Imperial College, London - Imperial College, London Imperial College, London, is the new official name of what used to be called Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Indeed the college actively discourages use of its old name and abbreviations such as IC preferring simply Imperial. It is a member of the University of London, and as its name suggests specialises in scientific subjects. The main campus of the college is situated near the Albert Hall in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in an area dense with institutions of learning: The Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Art are all nearby (see Albertopolis). There are two other major campuses - at Silwood Park (near Ascot,.
Victoria Station (London) - Victoria Station (London) Victoria Station is a London Underground, railway and coach station in London, in the borough of Westminster. The eastern side services Kent, and the western side is the terminus for lines running from Surrey and Sussex, including Gatwick Airport and Brighton. The London Underground station lies to the north of the mainline station concourse. There are two ticket halls. The hall closer to the mainline station serves the Victoria Line. The other, further north along a tunnel, serves the District and Circle Lines. The coach station lies a short walk away from the main railway stations. It is the main London coach terminal, serving all parts of the UK. History It was originally two stations, the eastern one for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
Karl Pearson - serious scientific discipline in its own right. He founded the Department of Applied Statistics at University College London in 1911; it was the first university statistics department in the world. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Awards from Professional Bodies 3 Contributions to Statistics 4 Publications 5 Other Useful Sites 6 Further Reading Biography Karl Pearson was born in London on the 27th March 1857. He was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge to study mathematics. He then spent part of 1879 and 1880 studying medieval and 16th-century German literature at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg - in fact, he became sufficiently knowledgeable in this field that he was offered a post in the German department at Cambridge University. His next.
Kato Takaaki - in office only a few months. Appointed again to the same position in the Saionji cabinet (1906), he resigned after a brief interval, being opposed to the nationalization of the private railways, which measure the cabinet approved. He then remained without office until 1908, when he again accepted the post of ambassador in London. He was decorated with the grand cross of St Michael and St George, and earned the reputation of being one of the strongest men among the junior statesmen. See also: History of Japan, Prime Minister of Japan Credit The article contains materials from 1911 encyclopedia Preceded by: Kiyoura Keigo Prime ministers of Japan Succeeded by: Wakatsuki Reijiro.
Kalle Päätalo - family from the age of 14 in his father's profession. At the same time, he dreamed about becoming a writer and read avidly, being much influenced by Jack London's Martin Eden and Mika Waltari's guidebook for aspiring writers. His war service in Winter War and Continuation War was cut short by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines. He was married twice and had two daughters by the second marriage. Päätalo debuted as a novelist in 1958 with a novel set at a building site in Tampere. In his second novel Our Daily Bread, the first book in the five-volume Koillismaa series, he turned to his native region. By.
Karl Kautsky - theoretician of social democracy. Kautsky was born in Prague; he studied history and philosophy in Vienna, and became a member of Austrian social democracy in 1875. From 1885 to 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.
Ken Livingstone - (born June 17, 1945), Mayor of London 2000 - present, was born in Lambeth, London. He was Labour MP for Brent East between 1987 and 2001. He is also known as "Red Ken", a tabloid sobriquet, and is famous for his predilection for keeping newts. Livingstone worked for eight years as a cancer research technician and also trained as a teacher. He was elected to the Lambeth borough council in 1971 and served as Vice-Chair of the Housing Committee from 1971 to 1973. (Among his fellow Lambeth councillors was John Major.) He became a Labour member of the Greater London Council in 1973 and served as Vice-Chair of Housing Mangement in 1974-1975. He also served on the Camden council from 1978 to 1982 and unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in the 1979.
Keith Moon - 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. He was born in London in 1946, although he would later claim to have been born a year later. He is considered one of the most unusual and yet original drummers of all rock and roll history. Early in the Who's career, the band acquired a reputation for destroying their equipment at the end of each show. Moon showed a particular zeal for this activity, wildly kicking and smashing his drums, and on one occasion loading a drum with fireworks which he detonated at the finale of My Generation. His antics earned him the nickname "Moon the Loon". Moon quickly gained a reputation as being highly destructive. He was known to lay waste to hotel rooms, the homes of friends,.
Kensington - for other uses. Kensington is a former borough of London, now part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The name is still used to designate an area of northwest inner London. Notable places in Kensington (or South Kensington) include: Kensington Gardens, the Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Imperial College, London..
Keble College, Oxford - the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Famous Former Students 3 Teachers/Academics 4 External Link History The best-known of Keble's Victorian founders was Edward Pusey, after whom parts of the college are named. The college itself is named after John Keble, one of Pusey's colleagues in the Oxford Movement, who died four years before its foundation in 1870. William Butterfield was appointed architect, and produced a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, now sadly outmoded. Keble houses the original of Holman Hunt's painting, The Light of the World (the one in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is a copy). Famous Former Students Imran Khan Chad Varah Timmy Mallett John Prescott Teachers/Academics External Link Official website.
Ken Buchanan - Scotland. He started boxing professionally on September 20, 1965, beating Brian Tonks by a knockout in two rounds in London. He spent much of the early parts of his career fighting undistinguished opponents in England. His Scottish debut came in his 17th fight, when he outpointed John McMillan over 10 rounds on January 23, 1967. Prior to that, he had also beaten Ivan Whiter by a decision in 8 rounds. Buchanan ran his winning streak to 23 consecutive bouts before challenging Maurice Cullen on February 19,1968 for the British Lightweight title in London. He knocked Cullen out in round 11 and became a world classified Lightweight challenger. He continued his way up the world Lightweight rankings by defeating Leonard Tavarez, Angel Robinson Garcia and Whiter (in a rematch) among others, but.
