Kings Cross (London) - Kings Cross (London) Kings Cross is an area in the London Borough of Camden in the north of central London, England. The area was previously a village known as Battle Bridge, which referred to a bridge also known as Broad Ford Bridge, which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet. The bridge was said to be the site of a major battle between the Romans and the Iceni tribe led by Boadicea. In 1835 a monument was built to King George IV at the junction of Gray's Inn Road, Pentonville Road, and New Road, which later became Euston Road. The monument wasn't very popular and was taken down 10 years later, though the area has kept the name of Kings Cross. Kings Cross station now stands at.
Kingston University, London - Kingston University, London Kingston University, London in Kingston upon Thames is one of the UK's newest universities, having formerly been a polytechnic until 1992, when it changed status under the changes to UK higher education instigated by the then Prime Minister. It is very conveniently placed for students within the south-west London area, with good rail, bus and road connections, both from central London, and also to towns and cities to the west and south. Currently the university is intending to raise its research profile, and at the present time it has about 17,000 students. The student profile is varied, and includes undergraduates who come soon after leaving school or college, mature students who may have been working for several years, and also postgraduate students studying full time,.
King's College, London - King's College, London King's College in London is part of the federal University of London. King's College was founded in 1829, partly in reaction to the founding of University College London (UCL). UCL was a non-religious institution, often referred to at the time as “the godless institution in Gower Street”, and King's offered a curriculum that was less thoroughly secular. King's was so named to indicate the patronage of King George IV. King's began on a site adjacent to Somerset House in the Strand, still in use and still organized around the original building; the university has spread to several other campuses as well, including the Guy's campus near London Bridge, the St. Thomas' campus facing the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, and the Hampstead campus on.
Jack London - Jack London Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author of over 50 books. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Personal background 2 Early life 3 Early literary career (1898-1900) 4 Accusations of plagiarism 5 Beauty Ranch (1910-1917) 6 Political views 7 Death 8 Works 8.1 Short Stories 8.2 Nonfiction and Autobiographical Memoirs 9 Selected bibliography 9.3 Biographies and books about Jack London 9.4 Novels 9.5 Stories 9.6 Plays 10 External Links Personal background Jack London was born in San Francisco, California. Jack London's biological father is believed by Clarice Stasz and other biographers to have been the astrologer William Chaney. Chaney was in fact a distinguished and respectable figure; according to Stasz, "From the viewpoint of serious.
Velodrome - will usually be among the facilities constructed for major events such as the Olympics or Commonwealth Games. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 List of velodromes 1.1 United Kingdom 1.2 Links List of velodromes United Kingdom (outdoor, unless stated) Aldersley, Wolverhampton Brighton (Preston Park), East Sussex Calshot, near Southampton, Hampshire (indoor) Cardiff (Maindy Park) Cleveland, Teesside Gypsies Green, South Shields (currently semi-derelict) Halesowen, near Birmingham Herne Hill, south London Kirkby, near Liverpool Leeds (Roundhay Park), West Yorkshire Leicester (Saffron Lane Sport Centre) Meadowbank, Edinburgh The National Cycling Centre, Manchester (indoor) Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire Newport, south Wales (indoor) Portsmouth (Southsea), Hampshire Reading (Palmer Park) Berkshire Welwyn, Hertfordshire Links Manchester Velodrome Herne Hill Velodrome.
Kate Greenaway - Greenaway Kate Greenaway (Catherine Greenaway) ( London, March 17, 1846 - November 6, 1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by the Library Association of Great Britain to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal. 'Kate Greenaway' children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to.
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.
Karl Mannheim - 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..
Karoline Schelling - role in the intellectual movement of her time, and is especially remarkable for the assistance she afforded Schlegel in his translation of Shakespeare's works. She published nothing, however, in her own name. See G Waltz, Caroline: Briefe an ihre Geschwister, etc. (2 vols., 1871), and, by the same author, Caroline und ihre Freunde (1882); further, J. Janssen, Eine Kulturdame und ihre Freunde, Zeit und Lebensbilder (1885), and Mrs A Sidgwick, Caroline Schlegel and her Friends (London, 1899). This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Kathleen Turner - 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 with rheumatoid arthritis in 1992. She was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in 1987 in Peggy Sue Got Married. She received two Golden Globe awards, both for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion.
