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c35ed15cc48893c98363226caa137e22 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/JPMorgan-Chase-and-Co | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., formerly J.P. Morgan and Company, Inc., American banking and financial services company formed through the December 2000 merger of J.P. Morgan & Co. and The Chase Manhattan Corporation. It is headquartered in New York City.
The Morgan branch of the corporation traces its hist... |
2438e05dcc6d8cd4d776f845946e86e2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jubilee-Diamond | Jubilee diamond | Jubilee diamond
Jubilee diamond, flawless, clear white diamond weighing almost 651 carats in rough form, as it was found in the Jaegersfontein mine in South Africa in 1895. It was faceted into a cushion brilliant of about 245 carats in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, from which it takes its name.
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0ef3549fd06eba3733b8d935f8e92adc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juchen | Juchen | Juchen
…destroyed in 1125 by the Juchen (Chinese: Nüzhen, or Ruzhen) tribes, who had formerly been subjects of the Khitan and who rose in rebellion against them with the aid of the Song. The Juchen went on to defeat the Song and, as the Jin dynasty (1115–1234), establish rule over North…
…1626), chieftain of the Jianzh... |
d151abd7bad7467ee90ceecf0b826219 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judaism/Basic-beliefs-and-doctrines | Basic beliefs and doctrines | Basic beliefs and doctrines
Judaism is more than an abstract intellectual system, though there have been many efforts to view it systematically. It affirms divine sovereignty disclosed in creation (nature) and in history, without necessarily insisting upon—but at the same time not rejecting—metaphysical speculation abo... |
da226243b6f3c4ea3df797478cb599b9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judaism/Myth-and-legend-in-the-medieval-period | Myth and legend in the medieval period | Myth and legend in the medieval period
The Middle Ages was a singularly productive period in the history of Jewish myth and legend. Medieval Jews played a prominent role in the transmission of Middle Eastern and Asian tales to the West and enhanced their own repertoire with a goodly amount of secular material. Especial... |
662db20d83736d3fc332547b6fab7df4 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judgment-at-Nuremberg | Judgment at Nuremberg | Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg, American dramatic film, released in 1961, that was based on the post-World War II Nuremberg trials of former Nazi leaders. The film explores the complicity of the German people in the crimes committed by the state, including the atrocities of the Holocaust.
The plot centres... |
cafa93b1866d5551d1d2682cefa26263 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judiciary-Act-of-1789 | Judiciary Act of 1789 | Judiciary Act of 1789
Judiciary Act of 1789, in full 1789 Judiciary Act, act establishing the organization of the U.S. federal court system, which had been sketched only in general terms in the U.S. Constitution. The act established a three-part judiciary—made up of district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Cou... |
2f294681bdbac32ab820ba5a612b551c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/juge-dinstruction | Juge d'instruction | Juge d'instruction
Juge d’instruction, (French: judge of inquiry) in France, magistrate responsible for conducting the investigative hearing that precedes a criminal trial. In this hearing the major evidence is gathered and presented, and witnesses are heard and depositions taken. If the juge d’instruction is not conv... |
c5ff45f17c21e8312cfb0a6fa9dc88f9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/juice | Juice | Juice
Raw juice (containing 10 to 14 percent sucrose) is purified in a series of liming and carbonatation steps, often with filtration or thickening being conducted between the first and second carbonatation. One popular multistage system involves cold pre-liming followed by cold main liming, hot main liming,…
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713387482d65fe813861278320735611 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juilliard-School | Juilliard School | Juilliard School
Juilliard School, formerly Juilliard School of Music, internationally renowned school of the performing arts in New York, New York, U.S. It is now the professional educational arm of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The Juilliard School offers bachelor’s degrees in music, dance, and drama a... |
c2e618503bc9d9e91308a0f8ab7eb107 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Julia-Misbehaves | Julia Misbehaves | Julia Misbehaves
Finally, there was Julia Misbehaves (1948), a playful comedy with Pidgeon and Greer Garson as the bickering parents of a bride-to-be (Elizabeth Taylor). Conway, who suffered from illness in the last years of his life, subsequently retired from directing.
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be527f44f77ae385519f524f2a7a4715 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juliet-fictional-character-Romeo-and-Juliet | Juliet | Juliet
Juliet, daughter of the Capulets who is one of the two “star-crossed” lovers in Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Juliet’s musing on the balcony—
—is overheard by Romeo and sets in motion one of the most famous love stories in Western literature.
