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The Kabyle are a group of Berber peoples of Algeria and Tunisia. They served as Zouave in the colonial French forces. Many Kabyles were notable in the fight for Algerian independence 1954-62. Their language belongs to the Afro- Asiatic family.
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The Kachin are a Tibeto-Burman people inhabiting the mountainous regions in the north-east of Burma.
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A Kadkhoda is the headman of an Iranian village.
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The Kafir are a people inhabiting the Hindu Kush mountains of north-east Afghanistan.
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A Kahuna is a Hawaiian priest, minister or sorcerer.
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Kaiser William II was the 3rd German Emperor. He was born in 1859 and died in 1941. He ascended to the throne in 1888.
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The Kalapalo are an Indian tribe of Brazil. They are fishermen, hunters and farmers, clearing the jungle to grow crops of cassava and maize.
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The Kalmuck are a Mongolian people living on the north-west shores of the Caspian Sea.
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The Kamba are a Bantu-speaking tribe of central Kenya.
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The Kamchadal are a non-Russian people inhabiting the Kamchatka peninsular on the Pacific coast of Siberia.
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The Kamilaroi are an aboriginal people of Australia living between the Gwydir and Lachlan rivers in New South Wales.
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Kanakas were South Sea Islanders shipped to Queensland Australia as slaves for use on the sugar plantations.
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The Kansa (or Kaw) are a North American Indian tribe of the Siouan people, formerly living in Kansas and now Oklahoma.
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The Kanuri are a group of peoples living around Lake Chad in Niger and north- east Nigeria.
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The Kara-Kalpak (Karakalpak) are a Turkic people living in a region south of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan.
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The Karamojong are a Nilotic people living in north-east Uganda.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (formerly Lewis Ferdinand Alcindor Jr) is an American basketball player. He was born in 1947 at New York. As an amateur player he led the University of California basketball team to three national championships. As a professional he holds the record for the number of games played, 1560, and points scored, 38387. He converted to Islam in 1969, taking his present name at the time, and retired from professional basketball in 1989 having played for the Milwauke Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Karel Dujardin was a Dutch artist. He was born in 1640 at Amsterdam and died in 1678. He excelled in painting landscapes, animals, and scenes in low life.
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The Karen are a group of south east Asian peoples, numbering 1.9 million. They live in east Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, and the Irrawaddy delta. Their language belongs to the Thai division of the Sino-Tibetan family.
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Karl Adolf Agardh was a German botanist. He was born in 1785 and died in 1859. He was professor of botany at Lund from 1812 to 1835. He is best known for classifying algae.
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Prince Karl August Von Hardenberg was a Prussian chancellor of state. He was born in 1750 at Essenrode in Hanover and died in 1822. He entered the civil service of his country, but left it for that of Brunswick, and next became Prussian minister of state, and in 1804 first minister of Prussia. His conduct was vacillating, now favouring an alliance with Napoleon and again hostile to him. After the Peace of Tilsit, he was banished from the Prussian court by command of Napoleon, but was recalled to office as chancellor in 1810, and after the French disaster at Moscow was amongst the first to declare that the time had now come for a general effort against Napoleon. Karl August Von Hardenberg signed the Peace of Paris, and was created prince. He was one of the most prominent actors at the Congress of Vienna; became president of the Prussian council of state; was present in 1818 at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle; in 1819 at Carlsbad; in 1820 at Troppau; in 1820-21 at Laibach; and in 1822 at Verona. He abolished feudal privileges in Prussia, and was a munificent patron of the sciences.
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Karl Baedeker was a German publisher. He was born in 1801 at Essen and died in 1859. He started his own publishing business in 1827 at Koblenz and is best known for the guidebooks which bear his name and have been published at Leipzig since 1872.
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Karl Begas was a German historical and portrait painter. He was born in 1794 and died in 1854. He at first followed the German pre-Raphaelites in style, but afterwards treated history and genre in the Dusseldorf romantic school. He was long court painter and professor at Berlin Academy, and painted the portraits of many important people. He achieved great recognition for his treatment of biblical subjects, such as his 'Exposing of Moses'.
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Karl Mickel Bellmann was a Swedish lyric poet. He was born in 1740 and died 1795. His songs, in which love and liquor are common themes, were sung over the whole country, and 'Bellmann' societies held an annual festival in his honour.
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Karl Gustav Bischof was a German chemist and geologist. He was born in 1792 at Nurnberg and died in 1870. He was appointed professor of chemistry at Bonn in 1822. He published in London 1841, Researches on the Internal Heat of the Globe (in English);
but his chief work is the Lehrbuch der Chemischen und Physikalischen Geologic, 1847-54.
