Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) part of Belgium. It was founded in 1425 and is now the oldest Catholic university in the world still in existence. With the steady rise to renewed prominence of the Dutch language, the then-bilingual University was eventually split in 1968 into two new universities. The French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain moved to a newly built campus in Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia, Belgium. The Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven remained in Leuven. One European survey ranks K.U.Leuven among the top ten European universities in terms of its scientific output..
Vegemite - Australians -- many find it quite loathsome and nauseating. The spread is extremely strongly flavoured, 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.
Kai Nielsen - in philosophy of religion and is leading advocate of contemporary, atheist philosophy. See: Arguments against the existence of God.
Karl Wilhelm Dindorf - somewhat through the imposture practised upon him by the Greek Constantine Simonides, who succeeded in deceiving him by a fabricated fragment of the Greek historian Uranius. The book was printed, and a few copies had been circulated, when the forgery was discovered, just in time to prevent its being given to the world under the auspices of the university of Oxford. Shortly after the death of his brother, he lost all his property and his library by rash speculations. His brother Ludwig (Leipzig, January 3, 1805 - Leipzig, September 6, 1871) never held any academic position, and led so secluded a life that many doubted his existence, and declared that he was a mere pseudonym. The important share which he took in the edition of the Thesaurus is nevertheless authenticated by.
Karl Rudolf König - of Toronto and the remainder he used as a nucleus for the construction of a still more elaborate tonometer. While the range of the old apparatus was only between 128 and 4096 cycles per second, the lowest fork of the new one vibrated at only 16 cycles a second, while the highest gave a sound too high to be perceptible to the human ear. König will also be remembered as the inventor and constructor of many other beautiful pieces of apparatus for the investigation of acoustical problems, among which may be mentioned his wave-sirens, the first of which was shown at Philadelphia in 1876. His original work dealt, among other things, with Wheatstone's sound-figures, the characteristic notes of the different vowels, manometric flames, etc.; but perhaps the most important of his.
Kalidas - of Chandragupta Vikramaditya, and his successor, Kumaaragupta. He was one of the so-called nine gems of Vikramaditya's court in Ujjain. The earlier claim pointing to his existence around 1st century BC, is supported by his play on the Shunga king Agnimitra who belonged to that period. It is very unlikely that he would have made this obscure king the hero of his play unless he belonged to that period. The Vikrama calendar also begins with 58-57 BC. However, not much is known about his personal life and background, though there are several legends and tales about his life. Three famous plays attributed to Kalidas are Malavikaagnimitra (Malavikaa and Agnimitra), Vikramorvashiiya(Pertaining to Vikrama and Urvashi)and Abhigyaanashaakuntala (The Recognition of Sakuntala). The work listed last is his most famous play, and was the.
Kauffman Stadium - and on April 10, 1973 the Royals inaugurated Royals Stadium with a win over the Texas Rangers. On May 15, 1973, barely a month into the stadium's existence, saw the first exciting game at the new stadium. Nolan Ryan, pitching for the California Angels threw his first of seven no-hitters, blanking the Royals, 3-0. On July 24, 1973, Royals Stadium hosted its first Major League Baseball All-Star Game. And in 1985, Royals Stadium saw the Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals for a World Series victory. On July 2, 1993, Royals Stadium was renamed Kauffman Stadium after Royals owner Ewing Kauffman, shortly after he was elected to the Royals Hall of Fame. A month later, Kauffman passed away at the age of 76. External Links http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/kc/ballpark/kc_ballpark_history.jsp.
Karl Jaspers - further discussion). Jaspers also distinguished between primary and secondary delusions. Primary delusions are defined as being autochthonous or arising out-of-the-blue and not being comprehensible in terms of normal mental processes, whereas secondary delusions may be understood as being influenced by the person's background or current situation. Jaspers considered primary delusions as ultimately 'un-understandable' as he believed there was no coherent reasoning process behind their formation. This view is not without controversy, and has been criticised by the likes of R. D. Laing and Richard Bentall who stress that taking this stance can lead a therapist into the complacency of assuming that because they do not understand a patient, the patient is deluded and further investigation on the part of the therapist will be fruitless. Contributions to Philosophy and Theology Although he.
Katanning - Surveyor General John Septimus Roe who travelled through the area in 1835 en route from Perth to Albany. In about 1870, sandalwood cutters moved into the area but they did not settle. It was not until the arrival of the Great Southern Railway from Perth to Albany in 1889 that the township really came into existence. A statue of Piesse which was erected in 1916 and stands beside the railway line in Austral Terrace..
Kartchner Caverns State Park - of pristine cave passages. In the desire to avoid vandalism, the discoverers keep the location of the passages a secret for years; their story is finally made public in 1988 when the landowners sell the area to the state for development as a park and show cavern. The caves have proven to be popular; over 750,000 people have visited the system in its first three years of the park's existence [1], a number over double what was projected in the 1992 master plan for the park. The two major features of the caverns currently available to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21' 2") soda straw stalactites and a 50-foot high column called Kubla Khan. The Big Room.
Kennelly-Heaviside Layer - activity. Nikola Tesla originally discovered this area. He made mathematical calculations based off his experiments in his research of electromagnetic propagation and resonance and deduced that the resonant frequency of this area was approximately eight hertz. Its existence was proposed in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861-1949) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925). It was finally detected in 1923. In the 1950s, researchers confirmed the resonant frequency was approximately eight hertz. The "Heaviside Layer" is used as a symbol for heaven (in the afterlife sense) in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. This reference is based on a quote found in a letter written by T. S. Eliot, whose book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats forms the basis of the musical..
