Vernor Vinge - VIN-jee, rhyming with 'stingy') (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is.
Kavadh II of Persia - of Khosrau II, was raised to the throne in opposition to his father in February 628, after the great victories of the emperor Heraclius. He put his father and eighteen brothers to death, began negotiations with Heraclius, but died after a reign of a few months. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Kathryn Grayson - Kathryn Grayson Kathryn Grayson (born February 9, 1922) is an American actress and singer who was born Zelma Kathryn Hedrick. She married twice, first to actor John Shelton, second to actor/singer Johnnie Johnston. She has one daughter. The petite soprano was one of MGM Studios top sopranos of the 1940s & 1950s. She started out with dreams of being in opera, but MGM scooped her up to be in films. Some consider her role as Lili Vanessi in Kiss Me, Kate as her best. She also played Magnolia in the 1951 version of Show Boat. She left the movies in 1956 for the stage and fulfilled her dream of being in opera. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1955 for her performance as a blind girl in General Electric Theater's.
Kaspar Villiger - Villiger (pronounced Caspar Veeleeger, born February 5, 1941) is a Swiss industrialist and politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on February 1, 1989. He is affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his office time he has held the following departments: Federal Department of Defence; Federal Military Department (1989 - 1995) Federal Department of Finance (1996 - 2003) He has been president of the Confederation twice in 1995 and 2002. In September 2003, he resigned for December 31, 2003. Predecessor: Elisabeth Kopp Successor: Hans-Rudolf Merz.
Karl May - Karl May Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 - March 30, 1912) was a German writer noted chiefly for his wild west books set in the American West. He visited North America in 1908, well after writing his books, never getting west of Buffalo, New York. His very influential fictional accounts of the Western milieu have no direct basis in experience, but in his ingenious use of creativity, imagination and source literature (travel books, anthropological guides etc.). He wrote under many different pen names, including Capitain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura, M. Gisela, Hobble-Frank, Karl Hohenthal, D. Jam, Prinz Muhamel Lautréamont, Ernst von Linden, P. van der Löwen, Emma Pollmer, Richard Plöhn, and Oberlehrer Franz Langer. May invented the characters of Winnetou, the wise Indian, and Old Shatterhand, Winnetou's white partner..
Kato Tomosaburo - February 22,1861 - August 24,1923) was a Japanese politician and the 21th Prime Minister from June 12,1922 - August 24,1923. He was born in Hiroshima prefecture. Preceded by: Takahashi Korekiyo Prime ministers of Japan Succeeded by: Yamamoto Gonnohyoe.
Kalpana Chawla - Chawla Kalpana Chawla (July 1, 1961 - February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpana Chawla Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Life 2 Education 3 NASA Career 4 Personal Characteristics 5 Memoria 6 See also 7 External Links Early Life Chawla was born in Karnal, Haryana, India. Her interest in flight was inspired by J. R. D. Tata, India's first pilot. Education Chawla studied aeronautical engineering at the Punjab Engineering College in Punjab, India in 1982 where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree. Thereafter she moved to the United States to obtain a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas (1984). Dr. Chawla earned a.
Karsten Niebuhr - the capital of Yemen, was visited, but the remaining members of the expedition suffered so much from the climate or from the mode of life that they returned to Mocha. Niebuhr seems to have saved his own life and restored his health by adopting the native habits as to dress and food. From Mocha the ship was taken to Bombay, the artist of the expedition dying on the passage, and the surgeon soon after landing. Niebuhr was now the only surviving member of the expedition. He stayed fourteen months at Bombay, and then returned home by Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz and Persepolis, visited the ruins of Babylon, and thence went to Bagdad, Mosul and Aleppo. After a visit to Cyprus he made a tour through Palestine, crossing the Taurus Mountains to Brussa,.
Karl Guthe Jansky - Guthe Jansky (October 22 1905 - February 14 1950), was the American physicist and radio engineer who in 1932 discovered that the Milky Way galaxy emanates radio waves; he did not follow up his discovery, but it marked the birth of radio astronomy. Jansky was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and studied at the University of Wisconsin where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1927. In 1928 he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Bell Labs wanted to investigate using "short waves" (wavelengths of about 10-20 meters) for transatlantic radio telephone service. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating the sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions. He built an antenna designed to receive radio waves at a frequency of 20.5 MHz.
