Vespasian - Vespasian Caesar Vespasianus Augustus (November 18, 9 AD - June 23, 79), original name Titus Flavius Vespasianus and best known as Vespasian, was the emperor of Rome from 69 to 79. He was founder of the Flavian dynasty and acceded the throne in the end of the Year of the four emperors. He was born in the Sabine country near Reate. His father Flavius Sabinus was a tax collector and money-lender on a small scale; his mother Vespasia Polla was the sister of a senator. After having served with the army in Thrace and been quaestor in Crete and Cyrene, Vespasian rose to be aedile and praetor, having meanwhile married Flavia Domitilla, the daughter of an equestrian, by whom he had two sons, Titus and Domitian, afterwards emperors, and one.
Kaprun disaster - fire that broke out in the tunnel of the funicular train in Kaprun, Austria on November 11, 2000. In this disaster 155 passengers lost their lives. Nearly one year after the fire the official inquiry determined the cause of the disaster - it was a faulty heater in the train and highly flammable hydraulic brake oil. The train (white) can be seen waiting at the valley station. It enters the tunnel where the fire occurred (entrance just visible as a black dot) after a short open-air section on trestles. The victims were skiers who wanted to reach the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier : 92 Austrians 37 Germans 10 Japanese 8 Americans 4 Slovenians 2 Dutch 1 Briton 1 Czech.
Karl of Austria - and the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV of Hungary) and of the Habsburg Dynasty. He reigned from 1916 until his abdication on November 11, 1918. He sought to reclaim the throne of Hungary in the early 1920s. Karl has generally been seen by historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination triggered off World War I), and of Princess Josepha of Saxony. In 1911 he was married to Princess.
KANU - death in August 1978, Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee. In June 1982, the National Assembly amended the constitution, making Kenya officially a one-party state, and parliamentary elections were held in September 1983. The 1988 elections reinforced the one-party system. However, in December 1991, parliament repealed the one-party section of the constitution. By early 1992, several new parties had formed, and multiparty elections were held in December 1992. President Moi was reelected for another 5-year term. Opposition parties won about 45% of the parliamentary seats, but President Moi's KANU Party obtained the majority of seats. Parliamentary reforms in November 1997 enlarged the democratic space in Kenya, including the expansion of.
Kate Greenaway - Greenaway) ( London, March 17, 1846 - November 6, 1901) was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window (1879), a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller. The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually by the Library Association of Great Britain to an illustrator of children's books. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced. Through the 1880s and 90s, in popularity her only rivals in the field of children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, himself also the eponym of a highly-regarded prize medal. 'Kate Greenaway' children, all of them little girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, according to the conventions of the.
Kalpana Chawla - NASA's Ames Research Center. Kalpana Chawla became a naturalized USA citizen, and married Jean-Pierre Harrison, a freelance flying instructor. Chawla held a certified flight instructor's license with airplane and glider ratings, and has commercial pilot's licenses for single and multiengine land and seaplanes. NASA Career Dr. Chawla entered NASA's astronaut program in 1994 and was selected for flight in 1996. Chawla's first mission to space began on November 19, 1997 as part of the 6 astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia Flight STS-87. Chawla was the first Indian-born woman in space, as well as the first Indian-American in space. (She was the second person from India to fly into space, after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma who went into space in 1984 in a Soviet spacecraft.) On her first mission Chawla.
Karl Schwarz - Karl Schwarz Karl Schwarz (November 19, 1812 - March 25, 1885), was a German Protestant theologian. He was born at Wiek on the Isle of Rügen. His father, Theodor Schwarz, pastor at Wiek, was well known as a preacher, and as the writer of a number of popular works (parables, romances, etc.) under the pseudonym "Theodor Melas". Karl Schwarz studied theology and philosophy at Halle, and afterwards at Bonn (1831) and Berlin (1832-1834). At Berlin he came under the influence of Schleiermacher and Georg Hegel, whose influences are seen in his work Das Wesen der Religion (1847). In 1837 he was imprisoned for six months on account of his advanced political opinions. After his release he helped (from 1838) with the Hallische Jahrbücher. From 1843 to 1845 he lectured at.
Karsten Niebuhr - was visited, but the remaining members of the expedition suffered so much from the climate or from the mode of life that they returned to Mocha. Niebuhr seems to have saved his own life and restored his health by adopting the native habits as to dress and food. From Mocha the ship was taken to Bombay, the artist of the expedition dying on the passage, and the surgeon soon after landing. Niebuhr was now the only surviving member of the expedition. He stayed fourteen months at Bombay, and then returned home by Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz and Persepolis, visited the ruins of Babylon, and thence went to Bagdad, Mosul and Aleppo. After a visit to Cyprus he made a tour through Palestine, crossing the Taurus Mountains to Brussa, reaching Constantinople in February.
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn - Friedrich Eichhorn Karl Friedrich Eichhorn (November 20, 1781 - July 4, 1854), was a German jurist. The son of Johann Gottfried, he was born at Jena. He entered the University of Göttingen in 1797. In 1805 he became professor of law at Frankfurt an der Oder, a post he retained until 1811, when he accepted the equivalent chair at Humboldt University, Berlin. On the call to arms in 1813 he became a captain of horse, and at the end of the war was decorated with the Iron Cross. In 1817 he was offered the chair of law at Göttingen, and, preferring it to the Berlin professorship, taught there with great success till ill-health compelled him to resign in 1828. His successor in the Berlin chair having died in 1832, he returned.
Katherine Harris - been accused of acting in a partisan manner in conducting the Florida election count, but no allegations of misconduct have been proved. Her book, Center of the Storm, gives her version of events. Harris is considering contesting the Republican nomination for the Florida Senate seat being left open in 2004 by the retirement of Democratic Senator Bob Graham. "My husband and I will seriously consider this and give it some thought," she said in November 2003. "Yes, we will. My whole family will.".
