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  • Kemmu no Chūkō (Japanese history)
    The return of Go-Daigo to Kyōto in 1333 is known as the Kemmu Restoration. The emperor immediately set about to restore direct imperial rule. He abolished the powerful office of kampaku and set up a central bureaucracy. He revived the Records Office (Kirokusho) to settle lawsuits in the provinces and established the Court of Miscellaneous Claims (Zassho Ketsudansho) to handle minor.....
  • Kemmu Restoration (Japanese history)
    The return of Go-Daigo to Kyōto in 1333 is known as the Kemmu Restoration. The emperor immediately set about to restore direct imperial rule. He abolished the powerful office of kampaku and set up a central bureaucracy. He revived the Records Office (Kirokusho) to settle lawsuits in the provinces and established the Court of Miscellaneous Claims (Zassho Ketsudansho) to handle minor.....
  • Kemmuna (island, Malta)
    one of the Maltese islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Malta to the southeast and Gozo to the northwest by narrow channels. It has an area of 1 square mile (3 square km). Comino was the site of a fortress of the Knights of Malta (Hospitalers, or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem); a tower (1618) of the fortress survives. Beeswax, honey, and grapes are produced, and goats and sheep are...
  • Kemmunett (island, Malta)
    There are five islands—Malta (the largest), Gozo, Comino, and uninhabited Kemmunett (Comminotto) and Filfla—lying some 58 miles (93 kilometres) south of Sicily, 180 miles (290 kilometres) north of Libya, and about 180 miles east of Tunisia, at the eastern end of that constricted portion of the Mediterranean Sea separating Italy from the African coast. Valletta is the capital,......
  • Kemnitz, Martin (German theologian)
    leading German theologian who was known, with reference to Martin Luther, as “the second Martin” and who helped unify the Lutheran church following the Reformation....
  • Kemnitz, Mathilde von (German philosopher)
    ...His first wife, a striking beauty, divorced her husband in order to marry Ludendorff. In 1926, however, he insisted on dissolving this marriage and married the neurologist and popular philosopher Mathilde von Kemnitz. Ludendorff succumbed completely to this eccentric woman, who regarded him as the real “commander in chief” of the Germans and had developed a belief in the......
  • Kemosh (Semitic deity)
    ancient West Semitic deity, revered by the Moabites as their supreme god. Little is known about Chemosh; although King Solomon of Israel built a sanctuary to him east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7), the shrine was later demolished by King Josiah (2 Kings 23:13). The goddess Astarte was probably the cult partner of Chemosh. On the famous Moabite Stone, written by ...
  • kemp (animal hair)
    ...stiff guard hairs affords protection from the elements. The undercoat, or down, composed of short, fine, soft fibre, provides insulation against heat and cold. Short, coarse, brittle hairs, called kemp, may be intermingled with both types of fibre. Separation of the downy fibre from other hair may be achieved by combing or by a blowing process that causes the heavier fibre to fall away. Such......
  • Kemp, Jack (American politician)
    conservative American politician who was the Republican nominee for vice president in 1996....
  • Kemp, Jack French (American politician)
    conservative American politician who was the Republican nominee for vice president in 1996....
  • Kemp Owyne (ballad)
    ...of Sule Skerry” begets upon an “earthly” woman a son, who, on attaining maturity, joins his seal father in the sea, there shortly to be killed by his mother’s human husband; “Kemp Owyne” disenchants a bespelled maiden by kissing her despite her bad breath and savage looks. An encounter between a demon and a maiden occurs in “Lady Isabel and the.....
  • Kemp, William (British actor)
    one of the most famous clowns of the Elizabethan era. Much of his reputation as a clown grew from his work as a member of the Chamberlain’s Men (c. 1594–99), of which he was part of the original company. Kempe was also renowned as a dancer of jigs....
  • Kempe, John (English statesman and archbishop)
    English ecclesiastical statesman who was prominent in the party struggles of the reign of King Henry VI (1422–61, 1470–71)....
  • Kempe, Margery (British author)
    English religious mystic whose autobiography is one of the earliest in English literature....
