| | - Kiriwawanvu, Saint Mukasa
- (from the article "Uganda, Martyrs of") ...With the exception of St. Mbaga-Tuzinde, who was bludgeoned by his own father, the pages were burned alive on June 3, 1886: Saints Ambrose Kibuka, Anatole Kiriggwajjo, Achilles Kiwanuka, Mugagga, Mukasa Kiriwawanvu, Adolphus Mukasa Ludigo, Gyavira, and Kizito. The soldiers and officials Saints Bruno Serunkuma, James Buzabaliawo, and...
- Kiriwina
- (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") ...ostensible motive of the transactions-but also quantities of other goods. Notable among these were carvings in dark hardwood, which was the special product of Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands.physiographyTrobriand Islands...km) north of the southeasternmost extension of the island ...
- Kiriyama Prize
- (from the article "Literature") ...with American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005), and Claudia Emerson captured the poetry prize for Late Wife (2005). Luis Alberto Urrea won the Kiriyama Prize in fiction for The Hummingbird's Daughter (2005). The PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction went to E.L. Doctorow for The March (2005). ...
- Kirk Range
- plateau in southwestern Malawi, extending in a north-south direction and skirting the southwestern shore of Lake Nyasa and the western border of the Shire River valley. The northern scarp overlooks the Central Region Plateau, while the southern limits merge into the lower Shire Highlands. The plateau's height decreases in a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kirk, Alan G(oodrich)
- U.S. naval officer who commanded successful amphibious landings in Sicily and Normandy during World War II; he later served in important diplomatic posts.
- Kirk, Geoffrey S.
- (from the article "myth") ...the beginning." Other scholars either consider folktale a subdivision of myth or regard the two categories as distinct but overlapping. The latter view is taken by the British classicist Geoffrey S. Kirk, who in Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (1970) uses the term myth to ...
- Kirk, Grayson
- American academic who as president (1953-68) of Columbia University, New York City, gained national notoriety for using over 1,000 riot police officers to suppress a student disturbance there in 1968. An able administrator and fund-raiser, he was forced to resign following student protests against his heavy-handed tactics (b. Oct. 12, ...
- Kirk, Norman Eric
- prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of New Zealand (1972-74).
- Kirk, Russell
- (from the article "libertarianism") ...some prominent conservatives, have insisted that libertarianism is an amoral philosophy of libertinism in which the law loses its character as a source of moral instruction. The American philosopher Russell Kirk, for example, argued that libertarians "bear no authority, temporal or spiritual," and do not "venerate ancient beliefs and customs, ...
- Kirk, Sir John
- Scottish physician, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar. [2 Related Articles]
- Kirkcaldy
- town and seaport, Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth.
- Kirkcaldy, Sir William
- Scottish soldier, a leader of Scotland's Protestants in the reign of the Roman Catholic queen Mary Stuart.
- Kirkcudbright
- town and royal burgh (1455), Dumfries and Galloway council area, historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire, southwestern Scotland, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Dumfries in the Galloway region. It guards the lowest crossing of the River Dee 6 miles (10 km) from the Irish Sea and is a market town, a ...
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- historic county, southwestern Scotland. It lies entirely within Dumfries and Galloway council area. Kirkcudbrightshire forms the eastern portion of the historic province of Galloway. It encompasses the shores of the Solway Firth and Irish Sea between the Rivers Nith and Cree and extends inland across an undulating landscape of hills ...
- Kirke Brothers
- (from the article "Canada") ...war broke out with the English, who supported the French Protestants, or Huguenots, in their struggle against Richelieu. The war was mismanaged and inconclusive, but it gave a pretext for the Kirke brothers, English adventurers who had connections in France with Huguenot competitors of the Hundred Associates, to blockade the ...
- Kirke, Sir David
- (from the article "Ferryland") ...(later Lord Baltimore) obtained a charter for a portion of the peninsula in 1623. The colony showed promise until its proprietors procured the patent for Maryland and vacated the peninsula in 1629. Sir David Kirke, count palatine of the island, took over the village (1638) and established his headquarters there. ...
- Kirkee, Battle of
- (from the article "Elphinstone, Mountstuart") ...Marathas disunited and used the murder of an envoy from Baroda to force a treaty on the peshwa. Elphinstone defeated the peshwa and ended the latter's efforts against British rule at the Battle of Kirkee (November 1817), though the residency at Pune and Elphinstone's notes for future literary works were ...
