• Keller, Helen Adams (American author and educator)

    Helen Keller was an American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities. Keller was afflicted at the age of 19 months with an illness (possibly scarlet fever) that left her

  • Keller, Louis (American publisher)

    Social Register: …was founded in 1887 by Louis Keller, a former gossip-sheet publisher; it was priced at $1.75 and contained 3,600 names. Ownership stayed among three families related to Keller until 1976, when control reportedly passed to a business publishing house, the Forbes Corporation. The publication continues to guard its reputation for…

  • Keller, Patricia Joan (American diver)

    Pat McCormick was an American diver who was the first athlete to win gold medals in both the springboard and platform diving events at two Olympic Games. Growing up in Long Beach, California, McCormick established a reputation as a daring athlete, performing dives that few men attempted and that

  • Keller, Robert (American anarchist, political philosopher, trade-union organizer, and educator)

    Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist, political philosopher, trade-union organizer, and educator best known for his organizing activities on behalf of labour unions and his vehement critiques of capitalism, globalization, and humanity’s treatment of the environment. Bookchin was the son of

  • Keller, Rose (French prostitute)

    Marquis de Sade: Heritage and youth: …first public scandal erupted: the Rose Keller affair.

  • Keller, Thomas (American chef and restaurateur)

    Grant Achatz: …1996 Achatz persuaded California chef Thomas Keller to hire him at the French Laundry, then one of the country’s most-acclaimed restaurants. After four years under Keller’s mentorship—along with a short spell at a nearby winery and a trip to Spain to dine at Ferran Adrià’s groundbreaking El Bulli—Achatz in 2001…

  • Kellerman, Annette (Australian athlete)

    physical culture: Women and athletics: …and vaudeville and movie star Annette Kellerman epitomized the physical culture ideal. In 1905 Kellerman swam from Dover to Ramsgate, England, a distance of 20 miles (32 km), in 4 hours and 28 minutes. She also introduced the one-piece bathing suit at a beach near Boston, Massachusetts. Although she was…

  • Kellermann, Bernhard (German writer)

    Bernhard Kellermann was a German journalist and writer best known for his novel Der Tunnel (1913; The Tunnel, 1915), a sensational technical-utopian work about the construction of a tunnel between Europe and North America. Kellermann was a painter before he turned to writing. His early novels,

  • Kellermann, François-Christophe, Duc De Valmy (French general)

    François-Christophe Kellermann, duke de Valmy was a French general whose defeat of a Prussian army at Valmy in September 1792 halted an invasion that threatened the Revolutionary regime in France. Born into a family of the judicial nobility, Kellermann became an officer in the French Army in 1752.

  • Kelley Barnes dam (dam, Toccoa, Georgia, United States)

    Toccoa: In November 1977 the Kelley Barnes earthen dam on the creek burst after torrential rains and flooded the campus, killing 39 persons. Traveler’s Rest State Historic Site is 6 miles (10 km) east, and Tugaloo State Park is about 15 miles (25 km) southeast. Inc. 1875. Pop. (2000) 9,323;…

  • Kelley Park (park, San Jose, California, United States)

    San Jose: The contemporary city: Kelley Park, along Coyote Creek, includes a zoo, a Japanese garden, and an outdoor historic museum of restored and replicated buildings from San Jose’s early years. The 720-acre (290-hectare) Alum Rock Park (1872), on the eastern edge of the city, is California’s oldest municipal park.…

  • Kelley, Abigail (American abolitionist and feminist)

    Abigail Kelley Foster was an American feminist, abolitionist, and lecturer who is remembered as an impassioned speaker for radical reform. Abby Kelley grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was reared a Quaker, attended Quaker schools, and later taught in a Quaker school in Lynn, Massachusetts.

