- King, Gregory (British statistician)
Gregory King was an English genealogist, engraver, and statistician, best known for his Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England, 1696, first published in 1801, which gives the best available picture of England’s population and wealth at the end of
- King, Henry (English poet)
Henry King was an English poet and Anglican bishop whose elegy for his wife is considered one of the best in the English language. Educated at Oxford, King received numerous and remunerative preferments. A friend and an executor of the estate of John Donne, his poetry was as much influenced by Ben
- King, Henry (American director)
Henry King was an American film director who was a respected craftsman known for his versatility. His more than 100 movies, many of which focused on Americana, included westerns, literary adaptations, and historical dramas. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) King acted
- King, Ivan R. (American astronomer)
Milky Way Galaxy: Globular clusters: The American astronomer Ivan R. King, for instance, derived dynamical models that fit observed stellar distributions very closely. He finds that a cluster’s structure can be described in terms of two numbers: (1) the core radius, which measures the degree of concentration at the centre, and (2) the…
- King, James Gore (American banker)
Weehawken: …estate of New York banker James Gore King, was the scene in July 1804 of the duel in which Alexander Hamilton was fatally wounded by Aaron Burr; a bronze bust of Hamilton marks the site. The semicircular wall surrounding the Hamilton monument was built by King to protect his guest,…
- King, John (Australian explorer)
Robert O’Hara Burke: …and by Charles Gray and John King. The four reached northern Australia in February 1861 but could not penetrate the swamps and jungle scrub that lay between them and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- King, John William (American criminal)
murder of James Byrd, Jr.: …truck by three white men—John William King, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and Shawn Allen Berry.
- King, Jon (British musician)
Gang of Four: The principal members were Jon King (b. June 8, 1955, London, England), Andy Gill (b. January 1, 1956, Manchester–d. February 1, 2020), Hugo Burnham (b. March 25, 1956, London), and Dave Allen (b. December 23, 1955, Kendal, Cumbria).
- King, Larry (American talk-show host)
Larry King was an American talk-show host whose easygoing interviewing style helped make Larry King Live (1985–2010) one of CNN’s longest-running and most popular programs. King grew up in Brooklyn, where he remained for several years after high-school graduation to help support his mother, who had
- King, Leslie Lynch, Jr. (president of the United States)
Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States (1974–77), who, as 40th vice president, had succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard Nixon, under the process decreed by the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution, and thereby became the country’s only chief
- King, Lester Charles (South African geologist)
continental landform: The geomorphic concepts of Penck and King: …(1953) championed with variations by Lester C. King of South Africa. Both retained some Davisian devices, including peneplain, graded stream, and base-level control of erosion surfaces in Penck’s case and the latter two in King’s. Each thought that tectonic uplift punctuated the erosion cycle by initiating renewed stream incision, and…
- King, Mackenzie (prime minister of Canada)
W.L. Mackenzie King was the prime minister of Canada (1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48) and leader of the Liberal Party, who helped preserve the unity of the English and French populations of Canada. Mackenzie King, as he is usually called, was the son of John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie, daughter of
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (American religious leader and civil-rights activist)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in
- King, Mervyn (British economist)
Mervyn King is a British economist who served as governor of the Bank of England (BOE; 2003–13). King, the son of a railway clerk, grew up in modest circumstances. His intelligence and drive took him to King’s College, Cambridge, where he earned a degree in economics in 1969. After studying at
- King, Mervyn Allister, Baron King of Lothbury (British economist)
Mervyn King is a British economist who served as governor of the Bank of England (BOE; 2003–13). King, the son of a railway clerk, grew up in modest circumstances. His intelligence and drive took him to King’s College, Cambridge, where he earned a degree in economics in 1969. After studying at
- King, Michael (Israeli political extremist and rabbi)
Meir Kahane was an American-born Israeli political extremist and rabbi who campaigned for self-protection of Jews. The grandson and son of rabbis, Kahane joined a paramilitary, right-wing youth movement in 1946. He earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College (1954), an L.L.B. from New York Law School
- King, Michael Luther, Jr. (American religious leader and civil-rights activist)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in
- King, Moira Shearer (Scottish ballerina and actress)
Moira Shearer was a Scottish ballerina and actress best known for her performance as the suicidal ballerina in the ballet film The Red Shoes (1948). Shearer studied at the Sadler’s Wells (later the Royal Ballet) School and with Nicholas Legat in London, danced with the International Ballet in 1941,
- King, Mrs. Thomas Van Dyke (Canadian figure skater)
Barbara Ann Scott was a Canadian figure skater who was the first citizen of a country outside Europe to win a world championship in skating (1947). (Read Scott Hamilton’s Britannica entry on figure skating.) Scott won the Canadian women’s championship from 1944 to 1946 and in 1948 and the North
- King, Owen (American author)
Stephen King: Personal life and honors: …two sons, Joe Hill and Owen King, who are novelists. With Owen King he wrote Sleeping Beauties (2017), in which women become wrapped in cocoons when they fall asleep.
