Karl Menger - Karl Menger Karl Menger (January 13 1902 - October 5 1985) was a mathematician of great scope and depth. He did work on Algebras, Curve and Dimension Theory, and Geometries. His most famous popular contribution was the Menger Sponge (mistakenly known as Sierpinski's Sponge), a three dimensional version of Sierpinski's Carpet. It is also related to the Cantor Set and the Sierpinski Square. See Also http://www.iit.edu/~am/Menger/menger.html You may be looking for the article on his father, the economist Carl Menger..
Kaprijke - province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Kaprijke proper and Lembeke. On January 1st, 2000 Kaprijke had a total population of 6,175 (3,109 males and 3,066 females). The total area is 33.64 km² which gives a population density of 183.56 inhabitants per km². The name Kaprijke comes from Gallo-Roman name "Capricum" which means "Land of Caprius". That it used to be a roman garrison-place can still be seen at the square in front of the old townhall..
Kalmthout - Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Kalmthout proper. On January 1st, 2000 Kalmthout had a total population of 17,260 (8,539 males and 8,721 females). The total area is 59.38 km² which gives a population density of 290.67 inhabitants per km². Official website www.kalmthout.be (Dutch only).
Kapellen - Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Kapellen proper. On January 1st, 2000 Kapellen had a total population of 25,671 (12,574 males and 13,097 females). The total area is 37.45 km² which gives a population density of 685.47 inhabitants per km². Official website www.kapellen.be (Dutch only).
Karl Kobelt - Kobelt Karl Kobelt (August 1, 1891 - January 6, 1968) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 10, 1940 and handed over office on December 31, 1954. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the Department of Defence; Military Department. He was president of Switzerland twice in 1946 and 1952. Predecessor: Johannes Baumann Successor: Giuseppe Lepori.
Kasterlee - province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Kasterlee proper, Lichtaart and Tielen. On January 1st, 2000 Kasterlee had a total population of 17,554 (8,973 males and 8,581 females). The total area is 72.17 km² which gives a population density of 243.23 inhabitants per km²..
Kampenhout - Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Berg, Buken, Kampenhout proper and Nederokkerzeel. On January 1st, 2000 Kampenhout had a total population of 10,732 (5,294 males and 5,438 females). The total area is 33.59 km² which gives a population density of 319.50 inhabitants per km²..
Kapelle-op-den-Bos - Kapelle-op-den-Bos proper, Nieuwenrode and Ramsdonk. On January 1st, 2000 Kapelle-op-den-Bos had a total population of 8,783 (4,354 males and 4,429 females). The total area is 15.53 km² which gives a population density of 565.55 inhabitants per km²..
Katherine Mansfield - pen-name for Kathleen Beauchamp (October 14, 1888 - January 9, 1923). Born in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved permanently to Europe as a young woman, met and married John Middleton Murry, contracted tuberculosis in 1917. Later she joined the Gurdjieff commune south of Paris France called the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man and died there at Fontainebleau. She is buried in the cemetery in the Fontainebleau district in the town of Avon where there is a street named in her honour. A writer of short stories, Mansfield developed the techniques of Anton Chekhov in the genre. Much of her work reflects her New Zealand childhood. Bibliography: In a German Pension, 1911 Bliss, 1920 The Garden Party, 1922 plus numerous posthumous collections, letters and diaries.
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg - Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (January 28, 1865 - September 22, 1952), First president of Finland 1919-1925, a Nationalist Liberal. Ståhlberg was born in Suomussalmi in Finland. He was christened Carl Johan, which he later changed to Finnish form like most fennomans (supporters of Finnish language and culture). In Oulu Finnish lycee he was the primus of his class. In 1889 he graduated in Laws, as a Bachelor of Arts. He had a long career as the presenter and planner of the Senate's legislation already when Finland was a Russian Grand Duchy. He supported constitutional legislative policies, including legislative resistance, against the attempted Russification of Finland, eventually even women's suffrage, and had a moderate line on Prohibition. In the beginning of Finland's independence he became the chairman of the Constitutional Council..
Kangaroo Jack - O'Connell and Christopher Walken. It premiered in the United States on January 11, 2003. The advertising campaign had made many parents think that the movie was a family-friendly film with a talking kangaroo. Once they took their children to see the movie, many parents were angry that they had been deceived by the campaign. After a successful opening week, the movie did considerably worse business once its eroticism and violence were revealed. Users of the Internet Movie Database have voted the film a position on the site's list of the 100 worst films ever made..
Kato Takaaki - (加藤 高明 3 January, 1860 - 28 January, 1926) was a Japanese politician and the 24th Prime Minister from 11 June,1924 - 28 January, 1926. He was born at Nagoya, Aichi and commenced life as an employee in the great firm of Mitsu Bishi. In 1887 he became private secretary to Count Okuma, minister of state for foreign affairs. Subsequently he served as director of a bureau in the finance department, and from 1894 to 1899 he represented his country at the court of St James. He received the portfolio of foreign affairs in the fourth Ito cabinet (1900 - 1901), which remained 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.
Karl Mannheim - Mannheim (March 27, 1893, Budapest - January 9, 1947, London) was a German-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century. 1914 he heard in Berlin Georg Simmel and worked from 1922 - 1925 in Heidelberg under the german sociologist Alfred Weber, brother of the very well known german sociologist Max Weber. One of his assistants was Norbert Elias (from spring 1930 until spring 1933). Important work: Ideology and Utopia. Mannheim is seen as a founder for the sociology of knowledge..
Karsten Niebuhr - him to join the expedition which was being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. To qualify himself for the work of surveyor and geographer, he studied hard at mathematics for a year and a half before the expedition set out, and also managed to acquire some knowledge of Arabic. The expedition sailed in January 1761, and, landing at Alexandria, ascended the Nile. Proceeding to Suez, Niebuhr made a visit to Mount Sinai, and in October 1762 the expedition sailed from Suez to Jeddah, journeying thence overland to Mocha. Here in May 1763 the philologist of the expedition, van Haven, died, and was followed shortly after by the naturalist Forsskål. Sana, the capital of Yemen, was visited, but the remaining members of.
Kautokeino - Saami) in the county of Finnmark, Norway, has 3,052 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002..
Karasjok - in Saami) in the county of Finnmark, Norway, has 2,852 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002..
Karmøy - the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 37,093 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002..
Karl Hase - von Hase (August 25, 1800 - January 3, 1890), German Protestant theologian and Church historian, was born at Steinbach in Saxony. He studied at Leipzig and Erlangen, and in 1829 was called to Jena as professor of theology. He retired in 1883 and was made a baron. Hase’s aim was to reconcile modern culture with historical Christianity in a scientific way. But though a liberal theologian, he was no dry rationalist. Indeed, he vigorously attacked rationalism, as distinguished from the rational principle, charging it with being unscientific inasmuch as it ignored the historical significance of Christianity, shut its eyes to individuality and failed to give religious feeling its due. His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik (1826; 6th ed., 1870), the value of which "lies partly in the full.
Karlsøy - in the county of Troms, Norway, has 2,464 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002..
Kåfjord - Saami) in the county of Troms, Norway, has 2,344 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002..
