Biography Category
fl. c.1460–c.1480, Flemish religious and portrait painter, now generally identified with Joos van Wassenhove; also known as Jodocus or Joos of Ghent...
(k myän´y ts-pôdy l´sky ) (KEY) , Rus. Kamenets-Podolski, city (1989 pop. 102,000), Khmelnytskyy region, Ukraine. It is a rail terminus and has in...
(kä´k ´n ´m ´t n h ´t ´mä´r ) (KEY) , ?–710?, early Japanese lyric poet. He is the greatest poet represented in the Manyôshu [collection...
(kä´´m kä´z ) (KEY) [Jap.,=divine wind], the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan’s fleet, foiling his invasion of Japan in 1281. In World War I...
(kär´lôv vä´r ) (KEY) , Ger. Karlsbad, city (1991 pop. 56,222), NW Czech Republic, in Bohemia, at the confluence of the Teplá and Oh e rivers. ...
(k nd läk´sh ) (KEY) , Finnish Kannanlahti, city (1989 pop. 54,000), NW European Russia, on the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea. It is a seaport an...