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Chagall
Belarusan-French painter, printmaker, and designer. After studying painting in St. Petersburg, he moved to Paris in 1910. He exhibited at the Salon des Ind\u00e9 pendants and had a one-man show in Berlin in 1914. On a visit home he was caught by the outbreak of World War I and then by the Bolshevik revolution. He was named head of the revolutionary art school in Vitebsk, but in 1923 he was able to return to Paris. There he launched a career in printmaking, producing hundreds of etchings for special editions of books. In 1941 he left for New York, where he designed sets and costumes for I. Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird. After settling again in France in 1948, he produced stained-glass windows and murals for public buildings in Jerusalem, Paris, and the U.S. His distinctive style of fairy-tale fantasy drew principally on memories of Jewish life and folklore in Belarus and the Bible.
Chapala
Lake, Jalisco state, Mexico. Mexico's largest lake, it is 50 mi (81 km) long and has an area of 651 sq mi (1,686 sq km). A popular resort area, it is traversed by the R\u00ed o Santiago, which enters the lake as the R\u00ed o Lerma.
Ghazali
Muslim theologian and philosopher. Born in the Iranian city of Tus, he studied philosophy and religion and became chief professor of the Nizamiyah college in Baghdad in 1091. A spiritual crisis prompted him to abandon his career in 1095 and adopt the life of a poor Sufi. He did not return to teaching until 1106, persuaded by those who believed he was a centennial renewer of Islam. His great work, Ihya ulum al-din ("Revival of the Religious Sciences"), explained Islamic doctrines and practices and traced their connection with Sufi mysticism.
Kaya
Tribal league formed sometime before the 3rd cent. AD in S Korea and lasting until its subjugation to Silla in the 6th cent. The people of Kaya are thought to have been closely related to the tribes that crossed over from Korea to Japan a century or two earlier, and Kaya often enlisted Japan in its feuds with neighboring Silla and Paekche. The Kaya people invented a unique 12-stringed zither, the kayagum.
kayak
Type of canoe covered by a deck except for a cockpit in which the paddler sits. It has a pointed bow and stern and no keel; the paddler faces forward, grasping a double-bladed paddle and dipping the blades alternately on either side. Usually built for one occupant, it can be designed for two or three. Kayaks were traditionally used for fishing and hunting by Eskimos, who stretched seal or other animal skins over a driftwood or whalebone frame and rubbed the skins with animal fat for waterproofing. The paddler wore an overlapping shield to allow the kayak to be righted without taking on water if it rolled over. Now often made of molded plastic or fiberglass, kayaks are widely used for recreation.
kharaj
Tax imposed on recent Islamic converts in the 7th-8th ...
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