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Karl Blind was a German political agitator and writer on history, mythology, and Germanic literature. He was born in 1826 at Mannheim. He was educated at Heidelberg and Bonn, and from his student days until he settled in England in 1852 he was continually engaged in agitating or in heading risings in the cause of German freedom and union. He was frequently imprisoned. The democratic propaganda was since supported by his pen; and he wrote Fire-burial among our Germanic Forefathers; Teutonic Cremation; Yggdrasil, or The Teutonic Tree of Existence, etc.
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Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky was a German Protestant theological writer. He was born in 1690 and died in 1774. His principal works are: Schatz-Kastlein der Kinder Gottes, 1718; Geistliche Gedichte, 1749. The English translation of the former is well known by the title of Bogatzky's Golden Treasury.
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Karl August Bottiger was a German archaeologist. He was born in 1760 and died in 1835. After studying at Leipzig he became director of the gymnasium at Weimar, and it was here that, while he enjoyed the society of Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, and other distinguished men, he began his literary career. In 1814 he was appointed chief inspector of the museum of Antiquities in Dresden, where he continued to reside until the end of his life. Among his most important works are: Sabiua, oder Morgenscenen einer reichen Romerin (Sabina, or Morning Scenes of a Wealthy Roman Lady); Griechische Vasengemalde (Paintings on Greek Vases); Ideen zur Archaeologie der Malerei (Thoughts on the Archaeology of Painting).
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Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist who made improvements to Guglielmo Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy. He was born in 1850 at Fulda, and died in 1918. He and Marconi shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics. Braun also discovered crystal rectifiers (used in early radios), and invented the oscilloscope in 1895. He was educated at Marburg and Berlin. He held academic posts at a number of German universities, ending his career as professor and from 1895 director of the Institute of Physics at Strasbourg. In an attempt to increase the radio transmitter range to more than 15 km, Braun devised a system in which the power from the transmitter was magnetically coupled (using electromagnetic induction) to the antenna circuit. He patented this invention in 1899, and the principle of magnetic coupling has since been applied to all similar transmission systems. Later Braun developed directional antennas. In 1874 Braun discovered that some mineral metal sulphides conduct electricity in one direction only. These were later used in the crystal radio receivers that preceded valve circuits. Braun's oscilloscope was an adaptation of the cathode-ray tube. A laboratory instrument to study high-frequency alternating currents, it was the forerunner of television and radar display tubes.
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Karl Gustav Carus was a German physician and physiologist. He was born in 1789 at Leipzig and died in 1869. He became professor of midwifery at the Medical Academy, and then royal physician, being latterly a privy-councillor. He published a great number of writings covering a wide field of science, including medicine, physiology, anatomy, psychology, physics, painting, besides memoirs of his life.
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Karl Eize was a German writer, distinguished for his studies in English literature. He was born in 1821 at Dessau and died in 1889. He studied in Leipzig and Berlin, was long a teacher in the gymnasium of Dessau, and in 1875 was appointed to the chair of the English language and literature at Halle. Among his writings were valuable biographies of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron (the latter translated into English), and a biographical and critical work on Shakespeare, also translated into English (1888).
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Karl Engel was a German writer on music. He was born in 1818 and died in 1882. He wrote The Music of the Most Ancient Nations; An Introduction to the Study of National Music; Musical Myths and Facts; etc.
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Karl F Rolvaag was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor of Minnesota from 1963 until 1967.
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Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, was a German soldier. He was born in 1735 and died in 1806. He entered upon the government in 1780. He received the chief command of the Austrian and Prussian army against France in 1792, and designed to press forward from Lorraine to Paris, but, after taking Longwy and Verdun, was baffled in Champagne by Charles Dumouriez, defeated at Valmy by Kellerman, and obliged to evacuate the province. In 1793 the duke, in conjunction with the Austrians, opened the campaign on the upper Rhine, took Konigstein and Mentz, and prepared to attack Landau. After a long struggle with varying success the Austrian lines were broken by Pichegru, and the duke was obliged to follow their retreat across the Rhine. At Auerstadt he was mortally wounded in 1806.
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Karl Emil Franzos was a Russian novelist. He was born in 1848 at Podolia and died in 1904. He spent much of his life in Vienna and after 1887 in Berlin.
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Karl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician. He was born in 1777 at Brunswick and died in 1855. He demonstrated that a circle can be divided into 17 equal arcs by elementary geometry.
And in addition to many new theorems, he published a demonstration of the theorem of Fermat concerning triangular numbers. He also calculated, by a new method, the orbit of the planets Ceres and Pallas. In 1807 he became professor of mathematics and director ob the observatory of Gottingen, a position which he held until his death.
