Karl Pearson - refused) the OBE 1932: awarded the Rudolf Virchow medal by the Berliner Anthropologische Gesellschaft 1935: offered (and refused) a knighthood He was also elected an Honorary Fellow of King's College Cambridge, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, University College London and the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Member of the Actuaries' Club. Contributions to Statistics Pearson's work was all-embracing in the wide application and development of mathematical statistics, and encompassed the fields of biology, epidemiology, anthropometry, medicine and social history. In 1901, with Weldon and Galton, he founded the journal Biometrika whose object was the development of statistical theory. He edited this journal till his death. He also founded the journal Annals of Eugenics (now Annals of Human Genetics) in 1925. Pearson's thinking underpins many of the `classical' statistical methods which.
Karl Wolfskehl - He was active in the circle around Stefan George and emigrated to Switzerland (1933), then to Italy (1934) and ultimately to New Zealand (1938)..
Kai Winding - well known for playing and recording with J.J. Johnson. Winding was born in Aarhaus, Denmark. In 1934 his family emigrated to the United States. His career as a professional trombonist began in 1940 with Shorty Allen's band. Subsequently, he played with Sonny Dunham and Alvino Rey, until he entered the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. After the war, Winding joined Benny Goodman's band, and later moved on to Stan Kenton's orchestra. In 1950, at the urging of producer Ozzie Cadena, he joined forces with J.J. Johnson to produce a highly successful series of trombone duet recordings. Winding died of a brain tumor in New York in 1983..
Karl Maria Wiligut - time, who appointed Wiligut to the "SS Race and Settlement Main Department". He designed the "Totenkopf" ring, which Himmler personally awarded to prestigious SS officers. Due to his advice, Himmler in 1934 chose Wewelsburg to be the ritual headquarters of the SS. In 1938 he became the head of the "Departement for Pre- and Early History" in Himmler's personal staff. In 1939 his career was permanently damaged when records were unearthed that he had been spent time in a mental institution in Salzburg, Austria. He was forced to resign from the SS. He died in Arolsen..
Kainan - 727.82 persons per kmē. The total area is 61.35 kmē. The city was founded on May 1, 1934. External Links Official website in Japanese.
Katherine Helmond - Helmond Katherine Helmond, born July 5, 1934 as Catherine Marie Helmond in Galveston, Texas is an American actress. Helmond is known for her role as Jessica Tate, the matriarch from the TV sitcom Soap. She remained with the series until it was cancelled in 1981. She later stared ar Mona Robinson in the sitcom Who's the Boss More recently she has guest starred on Everybody Loves Raymond as Ray's mother-in-law..
Kentucky Derby - Sir Barton* 1920 Paul Jones 1921 Behave Yourself 1922 Morvich 1923 Zev 1924 Black Gold 1925 Flying Ebony 1926 Bubbling Over 1927 Whiskery 1928 Reigh Count 1929 Clyde Van Dusen 1930 Gallant Fox* 1931 Twenty Grand 1932 Burgoo King 1933 Broker's Tip 1934 Cavalcade 1935 Omaha* 1936 Bold Venture 1937 War Admiral* 1938 Lawrin 1939 Johnstown 1940 Gallahadion 1941 Whirlaway* 1942 Shut Out 1943 Count Fleet* 1944 Pensive 1945 Hoop, Jr 1946 Assault* 1947 Jet Pilot 1948 Citation* 1949 Ponder 1950 Middleground 1951 Count Turf 1952 Hill Gail 1953 Dark Star 1954 Determine 1955 Swaps 1956 Needles 1957 Iron Liege 1958 Tim Tam 1959 Tomy Lee 1960 Venetian Way 1961 Carry Back 1962 Decidedly 1963 Chateaugay 1964 Northern Dancer 1965 Lucky Debonair 1966 Kauai King 1967 Proud Clarion 1968 Forward Pass++.
Kentucky Oaks - 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 Floreal 1910 Samaria 1911 Bettie Sue 1912 Flamma 1913 Cream 1914 Bronzewing 1915 Waterblossom 1916 Kathleen 1917 Sunbonnett 1918 Viva America 1919 Lillian Shaw 1920 Lorraine 1921 Nancy Lee 1922 Startle 1923 Untidy 1924 Princess Doreen 1925 Deeming 1926 Black Maria 1927 Mary Jane 1928 Easter Stockings 1929 Rose of Sharon 1930 Alcibiades 1931 Cousin Jo 1932 Suntica 1933 Barn Swallow 1934 Fiji 1935 Paradisical 1936 Two Bob 1937 Mars Shield 1938 Flying Lee 1939 Flying Lill 1940 Inscolassie 1941 Valdina Myth 1942 Miss Dogwood 1943 Nellie L. 1944 Canina 1945 Come and Go 1946 First Page 1947 Blue Grass 1948 Challe Anne 1949.
