Victoria: Federation and the state of Victoria: …a coalition government led by Jeff Kennett that almost immediately began implementing a liberalizing agenda. Publicly owned trains, trams, and buses were leased to private operators; the government-operated Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria was dismantled; and the state-owned electricity company was sold. Refurbished sporting venues, new sports facilities, expanded…

Kennewick, city, Benton county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Columbia River, opposite Pasco and immediately southeast of Richland. Laid out in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company, Kennewick is surrounded by farm country producing alfalfa, corn (maize), beans, sugar

Native American: Repatriation and the disposition of the dead: Subsequently known as Kennewick Man (among scientists) or the Ancient One (among repatriation activists), this person most probably lived sometime between about 9,000 and 9,500 years ago, certainly before 5,600–6,000 years ago. A number of tribes and a number of scientists laid competing claims to the remains. Their…

Nechako River: It originates at Kenney Dam and flows eastward for nearly 150 miles (240 km), draining the Nechako Plateau into the Fraser at Prince George, B.C. Stuart River, a 258-mile- (415-kilometre-) long tributary, joins the Nechako midway between Fort Fraser and Prince George, a stretch that is paralleled by…

Emmeline Pankhurst: …its members, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, thrown out of a Liberal Party meeting for demanding a statement about votes for women, were arrested in the street for a technical assault on the police and, after refusing to pay fines, were sent to prison.

National Lampoon: Origin, success, and decline: Henry Beard, Robert Hoffman, and Doug Kenney, all of whom had worked on The Harvard Lampoon, a college humour magazine established in 1876. During their tenure at The Harvard Lampoon, Beard, Hoffman, and Kenney were instrumental in publishing several nationally distributed magazine and book parodies, including parodies of Time, Playboy,…

Mary Kenney O’Sullivan was an American labour leader and reformer who devoted her energies to improving conditions for factory workers in many industries through union organizing. Mary Kenney at an early age went to work as an apprentice dressmaker. Later she worked in a printing and binding

Carol Kennicott, fictional character, an idealistic young bride who attempts to bring culture to the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minn., in the novel Main Street (1920) by Sinclair

kenning, concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. A kenning is commonly a simple stock compound such as “whale-path” or “swan road” for “sea,” “God’s beacon” for “sun,” or “ring-giver” for “king.” Many kennings are

South Africa: Literature: …Kennis van die aand (1973; Looking on Darkness), Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979), and Breyten Breytenbach’s In Africa Even the Flies Are Happy (1977). Also during this time, the government enacted the Publications Act of 1974, which expanded and strengthened existing censorship policies. Many authors went into exile;

vocal music: The 17th–20th centuries: Hugo Wolf’s “Kennst du das Land” (“Do You Know the Land”) faithfully reflects the iambic feet (˘′) of Goethe’s poem, but this prosodic awareness is combined with a sensitivity to the important words in the text. Furthermore, the melody progresses to a musical climax, as Wolf prepares…

Elizabeth Kenny: …formed the basis of the Kenny method, which was later adapted to include physical therapies such as the bending and flexing of joints for rehabilitation.

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

Enda Kenny is an Irish politician who served as leader of Fine Gael (2002–17) and as taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland (2011–17). Kenny attended the National University of Ireland, Galway, and spent four years working as a teacher. He turned to politics in 1975 upon the death of his father,

Enda Kenny: …the death of his father, Henry Kenny, a long-serving member of the Dáil Éireann (Ireland’s lower legislative house), representing Mayo. Kenny won a comfortable victory in a special election to fill his father’s seat, and at age 24 he was the youngest member of the Dáil. He spent much of…

Saint Kenneth ; feast day October 11) was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, and missionary who contributed to the conversion of the Picts. He is one of the most popular Celtic saints in Scotland (where he is called Kenneth) and in Ireland (where he is called Canice) and patron saint of the diocese

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

Elizabeth Kenny was an Australian nurse and health administrator who was known for her alternative approach to polio treatment, known as the Kenny method. Her fight to gain the medical community’s acceptance for her method was the subject of the 1946 film Sister Kenny. Kenny, whose father was an

keno, gambling game played with cards (tickets) bearing numbers in squares, usually from 1 to 80. A player marks or circles as many of these numbers as he wishes up to the permitted maximum, after which he hands in, or registers, his ticket and pays according to how many numbers he selected. At

Democritus: …asserted that space, or the Void, had an equal right with reality, or Being, to be considered existent. He conceived of the Void as a vacuum, an infinite space in which moved an infinite number of atoms that made up Being (i.e., the physical world). These atoms are eternal and…

Kenora, town, Kenora district, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the northern shore of Lake of the Woods, 300 miles (480 km) northwest of Thunder Bay. The Hudson’s Bay Company built a trading post on Old Fort Island (1790), and lumbering in the locality was followed by a gold-mining boom

Kenoran orogeny, a Precambrian thermal event on the Canadian Shield that occurred 2.5 billion years ago (± 150 million years). Rocks affected by the Kenoran event represent some of the oldest rocks in North America and occur in the Superior Province surrounding Hudson Bay on the south and east, the

Archean Eon: …some scholars refer to as Kenorland.