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56474033b5403582570380063a8947f7 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Julio-Claudian-dynasty | Julio-Claudian dynasty | Julio-Claudian dynasty
Julio-Claudian dynasty, (ad 14–68), the four successors of Augustus, the first Roman emperor: Tiberius (reigned 14–37), Caligula (37–41), Claudius I (41–54), and Nero (54–68). It was not a direct bloodline. Augustus had been the great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar (of the Julia gens), ... |
dc9a1138016561521ef1c2b8ef9ae32e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juno-Roman-goddess | Juno | Juno
Juno, in Roman religion, chief goddess and female counterpart of Jupiter, closely resembling the Greek Hera, with whom she was identified. With Jupiter and Minerva, she was a member of the Capitoline triad of deities traditionally introduced by the Etruscan kings. Juno was connected with all aspects of the life o... |
1a6e32e7caf9aa9c2d0455267f407e21 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jurassic-Park-novel-by-Crichton | Jurassic Park | Jurassic Park
…the massively successful science-fiction thriller Jurassic Park, which grimly envisions the human resurrection of the dinosaurs through genetic engineering. He wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film adaptation, which was a box-office hit, and for such other works as The Lost World (1995; film 1997), a se... |
d71afdd9233c9eaef9b4d3ec374049d6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/justice-social-concept | Justice | Justice
Justice, In philosophy, the concept of a proper proportion between a person’s deserts (what is merited) and the good and bad things that befall or are allotted to him or her. Aristotle’s discussion of the virtue of justice has been the starting point for almost all Western accounts. For him, the key element of... |
1d8c5e8e3c12f4df8f2ffeb64369f9ef | https://www.britannica.com/topic/justiciar | Justiciar | Justiciar
Justiciar, early English judicial official of the king who, unlike all other officers of the central administration, was not a member of the king’s official household. The justiciarship originated in the king’s need for a responsible subordinate who could take a wide view of the affairs of the kingdom, act a... |
86b586633f8c0bec011eca32b5d8da1b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/juvenile-delinquent | Juvenile delinquent | Juvenile delinquent
Juvenile delinquent, any young person whose conduct is characterized by antisocial behaviour that is beyond parental control and subject to legal action. See delinquency.
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b458b6cb0a0f5281f6d9e2891f6495d6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaas | Kaas | Kaas
He published Kaas (“Cheese”) in 1933 and followed it with the novel Tsjip (“Cheep”) in 1934. Laarmans, who is the protagonist in Kaas, had been introduced in Lijmen, and he reappears in Pensioen (1937; “Pension”), De leeuwentemmer (1940; “The Lion Tamer”), and Elsschot’s masterpiece, Het dwaallicht (1946;…
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aa90c5f79f90daebf7351476c005ecdd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kabardian-language | Kabardian language | Kabardian language
Kabardian language, also called East Circassian, or Upper Circassian, language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria republic, in southwestern Russia, in the northern Caucasus. It is related to the Abkhaz, Abaza, Adyghian, and Ubykh languages, which constitute the Abkhazo-Adyghian, or Northwest Caucasian, la... |
85ec0bea27d44a96d10d9ea8fade1b7d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kabwe-cranium | Kabwe cranium | Kabwe cranium
Kabwe cranium, also called Broken Hill cranium, fossilized skull of an extinct human species (genus Homo) found near the town of Kabwe, Zambia (formerly Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia), in 1921. It was the first discovered remains of premodern Homo in Africa and until the early 1970s was considered to be... |
58130d157826754c0cf14c99b0cf74b2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kach-Party | Kach Party | Kach Party
There Kahane formed the Kach Party and stirred nationalist fervor against Arabs, whom he campaigned to remove (violently, if necessary) from Israel and all Israeli-occupied areas. He won a seat in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) in 1984, but his term ended when Israel banned the Kach Party for its…
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878825f49e297a41a8a9a2f8a6d6d910 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kadambari | Kadambari | Kadambari
…great work, the prose romance Kadambari, is named for the heroine of the novel. The book describes the affairs of two sets of lovers through a series of incarnations. Both works were left unfinished; the second was completed by the author’s son, Bhusanabhatta.
