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Kazuo Aoki was a Japanese government minister during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and into World War II. He served as Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Abe Nobuyuki from 30 August 1939 to 16 January 1940, and as Minister of Greater East Asia from November 1942 to July 1944.
Kazuo Hirai Kazuo Hirai ( Hirai Kazuo, born 1964) is the current President and Group Chief Operating Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. He was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry.
Kazuo Hiramatsu Kazuo Hiramatsu is a scholar of international accounting, who has served currently as the 17th President of Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, sworn in 2002. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University and received his Ph.
Kazuo Chiba Kazuo Chiba (born Feb 5,1940,Tokyo) is an aikido teacher from Japan who has spent a considerable part of his teaching career in the United States. He is an 8th dan from the aikido organisation Aikikai, and the founder of the dojo (aikido club) San Diego Aikikai in San Diego where he relocated to in 1981.
Kazuo Matsui Kazuo "Kaz" Matsui (ćťľäş• 稼é 央 Matsui Kazuo, born October 23, 1975 in Osaka, Japan) is an infielder and switch hitter in Major League Baseball and plays for the Colorado Rockies. Prior to joining the MLB, he enjoyed a successful career with the Seibu Lions in Japan from 1995 to 2003.
Kazuo Miyagawa is generally recognized as having been one of the finest Japanese cinematographers. He is best known for his superbly refined tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon, one of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
Kazuo Nakanishi Kazuo Nakanishi (ä¸čĄż 一男 Nakanishi Kazuo; October 25, 1922 - September 1, 2003) was briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War. He was also the founder and 1st kumicho of the Nakanishi-gumi.
Kazuo Sakamaki Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男 Sakamaki Kazuo, November 8, 1918 - November 29, 1999) was a Japanese naval officer. He was one of ten sailors (5 officers and 5 petty officers) who volunteered to attack Pearl Harbor in a Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine.
Kazuo Umezu Kazuo Umezu (楳図 ă‹ăšăŠ Umezu Kazuo, September 3,1936) is a famous author of Japanese horror manga, often considered to be the godfather of the genre. He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation.
Kazushi Sakuraba Kazushi Sakuraba (Japanese: 桜ĺşĺ’Śĺż—, Sakuraba Kazushi, born July 14, 1968 in Akita Prefecture) is a Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former professional wrestler. He is one of the most popular fighters in Japan and is recognized by many to be one of the top mixed martial artists to date.
Kazushige Goto Kazushige Goto (Japanese: 後藤 和茂 Gotō Kazushige) is a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is famous for creating hand-optimized assembly routines for supercomputing and PC platforms that outperform best compiler generated codes.
Kazushige Nojima is a Japanese game scenario writer and is the founder of Stellavista Ltd.. He is well known for writing parts of Square Enix's Final Fantasy Series of RPGs or role-playing games, namely Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 and also the PlayStation 2 games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.
Kazuya Shiranami Kazuya Shiranami (ă‚«ă‚şă¤ă»ă‚·ă©ăŠăź) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the anime adventure/ dating-sim game Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira, the sequel to the original Galaxy Angel trilogy. He is voiced by Hisafumi Koda (小田久史).
Kazuyo Sejima Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) is an architect who, with Ryue Nishizawa, founded the Tokyo based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates) in 1995. In addition to SANAA, both Sejima and Nishisawa run independent offices for small, local projects.
Kazuyoshi Ishii is a Japanese master of Seidokan Karate and the founder of the K-1 fighting circuit, a martial-arts event combining Muay Thai, Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Kenpo, Boxing and Kick Boxing, etc. He is currently in jail for tax evasion.
Kazym rebellion Kazym rebellion refers to a revolt by the Khanty people of western Siberia against collectivisation policies of the Soviet government in 1933. The revolt is named after the small town of Kazym in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
KA-BAR The KA-BAR is a 7-inch fighting and utility knife first used by the US Marines in World War II, and carried into battle by generations of Marines since that conflict. The knife itself has a seven-inch (18 cm) blade and was originally designed as a hunting knife in 1898, and would have been considered unremarkable at that time.
KA9Q KA9Q, also called KA9Q NOS or simply NOS, was a popular early implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems and smaller personal computers connected via serial lines. It was named after the amateur radio callsign of Phil Karn, who first wrote the software for a CP/M system and then ported it to DOS on the IBM PC.
KAAH-TV KAAH-TV is a religious television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, serving the Hawaii media market on channel 26 as a Trinity Broadcasting Network owned-and-operated station. KAAH-TV programming can also be seen on low-power repeater stations K34HC in Hilo and KAMN-LP channel 61 in Wailuku, as well as on Oceanic Cable channel 26 statewide.
KAAM (AM) KAAM or K-Double-A-M is an AM radio station broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth "metromess" with the best oldies, big band, and standards in the metroplex. This station is licensed in Garland, Texas and it's owned and operated by Crawford Broadcasting.
KABC (AM) KABC 790 AM is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the American Broadcasting Company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all talk" in 1960; they claim to be the first station ever to do so.
KABC-TV KABC-TV (Channel 7, branded as "ABC7") is the American Broadcasting Company owned television station in the Greater Los Angeles area market. The station is the West Coast flagship of the ABC television network.
KACL (Frasier) KACL (780 AM) is the fictional radio station on the television show Frasier. It broadcasts many talk radio shows, including Frasier Crane's advice show between 2:00pm-5:00pm each weekday, Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe's sports program, The Gonzo Sports Show, and Gil Chesterton's food show, Restaurant Beat.
KACV-TV KACV-TV is a public television station in Amarillo, Texas, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 2 as a PBS member station. Founded in 1988, the station is owned by the city's community college, Amarillo College.
KADS Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring KADS is a structured way of developing knowledge-based systems (expert systems). It was developed at the University of Amsterdam as an alternative to an evolutionary approach and is now accepted as the European standard for knowledge based systems.
KADT-LP KADT-LP is a low-power television station in Killeen, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 16 as an owned and operated Daystar Television Network station. It had been a Class A station from September 14, 2004 until October 9, 2006, but has reverted back to a standard low-power station.
