Gusztav Siegmund, Graf Kálnoky von Köröspatak was an Austro-Hungarian statesman who was minister of foreign affairs from 1881 to 1895. At first a professional soldier, Kálnoky entered the Austrian diplomatic service in 1854 without giving up his connection with the army, in which he attained the

Uzun Ḥasan: …marrying Catherine, the daughter of Kalo-Ioannes, the Christian emperor of Trebizond (in northeastern Anatolia). He also strengthened diplomatic ties with Venice, Muscovy, Burgundy, Poland, and Egypt and with the Karamanid dynasty of south-central Anatolia.

Kalocsa, town, Bács-Kiskun megye (county), central Hungary, located just east of the Danube River. It was one of the bishoprics founded by the first king of Hungary, Stephen I, and its status was raised to archbishopric in the 11th century. It was a thriving medieval town until it was sacked by the

Maria Callas was an American-born Greek operatic soprano who revived classical coloratura roles in the mid-20th century with her lyrical and dramatic versatility. Callas was the daughter of Greek immigrants and early developed an interest in singing. Accompanied by her mother, she left the United

Kaloyan was the tsar of Bulgaria (1197–1207). The younger brother of the founders of the Second Bulgarian empire, Kaloyan sought to maintain Bulgarian independence. Although he recognized papal authority and was crowned by papal legates in 1204, Kaloyan reverted to Orthodoxy not long after his

black cumin, (Nigella sativa), annual plant of the ranunculus family (Ranunculaceae) grown for its pungent seeds, which are used as a spice and in herbal medicine. The black cumin plant is found in southwestern Asia and parts of the Mediterranean and Africa, where it has a long history of use in

Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms: …a member of the eminent Kalonymos family, which gave medieval Germany many of its spiritual leaders and mystics; another member of that family, the semilegendary pietist Judah ben Samuel the Ḥasid of Regensburg, was his teacher and spiritual master. Eleazar’s wife conducted a business so that he could devote himself…

Caloocan, city on Dagatdagatan Lagoon (Manila Bay), central Luzon, Philippines, adjacent to northern Manila. Founded in 1762, it became a municipality in 1815. Caloocan suffered much damage during World War II. Now part of Greater Manila, it is a growing center of industrialization as well as a

termite: Importance: Dry-wood termites nest in the wood on which they feed and do not invade a structure from the soil. Because their colonies are within the structure, they are difficult to control. Preventive measures include the use of chemically treated wood in building construction and the…

Guinea: Settlement patterns: …a colonial town, while the Camayenne Peninsula community has only a few buildings of the colonial period. From the tip of the peninsula, an industrial zone has expanded northward.

Kaloyan was the tsar of Bulgaria (1197–1207). The younger brother of the founders of the Second Bulgarian empire, Kaloyan sought to maintain Bulgarian independence. Although he recognized papal authority and was crowned by papal legates in 1204, Kaloyan reverted to Orthodoxy not long after his

Hinduism: The Vedangas: …times for rituals, and (6) kalpa (mode of performance), which studies the correct ways of performing the ritual.

eschatology: Religions of Asia: …characterized by great cycles (kalpas) of rise and decline, creation and destruction. The kalpa comprises 2,000 mahayugas, which in turn are each made up of four ages, or yugas, of diminishing length. The current age is the fourth yuga, the kaliyuga, of a mahayuga and is to last 1,200…

Kalpa-sutra, manual of Hindu religious practice, a number of which emerged within the different schools of the Veda, the earliest sacred literature of India. Each manual explains the procedures (kalpa) of its school as it applies to three different categories: the sacrificial ritual

Kalpa-sūtra, a text held in great honour by the Śvetāmbara sect of Jainism, a religion of India. It deals with the lives of the 24 Jaina saviours, the Tīrthaṅkaras; the succession of pontiffs; and the rules for monks during the Paryuṣaṇa festival. The text records the five auspicious events (the

Vanuatu: History of Vanuatu: …and as prime minister by Donald Kalpokas. For the December 1991 general election, Lini and his supporters formed the National United Party (NUP), which won enough seats to form a coalition government with the former opposition, the Union of Moderate Parties (UMP), under the francophone prime minister Maxime Carlot Korman.

