Karl Friedrich Bahrdt - Friedrich Bahrdt (August 25, 1741 - April 23, 1792), German theologian and adventurer, was born at Bischofswerda, where his father, afterwards professor, canon and general superintendent at Leipzig, was pastor. At the age of sixteen young Bahrdt, a precocious lad whose training had been grossly neglected, began to study theology under the orthodox mystic Christian August Crusius (1715-1775), who in 1757 had become first professor in the theological faculty. The boy varied the monotony of his studies by pranks which revealed his unbalanced character, including an attempt to raise spirits with the aid of Dr Faust's Höllenzwang. His orthodoxy was, however, unimpeachable, his talent conspicuous, and in 1761 he was appointed lecturer on biblical exegesis, and preacher (Katechet) at the church of St Peter. His eloquence soon gave him a reputation,.
Karl of Austria - Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria von Habsburg (August 17, 1887 - April 1, 1922) was the last Emperor of Austria and the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV of Hungary) and of the Habsburg Dynasty. He reigned from 1916 until his abdication on November 11, 1918. He sought to reclaim the throne of Hungary in the early 1920s. Karl has generally been seen by historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose.
Karl Pearson - Karl Pearson (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) was a major player in the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Awards from Professional Bodies 3 Contributions to Statistics 4 Publications 5 Other Useful Sites 6 Further Reading Biography Karl Pearson was born in London on the 27th March 1857. He was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge to study mathematics. He then spent part of 1879 and 1880 studying medieval and 16th-century German literature at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg - in fact, he.
Kaspar Hauser - Kaspar Hauser Kaspar Hauser (April 30?, 1812 - December 17, 1833) was a mysterious foundling in 19th century Germany with alleged ties to the royal house of Baden. In May 26 1828 a young boy appeared in the streets of Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany. He was wearing peasant clothing and could barely talk. His only documentation was a letter to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment where the writer asked the captain to either take him or hang him. Shoemaker Weissman took the boy to the house of captain Wessenig where he could only repeat, "I want to be a rider like my father." Further demands resulted only in tears. He was taken to a police station where he would only write a name: Kaspar Hauser..
Karsten Niebuhr - as Carsten Niebuhr) (March 17, 1733 - April 26, 1815) was a German traveller. He was born at Ludingwortb, Lauenburg, on the southern border of Holstein, the son of a small farmer. He had little education, and for several years of his youth had to do the work of a peasant. His bent was towards mathematics, and he managed to obtain some lessons in surveying. It was while he was working at this subject that one of his teachers, in 1760, proposed to him to join the expedition which was being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. To qualify himself for the work of surveyor and geographer, he studied hard at mathematics for a year and a half before the expedition.
Katherine Harris - Katherine Harris Katherine Harris (born April 5 1957), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 13th District of Florida. She was born in Key West, Florida, was educated at the University of Madrid in Spain, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and at Harvard University, and was a real estate broker, a member of the Florida Senate and Florida Secretary of State (1999-2002) before entering the House. While she was Secretary of State, Harris presided over the contested Presidential election of 2000. It was Harris who certified that the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, had carried the State of Florida, thus giving him the election over Al Gore. Her ruling was challenged but was upheld in the Supreme Court of.
Kander and Ebb - John Kander, born March 18, 1927 and lyricist Fred Ebb, born April 8, 1933. They first worked together in 1962, on Flora the Red Menace, which was produced by Hal Prince, directed by George Abbott, and with book by George Abbott and Robert Russell. It was the musical in which Liza Minnelli made her initial Broadway appearance. Kander and Ebb have since been associated with writing material for Minnelli and for Chita Rivera, and have produced special material for their appearances live and on television. Their greatest acclaim came from the musical and film Cabaret. The musical was a major success, with a Broadway run of over 1100 performances. It won a Tony Award as the season's best musical, and its original cast recording won a Grammy. The film won eight.
Kansas City Star - 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..
Karl Otfried Müller - to form a vivid conception of Greek life as a whole; and his books and lectures marked an epoch in the development of Hellenic studies. Müller's position at Göttingen being rendered unpleasant by the political troubles which followed the accession of Ernest Augustus (duke of Cumberland) to the throne of Hanover in 1837, he applied for permission to travel; and in 1839 he left Germany. In April of the following year he reached Greece, having spent the winter in Italy. He investigated the remains of ancient Athens, visited many places of interest in Peloponnesus, and finally went to Delphi, where he began excavations. He was attacked by intermittent fever, of which he died at Athens. Among his historical works the foremost place belongs to his Geschichten hellenischen Stämme und Städte: Orchomenos.
Karl Felix Halm - Felix Halm Karl Felix Halm (April 5, 1809 - October 5, 1882), German classical scholar and critic, was born at Munich. In 1849, after having held appointments at Spires (Speyer) and Hadamar, he became rector of the newly founded Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and professor in the university. These posts he held till his death. It is chiefly as the editor of Cicero and other Latin prose authors that Halm is known, although in early years he also devoted considerable attention to Greek. After the death of JC Orelli, he joined JG Baiter in the preparation of a revised critical edition of the rhetorical and philosophical writings of Cicero (1854-1862). His school editions of some of the speeches of Cicero in the Haupt and.
