Flag of Northern Territory - Flag of Northern Territory The state flag of the Northern Territory..
History of Northern Ireland - History of Northern Ireland The area now known as Northern Ireland has had a diverse history. From being the bedrock of Irish nationalism in the era of the plantations of Queen Elizabeth and James I in other parts of Ireland, it became itself the source of major planting of Scottish settlers from the Flight of the Earls (when the native governing and military nationalist elite left en masse) onwards. Today, Northern Ireland is a diverse patchwork of community rivalries, represented in Belfast by whole communities flying the tricolour of Irish republicanism or the Union Flag, the symbol of their British identity, while even the kerbstones in less affluent areas are painted green, white and orange or red, white and blue, depending on whether a community is nationalist/republican.
Karposh - "karpa," meaning boulder--Karposh was probably a miner from the region around Kriva Palanka, and then "ajdut" - a bandit. Liberated territory under his control streched through most of northern Macedonia, and he alegedly got the title "King of Kumanovo" by his allies, the Austrians. 2. Hristijan Todorovski - Karposh - Macedonian partisan (communist guerilla fighter during World War II) from Kumanovo. Operated in the part of Macedonia "given" to Bulgarians by their German Nazi allies. Karposh lead Kumanovo Partisan Detachment, which later grew into the batallion "Jordan Nikolov." Won several battles against much more numerous Bulgarian forces (Pelince) and Serbian Chetniks (Dragomance, Drenak). Killed in action on Kozjak mountain February 7, 1944. 3. Karposh I-IV - municipal areas in Skopje, named in honor of (1) and/or (2). There are four Karposh.
Keep River National Park - Keep River National Park Location Northern Territory, Australia Nearest City Darwin Latitude 15° 48' 59" S Longitude 129° 08' 23" E Area 56,889 ha Date of Establishment 1981 Governing Body Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory IUCN category II Keep River National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 418 km southwest of Darwin and 468 km west of Katherine. The nearest town is Kununurra in Western Australia. The park has a number of striking sandstone formations and there is an Aboriginal art site at the end of the walk along the floor of the Keep River Gorge. The park falls within the tribal area of the Mirriwung and Gadjerong people. Like most of the "Top End" parks, access can be restricted due to flooding in the wet.
Kenneth II of Scotland - reign by ravaging the British kingdom, but he lost a large part of his force on the river Cornag. Soon afterwards he attacked Eadulf, earl of the northern half of Northumbria, and ravaged the whole of his territory. He fortified the fords of the Forth as a defence against the Britons and again invaded Northumbria, carrying off the earl's son. About this time he gave the city of Brechin to the church. According to the English chroniclers, Kenneth paid homage to King Edgar for the cession of Lothian, but these statements are probably due to the controversy as to the position of Scotland. The mormaers, or chiefs, of Kenneth were engaged throughout his reign in a contest with Sigurd the Norwegian, earl of Orkney, for the possession of Caithness and the.
Kiribati - Kiribati Since 1892, the Gilbert Islands became a British protectorate together with the Ellice Islands. They became a colony in 1916 and autonomous in 1971. In 1978, the Ellice Islands became independent as Tuvalu, followed by Kiribati in 1979. Following independence, the United States relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island which became part of Kiribati territory. Politics Main article: Politics of Kiribati The parliament of Kiribati, called Maneaba ni Maungatabu is elected every four years, and consists of 36 representatives. The president is both head of state and head of government, and is called Beretitenti. Each of the 21 inhabited islands has a local councils which takes care of the daily affairs. Districts Main article: Districts of Kiribati Kiribati is divided into 6 districts: Banaba Central.
Kingdom of Jerusalem - the nobles had vassals and were themselves vassals to the king. However, agricultural production was regulated by the Muslim equivalent of the feudal system (the iqta), and this system was not interfered with by the Crusaders. Although Muslims (as well as Jews and eastern Christians) were persecuted somewhat in the cities (and were not allowed in Jerusalem at all), in rural areas they continued to live as they had before. The rais, the leader of a community, was a kind of vassal to whatever noble owned his land, but as the Crusader nobles were absentee landlords the rais and their communities had a high degree of autonomy. They grew food for the Crusaders, but owed no military service as vassals would have in Europe; likewise, the Italian city-states owed nothing despite.