Kamal Kharrazi - University of Tehran, e spent a year (1975-1976) as teaching fellow at the University of Houston,where he received a doctorate in education (1976) before returning to Iran. He has been a Professor of Management and Educational Psychology at Tehran University since 1983. Dr. Kharrazi was a founding member of the Islamic Research Institute in London. During the first months after the Ayatollah Khomeini's coup (11 March 1979), Kharrazi served as the Vice President of Iranian National Television (March to August 1979) for the new Islamic state. He then served as Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs (August 1979 to March 1980) and as Managing Director of the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (August 1979 to July 1981). From July 1980 to September 1989 he was President of.
Karl Rudolf Knig - Knig derived his livelihood for the rest of his life. He was, however, very far from being a mere tradesman. Acoustical research was his real interest, and to that he devoted all the time and money he could spare from his business. An exhibit which he sent to the London Exhibition of 1862 gained a gold medal, and at the Philadelphia Exposition at 1876 great admiration was expressed for a tonometric apparatus of his manufacture. This consisted of about 670 tuning-forks, of as many different pitches, extending over four octaves, and it afforded a perfect means for testing, by enumeration of the beats, the number of vibrations producing any given note and for accurately tuning any musical instrument. An attempt was made to secure this apparatus for the University of Pennsylvania,.
Karl Bodmer - 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 - was kindly received by the king. On his return he married, by his father's desire, the countess Reventlow. In 1778 he was raised to the rank of privy councillor and created a count. He now again went to England, in the hope of obtaining the post of Hanoverian envoy in London; but, his wife becoming entangled in an amour with the prince of Wales, so great a scandal was created that he was forced to leave the Hanoverian service. In 1782 he entered that of the duke of Brunswick, and as president of the board of domains displayed a zeal for reform, in the manner approved by the enlightened despots of the century, that rendered him very unpopular with the orthodox clergy and the conservative estates. In Brunswick, too, his position.
Veterinary science - South Wales. School of Veterinary Medicine in Austria http://www.vu-wien.ac.at/ - University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Schools of Veterinary Medicine in Canada http://www.ovcnet.uoguelph.ca/HomePage.html - University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College. http://www.medvet.umontreal.ca/ - University of Montreal Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. http://www.upei.ca/~avc/ - University of Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Veterinary College. http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/ - University of Saskatchewan Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Schools of Veterinary Medicine in France http://www.vet-alfort.fr/ - Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d'Alfort. http://www.vet-nantes.fr/ - Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Nantes. Schools of Veterinary Medicine in Germany http://www.tiho-hannover.de - School of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover. http://www.vetmed.uni-giessen.de/ - Justus-Liebig-University Gieen, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine http://www.fu-berlin.de/einrichtungen/fachbereiche/vetmed/ - Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine. http://www.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de/ - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. http://www.vmf.uni-leipzig.de/ - University of Leipzig, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Schools of Veterinary Medicine in Great Britain.
Karel Reisz - (born 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, UK 2002) was a Jewish refugee who became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain. Reisz joined the Royal Air Force towards the end of the war, after the death of his parents at Auschwitz. After the war, he studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, and began to write for film journals, including Sight and Sound. He co-founded Sequence with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert in 1947. He was also a founder member of the Free Cinema documentary movement. His 1959 film We Are the Lambeth Boys was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the life of working-class teenagers as it was, with skiffle music and cigarettes intact. His first feature film.
Vercingetorix - the Arvernian garrison, and an outer defensive perimeter to protect against the attempted relief. Caesar decisively defeated both forces. Vercingetorix was captured and imprisoned in the Tullianum in Rome for five years, before being publicly displayed and beheaded as part of Caesar's triumph in 46 BC. Yonge, Charlotte M. (1864). The Chief of the Arverni. In Charlotte M. Yonge, A Book of Golden Deeds, London: Blackie & Son, Ltd., n.d. Curchin, Leonard A. Lingua Gallica (The Gaulish Language). Retrieved Aug. 21, 2003 from http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/gallica.html Vercingetorix is a movie released in 2001 also known as Druids. It was neither a critical nor a box-office success..
Kalle Ptalo - 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. Ptalo 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.
Kate Beckinsale - British television actors. Her father died in 1979, at the age of 32 years. After finishing school in London, she began to act in a gradual way, thus following her parent's profession. In 1991 she played a role in a television film about World War II, which made her become widely known by the public in England. The film was also broadcast in America at the end of that year. Beckinsale then began studies of French and of Russian literature at Oxford University, in interviews she commented that she felt that the university background would be better for her than attending a school of performing arts. During her first year at Oxford, Beckinsale was offered a part in Kenneth Branagh's big-screen film, Much Ado About Nothing, adapted from Shakespeare's famous comedy..
