Kersey – Kidd
Kersey
a variety of woolen cloth, differing from ordinary broadcloth by being woven as a twill.
Kewanee
a city in Henry co., Ill.; on the Burlington Route railroad; 32 miles N. E. of Galesburg. It is in a rich farming region and has a number of important manufactories. Pop. (1910) 9,307; (1920) 16,026.
Keweenaw Bay
an arm of Lake Superior, N. of Michigan.
KEY
Keweenaw Point
a peninsula in Northern Michigan, projecting into Lake Superior. It is rich in copper mines. conglomerates,
Keweenaw Series
in geology, a group of rocks in the United States and Canada, chiefly sandstones, amygdaloids, conglomerates, and traps, belonging to the Algonkian age; greatest total thickness about 40,000 feet. They contain the famous copper deposits of the Lake Superior region.
Key
or KI, a group of islands in the Indian Archipelago, about 50 miles W. of the Arru İslands and about 70 miles from the S. W. coast of New Guinea.
Key Board
the range of keys on a pianoforte or organ. Keys played by the fingers are called manuals; those by the feet are called pedals.
Keyne
ST., a virgin said to have lived about 490, whose name survives in an old church in Cornwall near Liskeard, England, and still more so in its famous well. Whichever of a newly married pair first drinks of its water will bear rule throughout their life together. a
Khabarovsk
the capital of the maritime province of Siberia, situated at the junction of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The fur trade is of considerable importance in this section, and as the terminal of one of the branches of the Trans-Siberian railroad, a share of this commerce goes to this town. Pop. about 60,000.
Khaki
a dust-colored cloth now employed as material in army uniform by the principal governments, and valued on account of its aid toward invisibility in the field. It was first used by British regiments in India, but modifications have been introduced in the United States and other countries, an olive shade of cotton being employed.
Khayyam
OMAR. See OMAR KHAYYAM.
OMAR KHEDIVE (ka-dev'), the official title of the Pasha or Governor of Egypt; it implies a rank superior to a prince or viceroy, but inferior to that of an independent monarch.
Kidd
BENJAMIN, an English sociologist; born in 1858. He entered the inland-revenue service of Great Britain in 1877. He wrote "Social Evolution" (1894); "The Control of the Tropics" (1898); "Individualism and After" (1908); "The Two Principal Laws of Sociology" (1909). Died in 1916.