…culture and society; and the Kādambarī (the nam... |
48b6c21c313c7154cc097c74dda8c343 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaifeng-Jews | Kaifeng Jew | Kaifeng Jew
Kaifeng Jew, Wade-Giles romanization K’ai-feng Jew, member of a former religious community in Henan province, China, whose careful observance of Jewish precepts over many centuries has long intrigued scholars. Matteo Ricci, the famous Jesuit missionary, was apparently the first Westerner to learn of the ex... |
27beafa34f4cff4ede4f1e9965720e54 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaishinto | Kaishintō | Kaishintō
Kaishintō, in full Rikken Kaishintō, English Constitutional Reform Party, a leading Japanese political party from its founding in 1882 by the democratic leader Ōkuma Shigenobu until its merger with several smaller parties in 1896. It generally represented the urban elite of intellectuals, industrialists, and... |
55659f57b95ab4f32ef7cb7589a9979e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kakori-Conspiracy | Kakori Conspiracy | Kakori Conspiracy
Kakori Conspiracy, also called Kakori Conspiracy Case or Kakori Train Robbery, armed robbery on August 9, 1925, of a train in what is now central Uttar Pradesh state, north-central India, and the subsequent court trial instituted by the government of British India against more than two dozen men accu... |
79e77866e14dcde7e8c39aa402d4d1b8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kalender-Geschichten | Kalender-Geschichten | Kalender-Geschichten
…Bavarian peasant life, such as Kalender-Geschichten, 2 vol. (1929, rev. 1957; “Calendar Stories”). Graf’s writing is marked by frank realism and by his own socialist and pacifist beliefs, but these are tempered by humorous affection for his subjects.
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e92fee849e4f809070bfed92c6623054 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kalevala | Kalevala | Kalevala
Kalevala, Finnish national epic compiled from old Finnish ballads, lyrical songs, and incantations that were a part of Finnish oral tradition.
The Kalevala was compiled by Elias Lönnrot, who published the folk material in two editions (32 cantos, 1835; enlarged into 50 cantos, 1849). Kalevala, the dwelling pl... |
f41e60957403c6837a2809a1f56549e2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kalkin | Kalkin | Kalkin
Kalkin, also called Kalki, final avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu, who is yet to appear. At the end of the present Kali yuga (age), when virtue and dharma have disappeared and the world is ruled by the unjust, Kalkin will appear to destroy the wicked and to usher in a new age. He will be seated on a... |
01d598ea994f8098e88ba48e0ed72774 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kalmyk-language | Kalmyk language | Kalmyk language
Buryat and Kalmyk are also literary languages written in Cyrillic script. As the result of divergent spelling conventions and differences in vocabulary, written Khalkha and Buryat differ from one another much more than do the closely related spoken dialects on which they are based. That condition also…
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5ca9878f68a16e0740b39a8e56996729 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kalpa-Indian-chronology | Kalpa | Kalpa
…time, which is called a kalpa. These kalpas repeat themselves without beginning or end.
…cycles, known to Buddhists as kalpas, were called yuan by Shao and reduced from an astronomical length to a comprehensible duration of 129,600 years. Shao’s theory was later accepted by all branches of Neo-Confucianism and m... |
39eadf98b4d9b92e931ac5070649cf50 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kamas-language | Kamas language | Kamas language
…Selkup and the practically extinct Kamas language. None of these languages was written before 1930, and they are currently used only occasionally for educational purposes in some elementary schools.
A fifth Samoyedic language, Kamas (Sayan), spoken in the vicinity of the Sayan Mountains, survived into t... |
dae8b1e7f9c320c36871197453beb0d0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kanaka | Kanaka | Kanaka
Kanaka, (Hawaiian: “Person,” or “Man”), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, any of the South Pacific islanders employed in Queensland, Australia, on sugar plantations or cattle stations or as servants in towns. The islanders were first introduced into Queensland in 1847 for employment on cotton plantatio... |
96e66d2e8eedfbf5fc4453cb17608d99 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kanon | Kanōn | Kanōn
Kanōn, (Greek: “canon”) one of the main forms of Byzantine liturgical office; it consists of nine odes, based on the nine biblical canticles of the Eastern Christian Church. (Compare canonical hours.) The kanōn is thought to have originated in Jerusalem in the 7th or 8th century to replace the biblical canticles... |
75262a8f710fbf36f092df824c12cafe | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kanphata-Yogi | Kanphata Yogi | Kanphata Yogi
Kanphata Yogi, also called Gorakhnathiand Nathapanthi, member of an order of religious ascetics in India that venerates the Hindu deity Shiva. Kanphata Yogis are distinguished by the large earrings they wear in the hollows of their ears (kanphata, “ear split”). They are sometimes referred to as Tantric (... |
6863aa73eea3c3782f1e65df4432d49b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kansas-City-Monarchs | Kansas City Monarchs | Kansas City Monarchs
…Bell signed him to the Kansas City Monarchs. Soon after, Banks spent two years in the U.S. Army, after which he returned to the Monarchs. His stay there was short-lived, however, as the major leagues, recently integrated, were eager to take advantage of the wealth of talent in the Negro…
…was also... |
53125f704949abdb26fda64a041b0e3b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kansas-City-Royals | Kansas City Royals | Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals, American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals have won four American League (AL) pennants and two World Series championships (1985 and 2015).
