Vernor Vinge - published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others (and particularly to the cyberpunk genre). His next two novels, The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), concern the impact of a technology which can create impenetrable force fields called "Bobbles" (with other.
Kardashev scale - a general method of classifying the magnitude of a civilization, first proposed in the 1960s by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. It has three categories, based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal and increasing logarithmically: Type I - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available on a single planet. Type II - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single star. Type III - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single galaxy. Human civilization is currently somewhere below type I as of this writing, as it is able to harness only a portion of the energy that is available on Earth. A hypothetical type II.
Kansai International Airport - Carriers Arrivals, departures, ticketing, and baggage claim are all on the second floor. Air Nippon All Nippon Airways JALWays Japan Airlines Japan Air System Cargo Carriers Air Hong Kong Dragonair Federal Express Nippon Cargo Lines Scandinavian Airlines System United Parcel Service History In the 1960s, when the Kansai region was rapidly losing trade to Tokyo, planners proposed a new airport near Osaka and Kobe. Osaka International Airport, located in the densely-populated suburbs of Itami and Toyonaka, was surrounded by buildings: it could not be expanded, and many of its neighbors had filed complaints because of noise pollution problems. After the protests surrounding New Tokyo International Airport, which was built with confiscated land in a rural part of Chiba prefecture, planners decided to build the airport offshore. Initially, the airport was planned.
Vertical take-off and landing - an apparatus for aerial transportation. It is one of the earliest example of VTOL aircraft. In the late 1950s and early 1960s almost all fighter aircraft designed included some VTOL features. This was a response to the worrying possibility that a first-strike against airfields by nuclear armed bombers would leave a country open to attack by following bombers. The "solution" was to use VTOL fighters that could be moved to open fields around the countryside, making them immune to widespread destruction. In reality the costs of VTOL performance were huge, and while it turned out to be fairly easy to move the plane, moving the support equipment and fuel was not so easy. By the mid-1960s interest in VTOL had faded, perhaps due much to the widespread introduction of ICBMs as.
Yalobusha - Jackson, Tennessee to Water Valley in 1893. In 1896, four years before his death in a train wreck which brought him fame, Jones moved back to Jackson. A new courthouse was built in Water Valley in 1896, and 16 years later, it burned. The second judicial district offices were moved to the Water Valley City Hall, but within a month, it too burned. The courthouse was restored after the fire, and a third floor was added but never completed. Yalobusha County's population peaked in 1910, with that year's census showing a population of 21,519. By 1920, the population had fallen to 18,738, and it continued to decline steadily for the next 50 years. Between 1926-1928, Yalobusha County suffered two tremendous economic setbacks. In April, 1926, Yacona Twine Mill, which had employed.
Kamisese Mara - including Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau (Mara's daughter), and a number of parliamentarians. Speight declared himself Prime Minister, and ordered Mara to step aside as president. Mara refused to negotiate with the plotters, and decided to dismiss the kidnapped government and assume emergency powers. The army commander, Brigadier General Frank Bainimarama forced his hand, however. Bainimarama asked Mara to appease the coup plotters by overturning the constitution. Mara refused, citing his oath to uphold the constitution, and was forced to resign on May 29 and had power over to the military. For the eighty year-old President, who was seen as the father of the country and had led it, in one capacity or another, for some forty years, it was an anticlimactic end. A period of military rule followed. Evaluation Ratu Mara.
Karl Korsch - into something new, in which the workers would be the progressive class, himself represented the moment at which the revolutionary baton materially passed from bourgeoisie to workers. Korsch's stance had ramifications which were unpalatable to the official Communist Party structure - not least, casting the Party's own ideological weaknesses as the only material explanation for the failure of the revolution. Published in 1923, Marxism and Philosophy was bitterly attacked by Party faithful and other leftwing opinionmakers, including Karl Kautsky and Gregory Zinoviev. Zinoviev famously said of Korsch and his fellow critic Georg Lukacs, "If we get a few more of these Professors spinning out their theories, we shall be lost". Over the subsequent five years, the German Communist Party gradually purged all such dissenting voices. Korsch survived within a current known.
Kevlar - high strength synthetic fiber first produced by the DuPont corporation in the early 1960s. Kevlar is very strong and very light, weight for weight about five times as strong as steel. This is due to its chemical structure, as well as the way the polymer has been processed before leaving the factory. Kevlar is a polymeric aromatic amide, an aramid. This means it is a polymer containing a benzene ring, linked together through amide groups. Because the ratio of carbon to hydrogen atoms is quite high it requires strong concentrations of oxygen before it starts to burn--leading to a low flammability. The planar aromatic rings polymerize in rigid chains, and hydrogen bonding between the hydrogen atoms of one chain, and oxygen of another leads to a strong planar sheet structure. When.
Ken Kesey - the Cuckoo's Nest, and as a cultural icon who some consider something of a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. Born in La Junta, Colorado, he spent much of his youth in the Pacific 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,.
Kettlebaston - wool trade was indirectly the saving of the village, (as we know it today), since the locals were unable to afford the expense of upgrading their houses with the latest architectural fashions. The number of timber framed houses slowly declined over the years, (as did the population - from over 200 at its peak), to the point when the village was on the brink of extinction. By the 1960s, with the road no more than an unmade track, and no electricity or mains water supplies, (it still has no gas or main drains), Kettlebaston was barely standing. In the "Spotlight On The Suffolk Scene" article, of the Chronicle & Mercury in June 1949, it was noted that a great many houses were category five - derelict, and ready for demolition. As.