  • Kelley, David E. (American writer and producer)

    David E. Kelley is an American writer and producer who was best known for creating television series set in the legal profession and populated with quirky characters. His notable shows included Ally McBeal (1997–2002), The Practice (1997–2004), and Boston Legal (2004–08). Kelley attended Princeton

  • Kelley, Florence (American social reformer)

    Florence Kelley was an American social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States. Kelley graduated from Cornell University in 1882. After a year spent conducting evening classes for working women in Philadelphia, she

  • Kelley, Florence Molthrop (American social reformer)

    Florence Kelley was an American social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States. Kelley graduated from Cornell University in 1882. After a year spent conducting evening classes for working women in Philadelphia, she

  • Kelley, Oliver Hudson (American agriculturalist)

    Granger movement: …began with a single individual, Oliver Hudson Kelley. Kelley was an employee of the Department of Agriculture in 1866 when he made a tour of the South. Shocked by the ignorance there of sound agricultural practices, Kelley in 1867 began an organization—the Patrons of Husbandry—he hoped would bring farmers together…

  • Kellgren, Johan Henric (Swedish poet)

    Johan Henrik Kellgren was a poet considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment and once called Sweden’s “national good sense.” The son of a rural clergyman, Kellgren became a lecturer in poetry and classical literature. A talented and ambitious young man, he soon found his

  • Kellgren, Johan Henrik (Swedish poet)

    Johan Henrik Kellgren was a poet considered the greatest literary figure of the Swedish Enlightenment and once called Sweden’s “national good sense.” The son of a rural clergyman, Kellgren became a lecturer in poetry and classical literature. A talented and ambitious young man, he soon found his

  • Kelling, George L. (American criminologist)

    police: Community policing: Wilson and the American criminologist George L. Kelling maintained that the incidence as well as the fear of crime is strongly related to the existence of disorderly conditions in neighborhoods. Using the metaphor of a broken window, they argued that a building in a constant state of disrepair conveys the…

  • Kellner, Sandor Laszlo (British film director)

    Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British motion-picture director and producer who made major contributions to the development of Britain’s film industry. Before he was 20 years old he was working as a journalist in Budapest, and in 1914 he started the film periodical Pesti Mozi (“Budapest

  • Kellner, Zoltán (Hungarian-born filmmaker)

    Zoltan Korda was a Hungarian-born film director best known for such war dramas as The Four Feathers (1939) and Sahara (1943). He was the younger brother of Sándor Kellner, who later adopted the name Alexander Korda and became a noted director and producer; early in his career, Zoltan also changed

  • Kello, Esther (Scottish calligrapher)

    Esther Inglis was a Scottish calligrapher born in London to French parents, who produced about 55 miniature manuscript books between 1586 and 1624. Her work was much admired and collected in her lifetime. Esther Inglis was a daughter of Nicholas Langlois and his wife, Marie Presot, French Huguenots

  • Kellogg (Idaho, United States)

    Kellogg, city, Shoshone county, northern Idaho, U.S. It is situated in the Coeur d’Alene mining district of the Bitterroot Range. Established as a prospecting camp in 1893 and originally called Milo, it was renamed (1894) to honour Noah S. Kellogg, discoverer of the Bunker Hill Mine. The community

  • Kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes Company (American company)

    Kellogg’s is a multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan. Founded in the early 1900s by the controversial figure Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, the company is best known for breakfast cereals such as Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Froot Loops, and Frosted Flakes, as

  • Kellogg’s (American company)

    Kellogg’s is a multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan. Founded in the early 1900s by the controversial figure Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, the company is best known for breakfast cereals such as Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Froot Loops, and Frosted Flakes, as

  • Kellogg’s Grove, Battles of (American history)

    Black Hawk War: Raids and retreat: …militiamen were killed in a battle at Kellogg’s Grove, near present-day Kent, Illinois.