KAERI The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959 as the sole professional research-oriented institute for atomic energy in South Korea, and has rapidly built a reputation for research and development in various fields. In 1995 KAERI designed and constructed the nation's first multipurpose research reactor, HANARO based on the Canadian MAPLE design.
KAET KAET is a full-service television station in Phoenix, Arizona, owned by the Arizona Board of Regents and operated by Arizona State University (ASU) as a PBS member station. It broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 8 and in digital on UHF channel 29 in the Phoenix metropolitan area from its transmitter on South Mountain.
KAF-10500 Kodak announced on September 15, 2006 that Kodak's KAF-10500 CCD image sensor was to be used in the new M8 camera from German manufacter Leica. The sensor was developed specifically - perhaps not exclusively – for this camera.
KAFE KAFE 104.3 is a 60 kW radio station located and licensed in Bellingham, Washington, transmitting from an antenna on Mount Constitution on Orcas Island with broadcasts originating from their Bellingham studios on Yew Street Road.
KAFP KAFP is a commercial radio station broadcasting in Petaluma, California. It has produced local programs such as Light and Lively, with disc jockey Don West, in 1950, and Light 'n' Easy, with disc jockey Ken Phillips, in 1954.
KAGG Gesetz ĂĽber Kapitalanlagegesellschaften (KAGG) (German for Investment Company Act) is a law designed to protect investors, and is the statutory basis for the German investment fund market. KAGG is criticized for not being adaptive to Modern Portfolio Management techniques and for driving much of the German mutual Fund market to Luxembourg, where the laws are less restrictive.
KAIL KAIL is a UHF television station affiliated with Fox Entertainment Group owned My Network TV television network, based in Fresno, California, operating on channel 53 analog, digital 7. Its transmitter is on top of Auberry Mountain.
KAIST The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology or KAIST (IPA: in RP and GenAm) is an institute of higher learning in Daedeok Science Town (Hangul: 대덕연구단지; Hanja: 大德硏究ĺśĺś°), Daejeon, South Korea.
KAIT KAIT 8-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas is the ABC television affiliate for Northeastern Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri, offering a mix of news and syndicated programming and local broadcasts. The station first signed on July 15, 1963 as an independent, and has been affiliated with ABC since 1965.
KAJN-LP KAJN-LP, KAGN-LP and KFAM-LP are low-power Class A television stations in Lafayette, Crowley, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, respectively, each broadcasting in analog format in its local community - KAJN-LP on UHF channel 40, KAGN-LP on UHF channel 31, and KFAM-LP on UHF channel 14. All three stations are owned by Rice Capital Broadcasting Company, Inc.
KAKW-TV KAKW-TV is a television station in Killeen, Texas, serving the Waco market as a Univision owned-and-operated station on channel 62. The station is also seen in the Austin market via repeater station KAKW-CA, channel 31.
KAL-Online KAL-Online (칼ě¨ëťĽěť¸, kal is Korean for "sword") is a fantasy MMORPG from Inixsoft, that uses the Lineage II game engine. Originally from South Korea, KAL-Online is currently available in English for free.
KALB-TV KALB-TV Newschannel 5 is a full power television station -- as an affiliate of NBC and CBS, the station serves the entire Alexandria, Louisiana metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located near Forest Hill, Louisiana.
KALX KALX is a freeform FM radio station that broadcasts from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. KALX, a community- and student-run radio station licensed to the University of California, Berkeley, broadcasts at 90.
KAME project The KAME project was a joint effort of six companies in Japan to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating system. The project began in 1998 and on November 7 2005 it was announced that the project would be finished at the end of March 2006 parties involved were:
KAME-TV KAME-TV, My 21, is the My Network TV television network affiliate for Reno, Nevada. It broadcasts on analog channel 21, and is co-managed with the Cox-owned local FOX affiliate KRXI, under a local marketing agreement.
KAND (AM) KAND is an AM radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and is owned by Corsicana Media. This station runs a Country music format, and is also the home of Corsicana High School Tigers and Navarro College Bulldogs football games, and the latest news from the Texas State Network News, and ABC News.
KANG-CA KANG, channel 41, is currently a Spanish-language general entertainment Class A Television Station, serving the San Angelo area. It is currently owned by Entravision Communications and broadcasts as a TeleFutura affiliate.
KAOS GL KAOS GL is a group founded in September, 1994, to unite Turkey's LGBT people (homosexuals) in the struggle against discrimination. Their underlying philosophy is that the liberation of homosexuals will also free heterosexuals.
KAPDA Kanoon Pajoheshgarane Daneshe Amneiat (KAPDA) meaning Institute of Security Science in Computer Applications is an Iran-based company established in 2002 by Pedram Hayati and Shayan Najd. It provides continuous security protocols to computer systems and to software applications.
KAPP KAPP, channel 35, is the ABC affiliate for Yakima, Washington, serving the Central Washington area with a mix of news, sports, syndicated fare, and local programming since it first signed on the air on September 21, 1970. KAPP also serves as the satellite station for KVEW/Kennewick, Washington.
KARE KARE (or commonly KARE 11) is a broadcast television station serving the Twin Cities market of Minnesota and western Wisconsin in the United States, with studios located in the suburb of Golden Valley. It is currently owned by Gannett Corporation and affiliated with NBC.
KARL KARL is the acronym of KAiserslautern Register transfer Language a pioneering early hardware description language also comping along with a graphic companion language ABL ("A Blockdiagram Language") and its hierarchical graphic editor ABLED. Both, KARL and ABL have been initiated in the 1970 by Reiner Hartenstein.
KARMEN KARMEN is the KArlsruhe Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino Experiment, a detector associated with the ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Neutrinos for study are supplied via the decay of pions produced when a proton beam strikes a target.
KARN KARN is a commercial news and talk radio station at 920 AM in Little Rock, Arkansas owned and operated by Citadel Broadcasting. Originally known as KARK-AM and locally owned by Ted Snider, the station has long been the flagship station of the Arkansas Radio Network.
KARNAC KARNAC is an acronym for Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context; it is a system being developed in the United States for use in profiling different categories of terrorist attacks to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents.