Kenosha, city, seat (1850) of Kenosha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Pike River, just north of the Illinois state line. Founded in 1835 by settlers from New York, it was first called Pike Creek, then was called Southport for its importance as a

electronics: The vacuum tube era: Coolidge and Fleming’s thermionic valve (a two-electrode vacuum tube) for use in radio receivers. The detection of a radio signal, which is a very high-frequency alternating current (AC), requires that the signal be rectified; i.e., the alternating current must be converted into a direct current (DC) by a…

Kanazawa: Kenroku Garden, formerly on the Maeda estate, is an excellent example of Japanese landscape gardening. Manufacturing developed from Kanazawa’s luxury industries of fine lacquer and Kutani ware porcelain. An ancient silk industry has been expanded to include cotton, woolen, rayon, and nylon textiles. Kanazawa University…

Kanazawa: Kenroku Garden, formerly on the Maeda estate, is an excellent example of Japanese landscape gardening. Manufacturing developed from Kanazawa’s luxury industries of fine lacquer and Kutani ware porcelain. An ancient silk industry has been expanded to include cotton, woolen, rayon, and nylon textiles. Kanazawa University…

Kōshaku Katsura Tarō: His Rikken Dōshikai was at first unsuccessful but eventually became one of the two major political groups in pre-World War II Japan. Katsura’s third premiership lasted only seven weeks (December 1912–February 1913) and ended amidst riots against his oligarchic methods and his program for greater armaments.…

Japan: Constitutional government: …party, the Constitutional Party (Kenseitō), and were allowed to form a government. But their alliance was brittle as long-standing animosities and jealousies enabled antiparty forces among the bureaucracy and oligarchy to force their resignation within a few months.

John Frederick Kensett was an American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists. Kensett was trained as an engraver by his father, Thomas Kensett, and his uncle, Alfred Daggett, a banknote engraver. In 1838 Kensett went to New York City to work for a

seppuku: …presence of a witness (kenshi) sent by the authority issuing the death sentence. The prisoner was usually seated on two tatami mats, and behind him stood a second (kaishakunin), usually a relative or friend, with sword drawn. A small table bearing a short sword was placed in front of…

Shinran was a Buddhist teacher recognized as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land School), which advocates that faith, recitation of the name of the buddha Amida (Amitabha), and birth in the paradise of the Pure Land. For centuries Jōdo Shinshū has been one of the largest schools of

Berlin, town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S., on the Mattabesset River, just southeast of New Britain. It includes the villages of East Berlin and Kensington. The first white settler was Richard Beckley of New Haven, who established Beckley’s Quarter in 1660. Formerly called

Kensington and Chelsea, royal borough in inner London, England, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It occupies the north bank of the River Thames west of the City of Westminster. The borough of Kensington and Chelsea, forming part of London’s fashionable West End district, is predominantly

Kensington Gardens, park lying almost completely within the borough of Westminster, London; a small portion is in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It covers an area of 275 acres (111 hectares) and is bordered by the grounds of Kensington Palace (west), Bayswater (north), South Kensington

Thomas W. Dyott: …in 1833 he purchased the Kensington (Pennsylvania) Glass Works, where he employed 400 workers. Here he found an outlet for his Utopian ambitions. No liquor was permitted in Dyottville, or “Temperanceville,” as the factory community was called, although the “doctor’s” own medicines had a high alcoholic content. Workers rose to…

Bridgetown: Northwest of the cathedral is Kensington Oval, a historic cricket ground (1871; original structure demolished and rebuilt 2005–07) that has hosted international matches since 1895, including the International Cricket Council World Cup final in 2007.

