Karl of Austria - road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination triggered off World War I), and of Princess Josepha of Saxony. In 1911 he was married to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, a daughter of the exiled Duke of Parma. Their oldest son and current head of the Habsburg family is Otto von Habsburg, who served as a German Member of the European Parliament. Names in other languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: German: Karl I, Czech: Karel I, Slovak: Karol IV, Hungarian: IV Károly Preceded by: Franz Josef of Austria Emperors of Austria Succeeded by: monarchy and empire abolished and replaced with republics.
KANU - Luo and Kikuyu tribes that comprised the majority of Kanu's membership (Kenyatta himself being a Kikuyu). KADU pressed for a federal constitution, while KANU was in favour of centralism. The advantage lay with the numerically stronger KANU, and the British government was finally forced to remove all provisions of a federal nature from the constitution. Kenya became independent on December 12, 1963, and the next year joined the Commonwealth. Jomo Kenyatta, a member of the predominant Kikuyu tribe and head of the Kenya African National Union, became Kenya's first president. KADU dissolved itself voluntarily 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.
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg - As a president he was formal and due to his shyness, wrote beforehand everything he had to say in public. He was a widower but remarried in 1920. He had to form various parliamentarian precedents and interpretations and nominate many short-lived cabinets. In foreign policy Ståhlberg was markedly reserved towards Sweden, cautious towards Germany, and generally unsuccessful in his attempts to closer contacts with Poland, the United Kingdom and France. Ståhlberg did not seek re-election 1925. He became a senior member of the government's Judicial Council. In 1930 activists from the right-wing Lapua Movement kidnapped him and his wife, attempting to send them to the Soviet Union, but the incident merely hastened the Lapua Movement's demise. He was a presidential candidate in 1931 and 1937 but was not elected. 1930-1932 he.
Karl Renner - talents he was allowed to go to high school and study law at university. Renner has always been interested in politics and became librarian in parliament and member of the Austrian social democrats party (SPÖ) in 1896. He started to represent the party in the Imperial Diet in 1907. Afterwards, Renner was Chancellor of Austria and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1918 until 1920. The peace treaty in St. Germain was as well under the leadership of Karl Renner and from 1931 to 1933 he was President of the Representative Assembly. He always plead for the annexation of Austria with Germany but distanced himself from politics during the wartime. After the collapse of the Third Reich, Renner tried to build up a Provisional Government and stood up for Austria to be.
Karen Buck - 30, 1958) is a politician in England, and is the Labour member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North. She was elected in the 1997 elections and was before a councillor on Westminster Council..
Kate Hoey - for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. She has been member of Parliament for Vauxhall after a by-election in 1989. She was Sports Minister in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport from 1998 to 2001, when she was sacked. Since then she has been happy to voice her opposition to the government on issues such as gun control, and fox hunting..
Kamisese Mara - hereditary; like her husband, she is a chief in her own right. They have three sons and five daughters. One daughter, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, has followed in her father's footsteps and has served her country as a career diplomat and politician. She was Minister of Tourism in 1999 and 2000. Mara was elected to one of four seats on the Legislative Council reserved for ethnic Fijians in 1953. (There were eight other elective seats, four reserved for Indians and four for Europeans and other minorities; a further twelve members were appointed by the colonial Governor). Mara was appointed Member for Agriculture (officially an advisor to the Governor, but in reality roughly equivalent to a modern cabinet minister). After 1960, he founded the Alliance Party, which, supported overwhelmingly by the ethnic.
Ken Livingstone - 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 general election. Livingstone was re-admitted to the Labour Party in January 2004 following a five year suspension (curtailed to four years) after he stood against the official Labour Party candidate as an independent in the first mayoral election. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 GLC leadership 2 Livingstone in Parliament 3 London's first Mayor 4 Recent events GLC leadership In.
Ken Follett - particularly of political thrillers, born in Cardiff, Wales. He is married to the Member of Parliament Barbara Follett. After university, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Cardiff and then London, where he began writing. In 1978, his novel Eye of the Needle became a bestseller. This would be followed by numerous international bestsellers. Bibliography Eye of the Needle The Modigliani Scandal Triple Lie Down with Lions The Man from St Petersburg The Key to Rebecca On Wings of Eagles Pillars of the Earth Night Over Water A Dangerous Fortune A Place Called Freedom The Third Twin The Hammer of Eden Jackdaws Code to Zero Hornet Flight.
