Impact event - Impact event Impact events are caused by the collision of large meteoroids, asteroids or comets with Earth and may sometimes be followed by mass extinctions of life. For discussion of impacts in general, not just on Earth, see crater. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The geology of Earth impacts 2 Mass extinctions and impacts 3 Recent pre-historic impact events 4 Modern impact events 5.
Karapoti Classic - New Zealand's longest running annual mountain bike event, started in 1986 by Paul Kennett. It starts at Karapoti Park off Akatarawa Road, north of Upper Hutt, and heads up the 8 km Karapoti Gorge. From there it begins a single 30 km loop in native and pine forest. The 1986 Karapoti was New Zealand's first national mountain bike race and was self declared the National Off-Road Championships. The event was managed by the Kennett Bros until 2002. The event differs from most races because it comprises a large single loop and the route does not change from year to year. It is held on the first Sunday of March every year. Official website.
Karl August von Hardenberg - Rhenish courts and win them over to Prussia's views; and ultimately, when the necessity for making peace with 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.
Kaohsiung Incident - of James Soong hoped to chill opposition voices through heavyhanded methods. The protest disintegrated into a brawl as protesters, police and undercover agents collided. The event would be a major turning point for democracy in Taiwan. Soong addressed the public in a speech condemning the protesters, labelling one of the leaders, Shih Ming-teh, "King of Bandits." The incident publicized the oppressive tactics of the KMT regime in ruling Taiwan and the trial of eight leaders of the protest allowed a team of lawyers to publicly question the practices of torture used by the KMT to extract confessions. Most defense attorneys and defendants were members of the Chinese Comparative Law Society (中國比較法學會), which is now the Taiwan Law Society (台灣法學會). One of the accused, Lin Yi-hsiung, was routinely tortured by police interrogators.
Venus (planet) - unusual retrograde rotation, the periods of Venus's rotation and of its orbit are synchronized in such a way that it always presents the same face toward Earth when the two planets are at their closest approach (5.001 Venusian days between each inferior conjunction). This may be the result of tidal locking, with tidal forces affecting Venus's rotation whenever the planets get close enough together, or it may simply be a coincidence. Venus has two major continent-like highlands on its surface, rising over vast plains. The northern highland is named Ishtar Terra and has Venus's highest mountains, named the Maxwell Montes after James Clerk Maxwell, which surround the plateau Lakshmi Planum. Ishtar Terra is about the size of Australia. In the southern hemisphere is the larger Aphrodite Terra, about the size of.
Yalobusha - townships which had formerly been the southern part of Yalobusha County. In March, 1873, Yalobusha County was divided into two judicial districts, and Water Valley was named the county seat of the second judicial district. Because the town overlapped the Yalobusha-Lafayette County line, the legislature gave Yalobusha a two-mile strip of land from the southern portion of Lafayette County. The town of Tillatoba was chartered in 1873. In 1880, Yalobusha County's population was 15,649. In 1889, Coffeeville's second courthouse burned. It had been built in 1840 at a cost of $25,000. A new courthouse, also costing $25,000, was built in 1890. That year, the county population was 16,629. Famed railroad engineer J. L. "Casey" Jones moved from Jackson, Tennessee to Water Valley in 1893. In 1896, four years before his death.
Karting - are one of the following: Sprint A series of short-duration races, normally for a small number of laps, that qualify for a final, with a variety of point scoring calculations to determine the event's overall winner. Typical duration normalyl does not exceed 15 minutes. Here, speed and overtaking sucess is of more importance. Endurance Normally for an extended period, 30 minutes up to 24 hours or more, for one or more drivers. In general, consistency and reliability is of greater importance. Karting as a learning tool Most famous Formula 1 drivers have started in karting, and it is generally acknowledged as the most effective way to get started early in a race-driving career..