Keir Hardie - was to be the most important influence on his political career. In 1886 he became the leader of first the Ayrshire Miners Union, and later the Scottish Miners Federation, and began to edit a paper called The Miner. First Labour M.P and the ILP Originally a supporter of the Liberal Party, Hardie became disillusioned by Gladstone's economic policies, and began to realise that the Liberals could never and would never represent the working classes fairly. They just wanted the votes of the workers, and any reform would be at best half-hearted. So Hardie became a Socialist, and decided to run for Parliament. In 1888 Hardie stood as an Independent Labour candidate in Mid Lanark. He finished last, but he began to think that maybe, just maybe, next time he might be.
Kew Bridge - Kew Bridge Kew Bridge is a bridge in London over the River Thames. The present bridge was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and opened in 1903. Notes from small centenary display at Richmond Museum October 2003 Museum has an engraving by John Barnard Architect of the design for the first Kew Bridge, dedicated to the Prince of Wales and the Princess Dowager of Wales and dated 1759. He describes it as the “Bridge over the River of Thames from Kew in the County of Surry to the opposite shore in the County of Middlesex”. The Prince of Wales took a lease on Kew House from 1731 and rebuilt the house using William Kent’s designs. His widow, Augusta, started the botanic gardens and created many of the garden buildings. She died in 1771.
Kingsley Amis - of poetry, a number of short stories, and ten books of social or literary criticism. Born in London. He was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. After service in the army with the Royal Corps of Signals he completed his university studies in 1947 and then worked as a lecturer in English at the University of Swansea (1948-61) and in Cambridge (1961-63). Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim, which is often considered the exemplary novel of the Fifties. The novel won the Somerset Maugham award for fiction and Amis was placed in a group of young writers labeled Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim is considered a seminal work, the first to feature an ordinary person as anti-hero. Amis had long been.
Kings Cross station - a railway station in Kings Cross in north central London, United Kingdom. It serves routes to the North East of the country, including Cambridge, York, Durham and up to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland, via the East Coast Mainline. It is served by the London Underground station Kings Cross St. Pancras, which also serves the adjacent St. Pancras station. Euston and Kings Cross Thameslink stations are a few minutes walk away. The new London terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is due to be built in the area behind Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations. Eurostar trains are due to arrive there in 2007, in the second phase of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project. The new British Library building is a short walk from Kings Cross station. Although considerable regeneration.
Kingsbury - 'The King's Manor'. It is a place in North West London, England in the North of the London Borough of Brent. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Nearest places 2 Nearest tube station 3 History 4.
Kirby Muxloe - in Leicestershire. Its suburban nature belies its interesting history. History Two Romano-British settlements have been found. One was found during the building of the Leicester Western bypass. It included the sort of metalwork associated with a kiln. ?890 Settlement founded by Danes 1086 Recorded in Domesday book as 'Carbi'. (Caeri's settlement) with a working population of 8 1168 First Church Built 1209 First recorded vicar, Matthew de Cantelupe ?1290 Present Church built 1364 First mention of a wood called "le golet". The name survives as Gullet Lane 1461 William, Lord Hastings becomes Steward of the Honor of Leicester and Ranger of Leicester Forest 1474 The Old White House built 1474 William, Lord Hastings acquires manorial right to Kirby from the Villiers family of Brooksby. He had rented if for some years.
Kim Newman - writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror — both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's film adaptation of Dracula at the age of eleven — and alternate versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. He was born in London and raised in Aller, Somerset. He studied English at the University of Sussex. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Non-fiction 2 Fiction 3 Related topics 4.
Kirkcudbrightshire - Llandovery age prevail; they are found around Dalry, Creetown, New Galloway, Castle Douglas and Kirkcudbright. Overlying the Llandovery beds on the south coast are strips of Wenlock rocks; they extend from Bridgehouse Bay to Auchinleck and are well exposed in Kirkcudbright Bay, and they can be traced farther round the coast between the granite and the younger rocks. Carboniferous rocks appear in small faulted tracts, unconformable on the Silurian, on the shores of the Solway Firth. They are best developed about Kirkbean, where they include a basal red breccia followed by conglomerates, grits and cement stones of Calciferous Sandstone age. Brick-red sandstones of Permian age just come within the county on the W. side of the Nith at Dumfries. Volcanic necks occur in the Permian and basalt dikes penetrate the Silurian.
King Solomon's Carpet - a novel by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) about the London Underground and the people frequenting it. Vine's novel is inhabited by ordinary passengers, tube aficionados, pickpockets, buskers, vigilantes, and children who go "sledging" on the roofs of cars as an initiation rite. The title of the book refers to the legend of King Solomon's magic carpet of green silk which, as it could fly and brought everyone to their destination, is likened to the underground. King Solomon's Carpet is one of the few novels set in London which should be read with the help of a tube map. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers Jarvis Stringer is a student of the London Tube and its history and of underground trains worldwide. In order to finance his hobby and be able to travel.
