Biography Category
Kanchanjanga (both: kän´´ch nj ng´g , k n´ch nj ng´g ) (KEY) , or Kinchinjunga (k n´´ch nj ng´g ) (KEY) , mountain, on the India-Nepal border...
(h ´k kä´m rl ng ôn´ s) (KEY) , 1853–1926, Dutch physicist. He was, from 1882, professor of physics at the Univ. of Leiden. He made important ...
(k l´ sp l´´, –p l´) (KEY) or Pend d’Oreille (p n´´d r ´) (KEY) , Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of ...
(k l ´g ) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 311,000), capital of Kaluga region, central European Russia, on the Oka River. It is a river port, railway junction...
(vôlf´gäng käp) (KEY) , 1858–1922, German right-wing politician. In 1920 he led the uprising known as the Kapp putsch, an armed revolt in Berlin...
(kär´´ k m´) (KEY) , two deserts, one in Kazakhstan and one in Turkmenistan. The Caspian Kara Kum or Garagum, the larger desert (c.115,000 sq mi/...