Kath and Kim - Kath and Kim Kath and Kim is a humorous Australian television series shown on the ABC network. The first series was released in 2002 and following it's outstanding success, a second series was released in 2003. Both series were created and written by Gina Riley and Jane Turner who both play the leading roles. The main characters are Kath - an empty nester who wants to enjoy time with her "hunk of spunk" Kel and her her twenty-something daughter Kim. Kim's husband Brett and Kim's second best friend Sharon add chaos. The characters were originally developed in the early 1990s with the highly succesful "Fast Forward" comedy sketch show. The strong script and highly developed alternative vocabulary and mis-pronunciation of words by the two main characters was.
Kim Stanley Robinson - Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is a writer initially identified as a leading member of the "humanist", or literary, camp of science fiction authors in the 1980s, but whose Mars trilogy is a solid example of hard science fiction. His fiction frequently delves into ecological and utopian themes with a political sophistication and point of view rarely seen elsewhere in the field. The utopian novels Robinson's utopias are strikingly different in that the society portrayed is dynamic and subject to flaws and outside pressures, rather than the static perfection displayed in more classic utopias, in which literary values take a back seat to the political argument. His utopian novels include the Three Californias trilogy, which consists of the post-disaster novel The.
Kim Il-sung - Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (김일성 ; 金日成) (April 15, 1912 - July 8, 1994) was the autocratic Communist ruler of North Korea from 1948 until his death. To this day, even after his death the North Korean government continues to recognize him as the nation's "eternal" president. He was born Kim Song-ju (김성주; 金成柱) in Pyongi (변경 ; 邊京?) or Mangyongdae (만경대 ; 萬景台) near Pyongyang, Korea. After following his father to Jilin, China in 1925, he studied at Fusong Number One Elementary School (撫松第一小學) for a year, then spent four years in Yuwen Middle School (毓文中學). It is during this period that he organized an anti-imperalist society. He was a founding member of the Young Communist League of Korea in 1927. In 1930, he founded.
Kim Philby - Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby (1912 - May 11, 1988) was an employee of British intelligence and a Soviet spy. He was member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Philby was nicknamed Kim after a fictional spy. Born in Ambala, India the son of the British diplomat, explorer, author, Arabist and converted Muslim Harry St. John Philby, at one time an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. After leaving Westminster School in 1928, Philby went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While a student there Philby was introduced to, and came to admire, the ideals of Communism. He was not exactly 'recruited' as a spy - he volunteered. He.
Kim Milford - Kim Milford Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 - June 16, 1988) was an American movie and stage actor. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago (Winnetka, Illinois), where he went to New Trier High School. His family includes some familiar names from the movie and art world, sister, actress Penelope Milford (Coming Home for which she got an Oscar nomination, Heathers, The Burning Bed) and brother, Doug Milford, now COO (?CEO) and Co-owner of Artsystems Art Management Software (artsystems.com), co-owned and operated Piezo Electric in the East Village, owned and ran the Milford Gallery in SoHo, and as Publisher at ArtNet Worldwide, he designed, produced, and led the creation of Artnet.com. The multi-talented Kim Milford was an.
Kim Campbell - Kim Campbell The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell Rank: 19th Term: June 25 - November 4, 1993 Predecessor: Brian Mulroney Successor: Jean Chrétien Date of Birth: March 10, 1947 Place of Birth: Port Alberni, British Columbia Profession: politician Political Party: Progressive Conservative Kim Campbell was the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 25 to November 4, 1993. She was born Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell on March 10, 1947, but was not particularly fond of any of her given names, and consequently adopted the first name Kim in her teens. She was educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A., LL.B.) and obtained a doctorate at the London School of Economics. She entered politics with Vancouver School Board, and lectured in political science. Campbell was first elected.
Kim - Kim A novel by Rudyard Kipling. See below. A common Korean family name. See Kim (Korean name). Kim, (1901), a combined spy novel and picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling written against the background of "the Great Game" -- the cat-and-mouse activities of Russia and Britain in northern India and Afghanistan in the 19th century. Kim is a half-caste orphan son of a British soldier and a nursemaid who runs free on the streets of Lahore and who incidentally makes contact with the British secret service. He attaches himself to a Tibetan Lama who is on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life. He becomes his chela, or disciple, but is also used by the British to carry a message to the British army.
Kim Gordon - Kim Gordon Kim Gordon (born April 23, 1953) plays bass and guitar in the rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten. In 1984 she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, with whom she has a daughter, Coco Gordon Moore. Fellow rock band Rapeman recorded a tribute to her on their album Two Nuns and a Pack Mule entitled "Kim Gordon's Panties"..
Kim Mitchell - Kim Mitchell Kim Mitchell (born 1952) began a career as a guitarist in the 1970s and is viewed as being one of the greatest Canadian guitarists. Mitchell was born in Sarnia, Ontario where he made a name for himself in local bands while he was still in his early teens. After evolving through a few name changes with essentially the same band, Mitchell and "Zooom" headed off for Toronto. Zooom eventually dissolved, with Mitchell travelling to the Greek islands. On his return to Canada, Mitchell met up with Sarnia pal "Pye Dubois" to form Max Webster, touring extensively and building a string of hits. His solo career launched with his departure from Max Webster, with his session work and and a succession of albums quickly earning.
