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  • Keith, George (Scottish missionary)
    The Protestant attempt to return to primitive Christianity has led to strong affirmations of Christ-mysticism. The early Quaker George Keith wrote that Christ is born spiritually in humanity when “his life and spirit are united unto the soul.” The chief representative of Christ-mysticism among the early Protestants, Kaspar Schwenckfeld, held that Christ was from all eternity the......
  • Keith, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount (British admiral)
    ...Egypt. Sir Sydney Smith, the British naval commander in the eastern Mediterranean, sponsored the convention, but in this he had exceeded his powers and was instructed by his superior officer, Admiral Lord Keith, to require the French to surrender as prisoners of war. Although the Ottoman reoccupation was well under way, Kléber and the French determined on resistance and defeated......
  • Keith, James (Scottish military leader)
    Scottish Jacobite who was a military commander under Frederick II of Prussia....
  • Keith, James Francis Edward (Scottish military leader)
    Scottish Jacobite who was a military commander under Frederick II of Prussia....
  • Keith, Minor C. (American businessman)
    ...on agricultural exports strained transportation, and, with mainly British funds, Costa Rica sought to link the Valle Central with the seaports by railway. The chief promoter was an American, Minor C. Keith, who made a fortune with the opening of his rail line between Cartago and Limón. With vast land grants, Keith then entered the banana business. By the late 19th century, bananas......
  • Keith, Robert Brian, Jr. (American actor)
    American actor who appeared in over 100 films, including The Parent Trap and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! but achieved more fame on television, especially as the crusty bachelor guardian of three children on "Family Affair" from 1966 to 1971 (b. Nov. 14, 1921--d. June 24, 1997)....
  • Keith, Sir Arthur (Scottish anthropologist)
    Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist who specialized in the study of fossil humans and who reconstructed early hominin forms, notably fossils from Europe and North Africa and important skeletal groups from Mount Carmel (now in Israel)....
  • Keith, Sir William (colonial governor of Pennsylvania)
    ...By the spring of 1724 he was enjoying the companionship of other young men with a taste for reading, and he was also being urged to set up in business for himself by the governor of Pennsylvania, Sir William Keith. At Keith’s suggestion, Franklin returned to Boston to try to raise the necessary capital. His father thought him too young for such a venture, so Keith offered to foot the bil...
  • Keith, William (American painter)
    Scottish-born American painter known for his California landscapes....
  • Keith-Albee United Bookings Office (American talent agency)
    Morris was hired by Klaw and Erlanger, heads of a legitimate theatre trust, to book vaudeville acts for their theatre chain. This position put him in conflict with the Keith-Albee United Bookings Office, which sought to monopolize variety talent. Though Keith-Albee was forced to buy out Klaw and Erlanger, stipulating that they stay out of vaudeville for 10 years, the independent Morris was......
  • keitou (Chinese ritual)
    in traditional China, the act of supplication made by an inferior to his superior by kneeling and knocking his head to the floor. This prostration ceremony was most commonly used in religious worship, by commoners who came to make a request of the local district magistrate, and by officials and representatives of foreign powers who came into the presence of the emperor. By the Ming...
  • Keiyō Industrial Zone (industrial site, Japan)
    industrial region in east-central Japan that, along with the Keihin Industrial Zone, is part of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Keiyō is neither an administrative nor a political entity. It occupies part of Chiba prefecture (ken) on the Bōsō Peninsula, along the northeastern shore of Tokyo Bay, and lies just east of Tokyo. This area along the bay was formerly used...
  • Keiyō Kōgyō Chitai (industrial site, Japan)
    industrial region in east-central Japan that, along with the Keihin Industrial Zone, is part of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Keiyō is neither an administrative nor a political entity. It occupies part of Chiba prefecture (ken) on the Bōsō Peninsula, along the northeastern shore of Tokyo Bay, and lies just east of Tokyo. This area along the bay was formerly used...
  • Keizai Dantai Rengōkai (Japanese association)
    Japanese association of business organizations that was established in 1946 for the purpose of mediating differences between member industries and advising the government on economic policy and related matters. It is considered one of the most powerful organizations in Japan....
  • Keizan (Buddhist priest)
    priest of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism, who founded the Sōji Temple (now in Yokohama), one of the two head temples of the sect....
  • Keizan Jōkin (Buddhist priest)
    priest of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism, who founded the Sōji Temple (now in Yokohama), one of the two head temples of the sect....