KARTA Center KARTA Center () is a Polish non-governmental organization whose goal is to document and spread knowledge about the history of Poland and history of Eastern Europe. It was founded as an illegal underground organization during the time of martial law in Poland, 1982 where it published many underground publications (bibuła).
KASA (AM) KASA is a Spanish-language radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. It features a Spanish-language religion format, which is also heard on KCKY in Coolidge, Arizona through a local marketing agreement with that station's owner.
KASUMI (block cipher) In cryptography, KASUMI, also termed A5/3, is a block cipher used in the confidentiality (f8) and integrity algorithms (f9) for 3GPP mobile communications. A number of serious weaknesses in the cipher have been identified.
KASW KASW is a television station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona. KASW uses channel 61 for analog service, channel 49 for digital television under a special temporary authority, cable channel 6 on major Phoenix cable systems (which is used for station branding given the relatively high analog channel number), and several translators in northern and eastern Arizona.
KATA-CA KATA-CA is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mako Communications Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 50 and licensed to Mesquite, Texas.
KATARSIS KATARSIS project is a Coordination Action under European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme to address Growing Inequality and Social Innovation: Alternative Knowledge and Practice in Overcoming Social Exclusion in Europe.
KATRIN KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment) is an experiment to measure the mass of the electron neutrino with sub-eV precision by examining the spectrum of electrons emitted from the beta decay of tritium. As of 2006, the apparatus is under construction in Karlsruhe, Germany, and is expected to begin collecting data in 2009.
KATV KATV is an ABC affiliate based in Little Rock, Arkansas. It signed on the air on December 19, 1953, originally in Pine Bluff, and is now Little Rock's oldest television station, beating KARK-TV by a few months.
KAUT-TV KAUT-TV (branded as simply OK43) is the affiliate for the Fox Entertainment Group owned My Network TV television network in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KAUT is owned by The New York Times Company, which also owns Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (Oklahoma's News Channel 4).
KAVB The Koninklijke Algemeene Vereniging voor Bloembollencultuur, translated from Dutch as the Royal General Association for Bulb Culture, but more commonly known world-wide by the acronym of KAVB, is a trade association for the bulb horticulture sector, and was established in 1860. The association has a rural organization, within which regional groups and departments are active.
KAVI Corporation KAVI Corporation is a company headquartered in San Francisco, California that manufactures environmentally-safe, natural skin care specializing in pore maintenance and the prevention of premature aging. The company was founded by Kaveh Alizadeh in 2001.
KAXT-CA KAXT-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Santa Clara-San Jose, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 22 as an affiliate of TBN. Founded May 31, 1989, the station is owned by Broadland Properties, Inc.
KAYU-TV KAYU (Fox 28) is the Fox television affiliate for Spokane, Washington, owned and operated by Stainless Broadcasting Company. The station, which signed on the air on October 31, 1982, offers a staple of diverse syndicated programming fare, including The Simpsons, Frasier, Perry Mason, Sex And The City and Geraldo At Large.
KAZA The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area or KAZA TFCA is a conservation park that will be created by the African countries of Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It should be operational by 2010.
KAZA-TV KAZA-TV is a full-service television station in Avalon, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 54 and in digital on UHF channel 47 and serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area as an owned-and-operated station of Azteca América. Founded July 9, 2001, the station is owned by Pappas Telecasting of Visalia, California and is the flagship station of the Azteca América television network.
KAZQ KAZQ is a full-service television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, affiliated with religious broadcasting networks LeSEA and 3ABN. Owned by Alpha Omega Broadcasting, the station broadcasts locally in analog on UHF channel 32 and in digital on UHF channel 17 on a non-commercial educational license.
KAZR-CA KAZR-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Reno, Nevada, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 46 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Founded June 14, 1988, the station is owned by Pappas Telecasting.
KAZT-TV KAZT-TV is an independent television station operating on channel 7 in Prescott, Arizona. Its transmitter is located atop Mingus Mountain northeast of Prescott, and is simulcast on low-power KAZT-CA channel 27 from South Mountain in Phoenix as well as several other channels across central and northern Arizona through a translator system.
KAZV-LP KAZV-LP is a low-power television station in Modesto, California, broadcasting locally on channel 14 as an affiliate of AmericanLife TV Network, with additional programming from America One. Founded June 22,1995, the station is owned by AZV Video Production, Inc.
KĂla KĂla are an Irish folk music group. The original lineup for the band was Eoin Dillon; Uileann pipes, Colm Mac Con Iomaire; fiddle, Rossa Ă“ Snodaigh; Whistle, Bones, RĂłnán Ă“ Snodaigh; Bodhrán, Karl Odlum; Bass, Dave Odlum Guitar.
KĂĄkbrinken KĂĄkbrinken (Swedish: "The [Ramshackle] House Slope") is a street in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, stretching from the western waterfront Munkbroleden to the central square Stortorget.
Kåre Kristiansen Kåre Gulbrand Kristiansen (March 11, 1920 – December 3, 2005) was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian People's Party. Noted as a conservative within his own party, he was known to take controversial positions at odds with the prevailing consensus.
Küçüksu Palace Küçüksu Palace or Küçüksu Pavilion, aka Göksu Pavilion, () is a palace in Istanbul, Turkey, situated in Küçüksu neighborhood of Beykoz district, at the Asian shore of Bosphorus between Anadoluhisarı and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge today. The tiny palace was used by Ottoman sultans for short stays during country excursions and hunting.
KĂĽchemann Carrots KĂĽchemann Carrots is a colloquial term used to refer to antishock bodies placed at the trailing edge of a subsonic aircraft's wings in order to reduce the drag it experiences as it enters the transonic flight regime. They were concurrently developed by Richard Whitcomb at NASA and Dietrich KĂĽchemann, a German aerodynamicist, in the early 1950's.
KĂĽnneth theorem In mathematics, the KĂĽnneth theorem of algebraic topology describes the singular homology of the cartesian product X Ă— Y of two topological spaces, in terms of singular homology groups Hi(X, R) and Hj(X, R). In this article, R is a commutative ring of coefficients, and will be suppressed from the notation in homology groups.