- King, Philip Gidley (British governor)
King Island: …was named in 1801 for Philip Gidley King, third governor of New South Wales. Scarcely settled before 1900, it now makes up a local government area. Mixed livestock farming (dairy and beef cattle) and crop growing are pursued on a broad central and narrower northern belt. Scheelite (tungsten ore), mined…
- King, Phillip Parker (British explorer)
Alligator Rivers: …explored in 1818–20 by Captain Phillip Parker King, who named them in the belief that the crocodiles infesting their lower swampy, jungle-fringed reaches were alligators (actually, alligators are not indigenous to Australia). The South Alligator rises in the hills near El Sherana, a now-abandoned mining base for uranium, and follows…
- King, Queen, Knave (novel by Nabokov)
King, Queen, Knave, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in Russian in 1928 as Korol, dama, valet. With this novel Nabokov began his career-long obsession with gamesmanship, wordplay in several languages, and multiple surreal images and characterizations. The image of a deck of playing cards
- King, Regina (American actress and director)
Regina King is an American actress and director who was known for her depth and versatility, earning acclaim for both comedic and dramatic roles. King’s father was an electrician and her mother a special education teacher; they divorced when she was a child. While still young, King took acting
- King, Regina Rene (American actress and director)
Regina King is an American actress and director who was known for her depth and versatility, earning acclaim for both comedic and dramatic roles. King’s father was an electrician and her mother a special education teacher; they divorced when she was a child. While still young, King took acting
- King, Richard (American rancher)
King Ranch: …King Ranch was established by Richard King, a steamboat captain born in 1825 in Orange county, New York. Drawn to Texas by the Mexican War (1846–48), King piloted a steamer on the Rio Grande. After the war he bought his own steamer and went into partnership with Captain Mifflin Kenedy,…
- King, Riley B. (American musician)
B.B. King was an American guitarist and singer who was a principal figure in the development of blues and from whose style leading popular musicians drew inspiration. King was reared in the Mississippi Delta, and gospel music in church was the earliest influence on his singing. To his own
- King, Rufus (American statesman)
Rufus King was a Founding Father of the United States who helped frame the federal Constitution and effect its ratification. An active Federalist senator and able diplomat, he ran unsuccessfully for vice president (1804, 1808) and for president (1816). After graduating from Harvard in 1777, he
- King, Stephen (American novelist)
Stephen King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books are credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. King is the second of two sons born to Donald and Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury) King. His parents separated when he was very young. King and his
- King, Stephen Edwin (American novelist)
Stephen King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books are credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. King is the second of two sons born to Donald and Nellie Ruth (née Pillsbury) King. His parents separated when he was very young. King and his
- King, Thomas (American-born Canadian writer and photographer)
Thomas King is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, screenwriter, and photographer who is a Member of the Order of Canada and was nominated for the Governor General’s Awards. He is often described as one of the finest contemporary Aboriginal writers in North America. The son of a Greek mother
- King, Thomas J. (American scientist)
cloning: Early cloning experiments: Briggs and Thomas J. King, who used DNA from embryonic cells of the frog Rana pipiens to generate cloned tadpoles. In 1958 British biologist John Bertrand Gurdon successfully carried out nuclear transfer using DNA from adult intestinal cells of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). Gurdon was awarded…
- King, Tom (English highwayman)
Dick Turpin: …1735 went into partnership with Tom King, a well-known highwayman, whom he accidentally killed while firing at a constable (or, by some accounts, an innkeeper). To avoid arrest he finally left Essex for Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, where he set up under an assumed name (John Palmer) as a horse dealer.…
- King, Tunde (Nigerian musician)