Kotri: …also involved the formation of Kalri Lake (41 square miles [106 square km]) just north of Tatta town, providing fisheries and water for Karachi. The Kotri thermal-power station was commissioned in 1978. Pop. (1998 prelim.) 61,130.

nepheline: … is the high-temperature form of kalsilite, the potassium-rich variety of nepheline. Kaliophilite is unstable at normal temperatures and rarely occurs in nature.

Carl Zuckmayer: …in the Fiery Furnace”), and Das kalte Licht (1955; “The Cold Light”), based on the treason case of the atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.

The decision to use the atomic bomb: End game: The influential radio commentator H.V. Kaltenborn declared that “For all we know, we have created a Frankenstein,” and Norman Cousins, the editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, wrote a widely-cited editorial declaring that modern man was obsolete. In an article for the New Yorker (later published separately as…

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian Nazi, leader of the Austrian SS and subsequently head of all police forces in Nazi Germany. Kaltenbrunner attended public schools at Linz and studied at the University of Prague. He joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932 and became leader of the SS (elite guards)

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is an Austrian mountain climber, one of the first women to climb all 14 of the world’s “eight-thousanders”—peaks 26,250 feet (8,000 metres) and higher—and the first woman to do so without using supplemental oxygen-breathing apparatus. Kaltenbrunner grew up in the small resort

repeating rifle: …period, the faster and safer Kalthoff system—designed by a family of German gunmakers—introduced a ball magazine located under the barrel and a powder magazine in the butt. By the 18th century the Cookson repeating rifle was in use in North America, having separate tubular magazines in the stock for balls…

Kaluga, city and administrative centre of Kaluga oblast (region), western Russia, west of Moscow on the Oka River. Founded in the 14th century as a stronghold against the Tatars on the southern borders of Muscovy, it later became a seat of provincial administration. In the early 17th century it was

Kaluga, oblast (region), western Russia. It occupies an area in the upper Oka River basin southwest of Moscow oblast. Broad, often swampy valleys alternate with rolling hills of the Central Russian Upland. The natural vegetation—mixed forest of oak, spruce, pine, and birch—survives over only

chondrostean: Distribution: The genus Huso contains the kaluga (H. dauricus), which inhabits the Amur River basin in Asia, and the beluga (H. huso), which is found in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basins. The source of the world’s prime caviar, the beluga is listed by the International Union

Sugar Ray Leonard: …with a ninth-round knockout of Ayub Kalule.

Oceanic music and dance: Musical style and cultural context: For the Kaluli, a group of rain-forest dwellers in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, the American anthropologist Steven Feld has demonstrated the integration of diverse musical structures and natural sounds under one aesthetic ideology. The concept of “lift-up-over sounding,” which calls for a continuity…

Kalulushi, town, north-central Zambia, south-central Africa. Kalulushi is located near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and is about 175 miles (280 km) north of Lusaka, with which it is connected by road. Main roads connect it with other mining centres such as Kitwe,

Kalundborg, city, northwestern Sjælland (Zealand), Denmark, situated on Kalundborg Fjord. A favourite royal seat in the European Middle Ages (chartered 1485), its castle was a frequent meeting place for the Danehof (national assembly). The castle in later times became a state prison, where

Kalush, city, southwestern Ukraine. It is approximately 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Lviv and is on the Ivano-Frankivsk–Stryy rail line. The existence of Kalush was first mentioned in the 13th century. It grew for a time in the 19th century as a result of salt mining and expanded in the 20th

Kalutara, town, southwestern Sri Lanka. The town, situated on the coast, at the estuary of the Kalu River, is a fishing and trade centre. The local craft is making rope, baskets, and other articles from the fibre of the coconut palm. A Portuguese fort in Kalutara surrendered to the Dutch in 1655

Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor who is known for the arresting authenticity of his performances in a variety of roles. Kaluuya was born in London to Ugandan parents, and he grew up in a council estate (public housing project) in Camden living with his mother. He wrote a play when he was nine

brane: German mathematician Theodor Kaluza in 1919 and Swedish physicist Oskar Klein in 1925 proposed a four-dimensional spatial theory, after Einstein’s discovery of general relativity in 1916. In general relativity, gravity arises from the shape of spacetime. Kaluza and Klein showed that with additional dimensions, other forces such…

brane: … cm as in the original Kaluza-Klein theory, they might be around a size of 10−16 cm, large enough to be seen by particle accelerators, and if they were even larger, they could be visible in other laboratory experiments or astrophysical observations.

