Biography Category
(kär´´ k m´) (KEY) , two deserts, one in Kazakhstan and one in Turkmenistan. The Caspian Kara Kum or Garagum, the larger desert (c.115,000 sq mi/...
(k l) (KEY) , 1919–2001, American film critic, b. Petaluma, Calif. Possessed of an extensive knowledge of the technical aspects of moviemaking and a...
(kä´´nä´zäwä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 442,868), capital of Ishikawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan. It produces cotton ...
(kär´m l, kärm l´) (KEY) , 1922–, Australian educator. Karmel was educated at the Univ. of Melbourne and Cambridge Univ. He worked at the Common...
(kä´l vä´´lä) (KEY) , Finnish national epic. It is a compilation of verses recounting extraordinary deeds of three semidivine brothers from myth...
(kän) (KEY) , 1869–1942, American architect, designer of factories, b. Germany. He organized a large office in Detroit that applied the techniques ...