The Royals were founded in 1969 as an expansion franchise that was granted by Major League Baseball after... |
0aa032fee5b72ebbf5aca81e532c6690 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kanuri-language | Kanuri language | Kanuri language
Kanuri language, language within the Saharan branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Kanuri consists of two main dialects, Manga Kanuri and Yerwa Kanuri (also called Beriberi, which its speakers consider pejorative), spoken in central Africa by more than 5,700,000 individuals at the turn of the 21s... |
5dcc26a318721d3582576a7c2087b666 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kanva-dynasty | Kanva dynasty | Kanva dynasty
Kanva dynasty, also called Kanvayanas, the successors of the Shungas in the North Indian kingdom of Magadha, who ruled about 72–28 bce; like their predecessors, they were Brahmans in origin. That they originally served the Shunga line is attested by the appellation Shungabhrityas (i.e., servants of the S... |
2c072dca8c1c57d99a4b77b03c7cf0fa | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaonde | Kaonde | Kaonde
Kaonde, also spelled Kahonde, also called Bakahonde, a Bantu-speaking people the vast majority of whom inhabit the northwestern region of Zambia. A numerically much smaller group lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Zambian wooded highlands average 4,000 feet (1,220 metres) in elevation; to ... |
51a480b7966f466232134d4cb18ee21e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kapampangan-language | Kapampangan language | Kapampangan language
Bicol, Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, the Batak languages, Acehnese, Balinese, and Buginese of western Indonesia; and Malagasy of Madagascar. Each of these languages
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93a2529b643e0bb1f495f7a328ee5ebc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaqchikel | Kaqchikel | Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel, formerly spelled Cakchiquel, Mayan people of the midwestern highlands of Guatemala, closely related linguistically and culturally to the neighbouring K’iche’ and Tz’utujil. They are agriculturalists, and their culture is syncretic, a fusion of Spanish and Mayan elements. Their sharing of a common ... |
3a32fac88c66720e54ae3d958d82cbc3 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kaqchikel-language | Kaqchikel language | Kaqchikel language
Kaqchikel language, Kaqchikel formerly spelled Cakchiquel, member of the K’ichean (Quichean) subgroup of the Mayan family of languages, spoken in central Guatemala by some 450,000 people. It has numerous dialects. Its closest relative is Tz’utujil. K’iche’ is also closely related. The Annals of the ... |
96659fc54823491e7b1f474bf6fe0819 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Karachay | Karachay | Karachay
Karachay, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakass, Kipchak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nogay, Shor, Tatars, Tofalar, Turkmen
…Caucasus region, includes the Balkar, Karachay, Kumyk, and Nogay. There also are numerous Turkic-speaking groups in southern Siberia between the Urals and Lake Baikal: the Altai, Khakass, Shor, Tofalar, and ... |
58cc6b8c83c176bdbca38f525802efac | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kare-sansui | Kare sansui | Kare sansui
…is a special variation, the kare-sansui (dried-up landscape) style, in which rocks are composed to suggest a waterfall and its basin and, for a winding stream or a pond, gravel or sand is used to symbolize water or to suggest seasonally dried-up terrain.
…Kyōto, an outstanding example of kare sansui, a dry... |
4672b5af3ae31277d7ca77fee0052eb9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Karimojong | Karimojong | Karimojong
Karimojong, also spelled Karamojong, eastern Nilotic pastoral people of northeastern Uganda. The Karimojong are the largest of a cluster of culturally and historically related peoples, including the Jie, Teso, Dodoth (or Dodos), and Labwor of Uganda and the Turkana of neighbouring Kenya. They speak an Easte... |
57b781d5d2a87e73c57dc9e81cff51fd | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Karolinska-Institute | Karolinska Institute | Karolinska Institute
Karolinska Institute,, in full The Royal Caroline Medico-chirurgical Institute, Swedish Karolinska Mediko-kirurgiska Institutet, a Swedish institute for medical education and research, founded in 1810. The primary interest of the institute is research; it has achieved international renown for its ... |
fa304de57cba4a84f96013b8e6a206c1 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kart | Kart | Kart
Kart, in Finno-Ugric religion, the sacrificial priest of the Mari people of the middle Volga River valley. The term kart was derived from a Tatar word meaning “elder.” The kart was either a lifetime representative of a clan or a temporary official chosen by lot to oversee common sacrificial feasts of an entire vi... |
fa6162497474617192532c475f8b0d03 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kartvelian-languages | Kartvelian languages | Kartvelian languages
Kartvelian languages, also called South Caucasian languages, or Iberian languages, family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken south of the chief range of the Caucasus. A brief treatment of Kartvelian languages follows. For full treatment, see Caucasian langua... |
2e5d48ac458aec5d027653070386d293 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kate-Vaiden | Kate Vaiden | Kate Vaiden
…The Source of Light (1981); Kate Vaiden (1986), the orphaned heroine of which was based on the author’s own mother; and The Tongues of Angels (1990). He also wrote poetry, plays, translations from the Bible, and essays.