  • Keizersgracht (canal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    ...canals. Three towers of the old fortifications still stand. Outside the Singel are the three main canals dating from the early 17th century: the Herengracht (Gentlemen’s Canal), Keizersgracht (Emperor’s Canal), and Prinsengracht (Prince’s Canal). These concentric canals, together with the smaller radial canals, form a characteristic spiderweb pattern, which was extended eas...
  • Kejia (people)
    group of North Chinese who migrated to South China, especially Guangdong, Fujian, and Guangxi provinces, during the fall of the Southern Song dynasty in the 1270s. Worldwide they are thought to number about 80 million, although the number of Hakka speakers is considerably lower. Their origins remain obscure, but the people who became the Hakka are thought to have lived originally in Henan and Shan...
  • Kejia language (Chinese language)
    Chinese language spoken by considerably fewer than the estimated 80 million Hakka people living mainly in eastern and northern Guangdong province but also in Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hunan, and Sichuan provinces. Hakka is also spoken by perhaps 7 million immigrants in widely scattered areas, notably Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The best-known dialect is...
  • “Kejser og Galilæer” (work by Ibsen)
    ...drama on the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate had long been on his mind; he finished it in 1873 under the title Kejser og Galilaeer (Emperor and Galilean), but in a ten-act form too diffuse and discursive for the stage. He wrote a modern satire, De unges forbund (1869; The League of......
  • KEK (laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan)
    ...storage rings are sometimes used, in particular if the electrons and positrons are to have different energies. In the PEP-II storage rings at Stanford University and in the KEK-B facility at the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK) in Tsukuba, electrons and positrons are stored at different energies so that they have different values of momentum. When they annihilate, the net......
  • Kek Lok Si Temple (temple, George Town, Malaysia)
    ...exports include tin, rubber, and copra. The University of Science of Malaysia (founded 1969) is at Minden Barracks on the outskirts. Also on the outskirts is the city’s most spectacular temple, the Kek Lok Si Temple, or, as it is sometimes called, the Million Buddhas Precious Pagoda, a complex of structures on three levels with thousands of gilded Buddhas. George Town’s cultural a...
  • Kekaya (people)
    The Kekayas, Madras, and Ushinaras, who had settled in the region between Gandhara and the Beas River, were described as descendants of the Anu tribe. The Matsyas occupied an area to the southwest of present-day Delhi. The Kuru-Pancala, still......
  • Kekchí (people)
    Mayan Indians of central Guatemala, living in damp highlands and lowlands of irregular terrain. The Kekchí raise corn and beans as staple crops. These are planted together in plots that are burned off and then worked with digging sticks. Sexual taboos and fertility rituals are associated with the planting. Houses are built of thatch and poles, without windows, and hammocks are used for bed...
  • Kekere Ekun (work by Olabimtan)
    ...which deals with the hardships of urban life in Yorubaland. The trend of contemporary realism continued with Afolabi Olabimtan’s novels. His first, Kekere Ekun (1967; “[Lad Nicknamed] Leopard Cub”), depicts the intrigues of a typically polygamous Yoruba home and the role of the church and school in a rural community. His......
  • Kékes, Mount (mountain, Hungary)
    the highest range in northern Hungary, and part of the region’s central highland belt. The range’s maximum elevation is reached at Mount Kékes (3,327 feet [1,014 m]). The Mátra is a sharply defined volcanic mass consisting in large part of lava and measuring approximately 25 miles (40 km) east-west between the Tarna and Zagyva rivers and 9 miles (14 km) north-south acr...
  • Kekkonen, Urho Kaleva (president of Finland)
    Finnish prime minister (1950–53, 1954–56) and president (1956–81), noted for his Soviet-oriented neutrality....
  • keklap (algae)
    ...Africa, and the Aztecs made a similar product. In China a scum called lan, collected from ponds and freshwater lakes, provides sustenance for large numbers of people. A related scum, keklap, found in Java, is used chiefly as fish feed. Another species is made into dried sheets in Japan and prepared for food by heating in water. Successful cultivation of some blue-green......
  • Kekri (Scandinavian feast day)
    in ancient Finnish religion, a feast day marking the end of the agricultural season that also coincided with the time when the cattle were taken in from pasture and settled for a winter’s stay in the barn. Kekri originally fell on Michaelmas, September 29, but was later shifted to November 1, All Saints’ Day. In the old system of reckoning time, Kekri was a critical period between th...