- Kirkfield
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...60-ton vessels; in 1888 lifts were constructed at Les Fontinettes, Fr., for 300-ton vessels and at La Louviere, Belg., for 400-ton vessels. Similar hydraulic lift locks were constructed at Kirkfield and Peterborough in Ontario, Can.; the latter, completed in 1904, has a lift of nearly 65 feet. Float lifts were ...
- Kirkham
- (from the article "Fylde") ...International golf matches, including the Ryder Cup and the British Open, are sometimes played there. An old windmill and the Jacobean (late 18th-century) Lytham Hall are architectural features. Kirkham, an old market town in the centre of the borough, contains the ruins of an abbey founded in 1125 for Augustinian ...
- Kirkham, Rick
- (from the article "Performing Arts") TV Junkie, Michael Cain and Matt Radecki's 2006 Special Jury Prize winner at Sundance, was created from more than 3,000 hours of personal footage shot by TV reporter Rick Kirkham, starting at age 14 and extending to the present. The film explored his career, including his work on the program ...
- Kirkilas, Gediminas
- (from the article "Lithuania") Area: 65,300 sq km (25,212 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 3,375,000 | Capital: Vilnius | Chief of state: President Valdas Adamkus | Head of government: Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas | BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007LithuaniaLithuania...est.): 3,392,000 ...
- Kirkintilloch
- burgh (town), East Dunbartonshire council area, historic county of Dunbartonshire, west-central Scotland, on the northeastern periphery of the metropolitan area of Glasgow. It is situated on the Forth and Clyde Canal, and the River Kelvin flows past the town. There was a Roman fort on the site, part of the ...
- Kirkland Lake
- town, Timiskaming district, eastern Ontario, Canada. It is situated 125 miles (200 km) north-northwest of North Bay. Since the discovery of gold in the vicinity in 1911, at the time of the construction of the Ontario Northland Railway, the town has grown to become one of Canada's largest gold producers. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kirkland, Gelsey
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This production drew attention to the participation in the direction and rethinking of the ballet of the well-known, and sometimes controversial, former dancer Gelsey Kirkland. The final result, credited to ABT artistic director Kevin McKenzie with the assistance of Kirkland and the dramaturge Michael ...
- Kirkland, Joseph
- American novelist whose only work, a trilogy of Midwestern pioneer life, contributed to the development of realistic fiction.
- Kirkland, Lane
- American labour union leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) from 1979 to 1995. [2 Related Articles]
- Kirkland, Samuel
- Congregational minister to the Iroquois Confederacy and negotiator of the Oneida Alliance with the colonists during the American Revolution (1775-83).
- Kirklareli
- city, northwestern (European) Turkey. It lies in the foothills of the Yildiz (Istranca) Mountains. Formerly called Kirk Kilise ("Forty Churches"), it developed chiefly because of its position on the shortest route over the mountains from the north to Istanbul, 100 miles (160 km) southeast. The city has numerous Ottoman monuments, ...
- Kirklees
- metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. The borough takes its name from Kirklees Hall (17th century), whose estate houses a small Cistercian priory (1155) and the reputed grave of Robin Hood. The borough extends from flat-topped and heather-clad gritstone moorland in the Pennines ...
- Kirkman schoolgirl problem
- (from the article "combinatorics") ...subsets, such that the blocks in any subset contain every treatment exactly once. For the case k = 3 this problem was first posed during the 19th century by the British mathematician T.P. Kirkman as a recreational problem. There are upsilon girls in a class. Their teacher wants to take ...
- Kirkman, Jacob
- Alsatian-born British harpsichord maker and member of a large family of instrument builders active into the 19th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Kirkman, T. P.
- (from the article "combinatorics") ...into subsets, such that the blocks in any subset contain every treatment exactly once. For the case k = 3 this problem was first posed during the 19th century by the British mathematician T.P. Kirkman as a recreational problem. There are upsilon girls in a class. Their teacher wants to ...
- Kirkpatrick, Clayton
- American journalist (b. Jan. 8, 1915, Waterman, Ill.-d. June 19, 2004, Glen Ellyn, Ill.), had a more than 40-year career in journalism most notable for his tenure as editor of the Chicago Tribune from 1969 to 1979. Under his guidance the newspaper was transformed from a publication with a decidedly ...
- Kirkpatrick, Clifton
- (from the article "Religion") ...million Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities, the world's largest monetary award to an individual. Ellis, a Quaker, was the son of atheists. The Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, top executive of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), was the unanimous choice to be president of the World Alliance ...
