Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Kite-Flying" to "Kyshtym" Volume 15, Slice 8

_Two Half-Hitches_ (fig. 11).--The half-hitch repeated; this is commonly used, and is capable of resisting to the full strength of the rope. A stop from _a_ to the standing part...

But neither zoology nor embryology furnished Kölliker's chief claim to fame. If he did much for these branches of science, he did still more for histology, the knowledge of the...

KNITTING (from O.E. _cnyttan_, to knit; cf. Ger. _Knütten_; the root is seen in "knot"), the art of forming a single thread or strand of yarn into a texture or fabric of a loop...

KRUSENSTERN, ADAM IVAN (1770-1846), Russian navigator, hydrographer and admiral, was born at Haggud in Esthonia on the 19th of November 1770. In 1785 he entered the corps of nav...

Another legend is that contained in the preface to the Register or Black Book of the order, compiled in the reign of Henry VIII., by what authority supported is unknown, that Ri...

KOCH, ROBERT (1843-1910), German bacteriologist, was born at Klausthal, Hanover, on the 11th of December 1843. He studied medicine at Göttingen, and it was while he was practisi...

The population may number about 125,000, of whom 75,000 are settled and about 50,000 nomads (Grum-Grzimailo). The Taranchis from East Turkestan represent about 40% of the popula...

KOVALEVSKY, SOPHIE (1850-1891), Russian mathematician, daughter of General Corvin-Krukovsky, was born at Moscow on the 15th of January 1850. As a young girl she was fired by the...

KÖNIGSMARK, PHILIPP CHRISTOPH, COUNT OF (1665-1694), was a member of a noble Swedish family, and is chiefly known as the lover of Sophia Dorothea, wife of the English king Georg...

From this time forward Kruger's life is so intimately bound up with the history of his country, and even in later years of South Africa, that a study of that history is essentia...

Around the Anglo-Saxon magnates were collected a crowd of retainers and dependants of all ranks and conditions; and there is evidence enough to show that among them were some ca...

It is an explicit statement of the Koran that the sacred book was revealed ("sent down") by God, not all at once, but piecemeal and gradually (xxv. 34). This is evident from the...

KUNDT, AUGUST ADOLPH EDUARD EBERHARD (1839-1894), German physicist, was born at Schwerin in Mecklenburg on the 18th of November 1839. He began his scientific studies at Leipzig,...

KÖSEN, a village and summer resort of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, 33 m. by rail S. by W. of Halle, on the Saale. Pop. (1905), 2990. The town has a mineral sprin...

KURILES (Jap. _Chishima_, "thousand islands"), a chain of small islands belonging to Japan, stretching in a north-easterly direction from Nemuro Bay, on the extreme east of the...

On the whole, while many parts of the Koran undoubtedly have considerable rhetorical power, even over an unbelieving reader, the book, aesthetically considered, is by no means a...

Shortly after Mahomet's death certain individuals applied themselves to the exposition of the Koran. Much of it was obscure from the beginning, other sections were unintelligibl...

KORIN, OGATA (c. 1657-1716), Japanese painter and lacquerer, was born at Koto, the son of a wealthy merchant who had a taste for the arts and is said to have given his son some...

Generally speaking, the Nan-shan highlands are a region raised 12,000 to 14,000 ft. above the sea, and intersected by wild, stony and partly snow-clad mountains, towering anothe...

Knox was a rather small man, with a well-knit body; he had a powerful face, with dark blue eyes under a ridge of eyebrow, high cheek-bones, and a long black beard which latterly...

KIU-KIANG FU, a prefecture and prefectural city in the province of Kiang-si, China. The city, which is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze-kiang, 15 m. above the point wh...

KRIEMHILD (_Grîmhild_), the heroine of the Nibelungenlied and wife of the hero Siegfried. The name (from O. H. Ger. _grîma_, a mask or helm, and _hiltja_ or _hilta_, war) means...

KOLABA (or COLABA), a district of British India, in the southern division of Bombay. Area, 2131 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 605,566, showing an increase of 2% in the decade. The headqu...

Many points in Kossuth's career and character will probably always remain the subject of controversy. His complete works were published in Hungarian at Budapest in 1880-1895. Th...