  • Kekuaokalani (Hawaiian chief)
    ...home and council area of the king, who died in Kailua in 1819. After Kamehameha’s death there was a battle between his successor, Kamehameha II, who had abandoned traditional Hawaiian religion, and Kekuaokalani, who led the forces supporting the ancient Hawaiian religion; Kekuaokalani and his warriors were overwhelmed. Lekeleke Burial Grounds, 7 miles (11 km) south of Kailua, commemorate...
  • Kekule, August (German chemist)
    German chemist who established the foundation for the structural theory in organic chemistry....
  • Kekulé, Friedrich August (German chemist)
    German chemist who established the foundation for the structural theory in organic chemistry....
  • Kekulé structure (chemistry)
    There is a VB wavefunction for each of these so-called Kekulé structures. (They are so called after Friedrich August Kekulé, who is commonly credited with having first proposed the hexagonal structure for benzene in 1865; however, a cyclic structure had already been proposed by Joseph Loschmidt four years earlier.) The actual structure is a superposition (sum) of the two......
  • Kekule von Stradonitz, August (German chemist)
    German chemist who established the foundation for the structural theory in organic chemistry....
  • Kel Aïr (people)
    ...are mostly nomadic; they are also found dispersed throughout western Africa. The Tuareg, also nomadic, are divided into three subgroups—the Iullemmiden of the Azaouak region in the west, the Asben (Kel Aïr) in the Aïr region, and the Itesen (Kel Geres) to the south and east of Aïr. The Tuareg people are also found in Algeria and in Mali. The Kanuri, who live to the e...
  • Kel Geres (people)
    ...western Africa. The Tuareg, also nomadic, are divided into three subgroups—the Iullemmiden of the Azaouak region in the west, the Asben (Kel Aïr) in the Aïr region, and the Itesen (Kel Geres) to the south and east of Aïr. The Tuareg people are also found in Algeria and in Mali. The Kanuri, who live to the east of Zinder, are divided into a number of......
  • Kelaa des Sraghna, el- (Morocco)
    town, provincial capital, and province (established 1973), Tensift region, western Morocco. The town, located about 47 mi (75 km) northeast of Marrakech, is a local market centre in the eastern part of the province; its name means the “Citadel of the Srarhna,” referring to its earlier function as the ancient capital of the local Berber-Arab Srarhna tribe. It is picturesque, surrounde...
  • Kelaa des Sraghna, el- (province, Morocco)
    El-Kelaa des Srarhna province is bounded by the provinces of Settat (north), Beni Mellal (northeast), Azilal (southeast), Marrakech (south), Safi (southwest), and el-Jadida (northwest). It embraces an area of 3,888 sq mi (10,070 sq km) and comprises the most arid area of Morocco west of the Atlas Mountains. The western part of the province is a relatively barren quartz and shale plateau......
  • Kelaa des Srarhna, el- (Morocco)
    town, provincial capital, and province (established 1973), Tensift region, western Morocco. The town, located about 47 mi (75 km) northeast of Marrakech, is a local market centre in the eastern part of the province; its name means the “Citadel of the Srarhna,” referring to its earlier function as the ancient capital of the local Berber-Arab Srarhna tribe. It is picturesque, surrounde...
  • Kelaa des Srarhna, el- (province, Morocco)
    El-Kelaa des Srarhna province is bounded by the provinces of Settat (north), Beni Mellal (northeast), Azilal (southeast), Marrakech (south), Safi (southwest), and el-Jadida (northwest). It embraces an area of 3,888 sq mi (10,070 sq km) and comprises the most arid area of Morocco west of the Atlas Mountains. The western part of the province is a relatively barren quartz and shale plateau......
  • Kelabit (people)
    Smaller indigenous groups, such as the Orang Ulu—an ethnic category embracing the Kenyah, Kayan, Kelabit, Bisaya (Bisayah), Penan, and others—also contribute much to Sarawak’s ethnic and cultural character. The Kenyah, Kayan, and Kelabit generally trace their origins to the southern mountains on the border with East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Other Orang Ulu groups stem from lower...
  • Kelang (Malaysia)
    city and port, west-central Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies on the Kelang River and the 40-mile (64-km) Kuala Lumpur–Port Kelang railway. The city is an administrative centre of a rubber- and fruit-growing district. During the 19th-century tin rush, Klang served as a port of entry to the central region. Formerly noted for its coffee, it began intensive production of rubber in the 1890s,...