KĂĽnstlerroman A KĂĽnstlerroman (//, German: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman; it is a novel about an artist's growth to maturity. Such novels often depict the struggles of a sensitive youth against the values of a bourgeois society of his or her time.
KĂĽssnacht KĂĽssnacht am Rigi (official name since 2004: KĂĽssnacht) is a district and municipality in the Canton of Schwyz in Central Switzerland, consisting of three villages: KĂĽssnacht, Immensee and Merlischachen. It is situated at the north shore of Lake Lucerne and at the south shore of Lake Zug below mount Rigi (1797 m).
KĂĽtahya KĂĽtahya is a city in western Turkey with 170,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate), lying on the Porsuk river, at 930 metres above sea level. It is the capital of the republican KĂĽtahya province with 660,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
Kórnik Library Kórnik Library () is one of the most famous Polish libraries, founded by Tytus Działyński in 1828. Currently the library, despite being robbed by the Germans during World War II, is one of 5 largest libraries in Poland and contains roughly 400,000 volumes, including 30,000 books older than 150 years, 14,000 manuscripts.
KĂŤ KlaksvĂk KĂŤ KlaksvĂk is a Faroese football club, playing in KlaksvĂk, founded in 1904. In 1992 KĂŤ KlaksvĂk particpated for the first time on a European stage, competing in the Champions League preliminary round against Skonto Riga of Latvia, where they lost 6-1 on aggregate.
KálfsvĂsa The KálfsvĂsa (sometimes mistakenly called AlsvinnsmálIn the Skáldskaparmál, Alsvinnsmál is also used as an alternative name for the Eddic poem AlvĂssmál, Alsvinnr and AlvĂss both meaning "All-wise".) is a poem partially preserved in Snorri Sturluson’s Skáldskaparmál.
Kálmán Darányi Kálmán Darányi de Pusztaszentgyörgy et Tetétlen (22 March 1886 - 1 November 1939) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1936 to 1938. Darányi was associated with the radical right in Hungarian politics, and although not sympathetic to the Hungarian fascists, pursued an increasingly authoritarian policy at home, and an alliance with the fascist powers Germany and Italy abroad.
Kálmán Kalocsay Kálmán Kalocsay (October 6, 1891-February 27, 1976), in Hungarian name order Kalocsay Kálmán (pronounced ) is one of the foremost figures in the history of Esperanto literature. He left a rich legacy to the language and culture of Esperanto in his original poetry and his translations of literary works from his native Hungarian and other languages of Europe.
Kálmán Thaly Kálmán Thaly (3 January 1839, Csép - 26 September 1909, Zablát) was a Hungarian poet, historian and politician. His most important works are his Kuruc poetry, the most famous literary forgery in the history of Hungarian literature.
Kálmán Tihanyi Kálmán Tihanyi (April 28, 1897 - February 26, 1947), was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. His most important inventions concerning the design of the cathode ray tube, iconoscope, for television were bought and developed by RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and German companies Loewe and Fernseh AG.
Kálmán Tisza Kálmán Tisza (1830-1902) was Hungarian prime minister between 1875 and 1890. He is credited for the formation of a consolidated Magyar government, the foundation of the new Liberal Party (1875) and major economic reforms that would both save and eventually lead to a very successful government with populous support.
Káťa Kabanová Káťa Kabanová is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech translation by Vincenc Cervinka, first produced in Brno on 23 November 1921. It was based on The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, and largely inspired by Janáček's love for Kamila Stösslová.
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project The Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project, located at , involves damming two rivers in eastern Iceland (the Jökulsá à Fljótsdal - source to the famous "Milky Lake" of Lagarfljót, and the Jökulsá á Dal (aka Jókulsá á Bru)) to produce hydroelectricity to power a new aluminium smelting plant that is being built by Alcoa in the town of Reyðarfjörður. It is the largest construction project ever in Iceland, with completion scheduled for 2009.
Károly Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd Mezőkövesdi Újfalvy Károly Jenő, or Karl Eugen Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd, Charles-Eugène Ujfalvy de Mezökövesd, or Mező-Kövesd (May 16, 1842, Székelykövesd/Cuieşd ?, Transylvania - January 31, 1904, Firenze) was a Hungarian-Austrian linguist.
Károly Balzsay Károly Balzsay (born July 23, 1979 in Kecskemét) is a boxer from Hungary, who is competing in the Middleweight (– 75kg) division. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Károly Bund Károly Bund, born 1869, Besztercebánya, old Hungary (present Banská Bystrica, Slovakia); died 1931, Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of Emanuel Bund and Zsófia Ingruber, who had come from Elsaß-Lothringen, Germany.
Károly Ferenc Szabó Károly Ferenc Szabó (born 29 August 1943) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Károly Garam Károly Garam (born May 10 1941 in Eger, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Finnish cello player and the brother of violin player Lajos Garam. Garam studied cello playing in the Sibelius Academy under Vili Pullinen and Yrjö Selin.
Károly Güttler Károly Güttler (born June 15, 1968 in Budapest) is a former breaststroker from Hungary, who represented his native country at four consecutive Olympics, beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and ending with the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He won the silver medal in the 100m and 200m breaststroke, once each, both at separate Games.
Károly Makk Károly Makk (born December 22, 1925 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival without success; however, he has won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere.
Károly Takács Károly Takács (Hungarian name order Takács Károly) (January 21, 1910 – January 5, 1976) was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the Rapid Fire Pistol event. He was born in Budapest and after a grenade accident in 1938 he had to change to shooting with his left hand, soon mastering it and surprising the world with winning the London 1948 Summer Olympics.
KĂ©gresse track A KĂ©gresse track is an unusual kind of caterpillar track which uses a flexible belt rather than interlocking metal segments. It can be fitted to a conventional car or truck to turn it into a half-track, suitable for use over rough or soft ground.
KĂ©nĂ´se KĂ©nĂ´se is an EP by the Black Metal band Deathspell Omega, released in 2005 under Ajna Offensive. It continues the avant garde and progressive direction they had been exploring on 2004's Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice, and is considered by the band as something of an "appendix" to that album.