Kenny Baker - Kenny Baker (Born August 24, 1934) is a British actor best known as the man inside of R2-D2 in the popular Star Wars film series. Baker, at 3 feet, 8 inches (112 cm) tall, was a circus and cabaret performer with entertainer Jack Purvis when George Lucas hired him to be the man inside of R2-D2 in Star Wars in 1977. Baker and actor Anthony Daniels, who plays C-3P0 in the films, are the only actors to appear in all five Star Wars films. Baker even played an additional role in 1983's Return of the Jedi, when he played one of the furry Ewoks. Other films Baker has appeared in include 1980's The Elephant Man, 1981's Time Bandits, 1984's Amadeus and the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth. In the late 1990s,.
Kentucky Futurity - The Real Lady 1918 - Nella Dillon 1919 - Periscope 1920 - Arion Guy 1921 - Rose Scott 1922 - Lee Worthy 1923 - Ethelinda 1924 - Mr McElwyn 1925 - Aileen Guy 1926 - Guy McKinney 1927 - Iosola's Worthy 1928 - Spencer 1929 - Walter Dear 1930 - Hanover's Bertha 1931 - The Protector 1932 - The Marchioness 1933 - Meda 1934 - Princess Peg 1935 - Lawrence Hanover 1936 - Rosalind 1937 - Twilight Song 1938 - McLin Hanover 1939 - Peter Astra 1940 - Spencer Scott 1941 - Bill Gallon 1946 - Victory Song 1947 - Hoot Mon 1948 - Egan Hanover 1949 - Bangaway 1950 - Star's Pride 1951 - Ford Hanover 1952 - Sharp Note 1953 - Kimberly Kid 1954 - Harlan 1955 - Scott.
Kenneth Richard Norris - became a world authority on plant viruses, and chief research scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Division of Tropical Agronomy in Queensland. He died in 1976. Dick Norris graduated from UWA with first class honours in 1934. This was followed by a MSc in 1938. A science doctorate was awarded by the university in 1969 for a thesis titled History, Bionomics, and Control of Pests of the Australian Pastoral Industry. He joined the CSIR - later to become the CSIRO - in 1937 as a temporary research officer for Western Australia. Ultimately he moved to Canberra and progressed to become assistant chief of the Division of Entomology in 1965. In recognition of his unique contributions he was honoured with the title of Associate Chief in 1977. During.
Keye Luke - in Seattle. He made his film debut in The Painted Veil in 1934, and the following year gained his first big role, as Charlie Chan's eldest son in Charlie Chan in Paris. It was a role he would continue to play, on and off, until The Sky Dragon in 1949 - in which, having outlasted two stars of the series, he was older than the actor then playing his father. And in 1972, he became the first Chinese actor to play Charlie Chan himself, in the otherwise undistinguished animated series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan. He played the Green Hornet's Korean sidekick in two movies in the early 1940s. He had a recurring role in the television series Kung Fu as Master Po. He played the mysterious old Chinese.
Kenneth E. Hagin - healed him of a deformed heart and an incurable blood disease at the age of 17". He also claimed that "he was raised from a deathbed in 1934 by the revelation of faith in God’s Word". Known as the “father of the modern faith movement,” Rev. Hagin was a dynamic preacher, teacher, and prophet known for ministering healing and for the message of faith. Since its inception, Kenneth Hagin Ministries has expanded to include numerous media outreaches and ministries. These include Faith Library Publications, which has more than 65 million books in print; RHEMA Praise, a weekly television program; Faith Seminar of the Air, a radio program which is heard on scores of stations nationwide and on the Internet worldwide; The Word of Faith, a free monthly magazine with nearly 250,000.
