Biography Category
( z dôr´ k ´l sh, kä´–) (KEY) , 1816–86, Jewish rabbi and author, b. Prussia. Forced to leave Germany because of his liberal political views,...
(k ly ´´ny n-grät´) (KEY) , formerly Königsberg, city (1989 pop. 401,000), capital of Kaliningrad region, an exclave of W European Russia; on the...
(kär´ män´´mär sh) (KEY) , formerly Mara (märäsh´) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 229,066), S Turkey. The city lies on a fertile plain at the foot ...
(k läs´) (KEY) , peak, c.22,280 ft (6,790 m) high, SW Tibet region of China, highest point of the Kailas Range, in the Himalayas. It is near the sou...
(gvüth´müntür käm´bän) (KEY) , 1888–1945, Icelandic dramatist and novelist. Many of Kamban’s plays, among them Hadda-Padda (1914, tr. 1917)...
(yäk ´b s kôrn ´l s käpt n´) (KEY) , 1851–1922, Dutch astronomer. He was an authority on the Milky Way, of which he made notable statistical ...