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21. Kazan
    Kazan For the Japanese emperor see Emperor Kazan Kazan' (Казань), capital of Tatarstan, Privolzhsky District, is one of Russia's largest cities and a major industrial, commercial and cultural center. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka rivers in central European Russia. The city has a beautiful kremlin as well as an Old City dating back to the 15th century. The Kazan' State University was founded in 1804 and has had prominent students as Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Kazan' was founded in the 14th century AD and it
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22. Links to Luminescence Laboratories
    Short list of internet links maintained by Aberystwyth Luminescence Dating Laboratory.
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23. Katey Sagal
    Children. On the show she portrayed a lower-class, unhappy, sex-craved wife of a shoe salesman. Her career focused almost entirely around this series for its ten year run until 1997 (with the exception of several other television movies.) After the end of Married...with Children, several more television movies folllowed for Sagal, and she was also a featured voice on the children's cartoon Recess. Then in 1999 Matt Groening, who created The Simpsons, cast her as one-eyed alien spaceship pilot Leela in his sci-fi cartoon comedy Futurama The show developed a cult following but was cancelled four years later. No sooner had
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24. Kandy
    the status of capital city from the 4th century BC until the 8th century AD, when it was replaced by Polonnaruwa, which was capital until the 13th century. From 1592 until the 19th century, Kandy was the capital city and thus the home of the Royal Palace and the Temple of the Tooth. Conquered by the Portuguese in the 16th century and by the Dutch in the 17th century, Kandy preserved its independence until it finally submitted to the British in 1815. Since then, Kandy has preserved its function as the religious capital of Sri Lanka and a place of pilgrimage
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25. Kalimpong
    be heard on the streets of Kalimpong, although the majority of its residents are Nepali-speakers. Many Tibetans also escaped to Kalimpong after fleeing the Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet. Other suggested etymologies for the name Kalimpong have included: from "ridge where we play" in Lepcha (cf. Lepcha, My Vanishing Tribe, A.R. Foning, ASIN: 8120706854) from "hillock assembly" in Lepcha (cf. The Unknown and Untold Reality about the Lepchas, K.P. Tamsang) from the fibrous kaulim plant found in abundance in the region from kali bong ("black spur") in the 'language of the local hill people' Several significant monasteries are found within walking
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26. Katherine Heigl
    2003 under the new title of "Critical Assembly". The film premiered on NBC on July 12th almost two years after its original release date. Since the Fall of 2002, Katherine has continued to work prolifically on an amazing variety of projects. "Romy and Michele: Behind The Velvet Rope", Katherine was cast in the role of Romy. It is a prequel to the movie - "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion", which starred Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. Filming wrapped towards the end of 2002 under the new title of "Romy and Michele: In The Beginning". "Love Comes Softly", a telefilm for
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27. 2000 Kazanlak
    Kazanlak Kazanlak is a town in Rose Valley, Bulgaria. With a population of approximately 70,000 people, it is located approximately in the geographical centre of the country. Local industries include: Arsenal Corp., manufactures a range military equipment, including a modern version of the AK-47 M+S Hydraulic, hydraulic components Local landmarks: Thracian Tomb, dating 4th century B.C., a UNESCO protected heritage site
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28. Veghel
    Veghel Veghel is a town in the province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. Since 1994 forming one municipality with the village of Erp. The municipality also comprises the following towns, villages and townships: Boerdonk, Eerde, Keldonk, Mariaheide, Zijtaart. Total population since 2001: 36.387. Tie of friendship with the German city of Goch. History The first settlements are dating back from Roman times and are founded near the river Aa. Since 1310 an official municipality when duke John II of Brabant gave the inhabitants the right for use of common grounds. Rulers of
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29. Khwarezmia
    Transoxiana, and on the northeast with the Huns of Transiaxartesia. Alternative spellings for the name of the capital city Khiva are numerous and include Khorasam, Khoresm, Khwarezm, Khwarizm, Khwarazm and Chorezm. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early history 2 Classical times 3 Middle Ages 4 Reference 5 External Link Early history According to Tolstov, the first inhabitants of the area were Hurrians from the area of Transcaucasian Iberia and he explains the etymology of Chorezm as Hurri-Land. The first two names of rulers we have for the area are Sijavus c.1300BC (?synonymous with Afrasiab c.1100 BC) and Aurvat-Aspa usually placed in
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30. King's Royal Rifle Corps
    King's Royal Rifle Corps The King's Royal Rifle Corps is a British Army formation, dating from 1755 as the 60th Royal American Regiment. They fought their first major battles in Canada at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 against the French. They fought during the American War of Independence, withdrawing to Canada following the surrender. During the Napoleonic Wars the unit
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31. Kings of the Hittites
    Kings of the Hittites The Hittites were an Indo-European people of Anatolia who created an important empire in the 2nd Millennium BCE. All dating is subject to dispute, as is some of the ordering. The list of the Old Kingdom corresponds to O.R. Gurney's The Hittites (1952,1962)), while the list for the Empire corresponds to one of the dating schemes in Amélie Kuhrt's The Ancient Near
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32. King Sweeney
    King Sweeney King Sweeney, also known as "Mad King Sweeney," was a legendary king of Ulster in Ireland whose story is told in Buile Suibhne, an Irish poem mixed with prose which exists in manuscripts dating from 1671 - 1674 but which was almost surely written and circulated in its modern form sometime in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. It is likely, from references in works going back to the tenth century, that some form of
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33. Knaresborough
    England, located four miles east of Harrogate. Mother Shipton was a mediaeval seer who lived in a cave south of the town. Many of her predictions are held by some to have been borne out, but not her prediction that the world would end in 1881. Guy Fawkes once lived in the town, and Richard II was imprisoned there. Sights in the town include remains of Knaresborough Castle, a petrifying well and several cave dwellings, one a chapel, dating from the Middle Ages. Knaresborough is also the site of the oldest chemist shop in England, started in 1720.