  • Kellogg, Brown & Root (American business organization)

    Halliburton: Cheney, KBR, and Deepwater Horizon: Dick Cheney, who served as U.S. secretary of defense in the administration of George H.W. Bush (1989–93), became chairman and chief executive of Halliburton Co. in 1995. He continued the program of expansion by acquisition. His most notable purchase was Dresser…

  • Kellogg, Clara Louise (American singer)

    Clara Louise Kellogg was an American opera singer, the first U.S.-born prima donna and the first American singer to achieve success in Europe. Kellogg began music studies in her mid-teens. She made her New York City debut in 1861 in a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at the New York Academy

  • Kellogg, Eva Louise Phelps (American historian)

    Louise Phelps Kellogg was an American historian who wrote extensively on the American Northwest. Kellogg graduated from Milwaukee Female College (later Milwaukee-Downer College and now part of Lawrence University) in 1882. After several years of teaching in private schools, she entered the

  • Kellogg, Frank B. (American politician)

    Frank B. Kellogg was a U.S. secretary of state (1925–29) whose most important achievement was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929. Kellogg studied law and was

  • Kellogg, Frank Billings (American politician)

    Frank B. Kellogg was a U.S. secretary of state (1925–29) whose most important achievement was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, a multilateral agreement designed to prohibit war as an instrument of national policy. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929. Kellogg studied law and was

  • Kellogg, John Harvey (American physician and nutritionist)

    John Harvey Kellogg was an American physician and health-food pioneer whose development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry. Kellogg received an M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in 1875. A Seventh-day Adventist

  • Kellogg, Louise Phelps (American historian)

    Louise Phelps Kellogg was an American historian who wrote extensively on the American Northwest. Kellogg graduated from Milwaukee Female College (later Milwaukee-Downer College and now part of Lawrence University) in 1882. After several years of teaching in private schools, she entered the

  • Kellogg, Paula (American reformer)

    Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was an American feminist and social reformer, active in the early struggle for woman suffrage and the founder of an early periodical in support of that cause. Paulina Kellogg grew up from 1820, when her parents died, in the home of a strict and religious aunt in LeRoy,

  • Kellogg, W K (American industrialist)

    W. K. Kellogg was an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States. Kellogg established the firm after working with his brother John Harvey

  • Kellogg, Will Keith (American industrialist)

    W. K. Kellogg was an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States. Kellogg established the firm after working with his brother John Harvey

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact (France-United States [1928])

    Kellogg-Briand Pact, (August 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I. Hoping to tie the United States into a system of protective alliances directed against a

  • Kells (Ireland)

    Ceanannus Mór, market town and urban district of County Meath, Ireland, on the River Blackwater. The town was originally a royal residence. In the 6th century it was granted to St. Columba and became a centre of learning. A bishopric was founded there about 807 and was united to that of Meath in

  • Kells, Book of (illuminated manuscript)

    Book of Kells, illuminated gospel book (MS. A.I. 6; Trinity College Library, Dublin) that is a masterpiece of the ornate Hiberno-Saxon style. It is probable that the illumination was begun in the late 8th century at the Irish monastery on the Scottish island of Iona and that after a Viking raid the

  • Kells, Council of (Roman Catholic history)

    St. Malachy: …his life—was realized at the Council of Kells in Meath in 1152. He was canonized as a saint in 1190 by Pope Clement III, making him the first Irish-born person to be officially canonized. (The process of canonization had not been formalized in the Roman Catholic Church until the 10th…

  • Kellwasser Event (paleontology)

    Devonian Period: Extinction events: …goniatites, corals, and brachiopods; the Kellwasser Event saw the extinction of the beloceratid and manticoceratid goniatite groups, many conodont species, most colonial corals, several groups of trilobites, and the atrypid and pentamerid brachiopods at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary; and the Hangenberg Event saw the extinction of phacopid trilobites, several groups of…

  • kelly (drill pipe)

    petroleum production: The drill pipe: …eight-sided) cross section called the kelly. The kelly passes through a similarly shaped hole in the turntable. At the bottom end of the drill pipe are extra-heavy sections called drill collars, which serve to concentrate the weight on the rotating bit. In order to help maintain a vertical well bore,…

  • Kelly Air Base (air base, San Antonio, Texas, United States)

    San Antonio: The contemporary city: The region’s first air base, Kelly (established 1917), was closed in 2001, and its site was redeveloped for business use.

