Kirby
WILLIAM FOSGATE, United States Senator from Arkansas, born in Miller co., Ark. in 1867. He was educated in the public schools and studied law at Cumberland University. He began the practice in 1885. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1893 and again in 1897. From 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1904 he compiled the laws of the State. He was Attorney-General of Arkansas in 1907-1908 and was defeated for the nomination for Governor in the latter year. From 1910 to 1918 he was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas. After having been defeated in the primary election for Senator in 1914, he was elected in 1916 to fill out the unexpired term of James P. Clarke. He was a Democrat in politics. He was defeated for renomination in 1920.
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Kirghiz
a nomadic Mongol-Tartar race, numbering in its various branches about 3,000,000, and inhabiting the steppes that extend from the lower Volga and the Caspian Sea in the W. to the Altai and Thian-Shan Mountains in the E., and from the Sea of Aral and the Syr Daria in the S. to the Tobol and Irtish on the N. The Kirghiz are a slow, sullen people, small in stature, bad walkers, but born riders. Their food is chiefly mutton and horseflesh, and their drink the nourishing fermented mare's milk called koumiss. They dwell in a yurt or semi-circular tent, the wooden framework of which is covered with cloth or felt. Agriculture is almost unknown; their possessions are in sheep, horses, and camels, and their manufactures consist of cloth, felt, carpets, leather, etc. They profess Mohammedanism. Most of the varied Kirghiz tribes are, at least nominally, under Russian government.
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Kirin
the central province of Manchuria, in area about 115,000 square miles. The western part is mountainous, some of the peaks reaching from 8,000 to 10,000 feet above sea-level. The eastern portion is a very level plain stretching to the sea coast. The mountains abound in tigers, wild-boars and panthers, while the eastern part is a very fertile plain producing millet, maize and barley. Pop. about 2,500,000.
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Kirk
JOHN FOSTER, an American author; born in Frederickton, N. B., March 22, 1824; educated at Halifax, and settled in Boston, U. S. A., 1842. He wrote for "The North American Review"; "The Atlantic Monthly," and other periodicals; removed to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1870, where he was editor of "Lippincott's Magazine" till 1886; and was lecturer on history in the University of Pennsylvania in 1885-1888. He is the author of "History of Charles the Bold"; and editor of the complete works of William H. Prescott, and "Supplement" to "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors." He died in 1904.
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Kirk-Killisseh
a town located in what was formerly European Turkey but now belonging to Bulgaria. About 35 miles northeast of Adrianople. The Bulgarians won a notable victory over the Turks here in October, 1912, but the city was later re-captured by Turkey in July, 1913. The Turks were finally ousted in 1919 by the victory of the En tente allies.
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Kirkdale Cave
in the vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, England, is famous for the numerous remains of Tertiary mammals which have been found in it. It was discovered in 1821.
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Kirkland
JOSEPH, an American author; born in Geneva, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1830; removed to Chicago, III., in 1853; entered the volunteer service at the outbreak of the Civil War, serving as private, lieutenant, and captain of the 12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry; was promoted major in 1863; and served in the Army of the Potomac. After the war he engaged in mining, law practice, and later in literary work. His publications include: "Zury, the Meanest Man in Spring County" (1887); "The Captain of Company K" (1891); with Caroline Kirkland, "The Chicago Massacre of 1812"; and "The Story of Chicago" (1892-1894). He died in Chicago, Ill., April 29, 1894.
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Kirksville
a city of Missouri, the county seat of Adair co. It is on the Wabash and the Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and coal mining region. The chief industry is the manufacture of shoes. There is a court house, a government building, and State normal school. Pop. (1910) a 6,347; (1920) 7,213.
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Kirmoab
a fortified city of Palestine, in the territory of Moab, mentioned in Isaiah xv: 1, was noticed in an act of the Council of Jerus- Comm alem in 536. In 1131, Fulk, Count of Anjou, and Latin king of Jerusalem, erected a castle here, which successfully resisted a siege by Saladin in 1183.
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Kirwanite
a soft, fibrous, green mineral, found in the basalt of Antrim, Ireland. Composition: A hydrated silicate of alumina, protoxide of iron and lime.
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Kish
When rich gray iron in a state of fusion is permitted to cool very slowly, a graphitic substance, resembling plumbago, gradually separates itself from the molten mass. This substance is called kish, and is composed of carbon, sulphur, and manganese in varying proportions. This phenomenon evidences the inability of the metal to hold as much carbon, etc., in solution at a low temperature as at a greater heat. The same metal, if run into moulds at a greater heat, and allowed to solidify rapidly, would retain the most of this carbon either in the graphitic or combined state, or both. See GRAPHITE IN PIG-IRON; CAST IRON. Krupp's Crucibles for Steel.--See CRUCIBLES.
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Kishineff
capital of the former Russian province of Bessarabia, now part of Rumania, on a tributary of the Dneister. It came into the possession of Russia in 1812. Fruit, the vine, and tobacco are grown; and tobacco and flour are manufactured. Kishineff is an important trading center for Bessarabian native products. In 1903 the town was the scene of a massacre of the Jews. Pop. about 130,000.
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Kishon
a river in Palestine. Here Lere Elijah slaughtered the priests of Baal, and Deborah and Barak defeated Sisera. watering-place of ace of
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Kissingen
a Bavaria, Germany, on the Saale, 30 miles N. of Würzburg. The springs, five rings, five in number, and all saline, contain a large in a large quantity of carbonic acid gas, and are and are used both internally and as baths.
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