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ELLEN (KAROLINA SOFIA), ROLINA SOF a Swedish writer on social and ethical social and et subjects; born in 1849 in Smalend. She 49 in Smalend. began writing in 1870 by contributing 1870 by contrib to periodicals on a variety of subjects. variety of sub For several years she was a teacher and the People's Institute at she was a teacher lecturer at People's Institut Stockholm. She lived abroad from 1899 lived abroad from to 1910. She took an active interest in ook an active intere ovement, and her ra the feminist movement, and her radical ideas of love and marriage created much marriage crented discussion and much unwarranted abuse. unwarranted a Her chief works are "The Century of the "The Century c Child" (1909); "Love and Ethics" and Et (1911); "The Younger Generation (1914).
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Key (II)
FRANCIS SCOTT, an American PT, an Ame poet; born in Frederick co., Md., Aug. 9, rederick co., Mc., Av 1780. He was a lawyer by profession and a brother-in-law of Chief Justice Taney. Being detained on one of the British ships during the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Sept. 14, 1814, he composed the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner." He died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 11, 1843. are made of Monroe ELLEN KEY
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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.
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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 ing, an rule throughout their life together. Daited shipyard
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Keynes
JOHN MAYNARD, a British economist. He was born at Cam- Statis bridge in 1883, and was educated at Eton United and Cambridge. He became twelfth District wrangler in 1905, and president of the Cambridge Union Society in the same year. In 1906 he passed second in open competition for Civil Service (Class I.) and was at the India Office in 1906- 1908. In 1907 he became Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He also became connected with the "Economic Jourboth with nal" and has been its editor since 1912. In 1915 he became attached to the Treasthe ury and became acting principal clerk of in 1917. He has been Girdlers' lecturer in economics in the University of Cam- (1820) 18, bridge since 1910, secretary of the Royal Economic Society since 1913, and was member of the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency 1913-1914, He was one of the British financial representatives at Paris in 1918-1919, and his book, "The Economic Consequences of Peace," attained a great vogue. In 1913 he published "Indian Currency and Finance."
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Keystone
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) in masonry, the central voussoir at the vertex of an arch. The row or course of said stones along the crown of an arch is the key-course. In chromo-lithography, the stone on which a general outline of the picture is drawn or photo-lithographed. Its object is to furnish a guide for the production of the work upon the several color stones. Transfers from the keystones in common printing inks, more properly called "offsets" to distinguish them from transfers from which impressions can be printed, are made upon as many stones as there are colors required.
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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 ade is of importance in this section, and as the section, terminal of one of the branches of the the bran Trans-Siberian railroad, a share of this road, a s commerce goes to this town. Pop. about his town. 60,000.
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Khaib
The Egyptian name for the shadow, which at death was supposed to quit the body to continue a separate existence of its own. It was represented under the form of a sunshade. 66
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Khalil Pasha
a Turkish soldier. He commanded the Turkish army that Turkish fought the British under General Townsander Gene hend during the siege of Kut on the Tigris e of Kut o in the Mesopotamian campaigns of 1915. a campaig The British had already progressed beready pro yond Kut, but finding the Turkish forces ng the Tar stronger than was expected they fell expect back on Kut. The city was then invested by the forces under Khalil Pasha, who attacked it repeatedly during a period of 147 days, at the end of which time, on April 29, 1916, the British forces under General Townshend surrendered to the Pasha.
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Khalkas Country
a region in the Chinese empire in the N. part of Mongolia. The surface is mostly mounface is tainous, but there are also vast and ferare niso v tile plains. In the S. it comprises part S. it com of the desert of Gobi. It contains many ol. It con large lakes. It is divided into four divided khanats, governed by native chiefs tribuby native c tary to the Chinese. The inhabitants are The inhe Mongol Tartars.
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Khan
an Asiatic governor; a king, a prince, a chief. Also an inn, a caravansary; of these there are two kinds, one for travelers and pilgrims, where lodging is provided free; the other for trade: the ers, where a small charge is made and a charg toll or duty charged on goods sold therein.
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Khandesh
a district of British India, Bombay presidency, forming the most N. portion of the Deccan tableland, and intersected by the Tapti river. În 1906 it was divided into two districts, West and East Khandesh. Pop. about 960,000.
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Kharkov
the capital of kov) the Russian province of Kharkov, and ace of one of the chief towns of the Ukraine; wns of 465 miles S. by W. of Moscow. It is 7. of Mo the seat of a Greek bishop and of a university. This university was an Was & Nihilist move energetic center of the Nihilist movement, especially previous to the assassis to the lasUSSS in 1881. Po nation of Alexander II. in 1881. Pop. about 250,000. The province situated in rovince situated i Little Russia has an area of 21,041 area of 21,04 about 8,500,000. square miles; pop. about 3,500,000. town in the Easter
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