- Kirkpatrick, Jeane
- American political scientist and diplomat, who was foreign policy adviser under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the first American woman to serve as ambassador to the United Nations (1981-85). [1 Related Articles]
- Kirkpatrick, Mount
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...years ago, when the climate and terrain were similar to the modern Pacific Northwest. American paleontologists found the pelvis of a primitive sauropod, a four-legged plant-eating dinosaur, on Mt. Kirkpatrick. The 3,900-m mountaintop had been a soft riverbed before millions of years of tectonic activity elevated it skyward. The pelvis ...
- Kirkpatrick, Ralph
- American musicologist and one of the most influential harpsichordists of the 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Kirksville
- city, seat of Adair county, northeastern Missouri, U.S., about 90 miles (145 km) north of Columbia, near the Chariton River. Founded about 1841 as the county seat, it was known as Long Point and Hopkinsville before being renamed for Jesse Kirk, an early resident. A minor American Civil War battle ...
- Kirkuk
- city, northeastern Iraq. The city is 145 miles (233 km) north of Baghdad, the national capital, with which it is linked by road and railway. Kirkuk is located near the foot of the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The oldest part of the town is clustered around ... [5 Related Articles]
- Kirkus, Virginia
- American critic, editor, and writer, remembered for her original, and still active, book review service for booksellers.
- Kirkwall
- royal burgh (town), seaport, and chief town of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland. It was designated a royal burgh in 1486. Early Norse influence persisted as late as the building of the 12th-century red sandstone St. Magnus Cathedral, a dominant feature of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Kirkwood gaps
- interruptions that appear in the distribution of asteroids where the orbital period of any small body present would be a simple fraction of that of Jupiter. Several zones of low density in the minor-planet population were noticed about 1860 by Daniel Kirkwood, an American mathematician and astronomer, who explained the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Kirkwood, Daniel
- (from the article "Kirkwood gaps") ...of asteroids where the orbital period of any small body present would be a simple fraction of that of Jupiter. Several zones of low density in the minor-planet population were noticed about 1860 by Daniel Kirkwood, an American mathematician and astronomer, who explained the gaps as resulting from perturbations by ...
- Kirkwood, James
- American librettist, actor, author, and playwright who, together with Nicholas Dante, wrote the text for the Broadway musical A Chorus Line (1975), which in 1983 became the longest-running musical in the history of Broadway. It held the record until 1997, when it was surpassed by Andrew Lloyd Webber's
- Kirkwood, Pat
- British actress was one of the West End's liveliest and most glamorous musical stars in the 1940s and '50s. Kirkwood appeared in such plays as Noel Coward's Ace of Clubs (1950), which he wrote especially for her, and Hay Fever (1970), as well as the 1955 London production of Leonard ...
- Kirov
- oblast (province), western Russia. The oblast covers an area of 46,650 square miles (120,800 square km) and occupies almost the entire basin of the Vyatka River. It is a rolling morainic plain rising from the broad, central valley of the Vyatka to the dissected limestone uplands of the Severnye Hills ...
- Kirov
- city and administrative centre of Kirov oblast (province), western Russia, on the Vyatka River. The city was founded as Khlynov in 1181 by traders from Novgorod and became the centre of the "Vyatka Lands," settled by Russians in the 14th to the 15th century. In 1489 it was captured by ...
- Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet
- (from the article "Russia") Ballet enjoyed great success in the Soviet period, not because of any innovations but because the great troupes of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theatre in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) were able to preserve the traditions of classical dance that had been perfected prior to ...
- Kirov, Sergey Mironovich
- Russian Communist leader whose assassination marked the beginning of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union (1934-38). [7 Related Articles]
- Kirovohrad
- city, south-central Ukraine. It lies along the upper Inhul River where the latter is crossed by the Kremenchuk-Odessa railway. Founded as a fortress in 1754, it was made a city, Yelysavethrad (Russian: Yelizavetgrad, or Elizavetgrad), in 1765 and developed as the centre of a rich agricultural area. It was renamed ...
- Kirovsk
- city, Murmansk oblast (province), northwestern Russia, at the edge of the Khibiny Mountains. Until the opening of apatite and nephelinite mines in the region in 1929, Kirovsk was merely open tundra peopled by reindeer herders. It soon became a booming mining city and was incorporated in 1931. In addition to ...
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