Kalamata
a seaport in the Peloponnesus of Greece, on the Gulf of Koron; the seat of an archbishop. esacti or c Its exports are chiefly currants, figs, olive-oil, and soap.
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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 Kalamata, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo College.
Kalamazoo
a city and county-seat of Kalamazoo co., Mich., on the Kala- pose her girdle. Her eyebrows are fourth mazoo river and the Michigan Central, rom each the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and several other railroads; 47 miles S. of Grand Rapids. It is the trade and jobbing center for a large agricultural ion, is the most important celery marregion, ket in the world, has over 250 mercantile houses, and has manufactories representing about 70 distinct industries. The city is the seat of Kalamazoo College (Bapt.), Michigan Female Seminary, ymme yehole (R.C.), the Academy (R. C.), the and Nazareth eth State Insane Asylum, Borgess and Queen City Hospitals, Children's Home, Home and an Industrial for Erring Girls, Home for Feebleseveral National Minded Children, and an Industrial cellent water power School Home. It has several National an assessed propand State banks, excellent water power about $10,000,000円 for its factories, and an assessed prop- (1920) 48,487. erty valuation of about $10,000,000. LEGE, a coeduca Pop. (1910) 39,437; (1920) 48,487. Kalamazoo, Mich.,
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Kalamazoo College
a coeducader the suspices of tional institution in Kalamazoo, Mich., reported at the close founded in 1855 under the auspices of and instructors, 16; the Baptist Church; reported at the close lent, H. L. Stetson, of 1919: Professors and instructors, 16; students, 288; president, H. L. Stetson, genus of Crassul- LL. D. of K. laciniata are tion to wounds and
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Kalanchoe
a genus of Crassulacex. The leaves of K. laciniata are itation and promote valued as an application to wounds and pathulata is poisonangra, in India, the sores; they allay irritation and promote cicatrization. K. spathulata is poisonapplied to abscesse in Brazil gra, in India, the ous to goats. In Kangra, ed as a releaves are burnt . ata is the same as K. brasiliensis is used in Brazil as a reand applied to abscesses frigerant. K. pinnata is the same as division of the North Bryophyllum calycinum.
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Kalapooian
a division of the North occupied the valleys American Indians, embracing numerous er in Oregon, above tribes who formerly occupied the valleys the ravages of disof the Willamette river in Oregon, above ons of the hostile the falls. Owing to the ravages of dismbers have been ease and the incursions of the hostile the remnants, less Klikitats, their numbers have been located on Grande greatly reduced and the remnants, less than 200, are now located on Grande ronic mythology, Ronde reservation, Ore. ewhat similar to
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Kaleda
in Slavonic mythology, feast was celethe god of peace, somewhat similar to the Latin Janus. His feast was celebrated Dec. 24. kle), in Hindu onsort of Siva in
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Kalee
or KALI (kâ'lē), in Hindu . She is repre mythology, the sacti or consort of Siva in cne kolding the form of KALA (q. v.). She is repreant, the third sented with four arms, one holding a Shield. A dead sword, the second a trident, the third a of her ears; club, and the fourth a shield. A dead ther form her body hangs from each of her ears; of alsuratered human skulls strung together form her h other comnecklace; and the hands of slaughtered yebrowe are giants interlaced with each other comthe gore of matted and stained with the gore of monsters which she has just torn to undate pieces and devoured. She is exceedingly selected pleased when her altars are inundated with human blood. The Thugs selected instrinnent her as their tutelary deity. enables us an instrument
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Kalevala
. See Literature ; Epic
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Kalgan
a Chinese town, 110 miles N. W. of Peking, built opposite the passage through ugh the Great Wall; one of the chief emporiums of the Chinese tea trade with Mongolia and Siberia, about 21,500,000 pounds being exported from here annually. Textiles and smoked provisions are imported from Siberia and Russia. Pop. about 80,000.
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Kali
in botany, the saltwort, Salsola kali. Also a name given by the Arabs to a plant, Salsola kali, which grew near the seashore, and from whose ashes they extracted a substance which they called alkali, for making soap. The term kali is used by German chemists to denote caustic potash. KALI. See KALEE.
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Kalinjar
a hill-fortress and hillshrine in the northwestern provinces of India; on an isolated rock (1,230 feet high), the termination of a spur of the Vindhya Mountains, overlooking the plains of Bundelkhand. The records of the pla place go back to a period d of great antiquity, the name Kalinjar occurring in the "Mahabharata" as that of a city even at that time famous. The whole rock is thickly studded with ruins of ancient Hindu edifices and other works, including gateways, temples, tanks, caves, statues, inscriptions, etc., the most celebrated of all being the remains of the superb temple of Nil Kantha Mahadeo.
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Kalisz
the capital of a province (area 4,377 square miles; pop. about 1,4 1,400,000) of the same name in Poland; on the frontier river, the Prosna, 132 miles W. S. W. of Warsaw, with manufactures of cloth. The "Kalisia" of Ptolemy, it is one of the oldest towns in Poland. On Oct. 29, 1706, King Augustus of Poland here routed the Swedes, and on Feb. 13, 1813, the Russians defeated the French and Saxons. Here, too, was signed, Feb. 28, 1813, the treaty of alliance between Prussia and Russia. Pop. about 55,000. It was captured by German troops after a hard fight in 1914.
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Kalium
another name for potassium, whence its symbol K is derived.
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Kaliyuga
in Hindu mythology, the last of the four Hindu periods contained in the great Yuga, and corresponding to the "iron age" of classical mythology; it comprised a period of 432,000 solar-sidereal years.
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Kalki
in Hindu mythology, the 10th avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu. Nine are believed to be past; this one is future, and many Hindus look forward to it as Christians do to the Second Advent of our Lord. About 1845 a sect sprang up in the Nagpore country called Kalankis. They believed the 10th avatar to have come. They soon died away.
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