Vernor Vinge - 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 properties which aren't revealed here as they are spoilers for the former book)..
KANU - 1963, and the next year joined the Commonwealth. Jomo Kenyatta, a member of the predominant Kikuyu tribe and head of the Kenya African National Union, became Kenya's first president. KADU dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and joined KANU. A small but significant leftist opposition party, the Kenya People's Union (KPU), was formed in 1966, led by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a former vice president and Luo elder. The KPU was banned and its leader detained after political unrest related to Kenyatta's visit to Nyanza Province. No new opposition parties were formed after 1969, and KANU became the sole political party. At Kenyatta's death in August 1978, Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole.
Karen Corr - Karen Corr Karen Corr (1969, Northern Ireland) is the #1 ranked pool player in the world. She began her career in snooker at the age of 14 and won her first Ladies Snooker Championship in England, when she was 15. She moved to US in 1998 and won her first WPBA Classic Tour title in 2000. By the end of 2001, she was ranked as the #1 player..
Karlheinz Zöller - and principal in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1969-1973 and 1975-1993..
Kate O'Mara - Weavers Green (TV Series) Corruption (1967) The Limbo Line (1968) Promenade (1968) Great Catherine (1968) The Desperados (1969) The Main Chance (TV Series) The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) The Vampire Lovers (1970) The Brothers (TV series) Clouds of Witness" (1972) (TV mini-series) Whose Child Am I? (1974) The Tamarind Seed (1974) Machinegunner (1976) (TV) The Nativity, (1978) (TV) Tuntematon ystävä (1978) The Plank (1979) (TV) Triangle (TV series) Dynasty (TV series) Howard's Way (TV series) Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (TV series) The Road to Ithaca (1999) Bad Girls (TV series) Crossroads (TV series).
Karen Connelly - Karen Connelly Karen Connelly (b. 1969) is a Canadian poet and travel writer. Her poetry and non-fiction deals with the ideas the interaction of cutlures and languages. She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Works: The Small World's In My Body - 1990 (Winner of the Pat Lowther Award) Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal - 1992 (Winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction) The Brighter Prison: A Book of Journey's - 1993 One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France, and Greece - 1995 The Disorder of Love - 1997 The Border Surrounds Us - 2000 Grace & Poison - 2001 See also: List of Canadian writers.
Karel Ancerl - from 1947 to 1950 he conducted for Prague radio. From 1950 to 1968 he was conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and from 1969 to his death conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He died in Toronto. He was particularly noted for his interpretation of music by Czech composers..
Kaimai Ranges - making it the worst air disaster on mainland New Zealand. The Kaimai railway tunnel runs for 9 km under the ranges, making it the longest tunnel in New Zealand. Construction of the tunnel started from both sides of the range in 1969, they finally met up in 1976..
Karl Hess - documentary Mostly on the Edge: An Autobiography 1999 ISBN 1573926876 Writers on the Range 1998 ISBN 0870814826 The Libertarian Forum, 1969-1971/3 Volumes in One by Murray N. Rothbard (Editor), Karl Hess (Editor) ISBN 0405004273 The End of the Draft: The Feasibility of Freedom 1986 ISBN 0394708709 Films Karl Hess: Toward Liberty documentary film The film won two Oscars in 1981, including one for best short documentary. External Links The Karl Hess Club LP News Jun94 - Karl Hess 1923-1994 THE PLOWBOY INTERVIEW KARL HESS.
Karl Jaspers - Karl Jaspers Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. Biography Jaspers was born in Oldenburg in 1883 to a mother from a local farming community and a father who was a jurist. He showed an early interest in philosophy although his father's experience with the legal system undoubtedly influenced his decision to study law at university. It soon became clear that law was not something Jaspers particularly enjoyed and he switched to studying medicine in 1902. Jaspers graduated from medical school in 1909 and began work at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg, where Emil Kraepelin had worked some years earlier. Jaspers became dissatisfied with the way the medical community of the time approached the study of.
Katrine Gislinge - Katrine Gislinge Katrine Gislinge (born 1969) is a Scandinavian pianist. She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York, Boris Berman and Peter Feuchtwanger in London. Katrine Gislinge's concerts have evoked a broad spectrum of superlatives. She is well known for her musical imagination and profound empathy with the classical repertoire. Katrine Gislinge's career has picked up speed: She is the first Danish pianist to record on Deutsche Grammophon, chamber music collaboration with international artists like the German Petersen String Quartet, the cellist Jian Wang, cellist Marc Coppey, the flautist Emmanuel Pahud, the violinist Augustin Dumay and the violist Gérard Caussé; solo concerts at international.
Karlspreis - 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 Roman Herzog 1998 Bronislaw Geremek 1999 Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair 2000 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton 2001 György Konrád 2002 The Euro 2003 Valéry Giscard.
