Kayes
or KHAYES (kä-yās'), a town of the French Sudan, on the river Senegal, the terminus of the railway and river service from St. Louis; pop. between 6,000 and 7,000.
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Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Kazan
a city of European Russia, capital of the province of the same name; on the Kasanka, about 4 miles above its junction with the Volga. It is strongly fortified, with large woolcombing, weaving and dyeing establishments, tanneries and soap works. The timber, flour, and hemp fairs of Kazan are of the largest in the Russian Empire. The university is a great seat for Oriental learning. Pop. about 200,000. KA- ZAN, the province, has an area of 24,587 square miles; domiciled pop. about 3,000,000. It is well watered by the Volga, the Kama, the Sura, the Viatka, the Kasanka; agriculture, cattle-raising, and fishing are the chief occupations.
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Kazvin
a town of Persia, 95 miles N. W. of Teheran, on the road to Resht. It manufactures brocade, velvet, cotton, and iron ware, and breeds camels and horses. Pop. 30,000 to 40,000.
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Keane
LORD JOHN, a British milquesta itary officer; born in Belmont, Ireland, 1883. in 1781. He entered the British army when a boy; served in Egypt, and in Belmoni Spain during the Peninsular War, bethe Bri coming a major-general; was superseded in Egyh in the command of the British expedition nins against New Orleans in 1814 by Pakenham; was severely wounded at the battle of New Orleans. He died in Hampshire, England, Aug. 24, 1844.
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Keble
JOHN, an English poet; born in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, April 25, 1792. He was remarkable for great beauty of character. A clergyman of the English Church, he repeatedly refused rich livings from a sense of duty. His great work "The Christian Year" (2 vols., 1827), which he published anonymously, had an enormous circulation, and from the profits the author built one of the most beautiful parish churches in England. Died March 27, 1866.
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Keble College
one of the collcges of Oxford University, built by subscription as a memorial of the Rev. John Keble, and incorporated in 1870. The , college is a flourishing institution and dozen has the patronage of about a livings.
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Kedge
a small anchor used to keep a ship steady and clear from her bower anchor while she rides in a harbor or her from river, also used in warping one part of a harbor to another.
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Kedron
or KIDRON, spoken of as a "brook" in the English Bible. It is a gorge close to Jerusalem on the E., running away in the direction of the Dead Sea.
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Keel
in botany, (1) the two lower petals of a papilionaceous corolla which adhere by their margins so as somewhat to resemble the keel of a boat; called also carina. (2) The midrib of a leaf or petal, etc., elevated externally. As a vessel nautical term, a low, flat-bottomed used in the river Tyne; a coal-barge. In shipbuilding, the lower longitudinal beam of a vessel, answering to the spine, and from which the ribs proceed. In wooden beneath is vessels an additional timber called the false keel. A sliding keel is a board amidships, working in a trunk in the line of the keel, and extending from the bottom to the deck. It is lowered to prevent a vessel's making leeway wind. In when sailing with side a zoölogy, a projecting ridge along any surface; as, for instance, the back or horns of an animal.
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Keel-Haul
or KEEL-HALE, to punish in the seamen's way by dragging one side of the offender under water on the ship and up again on the other by ropes attached to the yard-arms on either is side. In small vessels the culprit drawn under the craft from stem to stern.
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Keeley
LESLIE E., an American physician; born in 1842; was graduated at Rush Medical College in 1864. He for founded the Keeley Institute system the cure of inebriety and the use of narcotics, commonly known as the gold or Keeley cure, and was president of the . company which bears his name He died in Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 21, 1900.
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Keeling
or COCOS, ISLANDS, a group of about 20 small coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, lat. 12° S., and about 500 miles S. W. of Java; pop. (1917) 819. They are covered with cocoanut palms, whence oil is extracted; pigs and rats are the only mammals; there are no land birds but poultry. These islands were discovered by Captain Keeling in Captain 1609 and were visited by Darwin in 1836; it was on his study of them that is stu he based his subsidence theory of the iden formation of coral reefs. They were anreaf nexed to England in 1857. In 1857.
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Keen
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, an AM WILL American surgeon; born in Philadelphia, born in F Pa., Jan. 19, 1837; was graduated at Brown University in 1859, and at Jefferm 1859, an son Medical College in 1862; assistant re in 18621 surgeon 5th Massachusetts regiment in chusetts 1861; acting assistant surgeon United tant surg States army, 1862-1864; studied in Eu- -1864: stud rope 1864-1866; was head of the Philas head of delphia School of Anatomy 1866-1875; Anatomy lecturer on pathological anatomy at Jefferson zical Medical College 1866-1875; Prolege 1866fessor of Artistic Anatomy at the Pennnatomy at sylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1876- 1890; of Fine of surgery at the Women's Medical the Women College 1884-1889, and of Surgery at and of Jefferson Medical College 1889. He paid olleg special attention to the surgery of the the nervous system; was a pioneer in cerebral surgery; in 1890 published experiments with the injection of filtered air for the determination of rupture of the bladder; in 1891 proposed relieving spasmodic wryneck by the exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head. He wrote "Keen's Clinical Charts" (1870); "Early History of Practical Anatomy" (1870); etc. He edited " American Health Primers" Health (1879-1880); "Gray's Anatomy" (1887); "American Text s Anatomy Book of Surgery" ( Book of 1899); etc. He received the degree of . ceived the LL D. from Brown University in 1892; University became honorary fellow of the Royal ellow of College of Surgeons of England in 1900. of Englan
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