Kensington Palace, royal palace in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Its grounds border the extensive Kensington Gardens to the east. The palace was originally built for Sir George Coppin in the 17th century, and it became known as Nottingham House after it was purchased by an earl of

Kensington Stone, supposed relic of a 14th-century Scandinavian exploration of the interior of North America. Most scholars deem it a forgery, claiming linguistically that the carved writing on it is many years out of style; a few scholars, notably Robert A. Hall, Jr., former professor at Cornell

Delaware: …north to south, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex—all established by 1682. Its population, like its industry, is concentrated in the north, around Wilmington, where the major coastal highways and railways pass through from Pennsylvania and New Jersey on the north and east into Maryland on the south and west. The…

Kent, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, probably geographically coterminous with the modern county, famous as the site of the first landing of Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain, as the kingdom that received the first Roman mission to the Anglo-Saxons, and for its distinctive social and

Kent, administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. It is bordered to the southwest by East Sussex, to the west by Surrey, to the northwest by Greater London, to the north by the Thames estuary, to the northeast by the North Sea,

Kent, county, northeastern Maryland, U.S. It consists of a coastal plain bordered by the Sassafras River to the north, Delaware to the east, the Chester River to the south, and Chesapeake Bay to the west. The county, named for Kent, Eng., dates to 1642. Chestertown, the county seat, contains

Kent, city, Portage county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on the Cuyahoga River, immediately northeast of Akron. The site was first settled in about 1805 by John and Jacob Haymaker and was called Riedsburg. It was later named Franklin Mills, and when incorporated as a village in 1867 it was renamed for

Kent, county, west-central Rhode Island, U.S., lying between Connecticut to the west and Narragansett Bay to the east. The Pawtuxet River flows through the county’s northeastern corner. The county was created in 1750 and named for Kent, Eng. There is no county seat, but the principal towns are

Edward Augustus, duke of Kent and Strathern was the fourth son of King George III of Great Britain, and the father of Queen Victoria. He made his career in the army and saw service at Gibraltar, Canada, and the West Indies, where he was renowned as a severe disciplinarian. Like most of his

Kent State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent, branch campuses in Ashtabula and East Liverpool, and two-year colleges in Salem and in Geauga, Stark, Trumbull, and Tuscarawas

Kent State shooting, the shooting of unarmed college students at Kent State University, in northeastern Ohio, by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, one of the seminal events of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States. Republican Richard Nixon won election as president of the United

Kent State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kent, Ohio, U.S. A larger Kent State University system comprises the main campus in Kent, branch campuses in Ashtabula and East Liverpool, and two-year colleges in Salem and in Geauga, Stark, Trumbull, and Tuscarawas

Kent’s Cavern, large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, England, that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Rev. J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825–29), was perhaps first to proclaim this fact. Excavations (1865–80) made by

Kent’s Cavern, large limestone cave near Torquay, Devonshire, England, that yielded some of the earliest evidence of human coexistence with extinct animals. The Rev. J. McEnery, who investigated the upper deposits (1825–29), was perhaps first to proclaim this fact. Excavations (1865–80) made by

Superman, American comic strip superhero created for DC Comics by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Superman first appeared in Action Comics, no. 1 (June 1938). Superman’s origin is perhaps one of the best-known stories in comic book history. Indeed, in All Star Superman no. 1 (2005),

Odo of Bayeux was the half brother of William the Conqueror and bishop of Bayeux, Normandy. He probably commissioned the famed Bayeux Tapestry, which pictures the Norman Conquest of England, for the dedication of his cathedral (1077). Odo was the son of Herluin of Conteville by Arlette, who had

Edmund Plantagenet, 1st earl of Kent was the youngest brother of England’s King Edward II, whom he supported to the forfeit of his own life. He received many marks of favour from his brother, whom he steadily supported until the last act in Edward’s life opened in 1326. He fought in Scotland and

Hannah Kent Schoff was an American welfare worker and reformer who was influential in state and national child welfare and juvenile criminal legislation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Schoff married in 1873 and eventually settled in Philadelphia. She attended the first National Congress

James Kent was a jurist whose decisions and written commentaries shaped the inchoate common law in the formative years of the United States and also influenced jurisprudence in England and other common-law countries. As chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery (1814–23), he is said to have made

Joan Bocher was an English Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy during the reign of the Protestant Edward VI. Bocher first came to notice about 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, when she began distributing among ladies of the court William Tyndale’s forbidden translation of the New

Victoria: Lineage and early life: …than her German-born mother, the duchess of Kent, were her half sister, Féodore, and her governess, Louise (afterward the Baroness) Lehzen, a native of Coburg. An important father figure to the orphaned princess was her uncle Leopold, her mother’s brother, who lived at Claremont, near Esher, Surrey, until he became…

Rockwell Kent was a painter and illustrator whose works, though never radically innovative, represented scenes of nature and adventure with such vividness and drama that he became one of the most popular American artists of the first half of the 20th century. Kent studied architecture at Columbia

Thomas Holland, duke of Surrey was a prominent English noble in the reign of Richard II. Son of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350–97), he aided in the arrest and destruction of Richard II’s enemies and was awarded with the dukedom of Surrey in 1397. In 1398 he was created marshal of England

William Kent was an English architect, interior designer, landscape gardener, and painter. He was a principal master of the Palladian architectural style in England and a pioneer in the creation of the “informal” English garden. Kent was said to have been apprenticed to a coach painter at Hull.