KIM-1 - KIM-1 The KIM-1, short for Keyboard Input Monitor, was a small microcomputer kit produced by MOS Technologies starting in 1975. History MOS' first processor, the 6501, could be plugged into existing motherboards that used the Motorola 6800, allowing potential users (i.e. engineers and hobbyists) to get a development system up and running very easily using existing hardware. This enraged Motorola, who immediately sued, forcing MOS to pull the 6501 from the market. Changing the pin layout produced the "lawsuit-friendly" 6502. Otherwise identical to the 6501, it nevertheless had the disadvantage of having no machine in which new users could quickly start playing with the CPU. Chuck Peddle, leader of the 650x group at MOS, designed the KIM-1 in order to fill this need. While the machine.
Kim, Colorado - Kim, Colorado Kim is a town located in Las Animas County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 65. Geography \nKim is located at 37°14'46" North, 103°21'13" West (37.246129, -103.353643)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 65 people, 38 households, and 15 families residing in the town. The population density is 81.0/km² (211.3/mi²). There are 49 housing units at an average density of 61.0/km² (159.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.46% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00%.
Kim Dae-jung - Kim Dae-jung Kim Dae-jung (김대중 ; 金大中, born December 3, 1925) is a South Korean politician. Long an opposition leader, he became president (after Kim Young-sam) in 1997. He first entered politics in 1954, opposing the policies of Syngman Rhee, but did not win a seat in government until 1961. After several arrests in the 1970s, Kim was sentenced to death on charges of sedition and conspiracy; that sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison. In 1985, after a brief exile in the U.S., he resumed his role as one of the principal leaders of the political opposition. When the first democratic presidential election was held in 1987 after ex-general Chun Doo-hwan's retirement, Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam ran against each other, splitting the opposition.
Kim Jong-il - Kim Jong-il Kim Jong Il (left) walking with the late Kim Il Sung (right) Kim Jong-il, 김정일 金正日 (born February 15, 1942) is the current leader of North Korea. Background Kim's father, the late Kim Il Sung, fled to the Soviet Union when the Japanese put a price on his head for guerrilla activities in occupied Korea. The family returned to the northern part of the peninsula after Japan's surrender during World War II, and communist Soviet leader Joseph Stalin anointed Kim Il Sung as the leader of the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to official North Korean accounts, Kim Jong was born in a log cabin at his father's guerilla base on North Korea's highest mountain, Mount Paektu, in February 1942. The peak,.
Kim Deal - Kim Deal Kim Deal (born 1965) is an American musician. Deal became a bass player for rock band The Pixies in 1986. In 1989 she joined Tanya Donelly and Josephine Wiggs to form a band called The Breeders. At the height of their popularity in the mid 1990s they were more successful than The Pixies, and scored a number of MTV hits. Although the band went into stasis in 1994, they never officially split up, and in 2002 returned with a new album Title TK..
Kim Hunter - Kim Hunter Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 - September 11, 2002) was an American actress, winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She also appeared in the classic Micheal Powell/Emeric Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death (1945), playing the role of David Niven's fiance, and some of the "Planet of the Apes" movies and in television soap operas..
Kimjongilia - Prize-winning kimjongilia exhibited. President Kim Il Sung admires an exhibit of kimjongilia, the flower named after his son in this 1988 photo. Kimjongilia, national flower of North Korea, named after Leader Kim Jong Il. To commemorate Kim Jong Il's 46th birthday in 1988, Japanese botanist Motoderu Kamo cultivated a new perennial begonia named "kimjongilia", representing the Juche revolutionary cause of the Dear Leader, admiration, and loyalty. According to North Korean sources, the flower symbolizes wisdom and good human feelings such as future loving, justice and peace and possesses strong great man bearing. The North Korean government claims that kimjongilia, now the national flower, have widely spread throughout North Korea from the Korean Central Botanical Garden and since to over 60 nations, including the United States and Russia. See also: kimilsungia.
Kim Possible - Kim Possible Kim Possible is a Disney Channel original animated series about a 15 year old super hero and special agent named Kim Possible who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family and school issues every day. Many times, Kim has found herself saving everyone in exotic locations after completing homework. She attends Middleton Jr. High School, and is on the school's cheerleading squad. The series premiered in June 2002, and the first episode to air, Crush, was nominated for an Emmy award the following year. Kim's dialogue tends to be peppered with typical teen slang, for example, "So not the drama" and "No big", as well as the series' catchphrase, "What's the sitch?". The show's title music, Call Me, Beep Me, is sung by.
Kim Newman - Kim Newman Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction 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.
Kim Basinger - Kim Basinger Kim Basinger, born on December 8, 1953 is a notable Hollywood actress. Her most notable apprearances include Nine 1/2 Weeks and L.A. Confidential for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1998..
Kim Stanley - Kim Stanley Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 - August 20, 2001) was an American actress. Born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico, she was a successful Broadway actress with only a few movie roles. She was singled out by New York Times critic Books Atkinson for her early work, and she eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. Stanley starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic and Bus Stop. A savaging by London critics of a performance she did in The Three Sisters made her vow never to perform on the stage again, and she kept that vow for the rest of her life. Her first film was The Goddess in 1958. In 1964 she starred in Seance on a.