Katherine Heigl - too close for comfort to the terrible events of September 11, 2001. Katherine recorded a passionate public service announcement for the American Red Cross in an effort to help raise money for victims of the atrocity. "Ground Zero" re-surfaced in 2003 under the new title of "Critical Assembly". The film premiered on NBC on July 12th almost two years after its original release date. Since the Fall of 2002, Katherine has continued to work prolifically on an amazing variety of projects. "Romy and Michele: Behind The Velvet Rope", Katherine was cast in the role of Romy. It is a prequel to the movie - "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion", which starred Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. Filming wrapped towards the end of 2002 under the new title of "Romy and.
Kamisese Mara - in the Alliance Party winning a record 36 seats out of 52. The Alliance Party's majority was reduced in the 1982 election, but with 28 of the 52 seats, Mara retained power. In 1987, however, he was defeated by a multiracial coalition led by Dr Timoci Bavadra. Once again, however, his retirement was short-lived. Two military coups led by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka seriously undermined the social and economic stability, and the international prestige, of Fiji. Mara was recalled to head an interim administration, with a view to restoring Fiji's international reputation and rebuilding the country's shattered economy. In 1992, he handed over power to an elected government. President of the Republic: 1993-2000 Following the military coups of 1987, Fiji had severed its links with the British monarchy and become a.
Kaskaskia - are reported to have asked the French to send a missionary to them in their home country. In any event, Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette and French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet undertook the journey and became the first Europeans to meet the Illiniwek (and the Kaskaskia in particular) in their own land near present-day Des Moines, Iowa. The land controlled by the Confederation was approximately the same as present-day Illinois. The fate of the Kaskaskia,and the rest of the Illiniwek/Illinois, was irrevocably tied up with that of France. When the Seven Years War (called the French and Indian War in North America) ended, the Kaskaskia and other Illiniwek tribes were greatly in decline. The original population estimate reported by early French explorers varied from 6 to 20,000+. But at the conclusion of the.
Ken Livingstone - it was challenged by the Conservative-controlled council of Bromley (which covers a part of London which has no London Underground stations) and struck down by the Law Lords in December of 1981. Despite his defeat in the fares battle, Livingstone would remain a thorn in the Conservatives' side, openly antagonising the Thatcher government by posting a billboard of London's rising unemployment figures on the roof of County Hall, the GLC headquarters, directly across the Thames from the Palace of Westminster. Under Livingstone, the GLC pursued a variety of radical socialist measures: sponsoring an "Antiracist Year," providing city grants to such groups as "Babies Against the Bomb," and declaring London a "nuclear-free zone." Livingstone made perhaps his most controversial move in December 1982, when the GLC extended an official invitation to Sinn.
Kent State University - Golden Flashes. They compete in the NCAA's Division I-A, and the Mid-American Conference. The university is best known, outside Ohio, for a single event: The Kent State massacre, when four students were shot by the National Guard on May 4, 1970. A photograph of a 14-year-old runaway girl, kneeling over one of the bodies as she cried, is one of the most enduring images of the event, and it won a Pulitzer Prize for photographer John Filo..
Kenneth I of Scotland - by Oengus I. It is thus that Kenneth Mac Alpin was one of several nobles with a claim to the crown of Picts and Scots. The sources for facts of how Kenneth Mac Alpin, the avenging son of the slain Alpin, became King of Picts and Scots are few and suspect. Two such sources, The Prophecy of St. Berchan, and De Instructione Principus note that in 841 Mac Alpin attacked the remnants of the Pictish army and defeated them (he is lauded as "the raven feeder"). Mac Alpin then invites the Pictish king, Drust IX, and the remaining Pictish nobles to Scone to perhaps settle the issue of Dalriada's freedom or MacAlpin's claim to the Dalriadic crown. Faced with a recently victorious MacAlpin in the south and a devastated army in.