  • Kempe, William (British actor)
    one of the most famous clowns of the Elizabethan era. Much of his reputation as a clown grew from his work as a member of the Chamberlain’s Men (c. 1594–99), of which he was part of the original company. Kempe was also renowned as a dancer of jigs....
  • Kempen (region, Belgium)
    plateau region of northeastern Belgium occupying most of Antwerp province and northern Limburg province. It is a rather dry, infertile region of sandy soil and gravel, with pine woods interspersed among meadows of thin grass and heather. Poor drainage, especially in the lower, western part, has produced marshes where reeds and alder trees shelter abundant waterfowl. Although market towns and abbey...
  • Kempeneer, Pieter de (Flemish painter)
    Flemish religious painter and designer of tapestries, chiefly active in Sevilla, Spain, where he was called Pedro Campaña. By 1537 he had settled in Sevilla and apparently remained there until shortly before 1563, when he was appointed director of the tapestry factory in Brussels. His most important works are in the Sevilla cathedral—the Descent from the Cross...
  • Kempenfelt, Richard (British admiral)
    Toward the end of the 18th century, the British admiral Richard Kempenfelt began to unshackle the Royal Navy with a better system of signaling. The new freedom of maneuver came finally and forever to be embodied in the tactical genius and personal inspiration of Horatio Nelson, whose matchless victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen (April......
  • Kempenland (region, Belgium)
    plateau region of northeastern Belgium occupying most of Antwerp province and northern Limburg province. It is a rather dry, infertile region of sandy soil and gravel, with pine woods interspersed among meadows of thin grass and heather. Poor drainage, especially in the lower, western part, has produced marshes where reeds and alder trees shelter abundant waterfowl. Although market towns and abbey...
  • Kempe’s Nine Days’ Wonder (work by Kempe)
    ...and John Stow’s invaluable Survey of London (1598) also deserve passing mention. William Kempe’s account of his morris dance from London to Norwich, Kempe’s Nine Days’ Wonder (1600), exemplifies a smaller genre, the newsbook (a type of pamphlet)....
  • Kempff, Wilhelm (German pianist)
    German pianist who specialized in the 19th-century German Classical and Romantic repertoire—especially the sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven—and in the music of Frédéric Chopin....
  • Kempis, Thomas à (clergyman)
    Christian theologian, the probable author of De Imitatione Christi (Imitation of Christ), a devotional book that, with the exception of the Bible, has been considered the most influential work in Christian literature....
  • Kempner, Nan (American fashionista)
    American fashionista (b. July 24, 1930, San Francisco, Calif.—d. July 3, 2005, New York, N.Y.), was an international trendsetter who for 50 years remained a devoted client of French haute couture. She was especially fond of handmade French luxury dresses that were priced very high to reflect the painstaking workmanship involved in creating them. At one point Kempner, who attended nearly eve...
  • Kempowski, Walter (German writer)
    ...Malina (1971) splits its autobiographical persona into a sensitive, feminine self and a masculine double who is a writer; the novel contains visionary and lyrical passages. Walter Kempowski’s series of novels beginning with Tadellöser & Wolff (1971) reached a wider audience by depicting the everyday life of a middle-class fa...
  • Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (reptile)
    ...(Lepidochelys olivacea) are also largely pelagic, but they are known to frequent coastal regions such as bays and estuaries. The olive ridley and its relative, the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (L. kempii), are small with wide rounded shells. As adults, both species have shells about 58–78 cm (23–31 inches) long. Leatherb...
  • Kempsey (New South Wales, Australia)
    town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies 25 miles (40 km) upstream from the coastal mouth of the Macleay River. Established in 1836, it was at first accessible only by sea via the harbour at Trial Bay. It was proclaimed a municipality in 1886 and is named after the Valley of Kempsey on the River Severn in Worcestershire, Eng....