Karl August von Hardenberg - the French Republic had been recognized, he was appointed to succeed Count Goltz as Prussian plenipotentiary at Basel (February 28, 1795), where he signed the treaty of peace. In 1797, on the accession of King Frederick William III, Hardenberg was summoned to Berlin, where he received an important position in the cabinet and was appointed chief of the departments of Magdeburg and Halberstadt, for Westphalia, and for the principality of Neuchâtel. In 1793 Hardenberg had struck up a friendship with Count Haugwitz, the influential minister for foreign affairs, and when in 1803 the latter went away on leave (August-October) he appointed Hardenberg his locum tenens. It was a critical period. Napoleon had just occupied Hanover, and Haugwitz had urged upon the king the necessity for strong measures and the expediency of.
Kanazawa - stone blocks are all that remain of its ruins. Kanazawa also boasts a 100-year-old former geisha house: the Higashi Geisha District, across the Asano river (with its old stone bridge) out from central Kanazawa. Nearby is the Yougetsu Minshuku sits at one end of one of the most photographed streets in Japan. It retains, almost completely, the look and feel of nineteenth century Japan, its two-story wooden facades plain and austere. The effect is accentuated by the early morning mist: late at night, the street is lit by the period streetlamps. The temple Oyama-jinja, which is considered an Important Cultural Asset, is also in Kanazawa. The city is also renowned as a traditional haunt of ninjas. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 456,627 and the density of.
Kamikawa Aya - elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003. Ms. Kamikawa, a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election papers with a blank space for "sex." Her birth documents, wherein she is listed as male, cannot be altered under Japanese law. However, she was permitted to run as a woman. This was hailed as a victory for transgendered rights in Japan. Running as an independent, she won her seat, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya municipal assembly, a district in Tokyo. Despite an announcement that the government would continue to consider her male for other purposes, she declared that she would sit as a woman. Her platform was to improve rights for women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, and sexual minorities. See List of transgendered people..
Kate Hudson - Hudson Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of actress Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson. Her breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is married to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson. Filmography Le Divorce (2003) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) The Four Feathers (2002) The Cutting Room (2001) Dr. T & the Women (2000) Almost Famous (2000) Gossip (2000) About Adam (2000) 200 Cigarettes (1999) Ricochet River (1998) Desert Blue (1998).
Karl Wilhelm Ramler - Wilhelm Ramler (February 25, 1725 - April 11, 1798), German poet, was born at Kolberg. After completing his studies in Halle, he went to Berlin, where, in 1748, he was appointed professor of logic and literature at the cadet school. In 1786 he became associated with the author, Johann Jakob Engel, in the management of the royal theatre, of which, after resigning his professorship, he became (1790-96) sole director. He died at Berlin. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Karel Doorman - Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 - February 28, 1942) was a Dutch admiral (Dutch: schout-bij-nacht) during World War II. Karel Doorman commanded a Combined Strike Force of Dutch, American, British en Australian ships that operated around the Dutch East Indies. This fleet consisted of cruisers and destroyers. In February 1942 a battle was fought between the Combined Strike Force and a much stronger Japanese task force in the Java Sea. This battle proved a disaster for the Allies. Doorman became a Dutch maritime icon, after transmitting his last words to the fleet: "I am attacking, all ships follow me!" ("Ik val aan, alle schepen volg mij!"). Karel Doorman died when his flagship De Ruyter (named after the famous Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter) was struck by a torpedo.
Katie Holmes - as: The Ice Storm, Disturbing Behavior, Go, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, The Wonder Boys, The Gift, Phone Booth, Abandon and Pieces of April..
Karel Appel - Karel Appel Karel Appel (born April 25, 1921) is a painter, born in Amsterdam. He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there from 1940 to 1943 and started exhibiting in 1946. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet and joined the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep and joined CoBrA in 1948. His 1949 fresco in the Amsterdam City Hall caused controversy and was covered up for ten years. In 1950 he moved to Paris and then developed his international reputation travelling to Mexico, the USA, Yugoslavia and Brazil. He is particularly noted for his mural work and now lives between New York and Florence..
Kaloyan of Bulgaria - as opposed to the Roman Catholic "Latins") sent envoys to Kaloyan, promising to make him emperor, if he would provide them with protection. The Crusaders, together with the Venetians under Doge Enrico Dandolo, challenged Kaloyan, and on March 29, 1205, laid siege to Adrianople, which Kaloyan had placed under his protection. Kaloyan hurried to Adrianople with a large army composed of Bulgars (Bulgarians), Vlachs (Wallachians), and 14,000 Comans (Koumanian mercenaries). On Thursday, April 14, 1205, the Crusaders faced Kaloyan outside of the city of Adrianople in what came to be called the Battle of Odrin. Kaloyan soundly defeated the Crusaders and took Emperor Baldwin prisoner. Baldwin languished in prison in the Bulgarian capital of Turnovo until his death on June 11, 1205, despite repeated threats from the pope of a crusade.
Kawabata Yasunari - June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Kawabata was orphaned when he was two and soon long his grandparents also. While still a student at Tokyo Imperial University he joined Yokomitsu Riichi in starting Bungei Jidai (The Artistic Age), a neo-Impressionist journal. Kawabata committed suicide in 1972. Kawabata debuted with Izu no Odoriko ("The Dancer of Izu") in 1927. In 1937 appeared his novel Yukiguni ("Snow Country"), a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo playboy and a provincial geisha in a remote hot springs town. Yukiguni established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant classic. Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes") continued some of the themes of Yukiguni. List of Works Snow Country (雪国,.