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34. Koblenz
    a junction of the Cologne-Mainz railway with the strategical line Metz-Berlin. The Rhine is crossed by a bridge of boats 485 yards long, by an iron bridge built for railway purposes in 1864, and, a mile above the town, by a beautiful bridge of two wide and lofty spans carrying the Berlin railway referred to above. The Mosel is spanned by a Gothic freestone bridge of 14 arches, erected in 1344, and also by a railway bridge. The city, down to 1890, consisted of the Altstadt (old city) and the Neustadt (new city) or Klemenstadt. Of these, the Altstadt is closely
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35. Koryu
    Koryu Koryu (古流) is a Japanese word that translates literally as old school or old tradition. It is used to refer to schools of martial arts that predate the Meiji restoration, a political event that precipitated Japan's modernisation. While arts post dating this event (gendai budo such a judo, iaido or aikido) are valued either as sports or arts for self-improvement, the koryu are the teachings of a feudal military culture.
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36. Kogal
    for wearing platform boots and microskirts, copious amounts of makeup, hair coloring (usually blond), artificial suntans, and designer accessories. They are also Japan's most visible consumers of mobile phone technology. They tend to live for shopping, and frequent upscale boutiques in trendy areas, most notably the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Many kogals support their lifestyle with allowances from wealthy parents. Others appear in underground pornography to finance their habits. Many more engage in the practice of "compensated dating," or enjo kosai, a form of quasi-illegal prostitution that has become heavily associated with kogals (to the point where many Western observers interpret
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37. Krypton
    defined the meter in terms of light emitted from a krypton isotope. This agreement replaced the longstanding standard meter located in Paris which was a metal bar made of a platinum-iridium alloy (the bar was originally estimated to be one ten millionth of a quadrant of the earth's polar circumference). In October 1983 the krypton standard was in turn replaced by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. A meter is now defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458 s. Occurrence The concentration of this gas in earth's atmosphere is about 1 ppm. It can be
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38. Krishna
    Krishna Krishna Deity in Belfast Krishna (Sanskrit: black or all-attractive one) is an important deity in the Hindu religion. In some Hindu traditions he is the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu, and in the others the ninth. The story of Krishna's life on Earth is told in the epic poem Mahabharata, which contains astronomical references dating it to the 15th century BC. His place in Hinduism is complex. He appears under many names, in a multiplicity of stories, among different cultures, and in different traditions. Sometimes these
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39. Kronstadt rebellion
    strikes occurred and in late February a near general strike broke out in Petrograd. On 26 February, in response to these events in Petrograd, the crews of the battleships Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol held an emergency meeting and agreed to send a delegation to the city to investigate and report back on the ongoing strike movement. On their return, two days later, the delegates informed their fellow sailors of the strikes (with which they had full sympathy with) and the government repression directed against them. Those present at this meeting on the Petropavlovsk then 2000 approved a resolution which raised fifteen demands which
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40. Kunming
    the capital of Yunnan province, China. It is located at the northern edge of the massive Lake Dian, in northern Yunnan, and has a population of over four million. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Geography 2 Climate 3 History Geography Kunming is situated atop a 2km plateau in Yunnan Province. It enjoys a protected location with mountains surrounding the city on three sides. Climate History Formerly known as Yunnanfu, Kunming had a rich history dating back some 2000 years. Marco Polo was known to travel to this area in the 13th Century and wrote about his fascination. In the 14th Century,
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