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Karl Friedrich Gerhardt was a German chemist. He was born in 1836 and died in 1856. He studied under Liebig at Giessen; went to Paris in 1838, was appointed professor of chemistry at Montpellier, returned to Paris in 1842 to pursue his investigations; in 1855 he went to Strasburg as professor in chemistry and pharmacy. Karl Gerhardt was the author of several works, amongst which the most celebrated was his valuable Traite de Chimie Organique. He was the first to introduce the new combining weights, or rather to subject more completey combination by weight to combination by volume; to originate the theory of types, and to furnish new ideas on classification, homology, and similar subjects. The methods he originated had a great influence on modern chemistry.
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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow was a German writer. He was born in 1811 at Berlin and died in 1878. After studying theology he took to journalism and politics, and became the leading spirit of a small body of reformers known as 'Young Germany.' In 1835 his novel Wally die Zweiflerin appeared. It was at once confiscated by the government as hostile to religion and society, and the author was imprisoned for three months. In spite of government prohibition Karl Gutzkow managed to publish a number of works from Hamburg, where he had settled. Amongst these are: Blasedow und seine Sohne (1838), a satire, and Borne's Leben (1840). He was active, also, in dramatic literature, his tragedies Richard Savage (1840), Patkul (1841), and Uriel Acosta (1847), and his comedies Zopf und Schwert (1844), and Das Urbild des Tartufe (1847), having been very popular. In 1842 he left Hamburg, and after a visit to Paris, described in Briefe aus Paris, settled at Frankfurt until 1847, when he became director of the Dresden theatre. Here he devoted himself to novel-writing, producing the romances Die Ritter vom Geist (1850), Der Zauberer von Rom (1858), and Hohenschwangau (1868).
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Kart Gutzlaff was a German missionary. He was born in 1803 and died in 1851. He went out as a missionary to the Battas in Sumatra in August 1826, but settled instead in Batavia, Singapore, and Siam (Thailand). In 1831 he went to China, acted as British interpreter during the first Chinese war, visited Europe in 1849. He wrote various works about China.
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Karl Wilhelm Humboldt (Baron von Humboldt) was a German philologist, dsplomat and statesman. He was born in 1767 at Potsdam and died in 1835. The brother of Friedrich Humboldt, he studied at Berlin, at Frankfort-on-the-Oder; and at Gottingen. After travelling in France and Spain, and acting as Prussian minister at Rome, he was called to fill the office of minister of the interior in connection with ecclesiastical and educational matters, and had a most important share in the educational progress which Prussia subsequently made.
In 1810 he became minister plenipotentiary to Vienna took an active part in the conclusion of the Peace of Paris (1814), and at the Congress of Vienna (1815), and other great diplomatic transactions. In 1819 he was an active member of the Prussian ministry, but resigned and retired to his estate at Tegel.
His works include poems, literary essays, etc, but by far the most valuable are his philological writings, such as Additions and Corrections to Adelung's Mithridates; Researches Regarding the Original Inhabitants of Spain in Connection with the Basque Language; on the Kawi Language of Java; on the Diversity of Language and its Influence on the Development of Speech; etc.
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Heinrich Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist. He was born in 1818 at the Rhineland and died in 1883. Together with Engels he wrote the manifesto of the communist party in 1847.
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Count Karl Robert Nesselrode was a Russian diplomat. He was born in 1780 and died in 1862. As foreign minister he negotiated the Treaty of Paris after the Crimean War in 1856.
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Karl C Rafn was a Danish archaeologist. He was born in 1795 and died in 1864. He made a careful study of the ancient Norwegian and Icelandic sagas, especially those concerning expeditions to North America. He held that the Scandinavians discovered America in the tenth century, that the coast as far as Massachusetts and Rhode Island had been partially colonized, and that the Vikings reached Florida. His best known work is 'Antiquitates Americanse'.
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Karl Ritter was a German geographer. He was born in 1779 and died in 1859. He studied at Halle and became a private tutor in 1798, and in 1819 succeeded Schlosser as professor of history at the Frankfurt Gymnasium.
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Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz was a German soldier. He was born in 1796 at Eisenach and died in 1877. He saw action first in 1812 in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, then at leipzig in 1813 and at Schleswig in 1848. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 he commanded one of the three German armies, but following Gravelotte was sent home as governor-general of a military district.
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Karl Christoph Tauchnitz was a German publisher. He was born in 1761 near Grimma and died in 1836. In 1796 he began printing books at Leipzig, and achieved renown for his cheap but accurate books of the Greek and Latin classics.