  • Kelang (river, Malaysia)
    Kuala Lumpur lies in hilly country astride the confluence of the Kelang and Gombak rivers; its name in Malay means “Muddy Confluence.” Malaysia’s Main Range rises nearby to the north, east, and southeast. The climate is equatorial, with high temperatures and humidity that vary little throughout the year. The area receives about 95 inches (2,400 mm) of rain annually; June and J...
  • Kélibia (Tunisia)
    ...loosen their grasp on Sicily. A large Roman fleet sailed out in 256, repelled the entire Carthaginian fleet off Cape Ecnomus (near modern Licata), and established a fortified camp on African soil at Clypea (Kélibia in Tunisia). The Carthaginians, whose citizen levy was utterly disorganized, could neither keep the field against the invaders nor prevent their subjects from revolting. After...
  • Kelimat ha-Goyim (work by Duran)
    In conjunction with the letter, Duran also wrote an anti-Christian polemic, Kelimat ha-Goyim (“Shame of the Gentiles”), in about 1397, which discredited the Gospels and other early Christian writings....
  • Kell blood-group system (physiology)
    Other blood groups were identified later, such as Kell, Diego, Lutheran, Duffy, and Kidd. The remaining blood group systems were first described after antibodies were identified in patients. Frequently, such discoveries resulted from the search for the explanation of an unexpected......
  • Kell, Joseph (British author)
    English novelist, critic, and man of letters, whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre....
  • Kell, Sir Vernon (British military officer)
    ...of state to Elizabeth I. In the early 20th century it was realized that some form of centralized control of intelligence functions was necessary. MI5 was formed in 1909 under the leadership of Vernon Kell, then a captain in the British army, to identify and counteract German spies then working in Britain, which it did with great effect. Kell retired as a major general in 1924 and was later......
  • Kell, Vernon (British military officer)
    ...of state to Elizabeth I. In the early 20th century it was realized that some form of centralized control of intelligence functions was necessary. MI5 was formed in 1909 under the leadership of Vernon Kell, then a captain in the British army, to identify and counteract German spies then working in Britain, which it did with great effect. Kell retired as a major general in 1924 and was later......
  • Kellar, Harry (American magician)
    first great magician native to the United States. Called the “dean of magic” and “the most beloved magician in history,” he was the most popular magician from 1896 until 1908....
  • Kellas, Eliza (American educator)
    American educator, best remembered for her strong and effective leadership of the Emma Willard School in Troy....
  • Kellaway, Edmund (British-American actor)
    Other Nominees...
  • kellegi (floor covering)
    ...kanārehs, which are mainly used for walking and which measure some 18 × 3 feet (5.5 × 1 metres). The principal rug, or kellegi, averaging 12 × 6 feet (3.7 × 1.8 metres), is placed at one end of the arrangement of three carpets, so that its length stretches almost completely across their......
  • Keller, Christoph (German historian)
    ...medium aevum, as did the popular historical textbook The Nucleus of Middle History Between Ancient and Modern (1688), by the German historian Christoph Keller—although Keller observed that in naming the period he was simply following the terminology of earlier and contemporary scholars. By the late 17th century the most commonly used......
  • Keller, Ferdinand (Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian)
    Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian who conducted the first systematic excavation of prehistoric Alpine lake dwellings, at Obermeilen on Lake Zürich. He thus initiated the study of similar remains elsewhere in Switzerland and Europe, from which much was learned about Late Stone Age and Bronze Age life....
  • Keller, Gottfried (Swiss author)
    the greatest German-Swiss narrative writer of late 19th-century Poetischer Realismus (“Poetic Realism”)....
  • Keller, Harry (American magician)
    first great magician native to the United States. Called the “dean of magic” and “the most beloved magician in history,” he was the most popular magician from 1896 until 1908....
  • Keller, Helen (American author and educator)
    American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities....
  • Keller, Helen Adams (American author and educator)
    American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities....
  • Keller, Louis (American publisher)
    The Social Register was founded in 1887 by Louis Keller, a former gossip-sheet publisher; it was priced at $1.75 and contained 3,600 names. Ownership stayed among three families related to Keller until 1976, when control reportedly passed to a business publishing house, the Forbes Corporation. The publication continues to guard its reputation for secrecy....
  • Keller, Patricia Joan (American athlete)
    American diver who was the first athlete to win gold medals in both the springboard and platform diving events at two Olympic Games....
  • Keller, Rose (French prostitute)
    ...imprisoned, on orders of the king, in the fortress of Vincennes. Freed several weeks later, he resumed his life of debauchery and went deeply into debt. In 1768 the first public scandal erupted: the Rose Keller affair....