KONIA. (1) A vilayet in Asia Minor which includes the whole, or parts of, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cilicia and Cappadocia. It was formed in 1864 by adding to the o...

KLESL (or KHLESL), MELCHIOR (1552-1630), Austrian statesman and ecclesiastic, was the son of a Protestant baker, and was born in Vienna. Under the influence of the Jesuits he wa...

[26] Daniel, _Histoire de la Milice Françoise_, i. 99-104; Byshe's Upton, _De Studio Militari_, pp. 21-24; Dugdale, _Warwickshire_, ii. 708-710; Segar, Honor _Civil and Military...

The suras of the third Meccan period, which form a fairly large part of our present Koran, are almost entirely prosaic. Some of the revelations are of considerable extent, and t...

But even here Knox was preparing for Scotland, and facing the difficulties of the future, theoretical as well as practical. In his first year abroad he consulted Calvin and Bull...

KURUNEGALA, the chief town in the north-western province of Ceylon. Pop. of the town, 6483; of the district, 249,429. It was the residence of the kings of Ceylon from A.D. 1319...

KLADNO, a mining town of Bohemia, Austria, 18 m. W.N.W. of Prague by rail. Pop. (1900), 18,600, mostly Czech. It is situated in a region very rich in iron-mines and coal-fields...

KLOTZ, REINHOLD (1807-1870), German classical scholar, was born near Chemnitz in Saxony on the 13th of March 1807. In 1849 he was appointed professor in the university of Leipzi...

_Finance and Money._--Until 1904 the finances of Korea were completely disorganized; the currency was chaotic, and the budget was an official formality making little or no attem...

_Population._--The total Kurd population probably exceeds two and a half millions, namely, Turkish Kurds 1,650,000, Persian 800,000, Russian 50,000, but there are no trustworthy...

The _Astin-tagh_, although it occupies a similar position to the twin ranges of the Western Kuen-lun, in that it forms the outermost escarpment or border-ridge on the north of t...

KWANGCHOW BAY (KWANGCHOW WAN), a coaling station on the south coast of China, acquired, along with other concessions, by the French government in April 1898. It is situated on t...

_Russia._--The _Order of St Andrew_ was founded in 1698 by Peter the Great. It is the chief order of the empire, and admission carries with it according to the statutes of 1720...

KRÜDENER, BARBARA JULIANA, BARONESS VON (1764-1824), Russian religious mystic and author, was born at Riga in Livonia on the 11th of November 1764. Her father, Otto Hermann von...

KUCH BEHAR, or COOCH BEHAR, a native state of India, in Bengal, consisting of a submontane tract, not far from Darjeeling, entirely surrounded by British territory. Area, 1307 s...

_Double Strop_ (fig. 45).--Made with one piece of rope, the splice being brought as usual to the crown of the block _t_, the bights fitting into scores some inches apart, conver...

ix. _Prussia._ The _Order of the Black Eagle_, one of the most distinguished of European orders, was founded in 1701 by the elector of Brandenburg, Frederick I., in memory of hi...

_Austria-Hungary._--The following are the principal orders other than that of the Golden Fleece (_supra_). _The Order of St Stephen of Hungary_, the royal Hungarian order, found...

Krantz was the author of a number of historical works which for the period when they were written are characterized by exceptional impartiality and research. The principal of th...

Two modes of conferring knighthood appear to have prevailed from a very early period in all countries where chivalry was known. In both of them the essential portion seems to ha...

Korea is distinctly mountainous, and has no plains deserving the name. In the north there are mountain groups with definite centres, the most notable being Paik-tu San or Pei-sh...

KNOW NOTHING (or AMERICAN) PARTY, in United States history, a political party of great importance in the decade before 1860. Its principle was political proscription of naturali...

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Froissart is perhaps the source from which we may gather most of chivalry in its double aspect, good and bad. The brilliant side comes out most clearly in Joinvil...

ARTICLE KIU-KIANG FU: "Unfortunately, however, it stands above instead of below the outlet of the Po-yang lake, and this has proved to be a decided drawback to its success as a...

The importance of Kyd, as the pioneer in the wonderful movement of secular drama in England, gives great interest to his works, and we are now able at last to assert what many c...