Karl August von Hardenberg - Karl August von Hardenberg Prince Karl August von Hardenberg (May 31, 1750 - November 26, 1822), Prussian statesman, was born at Essenroda in Hanover. Biography After studying at Leipzig and Göttingen he entered the Hanoverian civil service in 1770 as councillor of the board of domains (Katnmerrat); but, finding his advancement slow, he set out--on the advice of King George III--on a course of travels, spending some time at Wetzlar, Regensburg (where he studied the mechanism of the Imperial government), Vienna and Berlin. He also visited France, the Netherlands and England, where he was kindly received by the king. On his return he married, by his father's desire, the countess Reventlow. In 1778 he was raised to the rank of privy councillor and created a count. He.
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense - Karl August Varnhagen von Ense Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (February 21, 1785 - 1858), German biographer, was born at Düsseldorf. He studied medicine at Berlin, but devoted more attention to philosophy and literature, which he afterwards studied more thoroughly at Halle and Tübingen. He began his literary career in 1804 as joint-editor with Adelbert von Chamisso. He made some reputation as an imaginative and critical writer, but he is famous chiefly as a biographer. He possessed a remarkable power of grouping facts so as to bring out their essential significance, and his style is distinguished for its strength, grace and purity. Among his principal works are: Goethe in den Zeugnissen der Mitlebenden (1824) Biographische Denkmale (5 vols., 1824-30; 3rd ed., 1872) biographies of General von Seydlits.
January 14 - January 14 January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining (352 in leap years). Celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1639 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted. 1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany. 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne. 1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England. 1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden. 1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt. 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome. 1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Ingres Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French painter. Born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, he had his academic training in the Toulouse Academy then went to Paris in 1796 to study under Jacques-Louis David. He soon left the studio involving a difference of opinion on style. Ingres's style was more flat and linear, and focused on contour. He won the Prix de Rome in 1801 and his masterpiece, the Grande Odalisque, a harem girl with too many vertebrae, hangs in the Louvre. The textures in the painting are painted intricately. One can get a sense of the texture of the fabric and the smooth skin of the girl. The elongated features are reminiscent of old Mannerist painters. Ingres was searching for the pure form.
June 14 - June 14 June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants Revolt 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby 1775 - The United States Army is established 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States 1789 - HMS Bounty mutineers reach Timor. 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine 1834 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper 1841 - The first Parliament of Canada meets, in Kingston, Ontario 1846 - Foundation of the California Republic 1863 - American Civil War:.
July 14 - July 14 July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father. 1789 - French Revolution: Parisians storm the Bastille Prison in Paris and free seven political prisoners. 1791 - The Priestley Riots in Birmingham, England. 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. 1933 - In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. 1940 - World War II: Andrew George Latta.
Karl of Austria - Karl Franz Josef 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.
KANU - 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 nominee. In June 1982, the National Assembly amended.
Karl Böhm - Karl Böhm Karl Böhm (August 28, 1894 - August 14, 1981) was a noted conductor. Born in Graz, Austria he began conducting in that music filled city. Later he would direct many of the world's best orchestras in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna. Böhm was a close colleague of Richard Strauss and directed many of Strauss' works at their premiere. He was also noted for his interpretations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas. Böhm died in Salzburg..
Venus (planet) - who called it Chak ek, "the Great Star", and considered it a representation of Quetzalcoatl; they apparently did not worship any of the other planets. (See also Maya calendar.) Early Greeks thought that the evening and morning appearances of Venus represented two different objects, calling it Hesperus when it appeared in the western evening sky and Phosphorus when it appeared in the eastern morning sky. They soon came to recognize that both objects represented the same planet, however; Pythagoras is given credit for this realization. In the 4th century BC, Heraclides Ponticus proposed that both Venus and Mercury orbited the Sun rather than Earth. The name Venus comes from the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Because its orbit takes it between the Earth and the Sun, Venus as seen from.
Katharine Lee Bates - Lee Bates Katharine Lee Bates, (August 12, 1859 - March 26, 1929), is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful. Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The daughter of a Congregational pastor, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley. The first draft of America the Beautiful was hastily jotted in a notebook during the summer of 1893, which Miss Bates spent teaching in Colorado. Later she remembered, "One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired..