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f4295ab81d7f4b5aa9ec686f85fc04a6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kayah | Kayah | Kayah
…them into White Karen and Red Karen. The former consist of two groups, the Sgaw and the Pwo; the Red Karen include the Bre, the Padaung, the Yinbaw, and the Zayein. They occupy areas in southeastern Myanmar on both sides of the lower Salween River, in contiguous parts of Thailand,…
The Kayah, who live on the sou... |
6206b225edfe4c900abc6419382c1a28 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kazakhstania | Kazakhstania | Kazakhstania
Similarly, Kazakhstania was a neighbouring continent to the east in the same northern middle latitudes. North China (including Manchuria and Korea) and South China (the Yangtze platform) were two separate continents situated in a more equatorial position. In contrast to Siberia and Kazakhstania, most of No... |
b3721d580f037a276c11f72066331a6b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kazan-Tatar-language | Kazan Tatar language | Kazan Tatar language
The major Tatar dialects are Kazan Tatar (spoken in Tatarstan) and Western or Misher Tatar. Other varieties include the minor eastern or Siberian dialects, Kasimov, Tepter (Teptyar), and Astrakhan and Ural Tatar. Kazan Tatar is the literary language.
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2cdd53ddc241a046dd64cae9c33e9224 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kazoku-shinema | Kazoku shinema | Kazoku shinema
…new author, and her novel Kazoku shinema (1997; “Family Cinema”) established her reputation and won her public recognition. Kazoku shinema tells the story of a young woman’s reunion with long-estranged relatives to film a semifictional documentary. Written in clear and simple language, the novel alterna... |
13d739f7e5b8019927a55f195ce4d6e0 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kean-University | Kean University | Kean University
Kean University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Union, New Jersey, U.S. It comprises schools of Business, Government and Technology; Education; Liberal Arts; and Natural Sciences, Nursing and Mathematics. Master’s degree programs are available in education, psychology, business... |
09cdbe1e8198f8174290b51a5d41a57e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Keep-the-Change | Keep the Change | Keep the Change
…Something to Be Desired (1984), Keep the Change (1989), and Nothing but Blue Skies (1992). After a hiatus from writing novels, McGuane returned with The Cadence of Grass (2002), which depicts a Montana clan’s colourfully tangled lives. It was followed by Driving on the Rim (2010), a freewheeling tale o... |
ba5c0b801f5e3a23591c3c0f3f767535 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Keeping-the-Faith-film-by-Norton | Keeping the Faith | Keeping the Faith
…made his directorial debut with Keeping the Faith, a romantic comedy in which two longtime friends, one a priest (played by Norton) and the other a rabbi (Ben Stiller), fall in love with the same woman. Norton later appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins in Red Dragon (2002), a prequel to the…
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3a16f686382948eca6e095525687c7c9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Keidanren | Keidanren | Keidanren
Keidanren, abbreviation of Keizai Dantai Rengōkai, English Federation of Economic Organizations, 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. I... |
090ac9a4e0a570650e0af188459e5e1c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Keluarga-gerilja | Keluarga gerilja | Keluarga gerilja
The novel Keluarga gerilja (1950; “Guerrilla Family”) chronicles the tragic consequences of divided political sympathies in a Javanese family during the Indonesian Revolution against Dutch rule, while Mereka jang dilumpuhkan (1951; “The Paralyzed”) depicts the odd assortment of inmates Pramoedya became... |
ca7ad2a3ebf60540b13d59c67d4e0c5e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kennewick-Man | Kennewick Man | Kennewick Man
Subsequently known as Kennewick Man (among scientists) or the Ancient One (among repatriation activists), this person most probably lived sometime between about 9,000 and 9,500 years ago, certainly before 5,600–6,000 years ago. A number of tribes and a number of scientists laid competing claims to the rem... |
c396d1592962b8767528f99c7984a866 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kentauromachia | Kentauromachia | Kentauromachia
…hand, the western one a kentauromachia (battle of centaurs). The temple is of Pentelic marble—except for the foundation and the lowest stylobate step, which are of Piraic stone, and the frieze of the cella, which is Parian marble. Fragments of the polychromatic decoration are housed in the British Museu... |
ebb0fb4bef8f2b0abaa86633b00b50bf | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kenya-Wildlife-Services | Kenya Wildlife Services | Kenya Wildlife Services
…in the mid-1990s by the Kenya Wildlife Service. The plan has attempted to draw local communities into the management and distribution of the income derived from wild animals in the vicinity, thus making people more tolerant of the animals’ presence. The program has been somewhat successful, and... |
1998405cbedd09d3e3a30ea6b047debc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kepler-fictional-biography-by-Banville | Kepler | Kepler
Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), and The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982) are fictional biographies based on the lives of noted scientists. These three works use scientific exploration as a metaphor to question perceptions of fiction and reality. Mefisto (1986) is written from the point of view of…
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c22956ecc8ac29cbef41683ed7a03740 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kermes | Kermes | Kermes
Kermes, (Kermes ilicis), a species of scale insect in the family Kermesidae (order Homoptera), the common name of which also represents the red dye that is obtained from the dried bodies of these insects. The dye was often part of the tribute paid to conquering Roman armies, and, in the Middle Ages, landlords ... |
880e0ba95e6a6483e9a08273abe5792d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/key-cipher | Key | Key
…marks and spaces (a running key) were mingled with the message during encryption to produce what is known as a stream or streaming cipher.
