Kalle Päätalo - short by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines. He was married twice and had two daughters by the second marriage. Päätalo debuted as a novelist in 1958 with a novel set at a building site in Tampere. In his second novel Our Daily Bread, the first book in the five-volume Koillismaa series, he turned to his native region. By this time, Päätalo was able to turn a freelance writer, and from 1962 until his death he published one book each year. In 1971 he published what was to be the first volume in the 26-volume series Juuret Iijoen törmässä ('Roots in the Bank of River Ii'), probably the.
Karmann Ghia - tag. The design and prototype were well received by Volkswagen executives, and in August, 1955 the first Karmann Ghia was created in Osnabruck, Germany. Public reaction to the curvy Karmann Ghia was excellent, and over 10,000 were sold in the first year, exceeding Volkswagen's expectations. Since the first Karmann Ghia's used the same 36hp engine as the Beetle, the car was not suitable as a true sports car; however the car's beautiful looks and "Beetle reliable" parts made up for this shortfall. In 1958 a convertible version was introduced. The car was slightly redesigned for the 1960 model year. The most notable changes were the car's front "nostril" grills (which were widened), and the rear tail-light lenses (which became more rounded). In 1974 the car was discontinued due mainly to increasing.
Katherine Young - daughters in China while staying one step ahead of the Japanese invasion of 1937. After the war ended, the family lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and eventually immigrated to California in 1958, finally settling in Palo Alto where she resides today. She served as president of the Lytton Garden Rose Club until 1998, when she decided she needed a break. Needing something else to do, she made the fateful decision to take a 12-week-long computer class offered at her retirement home. By the end of these sessions, she was logging on, and the centenarian decided to become an activist for the cause of encouraging seniors to use the Net. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study showed that only 18% of Americans 65 and older get online, as opposed.
Kaga - 443.89 persons per km². The total area is 151.60 km². The city was founded on January 1, 1958. Created as an old temple town, the city was greatly developed by the Maeda family in the early Edo period. Today, Kaga is an important tourist city with a number of temples and hot-springs. External Links Official website in Japanese Kaga was also an old province in Japan..
Kakuda - 229.64 persons per km². The total area is 147.58 km². The city was founded on October 1, 1958. External Links Official website in Japanese. English version also available..
Kasama - 226.24 persons per km². The total area is 131.61 km². The city was founded on August 1, 1958. External Links Official website in Japanese This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Katsuura - 241.91 persons per km². The total area is 94.21 km². The city was founded on October 1, 1958. External Links Official website in Japanese.
Kashiwara - 3,077.51 persons per km². The total area is 25.39 km². The city was founded on October 1, 1958. External Links Official website in Japanese.
Karlspreis - Alcide de Gasperi 1953 Jean Monnet 1954 Konrad Adenauer 1956 Sir Winston S. Churchill 1957 Paul Henri Spaak 1958 Robert Schuman 1959 George C. Marshall 1960 Joseph Bech 1961 Walter Hallstein 1963 Edward Heath 1964 Antonio Segni 1966 Jens Otto Krag 1967 Joseph Luns 1969 The European Commission 1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne 1972 Roy Jenkins 1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga 1976 Leo Tindemans 1977 Walter Scheel 1978 Konstantin Karamanlis 1979 Emilio Colombo 1981 Simone Veil 1982 King Juan Carlos I. of Spain 1984 Karl Carstens 1986 The People of Luxemburg 1987 Henry A. Kissinger 1988 François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl 1989 Frère Roger 1990 Gyula Horn 1991 Václav Havel 1992 Jacques Delors 1993 Felipe González Márquez 1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland 1995 Franz Vranitzky 1996 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 1997.
Kawakami Hiromi - Kawakami Hiromi Kawakami Hiromi(bornapril 1,1958)is a Japanese writer.Her first novel God was published in 1994.She won Akutagawa prize in 1996.She is One of the writers who attract attention most now..
Karen Buck - Patricia Buck (born August 30, 1958) is a politician in England, and is the Labour member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North. She was elected in the 1997 elections and was before a councillor on Westminster Council..
Kamen - Huskie A variant of the OH-43, equipped with a Lycoming T-53 turbine engine HH-43B Rotor diameter: 14.33 m each Length: 7.62 m Height: 4.74 m Weight: 2000 kg - Max: 4150 Engine: 1 Avco Lycoming T53-L-1B of 825 hp Speed: Max: 190 km/h Range: 450 km Service Ceiling: 7600 m July 1957 : QH-43 Another modified HTK-1 becomes the world's first remotely piloted vehicle 1958 : K-17 A cold-tipped jet powered helicopter Rotor diameter: 11.3 m Weight: 430 kg - Max: 900 Engine: 1 Turbomeca Turmo of 600 hp Speed: Max: 120 km/h Endurance: 2 hours Service Ceiling: 1500 m July 2, 1959 : HU2K-1 Later known as UH-2A SeaSprite March 1960 : Kaman develops and flies the first all composite main rotor blade. October 1961 : The H-43 Huskie sets.
