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1. Kahoolawe
   Winds. Kaho'olawe was used as a gunfire and aerial bombardment target, and a defense training area by the United States Navy from around 1941 until May 1994. Popular sentiment in Hawai'i against this practice eventually prevailed, and the Navy has been attempting to complete a cleanup of unexploded ordnance from the island. Ordnance remains buried or resting on the island surface. Other items have washed down gullies 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
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2. Verner's law
   Verner's law Verner's law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875, describes a historical sound change in the proto-Germanic language whereby voiceless fricatives *f, *þ, *s and *x, when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing and became respectively *b, *d, *z and *g. When Grimm's law was discovered,
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3. Kepler's laws of planetary motion
   laws of planetary motion Johannes Kepler's primary contribution to astronomy/astrophysics were the three laws of planetary motion. Kepler derived these laws, in part, by studying the observations of Brahe. Isaac Newton would later verify these laws with his laws of motion and universal gravity. The generic term for an orbiting object is "satellite". Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion 2 Kepler's First Law 3 Kepler's Second Law 4 Kepler's Third Law (Harmonic Law) 5 Not Just Applicable to Planets 6 Kepler's Understanding of Said Laws 7 Newton's Form of Kepler's Third Law Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
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4. Kerckhoffs' law
   Kerckhoffs' law In security engineering, Kerckhoffs' law (also called Kerckhoffs' assumption or Kerckhoffs' principle) was stated by Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th Century: A cryptosystem should be designed to be secure if everything is known about it except the key information. It was reformulated (perhaps independently) by Claude Shannon as "the enemy
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5. Khendon's Law
   Khendon's Law An obscure "Internet Law", inspired by Godwin's Law. It refers to conversations on mailing lists, usenet, and other Internet discussion forums. If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over External Links A mention on daemonnews.org A mention in the rules of a mailing
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6. Kirchhoff's Laws
   Although named after Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, they are often also wrongly called Kirchoff's laws. Kirchhoff stated another set of laws, also known as Kirchhoff's laws, relating to radiation from incandescent objects, so to avoid ambiguity the electrical laws described in this article are sometimes known as Kirchhoff's rules. The two rules were first described in 1845. Both rules can be directly derivated from the Maxwell's equations. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Kirchhoff's first law 2 Kirchhoff's second law 3 Read further Kirchhoff's first law This law is also called Kirchhoff's current law, Kirchhoff's point rule and Kirchhoff's first rule. The principle
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7. Klingon law
   Klingon law In the fictional Star Trek universe, Klingon law is that law code which is used in the Klingon Empire. A large proportion of what we know of the Klingon law code comes from the film Star Trek VI, in which an assassination trial is witnessed, and the Deep Spac 2000 e Nine
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8. Kolmogorov's zero-one law
   Kolmogorov's zero-one law In probability theory, Kolmogorov's zero-one law, named in honor of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, treats of probabilities of certain "tail events" defined in terms of infinite sequences of random variables. Suppose is an infinite sequence of independent random variables (not necessarily identically distributed). A tail event is an event whose occurrence or
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9. Japanese copyright law
   Japanese copyright law In Japan, the copyright is divided into two: Author's Right and Neighboring Rights. Notice there is no single concept of copyright in Japan. In other words, the copyright is a collective term. While mostly the copyright law is similar to ones in the other countries, there are some subtle difference.