juju: …did its celebrities, most notably Tunde King and Ayinde Bakare. King is credited not only with coining the term juju—in reference to the sound of a small, Brazilian tambourine-like drum that was used in his ensemble—but also with making the first recording of juju music in 1936. A year later…
- King, Victor L. (American chemist)
coordination compound: History of coordination compounds: …he and his American student Victor L. King resolved (split) [CoCl(NH3)(en)2]Cl2 into its optical isomers (see below Enantiomers and Diastereomers) in 1911, Werner received the 1913 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The zenith of his quarter-century experimental achievements was attained with his resolution of the completely inorganic tetranuclear compound,
- King, W.L. Mackenzie (prime minister of Canada)
W.L. Mackenzie King was the prime minister of Canada (1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48) and leader of the Liberal Party, who helped preserve the unity of the English and French populations of Canada. Mackenzie King, as he is usually called, was the son of John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie, daughter of
- King, William (Maori chief)
Wiremu Kīngi was a Māori chief whose opposition to the colonial government’s purchase of tribal lands led to the First Taranaki War (1860–61) and inspired the Māori resistance throughout the 1860s to European colonization of New Zealand’s fertile North Island. After leading his Te Atiawa tribe from
- King, William Lyon Mackenzie (prime minister of Canada)
W.L. Mackenzie King was the prime minister of Canada (1921–26, 1926–30, 1935–48) and leader of the Liberal Party, who helped preserve the unity of the English and French populations of Canada. Mackenzie King, as he is usually called, was the son of John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie, daughter of
- King, William Rufus de Vane (vice president of United States)
William Rufus de Vane King was the 13th vice president of the United States (1853) in the Democratic administration of Franklin Pierce. Although elected and sworn in as vice president, he did not live to perform any of the official duties of that office. After graduating from the University of
- King, Ynestra (feminist theorist)
ecofeminism: Origins of ecofeminism: …scholars cite the feminist theorist Ynestra King as the cause of that popularization. In 1987 King wrote an article titled “What Is Ecofeminism?” that appeared in The Nation. There she challenged all Americans to consider the ways in which their belief systems allow for the exploitative use of the earth…
- King-Byng Affair (Canadian history)
Balfour Report: …Canada in 1926 in the King-Byng Affair, in which Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King challenged the powers of Governor General Julian Byng in the context of a heated federal election campaign. It revolved around Byng’s refusal to honour King’s request that he dissolve Parliament and call for fresh…
- King–Crane Commission (United States history)
King–Crane Commission, commission appointed at the request of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to determine the attitudes of the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine toward the post-World War I settlement of their territories. The commission, formed when
- Kingaroy (Queensland, Australia)
Kingaroy, town, southeastern Queensland, Australia, in the South Burnett area. It originated in 1886 as Kingaroy Paddock, deriving its name from the Aboriginal term kingerroy, meaning “red ant,” and was proclaimed a shire in 1912. The area’s rich, red soils yield an important peanut (groundnut)
- kingbird (bird)
kingbird, (genus Tyrannus), any of 13 species of birds of the family Tyrannidae noted for their pugnacity. Although only about 20 cm (8 inches) long, a kingbird will chase birds as large as a crow or a hawk; it will even ride on the larger bird’s back and peck at its head. Kingbirds are gray above
- kingcup (plant)
marsh marigold, (Caltha palustris), perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) native to wetlands in Europe and North America. It is grown in boggy wild gardens. The stem of a marsh marigold is hollow, and the leaves are kidney-shaped, heart-shaped, or round. The glossy
- kingdom (taxon)
taxonomy: Division of organisms into kingdoms: …the living world into two kingdoms, Plantae and Animalia, biologists have debated the relationships among all organisms. Most biologists, however, accept the fundamental differences in cell structure that separates the superkingdoms Eukaryota and Prokaryota.