  • Kelly’s Heroes (film by Hutton [1970])

    Don Rickles: …included the madcap war adventure Kelly’s Heroes (1970), Martin Scorsese’s mob drama Casino (1995), and the Toy Story series of animated films (1995, 1999, and 2010), in which he voiced the character of Mr. Potato Head; archival sound of Rickles’s voice was used for Toy Story 4, which was released…

  • Kelly’s Point (New Zealand)

    Invercargill, city, Southland regional council, South Island, New Zealand. Invercargill lies in the southernmost part of the South Island along the Waihopai River, near its confluence with the New River estuary. A service centre for the region’s agricultural industries, the city is situated on a

  • Kelly, Betty (American singer)

    Martha and the Vandellas: Later members included Betty Kelly (b. September 16, 1944, Attalla, Alabama), Lois Reeves (b. April 12, 1948, Detroit), and Sandra Tilley (b. May 6, 1946—d. September 9, 1981).

  • Kelly, Charles (British actor)

    Ellen Terry: …Watts and married an actor, Charles Kelly, mainly to give her children a “name.” They soon separated, and Kelly died in 1885.

  • Kelly, Edward (English alchemist)

    alchemy: Modern alchemy: In 1595 Edward Kelley, an English alchemist and companion of the famous astrologer, alchemist, and mathematician John Dee, lost his life in an attempt to escape after imprisonment by Rudolf II, and in 1603 the elector of Saxony, Christian II, imprisoned and tortured the Scotsman Alexander Seton,…

  • Kelly, Edward (Australian bandit)

    Ned Kelly was the most famous of the bushrangers, Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century. In 1877 Kelly shot and injured a policeman who was trying to arrest his brother, Dan Kelly, for horse theft. The brothers fled to the bush, where two other men joined them to form the Kelly gang. The

  • Kelly, Edward J. (American politician)

    Chicago: No little plans: The new mayor, Edward J. Kelly, gladly accepted federal relief funds that employed thousands on projects that completed the Outer Drive Bridge, built the State Street subway, and constructed hundreds of miles of streets, sewers, sidewalks, and curbs. Workers for other relief projects painted murals in post offices…

  • Kelly, Ellsworth (American painter, sculptor, and printmaker)

    Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was a leading exponent of the hard-edge style, in which abstract contours are sharply and precisely defined. Though often associated with Minimalism, Kelly preceded the movement by a decade. Before serving in the army during

  • Kelly, Emmett (American clown)

    Emmett Kelly was one of the great American circus clowns, best known for his role as Weary Willie, a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose. Kelly as a young man studied to become a cartoonist, and he originally created the Weary Willie

  • Kelly, Emmett Leo (American clown)

    Emmett Kelly was one of the great American circus clowns, best known for his role as Weary Willie, a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose. Kelly as a young man studied to become a cartoonist, and he originally created the Weary Willie

  • Kelly, Erin Entrada (Filipino- American children’s author)

    Erin Entrada Kelly is a Filipino American children’s author best known for writing novels for and about middle schoolers and for weaving aspects of Filipino culture into her stories. Kelly won the Newbery Medal in 2018 for her book Hello, Universe (2017). Kelly was born to Virgilia Sy Entrada and

  • Kelly, Eugene Curran (American actor, dancer, and director)

    Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion-picture director whose athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique, transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public’s conception of male dancers. One of five children born to a

  • Kelly, Gene (American actor, dancer, and director)

    Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and motion-picture director whose athletic style of dancing, combined with classical ballet technique, transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public’s conception of male dancers. One of five children born to a

  • Kelly, George (American psychologist)

    humanistic psychology: …construct” theory of American psychologist George Kelly and the “self-centred” theory of American psychotherapist Carl Rogers, individuals are said to perceive the world according to their own experiences. This perception affects their personality and leads them to direct their behaviour to satisfy the needs of the total self. Rogers stressed…

  • Kelly, George (American playwright)

    George Kelly was a playwright, actor, and director whose dramas of the 1920s reflect the foibles of the American middle class with a telling accuracy. Kelly followed his elder brother Walter into vaudeville as an actor, writing his first sketches himself. His first success on Broadway was The