…believed that a short random key could safely be reused many times, thus justifying the effort to deliver such a large key, but reuse of the key turned out to be vulnerable to... |
83cbbb665875a99aa619024c91e1463f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khalkha-people | Khalkha | Khalkha
Khalkha, largest group of the Mongol peoples, constituting more than 80 percent of the population of Mongolia. The Khalkha dialect is the official language of Mongolia. It is understood by 90 percent of the country’s population as well as by many Mongols elsewhere.
Traditionally, the Khalkha were a nomadic, pa... |
2f5245263a40d935140c8299baec0f55 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khalsa | Khalsa | Khalsa
Khalsa, (Punjabi: “the Pure”) the purified and reconstituted Sikh community instituted by Guru Gobind Singh on March 30, 1699 (Baisakhi Day; Khalsa Sikhs celebrate the birth of the order on April 13 of each year). His declaration had three dimensions: it redefined the concept of authority within the Sikh commun... |
902227f03b38baecd558a35e5b5cd98c | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khazar | Khazar | Khazar
Khazar, member of a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century ce established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia. Although the origin of the term Khazar and the early history of the Khazar people are obscure, it is fairly certain that ... |
da1c8b0ca588d1e99a3c4c257bf2e497 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khepri | Khepri | Khepri
…god, the most important were Khepri (the morning form), Re-Harakhty (a form of Re associated with Horus), and Atum (the old, evening form). There were three principal “social” categories of deity: gods, goddesses, and youthful deities, mostly male.
…the night, to appear as Khepri at dawn and as Re at the sun’s ... |
f549a59a3f763bced78787ab72835439 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khnum | Khnum | Khnum
Khnum, also spelled Khnemu, ancient Egyptian god of fertility, associated with water and with procreation. Khnum was worshipped from the 1st dynasty (c. 2925–2775 bce) into the early centuries ce. He was represented as a ram with horizontal twisting horns or as a man with a ram’s head. Khnum was believed to have... |
1147ec3f363effa816b61fca94e9fc6e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khoisan | Khoisan | Khoisan
In the long run these new groups of herders and farmers transformed the hunter-gatherer way of life. Initially, however, distinctions between early pastoralists, farmers, and hunter-gatherers were not overwhelming, and in many areas the various groups coexisted. The first evidence of pastoralism in the…
Small s... |
84e0b32cd219446fd9e03ebdd7cd74ee | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kia-Motors-Corporation | Kia Motors Corporation | Kia Motors Corporation
Kia, South Korea’s second largest automaker, was acquired by Hyundai in 1999. Daewoo, owned by the Daewoo Group conglomerate, entered the automobile field on a large scale in the 1980s and had won nearly a fifth of the market before entering into financial receivership and…
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77b9d6ae3edbaf8f2c0fe2fa3780ed8d | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kibbutz | Kibbutz | Kibbutz
Kibbutz, (Hebrew: “gathering” or “collective”) plural kibbutzim, also spelled qibbutz, Israeli collective settlement, usually agricultural and often also industrial, in which all wealth is held in common. Profits are reinvested in the settlement after members have been provided with food, clothing, and shelter... |
7958faec7ecec151e232d9e661a78955 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kickstarter | Kickstarter | Kickstarter
…entrepreneur who created and cofounded Kickstarter, an Internet company that specialized in providing financial support for philanthropic and artistic endeavours by linking project leaders with a vast online community of investors.
