Kalle Päätalo - was able to turn a freelance writer, and from 1962 until his death he published one book each year. In 1971 he published what was to be the first volume in the 26-volume series Juuret Iijoen törmässä ('Roots in the Bank of River Ii'), probably the longest autobiographical narrative in the world (some 17 000 pages in total). The series charts Päätalo's life from his early childhood to the publication of his first novel, at the same time offering an interesting view of Finnish history over some four decades as seen from an individual's viewpoint. Though Päätalo's first books got favourable reviews, the prevailing critical attitude to his writing soon turned negative while his popularity remained steady. Some found the slowness of his narration and its seeming sticking to trifles tedious,.
Katharine Graham - the head of The Washington Post newspaper for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that helped bring down President Richard Nixon. She has been widely described as one of the most powerful American women of the 20th century. Graham was the subject of one of the most famous threats in modern American political history. It occurred in 1972, when Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, warned reporter Carl Bernstein about a forthcoming article: "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published." Graham's father, Eugene Meyer, was a publisher who bought The Washington Post in 1933. She began working for the Post five years later but left in 1945 to raise a family. Her husband, Philip Graham, became publisher of.
Karl Korsch - of 'Hegelianism' around 1848, the bourgeoisie lost its claim to that progressive role in society. Marx, in taking Hegel and transforming that philosophy 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.
KC-135 Stratotanker - manufactured in 1956 and expected to remain in service for about two decades beyond the present. United States Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker and F-22 Raptor. Boeing's 367-80 was the basic design for the commercial Boeing 707 passenger aircraft 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.
Keno - If the people lost one (whole) subdivision they lost three lí of property; if they gained one division they were rewarded with ten taels. These regulations being once established, who would not sacrifice a little in order to gain much? The two games in the morning and evening were attended by men and women who tried their luck by guessing. They had only opened the game for about ten days, when they had accumulated more than 1000 pieces of silver; and after a few more decades their wealth was boundless. The money thus gained was considered a contribution to the army for the reduction of the empire…. At present the people practice the game as a profession. They borrow the characters from the Thousand Character Classic, of which eighty are chosen.
Kerry Nettle - New South Wales in November 2001, joining Senator Bob Brown. Nettle is a social radical as well as an environmentalist. She believes in Government ownership of essential services, which include banking, airlines, telecommunications, health and education and other areas privatised in the last two decades in Australia. She argues that private ownership of these assets is "social theft." She is probaly the most left-wing member of the Australian Parliament. When United States President George W. Bush visited Canberra on 23 October 2003, Nettle and Brown took their opposition to the war in Iraq to the point of interjecting during his address to a joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament. They wore signs referring to David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib, two Australian citizens currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,.
Khyal - intersperse phrases sung on the vowel A, akar taans. Now and then, the singer returns to the song, especially its first line, as a point of reference. History The history of khyal is closely tied to a system of Muslim family styles, or gharanas. About a dozen khyal gharanas are well-known, and were traditionally quite different. Each may have originated in a particular city or at a particular court, and each developed their own techniques and their own style based on what techniques they came to emphasise and their own take on raga. With India united and royal courts abolished, and with modern communications and recording technology, stylistic borders have become blurred and many singers today have studied with teachers from more than one gharana. This used to be uncommon, and.
Kingston upon Hull - City; an event that played a critical role in triggering open conflict between the Parliamentarian and Royalist causes. Hull developed as trade port with mainland Europe, Whaling until the mid 19th Century and deep sea fishing until the Anglo-Icelandic Cod War 1975-1976. It remains a major port dealing mostly with bulk commodities and commercial road traffic to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge on mainland Europe. The city remains a UK centre of food processing. William Wilberforce, the leading slavery abolitionist, was born in Hull 1759, baptised at Holy Trinity church and represented the City as its Member of Parliament until his death in 1833. Joseph Malet Lambert, a British education reformer who proposed universal education as an economic stimulus was born in Hull in 1853. Thomas R. Ferens philanthropist, industrialist and Member of.
