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or Qandahar (both: k n´´d här´) (KEY) , city (1989 est. pop. 203,000), capital of Kandahar prov., S Afghanistan. The country’s second largest ci...
(kärl) (KEY) , 1918–, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 1943. He worked on the Manhattan Project before beginning a ca...
(känä´r s) (KEY) , 1790–1877, Greek patriot, admiral, and politician. He distinguished himself in the Greek War of Independence, notably at Tened...
1860–1934, American primitive painter, b. Scotland. He came to Pittsburgh at the age of 19 and worked for years as a day laborer, painting in his sp...
(k m) (KEY) , low, steep, rounded hill or ridge of layered sand and gravel drift, developed from glacial deposits. Kames were probably formed by strea...
Caaba (both: kä´b or kä´ b ) (KEY) [Arab.,=cube], the central, cubic, stone structure, covered by a black cloth, within the Great Mosque in Mecc...