Kit Carson - expeditions made Kit Carson famous. He fought against the Mexicans in California in the 1840s, and played a part in the Civil War. When civil war erupted in April of 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for Northern New Mexico and offered to help organize the New Mexico volunteer infantry. Although the territory of New Mexico officially allowed slavery, geography and economics made the institution so impractical that there were only a handful of slaves within its boundaries. The territorial government and the leaders of opinion all threw their support to the Union. Overall command of Union forces in the Department of New Mexico fell to Colonel Edward R. S. Canby of the Regular Army's 19th Infantry, headquartered at Fort Defiance. Carson, with the rank of colonel.
Kirkcudbrightshire - "burns" and "waters" is remarkable, but their length seldom exceeds 7 or 8 miles. Among the longer rivers are the Cree, which rises in Loch Moan and reaches the sea near Creetown after a course of about 30 miles, during which it forms the boundary, at first of Ayrshire and then of Wigtownshire; the Dee or Black Water of Dee (so named from the peat by which it is coloured), which rises in Loch Dee and after a course mainly S.E. and finally S., enters the sea at St Mary’s Isle below Kirkcudbright, its length being nearly 36 miles; the Urr, rising in Loch Urr on the Dumfriesshire border, falls into the sea a few miles south of Dalbeattie 27 miles from its source; the Ken, rising on the confines of.
Kings of Macedon - as Macedonia) formed an ancient kingdom in the present-day territory of northern Greece, inhabited by a semi-Hellenized people who were seen by the Greeks themselves as close kin. It emerged into prominence in the 4th Century BC when King Philip II conquered the Greek city-states. Philip's son, Alexander the Great, conquered the Persian Empire a few few years later. The Kingdom of Macedon itself soon lost direct control of these vast Asian territories, but it retained its hegemony over Greece itself until defeated by the Romans in the Macedonian Wars (215 - 148 BC). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Argead Dynasty 2 Antipatrid Dynasty 3 Antigonid Dynasty Argead Dynasty Karanus Koinos Tyrimmas Perdiccas I Aeropus I Alcetas I Amyntas I Alexander I Perdiccas II Archelaus Craterus (ruled for 4 days) Orestes.
Kiowa - of at the time of the arrival of Europeans. Currently the Kiowa Nation is a registered tribe, with about 6000 members living in southwestern Oklahoma in 1989. The Kiowas originated in the northern basin of the Missouri River, but migrated south to the Black Hills around 1650 and lived there with the Crow. Pushed southward by the invading Cheyennes and Sioux who were being pushed out of their lands in the great lake regions by the Objiwe tribes, the Kiowas moved down the Platte River basin to the Arkansas River area. There they fought with the Comanches, who already occupied the land until around 1790, when they formed an alliance and agreed to share the area. From that time on, the Comanches and Kiowas formed a deep bond; the peoples hunted,.
Kimberleys - Kimberley region (also known as "the Kimberleys") is located in the northern part of Western Australia, and is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy Desert, and on the east by the Northern Territory. It covers an area of about 421,000 square kilometres. The region has only three towns with a population of more than 2,000 (Broome, Derby and Kununurra), and the total population is around 25,000. The Kimberley region was one of the earliest settled parts of Australia, with the first arrivals coming over about 20,000 years ago from the islands of what is now Indonesia. European settlement started around 1885, when cattle were driven across Australia from the Eastern States in search of good.
King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo - of Goguryeo King Gwanggaeto (meaning "broad expander of territory") was born in 374 and ascended to the throne in 391, at the age of just seventeen, to become the 19th king of the Goguryeo Dynasty. He ruled over Goguryeo at the time in Korea's history known as The Three Kingdoms, so called because during this time the Korean peninsula was constantly being fought over by the three Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje dynasties. He is sometimes referred to as Great King Yeongnak, after the era name selected by him. He expanded Goguryeo’s territories far into the Korean peninsula by advancing southward at the expense of the Baekje dynasty to occupy the north of the Han River, and occupied Manchurian territory to the east of Liaohe. On his death in 413, at just.