Kazuo Hirai Kazuo Hirai ( Hirai Kazuo, born 1964) is the current President and Group Chief Operating Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. He was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry.
Kazuo Hiramatsu Kazuo Hiramatsu is a scholar of international accounting, who has served currently as the 17th President of Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, sworn in 2002. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University and received his Ph.
Kazuo Chiba Kazuo Chiba (born Feb 5,1940,Tokyo) is an aikido teacher from Japan who has spent a considerable part of his teaching career in the United States. He is an 8th dan from the aikido organisation Aikikai, and the founder of the dojo (aikido club) San Diego Aikikai in San Diego where he relocated to in 1981.
Kazuo Matsui Kazuo "Kaz" Matsui (ćťľäş• 稼é 央 Matsui Kazuo, born October 23, 1975 in Osaka, Japan) is an infielder and switch hitter in Major League Baseball and plays for the Colorado Rockies. Prior to joining the MLB, he enjoyed a successful career with the Seibu Lions in Japan from 1995 to 2003.
Kazuo Miyagawa is generally recognized as having been one of the finest Japanese cinematographers. He is best known for his superbly refined tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon, one of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
Kazuo Nakanishi Kazuo Nakanishi (ä¸čĄż 一男 Nakanishi Kazuo; October 25, 1922 - September 1, 2003) was briefly the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate in the chaotic years of the Yama-Ichi War. He was also the founder and 1st kumicho of the Nakanishi-gumi.
Kazuo Sakamaki Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男 Sakamaki Kazuo, November 8, 1918 - November 29, 1999) was a Japanese naval officer. He was one of ten sailors (5 officers and 5 petty officers) who volunteered to attack Pearl Harbor in a Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine.
Kazuo Umezu Kazuo Umezu (楳図 ă‹ăšăŠ Umezu Kazuo, September 3,1936) is a famous author of Japanese horror manga, often considered to be the godfather of the genre. He had his first book of manga published while still in high school and made manga his career immediately upon graduation.
Kazushi Sakuraba Kazushi Sakuraba (Japanese: 桜ĺşĺ’Śĺż—, Sakuraba Kazushi, born July 14, 1968 in Akita Prefecture) is a Japanese professional mixed martial arts fighter and former professional wrestler. He is one of the most popular fighters in Japan and is recognized by many to be one of the top mixed martial artists to date.
Kazushige Goto Kazushige Goto (Japanese: 後藤 和茂 Gotō Kazushige) is a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He is famous for creating hand-optimized assembly routines for supercomputing and PC platforms that outperform best compiler generated codes.
Kazushige Nojima is a Japanese game scenario writer and is the founder of Stellavista Ltd.. He is well known for writing parts of Square Enix's Final Fantasy Series of RPGs or role-playing games, namely Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 and also the PlayStation 2 games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.
Kazuya Shiranami Kazuya Shiranami (ă‚«ă‚şă¤ă»ă‚·ă©ăŠăź) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the anime adventure/ dating-sim game Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira, the sequel to the original Galaxy Angel trilogy. He is voiced by Hisafumi Koda (小田久史).
Kazuyo Sejima Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan) is an architect who, with Ryue Nishizawa, founded the Tokyo based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates) in 1995. In addition to SANAA, both Sejima and Nishisawa run independent offices for small, local projects.
Kazuyoshi Ishii is a Japanese master of Seidokan Karate and the founder of the K-1 fighting circuit, a martial-arts event combining Muay Thai, Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Kenpo, Boxing and Kick Boxing, etc. He is currently in jail for tax evasion.
Kazym rebellion Kazym rebellion refers to a revolt by the Khanty people of western Siberia against collectivisation policies of the Soviet government in 1933. The revolt is named after the small town of Kazym in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
KA-BAR The KA-BAR is a 7-inch fighting and utility knife first used by the US Marines in World War II, and carried into battle by generations of Marines since that conflict. The knife itself has a seven-inch (18 cm) blade and was originally designed as a hunting knife in 1898, and would have been considered unremarkable at that time.
KA9Q KA9Q, also called KA9Q NOS or simply NOS, was a popular early implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems and smaller personal computers connected via serial lines. It was named after the amateur radio callsign of Phil Karn, who first wrote the software for a CP/M system and then ported it to DOS on the IBM PC.
KAAH-TV KAAH-TV is a religious television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, serving the Hawaii media market on channel 26 as a Trinity Broadcasting Network owned-and-operated station. KAAH-TV programming can also be seen on low-power repeater stations K34HC in Hilo and KAMN-LP channel 61 in Wailuku, as well as on Oceanic Cable channel 26 statewide.
KAAM (AM) KAAM or K-Double-A-M is an AM radio station broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth "metromess" with the best oldies, big band, and standards in the metroplex. This station is licensed in Garland, Texas and it's owned and operated by Crawford Broadcasting.
KABC (AM) KABC 790 AM is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the American Broadcasting Company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all talk" in 1960; they claim to be the first station ever to do so.
KABC-TV KABC-TV (Channel 7, branded as "ABC7") is the American Broadcasting Company owned television station in the Greater Los Angeles area market. The station is the West Coast flagship of the ABC television network.
KACL (Frasier) KACL (780 AM) is the fictional radio station on the television show Frasier. It broadcasts many talk radio shows, including Frasier Crane's advice show between 2:00pm-5:00pm each weekday, Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe's sports program, The Gonzo Sports Show, and Gil Chesterton's food show, Restaurant Beat.
KACV-TV KACV-TV is a public television station in Amarillo, Texas, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 2 as a PBS member station. Founded in 1988, the station is owned by the city's community college, Amarillo College.
KADS Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring KADS is a structured way of developing knowledge-based systems (expert systems). It was developed at the University of Amsterdam as an alternative to an evolutionary approach and is now accepted as the European standard for knowledge based systems.
KADT-LP KADT-LP is a low-power television station in Killeen, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 16 as an owned and operated Daystar Television Network station. It had been a Class A station from September 14, 2004 until October 9, 2006, but has reverted back to a standard low-power station.
KAERI The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959 as the sole professional research-oriented institute for atomic energy in South Korea, and has rapidly built a reputation for research and development in various fields. In 1995 KAERI designed and constructed the nation's first multipurpose research reactor, HANARO based on the Canadian MAPLE design.
