Each of these 14 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.
or KRAO, the isthmus connecting Siam with the Malay Peninsula, been mooted for whose minimum breadth is 44 miles. ip canal through Various projects have been mooted for is which would the construction of a ship canal through Ceylon to Hong this part of the isthmus which would that from Calshorten the journey from Ceylon to Hong 540 miles. Kong by 300 miles, and that from Calcutta to Hong Kong by 540 miles. frican native vilcollection of huts
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a South African native vilde. Sometimes lage or town, usually a collection of huts surrounded by a palisade. Sometimes the term is applied to a single hut.
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a town in Serbia, 15 miles W. of Yagodina. Has arsenal daring the and manufactures ammunition and explosive powder. In 1915 during the ed Austrian invasion the town saw much fighting and was in 1916 occupied by both Austrians and Bulgarians. Pop. about 15,000. KRAIN. See CARNIOLA.
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vola canic island in the Strait of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra; was in 1883 the scene of one of the most tremendous volcanic disturbances on record. The it crater walls fell in, together with a part of the ocean bed, carrying with it twothirds of the island. At the same time a gigantic ocean wave inundated the adjoining coasts of Java and Sumatra causing a loss of 36,500 lives, and the destruction of 300 villages, and then careered round the entire globe. The noise of the eruption was heard for a distance of 2,000 and even 3,000 miles. KRAKOW. See CRACOW.
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a town in Serbia, on River Ibar, about 35 miles N. W. of . It suffered greatly dur- Kraguyevatz ing the Austro-German invasions of 1915 and 1916, being one of the pivotal points army had retired. to which the Serbian Pop. about 4,000.
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(See Magic.) Krata Repoa, or Initiation into the ancient Mysteries of the Priests of Egypt, written by C. F. Koppen and J. W. B. Von Hymmen, and published at Berlin in 1782. The term Krata Repoa, said to be of Egyptian origin, possesses no affinity to that language so far as the present writer is aware. The work is divided into seven grades. That of Postophoris (a word used by Apuleius to signify a priest of Isis) corresponds to the apprentice or keeper of the sacred threshold. Secondly comes the degree of Neokaros, in which are to be found many ordeals and temptations. The third degree is the State of Death-of degree of judgment and of the passage of the Soul. The candidate was restored to light in the following degree, the Battle of the Shadows. In the fifth grade a drama of Vengeance was enacted, and the sixth is that of the astronomer before the gate of the gods. In the final grade the whole scheme of initiation was expounded. It has been thought that these degrees corresponded to the actual procedure of a secret society, and it may be that in some measure they did, as one of their authors was a prominent member of The African Builders (q.v.), but although there would seem to be elements of real tradition in the work, most of it is probably mere invention.
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L., a painter, born in 1472.
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PETER ALEXIE- VICH, PRINCE, a Russian scientist; born in Moscow, Dec. 9, 1842. He was in the Russian army for time. a Charged with anarchist affiliations, he imprisoned two years in Russia, escaped, founded the anarchist was Geneva Révolté," in "La paper, (1879), and after being expelled from Switzerland in 1881, commenced a crusade against the Russian Government in the English and French press. He was imprisoned in France from 1883 to 1886. He lectured in various parts of the world; is the author of "To Young People"; "Words of a Revolutionist"; "In Russian and French Prisons"; "In Search of Bread"; and pamphlets on nihilistic subjects; and his contributions on modern scientific subjects to the leading reviews were numerous and interesting. He died in 1921.
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SIGISMUND (kräsin'skē), a Polish poet; born in Paris in 1812. He wrote the drama "Iridion" (1836); the drama "The Undivine Comedy" (1837-1848); "The Dawn" (1843); and "Psalms of the Future" (1845-1848), collections of lyric poems full of religion and patriotism. He died in Paris in 1859.
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a town in Poland, capital of government of the same name, 28 miles S. W. of Lublin. In the German operations to destroy the Polish salient near in 1915, great battles were fought Krasnik. On July 2 the Germans passed through the town, which was the principal intermediate point on the Russian line. Pop. about 13,000.
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a Russian fortress on the E. shore of the Caspian Sea. It has been the starting point of many imtions to central Asia.
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capital of the province of Yeneseisk, Siberia, located on the Trans-Siberian railway, 2,720 miles from Moscow. Founded in 1628 as a fortified prison settlement, it became in 1920 the center of a Siberian Government set up by the peasants to replace that of the Omsk Government. Pop. about 80,000.
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JÖSEF (kra-shěv'skē), a Polish novelist; born in Warsaw, July 28, 1812. He was the author of over 500 works, consisting, besides valuable historical writings, of romances, novels, critiques, travels, political treatises, ises, epic poems, etc. Of poetry, among his chief works was the epic "Anafielas" (1840-1843), founded on Lithuanian history. "The Devil and the Woman" (1841) was an imaginative drama. But his best work was in his , over 240 in numromances and novels ber. Among them were: "The Poet and the World" (1839); "Ulana", (1841); "The Hut Beyond the Village" (1855); "About to Die" (1871). He died in Geneva, March 19, 1887. Amer-
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JOSEPH, an ican clergyman; born in Ostrov, Prussia, Jan. 21, 1858. He came to the United States in 1872; was graduated at the University of Cincinnati in 1883; made rabbi by Hebrew Union College; and in 1887 became rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia. He became a leader in the reformed Jewish movement, and published "Evolution and Judasim," and many volumes of lectures.
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