  • Kempson, Rachel (British actress)
    British actress (b. May 28, 1910, Dartmouth, Eng.—d. May 24, 2003, Millbrook, N.Y.), had a distinguished stage, film, and television career in Great Britain but, especially in the U.S., became better known as the matriarch of the Redgrave acting family—the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, the mother of Vanessa, Corin, and Lynn Redgrave, and the grandmother of Natasha Richardson....
  • Kempten (Germany)
    city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It is situated on the Iller River in the heart of the Allgäuer Alps, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Munich. A residence of the Alemannic dukes and the Frankish kings, the town was the site of a Benedictine abbey founded (752) and endowed by Hild...
  • Kempton, James Murray (American journalist)
    American journalist whose columns championing the underdog--and featuring ultracomplex sentences--in such publications as the New York Post and Newsday made him a literary presence for some five decades and whose bicycle made him a familiar figure on Manhattan streets; he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 (b. Dec. 16, 1917--d. May 5, 1997)....
  • Kempton, Murray (American journalist)
    American journalist whose columns championing the underdog--and featuring ultracomplex sentences--in such publications as the New York Post and Newsday made him a literary presence for some five decades and whose bicycle made him a familiar figure on Manhattan streets; he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 (b. Dec. 16, 1917--d. May 5, 1997)....
  • ken (architecture)
    In Japanese architecture, intercolumniation is based on a standard unit, the ken, which is divided into 20 sections, each termed a minute of space; each minute is subdivided into 22 units, or seconds....
  • ken (Japanese government unit)
    In 1871 the feudal system was dissolved and the ken, or prefectural, system was established. At first the more than 300 prefectures were mostly the former fiefs of feudal lords, who were appointed as governors. Through amalgamation and partition there were frequent changes in the ken pattern, until by 1888 the......
  • Ken Angrok (king of Singhasāri)
    ...though by now in decline, was still predominant in the region. The last king of Kaḍiri was Kertajaya, who reduced the power of the Brahmans and hence came into conflict with them. A rebel, Ken Angrok, later the king of Singhasāri, made a secret agreement with the Brahmans and in 1222 defeated Kertajaya at Ganter. In the place of Kaḍiri, the kingdom of Singhasāri was....
  • Ken Arok (king of Singhasāri)
    ...though by now in decline, was still predominant in the region. The last king of Kaḍiri was Kertajaya, who reduced the power of the Brahmans and hence came into conflict with them. A rebel, Ken Angrok, later the king of Singhasāri, made a secret agreement with the Brahmans and in 1222 defeated Kertajaya at Ganter. In the place of Kaḍiri, the kingdom of Singhasāri was....
  • Ken, Thomas (British clergyman)
    Anglican bishop, hymn writer, royal chaplain to Charles II of England, and one of seven bishops who in 1688 opposed James II’s Declaration of Indulgence, which was designed to promote Roman Catholicism....
  • K’en-ting National Park (park, Taiwan)
    ...in Taiwan. Its industries manufacture metal goods, machinery, and chemicals and produce alcoholic beverages and canned food. P’ing-tung city, the administrative seat, has a large military base. The Tropical Botanical Forest Park at Heng-ch’un covers an area of 100 acres (40 hectares) and has one of the largest experimental forests in Southeast Asia. A 126-square-mile (326-square-k...
  • Kenadsa (town and coalfields, Algeria)
    town and bituminous coalfields, northwestern Algeria. They lie in a hammada (stony desert region) situated at the northwestern edge of the Sahara 15 miles (24 km) west of Béchar. The Kenadsa coalfields were discovered in 1907 but not mined until 1917. The maximum output of the Kenadsa (and nearby Ksiksou) coalfields occurred in the 1940s (particularly d...
  • Kenadza (town and coalfields, Algeria)
    town and bituminous coalfields, northwestern Algeria. They lie in a hammada (stony desert region) situated at the northwestern edge of the Sahara 15 miles (24 km) west of Béchar. The Kenadsa coalfields were discovered in 1907 but not mined until 1917. The maximum output of the Kenadsa (and nearby Ksiksou) coalfields occurred in the 1940s (particularly d...