KGB - of intelligence, so moles in that area were in a position to give a stamp of approval to double agents against the CIA. With the capture of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, it appears that Angleton's fears, deemed paranoid at the time, were well-grounded. The KGB occasionally conducted assassinations, mainly of defectors. Organization The KGB was organized into directorates. Some of the main directorates were: The First Chief Directorate (Foreign Operations) was responsible for foreign operations and intelligence-gathering activities. The Second Chief Directorate was responsible for internal political control of citizens and foreigners within the Soviet Union. The Third Chief Directorate (Armed Forces) controlled military counterintelligence and political surveillance of the armed forces. The Fifth Chief Directorate also dealt with internal security. Originally created to combat political dissent, it took up.
Kharkov - km with 26 stations. History Founded in the middle of 17th century, the city has had a university since 1805. During the early years of the Soviet Union, Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (from 1917-1934). In the early 1930s the Ukrainian famine drove many people off the land into the cities in search of food, but many died. In 1940 the site of mass murder of Polish POW (see Katyn Massacre). During World War II Kharkov was captured by the Nazis, recaptured by the Red Army, captured again twice by the Nazis and then finally liberated on August 23, 1943. 70% of the city was destroyed and tens of thousands of the inhabitants were killed..
Kim Philby - (with the defection of Anatoli Golytsin) but Philby also escaped to the Soviet Union before any arrest could be made. He died in 1988 and was given a hero's funeral by the Soviet government. Tim Powers based the book Declare on his unusual life story, providing a supernatural explanation for his behavior ("Tradecraft meets Lovecraft"). Chronology of Philby's career 1925 Goes to Westminster School 1929 Enters Trinity College, Cambridge, at the of 17 and joins the Cambridge University Socialist Society, later becoming Treasurer. 1930 Guy Burgess arrives at Trinity from Eton. 1931 Defeat of the Labour Government. Philby becomes a more ardent socialist. 1933 Leaves Cambridge a convinced Communist with a Degree in Economics, then goes to Vienna where Chancellor Dr Engelbert Dollfuss is preparing the first 'putsch' in February 1934..
Kingsbury Commitment - independent exchanges under certain conditions and to refrain from acquisitions if the Interstate Commerce Commission objected. The Commitment did not settle all the differences between independents and Bell companies and averted the federal takeover many had expected. However the Commitment played into AT&T's hands - the company was allowed to buy market-share, as long as it sold an equal number of phones. So AT&T was able to consolidate its hold on the most profitable urban markets, and interconnection only strengthened its hand in long-distance traffic. Between 1921 and 1934 the ICC approved 271 of the 274 purchase requests of AT&T. The entire network was nationalised during WW I from June 1918 to July 1919, following re-privatization AT&T resumed its almost monopoly position. In 1934 the government acted to set AT&T up.
King Vidor - five times for an Oscar, he received an honorary award in 1979. Selected Filmography The Jack Knife Man 1920 The Sky Pilot 1921 Peg 'o My Heart 1922 The Big Parade 1925 The Crowd 1928 The Champ 1931 Our Daily Bread 1934 Comrade X 1940 Morthwest Passage 1940 Duel in the Sun 1946 The Fountainhead, 1949 Ruby Gentry 1952 War and Peace 1956 Solomon and Sheba 1959.
Kid Chocolate - weight once again, and challenging world Lightweight champion Tony Canzoneri, losing by a decision in 15 in his first attempt to gain the Lightweight crown. He started 1932 by winning his first eight bouts, including a world title defense in Havana against Davie Abad, beaten in 15 by decision. Then, he faced Berg in a rematch, losing again, this time by decision in 15. He engaged in seven more bouts, including two decision wins over Johnny Farr, before fighting Lew Feldman on October 13. The fight was recognized as a world Featherweight title bout, but only by the New York state athletic commission. Chocolate won by a knockout in 12 rounds, gaining the New York world title. He retained that world title twice, including a third fight with LaBarba, before relinquishing.
Kirkuk - population in 2003 was 755,700 people. The Kirkuk oil field was brought into use by the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) in 1934 and has remained the basis of northern Iraqi oil production, with over 10 billion barrels of proven remaining oil reserves, as of 1998. The facilities have been sabotaged at times during fighting between Iraqi forces and the Kurds. Pipelines from Kirkuk run through Turkey to Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea and were one of the two main routes for the export of Iraqi oil under the "oil for food" programme following the Gulf War. This was in accordance with a United Nations mandate that at least 50% of the oil exports pass through Turkey. There are two parallel lines built in 1977 and 1987. The Kurds have identified Kirkuk.