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Karl August Varnhagen von Ense was a German biographer and diarist. He was born in 1785 at at Dusseldorf and died in 1858. He studied medicine and philosophy at Halle and Berlin. At the age of 24 he joined the Austrian army, and was wounded at Wagram. In 1813 he transferred to the Russian army, and in 1814 entered the Prussian diplomatic service, being present at the Congress of Vienna. After leaving the public service Karl Varnhagen von Ense wrote Lives of Goethe, 1824; General von Seydlitz, 1834; and Marshal Keith, 1844 ; besides Biographische Denkmaler, 1824-30;
and Denkwurdigkeiten und Vermischte Schriften (Memoirs and Miscellaneous Writings), 1843-59. Many volumes of his correspondence and literary remains were published, including six volumes of his correspondence with his wife, 1874-75 ; Blatter aus der Preussischen Geschichte (Leaves from Prussian History), 1868-69; and his Tagebucher (Diaries) in 14 volumes, 1861-70. These works throw valuable light on 19th century history.
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Karl Von Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military writer. He was born in 1780 and died in 1831. In 1832 his work Vom Krieg was published which deals with military strategy and greatly influenced subsequent warfare.
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Karl Wilhem von Heydeck (also known as Heidegger) was a Bavarian landscape painter. He was born in 1788 at Saaralben in Lorraine and died in 1861. He entered the military academy at Munich in 1801, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general. He served as a volunteer in the Peninsular campaign, and took an active part in the Greek war of independence. His pictures are numerous, the more important are Tyrolean Wood-cutters, The Lion Gate at Mycenae, The Ascent to the Acropolis, etc.
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Count Karl Von Sturgkh was an Austrian statesman. He was born in 1859 and died in 1916. Born of a Styrian noble family, he entered the Austrian parliament in 1886, coming into prominence during the Korber administration of 1900 to 1904. He was minister of public instruction in the Gautsch cabinet, and on its fall in 1911 he became premier. During the Great War he sided with Germany, and provoked displeasure by refusing to convoke the Reichsrath, ostensibly on account of the hostile attitude of the Czech deputies. He was assassinated in Vienna by Friedrich Adler on October the 21st 1916.
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Karl Ziegler was a German chemist. He was born in 1898 and died in 1973. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with Giulio Natta for their work on plastics and polymers. Ziegler showed that certain compounds (known as Ziegler catalysts) could be used to produce tough polymers with high melting points.
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Karsandas Mulji was an Indian journalist and social reformer. He was born in 1832 and died in 1875. He started the Satya Prakash (Light of Truth), a Gujarati newspaper, in which he advocated female education and the re- marriage of Hindu widows. He was administrator of the native state of Limri.
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The Kashmiri are native to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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The Kassanga are a tribe living between the Rio San Domingo and Rio Casamanca rivers in Angola.
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Katarina Witt is a German figure skater and actress. She was born in Staaken in 1965. She was East German champion skater in 1982 and went on to win six successive European titles from 1983. She was world champion in 1984 to 1985 and again from 1987 to 1988, and Olympic champion in 1984 and 1988.
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Kate Greenaway was an English artist and book-illustrator. She was born in 1846 and died in 1901.
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Katharina von Bora was the wife of Luther. She was born in 1499 and died in 1552. She took the veil early; but feeling unhappy in her situation, applied, with eight other nuns, to Luther. The nuns were released from their convent, and in 1525 Luther married her, having himself by this time laid aside the cowl. After Luther's death she kept boarders for her support.
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Kathleen Bridge was an English hockey player. She was born in 1898 and died in 1973. She played hockey for England as a forward and full-back. Selected at 15 she was the youngest player ever to represent England at women's hockey.
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Kathleen Ferrier was an English contralto. She was born in 1912 at Higher Walton and died in 1953.
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Kathy Acker (Black Tarantula) was an American writer. She was born in 1955 at New York and died in 1997.
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The Kavinrondo are a Nilotic and Bantu-speaking people of the Kavinrondo region of Kenya.
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Kay A Orr was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Nebraska from 1987 until 1991.
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The Kazakh are a pastoral Kyrgyz people of Kazakhstan. Kazakhs also live in China (Xinjiang, Gansu, and Qinghai), Mongolia, and Afghanistan. There are 5- 7 million speakers of Kazakh, a Turkic language belonging to the Altaic family. They are predominantly Sunni Muslim, although pre-Islamic customs have survived.