KAET KAET is a full-service television station in Phoenix, Arizona, owned by the Arizona Board of Regents and operated by Arizona State University (ASU) as a PBS member station. It broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 8 and in digital on UHF channel 29 in the Phoenix metropolitan area from its transmitter on South Mountain.
KAF-10500 Kodak announced on September 15, 2006 that Kodak's KAF-10500 CCD image sensor was to be used in the new M8 camera from German manufacter Leica. The sensor was developed specifically - perhaps not exclusively – for this camera.
KAFE KAFE 104.3 is a 60 kW radio station located and licensed in Bellingham, Washington, transmitting from an antenna on Mount Constitution on Orcas Island with broadcasts originating from their Bellingham studios on Yew Street Road.
KAFP KAFP is a commercial radio station broadcasting in Petaluma, California. It has produced local programs such as Light and Lively, with disc jockey Don West, in 1950, and Light 'n' Easy, with disc jockey Ken Phillips, in 1954.
KAGG Gesetz ĂĽber Kapitalanlagegesellschaften (KAGG) (German for Investment Company Act) is a law designed to protect investors, and is the statutory basis for the German investment fund market. KAGG is criticized for not being adaptive to Modern Portfolio Management techniques and for driving much of the German mutual Fund market to Luxembourg, where the laws are less restrictive.
KAIL KAIL is a UHF television station affiliated with Fox Entertainment Group owned My Network TV television network, based in Fresno, California, operating on channel 53 analog, digital 7. Its transmitter is on top of Auberry Mountain.
KAIST The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology or KAIST (IPA: in RP and GenAm) is an institute of higher learning in Daedeok Science Town (Hangul: 대덕연구단지; Hanja: 大德硏究ĺśĺś°), Daejeon, South Korea.
KAIT KAIT 8-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas is the ABC television affiliate for Northeastern Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri, offering a mix of news and syndicated programming and local broadcasts. The station first signed on July 15, 1963 as an independent, and has been affiliated with ABC since 1965.
KAJN-LP KAJN-LP, KAGN-LP and KFAM-LP are low-power Class A television stations in Lafayette, Crowley, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, respectively, each broadcasting in analog format in its local community - KAJN-LP on UHF channel 40, KAGN-LP on UHF channel 31, and KFAM-LP on UHF channel 14. All three stations are owned by Rice Capital Broadcasting Company, Inc.
KAKW-TV KAKW-TV is a television station in Killeen, Texas, serving the Waco market as a Univision owned-and-operated station on channel 62. The station is also seen in the Austin market via repeater station KAKW-CA, channel 31.
KAL-Online KAL-Online (칼ě¨ëťĽěť¸, kal is Korean for "sword") is a fantasy MMORPG from Inixsoft, that uses the Lineage II game engine. Originally from South Korea, KAL-Online is currently available in English for free.
KALB-TV KALB-TV Newschannel 5 is a full power television station -- as an affiliate of NBC and CBS, the station serves the entire Alexandria, Louisiana metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located near Forest Hill, Louisiana.
KALX KALX is a freeform FM radio station that broadcasts from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. KALX, a community- and student-run radio station licensed to the University of California, Berkeley, broadcasts at 90.
KAME project The KAME project was a joint effort of six companies in Japan to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating system. The project began in 1998 and on November 7 2005 it was announced that the project would be finished at the end of March 2006 parties involved were:
KAME-TV KAME-TV, My 21, is the My Network TV television network affiliate for Reno, Nevada. It broadcasts on analog channel 21, and is co-managed with the Cox-owned local FOX affiliate KRXI, under a local marketing agreement.
KAND (AM) KAND is an AM radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and is owned by Corsicana Media. This station runs a Country music format, and is also the home of Corsicana High School Tigers and Navarro College Bulldogs football games, and the latest news from the Texas State Network News, and ABC News.
KANG-CA KANG, channel 41, is currently a Spanish-language general entertainment Class A Television Station, serving the San Angelo area. It is currently owned by Entravision Communications and broadcasts as a TeleFutura affiliate.
KAOS GL KAOS GL is a group founded in September, 1994, to unite Turkey's LGBT people (homosexuals) in the struggle against discrimination. Their underlying philosophy is that the liberation of homosexuals will also free heterosexuals.
KAPDA Kanoon Pajoheshgarane Daneshe Amneiat (KAPDA) meaning Institute of Security Science in Computer Applications is an Iran-based company established in 2002 by Pedram Hayati and Shayan Najd. It provides continuous security protocols to computer systems and to software applications.
KAPP KAPP, channel 35, is the ABC affiliate for Yakima, Washington, serving the Central Washington area with a mix of news, sports, syndicated fare, and local programming since it first signed on the air on September 21, 1970. KAPP also serves as the satellite station for KVEW/Kennewick, Washington.
KARE KARE (or commonly KARE 11) is a broadcast television station serving the Twin Cities market of Minnesota and western Wisconsin in the United States, with studios located in the suburb of Golden Valley. It is currently owned by Gannett Corporation and affiliated with NBC.
KARL KARL is the acronym of KAiserslautern Register transfer Language a pioneering early hardware description language also comping along with a graphic companion language ABL ("A Blockdiagram Language") and its hierarchical graphic editor ABLED. Both, KARL and ABL have been initiated in the 1970 by Reiner Hartenstein.
KARMEN KARMEN is the KArlsruhe Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino Experiment, a detector associated with the ISIS synchrotron at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Neutrinos for study are supplied via the decay of pions produced when a proton beam strikes a target.
KARN KARN is a commercial news and talk radio station at 920 AM in Little Rock, Arkansas owned and operated by Citadel Broadcasting. Originally known as KARK-AM and locally owned by Ted Snider, the station has long been the flagship station of the Arkansas Radio Network.
KARNAC KARNAC is an acronym for Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context; it is a system being developed in the United States for use in profiling different categories of terrorist attacks to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents.
KARTA Center KARTA Center () is a Polish non-governmental organization whose goal is to document and spread knowledge about the history of Poland and history of Eastern Europe. It was founded as an illegal underground organization during the time of martial law in Poland, 1982 where it published many underground publications (bibuła).