  • kenaf (plant)
    (species Hibiscus cannabinus), fast-growing plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae) and its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. It is used mainly as a jute substitute. The plant grows wild in Africa, where the fibre is sometimes known as Guinea hemp, and has been cultivated on the Indian subcontinent, where it is usually known as mesta, or ambari, since prehistoric times....
  • Kenai birch (plant)
    ...tree of Canada and the eastern and midwestern U.S. In the Alaska paper birch (variety humilis) the nearly triangular leaves are about four centimetres long, the bark white to red brown; the Kenai birch (variety kenaica), found in Alaska from sea level to altitudes of 665 m, is rarely 12 m tall and has white bark, tinged orange or brown....
  • Kenai Fjords National Park (park, Alaska, United States)
    rugged wilderness area in southern Alaska, U.S., on the southern coast of Kenai Peninsula just west and southwest of Seward. Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, it became a national park in 1980. Its area is 1,047 square miles (2,712 square km)....
  • Kenai Mountains (mountains, Alaska, United States)
    ...merges southwestward into the Aleutian Range and the Aleutian Islands. Separated from the Alaska Range by the Talkeetna and Wrangell mountains, the main mountains of the southern coast lie in the Kenai and Chugach mountains. These heavily glaciated ranges border the Gulf of Alaska, the Chugach Mountains adjoining, to the south and east, the St. Elias Mountains at the Canadian border. The St.......
  • Kenai Peninsula (peninsula, Alaska, United States)
    ...reserve is virtually untapped. The largest project is at Lake Eklutna, near Anchorage. A hydroelectric development near Juneau delivers power to the panhandle area, and the Bradley Lake dam, on the Kenai Peninsula, went into operation in 1991 to deliver power to the central and southern regions. Most other communities depend on diesel and coal plants to produce much of the required municipal......
  • Kenan, Randall (American author)
    ...the mold of Ellison and Baldwin; Charles Johnson, whose novels, such as The Oxherding Tale (1982) and The Middle Passage (1990), showed a masterful historical imagination; Randall Kenan, a gay writer with a strong folk imagination whose style also descended from both Ellison and Baldwin; and Colson Whitehead, who used experimental techniques and folk traditions in......
  • Kendal (England, United Kingdom)
    town (parish), South Lakeland district, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Westmorland, England. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of the district. It is close to the main route from London to Scotland via Carlisle and is on one of the principal tourist routes to the Lake District....
  • Kendal, Dame Margaret (British actress and manager)
    English actor-managers, husband and wife, who, by their personal and professional example, brought social respectability to the acting profession and whose theatrical company trained many performers who afterward attained eminence....
  • Kendal, Ehrengarde Melusina, Duchess of (mistress of George I)
    mistress of the English king George I who had considerable political influence during his reign. She was a close friend of Robert Walpole, who said that she was “as much queen of England as ever any was.”...
  • Kendal, Ehrengarde Melusina, Duchess of, Duchess of Munster, Countess and Marchioness of Dungannon, Countess of Feversham, Baroness of Dundalk, Baroness of Glastonbury (mistress of George I)
    mistress of the English king George I who had considerable political influence during his reign. She was a close friend of Robert Walpole, who said that she was “as much queen of England as ever any was.”...
  • Kendal, Geoffrey (British actor and manager)
    British actor-manager whose Shakespeareana Company, which included his wife and eventually their daughters, toured India and the Far East for nearly 20 years, performing the works of Shakespeare and other classics; the film Shakespeare Wallah (1965) was based on the company (b. Sept. 7, 1909, Kendal, Westmorland, Eng.--d. May 14, 1998, England?)....
  • Kendal, Madge (British actress and manager)
    English actor-managers, husband and wife, who, by their personal and professional example, brought social respectability to the acting profession and whose theatrical company trained many performers who afterward attained eminence....
  • Kendal, William Hunter (British actor and manager)
    English actor-managers, husband and wife, who, by their personal and professional example, brought social respectability to the acting profession and whose theatrical company trained many performers who afterward attained eminence....
