These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Kostroma, Koto, Kotow.
capital of the government of the same name, located near the Volga river about 500 miles E. of Petrograd. The province (pop. about 2,000,000) has an area of over 32,000 square miles more than half of which is covered with forests. Hemp and flax are the chief products. The most notable building in the city is the Cathedral of the Assumption, built in 1272. Pop. about 70,000.
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a musical instrument used by the Japanese. It is about six feet long, and in shape is an oblong box, larger at one end than the other, and with a convex top over which 13 silk strings are strung and fastened tightly at each end.
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the ceremony of prostration, with striking of the forehead on the ground nine times, performed before the Emperor of China.
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a fermented beverage made from mare's milk in the steppes of Russia by the Kirghez, Tartars, Kalmuks, etc. The alcohol is derived from the milk sugar, which is present in mare's milk in larger quantity than in the milk of other animals. This fresh milk is diluted with water, and placed in a sack of goat skin or the skin from the entire hind quarter of a horse, the wider end serving for base and the leg portion for the neck. There is generally added some yeast, the sediment from a previous brewing, to induce fermentation. In from 12 to 24 hours fermentation is complete, the product beoumiss," er nauin added daily, and as ing known as "young koumiss," or sauncentrated by evaporamal. Fresh milk is added daily, and as ace of the the product is concentrated by evaporach stronger tion of water from the surface of the acid liquid hide the old koumiss is much stronger taste and than the new. Koumiss is an acid liquid made of a not unpleasant pungent taste and Cow's an ethereal bouquet. It may be made factories nded by phymilk is used in the American factories from the milk of any animal. Cow's of koumiss. It is recommended by physicians in cases of extreme debility. bordering on Poland
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capital of government of ly to the Baltic, on the Kovno, Lithuania, bordering on Poland N. W. of Vilna. It and reaching nearly to the Baltic, on the new town, and is Niemen, 58 miles N. W. of Vilna. It Industries include consists of an old and new town, and is veries. The town a first-class fortress. Industries include Germans under Genwire factories and breweries. The town 17, 1915, which was captured by the Germans under Genof Suwalki and eral von Eichhorn Aug. 17, 1915, which Pop. about led to the evacuation of Suwalki and the great Russian retreat. Pop. about & Chinese pi- 100,000. 17th century.
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a Chinese pimosa and rate, who flourished in the 17th century. ast. He was He made himself King of Formosa and terrorized the Chinese coast. He was finally killed in a sea fight. luthurse connect- Malay Feninsula,
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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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