Kahoolawe - and still other unexploded ordnance lies beneath the waters offshore. In 1981, the entire island was included on the National Register of Historic Places. The island is slated to be given back to the Hawaiian people. In 1993, Congress passed a law that "recognized the cultural significance of the island, required the Navy to return the island to the State, and directed the Navy to conduct an unexploded ordnance (UXO) cleanup and environmental restoration" [1]. The turnover will officially be made on November 11, 2003, but the cleanup will not be completed by then. Although the U.S. Navy was given $400 million and 10 years to complete the large cleanup task, work has progressed much slower than anticipated. In 1993, the Hawai'i State Legislature established the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve, consisting of.
Karl Rudolf König - Rudolf König Karl Rudolph König (November 26, 1832 - October 2, 1901), was a German physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. He was born in Königsberg (Prussia), and studied at the university of his native town. About 1852 he went to Paris, and became apprentice to the famous violin-maker, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875), and some six years later he started business on his own account. He called himself a "maker of musical instruments," but the instrument for which his name is best known is the tuning fork, his work speedily gained a high reputation among physicists for accuracy and general excellence. From this business König derived his livelihood for the rest of his life. He was, however, very far from being a mere tradesman. Acoustical research was his real interest, and.
Karelia (republic) - then lost again during the first half of the 18th century. In 1923 the province became the Karelian ASSR. From 1940 it was made into the Karelo-Finnish SSR but was changed back to a ASSR in 1956. During the Continuation War in 1941 Finland occupied parts of the area but was forced to withdraw in 1944. The Republic of Karelia was formed on November 13, 1991. Geography Present-day Karelia is situated between Lake Ladoga in the southwest and the White Sea in the northeast. Culture See also: Saami music. The Karelian language is close to Finnish, and has in recent years become considered a dialect of Finnish. Finnish and Russian are the official languages of the republic. Demography Karelia is populated by Karelians (karjalaiset) and Russians. There are about 780,000 inhabitants.
Karl August von Hardenberg - von Hardenberg (May 31, 1750 - November 26, 1822), Prussian statesman, was born at Essenroda in Hanover. Biography After studying at Leipzig and Göttingen he entered the Hanoverian civil service in 1770 as councillor of the board of domains (Katnmerrat); but, finding his advancement slow, he set out--on the advice of King George III--on a course of travels, spending some time at Wetzlar, Regensburg (where he studied the mechanism of the Imperial government), Vienna and Berlin. He also visited France, the Netherlands and England, where he was kindly received by the king. On his return he married, by his father's desire, the countess Reventlow. In 1778 he was raised to the rank of privy councillor and created a count. He now again went to England, in the hope of obtaining the.
Kaysone Phomvihane - Kaysone Phomvihane(December 13,1920-November 21,1992) was leader of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955,though Souphanouvong served in a figurehead role. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic,and then as president until his death in 1992..
Karl Daub - Karl Daub (March 20, 1765 - November 22, 1836), was a German Protestant theologian. He was born at Cassel. He studied philosophy, philology and theology at Marburg in 1786, and eventually (1795) became professor ordinarius of theology at the University of Heidelberg, where he remained until his death. Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to reconcile theology and philosophy, and to bring about a speculative reconstruction of orthodox dogma. In the course of his intellectual development, he came successively under the influence of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich von Schelling and Georg Hegel, and on account of the different phases through which he passed he was called the Talleyrand of German thought. There was one great defect in his speculative theology: he ignored historical criticism. His purpose was,.
Karl Scheurer - Karl Scheurer (September 27, 1872 - November 14, 1929), Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 11, 1919 and died in office on November 14, 1929. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the Department of Defence; Military Department. He was president of Switzerland in 1923. Predecessor: Eduard Müller Successor: Rudolf Minger.
Karl Fritjof Rolvaag - Governor of Minnesota from March 25,1963 to January 2,1967 as a Democrat. The 1962 election was held November 6, 1962, but the results were not known until March 21, 1963 because of a recount. With almost 1.3 million votes cast for governor, Rolvaag won by 91 votes (0.07%) over Elmer Lee Andersen..
Kalle Päätalo - Päätalo Kaarlo (Kalle) Alvar Päätalo (November 11, 1919 - November 20, 2000) was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. Päätalo was born in Taivalkoski, Province of Oulu, into poor circumstances. His father, a lumberjack, suffered from periodical mental disorders, and Kalle had to maintain his family from the age of 14 in his father's profession. At the same time, he dreamed about becoming a writer and read avidly, being much influenced by Jack London's Martin Eden and Mika Waltari's guidebook for aspiring writers. His war service in Winter War and Continuation War was cut short by being wounded. After the wars, he moved to Tampere where he studied at technical school, becoming a building contractor, and wrote short stories that were published in various magazines..
Karadjordje - Turks and founder of House of Karadjordjević. Because of his dark complexion and short themper he was nicknamed 'Black Djordje', in Turkish - Karadjordje. Karadjordje In his youth he was cattle-keeper but he was early showing great battle temper and determination. Even while young he was defending girls from Turkish violence. In 1787 after he killed a Turk he fled to Austria, joined the volunteers and excelled in failed attempt to capture the Kalemegdan fortress in Belgrade. He partook in war between Austria and Turkey (1788-1791). After Peace of Svištovo he stayed in Serbia, settled in Topola and occupied with cattle keeping and trade. When dahias seized rule in Serbia and prepared execution of influenced people, knezes and priests, they decided to kill Karadjordje as well. Informed about Turkish intentions, he.