Kentaū, city, south-central Kazakhstan. It is located on the slopes of the Qarataū mountain range. Kentaū was formed in 1955 from several settlements and grew rapidly as a city, with a plant for enriching polymetallic ores and reinforced concrete (ferroconcrete), transformer, and excavator works.

Theseum: …hand, the western one a kentauromachia (battle of centaurs). The temple is of Pentelic marble—except for the foundation and the lowest stylobate step, which are of Piraic stone, and the frieze of the cella, which is Parian marble. Fragments of the polychromatic decoration are housed in the British Museum in…

Centaur, in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the offspring of Ixion, king of the neighbouring Lapiths, and were best known for their fight (centauromachy) with the Lapiths, which resulted from

Uys Krige: …with a book of verse, Kentering (1935; “Turnings”); a play, Magdelena Retief (1938); and a volume of poetic tales, Die palmboom (1940; “The Palm Tree”). He served as a war correspondent with the South African forces in North Africa (1940–41) and was captured at Tobruk. He was sent to Italy…

houseplant: Trees: …the feather palms is the paradise palm (Howea, or Kentia), which combines grace with sturdiness; its thick, leathery leaves can stand much abuse. The parlour palms and bamboo palms of the genus Chamaedorea have dainty fronds on slender stalks; they keep well even in fairly dark places. Similar in appearance…

Saint Kentigern ; feast day January 14) was an abbot and early Christian missionary, traditionally the first bishop of Glasgow and the evangelist of the ancient Celtic kingdom of Cumbria in southwestern Scotland. Little else is known about him except from late, dubious hagiographies. According to

Old English language: …Scotland; Mercian in central England; Kentish in southeastern England; and West Saxon in southern and southwestern England. Mercian and Northumbrian are often classed together as the Anglian dialects. Most extant Old English writings are in the West Saxon dialect; the first great period of literary activity occurred during the reign…

Stan Kenton was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers and thrust formal education and big-band jazz together into what became the stage (or concert) band movement of the 1960s and ’70s, involving thousands of

Stan Kenton was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, and composer who commissioned and promoted the works of many modern composer-arrangers and thrust formal education and big-band jazz together into what became the stage (or concert) band movement of the 1960s and ’70s, involving thousands of

William Kentridge is a South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism he revealed in these and other works echoed a larger European tradition of artists such as Honoré

dinosaur: Stegosauria: …were this large; for example, Kentrosaurus, from eastern Africa, was less than 2 metres high and 3.5 metres long.

Walter Brennan: …grandfatherly horse farm owner in Kentucky, and in 1940 he earned an unprecedented third Academy Award, for his performance as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner. The latter movie also starred Gary Cooper, and the two actors subsequently worked together in other films.

Kentucky, constituent state of the United States of America. Rivers define Kentucky’s boundaries except on the south, where it shares a border with Tennessee along a nearly straight line of about 425 miles (685 km), and on the southeast, where it shares an irregular, mountainous border with

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, (1798), in U.S. history, measures passed by the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky as a protest against the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts. The resolutions were written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson (then vice president in the administration of John

bluegrass: …species found in North America, Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) is among the best-known. It was introduced from Eurasia. It is a popular lawn and pasture grass and is common in open areas and along roadsides. It is 30 to 100 cm (12 to 40 inches) tall, with soft, blue-green leaves;…

Kentucky coffeetree, (Gymnocladus dioicus), deciduous tree of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to North America from New York and southern Ontario to Oklahoma. In colonial times the roasted seeds were used as a coffee substitute, and the plant is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental. The strong

Robert Schenkkan: …got his big break with The Kentucky Cycle, a series of nine short plays that spanned 1775–1975 and chronicled three American families: African American, Euro-American, and Native American; the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, prior to a short Tony Award-nominated run on Broadway the following year.

