Biography Category
(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 ...
(g ´ôrkh k ´z r) (KEY) , 1878–1945, German expressionist playwright. His early plays dealt with the erotic and the psychological. In maturity Kai...
(kär´ ) (KEY) , Rus. Karskoye More, shallow section of the Arctic Ocean, off N Russia, between Severnaya Zemlya and Novaya Zemlya. It has an average...
(k r ´l ) (KEY) , constituent republic (1990 pop. 800,000), 66,409 sq mi (172,300 sq km), NW European Russia, extending from the Finnish border in t...