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Karlovy Vary spa city, western Czech Republic. The city lies along the Tepla River where it flows into the valley of the Ohre River, 70 miles (113 km) west of Prague. The surrounding highland areas were once subject to volcanic activity, which accounts for the thermal springs in the vicinity. Of more ... Karlskrona town and port, capital of the lan (county) of Blekinge, southern Sweden, on the Baltic coast. Founded by Charles XI in 1680 as a Baltic base, it has been Sweden's chief naval base ever since. Karlskrona was carefully planned as a city that would reflect Sweden's grandeur, and it remains ... Karlsruhe city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies at the northern edge of the Black Forest, northwest of Stuttgart and just a few miles from the Rhine River. It was once the capital of the former Baden state, and it is now the seat of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht). ... Karlstad city and capital of Varmland lan (county), southwest-central Sweden, on the island of Tingvalla and on the northern shore of Lake Vanern, at the mouth of the Klar River. Originally called Tingvalla after the ting, or meetings of the legislature, that were held there, it was renamed in honour of ... Karm Island island, southwestern Norway. It lies in the North Sea just north of the mouth of Bokna Fjord. With its principal axis running north-south, Karm Island is about 19 miles (31 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) across at its widest point and has an area of 68 square miles ... Karm, Dun Malta's national poet, sometimes called "the bard of Malta," or "the Chaucer of Malta." His work has both romantic and classical affinities. His love of nature and his motherland together with his religious sensibility exemplify the former; his fondness for traditional metre (notably in his sonnets, which are considered particularly ... karma in Indian religion and philosophy, the universal causal law by which good or bad actions determine the future modes of an individual's existence. Karma represents the ethical dimension of the process of rebirth (samsara), belief in which is generally shared among the religious traditions of India. Indian soteriologies (theories of ... Karmah archaeological site, northern Sudan. It is located near the town of Karmah al-Nuzul, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Dunqulah (Dongola) on the right bank of the Nile above its Third Cataract. An American expedition from Harvard University carried out extensive archaeological excavations there from 1913 to 1915. Swiss ... Karmal, Babrak Afghan politician who, backed by the Soviet Union, was president of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986. Karman, Tawakkul Yemeni women's rights activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her role in leading a pro-democracy protest movement. She shared the prize with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, who were also recognized for leading nonviolent campaigns for women's rights and democratic freedoms. Karman, Theodore von Hungarian-born American research engineer best known for his pioneering work in the use of mathematics and the basic sciences in aeronautics and astronautics. His laboratory at the California Institute of Technology later became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Karmi'el (Hebrew: "Vineyard of God"), town, northern Israel, in the Valley of Bet Kerem, on the boundary of Upper and Lower Galilee, just off the main east-west highway from 'Akko (Acre) to Zefat (Safed). One of Israel's development towns, Karmi'el is the first Jewish town in an area settled almost entirely ... Karnad, Girish Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose films and plays, written largely in Kannada, explore the present by way of the past. Karnak village located in Qina muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt, which has given its name to the northern half of the ruins of Thebes on the east bank of the Nile River, including the ruins of the Great Temple of Amon. Karnak and other areas of ancient Thebes-including Luxor, the Valley of ... Karnal city, east-central Haryana state, northwestern India. It lies along the west bank of the Yamuna River and is just east of the Western Yamuna Canal. The name is said to be derived from that of Karma, a warrior in the ancient epic poem Mahabharata and the town's legendary founder. Connected ... Karnal, Battle of (Feb. 24, 1739), battle between the forces of Nadir Shah, an Iranian adventurer, and Muhammad Shah, the Mughal emperor of India, at Karnal, 70 miles (110 km) north of Delhi; the Mughals suffered a decisive defeat. Nadir led about 55,000 troops and Muhammad about 15,000, but both sides, especially the ... Karnaphuli River major watercourse of the Chittagong region, Bangladesh. Rising