Kansas (band) - name to households across America. By the time the band's fourth album, Leftoverture (1976) was released, Kansas was popular enough for the album to be a smash hit and a constant presence on the burgeoning AOR radio format, as was the followup Point of Know Return (1977). After a few more albums, Kansas began to fall apart in the early 1980s. Hope and Livgren became born-again Christians and Walsh formed a new band, replaced by John Elefante. In spite of a successful 1982 album called Vinyl Confessions, the group split in 1983, only to reform in 1986 with the album Power. The 1990s saw a string of barely noticed releases, and Kansas has continued to tour sporadically, but the band has never been able to regain any mass popularity or critical.
Vegemite - and a little goes a long way. Some people spreading vegemite as thickly as jam or butter might get a nasty surprise when they bit into the resulting product. Vegemite's rise to popularity was helped by highly successful marketing campaigns in the 1940s, using groups of smiling, attractive healthy children singing a catchy jingle entitled "We're happy little vegemites". Indeed, many Australians still use the phrase "happy little vegemite" to describe such children. Re-edited versions of the original advertisements and jingle continue to be used today for their appeal to patriotic nostalgia. Many non-Australians became aware of Vegemite's existence as it was mentioned in the lyrics of "Down Under", a song that became a worldwide hit for the Australian pop group Men At Work in the early 1980s and used as.
Kansas City Star - the news of its first Pulitzer Prize in 1947 was given only four paragraphs. The prize-winning stories revealed the Republican National Chairman as a crook. The paper won three more Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s under Publisher James E. Hale. A young Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Star from October, 1916 to April 1917. Though his time on the paper was brief, Hemingway credited Star editor, C.G. "Pete" Wellington, with changing a wordy high-schooler's writing style into clear, provocative English. Throughout his lifetime he referred to this admonition from the Star's style guide: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative." The paper sponsors a contest for high-school journalists to this day..
Kaypro Computer - the first all-metal portable computer, competing successfully with the Osborne 1, shipping more than 10,000 units a month in 1983. Kaypro continued to manufacture a variety of CP/M-compatible systems throughout the 1980s, incorporating features such as higher-density floppy drives and hard drives, and as MS-DOS gained popularity, produced a number of IBM-compatible systems running that operating system as well. However, Kaypro had difficulty continuing its early success, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1990. In June 1992, Kaypro filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and in 1995, its remaining assets were sold for $2.7 million. The Kaypro name briefly re-emerged as an online vendor of PCs early in the first decade of the 21st century. The resurgence was short-lived. Andy Kay re-emerged with a second company, called Kay Computers, utilizing.
Katrina Leung - is an important figure in the Los Angeles Chinese-American community, having helped raise money for the campaigns of several prominent Republican party candidates. In the early 1980s she was recruited by the FBI's Los Angeles office chief of Chinese counter-intelligence, James J. Smith, and given the code name "Parlor Maid". Working with Smith, Leung became a valued information asset and was paid $1.7 million for her services over the years. Eventually Leung and Smith, both married, began a 20 year sexual affair. Leung had access to classified FBI documents Smith would bring to their trysts, and in early 2003 was arrested and charged with working as a double agent for the People's Republic of China government. FBI officials say they will have to re-evualate a decade's worth of counter-intelligence work as.
Vega - than smaller ones, Vega's life time is only one billion years, a tenth of our Sun's. Vega is two and a half times more massive than our Sun and burns at fifty times the power. Vega has a disk of dust and gas around it, discovered by the IRAS satellite in the mid 1980s. This either signifies planets or planets that may soon form. The protoplanetary disk is, as can be guessed from its name, believed to be a precursor to the formation of planets but it can persist long after planets have been formed if there are no gas giant planets such as Jupiter. In about 14,000 AD, Vega will take over from Polaris as the North Star, owing to the precession of the equinoxes. See Polaris for more information..