Kazakhs herd horses and make use of camels; they also keep cattle. Traditionally the Kazakhs lived in tents and embarked on seasonal migrations in search of fresh pastures. Collectivised herds were established in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Kazimierz Pulaski was a Polish soldier and insurgent. He was born in 1748 and died in 1779. He was outlawed for leading the insurgents in Poland, and went to America in 1777. He was placed on George Washington's staff and rendered valuable assistance at Brandywine and Germantown. From 1777 to 1778 he served under General Wayne as a brigadier-general. He was given command of a body of foreigners, deserters and prisoners of war, which became famous as Pulaski's legion. He made a vigorous but unsuccessful attack on the British at Charleston in 1779. He commanded the French and American cavalry in the siege of Savannah and was mortally wounded.
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Kazimir Malevich was a Ukranian painter. He was born in 1878 at Kiev and died in 1935. He studied at Moscow in 1902 and was an early pioneer of pure abstraction.
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Keen Johnson was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Kentucky from 1939 until 1943.
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Keisha Buchanan is an English singer. She was born in 1984 at London. She is best known as a member of the pop group the 'Sugababes'.
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Keith Blakelock was a Metropolitan police constable. He was born in 1945 and died in 1985. PC Keith Blakelock was one of an 11 officer squad sent to assist firefighters harassed by rioters in the Broadwater Farm Riot of October the 6th 1985. The police squad were beaten back, and while retreating PC Keith Blakelock slipped and was immediately surrounded by rioters who beat, chopped and stabbed him to death. Later a known murderer, Winston Silcott, was charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and convicted, only to be released on appeal. Unconfirmed reports allege that Silcott was known and wanted for various serious crimes, including murder, which couldn't be proved and as such was deliberately wrongly convicted of PC Keith Blakelock's murder so as to imprison him for the safety of the community.
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Keith Neville was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Nebraska from 1917 until 1919.
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The Kekchi are an aboriginal people of Guatemala and the surrounding areas, being descendants of the Maya Indians.
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Kekule was a German scientist. He was born in 1829 at Darmstadt and died in 1896. He worked on the structure of carbon compounds.
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Kenneth Livingstone (nicknamed 'Red Ken' for his left-wing politics) is an English politician. He was born in 1945 at London. After working as a laboratory technician, he trained as a teacher, qualifying in 1973, and became active in the Labour party when he was in his early 20's and was elected to Lambeth Borough Council in 1971, and the Greater London Council in 1973 and in 1981 was elected leader of the Greater London Council. The following year, 1982,
Ken Livingstone was voted the second most popular man in Britain - the Pope was voted the most popular - in a poll conducted by the Today newspaper. In 1987 he was elected Labour member of parliament for Brent East, and later elected to Labour's National Executive Committee, though he was later suspended from the 'New' Labour party for opposing its non-traditional policies. He was subsequently elected mayor of London, standing as an independent against the major political parties.
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A kendoka is someone who practises kendo.
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Kenelm was king of Mercia for five months in 819 until he was murdered by his sister Quendreda.
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Si Kenelm Digby was an Englisg courtier and scientist. He was born in 1603 and died in 1665. The eldest son of Sir Everard Digby he studied at Oxford, was knighted in 1623, and on the accession of Charles I was created a gentleman of the bed-chamber, a commissioner of the navy, and a governor of the Trinity House. He soon after fitted out at his own expense a small but successful squadron against the Algerines and Venetians.
In 1636 he became a Roman Catholic, was imprisoned as a Royalist from 1638 to 1643, when he was allowed to retire to the Continent. At the Restoration he returned to England, became a member of the Royal Society, and was much visited by men of Science. He wrote numerous works: a Treatise on the Nature of Bodies, a Treatise on the Nature and Operation of the Soul, Of the Cure of Wounds by the Power of Sympathy, etc. Evelyn calls him 'an arrant mountebank.'
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Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish author. He was born in 1859 and died in 1922. He wrote The Wind In The Willows.
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Kenneth I was King of Scotland from 843 to 860.
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Kenneth II was King of Scotland from 971 to 995.
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Kenneth III was King of Scotland from 997 to 1005.
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Kenneth M Curtis was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Maine from 1967 until 1975.
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The Kenyahs are an aboriginal people of Borneo and Sarawak.
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Keokuk was chief of the Sacs and Foxes tribes of American Indians. He was born in 1780 and died in 1848. He possessed extraordinary courage and powers of oratory. He used his influence to prevent the Black Hawk War in 1832. In 1837 he made a tour through the principal cities in the East and attracted great attention by his eloquent speeches. He always maintained friendship for the whites.
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The Khevsurs are an eastern Georgian tribe of the Grazinian people.