  • Kellerman, Annette (American athlete)
    Although the Gibson Girl, and later the flapper, exemplified the independent spirit of the new woman, swimmer and vaudeville and movie star Annette Kellerman epitomized the physical culture ideal. In 1905 Kellerman swam from Dover to Ramsgate, England, a distance of 20 miles (32 km), in 4 hours and 28 minutes. She also introduced the one-piece bathing suit (see photograph) at a beach near.....
  • Kellermann, Bernhard (German writer)
    German journalist and writer best known for his novel Der Tunnel (1913; The Tunnel, 1915), a sensational technical-utopian work about the construction of a tunnel between Europe and North America....
  • Kellermann, François-Christophe, duc de Valmy (French general)
    French general whose defeat of a Prussian army at Valmy in September 1792 halted an invasion that threatened the Revolutionary regime in France....
  • Kelley, Abigail (American abolitionist and feminist)
    American feminist, abolitionist, and lecturer who is remembered as an impassioned speaker for radical reform....
  • Kelley Barnes dam (dam, Toccoa, Georgia, United States)
    ...Christian school. Toccoa (probably from Cherokee toccoa, “beautiful”) Falls, a cascade 186 feet (57 metres) high on Toccoa Creek, is on the campus. In November 1977 the Kelley Barnes earthen dam on the creek burst after torrential rains and flooded the campus, killing 39 persons. Traveler’s Rest State Historic Site is 6 miles (10 km) east, and Tugaloo State Park is.....
  • Kelley, Clarence Marion (United States government official)
    American law-enforcement official who in 1973 became the first permanent director of the FBI after the 49-year reign of J. Edgar Hoover; he served until 1978 and in that time brought modern techniques for crime fighting to the bureau and changed its focus to white-collar and organized crime (b. Oct. 24, 1911--d. Aug. 5, 1997)....
  • Kelley, David E. (American writer and producer)
    As creator of three different successful shows airing on three competing networks during the 1997-98 TV season, writer and producer David E. Kelley was unique in the world of television. He had begun this string of hits, each of which featured unusual scenarios and quirky characters, with "Chicago Hope" (CBS), a medical drama series set in Chicago that premiered in 1994. Debuting in the 1997-98 se...
  • Kelley, DeForest (American actor)
    American actor best identified by his role as Dr. Leonard (“Bones”) McCoy on the popular science-fiction television series Star Trek (1966–69); he reprised the role in six Star Trek films; he also played supporting roles in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) and Apache Uprising (1966) and on many other television shows, including Gu...
  • Kelley, Florence (American social reformer)
    social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States....
  • Kelley, Florence Molthrop (American social reformer)
    social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States....
  • Kelley, John Adelbert (American athlete)
    American marathoner (b. Sept. 6, 1907, West Medford, Mass.—d. Oct. 6, 2004, South Yarmouth, Mass.), ran the Boston Marathon a record 61 times. He ran his first Boston Marathon in 1928, won it in 1935 and 1945, and finished 18 times in the top 10. He was the first road runner inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and was named Runner of the Century by Runner’s Wor...
  • Kelley, Oliver Hudson (American agriculturalist)
    The Granger movement began with a single individual, Oliver Hudson Kelley. Kelley was an employee of the Department of Agriculture in 1866 when he made a tour of the South. Shocked by the ignorance there of sound agricultural practices, Kelley in 1867 began an organization—the Patrons of Husbandry—he hoped would bring farmers together for educational discussions and social......
  • Kelley Park (park, San Jose, California, United States)
    There is an extensive system of municipal and regional parks. Kelley Park, along Coyote Creek, includes a zoo, a Japanese garden, and an outdoor historic museum of restored and replicated buildings from San Jose’s early years. The 720-acre (290-hectare) Alum Rock Park (1872), on the eastern edge of the city, is California’s oldest municipal park. The city abounds in flower gardens, n...
  • Kelley, William (American author and screenwriter)
    Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of......
  • Kellgren, Johan Henric (Swedish poet)
    poet considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment and once called Sweden’s “national good sense.”...
  • Kellgren, Johan Henrik (Swedish poet)
    poet considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment and once called Sweden’s “national good sense.”...
  • Kelling, George L. (American criminologist)
    ...Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety, a groundbreaking article published in 1982, the American political commentator James Q. Wilson and the American criminologist George L. Kelling maintained that the incidence as well as the fear of crime is strongly related to the existence of disorderly conditions in neighbourhoods. Using the metaphor of a broken window,......