Kettlebaston - (Kitelbjorn's farmstead - O.Scand. pers. name + O.E. Tun), later evolving to Kettlebarston, (which is how the name is still pronounced), and finally to the current spelling. Its existence was first recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book. Once in an area of great wealth, the demise of the mediaeval wool trade was indirectly the saving of the village, (as we know it today), since the locals were unable to afford the expense of upgrading their houses with the latest architectural fashions. The number of timber framed houses slowly declined over the years, (as did the population - from over 200 at its peak), to the point when the village was on the brink of extinction. By the 1960s, with the road no more than an unmade track, and no electricity.
Kevin Warwick - -- attempt to transmit signals from one nervous system to another. If successful, he claims that this arm-twinge-inducing experiment will produce a primitive form of technologically assisted sensory telepathy or empathy. Notwithstanding the prior existence of interactive electronic muscle, heart and brain implants in thousands of human beings worldwide, Warwick has claimed that this will somehow make him into a "cyborg". As of March 22 2002, Kevin Warwick has now actually had a chip implanted. See the Ananova story below. Professor Warwick has made dramatic claims about the importance of his research and the threat of increasing machine intelligence. Many view Warwick as a self-publicist, and regard his claims with extreme skepticism. Warwick has been nicknamed as Captain Cyborg in the press. Update: Warwick's latest foray into controversy revolves around his.
Kegon - Tōdaiji lineage of Kegon. The most important philosophical contributions of the Huayan school were in the area of its metaphysics, as it taught the doctrine of the mutual containment and interpenetration of all phenomena shishiwuai 事事無礙: that one thing contains all things in existence, and that all things contain one. External Link Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (log in with userID "guest").
Keydrive - first OSes with much support for USB, needs specialized software for each different type of USB storage device it encounters. MS-DOS doesn´t include support for USB ( nor for USB booting). As of 2003, most keydrives in existence ran at the USB 1.0/1.1 speeds of 1.5 Mbit/s or 12 Mbit/s. However, newer USB keys had the capability to utilize the high-speed USB 2.0, which tops out at 480 Mbit/s. They have ranged from a few megabytes in size up to a few gigabytes, although some computers have trouble reading and writing to devices that have more than 2 GB of storage. Most USB flash drives are small and lightweight. Some are light enough that they could hypothetically be carried by 14 ants. They are popular with people who need to carry.
Kharijites - Extreme Kharijites considered moderate Muslims to be 'hypocrites' or 'unbelievers', who could be killed with impunity. Their communities expelled from their midst those who committed 'grave sins', defined as any action contrary to the Quran. Kharijites insisted that only the most pious members of the community should be entrusted with political power. Perhaps not surprisingly, the various Kharijite communities never agreed on who the most pious person was, and the movement remained politically fragmented throughout its existence. With time the movement became more moderate and less antagonistic to mainstream Islam. The high point of the Kharijites' influence was in the years 690 to 730, when their main city, Basra, became a center of Islamic theology. Their insistence on the primacy of religion in political life was accepted into mainstream Islamic teaching.
Kingdom of Judah - 18:28), which was called the kingdom of Judah. For the first sixty years the kings of Judah aimed at re-establishing their authority over the kingdom of the other ten tribes, so that there was a state of perpetual war between them. For the next eighty years there was no open war between them. For the most part they were in friendly alliance, co-operating against their common enemies, especially against Damascus. For about another century and a half Judah had a somewhat checkered existence after the termination of the kingdom of Israel till its final overthrow in the destruction of the temple (586 BC) by Nebuzar-adan, who was captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard (2 Kings 25:8-21). The kingdom maintained a separate existence for three hundred and eighty-nine years. It occupied an area of.
Kievan Rus' - France, Hungary, and Norway. Vladimir's greatest achievement was the Christianization of Kievan Rus', a process that began in 988. He built the first great edifice of Kievan Rus', the Desyatinnaya Church in Kiev. Yaroslav promulgated the first East Slavic law code, Rus'ka pravda (Justice of Rus'); built cathedrals named for St. Sophia in Kiev and Novgorod; patronized local clergy and monasticism; and is said to have founded a school system. Yaroslav's sons developed Kiev's great Peshcherskiy monastyr' (Monastery of the Caves), which functioned in Kievan Rus' as an ecclesiastical academy. The Russian annals state that when Vladimir had decided to accept a new faith instead of the tradition idol-worship of the Slavs, he sent out some of his most valued advisors and warriors as emissaries to different parts of Europe. After.
Kitsch - the 1950s and 60s. "Camp" is derived from the French slang term camper, which means "to pose in an exaggerated fashion." Susan Sontag argued that camp was an attraction to the human qualities which expressed themselves in "failed attempts at seriousness", the qualities of having a particular and unique style and of reflecting the sensibilities of the era. It involved an aesthetic of artifice rather than of nature. Much of Pop art attempted to incorporate images from popular culture and kitsch; artists were able to maintain legitimacy by saying they were "quoting" imagery to make conceptual points, usually with the appropriation being ironic. In Italy, a movement arose called the Nuovi Nuovi (meaning "new new"), which took a different route: instead of quoting kitsch in an ironic stance, it founded itself.
Kim Jong-il - log cabin at his father's guerilla base on North Korea's highest mountain, Mount Paektu, in February 1942. The peak, on the northern border with Chinese Manchuria, is the highest on the peninsula and the site where Korean legend says the nation came into existence 5,000 years ago. The event was reportedly marked by a double rainbow, and a bright star in the sky. Western researchers, however, believe that Kim was born among some one thousand Chinese and Koreans being trained at a secret base located on the Amur River some 45 miles from the city of Khabarovsk in the Soviet Union. His mother, Kim Jong Suk, a partisan fighter, is thought to have retreated there from her guerrilla base in Manchuria. Kim Jong Il's younger brother drowned as a child and.