Kalvis, in Baltic religion, the heavenly smith, usually associated with a huge iron hammer. A smith in the tradition of the Greek Hephaistos and the Vedic Tvaṣṭṛ, Kalvis also seems to have been a dragon killer, a function in which he was superseded by the Christian St. George. Every morning Kalvis

India: Southern Indian kingdoms: …at the hands of the Kalvar, or Kalabras, who came from the border to the north of Tamilakam and were described as evil rulers, but they were overthrown in the 5th century ce with the rise of the Calukya (Chalukyas) and Pallava dynasties.

Eisenstadt: …the Mount Calvary Church (Kalvarienbergkirche), with the tomb of the composer Joseph Haydn; the house where Haydn lived from 1766 to 1790, now a museum; the parish church (1450–1522); and the Franciscan church (1625–30), with the Esterházy family vault. The castle of Forchtenstein, former seat of the counts von…

Kalvis, in Baltic religion, the heavenly smith, usually associated with a huge iron hammer. A smith in the tradition of the Greek Hephaistos and the Vedic Tvaṣṭṛ, Kalvis also seems to have been a dragon killer, a function in which he was superseded by the Christian St. George. Every morning Kalvis

Kalvis, in Baltic religion, the heavenly smith, usually associated with a huge iron hammer. A smith in the tradition of the Greek Hephaistos and the Vedic Tvaṣṭṛ, Kalvis also seems to have been a dragon killer, a function in which he was superseded by the Christian St. George. Every morning Kalvis

Andréas Ioannídis Kálvos was a Greek poet who brought an Italian Neoclassical influence to the Ionian school of poets (the school of Romantics from the seven Ionian islands). Kálvos was brought up at Leghorn, Tuscany (1802–12), and lived most of his life in Italy and England. While in Italy he

Kalyan, city, western Maharashtra state, western India. It is located on the Ulhas River northeast of Mumbai (Bombay) and is part of the Greater Mumbai urban agglomeration. Kalyan was a relatively unimportant trading centre in Roman times, but it was fortified by Shah Jahān during the Mughal

Gita Press: The magazine Kalyāṇ, founded by Poddar in 1926, is perhaps one of Gita Press’s best-known publications. The most widely read religious periodical ever published in India, Kalyāṇ currently has over 230,000 subscribers and an estimated pass-on rate of 10 times that figure. As such, the magazine remains…

Bidar: Kalyani, about 40 miles (65 km) west of Bidar, was the capital of the second Chalukya dynasty (10th–12th century). Pop. (2001) 172,877; (2011) 214,373.

Kanchrapara: …governmental land-development area, which includes Kalyani, a planned modern town with a university (founded 1960) and a state tuberculosis hospital. Pop. (2001) 126,191; (2011) 120,345.

Kálymnos, mountainous Greek island and dímos (municipality) in the Aegean Sea, part of the Dodecanese (Modern Greek: Dodekánisa) group, 42 square miles (111 square km) in area. Along with other islands, it constitutes the perifereiakí enótita (regional unit) of Kálymnos in the South Aegean (Nótio

Kálymnos: The town of Kálymnos, located at the head of an inlet in the southeast, is the chief port and a prominent Aegean commercial centre with the bulk of the island’s population. As in Classical times, sponge fishing remains the chief industry, with the sponge fleet away to the…

Qalyūb, town at the apex of the Nile River delta, in Al-Qalyūbiyyah muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Lower Egypt. It lies just north of Cairo, near the right bank of the Nile and the Nile Delta Barrage, which controls the division of the Nile’s waters into the Rosetta and Damietta branches. Qalyūb was