Keirin - Keirin Keirin is a track cycling event in which a small group of cyclists sprints for victory. In the first few laps, the cyclists are paced by a motorised vehicle called a derny, which leaves the track a few laps before the end, at a speed of about 50 km/h. The first to finish the race is the winner. In championships, this event is conducted in several rounds. Eliminated cyclists get the opportunity try again in the repechages. Keirin began in 1948 in Japan, and has great popularity there. It is a professional sport and the Japanese place bets on the outcome of the Keirin races. In spite of its popularity, Japanese cyclists do not belong to the medal contenders for this event at international tournaments. In 2000, Keirin was.
Vera Caslavska - Prague and originally a figure skater, she debuted internationally at the 1958 World Championships, winning a silver medal in the team event. She first participated in the Olympics in 1960, also winning a silver medal with the Czechoslovakian team. By 1962, she fought for the all-around title at the World Championships, held off only by Larissa Latyina. Čáslavská was at her peak at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, clearly winning the overall title and taking gold medals in the balance beam and the horse vault as well, in addition to another silver medal in the team event. She would finally win a team gold at the 1966 World Championships, breaking the Soviet monopoly in that event. She was again dominant at the 1968 Summer Olympics, winning medals in all six.
Kevin Costner - External Link Trivia Costner was cast in the feel-good hit The Big Chill. He was shot in several scenes which were planned as flashbacks, but they never made it to the final cut. He was the friend who committed suicide, the event which the plot of the movie revolves. All that is seen of him are his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. Partial Filmography 2003 Open Range 2002 Dragonfly 2001 3000 Miles To Graceland 2000 For Love Of The Game 2000 Knock Out 2000 Thirteen Days 1999 Message in a Bottle 1999 For Love of the Game 1997 The Postman 1996 Tin Cup 1995 Waterworld 1994 The War 1994 Wyatt Earp 1993 A Perfect World 1992 Bodyguard 1991 JFK 1991 Robin Hood: Prince.
Kennett Bros - New Zealand - the Karapoti Classic in 1986. The Kennett Bros continued to run this annually until 2002, when they sold the event. He ran a national mountain bike magazine called Mountain Bike New Zealand Magazine from 1988 - 1990. In 2001 the Kennett Bros wrote the first edition of Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides, a national guidebook, which became a best seller. They have produced new editions every three years since then. In 1995 Paul launched the Mountain Bike New Zealand Web, the online home for most New Zealand mountain bikers. In 1997 they co-organised a round of the UCI World Mountain Bike Cup in Wellington. In 1998 they started building the Wellington City Council owned Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park, which recently received a national recreation award and.
Kew Bridge - was too narrow and steep on the Brentford side. Sir John Wolfe Barry, the engineer was invited to assess the bridge in 1892 and recommended building a new bridge rather than modifications to the second one. The Kew Bridge Act of 1898 paved the way and the third bridge was commissioned jointly by the Middlesex and Surrey County Councils at a cost of £250,000. The engineers were Barry and Cuthbert A Brereton and the building contractors Easton Gibbs and Son. The third bridge was 1,182 feet long, and the largest of its three arches has a span of 133 feet. The roadway is 56 feet wide (compared to 18 feet on the second bridge), and the pavements 9 feet 6 inches (compared to 3 feet 3 inches). It was built of.
Key signing party - Key signing party An event where individuals verify that a certain PGP key actually belongs to the person it claims to belong to. If participants are resonable confident that a key is OK they will then sign it, strengthening the Web of trust. GPG Keysigning Party Howto Zimmmermann-Sassaman key signing protocol.
Kfar Kassem massacre - Police battalion commander Shmuel Melniki, he was given the order to kill the villagers by brigade commander Issachar Shadmi, but Shadmi denied it. Melniki claimed that "the order was not of a kind that did not conform to the spirit of the times". The initial reaction of the Israeli government was to impose strict censorship on the incident, while conducting an internal enquiry. However, some private individuals and one communist member of the Knesset managed to publicise the event despite the censorship. The resulting court-martial sentenced eleven Border Police to lengthy prison terms, but all of them were out of prison by November 1959 due to presidential pardons or remissions. Soon after his release, Melniki was promoted and put in charge of security for the Dimona nuclear reactor. Shadmi was found.