  • Kellner, Sandor Laszlo (British film director)
    Hungarian-born British motion-picture director and producer who made major contributions to the development of Britain’s film industry....
  • Kello, Esther (Scottish calligrapher)
    Scottish calligrapher born in London to French parents, who produced about 55 miniature manuscript books between 1586 and 1624 and whose work was much admired and collected in her lifetime....
  • Kellogg (Idaho, United States)
    city, Shoshone county, northern Idaho, U.S. It is situated in the Coeur d’Alene mining district of the Bitterroot Range. Established as a prospecting camp in 1893 and originally called Milo, it was renamed (1894) to honour Noah S. Kellogg, discoverer of the Bunker Hill Mine. The community developed as a mining and smelting centre for ...
  • Kellogg, Clara Louise (American singer)
    American opera singer, the first U.S.-born prima donna and the first American singer to achieve success in Europe....
  • Kellogg Company (American company)
    leading American producer of ready-to-eat cereals and other food products. Kellogg’s Corn Flakes was one of the earliest and remains one of the most popular breakfast cereals in the United States. Headquarters are in Battle Creek, Mich....
  • Kellogg, Eva Louise Phelps (American historian)
    American historian who wrote extensively on the American Northwest....
  • Kellogg, Frank B. (American politician)
    U.S. secretary of state (1925–29) whose most important achievement was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929....
  • Kellogg, Frank Billings (American politician)
    U.S. secretary of state (1925–29) whose most important achievement was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929....
  • Kellogg, John Harvey (American physician and nutritionist)
    American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry....
  • Kellogg, Louise Phelps (American historian)
    American historian who wrote extensively on the American Northwest....
  • Kellogg, Paula (American reformer)
    American feminist and social reformer, active in the early struggle for woman suffrage and the founder of an early periodical in support of that cause....
  • Kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes Company (American company)
    leading American producer of ready-to-eat cereals and other food products. Kellogg’s Corn Flakes was one of the earliest and remains one of the most popular breakfast cereals in the United States. Headquarters are in Battle Creek, Mich....
  • Kellogg, W. K. (American industrialist)
    American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States....
  • Kellogg, Will Keith (American industrialist)
    American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States....
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact (France-United States [1928])
    (Aug. 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I....
  • Kells (Ireland)
    market town and urban district of County Meath, Ireland, on the River Blackwater. The town was originally a royal residence. In the 6th century it was granted to St. Columba and became a centre of learning. A bishopric was founded there about 807 and was united to that of Meath in the 13th century. The house of St. Columba, later converted into a church, was built about 807. Nea...
  • Kells, Book of (illuminated manuscript)
    illuminated gospel book (MS. A.I. 6; Trinity College Library, Dublin) that is a masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style. It is probable that the illumination was begun in the late 8th century at the Irish monastery on the Scottish island of Iona and that after a Viking raid the book was taken to the monastery of Kells in County Meath, where it may have been completed in th...
  • Kells, Council of (Roman Catholic history)
    ...for the pallium, Malachy died at Clairvaux in the arms of Bernard. The establishment of a regular hierarchy in the Irish church—the object of his life—was realized at the Council of Kells, County Meath, in 1152. He was the first Irish Catholic to be canonized. No writings of Malachy are known to exist, but falsely ascribed to him is the Prophecy of the Popes, a......
  • Kellwasser Event (paleontology)
    ...episodes: the Taghanic Event, which formerly was used to draw the boundary between the Middle and Upper Devonian, was a marked period of extinction for goniatites, corals, and brachiopods; the Kellwasser Event saw the extinction of the beloceratid and manticoceratid goniatite groups, many conodont species, most colonial corals, several groups of trilobites, and the atrypid and pentamerid......
  • kelly (drill pipe)
    ...pipe also transmits the rotary motion to the bit from a turntable at the surface. The top piece of the drill pipe is a tube of square (or occasionally six- or eight-sided) cross section called the kelly. The kelly passes through a similarly shaped hole in the turntable. At the bottom end of the drill pipe are extra-heavy sections called drill collars, which serve to concentrate the weight on......
  • Kelly Act (United States [1925])
    ...introduction of aircraft beacons helped, but the low altitudes at which most contemporary planes could operate continued to plague service. Commercial flying began in earnest in 1925 when, under the Kelly Act, the United States Post Office Department established contracts for carrying mail over assigned routes. Payments were made in return for the weight of mail carried. This practice often gav...
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