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The Khmer are the largest ethnic group in Cambodia, numbering about 7 million. Khmer minorities also live in east Thailand and south Vietnam. The
Khmer language belongs to the Mon-Khmer family of Austro-Asiatic languages. The Khmers live mainly in agricultural and fishing villages under a chief. They practise Theravada Buddhism and trace descent through both male and female lines. Traditionally, Khmer society was divided into six groups: the royal family, the Brahmans (who officiated at royal festivals), Buddhist monks, officials, commoners, and slaves.
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The Khoikhoi (formerly Hottentot) are a people living in Namibia and the Cape Province of South Africa, and numbering about 30,000. Their language is related to San (spoken by the Kung) and belongs to the Khoisan family. Like the Kung, the Khoikhoi once inhabited a wider area, but were driven into the Kalahari Desert by invading Bantu peoples and Dutch colonists in the 18th century. They live as nomadic hunter-gatherers, in family groups, and have animist beliefs.
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The Kiang Nai (also known as the Hualan Yao) are a people of China.
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The Kickapoos were a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquin family originally of around the Illinois. In 1779 they joined Colonel Clark against the English during the American War of Independence, but soon manifested hostility toward the new government. Peace was not fully made until after Wayne's victory in 1795. They then ceded a part of their lands, as they did also in 1802, 1803 and 1804. They joined Tecumseh and fought at Tippecanoe in 1811. In the War of 1813 they allied themselves with the English, but suffered disastrous defeats. In 1815, 1816 and 1819 they ceded more territory, and in 1822 the majority removed from the Illinois to the Osage. Some became roving bands. In 1854 they were removed to Kansas, and in 1863 a party migrated to Mexico, whence 400 returned to Indian Territory in 1873.
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Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher. He was born in 1813 at Copenhagen and died in 1855.
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Kihachi Okamoto is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born in 1924. After studying at Meiji Universityin Tokyo he joined Tokyo studios in the mid-1940s and worked there in various roles for fifteen years before becoming a director, and noted for his samurai films.
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The Kikuyu are a Bantu-speaking people who make up the largest tribal group in Kenya. They live mainly in the highland area in the south central part of the nation. An agricultural people, the
Kikuyu long resided in separate family homesteads raising their crops of millet, beans, peas, and sweet potatoes. Some groups also raised animals to supplement their diet, but little or no hunting or fishing was carried on. The basic social unit is a patrilineal group of males, who are polygamous, their wives, and their children. In the 1950s the Kikuyu, under the leadership of Jomo Kenyatta, launched a campaign of terrorism against the British colonialists who controlled the country. The resulting warfare was known as the Mau Mau Rebellion. During that time, the Kikuyu were moved by the government into villages, where many have chosen to remain because of the economic advantages of village life.
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Kilian Van Rensselaer was a Dutch businessman and colonist. He was born in 1595 and died in 1644. He was prominent in forming the Dutch West India Company. He sent an agent from Holland to the New Netherlands, who purchased a vast estate comprising the present counties of Albany, Columbia and Rensselaer. He named it Rensselaerswyck and colonized it with emigrants. Under his management through a director the colony became a powerful, almost independent, province.
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Harold 'Kim' Philby was a high-level British diplomat and a senior intelligence officer. He defected to the Russians in 1963.
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Kim Sigler was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Michigan from 1947 until 1948.
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A King is a male sovereign ruler of an independent state.
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King Joseph Oliver was an American musician. He was born in 1885 at Louisiana and died in 1938. A jazz cornet player, bandleader, and composer his work with Louis Armstrong took jazz beyond the confines of early Dixieland.
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King Philip was chief of the Wampanoag Indians. He died in 1676. The son of Massasoit, he succeeded to the chieftainship in 1662. he was for many years friendly to the white settlers, but realised the decline of the Indian races, and was led to hostilities by the encroachment of the colonists which rendered his tribe restless and discontented. In 1675 he inaugurated 'King Philip's War', and enlisted in his service nearly all the New England tribes. Thirteen towns were destroyed, and 600 colonists killed. King Philip was killed at Mount Hope, Rhode Island and his tribe almost annihilated.
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Sir Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. He was born in 1881 at London and died in 1943. After training as a solicitor he entered parliament as Conservative MP for Woolwich West in 1918, was knighted in 1919 and after holding several junior ministerial posts was Postmaster-General from 1931 to 1935, Minister of Health from 1935 to 1938 and Secretary of State for Air from 1938 to 1940, overseeing Britain's Air Force during the start of the Second World War. From 1940 to 1943 he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and introduced the PAYE (pay-as-you-earn) system of income tax.
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Kinsley S Bingham was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Michigan from 1855 until 1858.
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The Kiowa are a North American Indian tribe formerly living in the area of Montana and later in the Black Hills of western South Dakota before moving to the prairies of the Arkansas and Red rivers in the early 19th century. By 1870 they had been forcibly removed from their lands and removed to a reservation in south-western Oklahoma, whereupon their numbers were severely depleted by disease and starvation.