Kenneth Wolstenholme - 25 2002) was a sports commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Worsley, Lancashire, England, Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, before joining the RAF as a bomber pilot. After the war he became a freelance journalist, working for BBC radio before moving to television in 1948. While most sports commentators gain some recognition if their career is long enough, Wolstenholme is almost entirely remembered for his commentary of the 1966 Football World Cup Final, specifically the words he used as the match came to a conclusion during injury time, as a small pitch invasion took place just as Geoff Hurst scored to put England 4-2 ahead: "Some people are on the pitch ... they think it's all over ... IT.
Very high frequency - as commercial two-way radios (such as that operated by taxis and police), marine two-way audio communications, and aircraft radios. The large slice of technically and commercially valuable slice of the VHF spectrum taken up by television transmission has attracted the attention of many companies and governments recently, with the development of more efficient digital television broadcasting standards. In some countries much of this spectrum will likely become available (probably for sale) in the next decade or so (currently scheduled for 2008 in the United States). In Britain colour television transmissions began on UHF in the late 1960s, instantly rendering VHF obsolete. The last British VHF TV transmitters closed down in 1986..
Kennedy political dynasty - to the Adamses and the Bushes, as among the great American political dynasties. All three families have strong roots in the New England area of the United States. Some commentators in the early 1960s made predictions that President John F. Kennedy would be first of a dynasty in the White House, but these predictions were not borne out, and the idea largely dropped off the public's radar after Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 and Edward Kennedy was involved in a possible drunk-driving incident (in which a passenger in his car was killed) in 1969. However, a number of Kennedy family members have held high office since then. Actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is associated with the Kennedy family by his marriage to television journalist Maria Shriver, daughter of Eunice.
Key-agreement protocol - numbers, in such a way that an eavesdropper has no way of guessing what the key is. Diffie-Hellman was first developed by researchers at GCHQ, the UK equivalent to NSA. James Ellis demonstrated that non-secret encryption was possible in the 1960s and Malcolm Williamson developed what is now called Diffie-Hellman Key exchange in the early 1970s. GCHQ did not allow publication, so Diffie and Hellman were the first to publish. See also : ISAKMP Reference See the appendix to Crypto, by Steven Levy for more information on GCHQ's work, The Code Book by Simon Singh, or the GCHQ Web page about 'non-secret encryption'. The latter contains an essay by James Ellis himself..
Kent Brockman - episode, Brockman won the multi-million dollar state lottery jackpot. He must have lost it all at the track, since he was back to work in the next episode. In a flashback to the 1960s, we see when he started out in television his name was Kenny Brocklestein. See also : The Simpsons QUOTES (Live on air) "I've said it before and I'll say it again; democracy just doesn't work." (Reading from his script before a show) "Thousands were killed in a tidal wave today in (squints)... Kual.... Kaula Lum... (Crosses it out) France!" "I know I'm on. I don't care. I don't read the news until I've had my danish.".
Yale school (deconstruction) - all influenced by deconstruction, who were together at Yale University in the 1970s. During the period between the late 1960s and the early 1980s many thinkers influenced by deconstruction, including Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, worked at Yale University. This group came to be known as the Yale school and was especially influential in literary criticism, as de Man, Miller, and Hartman were all primarily literary critics. Several of these theorists were subsequently affiliated with the University of California Irvine. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. References See also: deconstruction -- literary criticism -- literary theory -- Yale University.
Kerry Livgren - members and primary writers for the 1970s supergroup, Kansas. Livgren was a member of numerous bands in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Livgren joined White Clover in 1974, a band that also included vocalist Steve Walsh and violinist Robbie Steinhardt. Shortly after Livgren joined, the group changed their name to Kansas. Livgren penned Kansas' hit "Carry On Wayward Son", as well as "Dust In The Wind" and other songs. It was around this time that Livgren became involved in Urantia, a spiritualist pantheistic faith, which was obvious in the music of Kansas' Monolith project. While on tour with the band supporting that album, Livgren converted to Christianity. Dissatisfied with the musical direction the group was taking (partly due to his new found faith), Livgren, Dave Hope, Warren Ham, Michael Gleason.
Kefallinia - an exception. Forestry and Fishing Forestry is very rare on the island, however production is one of the highest in Ionian, but fewer than Elia in the Peloponnese. Forest fires were common during the 1990s and the early 2000s, they are handled safely by the island's fire service. Fishing is very common throughout the waters within and around the island. The harbors of Argostoli and Lixouri are the main fishing centres on the island. Overfishing can be a problem in Kefallinia, and the Ionian at large. Agriculture The primary source of agriculture is pasture and olives. The remainder is corn, and vegetables. Most of the vegetable production is on its plains covering less than 15% of the island. The majority of the island is rugged and mountainous, that is suitable only.
Kenny Everett - and Television. Born Maurice Cole, Kenny came to prominence in the 1960s on the pirate radio station, Radio London. In 1967, the BBC started its own pop music station, Radio 1, and Kenny was among the first intake of new DJs recruited from the pirates. Kenny developed a unique style of humorous presentation from the start, using zany characters and voices, along with jingles, drop-ins and trailers of his own. However, he soon got himself into trouble by making an unguarded remark about the transport minister's wife's inability to pass the driving test, and was subsequently sacked from the station in 1970. He was reinstated in 1972, but at that time, the government had legislated for new commercial radio stations in the UK, and the first of these, Capital Radio, began.
Keith Joseph - Italy. He entered parliament in a by-election for Leeds North in the 1950s, which he remained in until 1987. He became a junior minister in the 1960s at the Ministry of Housing and the Department for Trade. In 1962 he was made Minister for Housing and Local Government, a cabinet position, and introduced a massive program to build council homes. When the Tories returned to government in 1970, he was made Secretary of State for Health and Social Services. Following the 1974 election defeat, and with Margaret Thatcher he set up the Centre for Policy Studies, and stepped aside to let her become leader. He was given the role of policy maker, and was given the posts of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1979-1981) and Secretary of State for.