  • Kendal, William Hunter Grimston (British actor and manager)
    English actor-managers, husband and wife, who, by their personal and professional example, brought social respectability to the acting profession and whose theatrical company trained many performers who afterward attained eminence....
  • Kendall, Edward Calvin (American chemist)
    American chemist who, with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus Reichstein, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for research on the structure and biological effects of adrenal cortex hormones....
  • Kendall, Henry (Australian poet)
    Australian poet whose verse was a triumph over a life of adversity....
  • Kendall, Henry Way (American physicist)
    American nuclear physicist who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor for obtaining experimental evidence for the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks....
  • Kendall v. United States (law case)
    ...did not share Chief Justice John Marshall’s nationalist views and dissented from many of his opinions; few of Thompson’s opinions for the Court related to constitutional questions. His opinion in Kendall v. United States (1838) contained a passage rejecting the theory, ascribed to President Andrew Jackson, that a president may enforce his own interpretation of the Co...
  • Kendang, Mount (mountain, Indonesia)
    The landscape of Jawa Barat is dominated by a chain of volcanoes, both active and extinct, that from west to east includes Mounts Sanggabuwana, Gede, Pangrango, Kendang, and Tjereme. The highest of these peaks rise to elevations of about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). A series of these volcanoes cluster together to form a great tangle of upland that also includes the Priangar Plateau, which has an......
  • Kendari (Indonesia)
    town, capital of Southeast Sulawesi propinsi (province), southeastern Celebes, Indonesia. It is a port on an inlet of Kendari Bay of the Banda Sea, located about 230 miles (370 km) northeast of Ujungpandang (Makassar). Most of the town’s inhabitants are of the Makassarese and Buginese peoples. The principal road in the region connects Kendari with Kolaka to the wes...
  • kendō (fencing)
    (“way of the sword”), traditional Japanese style of fencing with a two-handed wooden sword, derived from the fighting methods of the ancient samurai (warrior class). The unification of Japan about 1600 removed most opportunities for actual sword combat, so the samurai turned swordsmanship into a means of cultivating discipline, patience, and skill for building cha...
  • kendo (fencing)
    (“way of the sword”), traditional Japanese style of fencing with a two-handed wooden sword, derived from the fighting methods of the ancient samurai (warrior class). The unification of Japan about 1600 removed most opportunities for actual sword combat, so the samurai turned swordsmanship into a means of cultivating discipline, patience, and skill for building cha...
  • Kendrew, Sir John Cowdery (British biochemist)
    British biochemist who determined the three-dimensional structure of the muscle protein myoglobin, which stores oxygen in muscle cells. For his achievement he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Max Ferdinand Perutz in 1962....
  • Kendujhargarh (India)
    town, northern Orissa state, eastern India. Keonjhar is a trade centre for the farm and forest products of the surrounding area. Handloom weaving is also important. The town contains an old raja’s palace and is the site of colleges affiliated with Utkal University. The chief river of the region, the Baitarani, venerated in popular epics and legends, provides water for irrigation. Most of th...
  • kenduri (Malaysian feast)
    ...and other religious festivities, important life events such as birth, circumcision (for young Muslim men), and marriage are usually celebrated by a feast, known in Malay as kenduri. The wedding ceremony is generally the most important and elaborate of such events among both Malay and non-Malay peoples. In rural areas the ......
  • Kenduskeag Plantation (Maine, United States)
    city, seat (1816) of Penobscot county, east-central Maine, U.S. It is a port of entry at the head of navigation on the Penobscot River opposite Brewer. The site, visited in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain, was settled in 1769 by Jacob Buswell. First called Kenduskeag Plantation (1776) and later Sunbury (1787), it was incorporated as a town in 1791 and is thought t...
  • Keneally, Thomas (Australian author)
    Australian writer best known for his historical novels. Keneally’s characters are gripped by their historical and personal past, and decent individuals are portrayed at odds with systems of authority....
  • Kenem (oasis, Egypt)
    oasis in the Libyan (Western) Desert, part of Al-Wādī al-Jadīd (“New Valley”) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in south-central Egypt. It is situated about 110 miles (180 km) west-southwest of Najʿ Ḥammādī, to which it is linked by railroad. The name Wāḥāt al-Khārijah m...
