Karl Kobelt - Karl Kobelt Karl Kobelt (August 1, 1891 - January 6, 1968) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 10, 1940 and handed over office on December 31, 1954. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the Department of Defence; Military Department. He was president of Switzerland twice in 1946 and 1952. Predecessor: Johannes Baumann Successor: Giuseppe Lepori.
Karl Pearson - he was offered a post in the German department at Cambridge University. His next career move was to Lincoln's Inn, where he read law until 1881 (although he never practised). After this, he returned to mathematics, deputising for the mathematics professor at King's College London in 1881 and for the professor at University College London in 1883. In 1884, he was appointed to the Goldshmid Chair of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College London. 1891 saw him also appointed to the professorship of Geometry at Gresham College; here he met W.F.R. Weldon, a zoologist who had some interesting problems requiring quantitative solutions. The collaboration, in biometry and evolutionary theory, was a fruitful one and lasted until Weldon died in 1906. Weldon introduced Pearson to Francis Galton, who was interested in.
Karl Hase - (1864; 2nd ed., 1892), Neue Propheten (Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Savonarola, Thomas Münzer) are judicious and sympathetic. Other works are: Hutterus redivivus oder Dogmatik der evang.-luth. Kirche (1827; 12th ed., 1883), in which he sought to present the teaching of the Protestant church in such a way as Hutter would have reconstructed it, had he still been alive; Leben Jesu (1829; 5th ed., 1865; Eng. trans., 1860); in an enlarged form, Geschichte Jesu (2nd ed., 1891); and Handbuch der prot. Polemik gegen die röm.-kath. Kirche (1862; 7th ad., 1900; Eng. trans., 1906). For his life see his Ideale und Irrtümer (1872; 5th ed., 1894) and Annalen meines Lebens (1891); and cf. generally Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology (1890); F Lichtenberger, Hist. of German Theology (1889). This entry was originally from the.
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli - (March 27, 1817 - May 10, 1891) was a Swiss biologist. He discovered what would later become known as chromosomes. Nägeli was born in Kilchberg near Zürich. He studied medicine in Zürich and began working with Manfred Schleiden in 1840. In 1849 he became professor in Zürich, and in 1857 moved to Munich to become professor of botany. Nägeli died on May 10, 1891, in Munich..
Karl King - King Karl L. King (21 February, 1891 - 31 March, 1971) was a United States march music bandmaster and composer. Karl Lawrence King, a native of Paintersville, Ohio, grew up as a self-taught musician with very little schooling of any kind. At eighteen, he began a career playing in and directing circus bands, including those of Barnum and Bailey, Robinson Famous Shows, the Sells-Floto Circus, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. King settled down in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1920 and for the next fifty-one years conducted the city's municipal band. King the composer published more than 300 works: galopss, waltzes, overtures, serenades, rags, and 188 marches. His name appeared on the sheet music as Karl King, K. L. King, or sometimes Carl Lawrence. "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite" remains his best.
Karl Kautsky - Austrian social democracy in 1875. From 1885 to 1890, he spent time in London, where he became a close friend of Friedrich Engels; in 1891, he co-authored the SPD's Erfurter Programm together with August Bebel and Eduard Bernstein. Following the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, Kautsky became one of the most important and influential theoreticians of socialism, forming the marxist centre of the party together with August Bebel. He broke with Rosa Luxemburg and the party's left wing in 1914 politically, and in 1922 re-joined the SPD after being a member of the USPD from 1917 to 1919. In 1882, Kautsky founded the magazine "Neue Zeit" ("new time"), which he continued to publish until 1917; he also wrote a book titled "Der Weg zur Macht" ("the road to power") in.
Keno - Dynasty (187 BC). History The following account of the history of the game is an excerpt from Stewart Culin's paper published in 1891. [1] This game is an old establishment, and was first introduced by Chéung léung of the great Han Dynasty. When the city was hard pressed, and provisions were beginning to fail, they (the besieged) were anxious to increase the contributions, and to exhort the people to subscribe more for the army, but were unable to do so. Hence they established a game of chance (to guess characters), by which they hoped to tempt the people to hazard their property. In order to fix a method of losing or gaining at hazard, they chose 120 characters for the whole game and eight characters for one subdivision. If the people.
Kentucky Derby - Secretariat in 1973. Year Winner 1875 Aristides 1876 Vagrant 1877 Baden Baden 1878 Day Star 1879 Lord Murphy 1880 Fonso 1881 Hindoo 1882 Apollo 1883 Leonatus 1884 Buchanan 1885 Joe Cotton 1886 Ben Ali 1887 Montrose 1888 Macbeth II 1889 Spokane 1890 Riley 1891 Kingman 1892 Azra 1893 Lookout 1894 Chant 1895 Halma 1896 Ben Brush 1897 Typhoon II 1898 Plaudit 1899 Manuel 1900 Lieutenant Gibson 1901 His Eminence 1902 Alan-a-Dale 1903 Judge Himes 1904 Elwood 1905 Agile 1906 Sir Huon 1907 Pink Star 1908 Stone Street 1909 Wintergreen 1910 Donau 1911 Meridian 1912 Worth 1913 Donerail 1914 Old Rosebud 1915 Regret 1916 George Smith 1917 Omar Khayyam 1918 Exterminator 1919 Sir Barton* 1920 Paul Jones 1921 Behave Yourself 1922 Morvich 1923 Zev 1924 Black Gold 1925 Flying Ebony 1926 Bubbling.
