Biography Category
1957–, Rwandan political leader. Kagame was born into a Tutsi family that fled (1960) ethnic violence in Rwanda. Raised in Uganda, he became a membe...
(k nô´w ) (KEY) , principal river of W.Va., 97 mi (156 km) long, formed by the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers, S central W.Va., and flowing...
(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...