Kermes Mineral
amorphous antimony trisulphide, a brown-red powder used in the preparation of artists' colors.
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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kermes Mineral, Kerowlee, Kerr.
Kerowlee
the chief town of the native State of the same name in Rajputana, India, 80 miles S. W. of Agra. It was founded in 1348; is surrounded by a sandstone wall; and contains a beautiful palace and a temple of Krishna which attract many pilgrims.
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Kerr
LORD WALTER TALBOT, a British admiral. He was born in Scotland in 1839 and was educated at Radley College. In 1853 he entered the Navy, served in the Baltic, 1855, was with the Naval Brigade at relief and battle of Lucknow, and received Royal Humane Society medal for saving life. He was promoted captain in 1872; Rear- Admiral 1889; Vice-Admiral 1895; Admiral 1900. In 1885-1890 he was private secretary to the First Lord of Admiralty and 1890-1892 second in command in the Mediterranean; Junior Lord of the Admiralty in 1892; 2nd Lord, 1894-1895; commanded Channel Squadron, 1895- 1897; Senior Naval Lord 1899-1904; Ad- -190 miral of the Fleet, 1904.
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Kertch
a seaport in Russia, on the Strait of Kaffa, or Yenikale, and previous to 1855 the most important port of the Crimea. The town occupies the site of the ancient Panticapæum, the seat of Bosphorian kings and once the residence of Mithridates. It was later occupied by the Byzantine empire, Turks, etc., and was turned over to Russia in 1744. It was sacked by the French and English forces in 1855. It has an excellent harbor, and exports salt and hides. Pop. about 60,000. KESORA kes-ō'rä), the female idol 5'78), the adored in the temple of Juggernaut. Its aple of Jug head and body are of sandalwood, its are of eyes two diamonds, and a third diamond is suspended round its neck; its hands nd its ned are made entirely of small pearls; its bracelets are of pearls and rubies, and pearls an its robe is cloth of gold. of gold. raptorial
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Kestrel
a raptorial bird; above, red spotted with black; beneath, fawn black; b spotted with black; the head and tail of k; the heal the male ashy-blue. Length of both blue. Leng sexes about 12½ inches. It feeds on inches. mice, insects, and occasionally birds, and occasiona is a useful bird to the agriculturist. to the It is a European bird, but migrates in nbird, but and Afric winter to India and Africa. It occurs also in Borneo, China, and Japan. More hina, and than 20 species are known. They reare know semble hawks, but have the toes shorter. at have the
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Ketch
a two-masted vessel of the galliot type, usually from 100 to 250 tons burden. Ketches were formerly of ten used as yachts, also as bomb-vessels.
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Kether
The Kabbalistic name for the number one, and meaning "Reason"-the Crown, the equilibrating power. Also a Hebrew occult name for one of the three essentials of God-Reason.
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Kettle
A vessel of iron or other metal used for the purpose of heating or boiling liquids, or melting metals. The common method of moulding a kettle with the spindle and sweep-board is to first strike a core, answering to the inside, upon a foundation-plate; then strike a sand thickness over it corresponding to the outside, the impression of which is taken in the cope built on a surrounding cope-ring that bears the whole outside structure. After separation, the thickness is removed and moulds finished, when the cope is returned to its place, and, after due preparation, the space is filled with molten metal. The following table shows the weight of spherically shaped kettles when the depth is equal to half the diameter of core, and one inch thick: Inside diameter in inches. 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 78 84 90 96 102 108 114 120 Weight in pounds. 590 791 1022 1281 1570 1889 2237 2614 3021 3457 3923 4418 4492 5496 6079 See SPINDLE; SWEEP-BOARD; FOUNDATION-PLATE; COPERING; THICKNESS; CASING.
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Keuper
the name given in Germany to a series of beds constituting the uppermost of the three series of strata from which the Trias derives its name. In Württemberg it is about 1,000 feet thick. Alberti divides it into limestone, gypsum, and carbonaceous nd slate clay. The Keuper is represented Keuper in England by saliferous and gypseous saliferous shales and marls, and in France by ls, and i Marnes Irisées. The Keuper sandstones, The Keup especially the lower ones, afford good ower ones building stones. They are a pale red, They are yellow or white, and have been largely and have used in the cathedrals of Worcester and edrals of Chester.
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Kew
a village in Surrey, England, on the right bank of the Thames; pop. ok of the about 3,000. Foremost among objects of remost ar interest at Kew are the Royal Botanic Gardens and Arboretum, containing Arboretam magnificent collections of plants and ections of ferns, both native and exotic, and of Eve and e trees and shrubs. Established in 1760 by the mother of George III., and made f George 1 a national institution in 1840, the gar- Ention in 1 dens now extend over 70 acres, and the 1 over 70 arboretum 178 acres. cres.
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Kewanee
a city in Henry co., Ill.; city in P on the Burlington Route railroad; 32 miles N. E. of Galesburg. It is in a rich slesburg. farming region and has a number of imand has a portant manufactories. Pop. (1910) acterics. 9,307; (1920) 16,026. 3,026.
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Keweenaw Bay
an arm of Lake Michigan. Superior, N. of Michigan.
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Keweenaw Point
a peninsula in POINT, a peninsu Northern Michigan, projecting into Lake an, projecting into Superior. It is rich in copper mines. rich in copper mine
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Keweenaw Series
in geology, a SERIES, in geolog group of rocks in the United States and United States Canada, chiefly sandstones, amygdaloids, ones, amygdal conglomerates, conglomerates, and traps, belonging to raps, belongin the Algonkian age; greatest total thickeatest total t ness about 40,000 feet. They contain They cor 00 the famous copper deposits of the Lake its of the Superior region.
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Key
or KI, a group of islands in the of islands in Indian Archipelago, about 50 miles W. bout 50 mile of the Arru İslands and about 70 miles about 70 from the S. W. coast of New Guinea. New Guine
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