Each of these 19 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.
the son of Levi and father of the Kohathites, who was appointed to carry the ark and the sacred utensils of the tabernacle during the journeyings of the Israelites in the desert. (Ex. vi: 16- 24; Num. iv: 4-15). KOH-I-NUR. See DIAMOND.
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. See Diamond
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the turnip-stemmed cabbage, a variety of cabbage having a turnip-like protuberance on the stem just above the ground, which is the most edible part of the plant.
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or KUKU-NOR, a lake province of Kan-su, fills a depression surrounded by mountains, and lies, according to Prjevalsky, 12,097 feet above the level of the sea. exquisitely blue in color, cover 66 miles Its very salt waters , by 40. It contains five islands, one with a Buddhist monastery.
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city and county-seat of Howard co., Ind.; on the Wildcat river and at the intersection of several important railroad systems; 54 miles N. of Indianapolis. It is the farming trade center for a region within a radius of nearly 20 miles; is the principal city in the natural gas area of Indiana; and is principally engaged in agriculture, stockraising, lumbering and manufacturing. It has a driven well water system, electric lights and street railroads, National and savings banks, the County Asylum and Orphans ' Home, a public park of about 40 acres, public library, and high 30,067. schools. Pop. (1910) 17,010; (1920) of Tibet, near the frontier of the Chinese
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a genus of Celastraceӕ. K. zeylanica is a tree with a pale-colored bark, found in the West Indies and in seeds, which is used for burning in lamps, Ceylon. An oil is expressed from its etc. the wood of an Indian tree, Lepidostachys
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or COCUS WOOD, Roxburghii , which belongs to a very small natural order, Scepaceæ. It is imported into Great Britain in logs of six or eight inches in diameter, having the heartwood of a rich deep brown color and very hard; and is much used in the manufacture of flutes and other musical instruments. worthy of notice as the extreme N. town
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a place of 649 inhabitants, but of European Russia. It is situated on the peninsula of Kola, is the capital of Russian Lapland, and has a capacious harbor.
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the product of a tree whose habitat is a West African region stretching 500 miles from the coast into Lower Guinea. The tree is from 20 to interior, between Sierra Leone and 30 feet high, has smooth cylindrical branches, and bears a profusion of purplish flowers. The flower yields a large brownish-yellow fruit, which enfolds in the same follicle the red and white seeds that are inaptly called kola nuts. The tree begins to bear in its fourth or fifth year, but attains its greatest fecundity only in its tenth. Kola contains nearly cocoa, and other constituents not posall the constituents of coffee, tea, and sessed by them. It has a larger proporhe w ne he s of th ged at M tion of caffeine than coffee or tea, and more theobromine than cocoa .
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KONSTANTINE, a Russian admiral, chief leader of the anti- Bolshevik elements in Russia. He took a prominent part as admiral in the naval operations around Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War, in 1904, and during the European War he was in command of the Black Sea Fleet. After the Bolshevik Government came into power , he fled to Siberia, where he succeeded in seizing the dictatorship of the All-Rus- ADMIRAL KOLCHAK sian Provisional Government, in 1918, and established headquarters at Omsk. For over a year he waged war against the Soviet Government at Moscow which seemed at one time on the point of success, but late in 1919 his forces began crumbling. He was finally handed over a prisoner to Bolshevik sympathizers by his own troops and executed as a traitor.
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a seaport of Jutland, Denmark. As it was for a time the residence of the Danish kings it possesses the ruins of the castle, their home . It has a good harbor and the trade in timber, hides and provisions is extensive . Pop. about 15,000.
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or KALGUEF (kälgwef), an island of Russia, in the Arctic Ocean , belonging to the province of Archangel; area, 1,350 square miles. It is visited in summer by fur hunters, walrus hunters, and fowlers, who capture eider ducks , swans, and other sea birds that yield down. The only permanent inhabitants are a few Samoyedes.
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the capital of the state of Kolhapur in India, located about 188 miles southeast of Bombay. The state is largely populated by the Mahrattas , the soil is fertile and produces cereals, cotton, and sugar-cane. Population of the State, about 900,000. Population of the town, about 50,000 .
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or KOLLIN, a town of Bohemia, on the Elbe; 38 miles E. by S. of Prague. A great battle was fought, June 18, 1757, in its vicinity between 54,- 000 Austrians under Marshal Daun and 31,000 Prussians under Frederick II. The latter were defeated with a total loss of 14,000 men; the Austrians lost 8,000.
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or Colmar, a city in Alsace. KOLN. See COLOGNE.
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a linguistic stock of North American Indians. They comprise some 10 or 12 tribes , numbering about 6,000, nearly all of whom live in Alaska. a river of
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Eastern Siberia, flowing from the Stanovoi Mountains 995 miles N. E. of the Arctic Ocean. It is only free from ice during 11 weeks in the year . Its waters are full of fish.
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a town and fortress in Hungary, on the island of Schütt , in the Danube. The fortress, one of the strongest in Europe, commenced in the end of the 13th century, was greatly enlarged and strengthened by Matthias Corvinus; and again in 1805-1809. Though taken by Ferdinand I. in 1527, it successfully withstood the Turks in 1543, 1594, and 1663. Klapka held it for the Hungarians against the Austrians from October, 1848, to September, 1849.
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the name given to the strip of coast districts in Bombay presidency, ncy, India, extending from Gujarat on the N., past Goa, as far as the S. limit of North Kanara district; the breadth varies from 1 or 2 to 50 miles, as the Western Ghats approach or recede from the sea; area 16,415 square miles. The Konkan includes North Kanara, the British districts of Ratnagiri, Kolaba, and Thana, Bombay city and island, the native states of Jawhar, Janjira, and Sawantwari, and the Portuguese territory of Goa. The common language is Marathi. KONSTANZ. See CONSTANCE.
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