Kitt's
ST., or SAINT area about 100 square miles; surface, West Indies , belonging to Great Britain; diversified a mountainous ridge extend ing through the center from N. to S., and at Mount Misery (an extinct volcano), rising to an elevation of 3,711 feet. The soil is very fertile, and produces all the tropical fruits. Capital, Basseterre. about 30,000. Discovered by Columbus in 1493. Pop. province Kiangsi, on the S. bank of the from its connection with the green-tea Yang-tse-kiang. It derives importance districts. The port was opened to foreign trade in 1862. Pop. about 50,000.
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Kittatinny Mountains
sometimes called the BLUE MOUNTAINS, an extensive range of mountains in the United States, which can be traced with but slight breaks from Ulster co., N. Y., through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, into Alabama. They are over 800 miles in length, with an elevation of from 800 to 2,500 feet.
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Kiu-Kiang
a seaport of China,
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Kiu-Siu
one of the three principal islands of Japan, separated from Korea by the Strait of Korea, and from Hondo by the Strait of Sikoku. Nagasaki is situated here. River," a river known to the ancients as
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Kiwi-Kiwi
. See Apteryx
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Kizil-Irmak
the Turkish "Red the Halys, the principal river of Asia Minor. Rising in the E. of the peninsula, it flows in a circuitous route for about 500 miles, and enters the Black Sea near Sinope. desert in Russian Turkestan, between the
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Kleenboc
a pigmy antelope found at the Cape of Good Hope. It is about a foot high at the shoulder, with small erect black horns, somewhat approaching at the tips.
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Kleist
HEINRICH VON, a German dramatist; born in Frankfort-onthe-Oder, Oct. 18, 1777. At first he followed the family profession and entered 1799 for literathe army; but left it in ture. His best plays, such as "The Prince of Homburg" and "The Broken Pitcher" possess sufficient vigor and fidelity to life to make them popular even at the present day. The best of his tales is "Michael Kohlhaas," a story of Brandenburg in the Middle Ages. He shot himself, after first shooting a woman whom he loved, and who like him was weary of life, on the bank of Lake Wan near Potsdam, Nov. 21, 1811. His works did not gain recognition till after his death.
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Klephts
properly "robbers," the name formerly given to those Greeks who kept themselves free from the Turkish yoke in the mountains, and carried on a pepetual war against the oppressors of their country.
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Kleptomania
a supposed species of insanity manifesting itself in a desire to pilfer.
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Klinnrath, Henry
A German alchemist and hierophant of the physical side of the Magnum Opus. He was certainly aware of the greater issues of Hermetic theorems and may be regarded as a follower of Paracelsus . He was born in Saxony about the year 1560. Af the age of 28 he graduated in medicine at the University of Basle. He practised in Hamburg and thereafter in Dresden where he died in poverty and obscurity in 1601, at the age of forty-five. The most remarkable of his works, some of which are still in Manuscript, is the Anphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ solius veræ, Christiano Kabbalisticum divino magicum, &c. It is an unfinished work and appeared after his decease with a preface and conclusion by Erasmus Wohlfahrt. It is a purely mystical and magical treatise. The seven steps leading to the goal of universal knowledge are described in a commentary on the Wisdom of Solomon . The work has been described as being the voice of ancient chaos, and its curious folding plates are particularly suggestive.
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Klinschor, or Klingsor
Lord of the Magic Castle wherein are kept Arthur's mother and other queens. He is nephew to Virgilius of Naples and is overcome by Gawain. He is alluded to in the Parsival of Wolfram von Eschenbach.
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Klipspringer
a species of antelope, about equal in size to the chamois, and resembling it in habits, found in the highest mountainous districts of South Africa. It is of a yellowish-gray color, and the hair is long, and stands out from the skin so as to make a rough fur. The flesh of the klipspringer is particularly esteemed; the hair is also valued for stuffing saddles.
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Klopstock
FRIEDRICH GOTT- LIEB (klop'stok,), a German poet; born in Quedlinburg, July 2, 1724. In freeous town but as soon as the rich placer ing German poetry from the exclusive rclusive reign of the Alexandrine verse, he was he was the founder of a new era in German German literature. His great epic "Messiah" epic "Messiah (1748-1773), at first partly written in partly written in prose and changed afterward to hexafterward to bexi meters, made him famous. His most finmous. His most firished work, however, was doubtless his "Odes." Schiller and Goethe were artis- Goethe were arti tically indebted to him. He died in Hamburg, March 14, 1803. 1803.
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Kluck
ALEXANDER VON, a Ger- NDER VON, a Ger man general. Born at Münster in 1846, at Münster in 1844, he enlisted in the Prussian army in time russian army in time to serve in the seven weeks' war against weeks' war against Austria in 1866. In the Franco-Prus- In the Franco-Prussian War he served with great gallantry with great gallantry being twice wounded. He was made a d. He was made a general of infantry in 1906. At the in 1906. At the opening of the World War he was World War be was given command of a group of Army a group of Army Corps composing the extreme right wing extreme right wing of the German Army invading France. my invading Francs. Apparently with irresistible force he rresistible force he and French forces in swept the English lish and French forces in front of him until he was considerably 10 was considerabler S. W. of Paris. The check given the he check given the other German armies on the Marne left on the Marne left von Kluck almost surrounded, a position rounded, a position from which he extricated himself by hard himself by har fighting and superior strategy. When strategy. Wher the French and English attacked him in ttacked him in his intrenched positions on the Aisne they received a severe check. His later career in the Army was relatively unimportant.
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