Al-Qalyūbiyyah, small muḥāfaẓah (governorate), just north of Cairo at the apex of the Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. It is bounded on the northeast by Al-Sharqiyyah muḥāfaẓah and on the northwest by the Damietta Branch of the Nile. It is densely populated, and about three-fifths of its population

Dong, an ethnic minority of China found in southeastern Guizhou province and in neighbouring Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi and Hunan province. According to most linguists the Dong speak a Kam-Sui language that is closely related to the Tai languages, and they call themselves Kam. The Dong

Kam’yanets-Podilskyy, city, western Ukraine, on the Smotrych River. The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century. Lying at a superbly defensible site where the river forms a loop, it was long a frontier fortress and centre of the Podolia

Kama, in the mythology of India, the god of erotic love and pleasure. During the Vedic age (2nd millennium–7th century bce), he personified cosmic desire, or the creative impulse, and was called the firstborn of the primeval Chaos that makes all creation possible. In later periods he is depicted as

Mount Everest: Drainage and climate: …and Rongbuk glaciers and the Kama River from the Kangshung Glacier: both flow into the Arun River, which cuts through the Himalayas into Nepal. The Rong, Dudh Kosi, and Kama river valleys form, respectively, the northern, southern, and eastern access routes to the summit.

Kama River, river in west-central Russia. Rising in the Upper Kama Upland of Udmurtia, it flows north, then east, south, and southwest for 1,122 miles (1,805 km) until it enters the Volga River below Kazan, in the Samara Reservoir. It drains a basin of 202,000 square miles (522,000 square km). The

kāma-loka, in Buddhism, the world of feeling. See

Shintō: Shintō religious arts: …called komainu (“Korean dogs”) or karajishi (“Chinese lions”) are placed in front of a shrine. Originally they served to protect the sacred buildings from evil and defilements. After the 9th century they were used for ornamental purposes on ceremonial occasions at the Imperial Court and later came to be used…

kāma-loka, in Buddhism, the world of feeling. See

erotica: …of erotic literature are the Kama-sutra and other Sanskrit literature from about the 5th century ad, Persian lyric poems called ghazals, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, the 16th-century Chinese novel Chin p’ing, William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

fish processing: Surimi: …various fish gel products called kamaboko (fish cakes) were produced and sold as neriseihin (kneaded seafoods).

kamacite, mineral consisting of iron alloyed with 5–7 percent nickel by weight and found in almost all meteorites which contain nickel-iron metal. It has a body-centred cubic structure and is sometimes referred to as α iron, after one of the three temperature-dependent forms (allotropes) of pure

Kamaishi, city, eastern Iwate ken (prefecture), northern Honshu, Japan. It is situated about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, facing Kamaishi Bay on the Pacific Ocean. Kamaishi was a small fishing village until magnetite (a type of iron ore) was discovered in the area in

Liliuokalani was the first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands, which were annexed by the United States in 1898. Lydia Kamakaeha was of a high-ranking family. Her mother, Keohokalole, was an adviser of King Kamehameha III. Reared in the missionary

Liliuokalani was the first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands, which were annexed by the United States in 1898. Lydia Kamakaeha was of a high-ranking family. Her mother, Keohokalole, was an adviser of King Kamehameha III. Reared in the missionary

Hawaii: The arts: Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole was a popular Hawaiian singer whose support of Hawaiian sovereignty made him a cultural hero in Hawaii.