Kentucky Lake: …created in 1944 when the Kentucky Dam impounded the Tennessee River. The dam, which is 206 feet (63 metres) high and 8,422 feet (2,567 metres) long, is the largest in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system. Located near Gilbertsville and 22 miles (35 km) upstream from Paducah, it regulates the…

Kentucky Derby, the most prestigious American horse race, established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs racetrack, Louisville, Kentucky. With the Preakness Stakes (run in mid-May) and the Belmont Stakes (early in June), it makes up American Thoroughbred

The Kentucky Derby is one of the most storied events in American sports. The legendary horse race is known for its traditions—mint julep, anyone?—and its long, colourful history. Held annually since 1875, the derby is the oldest American sporting event still being staged, and it is widely

Kentucky: Education: …Kentucky General Assembly passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), a landmark piece of legislation that, most notably, provided for equal funding for all school districts based on enrollments. The goal was to achieve equitable educational opportunities for every Kentucky schoolchild. Beyond matters of finance, this act affected public education…

Taco Bell: …began a branding partnership with KFC, and in 1997 both became subsidiaries of Tricon Global Restaurants (later Yum! Brands) when it split from PepsiCo. A Chihuahua named Gidget became a popular, if controversial (the dog was accused of being a cultural stereotype), star of Taco Bell’s commercials in the late…

ham: The renowned Kentucky hams of the United States, for example, are cut exclusively from Hampshire hogs that have been fattened on beans, wild acorns, and clover until the last few weeks before the slaughter, when their diet is restricted to grain. The curing process entails a month…

Kentucky Lake, one of the largest man-made lakes in the eastern United States, situated in Marshall, Calloway, Livingston, Lyon, and Trigg counties, southwestern Kentucky, U.S.; its southern extremity overlaps into Tennessee. The lake is 184 miles (296 km) long and has more than 2,300 miles (3,700

Kentucky State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of colleges of arts and sciences, professional studies, schools of business and public administration, and Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, (1798), in U.S. history, measures passed by the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky as a protest against the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts. The resolutions were written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson (then vice president in the administration of John

shooting: The American frontier: The flintlock Kentucky rifle, produced from about 1750 by American gunsmiths from Germany and Switzerland, provided great accuracy to 180 metres (200 yards), then a long range. Virtually every village and settlement had a shooting match on weekends and holidays, often attracting a hundred or more marksmen.…

Kentucky River, tributary of the Ohio River in north-central Kentucky, U.S., and navigable along its 259-mile (417-km) course by means of locks. It is formed by the confluence of North, Middle, and South forks near Beattyville in Lee county and empties into the Ohio at Carrollton. The North Fork

square dance: …square dance to both the Kentucky running set of English derivation and to the cotillon, a stately French dance in square formation, popular at the court of Louis XV but supplanted later by the quadrille (also a “square” dance).

Kentucky State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. It is a land-grant university consisting of colleges of arts and sciences, professional studies, schools of business and public administration, and Whitney M. Young, Jr., College of

Ricky Skaggs: …Records and formed the band Kentucky Thunder. Renowned for their driving tempos and clean, fast instrumental technique, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder became and remained a celebrated force in the field, winning seven Grammy Awards—including five awards for best bluegrass album (1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008)—by the end of the…

Harriette Arnow: …in a Detroit suburb, and The Kentucky Trace (1974), in which a Revolutionary War soldier seeks his family. In the early 1960s Arnow published two books of social history about the pioneers who settled the Cumberland Plateau (in Kentucky and Tennessee): Seedtime on the Cumberland (1960) and The Flowering of…

U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the state seal in the centre.At the time of its admission to the Union in 1792, Kentucky was considered to be on the nation’s western frontier, and this was reflected in the symbolism of the state seal. According to the design

University of Kentucky, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. It includes the Chandler Medical Center, also in Lexington, and Lexington Community College. The campus consists of 12 colleges offering instruction in fields such as agriculture, business and

Rockford, city, seat (1836) of Winnebago county, northern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Rock River, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Chicago. Rockford was founded by New Englanders in 1834 as separate settlements (commonly known as Kentville and Haightville, for the founders of each) on each

Camden: Kenwood House, the former home of the Mansfield family, was remodeled (1764–73) by Robert Adam; its extensive grounds are now the setting for summer lawn concerts, and displayed within the house is a collection of masterpieces mainly by 18th-century British painters. Heath House was the…

Our Future Eco-Cities: Beyond Automobile Dependence: …them to evolve into more sustainable and livable forms.

Kenya, country in East Africa famed for its scenic landscapes and vast wildlife preserves. Its Indian Ocean coast provided historically important ports by which goods from Arabian and Asian traders have entered the continent for many centuries. Along that coast, which holds some of the finest

Kenya: Political process: Its early principal opposition, the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), merged with KANU in 1964. Since Kenya’s transformation from single-party KANU rule back into a multiparty state in the early 1990s, many political parties have been created and alliances between parties have been formed, often in advance of upcoming elections.…