King’s Peace. 387BC. Sparta, Persia, Athens. Corinthian War.

Kingsley, Charles. 1819-75. English didactic social novelist/clergyman. Alton Locke 1850. Water Babies 1863. Founded Christian Socialism.

Kinsey, Alfred. 1894-1956. US sexologist. Sexual Behaviour 1948,53.

Kipling, Rudyard. 1865-1936. English/Indian writer. Compelling, emotional, poetic. Jungle Book 1894. Kim 1901. Imperialist:- “White Man’s Burden”.

Kircher, Athanasius. 1602-80. German scientist. Disease caused by microbes. Magic Lantern.

Kirchhoff, Gustav. 1824-87. German physicist: spectral analysis 1859. Cesium 1860. Bunsen. Electrical equations 1845.

Kirchner, Ernst. 1880-1938. German erotic Expressionist artist. Die Brücke movement. Street, Berlin 1907.

Kirgizstan. Russian. 1926 Autonomous republic. 1936 USSR. 1991 CIS.

Kiribati. Micronesians, Polynesians. 16C Spanish visit. 1892 British protectorate. 1915 British colony = Gilbert and Ellice Is. 1976 -Ellice Is. 1977 Self-governing. 1979 Independent republic = Kiribati.

Kisfaludy, Károly. 1788-1830. Hungarian national dramatist. Tatars in Hungary 1811.

Kishi Nobusuke. 1896-1987. Japanese Prime Minister 1957-60. Resigned after supporting US-Japan security treaty.

Kissinger, Henry. 1923-. German/US political scientist. US Secretary of State 1973-7. Shuttle Diplomacy.

Kit-Kat Club. 1703-20. London Whig club of Hanover supporters. Met in Christopher Kat’s tavern.

Kitasato, Shibasaburo. 1852-1931. Japanese. Discovered tetanus antitoxin 1890, plague bacillus 1894.

Kitchen Cabinet. A. Jackson’s unofficial advisers.

Kitchen Debate. 1959. Nixon, Khrushchev impromptu debate in model kitchen display.

Kitchener, Horatio, Earl of. 1850-1916. Commander-in-chief Boer War. British Secretary of War, WWI. Symbol of will to victory.

Kléber, Jean. 1753-1800. French general. Suppressed Vendée rebellion.

Klebs, Edwin. 1834-1913. Diphtheria bacillus, 1883.

Klee, Paul. 1879-1940. Swiss abstract artist of original delicate small-scale fantasy. Mocker Mocked 1930.

Kleist, Heinrich von. 1777-1811. German dramatist. Schroffenstein 1803.

Klemperer, Otto. 1885-1973. German conductor of Stravinsky, Mahler, Beethoven.

Klimt, Gustav. 1862-1918. Vienna Sezession allegorical mural painter. Kiss 1908.

Klinger, Friedrich. 1752-1831. German writer. Sturm und Drang 1776 inspires movement.

Klondike. 1896-9. Yukon gold rush.

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