Karli, village, Maharashtra state, W India. Nearby are Buddhist caves that may have been excavated as early as the 2d cent. B.C. The most famous of them measures 124 ft by 45 ft (38 m by 14 m)...

Carnelian or cornelian, variety of red chalcedony, used as a gem. It is distinguished from sard by the shade of red, carnelian being bright red and sard brownish. The red coloring is apparentl...

Kura, ancient Cyrus, Georgian Mktvari, Azeri Kür, river, c.950 mi (1,530 km) long, the chief river of Georgia and Azerbaijan. It rises in NE Turkey, NW of Kars, and flows NE into Georgia, then...

Caernarvon, Welsh Caernarfon, town (1981 pop. 9,506), Gwynedd, NW Wales, on Menai Strait. Petroleum is imported and slate exported. Tourism is important. The castle, begun by Edward I c.1284, ...

Gowrie, Carse of, alluvial lowland, c.15 mi (24 km) long, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland, along the northern shore of the Firth of Tay, between Perth and Dundee. A farm belt, it is famous...

Caerphilly, Welsh Caerffili, town (1981 pop. 42,376) and county borough, 108 sq mi (279 sq km), S Wales. Famous for its cheese-making industry, the town of Caerphilly is home to a 13th-century...

Inverchapel of Loch Eck, Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 1st Baron, 1882–1951, British diplomat. He entered the diplomatic service in 1906 and served in numerous countries before becoming (193...

Kerr, Clark, 1911–2003, American educational reformer, b. Reading, Pa., grad. Swarthmore College (B.A., 1932) and the Univ. of California at Berkeley (Ph.D., 1939). He was a professor of indus...

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, separate peace treaty in World War I, signed by Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, Mar. 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus). After the separate armistic...

Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th marquess of, 1882–1940, British statesman. He served (1905–10) on various government commissions in South Africa and was a member of Milner's kindergarten (see...