Kentucky Oaks - earned a winning purse of $1,175 and was timed over the 12-furlong distance in 2:39 ¾. The victory by Vinaigrette launched a strong tradition for the Oaks, which - like the Derby - has been renewed each year without interruption since its inaugural running. Year Winner 1875 Vinaigrette 1876 Necy Hale 1877 Felicia 1878 Belle of Nelson 1879 Liahtunah 1880 Longitude 1881 Lucy May 1882 Katie Creel 1883 Vera 1884 Modesty 1885 Lizzie Dwyer 1886 Pure Rye 1887 Florimore 1888 Ten Penny 1889 Jewel Ban 1890 English Lady 1891 Miss Hawkins 1892 Miss Dixie 1893 Monrovia 1894 Selika 1895 Voladora 1896 Souffle 1897 White Frost 1898 Crocket 1899 Rush 1900 Etta 1901 Lady Schorr 1902 Wainamoinen 1903 Lemco 1904 Audience 1905 Janeta 1906 King's Daughter 1907 Wing Ting 1908 Ellen-a-Dale 1909.
Keller's Mill Covered Bridge - Pennsylvania. It is the only all white bridge in the county. History Built in 1891 by Elias McMellen Truss Type Wooden Burr Stream Cocalico Creek Dimensions 62 feet 0 inches long 13 feet 2 inches clear deck width 11 feet 0 inches clearance 9 feet 8 inches underclearance Alternate Names Guy Bard Covered Bridge Rettew's Covered Bridge.
Kepple Disney II - Disney II (November 2, 1832 - May 1891) was an American farmer born in Kellis, Kansas, to Arundel Elias Disney and Maria Swan. He is mostly known as Walt Disney's grandfather. He married Mary Richardson on March 18, 1858, and from this marriage was the father of Elias Disney, born on February 6, 1859..
Kirkcudbrightshire - part of the county north-west of a line which runs some 3 m. N. of New Galloway and just S. of the Rinns of Kells. South-east of this line graptolitic Silurian shales of Llandovery age prevail; they are found around Dalry, Creetown, New Galloway, Castle Douglas and Kirkcudbright. Overlying the Llandovery beds on the south coast are strips of Wenlock rocks; they extend from Bridgehouse Bay to Auchinleck and are well exposed in Kirkcudbright Bay, and they can be traced farther round the coast between the granite and the younger rocks. Carboniferous rocks appear in small faulted tracts, unconformable on the Silurian, on the shores of the Solway Firth. They are best developed about Kirkbean, where they include a basal red breccia followed by conglomerates, grits and cement stones of Calciferous.
Kinetoscope - continuously over a light source with a fast shutter and is the precursor of the modern motion picture projector. On May 20, 1891 the first public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope was shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. See also: Film history.
Knights of the Garter (1700-1899) - of Connaught and Strathearn, 3rd son of Queen Victoria, Governor-General of Canada, held the honor of the Order of the Garter for the longest of any person in the history of the order (1867) Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria (1867) Emperor Alexander II of Russia (1867) Sultan Abdul Aziz (1867) John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1868) Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert, later Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria (1869) Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Ambassador to Turkey (1869) George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon, Lord President, Viceroy of India, and other high offices (1869) Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster, (1870) Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (1871) Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland (1872) Shah Nasr ed-Din of Persia (1873) Thomas William Coke,.
Konoe Fumimaro - Konoye, October 12, 1891 - December 16, 1945) was a Japanese politician and the 34th (June 4, 1937 - January 5, 1939), 38th (July 22, 1940 - July 18, 1941) and 39th (July 18, 1941 - October 18, 1941) Prime Minister of Japan. He was born a Prince into the ancient Fujiwara family in Tokyo. He entered politics in 1920 as a moderate and a protege of Saionji Kimmochi, opposed to the power of the army. In June 1937, he became Prime Minister in an attempt to balance the growing power of the military, but he turned increasingly militaristic himself. After the Marco Polo Bridge incident in July 1937 and under pressure from hard-liners, his cabinet agreed to expand operations in China and handed the entire conduct of the conflict in.
Kronecker delta - It is written as the symbol δij, and treated as a notational shorthand rather than a function. It is named after mathematician Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891). It is used in many areas of mathematics. For example, in linear algebra, the identity matrix can be written as: (δij) See also Levi-Civita symbol..
January 28 - a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1998 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion. 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines. 2002 - An Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92 Births 1706 - John Baskerville, printer, typefounder (+ 1775) 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator. 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (+ 1904) 1853 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895) 1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (+ 1898) 1873 - Colette, writer (+ 1954) 1879 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (+ 1953).
January 29 - introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii 1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams. 1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time. 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved 1929 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany 1936 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced 1944 - Battleship "Missouri" is launched Place of signing.
January 11 - The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. 1964 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government. 1972 - East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh. 1973 - Beginning of the Watergate burglars trial. 1980 - Nigel Short, 14 years old, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master. 1990 - Massive (300,000) demonstration in favor of Lithuanian independence. 1992 - Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. Births 1757 - Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury (†1804) 1757 - Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer (†1831) 1815 - John A. Macdonald, first Prime.
January 21 - of cocaine aboard. The ship was headed to Houston, Texas. 2003 - Kevin Mitnick is finally allowed to use a computer again. Births 1738 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (†1789) 1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate Army general (†1863) 1850 - Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (†1927) 1855 - John Moses Browning, inventor (†1926) 1867 - Ludwig Thoma, narrator, dramatist and lyricist (†1921) 1867 - Maxime Weygand, French General (†1965) 1884 - Roger Baldwin, ACLU president, social activist (†1981) 1885 - Umberto Nobile, politician and airship designer (†1978) 1895 - Cristobal Balenciaga, couturier (†1972) 1922 - Paul Scofield, actor 1924 - Telly Savalas, actor (†1994) 1925 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (†1992) 1926 - Steve Reeves, actor (†2000) 1939 -.
