Biography Category
(k l´ sp l´´, –p l´) (KEY) or Pend d’Oreille (p n´´d r ´) (KEY) , Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of ...
(h ´k kä´m rl ng ôn´ s) (KEY) , 1853–1926, Dutch physicist. He was, from 1882, professor of physics at the Univ. of Leiden. He made important ...
Kanchanjanga (both: kän´´ch nj ng´g , k n´ch nj ng´g ) (KEY) , or Kinchinjunga (k n´´ch nj ng´g ) (KEY) , mountain, on the India-Nepal border...
(kämä´k rä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 174,307), Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay and at the base of the Miura Peninsula. It...
(kän, z´ dôr´´) (KEY) , 1901–74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he later studied at the ...
(kä´´l dä´s ) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent.?, Indian dramatist and poet. He is regarded as the greatest figure in classical Sanskrit literature. Except t...