Biography Category
(käräyän´) (KEY) , 1908–89, Austrian conductor. Karajan began his conducting career in 1927. After World War II his reputation spread through Eu...
(k ch n´) (KEY) , state (1983 pop. 903,982), 33,903 sq mi (87,809 sq km), extreme N Myanmar. It is a mountainous region bounded on the NW by India an...
Caaba (both: kä´b or kä´ b ) (KEY) [Arab.,=cube], the central, cubic, stone structure, covered by a black cloth, within the Great Mosque in Mecc...
(k m) (KEY) , low, steep, rounded hill or ridge of layered sand and gravel drift, developed from glacial deposits. Kames were probably formed by strea...
1860–1934, American primitive painter, b. Scotland. He came to Pittsburgh at the age of 19 and worked for years as a day laborer, painting in his sp...
(känä´r s) (KEY) , 1790–1877, Greek patriot, admiral, and politician. He distinguished himself in the Greek War of Independence, notably at Tened...