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341a1e766c442a93b79ff370a5f2a270 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kid-leather | Kid leather | Kid leather
Kid leather, made from goatskin, is used for women’s dress shoes and men’s slippers. Sheepskin is used in linings and slippers. Reptile leathers (alligator, lizard, and snake) are used in women’s and some men’s shoes. Cordovan (a small muscle layer obtained from horsehide) is a…
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f2392c8274050d954adc81f6a42e3054 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kikongo-Kituba | Kikongo-Kituba | Kikongo-Kituba
Kikongo-Kituba, also called Kikongo ya Leta orKileta (“the state’s Kikongo”), Kikongo ya bula-matari or Kibula-matari (“the stone-breaker’s speech”), Ikele ve (“be not,” in the infinitive), Mono kutuba (“I say”), or (by linguists) Kituba, according to some linguists, a creole language of Central Africa ... |
05602111ef770e95c4fd6ba694a18408 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kill-Uncle | Kill Uncle | Kill Uncle
…however, on subsequent singles and Kill Uncle (1991), Morrissey, backed by an undistinguished rockabilly band, dwindled into tuneless self-parody. His muse rallied with the glam-rock-influenced Your Arsenal (1992) and the delicate Vauxhall and I (1994). These albums, and the less impressive Southpaw Grammar... |
d75441a8a9734c94b1fe964095ec127f | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Killers-Head | Killer’s Head | Killer’s Head
In Killer’s Head (produced 1975), for example, the rambling monologue, a Shepard stock-in-trade, blends horror and banality in a murderer’s last thoughts before electrocution; Angel City (produced 1976) depicts the destructive machinery of the Hollywood entertainment industry; and Suicide in B-flat (produ... |
d2e1471fc04204334134c2e2d774eb24 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kimkhwab | Kimkhwāb | Kimkhwāb
Kimkhwāb, Indian brocade woven of silk and gold or silver thread. The word kimkhwāb, derived from the Persian, means “a little dream,” a reference perhaps to the intricate patterns employed; kimkhwāb also means “woven flower,” an interpretation that appears more applicable to the brocade, in view of the flor... |
d9ef43e32bb83be8e03eed41abe45aed | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kincsem | Kincsem | Kincsem
Kincsem, (foaled 1874), European racehorse whose total of 54 victories (1876–79) without defeat was into the 1980s the best unbeaten record in the history of flat (Thoroughbred) racing. A mare sired by Cambuscan out of Water Nymph (both English-bred horses), she was foaled in Hungary and raced in Austria, Eng... |
fbc62b51174464579fc29077385e061e | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kindly-Light | Kindly Light | Kindly Light
…novels, Unguarded Hours (1978) and Kindly Light (1979), chronicle the misadventures of a man who begins a career in organized religion.
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b79f0177f18e8c5eb9a9e9ebb261dc3b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Crimson | King Crimson | King Crimson
…such British bands as Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Yes. The term art rock is best used to describe either classically influenced rock by such British groups as the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP), Gentle Giant, the
…bassist and lead singer for King Crimson (1968–69... |
45aee849a068677159a7e7b415ae3868 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Kong-film-1933 | King Kong | King Kong
King Kong, landmark American monster film, released in 1933, that was noted for its pioneering special effects by Willis O’Brien. It was the first significant feature film to star an animated character and also made actress Fay Wray an international star.
Director Carl Denham (played by Robert Armstrong) lea... |
a2ce40d13f4ceaddfcd5d3714db7bad8 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-of-Kings-film-by-Ray | King of Kings | King of Kings
With King of Kings (1961) Ray took a deliberately nonepic approach to the life of Jesus (whose naturalistic portrayal by Hunter was generally praised). 55 Days at Peking (1963), with a cast that included Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, was an epic portrayal of…
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88a6116ff267755bbd0fdb9f9b296611 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-Ranch | King Ranch | King Ranch
King Ranch, largest ranch in the United States, composed of a group of four tracts of land in southeastern Texas, totaling approximately 825,000 acres (333,800 hectares).
The King Ranch was established by Richard King, a steamboat captain born in 1825 in Orange county, New York. Drawn to Texas by the Mexica... |
14a7073b276f78202d5d4407a3fa75cc | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kingdom-Come | Kingdom Come | Kingdom Come
(2000), Millennium People (2003), and Kingdom Come (2006), effectively exposing the foibles of his middle-class characters by documenting their reactions to the violence against a stark backdrop of shopping malls and office parks.
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b4bb2834a87226101b8631ef149570bb | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kingdom-of-Lombardy-Venetia | Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia | Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
…proclaimed the formation of the kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. The new state was a fiction, however, because the two regions remained separate, each subject to the central ministries in Vienna. Milan lost its role as a capital, most of the Napoleonic administration was dismantled, and the cen... |
2154b38b76da53a7773c98ccd56bae20 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kings-Highway | King's Highway | King's Highway
King’s Highway, also called Via Nova Traiana, ancient thoroughfare that connected Syria and the Gulf of Aqaba by way of what is now Jordan. Mentioned in the Old Testament, it is one of the world’s oldest continuously used communication routes.