Katie - was a dark brown with two pigtails, one on either side. She was added to the show in the late 1980s, when it was still dubbed Canada's Sesame Street. Her role was greatly increased on the show when it became Sesame Park, she was even more used than show veteran Dodi. Katie is also a revision control system..
Karelian language - of its geo-political location within the boundaries of another state, a conclusion might be, that Karelian has a similar relation to Finnish, as has Finland-Swedish to Scandinavian Swedish. Finnish and Karelian were suppressed and out-lawed during Stalin's Great Purges. Attempts to standardize Karelian with a Cyrillic alphabet were unsuccessful, and today the Karelian republic (of the Russian federation) consider Karelian a dialect of Finnish. Finnish, and not Karelian, was the second official language of Karelia from the Winter War 1940 up until the 1980s[1], when perestroika began. Since the late 1990s there have been moves to pass special language legislation, which would give Karelian an official status. Finnish has also again been proposed as a second official language for the republic, but the proposal has never taken wind..
Very-large-scale integration - single chip first occurred in the 1980s as part of the semiconductor and communication technologies that were being developed. The first semiconductor chips held one transistor each. Subsequent advances added more and more transistors, and as a consequence more individual functions or systems were integrated over time. The microprocessor is a VLSI device. The first "generation" of computers relied on vacuum tubes. Then came discrete semiconductor devices, followed by integrated circuits. ICs had more than one device on a single chip - diodes, transistors, resistors and capacitors (no inductors though), making it possible to fabricate one or more logic gates on a single device. The fourth generation consisted of Large-Scale Integration, i.e. systems with at least a hundred logic gates. The natural successor to LSI was VLSI (thousands of gates on.
Very long instruction word - all of these instructions and their context need to be "flushed" and the correct ones loaded, which is time-consuming. This has led to increasingly complex decoders that attempt to guess right, and the simplicity of the original RISC designs has been eroded. In a VLIW, the compiler uses heuristic or profile information to guess the direction of a branch. This allows it to move and preschedule operations speculatively before the branch is taken, favoring the most likely path it expects through the branch. If the branch goes the unexpected way, the compiler has already generated compensation code to discard speculative results in order to preserve program semantics. The term VLIW, and the VLIW architecture concept, was by Prof. Josh Fisher in his research group at Yale University in the early 1980s..
Vector processor - element at a time – the vast majority of CPUs are scalar (or close to it). Vector processors were common in the scientific computing area, where they formed the basis of most supercomputers through the 1980s and into the 1990s, but general increases in performance and processor design have since made the dedicated vector processor a thing of the past. History The first successful implementations of a vector processor appears to be the CDC Cyber 100 and the Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer. The Cyber was otherwise slower than CDC's own supercomputers like the CDC 7600 (but much smaller too), but at those data related tasks they could be quite a bit faster. However the machine also took considerable time decoding the vector instruction and getting ready to run the process,.
Kepler solid - only four Kepler solids. The other two are the greater icosahedron and greater dodecahedron which were described by Louis Poinsot in 1809. Some people call these the two "Poinsot solids". A Kepler solid covers its circumscribed sphere more than once, with the centers of faces acting as winding points in the solids with pentagrammic faces and the vertices in the others. Because of this, they are not necessarily topologically equivalent to the sphere as Platonic solids are, and in particular V-E+F=2 may not hold. Trivia: A cutaway view of the greater dodecahedron was used for the 1980s puzzle game Alexander's Star. External Links The Uniform Polyhedra Virtual Reality Polyhedra The Encyclopedia of Polyhedra http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/kepler-poinsot-info.html.
Kenneth Kaunda - 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 increasingly intolerant of opposition, Kaunda banned all political parties but UNIP in 1972 and made Zambia a one-party state. His policies made Zambia increasingly dependent on revenues from copper exports. By the mid-1980s corruption and a economic downturn meant that the Kaunda regime had lost public support. Pressure for a return to multiparty politics increased and Kaunda yielded and called for multiparty elections in 1991, in which the Movement for Multiparty Democracy(MMD) won and made Frederick Chiluba president..