Kim Jong-il - After graduating from Kim Il Sung University in 1964, Kim Jong Il began his ascension through the ranks of the ruling Korean Worker's Party, working first in the party's elite Organization Department before being named a member of the Party Politburo in 1968 and promoted to deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Party Headquarters in 1969. In 1973, Kim was elected Party secretary of organization and propaganda, and in 1974, he was officially designated his father's successor. During the next 15 years he continued to add entries to his curriculum vitae, among them minister of culture and art, supreme commander of the military, and head of party operations against South Korea. In an interview with a Japanese newspaper several years ago, South Korea's outgoing President Kim Dae-jung.
Kingsburg, Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia, the ocean is usually too cold to swim in, but Kingsburg has two large lakes and a number of smaller freshwater ponds that are popular swimming locations. The town was settled by German settlers, some of the Foreign Protestants, who moved to the area in the nineteenth century. It was for many decades primarily a fishing community, and a fish packing plant was established there. The town grew to have a few hundred residents. In the late twentieth century, with the widespread decline of small-scale Atlantic fishing, the packing plant closed and the fishing culture disappeared completely. With no industry, the town's population collapsed and many of the buildings were abandoned and destroyed, leaving the town with only a few dozen inhabitants. By the 1990s, however, the South Shore.
Kim Deitch - an illustrator/cartoonist Gene Deitch. Although his career has been long, Deitch is not terribly prolific. At least is the past two decades, he has mainly produced very elaborately crafted works, at a rate of about one per year. His attention to detail is comparible to that of Chris Ware, although the two artists' styles are very different in other ways. Common themes in Deitch's work are addiction (specifically alcoholism), deception and delusion. His interest in the history of animation, cinema and vaudeville also play a prominent role in his work. An affection for pigs in apparent in his work. Some Dietch titles: Beyond the Pale The Stuff of Dreams The Boulevard of Broken Dreams All Waldo Comics Corn Fed Comics The Mishkin File No business like show business Shadowland Hollywoodland Contributed.
King James Only Movement - is superior to even the original Greek and Hebrew texts. Most King James Only advocates hold to a position somewhere between those two extremes. The roots of the King James Only Movement can be found in the controversy over the publication of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible in 1952, which was issued by the National Council of Churches (NCC). Many fundamentalists believed that the NCC was a hotbed of liberal theology or "modernism" and were suspicious of the new translation. Accusations of Communist and Vatican influence within the NCC were brought up, and fundamentalists largely rejected the RSV, although for three decades it became the most widely used Bible translation within the mainline and liberal Protestant denominations. One particular criticism of the RSV centered around the decision made.
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich - Prussia's unwillingness to stand up to Alexander. Metternich then shocked the Prussians by signing an alliance with Castlereagh and Talleyrand, the French envoy, on January 3, 1815, to prevent Prussian annexation of Saxony, which was to be Prussia's compensation for giving up Polish land to Alexander. While this was successful in saving the King of Saxony, Alexander managed to get most of what he wanted in Poland. At the same time, Metternich worked hard in negotiations with Prussia, Hanover, Bavaria, and Württemberg to resolve the organization of Germany, and the Germanic Confederation (Deutscher Bund) that resulted bore much of the stamp of Metternich's ideas. Metternich's most notable achievement in the years that followed the Congress was his conversion of the Tsar, who had seen himself as a protector of liberalism, to.
Kluang - is served by a railway and roads linking it to all neighbouring districts. It has a railway station as well as a bus interchange. The closest on-ramp to the North-South Highway is at Air Hitam although travellers approaching Kluang from the south may find exiting at Simpang Rengam more convenient. Urban sprawl in Kluang over the last three decades or so from the 1970s to 2000 has been roughly along the major roads. The town center itself has more than tripled in size in terms of the number and land area occupied by commercial and retail buildings in that time. Agriculture Kluang initially grew as a rubber planting district. Rubber planting has, however, since then taken a back seat to other types of crops. Kluang now boasts large tracts of oil.