Koala - ears, and longer limbs, which are equipped with large, sharp claws to assist with climbing. Weight varies from about 14 kg for a large, southern male, to about 5 kg for a small northern female. They are generally silent, but male Koalas have a very loud advertising call (a nasal snort that human children delight in imitating) that can be heard from almost a kilometre away during the breeding season. Koalas are found all along the eastern coast of Australia from near Adelaide to the base of the Cape York Peninsula, and as far into the hinterland as there is enough rainfall to support suitable forest. The Koalas of South Australia were exterminated during the early part of the 20th Century, but the state has since been repopulated with Victorian stock..
Kolobrzeg - and German names probably come from the original Pomeranian or Kashubian name. History 1900 years ago this region was noted as part of Magna Germania. Settlements were found in the 9th century, but earlier traces of settlement in city territory are from 6th century. In early history, Kołobrzeg was major port on Baltic Sea and produced a lot of salt. Kołobrzeg, with the rest of Pomerania was included (or reincluded, as the new archeological finds seem to indicate) into the Polish realm by Mieszko I of Poland in 972. In 1000 emperor Otto III founded a diocese, which he put under the archdiocese Gniezno, (German: Gnesen. The first bishop of Kołobrzeg was Reinbern from Hochseegau. The Diocese and direct link with the Polish kingdom ended when Boleslaw I Chrobry withdrew his.
Krajina - territories in the southeast, fleeing the Turk occupation. Germans and Magyars mostly came as administrative personnel, and there was a number of other settlers and military persons from other parts of Austria-Hungary such as the Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians/Ruthenes and others. During the 1990s, the parts of the Krajina which were found on the territory of the former Yugoslav Republic of Croatia organized into Serb Autonomous Regions and finally the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) in 1991 after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. This political unit lasted until 1995 when Croatian forces in May took its northern areas in western Slavonia Operation Flash, and in August the rest with Operation Storm, displacing most of the Serb population..
Kununurra - Australia located at the eastern side of the Kimberley Region close to the border with the Northern Territory. It is 3247km North of Perth and 834 km from Darwin. The population is 6,100, about half of whom are Aboriginal people. "Kununurra" comes from the Aboriginal language of the region and means "big waters". Lake Argyle, Australia's largest lake, over 100 sq/km in size, is only 72 kilometres from the town. The town is relatively new and was gazetted in the late 1950s, at the time that the Ord River Irrigation scheme was set up. The scheme involved damming the Ord River and building a diversion dam 50km downstream so that the waters can be directed to irrigate about 75 000 hectares of land. By 1966 there were 31 farms on the.
Kushan - region traditionally known as Gandhara (the Pathan areas now shared between Pakistan and Afghanistan) and established a capital near present-day Kabul. They adapted the Greek alphabet, whichthey encountered in Bactria, to suit their own language and soon began minting coinage, the first in India. The rule of Kanishka, the third Kushan emperor, who flourished from the late first to the early/mid-second century A.D., was administered from two capitals: Purushapura (now Peshawar in northern Pakistan) and Mathura in northern India. The rule of the Kushans linked the seagoing trade of the Indian Ocean with the commerce of the Silk Road, through the long-civilized Indus Valley. At the height of the dynasty, Kushan loosely oversaw a territory that extended to the Aral Sea through present-day Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into northern India. The.
January 1 - Disney marries Flora Call 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States 1893 - Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar 1897 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City 1899 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. 1899 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City 1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate 1901 - Establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia (Federation). 1902 - The first Rose Bowl game is played in Pasadena, California 1905 - USS Chicago (1885) relieves New York (ACR-2) as flagship of the Pacific Station 1906 - Robley D. Evans hoists his flag in the battleship Maine (BB-10) 1908 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time 1909 - USS.
James J. Hill - of dedication. Hill was once quoted telling a questioner that the secret to success was 'Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.' Secondly, he was almost maniacally competitive. This 'crusty' man took it almost as a point of personal honor to be the best, the biggest, the most competitive, of any business out there. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, Hill was simply a brilliant man, and a brilliant leader of men. he was able to quickly pick up the nuances of working in any new business; his business strategy was amazing; he was able to convince almost anyone to come to his side. All of these traits had a role in James Hill?s precipitous rise to power- most especially his almost uncanny ability to predict the future of business,.