Karl Oskar Medin - Oskar Medin Karl Oskar Medin (August 14 1847 – December 24 1928) was a Swedish paediatrician. He was born on Axberg, Örebro and died in Stockholm. He is most famous for his study of poliomyelitis, an illness often known as the Heine-Medin disease, named after Medin and another physician, Jakob Heine. He has also influenced the study of meningitis and tuberculosis. Medin received his doctorate in 1880 from the University of Uppsala. He was appointed extraordinary professor at the Karolinska Institute in 1883 and went on to become professor of paediatrics the following year. He became professor emeritus in 1914. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Karl Kautsky - 1890, he spent time in London, where he became a close friend of Friedrich Engels; in 1891, he co-authored the SPD's Erfurter Programm together with August Bebel and Eduard Bernstein. Following the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, Kautsky became one of the most important and influential theoreticians of socialism, forming the marxist centre of the party together with August Bebel. He broke with Rosa Luxemburg and the party's left wing in 1914 politically, and in 1922 re-joined the SPD after being a member of the USPD from 1917 to 1919. In 1882, Kautsky founded the magazine "Neue Zeit" ("new time"), which he continued to publish until 1917; he also wrote a book titled "Der Weg zur Macht" ("the road to power") in 1909. Karl Kautsky lived in Berlin-Friedenau for many.
Kamen - Smithsonian 1953 : Kaman produced the first electrically powered drone April 1953 : HOK (OH-43) 1954 : K-16 A V/STOL designed around a rotoprop March 1954 : A modified Kaman HTK-1 becomes the world's first twin-turbine powered helicopter September, 1956 : HH-43 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.
KC-135 Stratotanker - as well as the KC-135A Stratotanker. In 1954 the USAF ordered the first 29 of its future fleet of 732. The first aircraft flew in August 1956 and the initial production Stratotanker was delivered to Castle Air Force Base, California, in June 1957. The last KC-135 was delivered to the Air Force in 1965. Of the original KC-135A's, more than 410 have been modified with new CFM-56 engines produced by CFM-International. The re-engined tanker, designated either the KC-135R or KC-135T, can offload 50 percent more fuel, is 25 percent more fuel efficient, costs 25 percent less to operate and is 96 percent quieter than the KC-135A. Under another modification program, 157 Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard tankers were re-engined with the TF-33-PW-102 engines. The re-engined tanker, designated the KC-135E,.
Ken Livingstone - a favourite target for the press, which referred to him as "Red Ken" and associated him with the "Loony Left," alongside Tony Benn, Militant Tendency, and other far-left elements within the Labour Party. However, he favoured European integration and proportional representation (neither of which were particularly popular causes among the British left at that time), and when both the GLC and the Militant-controlled Merseyside council protested the government's rate-capping policy by refusing to set a property tax rate, Livingstone relented rather than face the withdrawl of government grant money. Livingstone's practicality (relative to the rest of the Labour left) may in part explain why his popularity grew at a time when other "hard left" figures like Benn and the Militants found themselves increasingly isolated from the general public. Following the Conservative.
Venera - enter another planet's atmosphere and return data Venera 5 - Atmospheric Probe - launched January 5, 1969 : Arrived May 16, 1969 and successfully returned atmoshperic data before being crushed by pressure within 26km of the surface Venera 6 - Atmospheric Probe - launched January 10, 1969 : Arrived May 17, 1969 and successfully returned atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure within 11km of the surface Venera 7 - Lander - launched August 17, 1970 : Arrived December 15, 1970, was the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet and survived for 23 minutes before succumbing to the heat and pressure Venera 8 - Lander - launched March 27, 1972 : Arrived July 22, 1972 and survived for 50 minutes before succumbing to the heat and pressure Venera.
Kefallinia - islands are so keen on travelling to other countries. In summer many tourists visit Kefalonia, however as one of the largest islands in Greece, it is well equipped to handle them. Most tourists stay in or around Lassi, a serene resort a few kilometers from Argostoli. A spectacular view of the Ionian Sea can be seen from west of Skála to north of Fiskárdo. Most of Eastern half of Paliki is 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..
KGB - The reformed MVD retained its internal security functions while the new KGB took on external security functions. The KGB was subordinated to the Council of Ministers. On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the KGB Chairman given a seat on the council. The KGB was dissolved due to the participation of its chief, Colonel General Vladimir Kryuchkov, in the August 1991 coup attempt designed to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. He used many of the KGB's resources to aid the coup attempt. Kryuchkov was arrested, and General Vadim Bakatin was appointed Chairman on August 23, 1991 with a mandate to dismantle the KGB. On November 6, 1991 the Russian KGB officially ceased to exist, though its successor organization, the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, or FSB, is functionally.
Kieren Perkins - Kieren Perkins Kieren Perkins (born August 14, 1973), was one of the world's best-ever long-distance swimmers, winning two Olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996 in the 1500-metre front crawl, and a silver medal in 2000. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Kieren began swimming regularly at age eight as part of his rehabilitation from a serious leg injury (after running through a plate glass window). At age 13 his potential became obvious, and with coach John Carew guiding him he won his first national title in 1989 and a Commonwealth title by 1990. By 1992 he dominated the 1500-metre event, demolishing a long-standing world record. He dominated the event at the Barcelona Olympic games, lowering the record to 14 minutes, 43 seconds - a massive improvement. At the time of the 1996.