  • Kelly, George Edward (American playwright)

    George Kelly was a playwright, actor, and director whose dramas of the 1920s reflect the foibles of the American middle class with a telling accuracy. Kelly followed his elder brother Walter into vaudeville as an actor, writing his first sketches himself. His first success on Broadway was The

  • Kelly, George R. (American criminal)

    Machine Gun Kelly was a bootlegger, small-time bank robber, and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico in the 1920s and ’30s. Abetted by his wife, Kathryn (née Cleo Coleman), whom he married in 1927, he joined gangs whose exploits won press headlines.

  • Kelly, Grace (American actress and princess of Monaco)

    Grace Kelly was an American actress of films and television, known for her stately beauty and reserve. She starred in 11 motion pictures before abandoning a Hollywood career to marry Rainier III, prince de Monaco, in 1956. Kelly was born into a wealthy Irish Catholic family in Philadelphia; her

  • Kelly, Grace Patricia (American actress and princess of Monaco)

    Grace Kelly was an American actress of films and television, known for her stately beauty and reserve. She starred in 11 motion pictures before abandoning a Hollywood career to marry Rainier III, prince de Monaco, in 1956. Kelly was born into a wealthy Irish Catholic family in Philadelphia; her

  • Kelly, Howard Atwood (American physician)

    Sir William Osler, Baronet: Kelly, chief of gynecology and obstetrics, and William S. Halsted, chief of surgery. Together, the four transformed the organization and curriculum of clinical teaching and made Johns Hopkins the most famous medical school in the world. Students studied their patients in the wards and presented…

  • Kelly, Hugh (British dramatist)

    Hugh Kelly was a British dramatist, critic, and journalist who was, for a time, a serious rival of the playwright Oliver Goldsmith in the London theatre, after his play False Delicacy (staged in 1768) scored a triumph in opposition to Goldsmith’s Good-Natur’d Man. Kelly immigrated to London in 1760

  • Kelly, James Plunkett (Irish writer)

    James Plunkett was an Irish novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer whose works, which deal with Ireland’s political and labour problems, contain vivid portraits of working-class and middle-class Dubliners. Educated by the Christian Brothers, Plunkett left school at age 17. He later studied

  • Kelly, Jim (American football player)

    Buffalo Bills: The Bills drafted quarterback Jim Kelly in the first round of the 1983 NFL draft. Kelly instead signed to play in the upstart United States Football League (USFL), and Buffalo posted league-worst 2–14 records in both 1984 and 1985. After the USFL folded in 1986, Kelly joined the Bills,…

  • Kelly, John B. (American athlete)

    John B. Kelly was an American oarsman who won 126 consecutive races in single sculls in 1919 and 1920, a record that included a gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. Kelly also won the double sculls event (with his cousin Paul Costello) at the 1920 Games and at the 1924 Games in Paris.

  • Kelly, John Edward (American boxer)

    Nonpareil Jack Dempsey was an Irish-born American bare-knuckle fighter who was the world middleweight champion from 1884 to 1891. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Dempsey, who moved to the United States as a young child, was a proficient wrestler before he began his career as a

  • Kelly, John F. (United States general)

    Reince Priebus: …as chief of staff by John F. Kelly. Shortly thereafter, Priebus returned to private practice, and in 2019 he officially joined the U.S. Navy.

  • Kelly, Kevin (American author)

    cultural globalization: Challenges to national sovereignty and identity: …Out of Control (1994), author Kevin Kelly predicted that the Internet would gradually erode the power of governments to control citizens; advances in digital technology would instead allow people to follow their own interests and form trans-state coalitions. Similarly, Richard Rosecrance, in The Rise of the Virtual State (1999), wrote…

  • Kelly, Laura (American politician)

    Nancy Kassebaum: …supported several Democratic candidates, notably Laura Kelly, who was elected governor of Kansas in 2018.