Kemp-Roth Tax Cut - significant tax cuts. These cuts are widely blamed for the deficits in the budget of the United States government in the 1980s and early 1990s, although deficits had been around since 1969. They are credited with helping the 1980s economic expansion however. The theory underlying the tax cut, the Laffer Curve suggested that there was a revenue maximizing tax rate, tax too much, and output (and tax revenue) decrease, tax too little and though output increases, tax revenue still falls. Controversy still remains as to whether in 1981 the United States was over- or under-taxed..
Kevin O'Neill - by Mr O'Neill. Under the guidance of editor Pat Mills, O'Neill's irreverent hyper-kinetic style became a mainstay of the book, and he became one of the magazine's most popular creators. Co-creations of O'Neill with Pat Mills include The ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock, and Metalzoic for 2000AD. During the mid-1980s O'Neill's work began appearing in North America. He encountered numerous difficulties with censors (the Comics Code Authority) who were aghast at the quirky yet apparently subversive nature of his artwork. He went freelance in the mid-1980s and produced material such as the black comedy superhero title Marshall Law with Pat Mills for Epic, and work for Dark Horse, and Marvel Comics amongst others.. His most recent work (as of Summer 2003) is the artwork for Alan Moore's ongoing series The League.
Kelly Osbourne - soft-core punk scene. Their combination of pseudo-punk outfits with an anti-authoritarian attitude (similar to Cyndi Lauper's persona in the 1980s) seems to reflect a movement out of the popularity of strictly pop music into an interest in rock and roll. Osbourne first rose to acclaim in the reality TV series about her famous family. Her debut album was released in 2002 to moderate sales, fueled mostly by a cover version of the hit Madonna song "Papa Don't Preach." Critics mostly dismiss her as the flash-in-the-pan daughter of a superstar with no discernible talent whose popularity is fueled entirely by personality rather than legitimate talent. Osbourne was born in London, England. Solo Albums Shut Up (2002) External Link Official website: http://www.KellyOsbourne.com.
Vegan Reich - Vegan Reich Vegan Reich were a 1980s American punk band formed by Sean Muttaqi, embracing something similar to a straight edge philosophy (they did not drink/do drugs), but taking it to a more extreme conclusion, ie, advocating the developement of a vegan society, where people that violate the laws of that society could possibly face 'extermination'. Followers of the band where sometimes also involved in the deep ecology movement called Hardline, expressing a rhetoric that seemed to be a strange hybrid of both anarchism and extreme authoritarianism (if you violated someones rights, you could be subject to losing your own). None of their record releases ever dented the Billboard Top 50, and for the time being omnivores the world over continue to sleep safe in their beds at night. See also:.
Key West, Florida - was noted for the unusually high concentration of fine furniture and chandeliers which the locals used in their own homes after salvaging them from wrecks. During the American Civil War, while Florida joined the Confederate States of America, Key West remained in US hands thanks to the Naval base. In the late 19th century salt and salvage declined as industries, but Key West gained a thriving cigar making industry. Many Cubans moved to Key West during Cuba's unsuccessful war for independence in the 1860s and 1870s. Key West was the last of the series of Keys connected to the Florida mainland by a series of railroad bridges completed in 1912. In 1935 a hurricane destroyed some of the railroad bridges. The United States Federal Government then rebuilt the rail-ines as an.
Yale school (deconstruction) - 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.
Keith Thibodeaux - the age of 21, he received the final payment of $8,000 from a trust fund set up during his days on I Love Lucy. He spent half of that payment on a sports car and the rest on sound equipment for the band. Thibodeaux married his wife, Kathy, a talented ballet dancer in 1976. The couple then moved to Southern California. It was around this time that Thibodeaux converted to Christianity. Thibodeaux returned to the southern United States in 1979 to rejoin the band David and the Giants only to learn that the other band members had also become Christians. The band released nearly ten albums in the 1980s, and 1990s for Epic Records and the band's own label Giant Records. In 1990, became the manager for his wife’s company, Ballet.