- kingdom (ecology)
biogeographic region: Endemism: Major regions (kingdoms and realms) are still determined as those that have the most endemics or, stated another way, those that share the fewest taxa with other regions. As regions are further broken down into subdivisions, they will contain fewer unique taxa.
- Kingdom Centre (building, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Riyadh: City layout: …a luxury hotel, and the Markaz Al-Mamlakah (“Kingdom Centre”), which offers an expansive complex of office, retail, dining, and accommodation spaces located within and around its landmark tower.
- Kingdom Come (novel by Ballard)
J.G. Ballard: (2000), Millennium People (2003), and Kingdom Come (2006), effectively exposing the foibles of his middle-class characters by documenting their reactions to the violence against a stark backdrop of shopping malls and office parks.
- Kingdom Hearts (electronic game)
Kingdom Hearts, electronic game released by Japanese game manufacturer SquareSoft (now Square Enix, Inc.) in 2002 for the Sony Corporation’s PlayStation 2 video-game console. Kingdom Hearts joined two popular fantasy universes: the cartoon world of the Disney Company and the world of SquareSoft’s
- Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World (work by Wilson and Gómez Durán)
E.O. Wilson: Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World (2011; with José M. Gómez Durán) was a brief biography of Spanish botanist José Mutis, with particular emphasis on the ants he encountered while exploring South America.
- Kingdom of Christ, The (work by Maurice)
Frederick Denison Maurice: …the publication of his book The Kingdom of Christ (1838), in which he held the church to be a united body that transcended the diversity and partiality of individual men, factions, and sects. That view—subsequently regarded as presaging the 20th-century ecumenical movement—aroused the suspicions of orthodox Anglicans. Their misgivings were…
- Kingdom of Fear (work by Thompson)
Hunter S. Thompson: …Better Than Sex (1994), and Kingdom of Fear (2003). Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Kingdom of God and Son of Man, The (work by Otto)
Rudolf Otto: Later works.: …Reich Gottes und Menschensohn (1934; The Kingdom of God and Son of Man, 1938). Of the three books, the latter is especially important for glimpses of new insight that seem to point beyond the earlier, more widely acclaimed volume; it renders the hint of ultimacy that appears in present history.
- Kingdom of God Is Within You, The (work by Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy: Conversion and religious beliefs: …Tsarstvo bozhiye vnutri vas (1893; The Kingdom of God Is Within You) and many other essays and tracts. In brief, Tolstoy rejected all the sacraments, all miracles, the Holy Trinity, the immortality of the soul, and many other tenets of traditional religion, all of which he regarded as obfuscations of…
- Kingdom of Gods, The (novel by Jemisin)
N.K. Jemisin: …The Broken Kingdoms (2010) and The Kingdom of Gods (2011). Three short stories set in the world of the Inheritance Trilogy were collected in Shades in Shadow (2015).
- Kingdom of Heaven (film by Scott [2005])
Ridley Scott: …visual flair—included Matchstick Men (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), and Body of Lies (2008). He later helmed the action adventure Robin Hood (2010), which starred Crowe and Cate Blanchett; Prometheus (2012), a sci-fi thriller that revisited the eerie world of Alien;
- Kingdom of Nepal
Nepal, country of Asia, lying along the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain ranges. It is a landlocked country located between India to the east, south, and west and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north. Its territory extends roughly 500 miles (800 kilometres) from east to west
- Kingdom of Poland (historical state, Poland)
Congress Kingdom of Poland, Polish state created (May 3, 1815) by the Congress of Vienna as part of the political settlement at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was ruled by the tsars of Russia until its loss in World War I. The Kingdom of Poland comprised the bulk of the former Grand Duchy of
- Kingdom of Speech, The (work by Wolfe)
Tom Wolfe: Wolfe returned to nonfiction with The Kingdom of Speech (2016), in which he sharply criticized Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky as he argued that language was not a result of evolution.