Fujiwara Kamatari was the founder of the great Fujiwara family that dominated Japan from the 9th to the 12th centuries. In the early 7th century the powerful Soga family totally dominated the Japanese Imperial court. In 645, however, along with an Imperial prince who later reigned as the emperor

Kamakura, city, southern Kanagawa ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It lies on Sagami Bay of the Pacific Ocean, just south of Yokohama. The city is situated at the western base of the Miura Peninsula, is enclosed on three sides by hills, and has fine sandy beaches to the south. Kamakura

Kamakura period, in Japanese history, the period from 1192 to 1333 during which the basis of feudalism was firmly established. It was named for the city where Minamoto Yoritomo set up the headquarters of his military government, commonly known as the Kamakura shogunate. After his decisive victory

Japanese art: Sculpture: …dynasty sculpture, the best of Kamakura period sculpture conveyed intense corporeal presence. The style is frequently referred to as “Kamakura realism” but should not be confused with the notion of “realistic” in the sense of faithful rendering of the natural. While, for example, there is reference to careful anatomic understanding,…

shogunate: Eventually the Kamakura shogunate came to possess military, administrative, and judicial functions, although the imperial government remained the recognized legal authority. The shogunate appointed its own military governors, or shugo, as heads of each province and named stewards to supervise the individual estates into which the provinces…

Kamakura-bori, (Japanese: “Kamakura carving”), in Japanese lacquerwork, technique in which designs are carved in wood and then coated with red or black lacquer. Originally, it was an imitation of a Chinese carved lacquer (tiao-ch’i, called tsuishu in Japanese) in which many layers of lacquer are

South Asian arts: Bangladesh: Ebrahim Khan wrote Kamal Pasha (1926), a play about the Turkish liberator, a symbol of hope and reawakening, and Anwar Pasha, about the downfall of Anwar (Enver), who could not cope with the new historical forces.

Lakshmi: …lotus and was known as Padma, or Kamala, both of which mean “Lotus”; when he was the ax-wielding Parashurama, the destroyer of the warrior class, she was his wife Dharani; when he was King Rama, she was his queen Sita. In the most widely received account of Lakshmi’s birth, she…

Balkrishna Doshi: …his own residence (1963), named Kamala House after his wife; his studio, Sangath (1980); and some of his most important projects. In 1956 Doshi founded his own practice, Vastushilpa, which he later renamed Vastushilpa Consultants. The firm worked on more than 100 projects throughout India, including a collaboration with Louis…

South Asian arts: Tamil: Quite different is the Kamalāmpāḷ Carittiram (“The Fatal Rumor”), by Rajam Aiyar, whom many judge to be the most important prose writer of 19th-century Tamil literature. In this work, the author created a series of characters that appear to have become classics; the story is a romance, yet life…

Tripura: Relief and drainage: the Dharmanagar, the Kailashahar, the Kamalpur, and the Khowai, all carved by northward-flowing rivers (the Juri, Manu and Deo, Dhalai, and Khowai, respectively). North-south-trending ranges separate the valleys. East of the Dharmanagar valley, the Jampai Tlang range rises to elevations between 2,000 and 3,000 feet (600 and 900 metres). Elevation…

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

Los Angeles Clippers: …forward Elton Brand and center Chris Kaman won 47 games and advanced to the second round of the playoffs, but they lost a seven-game series to the Phoenix Suns. Even this limited success was short-lived, and the team fell back to a last-place divisional finish two years later. The Clippers…

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

Tumbuka, a people who live on the lightly wooded plateau between the northwestern shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malaŵi) and the Luangwa River valley of eastern Zambia. They speak a Bantu language closely related to those of their immediate neighbours, the lakeside Tonga, the Chewa, and the Senga. The

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

kamanjā, stringed instrument of the fiddle family prominent in Arab and Persian art music. It is a spike fiddle; i.e., its small, round or cylindrical body appears skewered by the neck, which forms a “foot” that the instrument rests on when played. Measuring about 30 inches (76 cm) from neck to

Kumaraswami Kamaraj: …to be known as the Kamaraj Plan, which called for the voluntary resignations of high-level national and state officials in order to devote their efforts to rebuilding the Congress Party at the grassroots level following India’s disastrous border war with China.