Katharine Graham - She began working for the Post five years later but left in 1945 to raise a family. Her husband, Philip Graham, became publisher of the Post, but she had to abruptly take it over after his suicide in 1963. Despite having little management experience, she was publisher of the newspaper from 1969 to 1979, and chairman of the board from 1973 to 1991. Her son, Donald Graham, was publisher from 1979 to 2000. In 1997, Graham published her memoirs, Personal History. The book, praised for its honest portrayal of Philip Graham's mental illness as well as Katharine Graham's struggles to cope in a male-dominated business world, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998..
Kamen - Wars, the Huskie flew more rescue missions than all other aircraft combined - with the best safety record of any U.S. military aircraft. 1962 : UH-2A / B production begins January 1964 : First flight of Kaman's experimental Convertiplane equipped with a J-85 engine and wings from a Beechcraft Queen Air. The aircraft achieves speeds of over 320 km/h 1965 : Tomahawk A Sea Sprite derivate with stub wings and a pair of twin guns side-by-side under the nose. Was Kaman 's propossal for the US Army 's interim gunship helicopter between the AAFSS ( AH-56 ) and AAH ( AH-64 ) competitions. Lost against the Bell 209 AH-1 HueyCobra 1967 : The Sea Sprites are modified into twin turbine helicopters . 1969 : US Navy begins LAMPS ( Light Airborne.
Ken Thompson - USA. He received in Bachelor's degree and Master's degree, both in electrical engineering, from UC Berkeley. In 1969, while at Bell Labs, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were the principal creators of the Unix operating system. Thompson also wrote the B programming language, a precursor to Dennis Ritchie's "C", one of the world's most commonly used programming languages. Later, while still at Bell Labs, he and Rob Pike were the principal creators of the Plan 9 operating system. He also wrote programs for generating the complete enumeration of chess endings, for all 4, 5, and currently 6-piece endings. Using these, a chess-playing computer program can play perfectly once a position stored in them is reached. Thompson and Ritchie jointly received the Turing Award in 1983 "for their development of generic operating systems.
Ken Loach - Party (1965) (TV) Cathy Come Home (1966) (TV) (as Kenneth Loach) In Two Minds (1967) (TV) Poor Cow (1967) The Golden Vision (1968) (TV) The Big Flame (1969) (TV) Kes (1969) (as Kenneth Loach) The Rank and the File (1971) (TV; part of the Play for Today series) The Save the Children Fund Film (1971) Family Life (1971) After a Lifetime (1971) (TV) A Misfortune (1973) (TV) Days of Hope (1975) (TV mini series) The Price of Coal (1977) (TV) Black Jack (1979) Auditions (1980) (TV) The Gamekeeper (1980) A Question of Leadership (1981) (TV) Looks and Smiles (1981) (as Kenneth Loach) The Red and the Blue: Impressions of Two Political Conferences - Autumn 1982 (1983) (TV) Questions of Leadership (1983) (TV) Which Side Are You On? (1984) Fatherland (1986) The.
Kenny Dalglish - the departing Kevin Keegan, this time as manager of Newcastle United F.C. Despite an initially strong performance, Dalglish's dismantling of one of the most exciting footballing sides in the Premiership lost him the support of the fans, and he parted company with Newcastle late in the close season of the summer of 1998. His most recent role to date was as Director of Football at Celtic, but he resigned after one disastrous season which saw Celtic knocked out of the Scottish FA Cup by Inverness Caledonian Thistle and finish 21 points behind their arch-rivals Rangers in the Scottish Premier League. Playing Career Glasgow Celtic 1969-1977, Liverpool F.C 1977-1990 (including time as player/manager from 1985) Scottish Championship 1969-1970, 1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1972-1973, 1973-1974, 1976-1977 Scottish Cup 1969-70, 1974-75 English 1st Division Championship 1978-1979,.
Kermit the Frog - a five minute puppet show for WRC-TV Sam and Friends. The early Kermit was a sort of lizardy thing; Kermit's first appearance as a frog was in the television special Hey Cinderella in 1969, and he's been a frog ever since. Kermit made frequent appearances on Sesame Street, often as a news reporter interviewing nursery rhyme characters. One of his most memorable works was the song, "It's not easy being green". Kermit's song "Rainbow connection" was also a big hit from The Muppet Movie. In The Muppet Show television series, Kermit was frontman and the long-suffering stage manager of the fictional theatre show. He continually struggled to produce a quality program, for a sparse and disaffected audience. Kermit also appeared in several Muppet movies and spin-off series, including Muppets Tonight. As.
Kenji Sahara - 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.
Kentucky Derby - 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 Silence 1990 Unbridled 1991 Strike the Gold 1992 Lil E. Tee 1993 Sea Hero 1994 Go for Gin 1995 Thunder Gulch 1996 Grindstone 1997 Silver Charm 1998 Real Quiet 1999 Charismatic.