in the Mizo Hills of Mizoram state, northeastern India, it flows about 170 miles (270 km) south and southwest through the southeastern arm of Bangladesh to empty into the Bay of Bengal, 12 miles (19 km) below the city of Chittagong. In ... Karnatak music music of southern India (generally south of the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state) that evolved from ancient Hindu traditions and was relatively unaffected by the Arab and Iranian influences that, since the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as a result of the Islamic conquest of the north, ... Karnataka linguistic region of the Deccan plateau, south-central India, generally corresponding to Karnataka state. Of irregular shape, and defined as the area in which Kannada (Kanarese) is spoken, Karnataka was unified during the Vijayanagar kingdom (c. 1300-1600) until successive conquests by the Muslim kings of the Deccan, the Mughals, and the ... Karnataka state of India, located on the western coast of the subcontinent. It is bounded by the states of Goa and Maharashtra to the north, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the southeast, and Kerala to the south and by the Arabian Sea to the west. The state extends ... Karnataka Coast coastal lowlands in western Karnataka state, southwestern India. Constituting an area of about 4,000 square miles (10,000 square km), it is bounded by Konkan to the north, the Western Ghats to the east, the Kerala Plains to the south, and the Arabian Sea to the west. It stretches from north ... Karnataka Plateau plateau in Karnataka state, southern India. The name of the plateau is derived from Karnad ("Land of Black Soil"). The plateau has an area of about 73,000 square miles (189,000 square km) and an average elevation of about 2,600 feet (800 metres). It consists of the Dharwar system of volcanic ... Karnatic temple architecture style of architecture employed largely in the Karnataka (formerly Mysore) area of southern India. Closely allied to the South Indian style, it developed a distinctive idiom in the mid-12th century under the Hoysala dynasty. Karnten Bundesland (federal state), southern Austria, bordered by Bundeslander Salzburg (north and east) and Steiermark (Styria; north), on the south by Slovenia and Italy, and on the west by East Tirol. Drained by the Drava (Drau), Gail, Moll, Gurk, and Lavant rivers, it occupies an area of 3,681 square miles (9,533 ... Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim Spanish-born Jewish author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Bet Yosef ("House of Joseph"). Its condensation, the Shulhan 'arukh ("The Prepared Table," or "The Well-Laid Table"), is still authoritative for Orthodox Jewry. Karolinska Institute a Swedish institute for medical education and research, founded in 1810. The primary interest of the institute is research; it has achieved international renown for its biomedical research in particular. As a centre of medical education, the Karolinska Institute trains one-third of all the physicians, dentists, and psychotherapists who receive ... Karolyi, Mihaly, Count Hungarian statesman who before World War I desired a reorientation of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy toward friendship with states other than Germany. He also advocated concessions to Hungary's non-Magyar subjects. After the war, as president of the Hungarian Democratic Republic in 1919, Karolyi was nevertheless unable to hold the lands of ... Karonga town, northern Malawi, situated on the western shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in the traditional homeland of the Ngonde people. Karonga became the stronghold of the Swahili-Arab trader Mlozi about 1880. The modern town, however, was founded with the opening of a British trading post there in 1883. Following ... Karoo arid to semiarid geographic region of Eastern Cape, Western Cape, and Northern Cape provinces, South Africa. The Karoo is best defined by its vegetation, which consists of assorted succulents and low scrub bushes spaced from one foot to several feet apart. The area is devoid of surface water, and its ... Karoo System geologic system of rocks outcropping over a 1,560,000-square-kilometre (600,000-square-mile) area of Africa from the Equator south to the Cape of Good Hope. The time span of the Karoo System extends from the Carboniferous and Permian periods (about 359 million to 251 million years ago) to the Late Triassic Epoch (about ... Karp, David American Web developer and entrepreneur who founded the blogging site Tumblr. Karp, Richard Manning American mathematician and computer scientist and winner of the 1985 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for "his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms including the development of efficient algorithms for network flow and other combinatorial optimization problems, the identification of polynomial-time computability with the intuitive ... Karpathos island of the Dodecanese (Modern Greek: Dodekanisa) group in the Aegean Sea, Greece. The principal town of the 116-square-mile (301-square-kilometre) island is Pigadhia in the south behind Pigadhia Bay. Closely tied to the island of Rhodes in antiquity and the Middle Ages, the island was under Venetian rule from 1306 ... Karpinski, Franciszek Polish Enlightenment lyric poet who is best known for his religious and patriotic verses. Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich Russian chess master who dominated world competition from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Karppinen, Pertti Finnish sculler who won gold medals in three consecutive Olympic single sculls events (1976, 1980, 1984). His Olympic success, coupled with world championships in 1979 and 1985, tied him with Peter-Michael Kolbe of Germany as the only five-time single sculls champions. Karre Mountains mountain range, western Central African Republic. The range rises to 4,625 feet (1,410 m) at Mount Ngaoui, the highest point in the country. The granite hills, split by southwest-northeast fractures, extend westward across the border into Cameroon. Their southward and eastward spurs are marked by great round boulders. The mountains ... Karrer, Paul Swiss chemist who investigated the constitution of carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B2, for which he shared the 1937 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Sir Norman Haworth of Great Britain. Kars city, northeastern Turkey. Kars is situated on a plateau 5,740 feet (1,750 metres) above sea level on the Kars River, a tributary of the Aras River, near the border with Armenia. The city, divided into an older upper section and a newer part to the south, stretches out on either ... Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Michel Fokine's avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe. Karsh, Yousuf Turkish-born Canadian photographer known for his portraits of important personages. Karshi city, southern Uzbekistan, in the Karshi oasis, on the Kashka River. At least 1,000 years old, it lay on the caravan route from Samarkand and Bukhara to Afghanistan and India; it was known as Nakhsheb, or Nesef, until the 14th century, when a fort (Turkic karshi, "against") was built there. ... Karsiyaka former town, west-central Turkey. It is located on the north shore of the Gulf of Izmir, and it constitutes a northwestern district of Izmir city. Karsiyaka is a shipbuilding centre with port facilities. The adjoining area is mostly agricultural; manufactures include cotton and woolen textiles, tobacco, canned fruit and vegetables, ... karst terrain usually characterized by barren, rocky ground, caves, sinkholes, underground rivers, and the absence of surface streams and lakes. It results from the excavating effects of underground water on massive soluble limestone. The term originally applied to the Karst, a limestone area on the Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic Sea, ... kart in Finno-Ugric religion, the sacrificial priest of the Mari people of the middle Volga River valley. The term kart was derived from a Tatar word meaning "elder." The kart was either a lifetime representative of a clan or a temporary official chosen by lot to oversee common sacrificial feasts of ... Karter influential high priest of Zoroastrianism, whose aim was to purge Iran of all other religions, especially the eclectic Manichaeism founded by the 3rd-century Persian prophet Mani. What little is known of Karter comes from inscriptions on cliff faces, mostly dating from the reign of Shapur I (241-272). On more than ... karting driving and racing miniature, skeleton-frame, rear-engine automobiles called karts, or GoKarts. The sport originated in the United States in the 1950s after the kart had been devised from unwanted lawn-mower engines. The karts usually have no protective bodywork, and the driver sits only a few inches above the ground. Some ... Kartini, Raden Adjeng Javanese noblewoman whose letters made her an important symbol for the Indonesian independence movement and for Indonesian feminists. Kartvelian languages family of languages including Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz that are spoken south of the chief range of the Caucasus. A brief treatment of Kartvelian languages follows. For full treatment, see Caucasian languages. Karun River river in southwestern Iran, a tributary of the Shatt al-Arab, which it joins at Khorramshahr. It rises in the Bakhtiari Mountains west of Esfahan and follows a tortuous course trending basically southwest. The Karun's total length is 515 miles (829 km), though the direct distance from its source to the ... karuna in Buddhism, the perfect virtue of compassion. See brahmavihara.