- Kingdom of Thailand
Thailand, country located in the centre of mainland Southeast Asia. Located wholly within the tropics, Thailand encompasses diverse ecosystems, including the hilly forested areas of the northern frontier, the fertile rice fields of the central plains, the broad plateau of the northeast, and the
- Kingdom of the Lovers of God, The (work by Ruysbroeck)
Jan van Ruysbroeck: …den Rike der Ghelieven (The Kingdom of the Lovers of God). Ruysbroeck derived much from the mystic Hadewijch, who had viewed the relationship of the soul to God as similar to that between the lover and the beloved. Ruysbroeck’s systematic compendium of teaching and belief, however, contrasted with the…
- Kingdom of The Netherlands
Netherlands, country located in northwestern Europe, also known as Holland. “Netherlands” means low-lying country; the name Holland (from Houtland, or “Wooded Land”) was originally given to one of the medieval cores of what later became the modern state and is still used for 2 of its 12 provinces
- Kingdom of This World, The (work by Carpentier)
Alejo Carpentier: …reino de este mundo (1950; The Kingdom of This World); it is about the Haitian revolution. In the prologue to this work, Carpentier expounds on magic realism, which he defines as the representation of “marvelous American reality.” His novel Los pasos perdidos (1953; The Lost Steps), his best-known work, is…
- Kingdom Tower (building, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Riyadh: City layout: …a luxury hotel, and the Markaz Al-Mamlakah (“Kingdom Centre”), which offers an expansive complex of office, retail, dining, and accommodation spaces located within and around its landmark tower.
- Kingdom, The (oratorio by Elgar)
Sir Edward Elgar: …two: The Apostles (1903) and The Kingdom (1906). In these less successful works, representative themes are interwoven in the manner of the leitmotivs of Wagner. Other vocal works include the choral cantata, Caractacus (1898), and the song cycle for contralto, Sea Pictures (1900).
- Kingdom, The (Danish television miniseries)
Lars von Trier: …television miniseries called Riget (The Kingdom), which was set in a hospital and focused on the supernatural and macabre. It proved so popular that it was followed by a sequel, Riget II (1997), and later inspired an American version, adapted by American horror novelist Stephen King, for which von…
- kingfish (common name of several fishes)
kingfish, any of various fishes, among them certain species of mackerel (q.v.) and a drum (q.v.) of the genus
- kingfish (fish)
mackerel: …45 kg (100 pounds); the king mackerel, or kingfish (S. cavalla), a western Atlantic fish about 170 cm long and weighing 36 kg or more; and the cero, or painted mackerel (S. regalis), an abundant, spotted Atlantic fish reportedly about 120 cm long. Scomberomorus species are a favourite game fish,…
- Kingfish (missile)
rocket and missile system: Antiship: The Mach-3 AS-6 Kingfish, introduced in 1970, could travel 250 miles.
- kingfish (fish, Menticirrhus species)
drum: …fish of the Americas; the kingfish, or whiting (Menticirrhus saxatilis), of the Atlantic, notable among drums in that it lacks an air bladder; and the sea drum, or black drum (Pogonias cromis), a gray or coppery red, western Atlantic fish.
