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Carmathians (kärm ´th nz) (KEY) , a Muslim sect of the 9th and 10th cent., similar to the Assassin sect. They were part of a movement for social re...
Kaffirs (both: k f´ rz) (KEY) [Arab.,=infidel], name applied by European settlers to the Xhosa branch of the Bantu-speaking people of S Africa. Orig...
(kä´p ts ) (KEY) , 1894–1984, Russian physicist, educated at the polytechnic institute of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and at Cambridge. He deve...
Karakoram, mountain range, extending c.300 mi (480 km), between the Indus and Yarkant rivers, N Kashmir, S central Asia; SE extension of the Hindu Kus...
two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jack...
(kä´g ) (KEY) , common name for a long-legged, heronlike bird, Rhynochetos jubatus. It has a loose, gray plumage with darker bandings; broad, rounde...