Veto - veto power in the United States Constitution was derived from the British royal assent. On April 5, 1792 President George Washington vetoed a bill designed to apportion representatives among statess. This is the first time the presidential veto was used in the United States. The US Congress first overrode a presidential veto on March 3, 1845. In the UN Security Council, the five permanent members (the United States, Russia, People's Republic of China, France and the United Kingdom) have veto power. If any of these countries votes against a proposal it is rejected, even if all 14 of the other member countries vote in favor. Typically, a veto applies to an entire piece of legislation. Some states in the United States have granted their governors the additional power of a line.
Kenora, Ontario - Railway in the 1880s allowed the town to prosper. In 2000 Kenora became a city. Forestry, tourism and mining are the three largest sectors of the Kenora economy. Kenora-Rainy River's Member of Provincial Parliament, Howard Hampton, is leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. The same area's federal Member of Parliament, Robert Nault, is a Liberal..
Keith Holyoake - which finally led to him representing Motueka in 1932. (He contended unsuccessfully for the seat in 1931 and then won it in a by-election one year later, becoming the youngest parliament member at the time.) He played a key role in establishing the National Party in 1936 but failed to win re-election in 1938. In 1943 he returned to Parliament as MP for Pahiatua and became Deputy Leader of National in 1946. National gained a majority in the 1949 election and Holyoake became Minister of Agriculture and the first person to be formally appointed Deputy Prime Minister. Holyoake became Prime Minister for a few weeks before the 1957 general election because the Prime Minister at the time (Sidney Holland) retired due to ill-health. He was Leader of the Opposition for three.
Kenelm Digby - victory over the French and Venetian ships in the harbour of Iskanderun on the June 11. His successes, however, brought upon the English merchants the risk of reprisals, and he was urged to depart. He returned to become a naval administrator and later Governor of Trinity House. His wife died in 1633, prompting an eulogy by Ben Jonson, and Digby was stricken with grief, secluding himself in Gresham College. He had also become a member of the Privy Council of Charles I of England. His Roman Catholicism being a hindrance in the way of government office, he switched to Anglicanism. At that period, public servants were often rewarded with patents of monopoly; Digby received the regional monopoly of sealing wax in Wales and the Welsh Borders. This was a guaranteed income;.
Kenny MacAskill - Kenny MacAskill Kenny MacAskill is an SNP member of the Scottish Parliament. He came to prominence inside the SNP through his activities in the left-wing 79 Group and became a party office bearer. In the 1980s he led the SNP campaign in opposition to the Poll Tax. It was widely known that he politically disagreed with the former SNP leader Alex Salmond and he was at one stage viewed as belonging to the SNP Fundamentalist camp. He allied himself to figures such as Jim Sillars and Alex Neil within the party. However, upon becoming a Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) he moderated his political position, eschewing his former leftist stance and adopting a gradualist approach to Scottish independence in place of his previous fundamentalist position. He has been one of SNP.
Kerry Nettle - as well as an environmentalist. She believes in Government ownership of essential services, which include banking, airlines, telecommunications, health and education and other areas privatised in the last two decades in Australia. She argues that private ownership of these assets is "social theft." She is probaly the most left-wing member of the Australian Parliament. When United States President George W. Bush visited Canberra on 23 October 2003, Nettle and Brown took their opposition to the war in Iraq to the point of interjecting during his address to a joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament. They wore signs referring to David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib, two Australian citizens currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following their apprehension by United States forces in either (this is disputed) Afghanistan or Pakistan..
Keith Joseph - 1994) was a lawyer, a British politician, and Tory cabinet member under three different administrations. During World War II he served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery, and was wounded in Italy. He entered parliament in a by-election for Leeds North in the 1950s, which he remained in until 1987. He became a junior minister in the 1960s at the Ministry of Housing and the Department for Trade. In 1962 he was made Minister for Housing and Local Government, a cabinet position, and introduced a massive program to build council homes. When the Tories returned to government in 1970, he was made Secretary of State for Health and Social Services. Following the 1974 election defeat, and with Margaret Thatcher he set up the Centre for Policy Studies, and stepped aside.
Kessai Note - the president of the Marshall Islands. He was elected in 2000 by Parliament. He is a member of the United Democratic Party. He was reelected by parliament in January 2004, receiving 20 votes, while Justin deBrum received 9. See also: List of national leaders.
Kevin Barron - October 29, 1946) is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Rother Valley. He is a member of the Labour Party. He entered Parliament at the 1983 election, and was a leading figure in the campaign to rewrite Clause IV. The National Union of Mineworkers expelled him for disloyalty..
Kevin Brennan - 16, 1959) is a United Kingdom politician, and member of Parliament for Cardiff West. He is a member of the Labour Party, and is close to Rhodri Morgan..
Kelvin Hopkins - August 1941) is an English politician, and Labour member of Parliament for Luton North. He was first elected in the 1997 general election, but is a left-winger, being a member of the Socialist Campaign Group..