Kosovo War - the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia (Kosova in Albanian), part of the former Yugoslavia. The conflict evolved in three distinct stages following several decades of occasionally violent clashes between Serbs and Albanians in the province: 1989-96: Curtailment of Kosovo's autonomy within Serbia, accompanied by alleged large-scale repression of Albanians by Serbian security forces and growing tension between Serbs and Albanians in the province. 1996-99: Guerrilla conflict between Albanian separatists and the Serbian and Yugoslav security forces, which Albanians characterised as a national liberation struggle and Serbs saw as terrorism. 1999: War between Yugoslavia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization between March 24 and June 10 1999, during which NATO heavily bombed Yugoslav targets and military units, Albanian guerrillas continued to attack Serbs and Serbian/Yugoslav forces conducted widespread ethnic cleansing.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - out of Russia, and the field lagged until German and other scientists independently made the same calculations decades later. His work influenced later rocketeers throughout Europe, and was also studied by the Americans in the 1950s and 1960s as they sought to understand the Soviet Union's early successes in space flight. Tsiolkovsky also delved into theories of heavier than air flying machines, independently working through many of the same calculations that the Wright brothers were doing at the same time. However, he never built any practical models, and his interest shifted to more ambitious topics. F. A. Cander became enthusiastic about Tsiolkovsky's work and in 1924 he established first Cosmonautics Society in Soviet Union and later he made and successfully researched rockets with liquid fuel of type OR-1 (1930) and OR-2.
Kongo - African coast in the 1480s, Portuguese navigator Diogo Cao first encountered stories of a great empire that controlled trade in the region. In 1483, he visited Manikongo Nzinga in his capital, Mbanza, and persuaded the king to open his country to the Portuguese. Catholic missionaries arrived in 1490, and ten years later the Manikongo himself was baptized and assumed the name Afonso. The king also sent his son Afonso to Portugal to be educated, and one of his grandsons later became the first black African bishop in the Catholic Church. The capital city was renamed Sao Salvador. In the following decades, the Kongo Empire became a major source of slaves for traders from Portugal and other European countries. This began taking its toll on the Empire, and in 1526, the Manikongo.
VENONA project - reported to have been recovered by the Finns) to bugging embassy rooms in which text was entered into encrypting devices (and analyzing the keystrokes by listening to them being punched in), contributed to achieving as much plaintext as was recovered. These claims are less than fully supported in the open literature. This decryption and cryptanalysis project became known to the Soviets not long after the first breaks. It is not clear whether the Soviets knew how much of the message traffic, or which messages, had been successfully decrypted. At least one Soviet agent, Kim Philby, was told about the project as part of his job as liaison between British and US intelligence. The project continued for decades, long after Philby left British intelligence. The decrypted messages from Soviet aid missions, GRU.
Korean Buddhism - of Jinul and the traditional tong bulgyo tendency, showed an unusual interest in scriptural study, as well as a strong understanding of Confucianism and Taoism, due to the increasing influence of Chinese philosophy as the ground of official education. It is from this time that a marked tendency of Korean Buddhist monks to be "three teachings" exponents appears. A significant historical event of the Goryeo period is the production of the first woodblock edition of the Tripitaka, called the Tripitaka Koreana. Two editions were made, the first one completed from 1210 to 1231 and the second one from 1214 to 1259. The first edition was destroyed in a fire during an attack by Mongol invaders in 1232, but the second edition is still in existence at Haeinsa in Gyeongsang province. This.
Korean nobility - Emperor Je (제; 帝), or emperor, existed for less than two decades during the Korean Empire. King Wang (Han-geul: 왕; Hanja: 王), or king, was a title used in Goguryeo from 37 BC to 668, in Silla from 500 to 935, in Baekje from 18 BC to 660, and in Goryeo from 1274 - 1392. In early Goryeo (918 - 1274) and the entire Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), the rulers of Korea were still known as "kings", as evident in the title title of King Sejong the Great, 世宗大王. However, they were referred to by their temple names. Some kings have the title of Maripgan More names, see Rulers of Korea. Gun Gun (군; 君) is sometimes translated as "prince", but may be the ruler of a kingdom as well..