KASA (AM) KASA is a Spanish-language radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. It features a Spanish-language religion format, which is also heard on KCKY in Coolidge, Arizona through a local marketing agreement with that station's owner.
KASUMI (block cipher) In cryptography, KASUMI, also termed A5/3, is a block cipher used in the confidentiality (f8) and integrity algorithms (f9) for 3GPP mobile communications. A number of serious weaknesses in the cipher have been identified.
KASW KASW is a television station licensed to Phoenix, Arizona. KASW uses channel 61 for analog service, channel 49 for digital television under a special temporary authority, cable channel 6 on major Phoenix cable systems (which is used for station branding given the relatively high analog channel number), and several translators in northern and eastern Arizona.
KATA-CA KATA-CA is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mako Communications Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 50 and licensed to Mesquite, Texas.
KATARSIS KATARSIS project is a Coordination Action under European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme to address Growing Inequality and Social Innovation: Alternative Knowledge and Practice in Overcoming Social Exclusion in Europe.
KATRIN KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment) is an experiment to measure the mass of the electron neutrino with sub-eV precision by examining the spectrum of electrons emitted from the beta decay of tritium. As of 2006, the apparatus is under construction in Karlsruhe, Germany, and is expected to begin collecting data in 2009.
KATV KATV is an ABC affiliate based in Little Rock, Arkansas. It signed on the air on December 19, 1953, originally in Pine Bluff, and is now Little Rock's oldest television station, beating KARK-TV by a few months.
KAUT-TV KAUT-TV (branded as simply OK43) is the affiliate for the Fox Entertainment Group owned My Network TV television network in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KAUT is owned by The New York Times Company, which also owns Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (Oklahoma's News Channel 4).
KAVB The Koninklijke Algemeene Vereniging voor Bloembollencultuur, translated from Dutch as the Royal General Association for Bulb Culture, but more commonly known world-wide by the acronym of KAVB, is a trade association for the bulb horticulture sector, and was established in 1860. The association has a rural organization, within which regional groups and departments are active.
KAVI Corporation KAVI Corporation is a company headquartered in San Francisco, California that manufactures environmentally-safe, natural skin care specializing in pore maintenance and the prevention of premature aging. The company was founded by Kaveh Alizadeh in 2001.
KAXT-CA KAXT-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Santa Clara-San Jose, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 22 as an affiliate of TBN. Founded May 31, 1989, the station is owned by Broadland Properties, Inc.
KAYU-TV KAYU (Fox 28) is the Fox television affiliate for Spokane, Washington, owned and operated by Stainless Broadcasting Company. The station, which signed on the air on October 31, 1982, offers a staple of diverse syndicated programming fare, including The Simpsons, Frasier, Perry Mason, Sex And The City and Geraldo At Large.
KAZA The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area or KAZA TFCA is a conservation park that will be created by the African countries of Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It should be operational by 2010.
KAZA-TV KAZA-TV is a full-service television station in Avalon, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 54 and in digital on UHF channel 47 and serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area as an owned-and-operated station of Azteca América. Founded July 9, 2001, the station is owned by Pappas Telecasting of Visalia, California and is the flagship station of the Azteca América television network.
KAZQ KAZQ is a full-service television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, affiliated with religious broadcasting networks LeSEA and 3ABN. Owned by Alpha Omega Broadcasting, the station broadcasts locally in analog on UHF channel 32 and in digital on UHF channel 17 on a non-commercial educational license.
KAZR-CA KAZR-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Reno, Nevada, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 46 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Founded June 14, 1988, the station is owned by Pappas Telecasting.
KAZT-TV KAZT-TV is an independent television station operating on channel 7 in Prescott, Arizona. Its transmitter is located atop Mingus Mountain northeast of Prescott, and is simulcast on low-power KAZT-CA channel 27 from South Mountain in Phoenix as well as several other channels across central and northern Arizona through a translator system.
KAZV-LP KAZV-LP is a low-power television station in Modesto, California, broadcasting locally on channel 14 as an affiliate of AmericanLife TV Network, with additional programming from America One. Founded June 22,1995, the station is owned by AZV Video Production, Inc.
KĂla KĂla are an Irish folk music group. The original lineup for the band was Eoin Dillon; Uileann pipes, Colm Mac Con Iomaire; fiddle, Rossa Ă“ Snodaigh; Whistle, Bones, RĂłnán Ă“ Snodaigh; Bodhrán, Karl Odlum; Bass, Dave Odlum Guitar.
KĂĄkbrinken KĂĄkbrinken (Swedish: "The [Ramshackle] House Slope") is a street in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, stretching from the western waterfront Munkbroleden to the central square Stortorget.
Kåre Kristiansen Kåre Gulbrand Kristiansen (March 11, 1920 – December 3, 2005) was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian People's Party. Noted as a conservative within his own party, he was known to take controversial positions at odds with the prevailing consensus.
Küçüksu Palace Küçüksu Palace or Küçüksu Pavilion, aka Göksu Pavilion, () is a palace in Istanbul, Turkey, situated in Küçüksu neighborhood of Beykoz district, at the Asian shore of Bosphorus between Anadoluhisarı and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge today. The tiny palace was used by Ottoman sultans for short stays during country excursions and hunting.
KĂĽchemann Carrots KĂĽchemann Carrots is a colloquial term used to refer to antishock bodies placed at the trailing edge of a subsonic aircraft's wings in order to reduce the drag it experiences as it enters the transonic flight regime. They were concurrently developed by Richard Whitcomb at NASA and Dietrich KĂĽchemann, a German aerodynamicist, in the early 1950's.
KĂĽnneth theorem In mathematics, the KĂĽnneth theorem of algebraic topology describes the singular homology of the cartesian product X Ă— Y of two topological spaces, in terms of singular homology groups Hi(X, R) and Hj(X, R). In this article, R is a commutative ring of coefficients, and will be suppressed from the notation in homology groups.
KĂĽnstlerroman A KĂĽnstlerroman (//, German: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman; it is a novel about an artist's growth to maturity. Such novels often depict the struggles of a sensitive youth against the values of a bourgeois society of his or her time.
