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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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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...
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In her review of Kaja Silverman's The Threshold of the Visible World (1996), feminist theorist Mieke Bal observed that Silverman "is in the habit of raising questions that remain unanswered, and devoting her next book to them." Silverman's...
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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...
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Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993) was the most controversial of the post-World War II prime ministers of Japan. As the leader of the largest faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) he dominated Japanese politics for many years. Althou...
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The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings....
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KĀLACAKRA ("Wheel of Time"; Tib., dus kyi 'khor lo; Mong., čay-un kürdü) is the Sanskrit name for the principal male deity and personification of the Kālacakra Tantra, an Indian Buddh...
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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...
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding....
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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...
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Vjekoslav Kaleb is a towering figure among contemporary Croatian writers, one whose impressive body of work includes fifty-seven short stories and novellas, three novels (one of which was rewritten under a different title), screenplays, po...
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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...
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The term Language Arts may mean: Language, an academic study, sometimes also specialized as linguistics Language Arts (1996 album) by the artist Buck 65...
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Detours on the Way to Hollywood Oh! the spaciousness of this great picture. The limitless plains, the wild scurry of the horses, the freedom. -Review of Selig's RANCH LIFE IN THE GREAT SOUTHWEST, in Moving Picture World, 9 July 1910, p. 78...
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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...
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SOURCE: "Preface to the 'Old Kalevala'," in The Kalevala; or, Poems of the Kaleva District, edited by Elias Lönnrot, translated by Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 365-74. In the following ...
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Kalilah and Dimnah Like The Arabian Nights, Kalilah and Dimnah boasts a mixed pedigree. Its stories originated in India, gathered by an unknown Brahmin during the third century C.E., then traveled to Persia where they were translated from t...
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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...
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Kaliopate Tavola has been Fiji's Foreign Minister since 2000. The Challenges of Democracy in the Pacific ( Speech delivered to the 33rd Pacific Pacific Islands Forum, 15 August 2002, Nadi , Fiji) - excerpts. "Democracy is a means of achiev...
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David Kalakaua (1836-1891) was a Hawaiian King who was a staunch supporter of native Hawaiian civil rights. His opposition to the white business community led to a rebellion forcing him to sign a new constitution relinqushing his powers as...
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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...
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[In an early essay Vidal wrote] that the shrinking audience for fiction was really a good thing, because it left the novel only "the best things: that exploration of the inner world's divisions and distinctions where no camera may follow."...
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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. ...
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Joseph Kallinger was a Philadelphia shoemaker whose 1974-1975 crime spree relied on his 13-year-old son as an accomplice. Kallinger was born in 1937 and was adopted into an abusive family. In turn, he was abusive to his six children and wa...
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(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 ...
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Natalie Kalmus (1883-1965) played a key role in the development and promotion of the Technicolor film process. Kalmus was born Natalie Mabelle Dunfee in 1883 (some sources say 1878 or 1892) in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of George Kays...
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Born July 1, 1961 Karnal, India Died February 1, 2003 In Columbia explosion upon return to Earth Astronaut and aeronautical engineer Kalpana Chawla. . "You...
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Kama Sutra is a classic treatise on the science of sex. It was written by a famous Indian sage, Maharshi Vatsyayana, fifteen hundred years ago during the golden period of the Gupta dynasty. It is based on ancient Indian scriptures and trea...
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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 (...
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Kamal Jumblatt (1917-1977) was a distinguished ideologue and Druze leader in Lebanese politics who was considered the father of the contemporary Left in Lebanon despite his feudal background. Kamal Jumblatt was born in Mukhtarah, Lebanon, ...
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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...
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KAMALAŚĪLA (c. 740–795) was an Indian Buddhist scholar and monk, who was famed for his role in the legendary Bsam yas debate in Tibet and for his prolific writings on Buddhist philosophy and practice. A disciple of &#x...
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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...
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Kamehameha III (ca. 1814-1854), king of the Hawaiian Islands for 30 years, reigned longer than any Hawaiian ruler. He gave his people a constitution and reformed the land laws. Kamehameha III, son of Kamehameha I, was born at Keauhou, Hawa...
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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...
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Kamelot is a power metal band from Tampa, Florida. Contents 1 Albums 1.1 The Fourth Legacy (2000) 1.2 Karma (2001) 1.3 Epica (2003) 1.4 The Black Halo (2005) 1.5 Ghost Opera (2007) 2 External links // Albums The Fourth Legacy (2000) If you...
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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...
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