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only major engagement between the British and German fleets in World War I. They met c.60 mi (100 km) west of the coast of Jutland. On May 31, 1916, a...
and transportation center. A major military airfield is located there. Kamina was used by the Belgians as a center for interventionist actions in the ...
(kärl´sk ´´gä) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 31,110), Örebro co., S Sweden; chartered 1940. An industrial center, it is the seat of the Bofors iron an...
(k ´d sh) (KEY) , ancient city of Syria, on the Orontes River. There Ramses II fought (c.1300 B.C.) the Hittites in a great battle that ended in a tr...
(fränts käf´kä) (KEY) , 1883–1924, German-language novelist, b. Prague. Along with Joyce, Kafka is perhaps the most influential of 20th-century ...
(kämärhä´t ) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 266,625), West Bengal state, NE India. It is a suburb of Calcutta, with manufactures in textiles, rubber good...