Biography Category
(känä´ kä) (KEY) , fl. 2d half of 9th cent., Japanese landscape and figure painter, founder of the Kose school of painting. None of his works surv...
(k rsh ´) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 168,000), S Uzbekistan, on the Kashka-Darya River. It is the center of a fertile oasis that produces wheat, cotton,...
(kägä´wä) (KEY) , prefecture (1990 pop. 1,023,434), N Shikoku, Japan. Takamatsu is the capital. It is an agricultural region (rice, barley, wheat,...
(kän´p r) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 2,029,889), Uttar Pradesh state, N central India, on the Ganges River. A major industrial center, it produces chem...
(kär´l ) (KEY) , village, Maharashtra state, W India. Nearby are Buddhist caves that may have been excavated as early as the 2d cent. B.C. The most ...
1882–1967, American industrialist, b. Sprout Brook, N.Y. He organized his first construction company in 1913, soon entered the road-paving business,...