Biography Category
(l zär´ m sy ´y vich k g n ´vich) (KEY) , 1893–1991, Soviet Communist leader. A Jewish shoemaker and labor organizer, he joined the Communist p...
(k n´d ) (KEY) , city (1995 est. pop. 108,000), capital of Central prov., Sri Lanka, on the Kandy Plateau. Once the capital of the Sinhalese Kandyan ...
(k ´p k, k p´ k) (KEY) , name for a tropical tree of the family Bombacaceae (bombax family) and for the fiber (floss) obtained from the seeds in the...
(kär´b l ) (KEY) , city (1987 pop. 296,705), central Iraq, at the edge of the Syrian Desert. The city’s trade is in religious objects, hides, wool...
(k b´´ rd ´n -b lkâr´) (KEY) or Kabardino-Balkaria, constituent republic (1990 est. pop. 760,000), c.4,800 sq mi (12,400 sq km), SE European Rus...
(k mch t´k ) (KEY) , peninsula, 104,200 sq mi (269,878 sq km), Russian Far East, separating the Sea of Okhotsk in the west from the Bering Sea and th...