed as a market for hemp seed. Kanuma is now a minor industrial centre, producing lumber, furniture, rope, and brooms. The city is called the source of a certain garden...
  • kanun (Ottoman law code)
    (kanun from Greek kanōn, “rule”), the tabulation of administrative regulations in the Ottoman Empire that supplemented the Sharīʿah (Islamic law) and the discretionary authority of the sultan....
  • Kanuni (Ottoman sultan)
    sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, who not only undertook bold military campaigns that enlarged his realm but also oversaw the development of what came to be regarded as the most characteristic achievements of Ottoman civilization in the fields of law, literature, art, and architecture....
  • Kanuri (people)
    African people, the dominant element of the population of Bornu state in northeastern Nigeria and also found in large numbers in southeastern Niger. The Kanuri language is classified as belonging to the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan family....
  • Kanuri language
    language within the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Kanuri consists of two main dialects, Manga Kanuri and Yerwa Kanuri (also called Beriberi, which they consider pejorative), spoken in central Africa by more than 5,700,000 individuals at the turn of the 21st century. Manga Kanuri is a trade language spoken by about 450,000 people in Niger ...
  • Kāṇva dynasty (Indian history)
    ...the Mediterranean region, which included the Romans, Persians, and Arabs.) The Shunga dynasty lasted for about one century and was then overthrown by the Brahman minister Vasudeva, who founded the Kanva dynasty, which lasted 45 years and following which the Magadha area was of greatly diminished importance until the 4th century ce....
  • Kanwar, Roop (Indian widow)
    Suttee was sometimes committed voluntarily, but cases of compulsion, escape, and rescue are known. Scattered instances of it continue to occur, most notoriously in the case of Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old widow who committed suttee in 1987. The incident was highly controversial, as groups throughout India either publicly defended Kanwar’s actions or declared that she had been murdered....
  • Kánya, Kálmán (Hungarian statesman)
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