Kiel Canal
a German canal, extending from Brunsbüttel on the Elbe to Holtenau on the Baltic and connecting the North Sea with the Baltic Sea. About 60 miles in length, and with a depth of 36 feet the largest of war vessels could pass from the North Sea to the Baltic, or vice versa. This fact proved of great importance during the World War, since the inferior German Navy was able to effectively control the Baltic Sea, the English fleet being unable or unwilling to leave its base for the Baltic Sea or to divide its forces. The canal was, of course, prior to 1920, very heavily fortified and owned and operated by the German Government. Sea-going vessels, in going from the Baltic to the North Sea, save nearly 200 miles by using this canal. The treaty of Versailles of 1919 contained important clauses relating to the canal; the most important being that it shall be maintained "free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations on terms of entire equality." Germany is, therefore, unable to grant any preferential tolls to her own vessels, and is forbidden to charge more than sufficient for the operating expenses. Cases in dispute are to be settled by a Joint Commission of Allied and German membership. Thus the canal is really under international control.
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Kielce
a province of Poland, before Russia. It forms the S. W. end of the World War a Polish province of Poland, has an area of nearly 4,000 square miles and is watered by the Vistula and traversed by spurs of the Carpathians. Before the war the pop. was 992,500, of which 11 per cent. was Jewish, the rest being Poles with some interm Russians. The capital, of the same intermixture of Ruthenians, or Little name, is a city of about 32,000 pop., 107 miles south of Warsaw. The province was the scene of much of the fighting on the Eastern Front, between the Germans and Russians, during the war, but was finally assigned to Poland by the Peace Conference, as an integral part of that nation's territory.
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Kielland
or KJELLAND, ALEXANDER LANGE (chel'and), a Norwegian novelist and dramatist; born in Stavanger, in 1849. A strong representative of the realistic school, he was foe to all forms of ecclesiastical a tyranny. His writings have been supposed to show the influence of Balzac and Zola. Notable among his novels are: "Garman and Worse" (1880), his first; "Laboring People" (1881); "Skipper Worse" (1882) and "Else." Of his dramas the best are: "Betty's Formynder" (Betty's Guardian: 1887); "Professoren" (1888). He died April 6, 1906.
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Kieserite
a sulphate of magnesia obtained at Stassfurt and elsewhere, and employed as a source of epsom salt, and in the manufacture of manures. Mixed with quicklime and water it hardens into a mass which, after heating, pulverizing, and again mixing with water, becomes of a marblelike consistency, and may be made into ornamental articles, etc.
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Kikuyu
a district in the British East African Protectorate. Various Christian missionary bodies have worked in this region, which became famous in the Christian world by the protest made by one of the Bishops of the English Church against permitting non-members to take part in the communion service. A conference called by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1914 did not sustain the protest. 4), an acti san.ovaL ce, with a the botto ater's mou all and ro cean, belon V. from the of N. Uinh In Kildare mery here, aidh was church of whose sha (kil-e-mär n mass ween Victo The mass craters, by a broe d with lay about 19,6 mawensi capital of Near to allege of St were held century, 1. it was t any rat as here that ent "Statu went the Ar e Irish-f -and here of Co Cromwell nd in 1650 orms. The any and Iri which wer impoverish small mar Kerry, Ire ver Killary ads on the to visit th es of the elding Beve ite, and b OKES OF ets of wet tuated in nountains abruptig Ly clothed ammit. Be lower and the middle lakes is the fine dle lakes is the fine
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Kilauea
an active volcrater ruin of Muckross Abbey. bbey. cano in Hawaii. It has an oval , ILLDEER, a small
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Kilda
ST., a small and rocky is- There is a black ring round the neck. ng round the neck.. land in the Atlantic Ocean, belonging to W.
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Kildare
a town in Kildare county, . white below, with a white patch saddle white patch above Ireland, 30 miles S. W. of Dublin and the the eye, and sometimes a grayish and mes a grayish saddle Bridget founded a nunnery here, changed mark on the back. Its fierceness Its flerceness and older name Druim Criaidh was voracity constitute it the terror of the packs, and it the terror of the to Cil-dara, the cell or church of the oak, shadow the in small packs, and They hunt in small from an old tree under whose ocean. undant near some of are particularly abundant near some of saint built her cell. grounds. the Pacific sealing grounds. (kil-ē-män-jä'ro),
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Kilimanjaro
kil-e-man-ja-ro', the highest known mountain of Africa. It is situated on the north and south wrinkle or crease in the African continent. It is an extinct volcano, having two enormous craters connected by a bridge of lava. Geographically, the mountain is in German East Africa , about 200 miles from the Indian Ocean . It was ascended in 1889 by an explorer named Meyer. Height, 19,680 feet. Though with 4 deg. of the equator its summit is wrapped in eternal snow.
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Killarney
a market town in the county of Kerry, Ireland. It lies on the route of travel between Cork and England. The famous lakes of Killarney, a series of three connected bodies of water, are in the immediate vicinity. They are surrounded by the mountains of Kerry and are widely celebrated. "The beauty of the scenery consists in the gracefulness of the mountain outlines, the rich and varied coloring of the wooded shores deepening through gray rock and light green arbutus to brown mountain heath and dark firs." The town has a permanent population of about 5,500. Many thousand visitors come every summer to make the tour of the lakes. The ruins of the ancient abbey of Muckross and other antiquities lend added charm to one of the most delightful trips in the United Kingdom .
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