Knownothing – Kola
Knownothing
a member of a secret political association in the United States, organized for the purpose of obtaining the repeal of the naturalization law, and of the law which permitted gress Secretary of War. He resigned from the Cabinet in 1795, retiring to private life. He died in Thomaston, Me., Oct. 25, 1806.
Knox College
a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Galesburg, Ill.; founded in 1837; reported at the close of 1919. Professors and instructors, ors, 36; students, 761. President, J. L.
McConaughy. of Knox co., Tenn.; on the Tennessee
Kock
DE braries, the Eastern State Insane Asy- Ring of the Nibelung" (1889); "Waglum, State Institutions for White and Black Deaf Mutes, the Lawson McGhee Memorial, etc. The city was founded in 1792; chartered as a city in 1815; and was enlarged by incorporating West Knoxville and North Knoxville in 1888 and 1889 respectively. Pop. (1910) 36,- 346; (1920) 77,818.
Knoxville College
an institution for higher education, at Knoxville, Tenn., founded in 1876. There were in the autumn of 1919, 500 students and 25 instructors. President, J. K. Giffen.
Knysna
a forest tract and elephant preserve, extending from the sea to the Outeniqua Mountains in Cape Colony, 150 miles W. of Port Elizabeth.
Kochab
a star of the third magnitude in Ursa Minor, "The Little Bear," and which in the time of Ptolemy was the actual pole-star.
Kofu
a town in the province of Kai, Japan, located about 80 miles from To- , located about 80 miles from Tokyo. The town has progressed rapidly in recent years having many buildings of the European style. The industries are silk-weaving, the polishing of rock-crystals found in the quarries nearby, and the making of wine. Population, about 50,000.
Kohath
the son of Levi and father of the Kohathites, who was appointed to carry the ark and the sacred utensils of the tabernacle during the journeyings of in the desert. (Ex. vi: 16- 24; 24; Num. iv; 4-15).
KOH-I-NUR. See DIAMOND.
Kohlrabi
the turnip-stemmed cabbage, a variety of cabbage having a turnip-like protuberance on the stem just above the ground, which is the most edible part of the plant.
Koko-Nor
or KUKU-NOR, a lake province of Kan-su, fills a depression surrounded by mountains, and lies, according to the level of the sea. Its very salt waters, cording to Prjevalsky, 12,097 feet above the sea. exquisitely blue in color, cover 66 miles Its very salt waters , by 40. It contains five islands, one with a Buddhist monastery.
Kokoona
a genus of Celastraceӕ.
K. zeylanica is a tree with a pale-colored bark, found in the West Indies and in seeds, which is used for burning in lamps, Ceylon. An oil is expressed from its etc. the wood of an Indian tree, Lepidostachys
Kola
a place of 649 inhabitants, but of European Russia. It is situated on the peninsula of Kola, is the capital of Russian Lapland, and harbor. Russian Lapland, and has a capacious