Kistna
a river of Southern India, uthern India, rises in the Western Ghats within 40 Ghats withi 40 miles of the Arabian Sea, at a height of Sea, at a height of 4,500 feet, and, flowing E. across the flowing E. across the peninsula, falls into the Bay of Bengal to the Bay of Bengal after a course of 800 miles. The river 800 miles. The river forms for a considerable distance the siderable distance the boundary between the Nizam's dominions the Nizam's dominions and Madras presidency, and has a delta dency, and has a delta extending 100 miles inland. es inland. a society formed in
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Kitchen Cabinet
in American politics, a term of derision applied to certain intimate political friends of President Andrew Jackson. They were: Amos Kendall of Kentucky, political manager and "moving spring of the administration"; Isaac Hill, editor of the New Hampshire Patriot; Mayor William B. Lewis of Nashville, second auditor of the treasury; and General Duff Green, the editor of the administration organ at Washington, the United States Telegraph. These men are reputed to have had greater influence than the members of President Jackson's official cabinet.
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Kitchen Midden
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities 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) a mound of shells, bones, charcoal, and other debris found on the site of ancient dwellings. The word means kitchen refuse. It was applied first by the Danes to enormous deposits of that sort which attracted attention first in Denmark. Kitchen-middens occur usually on the shores of rivers or banks of lakes where savages pitched their tents or other rude habitations for possibly thousands of years. They abound not only in Denmark, but in Scotland, England, France, and in many parts of North America , as about the great lakes and along the Mississippi. The accumulations are often many feet in depth, sometimes, in fact, forming embankments. Archaeologists find stone implements and other rude utensils, hinting at the life of prehistoric people. Very similar deposits are still accumulating in various parts of the world where savage people dwell. The dumping grounds that disfigure river banks everywhere are the kitchen middens of people calling themselves civilized.
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Kitchen Middens
refuse heaps, refuse heaps, or shell mounds-the name given to what me given to what red to be raised were formerly considered to be raised beaches on the coast of Denmark, but of Denmark, but which are now proved to have been deto have been de posited by early man. It was first ob- It was first observed by Steenstrup that, in these supin these supposed beaches, the shells belonged enlonged entirely to full-grown or nearly full-grown full-grown individuals; that they consisted of four species-the oyster, the cockle, the mussel, and the periwinkle-which do not live together. The discovery of flint implements and of bones bearing the marks of knives made it evident that these beds at these were the sites of ancient villages, the population of which lived principally on shell-fish, but partly on the produce of the chase. Kitchen middens are by no ens are by no means limited to Denmark. They exist rk. They exist in England, in Australia, in Tierra del in, in Tierra de y Peninsula, and Fuego, in the Malay Peninsula, and in North and South America. rica. With regard to the time when these the time kitchen middens were formed, Sir John Lubbock dates them from the early part of the Neolithic Stone Age.
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Kitchener
town and county-seat of Waterloo co., Ont., Canada; formerly called Berlin; on the Grand river, and
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Kitchin
CLAUDE, member of Congress from North Carolina, born in Scotland Neck, N. C., in 1869. He graduated from Wake Forest College in 1888 and at once began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1890. He was elected to Congress in 1911 and was successively re-elected to the 64th and 66th Congresses and as such had charge of the chief financial measures passed during the war.
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Kite
a bird of the hawk kind. The kite is supposed to be smaller, less powerful, and less fierce than the hawk. Its talons and bill are indicative of a somewhat subdued disposition. The swallowtailed kite of eastern North America is very attractive in appearance. If the reader should see a graceful hawk sailing over the tree tops with a tail divided into two long pointed, widely spreading divisions, the chances are that it is the swallowtailed kite. The underparts are white. The upper parts are of a glossy, bluish black. It nests in tall trees. It snatches up a fish from the surface of the water without lighting and eats it one the wing. It is seldom seen at rest. A white-tailed kite breeds from Indian Territory southwestward through Mexico and South America . The Mississippi kite breeds from Illinois southward. The everglade kite or snail-hawk summers in southern Florida. All our kites retire southward to tropical America in the winter time. See Hawk
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Kite (Name applied to very active)
a name applied to very active, long-winged, smallfooted Falconidæ, with rather short beaks, never truly notched like those of falcons. They fly strongly and gracefully. The typical genus is Milvus, confined to the Old World, and represented by half a dozen species. Of these the common or red kite, the Anglo-Saxon Gled or Glead, used to be common in Great Britain, but is The bird measures two now very rare. feet in length and is predominantly rufous. It is generally distributed in Europe and round about the Mediterranean shores. Its nest is built on a tree and made up of sticks and rubbish. The eggs (three) are laid in April or May, and have dull-white or pale-blue ground, with spots or blotches of reddish brown. The black kite (M. migrans) has been recorded in Great Britain; the pariah kite (M. govinda) of India is a useful scavenger; M. isurus inhabits Australia. Under the title kite are also included the black-winged kites (Elanus ) of both hemispheres; the beautiful swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus), occurring in the warmer parts of North America; the hook-billed kite ( Rostrhamus) of South America and Florida, feeding, curiously enough, on fresh -water snails; and the large bee -kite or honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus), inhabiting Europe and Africa. a
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