Vernor Vinge - Fire, following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture. Deepness also won a Hugo Award. Vinge retired in 2002 from teaching at San Diego State University in order to write full-time. His ex-wife Joan D. Vinge is also an accomplished science fiction author. Bibliography Novels Grimm's World (1969), revised as Tatja Grimm's World (1987) The Witling (1976) The Peace War (1984) Marooned in Realtime (1986) (These two novels collected as Across Realtime.) A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) A Deepness in the Sky (1999) Collections True Names and Other Dangers Threats... and Other Promises (These two volumes collect Vinge's short fiction through the early 1990s.) True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (contains.
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..
Karl Schwarzschild - Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild (October 9, 1873 - May 11, 1916) was a noted German physicist and astronomer. He was born in Frankfurt am Main. Something of a child prodigy he had a paper on orbits published when he was only sixteen. He studied at Strasbourg and Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1896 for a work on Jules Henri Poincaré's theories. From 1897 on he worked as assistant at the Kufner Sternwarte in Vienna, where he developed a formula to calculate the properties of photographic material involving an exponent now know as the Schwarzschild-exponent (p in formula below). From 1901 until 1909 he was a professor at the prestigious institute at Göttingen, where he had the opportunity to work with some significant figures including David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. He.
Kazumi Watanabe - Kazumi Watanabe Kazumi Watanabe was born on October 14, 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. He's a Jazz, Instrumental rock, and a Blues performer. Similar Jazz performers are Jamaaladeen Tacuma, John Scofield, and Arturo Sandoval. Discography Infinite (1972) Endless Way (1974) Milky Shade (1976) Lonesome Cat (1977) Olives Step (1977) Mermaid Boulevard (1978) Kylyn (1979) To Chi Ka (1980) Dogatana (1981) Mobo, Vol. 1 (1982) Mobo, Vol. 2 (1983) Mobo Club (1983) Mobo Splash (1985) Good Time For Love (1986) Spice Of Life (1987) Spice Of Life II (1988) Kilowatt (1989) Pandora (1992).
Katherine Mansfield - served as the 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.
KANU - colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002. From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the "Mau Mau" rebellion against British colonial rule. During this period, African participation in the political process increased rapidly. The first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council took place in 1957. The Kenya African National Union was founded in 1960. The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was founded in 1960, to challenge KANU. KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the small minority tribes, such as the Kalenjin to which Moi belonged, against the dominance of the big Luo and Kikuyu tribes that comprised the majority of Kanu's membership (Kenyatta himself being a Kikuyu). KADU pressed for a federal constitution,.
Kaspar Hauser - was the day he had walked in Nuremberg. This strange boy inspired some Europe-wide interest and he received even more visitors. Some took him to be a con artist who just pretended to be dumb. Others began to connect him with the family of the Grand Duke of Baden, due to some facial resemblance. In this case, his parents would have been Karl Friedrich, Duke of Baden and Stephanie Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepdaughter. Because Karl Friedrich had no progeny, his successor was the Countess von Hochberg who was the alleged culprit. Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, president of the Bavarian court of appeals, began to investigate the case. Hauser was given to the care of a schoolteacher, Friedrich Daumer who taught him to speak, read and write. He also subjected him.
Kate del Castillo - Castillo Kate del Castillo (born October 23, 1972) is a famous Mexican actress. She is the daughter of Eric del Castillo, who is a legend of the Mexican cinema's golden era and a former soap opera actor himself. Some biographers say her actual year of birth was 1974, but 1972 is generally accepted as the year she was born. A participant in ten telenovelas, del Castillo made her acting debut in 1980 when she participated in a movie named El Ultimo Escape (The Last Escape). She was catapulted into fame in 1991 when she starred as Leticia in Muchachitas, a soap opera that reached wild popularity all over Latin America. Muchachitas reached the top audience spots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Peru, and among hispanic audiences in the United States. Among.
Karsten Niebuhr - 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 the expedition suffered so much from the climate or from the mode of.
Karl Guthe Jansky - Guthe Jansky Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22 1905 - February 14 1950), was the American physicist and radio engineer who in 1932 discovered that the Milky Way galaxy emanates radio waves; he did not follow up his discovery, but it marked the birth of radio astronomy. Jansky was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and studied at the University of Wisconsin where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1927. In 1928 he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Bell Labs wanted to investigate using "short waves" (wavelengths of about 10-20 meters) for transatlantic radio telephone service. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating the sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions. He built an antenna designed to receive radio waves at a frequency.