Kajii Motojiro - (梶井 基次郎, February 17,1901 - March 24,1932) is a Japanese author. See also: Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors.
Karl Bodmer - Karl Bodmer Karl Bodmer February 6, 1809-October 30, 1893, Swiss painter of the American West. He accompanied German explorer Maximilian, Prince of Wied in 1833 and 1834 on his Missouri River expedition. He drew and painted landscapes, Indian tribes and fauna for the account of the expedition Travels in the Interior of North America published in London in 1839. After returning to Europe, he lived in Barbizon, France. Fort Pierre and the Adjacent Prairie.
Karl August von Hardenberg - him, this coincided with the lapsing of the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth to Prussia, owing to the resignation of the last margrave, Charles Alexander, in 1791. Hardenberg, who happened to be in Berlin at the time, was on the recommendation of Herzberg appointed administrator of the principalities (1792). The position, owing to the singular overlapping of territorial claims in the old Empire, was one of considerable delicacy, and Hardenberg filled it with great skill, doing much to reform traditional anomalies and to develop the country, and at the same time labouring to expand the influence of Prussia in South Germany. After the outbreak of the revolutionary wars his diplomatic ability led to his appointment as Prussian envoy, with a roving commission to visit the Rhenish courts and win them over.
Karl Wilhelm Ramler - Wilhelm Ramler Karl 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 - 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 and went under..
Kaohsiung Incident - 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 then, on February 28, 1980, while Lin's wife was discussing his case, Lin's mother and twin 7 year old girls were murdered in his home. The event known as the "Lin Family Murders" remains unsolved. Several of the accused later became politicians after completion of their prison terms, while members of the defense team became leaders of the dang wai (Outside Party) movement and later the Democratic Progressive Party. Members of the defense team include Chen Shui-bian (President of the ROC),.
Kazuo Miyagawa - Miyagawa (宮川 一夫 February 25, 1908 - August 7, 1999) is generally recognized as having been one of the finest Japanese cinematographers. He is best known for his superbly refined tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon, one of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Karadjordje - killing two men from company that was sent to execute him and then rebelled to mountains. Soon after that he was choosen in Orašac for leader of the rebellion at February 2nd 1804. Courageous, determined and with great personal authority, he soon accomplished nice successes. In two months he stirred up to mutiny whole Belgrade pasaluk. At first whole mutiny was led under pretext of liberation from dahias, even for strengthening of central authority, but after Battle of Ivankovac in 1805 he started open combat with very Turkey and Sultan's authority for general liberation of Serbs. As army leader he excelled in 1806 in excellent victories in Battle of Mišar and Battle of Deligrad; by the end of that year he captured Belgrade and made alliance with Russia. In spring of.
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 (1834), Sophia Charlotte, queen ot Prussia (1837), Field-Marshal Schwerin.
Kawiti - in 1825, he was at the Battle of Te Ika a Ranganui when it was the Ngapuhi's turn to slaughter the Ngati Whatua. However he took captive a number of Ngati Whatua and refused to hand them over to Hongi Hika prefering instead to return them to their own people. Kawiti refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February, 1840 seeing that it would, inevitably lead to further European encroachment and the loss of Maori land. However he eventually yielded to pressure from his own people and signed the Treaty in May 1840, right at the top, above those chiefs who had signed earlier. However he soon grew disenchanted with the course of events and supported Hone Heke in his protests against British rule. When in March 1845 Heke.
Kalinga - single province named Kalinga-Apayao, until they were split into two to better service the needs of individual native tribes in the provinces. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Province of Kalinga Region: Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) Capital: Tabuk Founded: February 14, 1995 Population: 2000 census—174,023 (11th smallest). Density—56 per km² (6th lowest). Area: 3,119.7 km² (42nd largest) Divisions: Municipalities—8. Barangays—152. Congressional districts—1. Languages: Iloko, Tagalog Governor: Macario A. Duguiang (2001-2004) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 People and Culture 2 Economy 3 Geography 3.1 Political 3.1.1 Municipalities 3.2 Physical 4 History 5 External Links People and Culture Economy Geography Political Kalinga is subdivided into 8 municipalities. Municipalities Balbalan Lubuagan Pasil Pinukpuk Rizal (Liwan) Tabuk Tanudan Tinglayan Physical History External Links Cordillera Administrative Region: Abra Apayao Benguet Ifugao Kalinga Mountain Province.
