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This article or section should be merged with King of Fighters. K9999 is a character in the King of Fighters series. Attributed Ho ho ho. No one can contain my awesome power! Help! My Power is Running Out of Control! How does it feel to lo...
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A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what....
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This article or section should be merged with King of Fighters. Wikipedia has an article about: K' K' is an character in the King of Fighters series. Sourced "Now, the finish. Get up, fool!" "If you can't win, buzz off!" "You're no match f...
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Katherine Applegate, who also writes as K. A. Applegate, has authored more than one hundred books. While her publications include romances for the Harlequin line, she has aimed most of her writing at middle-grade readers, penning some titl...
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K. Barry Sharpless (born 26 April 1941 ) is an American chemist renowned for his work on organometallic chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Sourced We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twent...
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown....
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Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing a short series on forgiveness: As we get older, we know what we need most from forgiveness is not suspension of p...
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K. Eric Drexler (born 1955) has done more to raise public consciousness about molecular nanotechnology than any other scientist. He is chairman of the Foresight Institute, has lectured extensively, and has written three books on nanotechno...
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Political leader Kumaraswami Kamaraj (1903-1975) rose from the next-to-lowest rung in the caste system of India to become president of the all-powerful Congress party. He was known simply as Kamaraj, now used as his surname. The low caste ...
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The old, decaying turn-of-the-century hunting estate known as Flambards lay before twelve-year-old Christina after her long journey. Recently orphaned, the young girl finds herself living in an unfamiliar social world with relatives she do...
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Kenneth Colin Irving (1899-1992) was an industrialist who built a cluster of interrelated regional businesses into a massive empire that straddled virtually every aspect of his native New Brunswick's economy. He became the "Paul Bunyan of ...
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When discussing k.d. lang, it is first of all her voice that is mentioned. Even lang herself talks about her voice and its demands as if it doesn't quite live inside her. The voice itself, rich and powerful with an effortless broad ...
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KAʿBAH. The Kaʿbah (cube), located in Mecca, is the shrine at the center of the Muslim world. Referred to as the "House of God," (bayt Allāh), it is the central point (qiblah) on earth toward which all Mu...
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Kabaddi is an Asian team sport of indeterminate origin, played extensively in the Indian subcontinent and Japan with some variation. Although it is believed to be more than four thousand years old, it has yet to establish itself as an inte...
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QABBALAH. The term Qabbalah is derived from the Hebrew root qbl, which means "to receive"; in early medieval texts, qabbalah commonly signified "reception," namely a received tradition, mainly concerning halakhi...
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KABERRY, PHYLLIS M. Phyllis Mary Kaberry (1910–1977), the first anthropologist to study religion and culture from the vantage point of Aboriginal women in Australia, showed that the benefits and responsibilities of the Ngarrangkarni...
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KABĪR (fifteenth century CE) was one of the most famous saints and mystics in the Indian tradition. Kabīr is unique in that he is revered by Hindus and Muslims alike, yet his personality and his biography remain shrouded in m...
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As we know, Japanese culture is ancient, rich and assorted. It is considered a millennium culture, with lots of traditions and beliefs that make it very attractive. These traditions and beliefs are expressed, among other ways, through the p...
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(2002 est. pop. 2.1 million). At the base of the Kabul River in Afghanistan and at the foot of the Khyber Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains lies the city of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. For thousands of years, the country of Afghanist...
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"Kachin" is the collective name for a related family of highland peoples who live in northeastern Myanmar (Burma) as well as adjoining parts of China's Yunnan Province and northeast India. The Kachin language is classi...
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Clements Kadalie (ca. 1896-1951) was South Africa's first black national trade union leader. He headed the Industrial and Commercial Worker's Union (ICU) from its inception in 1919 until his resignation as national secretary in 1929. The m...
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Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Hungarian: Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért) is a novel by Imre Kertész, first published in 1990 (ISBN 0-8101-1161-6). The novel deals with the struggles of a Holocaust survivor after the war, explaining...
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The Kaema Plateau (Kaema Kowon), "the roof of Korea," stretches across north and south Hamgyong Province to the east and the provinces of North and South P'yongan to the west in North Korea. The height of the plateau r...
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(1993 pop. 335,000). Kaesong is located in southern North Korea (People's Democratic Republic of Korea), 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of the capital city of P'yongyang and 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Panmunjom near th...