  • Kelly, Lauren (American author)

    Joyce Carol Oates is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist noted for her vast literary output in a variety of styles and genres. Particularly effective are her depictions of violence and evil in modern society. Oates was born in New York state, the daughter of a tool-and-die

  • Kelly, Machine Gun (American criminal)

    Machine Gun Kelly was a bootlegger, small-time bank robber, and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico in the 1920s and ’30s. Abetted by his wife, Kathryn (née Cleo Coleman), whom he married in 1927, he joined gangs whose exploits won press headlines.

  • Kelly, Mark (American astronaut and United States senator)

    Mark Kelly is an American astronaut and politician who served in the U.S. Senate (2020– ), representing Arizona. He is the identical twin brother of astronaut Scott Kelly. Mark Kelly received a bachelor’s degree in marine engineering and transportation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy

  • Kelly, Mark Edward (American astronaut and United States senator)

    Mark Kelly is an American astronaut and politician who served in the U.S. Senate (2020– ), representing Arizona. He is the identical twin brother of astronaut Scott Kelly. Mark Kelly received a bachelor’s degree in marine engineering and transportation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy

  • Kelly, Mary (American artist and feminist)

    Western painting: Institutional critique, feminism, and conceptual art: 1968 and its aftermath: Mary Kelly’s important Post-Partum Document (completed 1979) consisted of a 135-item record, in a variety of modes of documentation (including fecal stains on diapers), of the rearing of her male child. It asserted that gender identity is produced via accession to language and that gender…

  • Kelly, Megyn (American journalist and television personality)

    Megyn Kelly is an American attorney, journalist, and television personality who is known for her pointed interviews and commentary on the Fox News Channel. Kelly was raised in Syracuse and Delmar, New York, the third and youngest child of an education professor and his wife. After her father’s

  • Kelly, Megyn Marie (American journalist and television personality)

    Megyn Kelly is an American attorney, journalist, and television personality who is known for her pointed interviews and commentary on the Fox News Channel. Kelly was raised in Syracuse and Delmar, New York, the third and youngest child of an education professor and his wife. After her father’s

  • Kelly, Ned (Australian bandit)

    Ned Kelly was the most famous of the bushrangers, Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century. In 1877 Kelly shot and injured a policeman who was trying to arrest his brother, Dan Kelly, for horse theft. The brothers fled to the bush, where two other men joined them to form the Kelly gang. The

  • Kelly, Piper (American speed climber)

    Piper Kelly is an American speed climber and a rising star in the sport. In 2023 Kelly won a gold medal at the Pan American Games. Kelly was born to Stephanie Kelly and John Kelly and raised in Indianapolis. She began rock climbing at a gym with her father and uncles when she was seven years old.

  • Kelly, R. (American musician)

    R. Kelly is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who was one of the best-selling rhythm-and-blues (R&B) artists of the 1990s and early 21st century, known for his gospel-tinged vocal delivery and highly sexualized lyrics. Throughout his career Kelly faced various

  • Kelly, Red (Canadian ice hockey player)

    Toronto Maple Leafs: …Armstrong, goaltender Johnny Bower, centre Red Kelly, centre Dave Keon, defenseman Tim Horton, left wing Frank Mahovlich, left wing Bob Pulford, and defenseman Allan Stanley) won three Stanley Cups in a row from 1961–62 to 1963–64 and one more during the 1966–67 season.

  • Kelly, Robert Sylvester (American musician)

    R. Kelly is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who was one of the best-selling rhythm-and-blues (R&B) artists of the 1990s and early 21st century, known for his gospel-tinged vocal delivery and highly sexualized lyrics. Throughout his career Kelly faced various

  • Kelly, Scott (American astronaut)

    Scott Kelly is an American astronaut who made four spaceflights, the longest of which lasted 340 days. He is the twin brother of American astronaut and senator Mark Kelly. Scott Kelly received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York Maritime College at

  • Kelly, Scott Joseph (American astronaut)

    Scott Kelly is an American astronaut who made four spaceflights, the longest of which lasted 340 days. He is the twin brother of American astronaut and senator Mark Kelly. Scott Kelly received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York Maritime College at