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10. Katyn Massacre
    criminal acts for which the major war criminals are responsible was the mass execution of Polish prisoners of war shot in the Katyn forest near Smolensk by the German fascist invaders," but dropped the matter after the United States and the United Kingdom refused to support it and German lawyers mounted an embarrassing defense. Katyn is not mentioned in any of the Nuremberg judgements. The question of responsibility remained controversial in the West as well as behind the Iron Curtain. For example, in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, plans for a memorial to the victims bearing the date 1940
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11. Vermont
    zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4 Latitude Longitude 42°44'N to 45°0'43"N 71°28'W to 73°26'W Width Length Elevation   -Highest   -Mean   -Lowest 130 km 260 km   1,339 meters 305 meters 29 meters ISO 3166-2: US-VT Vermont is the 14th state of the United States, famous for its beautiful scenery, dairy products, maple syrup and progressive politics. USS Vermont was named in honor of this state. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Law and Government 3 Geography 4 Economy 5 Demographics 6 Important Cities and Towns 7 Education 7.1 Colleges and Universities 8 Professional Sports Teams 9 Miscellaneous Information 10 External Links
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12. Karl Pearson
    from Professional Bodies 3 Contributions to Statistics 4 Publications 5 Other Useful Sites 6 Further Reading Biography Karl Pearson was born in London on the 27th March 1857. He was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge to study mathematics. He then spent part of 1879 and 1880 studying medieval and 16th-century German literature at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg - in fact, he became sufficiently knowledgeable in this field that he was offered a post in the German department at Cambridge University. His next career move was to Lincoln's Inn, where he
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13. Karl Renner
    Karl Renner Karl Renner (December 14, 1870 - December 31, 1950) was an Austrian politician. He was born in Unter-Tannowitz (Dolní Dunajovice) (Moravia) and died in Vienna. Renner was born as the 18th child of a poor farmer's family but because of his talents he was allowed to go to high school and study law at university. Renner has always been interested in politics and became librarian in parliament and member of the Austrian social democrats party (SPÖ) in 1896. He started to represent the party in the Imperial
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14. Katheryn K. Russell
    at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has a Ph.D from the criminology department of the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, American Bar Association, and the American Society of Criminology, the and the Russell was cited by the Supreme Court of the United States in Harris v. Alabama (1995) in regards to her 1994 article, The Constitutionality of Jury Override in Alabama Death Penalty Cases. Academic Career Russell has taught at the Alabama State University, American University School of Law, the City University of New York Law School, Howard
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15. Kaspar Hauser
    where he fainted. The next thing he remembered was the day he had walked in Nuremberg. This strange boy inspired some Europe-wide interest and he received even more visitors. Some took him to be a con artist who just pretended to be dumb. Others began to connect him with the family of the Grand Duke of Baden, due to some facial resemblance. In this case, his parents would have been Karl Friedrich, Duke of Baden and Stephanie Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepdaughter. Because Karl Friedrich had no progeny, his successor was the Countess von Hochberg who was the alleged culprit. Paul Johann Anselm
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16. Karl Friedrich Eichhorn
    Karl 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
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17. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel This entry is based on an article from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 11, 1829), German poet, critic and scholar, was the younger brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel. He was born at Hanover. He studied law at Göttingen and Leipzig, but ultimately devoted himself entirely to literary studies. He published in 1797 the important book Die Griechen und Römer, which was followed by the suggestive Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen und Römer (1798).
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18. Kavango
    Kavango The Kavango people reside on the Namibian side of the Namibian-Angolan border. They are mainly riverine living people, but about 20% reside in the dry inland. Their livelyhood is based on fishery, livestock-keeping and cropping (mainly perlmillet/mahangu). Politically they are divided into five kingdoms, each headed by a hompa or fumu. Traditional law is still in use and legitimized by the namibian constitution. The Kavango-people are matrilinear. The most common language spoken is RuKwangali (in Kwangali and Mbunza territory); also spoken are Shambyu, Gciriku and Mbukushu in the corresponding territories.
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19. Kamikawa Aya
    Kamikawa Aya Kamikawa Aya （上川あや) is a Tokyo municipal official, the first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003. Ms. Kamikawa, a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election papers with a blank space for "sex." Her birth documents, wherein she is listed as male, cannot be altered under Japanese law. However, she was permitted to run as a woman. This was hailed as a victory for transgendered rights in Japan. Running as an independent, she won her seat, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya municipal assembly,
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20. Kaohsiung Incident
    voices through heavyhanded methods. Th 1000 e protest disintegrated into a brawl as protesters, police and undercover agents collided. The event would be a major turning point for democracy in Taiwan. Soong addressed the public in a speech condemning the protesters, labelling one of the leaders, Shih Ming-teh, "King of Bandits." The incident publicized the oppressive tactics of the KMT regime in ruling Taiwan and the trial of eight leaders of the protest allowed a team of lawyers to publicly question the practices of torture used by the KMT to extract confessions. Most defense attorneys and defendants were members of the Chinese Comparative
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