Kola
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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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kola, Kola Nut, Kolchak.
Kola Nut
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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Kolchak
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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Kolding
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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Kolguef
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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Kolhapur
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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Kolin
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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Kolmar
or Colmar, a city in Alsace. KOLN. See COLOGNE.
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Koluschan
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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Kolyma
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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Komorn
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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Konkan
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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Koo
VI-KYUIN WELLINGTON, a Chinese diplomat, born in Shanghai, China, in 1888. He was educated in various schools and colleges in China and at Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1909. After occupying various official positions in China, he was appointed Minister to Mexico in 1915. This was followed by his appointment as Minister to the United States in the same year. He served on many commissions connected with Chinese affairs and received many decorations for his services. He wrote "The Status of Aliens in China" (1912) and edited "Studies in Chinese Treaties" (1914).
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Koodoo
a beautiful antelope, slategray, with transverse white markings. The males with spirally twisted horns, about four feet long; less; height about five feet at the shoulders. Extends from South Africa to everywhere at a comparatively short Abyssinia. OLOKAMBA, an anthropoid ape shot by Du Chaillu in the forests of Western Equatorial Africa. The shoulders the are broad, the ears large, the arms extend mated ad below the knee; the limbs adapt it to go 200,000. on all fours and to climb trees; the waist is as broad and thick as the chest. It feeds on vegetables. MOORIA ISLANDS, KOORIA a group of five islands on the S. E. coast of Arabia, belonging to Great Britain. considerable deposit of There was a guano on the largest island; but it was not of very good quality, and is now exhausted.
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Koons' Spirit Room
A log séance-room erected in Dover, Athens County, Ohio, by a farmer, Jonathan Koons, in 1852. Koons, an early convert to spiritualism, had been told that he and his eight children would develop mediumistic powers, and the spirit-room was intended to be used for manifestations produced by their mediumship. The room was furnished with the appliances incidental to the spiritualistic séance-table for rappings, tambourines, and other musical instruments; phosphorus, by means of which the spirits might show themselves. The phenomena witnessed by the sitters, including Charles Partridge, editor of the Spiritual Telegraph, were of a varied nature, but in the main identical with the other manifestations of the same period. The spirits who visited Koon's log building claimed to be a band-one hundred and sixty-five in number of men who had lived before the time of Adam, and from whom were descended the well-known spirit personalities, John and Katie King.
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