- kingfisher (bird)
kingfisher, any of about 90 species of birds in three families (Alcedinidae, Halcyonidae, and Cerylidae), noted for their spectacular dives into water. They are worldwide in distribution but are chiefly tropical. Kingfishers, ranging in length from 10 to 42 cm (4 to 16.5 inches), have a large head,
- Kīngi, Wiremu (Maori chief)
Wiremu Kīngi was a Māori chief whose opposition to the colonial government’s purchase of tribal lands led to the First Taranaki War (1860–61) and inspired the Māori resistance throughout the 1860s to European colonization of New Zealand’s fertile North Island. After leading his Te Atiawa tribe from
- Kingis Quair, The (Scottish literature)
The Kingis Quair, (c. 1423; “The King’s Book”), love-dream allegory written in Early Scots and attributed to James I of Scotland. It marks the beginning of the golden age of Scottish literature. Sometimes called the first “Scottish Chaucerian” poem, it reflects and acknowledges Geoffrey Chaucer’s
- Kingkitsarat (king of Luang Prabang)
Sai Ong Hue: His rival, Kingkitsarat, succeeded in capturing Luang Prabang from Sai Ong Hue in 1707. The two enemies immediately appealed to the larger, more powerful surrounding states to maintain their kingdoms. Sai Ong Hue turned to Vietnam and Siam, becoming vassal to both and initiating conditions of dependence,…
- kingklip (fish)
cusk eel: One of these, the kingklip (Genypterus capensis), is a South African species prized as food.
- Kinglake, Alexander W. (English historian)
nonfictional prose: Travel and epistolary literature: …on Asia, the English historian Alexander W. Kinglake (1809–91), in Eothen (1844), and, more incisively, the French diplomat Joseph-Arthur, comte de Gobineau (1816–82); both blended a sense of the picturesqueness of the East with shrewdness in the interpretation of the people. One of the most thoughtful and, in spite of…
- kinglet (bird)
kinglet, (genus Regulus), any of six species of small songbirds of the family Regulidae. Although among the smallest of songbirds (weighing less than 10 grams [0.4 ounce]), they are able to survive cold climates and remain exceedingly active by flitting constantly about and flicking their wings
- Kingmaker, The (English noble)
Richard Neville, 16th earl of Warwick was an English nobleman called, since the 16th century, “the Kingmaker,” in reference to his role as arbiter of royal power during the first half of the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York. He obtained the crown for the Yorkist
- Kingman (Arizona, United States)
Kingman, city, seat (1887) of Mohave county, Arizona, U.S. Since 1882 Kingman has been the shopping and shipping centre for sparsely settled northwestern Arizona. The city was named for Lewis Kingman, a civil engineer for what was then the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad constructed there in
- Kingman Reef (United States territory, Pacific Ocean)
Kingman Reef, coral reef, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Northern Line Islands, west-central Pacific Ocean. The reef is located about 920 miles (1,480 km) southwest of Honolulu. It is a barren atoll with a deep lagoon (5 by 9.5 miles [8 by 15 km] and has a land area of 0.01
- Kingo’s hymnbook (work by Kingo)
Thomas Kingo: …was published in 1689 as Vinter-Parten (“The Winter Part”) but was later rejected by the king. Kingo’s hymns contrast this world with heaven and are deeply personal in their graphic and suggestive use of language. Underneath their Christian orthodoxy, they are both subjective and antithetical, showing the individual as immersed…
- Kingo, Thomas (Danish author)
Thomas Kingo was a clergyman and poet whose works are considered the high point of Danish Baroque poetry. Kingo’s grandfather had come from Scotland, and his father was a weaver. In his youth, Kingo wrote a series of poems picturing humorous scenes in village life and a pastoral love poem,
- Kingpin (comic-book character)
Daredevil: …was working for the evil Kingpin. Elektra had also been Murdock’s first love, and their complicated and deadly relationship drew new readers to the title. Miller became one of the top comic writers of the 1980s, and Daredevil’s searing, dark, violent, and explosive direction was mimicked across the comics industry.…
- Kings (film by Ergüven [2017])
Halle Berry: …Golden Circle and starred in Kings (both 2017), playing a foster parent living in Los Angeles during the riots of 1992. She later was cast in the action thriller John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum (2019).
- Kings (county, New York, United States)
Kings, county in southeastern New York, U.S. Occupying the southwestern tip of Long Island, it is coextensive with the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It was formed in 1683 and was named to honor King Charles II of England. Area 71 square miles (184 square km). Pop. (2000) 2,465,326; (2010)
- Kings and Prophets of Israel (work by Welch)
Adam Cleghorn Welch: A posthumous volume, Kings and Prophets of Israel (1952), contains a memoir and a bibliography.