  • Kenema (Sierra Leone)
    town, southeastern Sierra Leone. Located on the government railway and at a gap in the Kambui Hills, the town is the centre of the Alluvial Diamond Mining Scheme Area and the site of the Government Diamond Office (1959), concerned with the exportation of diamonds. It is also an important agricultural market town for the Mende people and the centre of the timber industry of Sier...
  • Keneset ha-Gedolah (ancient Jewish assembly)
    (“Men of the Great Assembly”), assembly of Jewish religious leaders who, after returning (539 bc) to their homeland from the Babylonian Exile, initiated a new era in the history of Judaism....
  • Kenfig Burrows (dunes, Wales, United Kingdom)
    ...Porthcawl originated as a coal port during the 19th century, but its trade was soon taken over by more rapidly developing ports such as nearby Barry. Northwest of the town, in the dunes known as Kenfig Burrows, are hidden the last remnants of the town and castle of Kenfig, which were overwhelmed by sand about 1400. Porthcawl is a leading holiday resort in southern Wales and has one of the......
  • Këngët e Milosaos (work by Rada)
    ...among Arbëresh writers was Jeronim (Girolamo) de Rada, regarded by some critics as the finest Romantic poet in the Albanian language. His major work, best known by its Albanian title Këngët e Milosaos (1836; “The Songs of Milosao”), is a Romantic ballad infused with patriotic sentiments. De Rada was also the founder of the first Albanian periodica...
  • Kenilorea, Peter (prime minister of Solomon Islands)
    ...movement for decolonization, the Solomons set out on the path of constitutional development. The country was formally renamed Solomon Islands in 1975, and independence was attained on July 7, 1978. Peter Kenilorea, who had helped lead Solomon Islands to independence, became its first prime minister (1978–81) and served a second term from 1984 to 1986. Solomon Mamaloni, another......
  • Kenilworth Castle (castle, England, United Kingdom)
    ...(1242), winning distinction by covering Henry’s escape after his defeat at Saintes. Reconciled with Henry, and accepting an unfavourable settlement of Countess Eleanor’s dower claims, Simon now made Kenilworth Castle (a royal grant) his headquarters. He cultivated the friendship of the radical reformer Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, and took Robert’s friend, the Oxf...
  • Kenilworth, Hyde of, Viscount (English statesman)
    influential English statesman who served under Charles II, James II, William III, and Queen Anne....
  • Kenite (ancient people)
    member of a tribe of itinerant metalsmiths related to the Midianites and the Israelites who plied their trade while traveling in the region of the Arabah (the desert rift valley extending from the Sea of Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba) from at least the 13th century to the 9th century bc. The Kenites’ name was derived from Cain, whose descendants they were believed to be. The K...
  • Kenitra (Morocco)
    port city, northern Morocco. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) above the mouth of the Sebou River. Before the French protectorate was established, Kenitra (Arabic: Al-Qunayṭirah, “Little Bridge”) was a fort; the settlement and port, built by order of Marshal L.-H.-G. Lyautey, date from 1913. Kenitra is a shipping centre fo...
  • Kenju Daishi (Japanese Buddhist patriarch)
    Japanese Buddhist leader and eighth patriarch of the Hongan Temple in Kyōto....
  • Kenmare (Ireland)
    Japanese Buddhist leader and eighth patriarch of the Hongan Temple in Kyōto.......
  • Kenmure, William Gordon, 6th Viscount (Scottish Jacobite)
    Scottish Jacobite who was miscast as a leader in the rebellion of 1715 on behalf of James Edward, the Old Pretender, against King George I....
  • Kennan, George F. (American diplomat and historian)
    American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II....
  • Kennan, George Frost (American diplomat and historian)
    American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II....
  • Kennebec (county, Maine, United States)
    county, west-central Maine, U.S. It is a region of rolling lowlands with higher elevations on the northwest. Foremost among the county’s many streams is the Kennebec River, which traverses it from north to south and supplies hydropower for several cities. Other major waterways are the Sebasticook, Sheepscot, and Eastern rivers, while Great Pond and Cobb...