KĂĽssnacht KĂĽssnacht am Rigi (official name since 2004: KĂĽssnacht) is a district and municipality in the Canton of Schwyz in Central Switzerland, consisting of three villages: KĂĽssnacht, Immensee and Merlischachen. It is situated at the north shore of Lake Lucerne and at the south shore of Lake Zug below mount Rigi (1797 m).
KĂĽtahya KĂĽtahya is a city in western Turkey with 170,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate), lying on the Porsuk river, at 930 metres above sea level. It is the capital of the republican KĂĽtahya province with 660,000 inhabitants (2004 estimate).
Kórnik Library Kórnik Library () is one of the most famous Polish libraries, founded by Tytus Działyński in 1828. Currently the library, despite being robbed by the Germans during World War II, is one of 5 largest libraries in Poland and contains roughly 400,000 volumes, including 30,000 books older than 150 years, 14,000 manuscripts.
KĂŤ KlaksvĂk KĂŤ KlaksvĂk is a Faroese football club, playing in KlaksvĂk, founded in 1904. In 1992 KĂŤ KlaksvĂk particpated for the first time on a European stage, competing in the Champions League preliminary round against Skonto Riga of Latvia, where they lost 6-1 on aggregate.
KálfsvĂsa The KálfsvĂsa (sometimes mistakenly called AlsvinnsmálIn the Skáldskaparmál, Alsvinnsmál is also used as an alternative name for the Eddic poem AlvĂssmál, Alsvinnr and AlvĂss both meaning "All-wise".) is a poem partially preserved in Snorri Sturluson’s Skáldskaparmál.
Kálmán Darányi Kálmán Darányi de Pusztaszentgyörgy et Tetétlen (22 March 1886 - 1 November 1939) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1936 to 1938. Darányi was associated with the radical right in Hungarian politics, and although not sympathetic to the Hungarian fascists, pursued an increasingly authoritarian policy at home, and an alliance with the fascist powers Germany and Italy abroad.
Kálmán Kalocsay Kálmán Kalocsay (October 6, 1891-February 27, 1976), in Hungarian name order Kalocsay Kálmán (pronounced ) is one of the foremost figures in the history of Esperanto literature. He left a rich legacy to the language and culture of Esperanto in his original poetry and his translations of literary works from his native Hungarian and other languages of Europe.
Kálmán Thaly Kálmán Thaly (3 January 1839, Csép - 26 September 1909, Zablát) was a Hungarian poet, historian and politician. His most important works are his Kuruc poetry, the most famous literary forgery in the history of Hungarian literature.
Kálmán Tihanyi Kálmán Tihanyi (April 28, 1897 - February 26, 1947), was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. His most important inventions concerning the design of the cathode ray tube, iconoscope, for television were bought and developed by RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and German companies Loewe and Fernseh AG.
Kálmán Tisza Kálmán Tisza (1830-1902) was Hungarian prime minister between 1875 and 1890. He is credited for the formation of a consolidated Magyar government, the foundation of the new Liberal Party (1875) and major economic reforms that would both save and eventually lead to a very successful government with populous support.
Káťa Kabanová Káťa Kabanová is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech translation by Vincenc Cervinka, first produced in Brno on 23 November 1921. It was based on The Storm, a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, and largely inspired by Janáček's love for Kamila Stösslová.
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project The Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Project, located at , involves damming two rivers in eastern Iceland (the Jökulsá à Fljótsdal - source to the famous "Milky Lake" of Lagarfljót, and the Jökulsá á Dal (aka Jókulsá á Bru)) to produce hydroelectricity to power a new aluminium smelting plant that is being built by Alcoa in the town of Reyðarfjörður. It is the largest construction project ever in Iceland, with completion scheduled for 2009.
Károly Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd Mezőkövesdi Újfalvy Károly Jenő, or Karl Eugen Újfalvy von Mezőkövesd, Charles-Eugène Ujfalvy de Mezökövesd, or Mező-Kövesd (May 16, 1842, Székelykövesd/Cuieşd ?, Transylvania - January 31, 1904, Firenze) was a Hungarian-Austrian linguist.
Károly Balzsay Károly Balzsay (born July 23, 1979 in Kecskemét) is a boxer from Hungary, who is competing in the Middleweight (– 75kg) division. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Károly Bund Károly Bund, born 1869, Besztercebánya, old Hungary (present Banská Bystrica, Slovakia); died 1931, Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of Emanuel Bund and Zsófia Ingruber, who had come from Elsaß-Lothringen, Germany.
Károly Ferenc Szabó Károly Ferenc Szabó (born 29 August 1943) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Károly Garam Károly Garam (born May 10 1941 in Eger, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Finnish cello player and the brother of violin player Lajos Garam. Garam studied cello playing in the Sibelius Academy under Vili Pullinen and Yrjö Selin.
Károly Güttler Károly Güttler (born June 15, 1968 in Budapest) is a former breaststroker from Hungary, who represented his native country at four consecutive Olympics, beginning with the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and ending with the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He won the silver medal in the 100m and 200m breaststroke, once each, both at separate Games.
Károly Makk Károly Makk (born December 22, 1925 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Five of his films have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival without success; however, he has won lesser awards at Cannes and elsewhere.
Károly Takács Károly Takács (Hungarian name order Takács Károly) (January 21, 1910 – January 5, 1976) was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the Rapid Fire Pistol event. He was born in Budapest and after a grenade accident in 1938 he had to change to shooting with his left hand, soon mastering it and surprising the world with winning the London 1948 Summer Olympics.
KĂ©gresse track A KĂ©gresse track is an unusual kind of caterpillar track which uses a flexible belt rather than interlocking metal segments. It can be fitted to a conventional car or truck to turn it into a half-track, suitable for use over rough or soft ground.
KĂ©nĂ´se KĂ©nĂ´se is an EP by the Black Metal band Deathspell Omega, released in 2005 under Ajna Offensive. It continues the avant garde and progressive direction they had been exploring on 2004's Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice, and is considered by the band as something of an "appendix" to that album.
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