- Kings and Queens of Britain
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch shares power with a constitutionally organized government. The reigning king or queen is the country’s head of state. All political power rests with the prime minister (the head of government) and the cabinet, and the monarch
- Kings and Queens of Scotland
Scotland, now part of the United Kingdom, was ruled for hundreds of years by various monarchs. James I, who in 1603 became king of England after having held the throne of Scotland (as James VI) since 1567, was the first to style himself “king of Great Britain,” although Scotland and England did not
- Kings and Queens Regnant of Spain
Spain’s constitution declares it a constitutional monarchy. From 1833 until 1939 Spain almost continually had a parliamentary system with a written constitution. Except during the First Republic (1873–74), the Second Republic (1931–36), and the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), Spain has always had a
- kings cake (food)
king cake, a sweet, ring-shaped pastry that is served from Epiphany through Shrove Tuesday in the Christian calendar. It is particularly associated with Mardi Gras, the festive pre-Lenten season in the United States, and it is usually baked with a symbolic trinket hidden inside, often to represent
- Kings Canyon National Park (national park, California, United States)
Kings Canyon National Park, scenic area in the Sierra Nevada, east-central California, U.S. It lies adjacent to and north of Sequoia National Park and is under the same administration; Yosemite National Park is about 40 miles (64 km) to the northwest. Established in 1940, it incorporated General
- Kings County (county, Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Prince Edward Island: three counties: Prince, Queens, and Kings. In 1997 the 8-mile- (12.9-km-) long Confederation Bridge was inaugurated. It is the world’s longest bridge over waters that freeze over in winter and connects the island to the neighbouring Canadian province of New Brunswick. The name of the island’s capital, Charlottetown, commemorates the…
- Kings Go Forth (film by Daves [1958])
Delmer Daves: Westerns: …to helm the war drama Kings Go Forth, which depicted a love triangle set in France; it starred Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. Later that year, however, he returned to the genre that had proven so successful for him. The Badlanders is a clever western remake of the…
- Kings in Grass Castles (work by Durack)
Australian literature: Literature from 1940 to 1970: …history, just as Mary Durack’s Kings in Grass Castles (1959) is the story of her ancestors as well as a social history. Martin Boyd’s Day of My Delight (1965) defines his family in its historical and moral context, while Hal Porter’s The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony (1963) is a…
- Kings Mountain National Military Park (park, North Carolina, United States)
Gastonia: Kings Mountain National Military Park, site of the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolution, is 20 miles (32 km) southwest. Lake Wylie, an impoundment of the Catawba River east of Gaston, is a popular recreational site. Inc. city, 1877. Pop. (2000) 66,277; Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord…
- Kings Mountain, Battle of (United States history)
Battle of Kings Mountain, battle in the American Revolution, fought on October 17, 1780, that saw an American victory over a larger loyalist detachment in South Carolina during the British campaign in the South. It was one of few battles of the Revolution fought solely between Americans. In 1780,
- Kings of Leon (American musical group)
non-fungible token: NFT forms and the future: …March 2021 the rock band Kings of Leon released its album When You See Yourself as an NFT. It was the first known instance of a musical act issuing an album in this form, with buyers entered into a lottery to win concert tickets and other unique extras.
- Kings of the Road (film by Wenders)
Wim Wenders: title Kings of the Road), a “buddy” picture pairing a depressed man with a movie-projector repairman who can barely communicate as they travel across Germany together. Der amerikanische Freund (1977; The American Friend), based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, explores the concept of dislocation, or separation.…
- Kings Peak (mountain, Utah, United States)
Kings Peak, highest point (13,528 feet [4,123 metres]) in Utah, U.S., located 80 miles (130 km) east of Salt Lake City in the Uinta Mountains and the Ashley National Forest. It was named for the 19th-century geologist Clarence