Kaj Munk was, along with Kjeld Abell, one of the leading Danish playwrights of the twentieth century. Although they were different in almost every respect, the two men are credited with reinvigorating the Danish theater in the 1930s and fr...

Kakadu National Park, 200kms east of Darwin in the Northern Territory, (see map) is a World Heritage Area and has been, ever since it was listed in 1981. It was listed for it's valuable and distinctive cultural and natural values. Kakad...

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings....

KALĀM. In common usage kalām signifies speech, language, sentence, proposition, words, but in the field of Muslim religious thought it has two particular meanings: the word of God (kalām Allāh) and the science o...

KALĀBĀDHĪ, AL- (d. AH 380/5, 990/5 CE), more fully Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kalābādhī; was the author of a famous treatise on early Sufis...

Of all the inventions derived from early optical research, one of the best loved and most enduring is the kaleidoscope. Patented in 1817 by Sir David Brewster, the kaleidoscope became an instant success and remains to this day a popular ga...

James Otis Kaler, a popular and prolific writer of boys' adventure stories in the late nineteenth century, is remembered today as the author of Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus (1881), a work which has gone through some thirty editi...

BORNEAN RELIGIONS. From earliest times, the coasts of Borneo have been visited by travelers going between ancient centers of civilization in Asia. Since the sixteenth century Islam has slowly spread from coastal trading centers, such as Br...

R. Krishnamurthy ( 9 September , 1899 – 5 December , 1954 ) was an Indian author , who wrote in Tamil under various pseudonyms, but who became most famous using the name Kalki . Attributed You should be glad that the government has provi...

fl. fifth century B.C. Greek Architect Although virtually nothing is known about his personal life, Greek architect Callicrates is credited as one of the codesigners (with Ictinus) of the Parthenon in Athens, part of the larger Acropolis. ...

(1693–1789), Kazakh poet. The Kazakh poet Bukharzhrau Kalmakanov (or Bukhar-zhyrau Qalmaqanuly) was active at the court of Abylay (1711–1781), the khan of the Middle Horde. As his name-element zhyrau signifies, he was a poet ...

Born July 1, 1961 Karnal, India Died February 1, 2003 In Columbia explosion upon return to Earth Astronaut and aeronautical engineer Kalpana Chawla. . "You...

Japan's Kamakura period (1185–1333) was the first time a truly nonaristocratic regime held sway over the nation. Toward the end of the Heian period (794–1185), two warrior clans, the Taira (or Heike) and the Minamoto (...

SOURCE: Blackwell, Fritz. “Krishna Motifs in the Poetry of Sarojini Naidu and Kamala Das.” Journal of South Asian Literature 13, nos. 1-4 (1977-1978): 9-14. In the following essay, Blackwell contrasts the use of the Krishna motif in fou...

Kamehameha I (ca. 1758-1819), first king of the Hawaiian Islands, conquered and united the islands. He became a statesman who knew how to keep the best of the old ways while adopting the best of the new. Born in Kohala, Hawaii, of a family...

This article or section should be merged with Super Mario Bros. . Kamek Quotes: YOSHI'S ISLAND MARIO AND LUIGI PARTNERS IN TIME: "Here.. uhhh.. have some milk.. it's uhh from an evil cow"- To Baby Bowser on the peak of Yoshi's Island befor...

Vasilii Vasil'evich Kamensky is best known for his work in 1913-1914 with the Futurist group "Hylaea," but his creative output spans four decades. Kamensky was involved in significant literary events throughout his career and knew many peo...

KAMI. From a historical and religious viewpoint, what is meant by the Japanese word kami cannot be exhausted by the term itself, for it is also often expressed in other terms, such as tama (spirits), as well as by names for natural things ...

Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (May 6, 1920 - April 18, 2004), Founding father and Long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji . Sourced "Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and ...

Kamo no Chmei (or Nagaakira) claims an eminent place in the history of Japanese letters despite his relatively small oeuvre. He was a respected poet at a fairly early age; wrote a valuable treatise on poetry, poetics, and poetic lore; and ...

In 1977–78 Anne Hébert returned to drama [the genre in which she created some of her earliest work,] with the short play L'Ile de la demoiselle, which was published less than a year before her recent novel Héloise. Neither of these work...

Kanal seems to me, except for one minor flaw, as perfect an antiwar film as was ever made. (p. 21) The wretched troop [of the Warsaw Uprising] sloshes about [in the sewers] waist-deep in muck, in abysmal darkness, and totally unsure of thei...