Kumaraswami Kamaraj was an Indian independence activist and statesman who rose from humble beginnings to become a legislator in the Madras Presidency (an administrative unit of British India that encompassed much of southern India), chief minister (head of government) of the successor Madras state

Kamarān, island in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, to which it belongs. The largest member of an archipelago, it is 22 square miles (57 square km) in area. Its name, meaning “two moons” in Arabic, refers to a double reflection of the moon that can be seen there. Kamarān, consisting of coral

Kamáres ware, style of painted pottery associated with the palace culture that flourished on Crete during the Middle Minoan period (c. 2100–c. 1550 bc). Surviving examples include ridged cups, small, round spouted jars, and large storage jars (pithoi), on which combinations of abstract curvilinear

Kamarhati, city, east-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Hugli (Hooghly) River and is part of the Kolkata (Calcutta) urban agglomeration. The city’s major industries include jute and cotton milling, leather tanning, and the manufacture of rubber goods, cement,

Mikhail Glinka: Glinka’s orchestral composition Kamarinskaya (1848) was said by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to be the acorn from which the oak of later Russian symphonic music grew.

Kamarupa, ancient Indian state corresponding roughly to what is now the state of Assam, in northeastern India. This region had many rulers but, being protected by natural fortifications, maintained fairly consistent territorial boundaries. Kamarupa was ruled by at least three dynasties from about

Tibeto-Burman languages: The Kamarupan group: The Conspectus assigns the very numerous Tibeto-Burman languages of northeastern India and adjacent regions of Myanmar and Bangladesh to the Kuki-Chin-Naga, Abor-Miri-Dafla (what Shafer called Mirish), and Bodo-Garo (Shafer’s Barish) groups. Several other important languages of this area, including Karbi (Mikir), Meitei (Manipuri),…

Samoyedic languages: …Selkup and the practically extinct Kamas language. None of these languages was written before 1930, and they are currently used only occasionally for educational purposes in some elementary schools.

Africa: Pleistocene and Holocene developments: The Kamasian, or Second, Pluvial of the middle Pleistocene Epoch corresponds to the Mindel in Europe. A dry but not a desert climate is implied by the Kamasian-Kanjeran Interpluvial levels at Olduvai Gorge. The Kanjeran, or Third, Pluvial occurred during the middle Pleistocene and corresponds to…

Africa: Pleistocene and Holocene developments: …climate is implied by the Kamasian-Kanjeran Interpluvial levels at Olduvai Gorge. The Kanjeran, or Third, Pluvial occurred during the middle Pleistocene and corresponds to the Riss Pluvial in Europe.

erotica: …of erotic literature are the Kama-sutra and other Sanskrit literature from about the 5th century ad, Persian lyric poems called ghazals, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, the 16th-century Chinese novel Chin p’ing, William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

Kamarupa, ancient Indian state corresponding roughly to what is now the state of Assam, in northeastern India. This region had many rulers but, being protected by natural fortifications, maintained fairly consistent territorial boundaries. Kamarupa was ruled by at least three dynasties from about

Jomo Kenyatta was an African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963–64) and then the first president (1964–78) of independent Kenya. Kenyatta was born as Kamau, son of Ngengi, at Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya in the East African highlands. His father was a leader of a small

Jomo Kenyatta was an African statesman and nationalist, the first prime minister (1963–64) and then the first president (1964–78) of independent Kenya. Kenyatta was born as Kamau, son of Ngengi, at Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya in the East African highlands. His father was a leader of a small

Kamba, Bantu-speaking people of Kenya. They are closely related to the neighbouring Kikuyu. Though primarily agriculturists, the Kamba keep considerable numbers of cattle, sheep, and goats. Their main staple crops are millet, sorghum, and corn (maize). Overcrowding and soil erosion in the Machakos

Kambalda, mining town, southern Western Australia. It lies 37 miles (60 km) south of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Gold was mined in Kambalda from 1896 to 1906, and a settlement was made there in 1897. The gold gave out in the early 20th century, however, and the town was deserted. The area’s fortunes

Gudmundur Kamban was one of Iceland’s most important 20th-century dramatists and novelists. His work, which is anchored in a deep historical awareness, frequently criticized modern Western values and spoke in favour of compassion and understanding. He wrote his works in both the Icelandic and

Rwanda genocide of 1994: ICTR: …May former Rwandan prime minister Jean Kambanda pleaded guilty to six charges of genocide and was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 4. In October 2000 Kambanda tried to revoke his guilty plea, but his motion was rejected by the ICTR.