  • Kelly, Walt (American cartoonist)

    Walt Kelly was an American creator of the comic strip “Pogo,” which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire. In 1935 Kelly went to Hollywood, where he did animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions. During the 1940s he was active as a

  • Kelly, Walter Crawford (American cartoonist)

    Walt Kelly was an American creator of the comic strip “Pogo,” which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire. In 1935 Kelly went to Hollywood, where he did animation drawings for Walt Disney Productions. During the 1940s he was active as a

  • Kelly, William (American inventor)

    William Kelly was an American ironmaster who invented the pneumatic process of steelmaking, in which air is blown through molten pig iron to oxidize and remove unwanted impurities. Also patented by Sir Henry Bessemer of Great Britain, this process produced the first inexpensive steel, which became

  • Kelmscott House (building, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom)

    Hammersmith and Fulham: Kelmscott House, for 18 years the home of William Morris (now home to the William Morris Society), is situated in Hammersmith. Also notable are the Palais de Danse (Hammersmith Palais) dance hall, which opened in 1919, and the 17th-century Dove, which has been a coffeehouse…

  • Kelmscott Press (publishing company)

    Sir Emery Walker: …to the establishment of the Kelmscott Press (1891), considered the beginning of the private press movement in England. Walker played an important role in all its activities throughout the seven years of its existence.

  • Kelo v. City of New London (law case)

    eminent domain: …a landmark ruling in 2005, Kelo v. City of New London, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted an expansive interpretation of the power of eminent domain as defined in the “takings” clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (“private property [shall not] be taken for public use without just compensation”).…

  • keloid (skin disorder)

    keloid, benign tumour and chronic skin disorder in which excessive scar tissue (mainly collagen) forms a smooth rubbery growth over, and often larger than, the original wound. Keloids are difficult to treat, and though they can form on any part of the body, they most commonly are found on the

  • Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada)

    Kelowna, city, southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies 80 miles (129 km) north of the U.S. (Washington) border, on the east shore of Okanagan Lake (there bridged), 284 miles (457 km) east-northeast of Vancouver. Kelowna originated around a mission established about 1859 by Father Charles

  • kelp (brown algae)

    kelp, (order Laminariales), any of about 30 genera of brown algae that grow as large coastal seaweeds in colder seas. Kelps provide critical habitat and are an important food source for a wide range of coastal organisms, including many fish and invertebrates. Until early in the 19th century, the

  • kelp crab (crustacean)

    kelp crab, Pacific species of spider crab

  • kelp forest (ecology)

    otter: Saltwater otters: (genus Strongylocentrotus) enables kelp forests and the fish associated with them to flourish. However, large numbers of sea otters can deplete shellfish populations, competing with fisheries for crabs, clams, and abalones. Female sea otters give birth in water to only one young at a time, and the young…

  • kelp goose (bird)

    sheldgoose: …South American species of Chloëphaga—the kelp goose (C. hybrida), the Magellan goose (C. picta), and the Andean goose (C. melanoptera)—and the Orinoco goose (Neochen jubatus). African sheldgeese include the spur-winged goose (Plectropterus gambensis) and the Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus

  • kelp gull (bird)

    gull: The kelp gull (L. dominicanus) is a very wide-ranging black-backed species of the Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica. The laughing gull (L. atricilla), a medium-sized bird with a black head, red bill, and red feet, often gives vent to a strident, laughing call. It breeds from Maine…

  • Kelsen, Hans (American scholar)

    Hans Kelsen was an Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law, who formulated a kind of positivism known as the “pure theory” of law. Kelsen was a professor at Vienna, Cologne, Geneva, and the German university in Prague. He wrote the Austrian constitution

  • Kelsey, Henry (British explorer)

    Henry Kelsey was a British mariner and explorer of the Canadian plains who played a significant role in the establishment of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Kelsey was apprenticed to the Hudson’s Bay Company (chartered 1670) by 1684, and in a trip to the region begun that year he conducted some