Kåre Willoch - Kåre Willoch Kåre Willoch (born October 3, 1928) is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986. Preceded by: Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway Succeeded by: Gro Harlem Brundtland.
Karl Rudolf König - Rudolph König (November 26, 1832 - October 2, 1901), was a German physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. He was born in Königsberg (Prussia), and studied at the university of his native town. About 1852 he went to Paris, and became apprentice to the famous violin-maker, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875), and some six years later he started business on his own account. He called himself a "maker of musical instruments," but the instrument for which his name is best known is the tuning fork, his work speedily gained a high reputation among physicists for accuracy and general excellence. From this business König 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.
Karl Bodmer - Bodmer Karl Bodmer February 6, 1809-October 30, 1893, Swiss painter of the American West. He accompanied German explorer Maximilian, Prince of Wied in 1833 and 1834 on his Missouri River expedition. He drew and 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.
Kansas City Star - given only four paragraphs. The prize-winning stories revealed the Republican National Chairman as a crook. The paper won three more Pulitzer Prizes in the 1980s under Publisher James E. Hale. A young Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Star from October, 1916 to April 1917. Though his time on the paper was brief, Hemingway credited Star editor, C.G. "Pete" Wellington, with changing a wordy high-schooler's writing style into clear, provocative English. Throughout his lifetime he referred to this admonition from the Star's style guide: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative." The paper sponsors a contest for high-school journalists to this day..
Karl Felix Halm - Karl Felix Halm (April 5, 1809 - October 5, 1882), German classical scholar and critic, was born at Munich. In 1849, after having held appointments at Spires (Speyer) and Hadamar, he became rector of the newly founded Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and professor in the university. These posts he held till his death. It is chiefly as the editor of Cicero and other Latin prose authors that Halm is known, although in early years he also devoted considerable attention to Greek. After the death of JC Orelli, he joined JG Baiter in the preparation of a revised critical edition of the rhetorical and philosophical writings of Cicero (1854-1862). His school editions of some of the speeches of Cicero in the Haupt and Sauppe series,.
Karl August von Hardenberg - principalities (1792). The position, owing to the singular overlapping of territorial claims in the old Empire, was one of considerable delicacy, and Hardenberg filled it with great skill, doing much to reform traditional anomalies and to develop the country, and at the same time labouring to expand the influence of Prussia in South Germany. After the outbreak of the revolutionary wars his diplomatic ability led to his appointment as Prussian envoy, with a roving commission to visit the Rhenish courts and win them over to Prussia's views; and ultimately, when the necessity for making peace with the French Republic had been recognized, he was appointed to succeed Count Goltz as Prussian plenipotentiary at Basel (February 28, 1795), where he signed the treaty of peace. In 1797, on the accession of King.
Karl-Birger Blomdahl - Blomdahl 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..
Kawashima Yoshiko - Kawashima Yoshiko Kawashima Yoshiko (1906-October 22 1947) (川岛芳子) was a Manchu princess brought up as a Japanese and executed as a Japanese spy by Kuomintang. She was born as the 14th child to Shanqi, the 10th of hereditary Prince Su of the Manchu imperial family. She has been targeted for sensational rumors, so it is difficult to clarify the truth..
Kathleen Winsor - Kathleen Winsor Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 - May 26, 2003) was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber. Winsor herself is quoted as saying, "I wrote only two sexy passages, and my publishers took both of them out. They put ellipses instead. In those days, you could solve everything with an ellipse." She was widely condemned for writing pornography, but the work made her famous, and she eventually sold it to be made into a motion picture. None of her work was nearly as successful, although she is also known for such works as Star Money, The Lovers, Calais, Robert and ARabella, Jacintha, and Wanderers Eastward, Wanderes West..
Kafr 'Inan - District of Acre Location 33 km east of Acre Israeli occupation date October 30, 1948 Israeli military operation Operation Hiram Israeli attacking brigade Golani Brigade Remaining population after occupation 0 Remaining structures after occupation A mosque, a shrine Population 1596 1931 1945 259 246 360 Number of houses 1931: 47 Historical names Caananite name Kefar Chananya Roman name Kefar Chananya Crusader name n/a Israeli settlement(s) Kefar Chananya Public structures A mosque, a shrine See also List of destroyed villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war External Links & References http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Kafr-%27Inan/index.html.