  • Kennebec (work by Coffin)
    ...from 1937 to 1939 he was book and poetry editor for Yankee. Coffin explored other modes of writing in such works as Red Sky in the Morning (1935), a novel about the Maine coast; Kennebec (1937), part of a historical series on American rivers; and Maine Doings (1950), informal essays on New England life....
  • Kennebec and Edwards Dam (dam, United States)
    At one time, the Kennebec and Edwards Dam, built on the river in 1837, furnished hydropower at Bingham, Skowhegan, Waterville, and Gardiner. Growing environmental concerns, however, led the U.S. government to order the removal of the dam. After it was demolished in 1999, an upstream stretch of the river was reopened as an important spawning ground to such fish as the Atlantic salmon and......
  • Kennebec River (river, Maine, United States)
    river in west-central Maine, U.S. The Kennebec rises from Moosehead Lake and flows south for about 150 miles (240 km) to the Atlantic Ocean. It was explored by Samuel de Champlain between 1604 and 1605. Fort St. George, founded in 1607 at the head of navigation on the river near present-day Augusta, was the state’s ...
  • Kennebunk (Maine, United States)
    ...as Arundel in 1717, it was renamed Kennebunkport in 1821, the name being derived from an Abenaki or Mi’kmaq (Micmac) Indian word indicative of a “long sandbar.” The adjoining town of Kennebunk was settled about 1650 and was included in the town of Wells; it was set off and incorporated in 1820. Both Kennebunk and Kennebunkport were busy shipping and shipbuilding centres in ...
  • Kennebunkport (Maine, United States)
    town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S. It is situated at the mouth of the Kennebunk River, on the Atlantic coast. It is adjacent to Kennebunk and lies 29 miles (47 km) southwest of Portland. The original settlement (1629) by Richard Vines was brought under the control of Massachusetts and incorporated as Cape Porpus in 1653. Reincorporated as Arundel in 1717, it was renamed...
  • Kennedy, Adrienne (American writer)
    ...(1972), and The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974), the latter one taking aim at black cultural nationalism. Another 1960s writer more postmodernist than nationalist, Adrienne Kennedy made her avant-garde theatre debut with stunningly innovative, nightmarish one-act plays, most notably Funnyhouse of a Negro (produced 1962) and ......
  • Kennedy, Aimee Elizabeth (American religious leader)
    controversial American Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel brought her wealth, notoriety, and a following numbering in the tens of thousands....
  • Kennedy, Anthony (United States jurist)
    associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988....
  • Kennedy, Anthony McLeod (United States jurist)
    associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988....
  • Kennedy, Arthur (American actor)
    American character actor featured in many films and nominated for five Academy Awards....
  • Kennedy, Bobby (American politician)
    U.S. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres. John F. Kennedy (1961–63). Later U.S. senator (1965–68), he was assassinated while campaigning for the presidential nomination....
  • Kennedy, Cape (cape, Florida, United States)
    cape and city in Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S. The cape is a seaward extension of Canaveral Island, a barrier island running southeastward along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The cape is separated from Merritt Island to the west by the Banana River, and the island is separated from the mainland by the Indian River (both “rivers” actually constitute ...
  • Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (building, Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
    ...a feature of the city, destroyed in great part the concept of a city of magnificent distances. The location of other notable monuments, especially the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, modified the original plan further, as did the placement of various museums and temporary buildings on the Mall. Whatever the impact of later alterations,......
  • Kennedy Channel (channel, Arctic Ocean)
    Arctic sea passage between Ellesmere Island, Canada (west), and northwestern Greenland (east). It is 16–24 mi (26–39 km) wide and extends northward for 110 mi from the Kane Basin to the Hall Basin, forming part of the waterway between Baffin Bay, an inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean, to the south and the Lincoln Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean, to the north. The channel is sometimes n...
  • Kennedy, Charles (Scottish politician)
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