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The Kiowa-Apache are a North American Athabascan Indian tribe that joined the Kiowa around 1800 and integrated with them, remaining a sub-tribe.
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The Kipchack are an Uzbeg tribe.
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Kipchoge Keino was a Kenyan athlete. He was born in 1940. A middle-distance runner he won the gold medal at the Pan-African games in 1965 for the 1500 meters and 5000 meters races and broke the world record for the 3000 meters. In 1966 he won the mile and three mile races at the Commonwealth Games and in 1968 at the Mexico Olympic Games he won gold at the 1500 meters.
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The Kipsigis are a people of western Kenya.
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The Kirghiz are a pastoral people numbering approximately 1.5 million. They inhabit the central Asian region bounded by the Hindu Kush, the Himalayas, and the Tian Shan mountains. The Kirghiz are Sunni Muslims, and their Turkic language belongs to the Altaic family. The Kirghiz live in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China (Xinjiang), and Afghanistan (Wakhan corridor). The highest political authority is traditionally entitled khan. During the winter the Kirghiz live in individual family yurts. In summer they come together in larger settlements of up to 20 yurts. They herd sheep, goats, and yaks, and use Bactrian camels for transporting their possessions.
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The Kit-Kat Club was instituted in 1703 to promote the Protestant succession. It took its name from its dining at the house of Christopher Kat, a pastry-cook, in King-street, Westminster. Among the members were the duke of Marlborough, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
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Kjeld Abell was a Danish writer. He was born in 1901 at Ribe and died in 1961. After graduating in politics he worked in the theatre as a scene painter and costume designer before being recognised as a playwright, having the unusual approach of placing actors among the audience.
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Klamaths was a name given to several Indian tribes living in Oregon and California. The influx of whites into California led to troubles in 1851, but a treaty soon restored peace. In 1864 they ceded large tracts of land and went on a reservation.
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Klaus Barbie (the 'Butcher of Lyons') was a German Gestapo officer. He was born in 1914 and died in 1991. After the Second World War he and his family were provided with new identites and $5000 by the US government, and helped to leave France and went to La Paz in Bolivia where Barbie established himself as a businessman. In 1987, having been tracked down by NAZI hunters he was expelled from Bolivia, returned to France and tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes (the murder and torture of civilians) he committed while he was responsible for the German occupation of the city of Lyons during the Second World War.
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Klaus Fuchs was a German physicist and Soviet spy (working for the NRU and later transferred to the NKGB with the codename 'Rest' which was later changed to 'Charles'). He was born in 1911 and died in 1988. During his studies at Kiel University, Klaus Fuchs joined the Communist party and in 1933 fled the Nazis to Britain. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was interned by the British as a German citizen, to be subsequently released and became a British citizen in 1942. In 1944 he went to the USA to work on the nuclear bomb project ('The Manhattan Project'), returning to Britain at the end of the war and becoming head of the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Station where he worked until his arrest in 1950 as a KGB spy. While at Harwell, he secretly passed on the secret lattice formulae for the stabilisation of plutonium to the British scientists developing nuclear power - something the Americans had refused to do - which he had obtained while at Los Alamos in the USA. This information enabled the British scientists to build their first electricity generating nuclear power stataion. Upon his release in 1959 he returned to Germany (then East Germany) and became an East German citizen.
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Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov was a Russian politician and soldier. He was born in 1881 near Dneppropetrovsk, Ukraine and died in 1969. In 1903 he joined the Bolshevik movement, leading to his exile in Siberia. He returned to Russia and fought in the Great War and the revolution of 1917, and in 1935 was appointed Marshall of the Soviet Union. In 1925 he was appointed Commissar for Defence, a post he held until 1940 when he became commander-inchief of the Russian Northern Army, leading the legendary defence of Leningrad at which he urged the people to 'take up your arms and defend the city at all costs'. Upon the death of Stalin in 1953 he became President of the Soviet Union, apost he held until 1960.
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A knight bachelor is one who has been raised to the dignity of a knight without being made a member of any of the orders of chivalry such as the Garter or the Thistle.
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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Danish arctic explorer. He was born in 1879 at Jakobshavn and died in 1933. He made a number of journeys into the arctic circle to study the lives of the Inuit.
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Knute Nelson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Minnesota from 1893 until 1895.
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The Kolam are a Dravidian people of central India. They speak Kolami.
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The Kolis are an aboriginal people of Gujarat in western India.
