Kent Island
an island some 15 miles long in Chesapeake Bay, Md., 7 miles E. of Annapolis. It was here the was hare th first settlement in Maryland was made by William Claiborne in 1631. 1681. Ohio, the count
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kent Island, Kentish Glory, Kentish Rag.
Kentish Glory
a beautiful moth, orange-brown with black and white black and whit markings, the expansion of the wings ansion of the wing about two and a half inches. The larva, ches. The larva which is not hairy, is whitish-green, whitish-greet feeding on birch in July and August; the and August; th perfect insect appears in April. in April. calcareous zod
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Kentish Rag
a calcareous rock belonging to the Lower Cretaceous series. Cretaceous serie In the S. E. of England it is 60 or 80 it is 60 or 8 feet thick. It is of marine origin. It marine origin. was in a quarry of Kentish rag at Maidrag at Maic Ken stone that the great Iguanodon mantelli don mantel was discovered.
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Kenton
a city in Ohio, the county seat of Hardin co. It is on the Scioto s on the Sciot river and on the Toledo and Ohio Cenand Ohio Cer tral, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago cinnati, Chicag and St. Louis, and the Erie railroads. he Erie railroad It is the center of an important farman important farm ing and lumbering region and its indusregion and its indus tries include the manufacture of iron, manufacture of iron hardware, tools, etc. It has a court It has a cour house, city buildings, a public library, lic library and an armory. Pop. (1910) 7,185; (1910) 7,1860 (1920) 7,690. Kentucky
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Kentucky (River of Kentucky formed)
a river of Kentucky, formed by two forks which rise in the se in the Cumberland Mountains, and, after a winding N. W. course of about 250 miles, Madison 250 miles enters the Ohio, 12 miles above , Ind. The river runs through part of its part of it course between perpendicular limestone limeston walls. It is navigable by steamboat berable by steamboat be yond Frankfort.
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Kentucky Resolutions
a segressive measures. He was chairman of ries of nine resolutions introduced into ions the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, by the Senate Committee appointed to in- George Nicholas, though it was aftervestigate coal strikes in 1919 and was also chairman of the committee to inward known that Thomas Jefferson was the author of them. They were directed vestigate campaign expenses in 1920. against the Alien and Sedition laws, and against acts passed to punish frauds on the confluence of the Mississippi and the Bank of the United States, and em- Des Moines rivers and on the Burlington phasized the rights of the several States. Route, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Another resolution was added in 1799. Pacific, and other important railroads; 46 miles S. of Burlington. The city lies KENTUCKY, UNIVERSITY OF, a at the foot of the lower rapids, which are coeducational institution in Lexington, Ky.; founded in 1858 under the ausconstructed by the pices of the Christian Church; reported In 1913 there was at the close of 1919: Professors and inthe construction of a structors, 114, students, 1056; volumes ; income, $ 440,727; 7,000; income, $44 LeRand McVey, Ph.D., eRand McVey, BRITISHONY. See BE TECTORATE, the
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Kenya Protectorate
the name: given to the dominion on the coast of Afon the coast c rica under the nominal sovereignty of nal sovereign the Sultan of Zanzibar. See ZANZIBAR. See ZAN
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Kenyon
SIR FREDERIC GEORGE, DERIC GEO Museum. H 863 and was cated at Winchester and Oxford. He be- Oxford. ritish Muse of MSS. H from univer " Aristotle's Consti- de: " Aristotle's C tution of Athens"; "Classical Textsens"; "Classical "Hyperides"; "Cats i"; "Brownings fo Bible and the A "Facsimiles of Bi book to Textual Testament."
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Kenyon College
an educational LLEGE, an educa Gambier, O.; found of the P urch; reported a volumes is Ident, Rev. V KENYON, WILLIAM SQUIRE, LLIAM SQU from Iowa, 1869. He was and studiec sity of Iowa. ney for five as district jud ial district. sistant to th United S 1911. He 1918. Se the Li Party and iberal and chairm appointed t 1919 and committee t xpenses in 1
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Kephalonomancy
A method of divination which is practised by making divers signs on the baked head of an ass. was familiar to the Germans and the Lombards substituted for it the head of a goat. The ancients placed lighted carbon on an ass's head, and pronounced the names of those who were suspected of any crime. If a crackling coincided with the utterance of a name, the latter was taken as being that of the guilty person.
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Kephir
a beverage produced by bringing about alcoholic fermentation in milk. Originally made in the Caucasus, Hawke mainly from goat's and sheep's milk. It contains approximately three-quarters -in 1759, of one per cent. alcohol, about one per cent. of lactic acid and two-and-one-half per cent. sugar. Koumiss is a similar beverage, originally made by the Tartars from mare's milk, but is also prepared from cow's milk by adding a small quantity of sugar and yeast to skim milk. It may contain as much as three per cent. alcohol.
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Kephu
a Karen Vampire . (See Vampire.) Kepler, John-1571-1630: A great mathematician and astrologer. He was born at Weil in Würtemburg and educated at a monastic school at Maulbrunn and afterwards at the university of Tübingen, where he studied philosophy, mathematics, theology and astronomy. In 1593 he became professor of mathematics and morals at Gratz in Styria, where he also continued his astrological studies. He had an unhappy home life, and was somewhat persecuted for his doctrines. In 1626 were printed the famous Rodolphine tables, which he had prepared along with Tycho de Brahe, the astronomer. He died at Ratisbon. The laws of the courses of the planets, deduced by Kepler from observations made by Tycho, and known as The Three Laws of Kepler, became the foundation of Newton's discoveries, as well as the whole modern theory of the planets. His services in the cause of astronomy have placed him high amongst the distinguished men of science, and in 1808 a monument was erected to his memory at Ratisbon. His most important work is his Astronomia nova, seu Physica Coelestis tradita Commentariis de Motibus Stellae Martis (1609) which is still regarded as a classic by astronomers.
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