The King’s Highway was an important thoroughfare for north-s... |
48aa7f1d5372ad14d7224cb1665efac6 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kings-Men | King's Men | King's Men
King’s Men, English theatre company known by that name after it came under royal patronage in 1603. Its previous name was the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Considered the premier acting company in Jacobean England, the troupe included William Shakespeare as its leading dramatist and Richard Burbage as it princip... |
6b98dc7419faa05de4b9c6586d892916 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kings-Peace | King’s Peace | King’s Peace
…request, and dictate the so-called King’s Peace of 387–386 bc. Once again the Greeks gave up any claim to Asia Minor and further agreed to maintain the status quo in Greece itself.
The Peace of Antalcidas (387), which ended the war, included a clause guaranteeing the Greek cities their independence. Agesi... |
1466640881fc90196d174e78ef12defa | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kingsblood-Royal | Kingsblood Royal | Kingsblood Royal
…and the racially prejudiced (Kingsblood Royal [1947]) were satirically sharp and thoroughly documented, though Babbitt is his only book that still stands up brilliantly at the beginning of the 21st century. Similar careful documentation, though little satire, characterized James T. Farrell’s naturalis... |
d6a8f8c21d3d60b8d39546cf21625fe5 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kinship/Descent-theory | Descent theory | Descent theory
Kinship was regarded as the theoretical and methodological core of social anthropology in the early and middle part of the 20th century. Although comparative studies gradually abandoned an explicit evolutionist agenda, there remained an implicit evolutionary cast to the way in which kinship studies were ... |
2fb9d887f6d305e7265863d46e2e9e5a | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kiowa | Kiowa | Kiowa
Kiowa, North American Indians of Kiowa-Tanoan linguistic stock who are believed to have migrated from what is now southwestern Montana into the southern Great Plains in the 18th century. Numbering some 3,000 at the time, they were accompanied on the migration by Kiowa Apache, a small southern Apache band that be... |
ea36d9da8c867efe70aa24cad3313dac | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kiss-of-Death | Kiss of Death | Kiss of Death
Kiss of Death, American film noir, released in 1947, that is especially noted for the chilling performance by Richard Widmark in his screen debut.
Nick Bianco (played by Victor Mature) decides to testify against his former mob cronies in order to win release from prison and be reunited with his family. T... |
f7c4fa6e4aa19193bfaab3a6ba72b894 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kisses-for-My-President | Kisses for My President | Kisses for My President
Kisses for My President (1964) was his last film, an overlong but occasionally funny yarn about a woman (Polly Bergen) who is the first to become a U.S. president and her struggles with the office and her family, especially her husband (Fred MacMurray). Although not…
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b45fe0b8e38e1dbbff75256e2912fbf9 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/kittel | Kittel | Kittel
Kittel, plural Kittel, in Judaism, a white robe worn in the synagogue on such major festivals as Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The rabbi wears it, as does the cantor, the blower of the shofar (ritual ram’s horn), and male members of Ashkenazi (German-rite) congregations. Before a Seder dinner, the leader of the ... |
db6f9857c1a3e9e7f62b469d42361be2 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/knez | Knez | Knez
Led by the Serb knez, or prince, Lazar Hrebeljanović (he did not claim Dušan’s imperial title), a combined army of Serbs, Albanians, and Hungarians met Murad’s forces in battle. On St. Vitus’s Day (Vidovdan), June 28 (June 15, Old Style), 1389, at Kosovo Polje, the Serbs and their allies…
…would later rule through... |
75b0419c799e710f0e2b1e3499f29bae | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Knight-Rider | Knight Rider | Knight Rider
…A-Team (1983–87), Riptide (1984–86), and Knight Rider (1982–86), the latter of which featured a talking car that fought crime, helped ease NBC out of third place in the first half of the decade. Then a pair of very traditional nuclear family sitcoms—The Cosby Show and Family Ties—achieved the top two…
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fa9e2417ac01c672d0d799fcd785e55b | https://www.britannica.com/topic/knout | Knout | Knout
The Russian knout, consisting of a number of dried and hardened thongs of rawhide interwoven with wire—the wires often being hooked and sharpened so that they tore the flesh—was even more painful and deadly. A particularly painful, though not so deadly, type of flogging was the bastinado,…
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726a8f61f9135156866fec10099a5607 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/knucklebone | Knucklebone | Knucklebone
…immediate forerunners of dice were knucklebones (astragals: the anklebones of sheep, buffalo, or other animals), sometimes with markings on the four faces. Such objects are still used in some parts of the world.
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