Vespasian - Vespasianus Augustus (November 18, 9 AD - June 23, 79), original name Titus Flavius Vespasianus and best known as Vespasian, was the emperor of Rome from 69 to 79. He was founder of the Flavian dynasty and acceded the throne in the end of the Year of the four emperors. He was born in the Sabine country near Reate. His father Flavius Sabinus was a tax collector and money-lender on a small scale; his mother Vespasia Polla was the sister of a senator. After having served with the army in Thrace and been quaestor in Crete and Cyrene, Vespasian rose to be aedile and praetor, having meanwhile married Flavia Domitilla, the daughter of an equestrian, by whom he had two sons, Titus and Domitian, afterwards emperors, and one daughter Domitilla. Both.
KANU - in 1964 and joined KANU. A small but significant leftist opposition party, the Kenya People's Union (KPU), was formed in 1966, led by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, a former vice president and Luo elder. The KPU was banned and its leader detained after political unrest related to Kenyatta's visit to Nyanza Province. No new opposition parties were formed after 1969, and KANU became the sole political party. At Kenyatta's death in August 1978, Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee. In June 1982, the National Assembly amended the constitution, making Kenya officially a one-party state, and parliamentary elections were held in September 1983. The 1988 elections reinforced the one-party system. However, in.
Karl Wolfskehl - Karl Wolfskehl (September 17, 1869 - June 30 , 1948) was a Jewish-German author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He was active in the circle around Stefan George and emigrated to Switzerland (1933), then to Italy (1934) and ultimately to New Zealand (1938)..
Kato Tomosaburo - 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.
Kato Takaaki - 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 of the private railways, which measure the cabinet approved. He then.
Kaspar von Barth - was born at Küstrin in the province of Brandenburg on the June 21, 1587. He was an extremely precocious child, and was looked upon as a marvel of learning. After studying at Gotha, Eisenach, Wittenberg and Jena, he travelled extensively, visiting most of the countries of Europe. Too independent to accept any regular post, he lived alternately at Halle and on his property at Sellerhausen near Leipzig. In 1636, his library and manuscripts at Sellerhausen having been destroyed by fire, he moved to the Paulinum at Leipzig, where he died on the September 17, 1658. Barth was a very voluminous writer. Of his writings those considered to be most important are: Adversariorum commentariorum in 60 books (Frankfurt 1624, reprinted in 1658), a storehouse of miscellaneous learning, dealing not only with classical.
Karl Rudolf Hagenbach - Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (March 4, 1801 - June 7, 1874), German church historian, was born at Basel, where his father was a practising physician. His preliminary education was received at a Pestalozzian school, and afterwards at the gymnasium, whence in due course he passed to the newly reorganized local university. He early devoted himself to theological studies and the service of the church, while at the same time cherishing I and developing broad "humanistic" tendencies which found expression in many ways and especially in an enthusiastic admiration for the writings of Herder. The years 1820-1823 were spent first at Bonn, where GCF Lucke (1791-1855) exerted a powerful influence on his thought, and afterwards at Berlin, where Schleiermacher and Neander became his masters. Returning in 1823 to Basel, where WML de Wette.
Kathleen Turner - private eye V.I. Warshawski Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. Born Mary Kathleen Turner in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of diplomat Richard Turner, she had lived in four foreign countries by the time she entered college. She has two brothers and a sister. She was a gymnast as a teenager. While attending high school in London, England, she also took classes at the London Central School of Speech and Drama. When her father died in 1973, the family moved back to Springfield. She attended Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield for two years, then gained her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland in 1977. Turner married realtor Jay Weiss in 1984, and has a daughter, Rachel Ann Weiss, born 1988. She was diagnosed.
Karl August von Hardenberg - the royal will. By the time Haugwitz returned, the unyielding attitude of Napoleon had caused the king to make advances to Russia; but the mutual declarations of the 3rd and 25th of May 1804 only pledged the two powers to take up arms in the event of a French attack upon Prussia or of further aggressions in North Germany. Finally, Haugwitz, unable to persuade the cabinet to a more vigorous policy, resigned, and on April 14 1804 Hardenberg succeeded him as foreign minister. If there was to be war, Hardenberg would have preferred the French alliance, which was the price Napoleon demanded for the cession of Hanover to Prussia; for the Eastern powers would scarcely have conceded, of their free will, so great an augmentation of Prussian power. But he still.
Kaypro Computer - floppy drives and hard drives, and as MS-DOS gained popularity, produced a number of IBM-compatible systems running that operating system as well. However, Kaypro had difficulty continuing its early success, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1990. In June 1992, Kaypro filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and in 1995, its remaining assets were sold for $2.7 million. The Kaypro name briefly re-emerged as an online vendor of PCs early in the first decade of the 21st century. The resurgence was short-lived. Andy Kay re-emerged with a second company, called Kay Computers, utilizing a similar sales strategy..
Karl-Birger Blomdahl - (October 19, 1916 - June 14, 1968) was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in Swedish modernism. In 1959 he composed the opera Aniara based on the book by Harry Martinson. He died in Kungsängen, Stockholm..
Kanji Reference:Getsu - right. The bottom horizontal line is done from left to right. On Readings getsu, gatsu Kun Readings (hiragana suffix in brackets) tsuki Meaning(s) Japanese English getsu, tsuki moon, month gatsu month of the year, e.g. 六月 is June See also Wiktionary: 月.