Kevin Bacon - Bacon Kevin Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor who starred in Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among others. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Movies 2 Game 3.
Kelly Freas - has published several collections of his artwork and frequently gives presentations. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions. Among many other awards, Kelly was the first person to receive ten Hugo awards. He has been nominated twenty times. No other artist in science fiction has consistently matched his record. His smooth and luminous images, amiable aliens and sexy women have become part of today's science fiction visual language. Kelly's awards include: 10 Hugos (1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976) Frank R. Paul Award, 1977 Inkpot Award, 1979 Skylark Award, 1981 Rova Award, 1981 Lensman Award, 1982 Phoenix Award, 1982 Los Angeles Science Fiction Society Service Award, 1983 Neographics Award, 1985 Daedalos Life Achievement Award, 1987 Art Teacher Emeritus Award, 1988 Best Professional, Media, International Fantasy Expo, 1989.
Kenji Sahara - in a supprting role, including: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954) Rodan (1956) The Mysterians (1957) The H-Man (1958) Gorath (1962) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) Atragon (1963) Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964) Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster (1964) Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) The War of the Gargantuas (1966) Son of Godzilla (1967) Destroy All Monsters (1968) Godzilla's Revenge (1969) Yog, Monster From Space (1970) Godzilla vs. King Ghidora (1991) Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla (1993) Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (1994) He did a lot of work for the Toho Company, the group that has so far has produced twenty-two Godzilla movies. He also appeared in a number of television series, including: Ultra Q (1966) UltraSeven (1967) Ultraman 80 (1980) See also:UltraSeven/Ultraman.
Kenilworth Castle - youngest son Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster. The castle was inherited by his grandson Henry, Duke of Lancaster, which then passed to his son-in-law John of Gaunt. From 1364 John of Gaunt began the castle's conversion from a pure fortress into something more liveable, work that continued with his grandson, Henry V. The castle remained in royal hands until it was given to John Dudley in 1553, following his execution Elizabeth I gave it to her favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester in 1563. Dudley further transformed the castle to suit the tastes of Elizabeth, adding the Leicester building, a large apartment and a residential block overlooking the lake. Elizabeth was expensively and lavishly entertained at Kenilworth for a month in 1575. The castle returned to the Crown on Dudley's.
Kentucky Derby - 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++ 1969 Majestic Prince 1970 Dust Commander 1971 Canonero II 1972 Riva Ridge 1973 Secretariat* 1974 Cannonade 1975 Foolish Pleasure 1976 Bold Forbes 1977 Seattle Slew* 1978 Affirmed* 1979 Spectacular Bid 1980 Genuine Risk 1981 Pleasant Colony 1982 Gato del Sol 1983 Sunny's Halo 1984 Swale 1985 Spend a Buck 1986 Ferdinand 1987 Alysheba 1988 Winning Colors 1989 Sunday.
Ken Kesey - Northwest. There he married Faye Haxby, with whom he had three children, Jed, Zane and Shannon. He attended the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in speech and communication and was an Olympic-caliber wrestler. He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in 1958; he moved to Palo Alto, California to enroll in the creative writing program at Stanford University. At Stanford in 1959, he volunteered to take part in a study at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital on the effects of psychoactive drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and amphetamine IT-290. He wrote many detailed descriptions of his experience with these drugs, both during the study and in his own experimentation. It was at this time he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which caught the attention.
Kenneth Kaunda - to Secretary-General in 1953 when the organization was renamed the African National Congress (ANC). He broke from the ANC and formed the Zambia African National Congress (ZANC) in 1958. ZANC was banned in 1959 and Kaunda was arrested and imprisoned for a few months. On his release he was made President of the newly formed United National Independence Party (UNIP). Kaunda ran as a UNIP candidate during the 1962 elections. As Minister of Local Government and Social Welfare, Kaunda established himself as the most influential African in the government. The British government, tired of civil disobedience, granted independence in 1963 that was finalized October 24,1964. In the 1964 elections, UNIP had a sweeping victory and Kaunda was made Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. Following violence during the 1968 elections and becoming.
Kenneth Williams - was a regular for many years on the BBC radio panel game, Just a Minute. He expanded then into television and British films, most notably the Carry On... series. Particularly in the theatre he was famous for breaking out of character and talking to the audience. Although he publicly professed to follow a celibate lifestyle, Williams moved in homosexual circles. His friend Joe Orton wrote Loot for him in 1966, playing Inspector Truscott (!). Following his death, the publication of his secret diaries caused some controversy. Filmography incomplete Carry On Sergeant (1958), Carry On Nurse (1958), Carry On Teacher (1959), Carry On Constable (1960), Carry On Regardless (1961), Twice Round the Daffodils (1962), Carry On Cruising (1962), Carry On Spying (1964), Carry On Jack (1964), Carry On Cowboy (1965), Carry On.