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"WARNING: THIS ROAD PASSES THROUGH PROCLAIMED BANTU LOCATIONS, ANY PERSON WHO ENTERS THE LOCATIONS WITHOUT A PERMIT RENDERS HIMSELF FOR PROSECUTION FOR CONTRAVENING THE BANTU (URBAN AREAS) CONSOLIDATION ACT 1945, AND THE LOCATION REGULAT...
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The Kafirnigan is a river in Tajikistan and a large tributary of the Amu Dar'ya, which it joins about 36 kilometers downstream of the confluence of the Pyandzh and Vakhsh Rivers. The Kafirnigan is 387 kilometers long with a basin ar...
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SOURCE: Turan, Kenneth. “Kafka: A Beautiful, Confusing Letdown.” Los Angeles Times (4 December 1991): F1. In the following review, Turan offers a negative assessment of Kafka, calling it a disappointing second film. Imagine Franz Kafka ...
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Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka?) is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami (2002). Noted author John Updike described it as a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender." Since its 200...
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(2002 est. pop. 1 million). Kagawa Prefecture is situated in the northeastern region of Japan's island of Shikoku, where it occupies an area of 1,883 square kilometers. Kagawa's primary geographical features are coastal lowla...
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[In Kagemusha the] screen is awash with one brilliant canvas after another, and all the Kurosawa obsessions are present, too: the stormy, psychological expressionism, the inner torment, the lordly absolution of mere mortals from their indec...
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(2002 est. pop. 1.8 million). Kagoshima Prefecture is situated in the southern part of Japan's island of Kyushu, where it occupies an area of 9,167 square kilometers. Situated in a subtropical region, it is often swept by typhoons. ...
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RNYING MA PA (NYINGMAPA) SCHOOL. The expression "Rnying ma (Nyingma) pa school" may be used to refer to the Rnying ma (Nyingma) pa order of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as to the broad range of lineages claiming to derive their ...
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution....
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is bette...
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The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. -Kahlil Gilbran....
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Roger Kahn's 1972 bestseller The Boys of Summer instantly set the standard for nonfiction baseball writing. The memoir eloquently captured the essence of the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers, analyzing the courage of Jackie Robinson, Roy Camp...
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Few authors have achieved as many levels of success as has Roger Kahn. When his New York Herald Tribune salary reached $10,000 a year in 1955, he was the highest-paid and most-sought-after baseball writer in the city. Turning to freelance ...
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DONNER, KAI. Finnish scholar Karl Reinhold (Kai) Donner (1888–1935) united British anthropology and Northern ethnography. Born into a Swedish-speaking family, Donner was educated in the religious liberalism and bilingualism that pre...
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire...
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Siegbahn was born to Karl M. G. Siegbahn and Karin Högbom Siegbahn on April 20, 1918, in Lund, Sweden. His father was a lecturer in physics at the University of Lund and the director of the Nobel Institute for Physics of the Royal Swe...
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CONFUCIANISM IN JAPAN. The earliest Japanese chronicles tell us that Confucianism was introduced to Japan near the end of the third century CE, when Wani of Paekche (Korea) sent the Confucian Analects (Chin., Lun-yü; Jpn., Rongo) to...
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KAIBARA EKKEN (1630–1714) was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar. Ekken was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan. Although he was the son of a samurai family, he had early contacts with townspeople and farmers of ...
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Kaik Takeshi was an extraordinary writer who expressed his thoughts with sincerity, discipline, and rigorous honesty. As a leading literary figure from the late 1950s until his death in 1989, he was a prolific novelist, short-story writer,...
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The art of kain songket ("brocaded cloth"), the manufacture of silk and cotton fabric brocaded with gold or silver thread, has been known throughout western Indonesia since at least the seventh century, the time of the early ...
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Kaisen Joki [快川紹喜] c. 2 January 1500 - 25 April 1582 ), was a Buddhist priest originally from the Mino Province .Kaisen Joki was burned to death in the Sixteenth century by Oda Nobunaga. Unsourced To those at one with themselves th...
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KṚṢṆAISM. The god Kṛṣṇa has been one of the most popular figures of Hinduism and of Indian culture generally. Episodes from his life story have found innumerable expressions in literature and art. ...
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The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), known as Hanguk Kwahakweon in Korean, was one of the first modern research institutes in the developing world dedicated to industrial technology; it became a model for similar institute...
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