Karlheinz Brandenburg - Karlheinz Brandenburg Karlheinz Brandenburg (born June 20, 1954, in Erlangen, Germany) is an audio engineer and is best known for inventing the audio compression scheme MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3. 1980 Master of Science in Electrical engineering 1982 Master of Science in Mathematics 1989 Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical engineering 1989 - 1990 worked at AT&T Bell Labs, USA 1990 returned to Erlangen to research on audio coding techniques 1993 appointed head at the Fraunhofer Institute für Integrierte Schaltungen (Fraunhofer IIS-A) He also authored a book called Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. He currently holds 24 different patents on audio coding techniques, with several more pending..
Karadjordje - Napoleon, in 1812 Russia had to settle peace with Turkey. Serbs then stayed alone and open to Turkish revenge. In 1813 Turks attacked Serbia from three sides; in hardest moment Karadjordje got ill and, weak from disease, he left Serbia on September 21st 1813 and crossed to Austria and, after some time, to Bessarabia, where he connected with secret Greek society Heteria, which was planning for liberation of all Christians from Turks. Helped by members of Heteria, Karadjordje went with fake passport to Serbia and stepped on Serbian soil on June 28th 1817. Frightened by Karadjordje's coming, both for himself and for Serbia, which could perish again in another struggle, knez Miloš ordered his execution which was soon acomplished. Karadjordje is the greatest personality of modern Serbia. He moved Serbs to.
Kalinga-Apayao - the passage of Philippine Republic Act No. 7878 on February 14, 1995. This RA amended the earlier Republic Act No. 4695, passed on June 18, 1966, which formed the provinces of Kalinga-Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, and Mountain Province, from the earlier Mountain Province. See the History section of Mountain Province for details..
Kaloyan of Bulgaria - Doge Enrico Dandolo, challenged Kaloyan, and on March 29, 1205, laid siege to Adrianople, which Kaloyan had placed under his protection. Kaloyan hurried to Adrianople with a large army composed of Bulgars (Bulgarians), Vlachs (Wallachians), and 14,000 Comans (Koumanian mercenaries). On Thursday, April 14, 1205, the Crusaders faced Kaloyan outside of the city of Adrianople in what came to be called the Battle of Odrin. Kaloyan soundly defeated the Crusaders and took Emperor Baldwin prisoner. Baldwin languished in prison in the Bulgarian capital of Turnovo until his death on June 11, 1205, despite repeated threats from the pope of a crusade against Bulgaria. After the Battle of Odrin, Kaloyan began a merciless war on both the Greeks and Latins. By the summer of 1205, Kaloyan held everything on the western side.
Kawabata Yasunari - Yasunari (川端 康成, June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Kawabata was orphaned when he was two and soon long his grandparents also. While still a student at Tokyo Imperial University he joined Yokomitsu Riichi in starting Bungei Jidai (The Artistic Age), a neo-Impressionist journal. Kawabata committed suicide in 1972. Kawabata debuted with Izu no Odoriko ("The Dancer of Izu") in 1927. In 1937 appeared his novel Yukiguni ("Snow Country"), a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo playboy and a provincial geisha in a remote hot springs town. Yukiguni established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant classic. Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes") continued some of the themes of Yukiguni. List of Works.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel - the Prussian Building Commission. In this position, he was not only reponsible for reshaping the (still relatively unspectacular) Berlin into a representative capital for Prussia, but also oversaw projects in the Prussian territories spanning from the Rhine lands in the West to Königsberg in the East. Old Museum (June 2003). Schinkel's style, in his most productive period, is defined by a return to classical Greek architecture, probably in an attempt to turn away from the Roman style that was linked to the earlier French occupiers. His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. These include the Schauspielhaus (1819-1821) at the Gendarmenmarkt, which replaced the earlier theater that was destroyed by fire in 1817, and the "Old" Museum (see photo) on Museum Island (1823-1830). Schinkel, however, is noted as much.
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - the French revolutionary troops, and before long, being in actual danger of being murdered by his men, he took refuge in the French camp. He was promised a free pass to his own country, but Napoleon ordered that he should be sent to France as a prisoner of war. Two years later he escaped from Paris in disguise. The allegation that he broke his parole is false. He was not employed for some years, but in 1804, when the war party in the Austrian court needed a general to oppose the peace policy of the Archduke Charles, Mack was made quartermaster-general of the army, with instructions to prepare for a war with France. He did all that was possible within the available time to reform the army, and on the opening.
Karl Josef von Hefele - von Hefele (March 15, 1809 - June 6, 1893), German theologian, was born at Unterkochen in Württemberg, and was educated at Tübingen, where in 1839 he became professor-ordinary of Church history and patristics in the Roman Catholic faculty of theology. From 1842 to 1845 he sat in the National Assembly of Württemberg. In December 1869 he was enthroned bishop of Rottenburg. His literary activity, which had been considerable, was in no way diminished by his elevation to the episcopate. Among his numerous theological works may be mentioned his well-known edition of the Apostolic Fathers, issued in 1839; his Life of Cardinal Ximenes, published in 1844 (Eng. trans., 1860); and his still more celebrated History of the Councils of the Church, in seven volumes, which appeared between 1855 and 1874 (Eng. trans.,.