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Koloman Tisza was a Hungarian statesman. He was born in 1830, at Nagyvarad and died in 1902. He spent some years abroad after the failure of the revolution of 1848. Returned to the Reichsrat in 1861 for Debreczin, he became the leader of an advanced group of Liberals who demanded the restoration of the Hungarian constitution. In 1875 he became minister of the interior and within a few months succeeded to the premiership, which he held until 1890.
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The Komi are a Finnish people living mainly in the tundra and coniferous forests of the autonomous republic of
Komi in the north west Urals, Russia. They raise livestock, grow timber, and mine coal and oil. Their language, Zyryan, belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family.
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The Konds are a Dravidian people inhabiting Orissa in eastern India.
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Konrad von Gesner was a German scholar, botanist and zoologist. He was born in 1516 at Zurich and died in 1565 of the plague. He studied at Strasburg, Bourgea, and Paris, and became schoolmaster in his native town. Hoping to raise himself from his needy condition he went to Basel, and devoted himself particularly to the study of medicine. Afterwards he became successively professor of Greek at Lausanne, and of philosophy at Zurich. He did important work in the departments of history, zoology, and botany. His Bibliotheca Universalis is a descriptive catalogue of all writers extant in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. His Historia Animalium must be regarded as the foundation of zoology; and in botany he was the inventor of the method of classifying the vegetable kingdom according to the characters of the seeds and flowers.
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Konstantin Dmitriyevich Volkov was a Soviet NKGB spy. While working in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1945 he attempted to defect to the British in exchange for political asylum and the sum of 50,000 pounds. He offered the British information about Soviet spies active in Britain, including two Soviet agents working in the British foreign office (later identified as Burgess and Maclean) and seven 'inside the British intelligence system' including one that he described as 'fulfilling the function of head of a section of British counter-espionage in London' which was probably Kim Philby. Philby, receiving notification of the Volkov case, warned his NKGB employers about Volkov, and he and his wife were kidnapped from Istanbul and flown back to Moscow where Volkov was executed for treason.
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Kristian August Selmer was a Norwegian politician. He was born in 1816 and died in 1889. He was prime minister in 1880, when his defence of the royal veto in legislative matters brought him into conflict with the Radical majority who impeached him in 1883. The king, Oscar II, refused to recognise Selmer's dismissal, however, and in 1884 Selmer resigned voluntarily.
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Kristoffer Jakob Bostrom was a Swedish philosopher. He was born in 1797 and died in 1866. He was remarkable for the magnetism of his personality which held sway over his pupils. After studying at the University of Upsala he became tutor of the royal princes in 1833, a post he held until 1837 when he returned to university. He was made a professor in 1840.
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KT Tunstall (real name Kate Tunstall) is a Scottish musician. She was born in 1975 at Edinburgh.
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The Kuikuro are an Indian tribe of Brazil. They are fishermen, hunters and farmers, clearing the jungle to grow crops of cassava and maize.
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The Kuli are an aboriginal Indian tribe. Their name led to the term Coolie which describes the class of unskilled labour in India and the Far East.
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The Kung (formerly Bushman) are a small group of hunter-gatherer peoples of the north east Kalahari, southern Africa, still living to some extent nomadically. Their language belongs to the Khoisan family.
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The Kurds are the Kurdish culture, living mostly in the Taurus and Sagros mountains of west Iran and north Iraq in the region called Kurdistan. The
Kurdish languages (Kurmanji, Sorani Kurdish, Gurano, and Zaza) are members of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family, and the Kurds are a non-Arab, non-Turkic ethnic group. The Kurds are predominantly Sunni Muslims, although there are some Shiites in Iran. Kurds traditionally owe allegiance to their families, and larger groups are brought together under an agha, or lord. They are predominantly shepherds and farmers, cultivating a wide range of crops and fruit. National dress is still worn in the more mountainous regions and there is a strong tradition of poetry and music. Kurdish professionals are found in many Middle Eastern cities.
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The Kurnai are an aboriginal people of south-east Australia.
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Kurt Eisner was a Bavarian journalist and revolutionary. He was born in 1867 and died in 1919. After the revolution of 1918 be became head of a Communist Government in Bavaria, but was murdered in 1919.
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Kurt Sprengel was a German physician and botanist. He was born in 1766 at Boldekow and died in 1833. He was appointed professor of medicine at Halle in 1789 and later. in 1797, professor of botany.
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The Kurukh (Oraon) are an aboriginal people of the northern Indian subcontinent.
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The Kwango are a people of Zaire.
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The Kxoe (also known as the Water Bushmen) are an aboriginal people of Namibia. The Kxoe live mainly in the west Caprivi region of Namibia where they are hunter-gatherers, fishermen and farmers.
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