• KEL (gene)

    Kell blood group system: …various antigens encoded by the KEL gene. The system, discovered in 1946, is characterized by a high degree of polymorphism (genetic variation), and thus studies of the Kell antigens have provided insight into the development of polymorphic traits in the context of human evolution. Antibodies generated against antigens in the…

  • Kel Aïr (people)

    Niger: Ethnic groups: …region in the west, the Asben (Kel Aïr) in the Aïr region, and the Itesen (Kel Geres) to the south and east of Aïr. The Tuareg people are also found in Algeria and in Mali. The Kanuri, who live to the east of Zinder, are divided into a number of…

  • Kel Geres (people)

    Niger: Ethnic groups: …the Aïr region, and the Itesen (Kel Geres) to the south and east of Aïr. The Tuareg people are also found in Algeria and in Mali. The Kanuri, who live to the east of Zinder, are divided into a number of subgroups—the Manga, the Dogara (Dagara), the Mober, the Buduma,…

  • Kelaa des Sraghna, el- (Morocco)

    el-Kelaa des Srarhna, city, provincial capital, and province (established 1973), Tensift region, western Morocco. The city, located about 47 miles (75 km) northeast of Marrakech, is a local market centre in the eastern part of the province; its name means the “Citadel of the Srarhna,” referring to

  • Kelaa des Sraghna, el- (province, Morocco)

    el-Kelaa des Srarhna: El-Kelaa des Srarhna province is bounded by the provinces of Settat (north), Beni Mellal (northeast), Azilal (southeast), Marrakech (south), Safi (southwest), and el-Jadida (northwest). It comprises the most arid area of Morocco west of the Atlas Mountains. The western part of the province is a…

  • Kelaa des Srarhna, el- (province, Morocco)

    el-Kelaa des Srarhna: El-Kelaa des Srarhna province is bounded by the provinces of Settat (north), Beni Mellal (northeast), Azilal (southeast), Marrakech (south), Safi (southwest), and el-Jadida (northwest). It comprises the most arid area of Morocco west of the Atlas Mountains. The western part of the province is a…

  • Kelaa des Srarhna, el- (Morocco)

    el-Kelaa des Srarhna, city, provincial capital, and province (established 1973), Tensift region, western Morocco. The city, located about 47 miles (75 km) northeast of Marrakech, is a local market centre in the eastern part of the province; its name means the “Citadel of the Srarhna,” referring to

  • Kelabit (people)

    Malaysia: Sarawak: Kayan, Kelabit, Bisaya (Bisayah), Penan, and others—also contribute much to Sarawak’s ethnic and cultural character. The Kenyah, Kayan, and Kelabit generally trace their origins to the southern mountains on the border with North Kalimantan, Indonesia. Other Orang Ulu groups stem from lower-lying inland areas, primarily in…

  • Kelang (river, Malaysia)

    Kuala Lumpur: …astride the confluence of the Kelang and Gombak rivers; its name in Malay means “muddy estuary.” Malaysia’s Main Range rises nearby to the north, east, and southeast. The climate is equatorial, with high temperatures and humidity that vary little throughout the year. The area receives about 95 inches (2,400 mm)…

  • Kelang (Malaysia)

    Klang, city and port, west-central Peninsular (West) Malaysia. It lies on the Kelang River and the 40-mile (64-km) Kuala Lumpur–Port Kelang railway. The city is an administrative centre of a rubber- and fruit-growing district. During the 19th-century tin rush, Klang served as a port of entry to the

  • Kelani, Tunde (Nigerian film producer, director, and cinematographer)

    Nollywood: Digital era (2010s– ): New Nollywood after 2009: …Kunle Afolayan, Kemi Adetiba, and Tunde Kelani to improve the quality of Nigerian cinema. By the 2010s there was a renewed interest in fresh, creative plots with well-written dialogue, as well as in procuring better equipment to improve the visual quality of movies. Afolayan’s 2009 film The Figurine was shot…

  • Kelaniya, University of (university, Sri Lanka)

    Sri Lanka: Education: …of Jaffna (1974); and the University of Kelaniya and the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, both of which were centers of Buddhist learning until they were elevated to university status in 1959.

  • Kelce, Jason (American football player)

    Jason Kelce is a former American football player who is considered to have been among the game’s best centers. In 2018 he helped the Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl LII. In addition to his outstanding play, Kelce was known for his scrappy work ethic and outgoing personality, which made him a fan

  • Kelce, Travis (American football player)

    Travis Kelce is a record-setting tight end in the National Football League (NFL) who helped the Kansas City Chiefs win three Super Bowls (2020, 2023, 2024). Possessing an incredible athleticism and ability to read zone coverages, he amassed more than 1,000 receiving yards in seven consecutive

  • Kelce, Travis Michael (American football player)

    Travis Kelce is a record-setting tight end in the National Football League (NFL) who helped the Kansas City Chiefs win three Super Bowls (2020, 2023, 2024). Possessing an incredible athleticism and ability to read zone coverages, he amassed more than 1,000 receiving yards in seven consecutive

  • Kelimat ha-Goyim (work by Duran)

    Profiat Duran: …also wrote an anti-Christian polemic, Kelimat ha-Goyim (“Shame of the Gentiles”), in about 1397, which discredited the Gospels and other early Christian writings.

  • Kell blood group system (physiology)

    Kell blood group system, classification of human blood based on the presence on the surfaces of red blood cells of various antigens encoded by the KEL gene. The system, discovered in 1946, is characterized by a high degree of polymorphism (genetic variation), and thus studies of the Kell antigens

  • Kell, Joseph (British author)

    Anthony Burgess was an English novelist, critic, and man of letters whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre. Trained in English literature and phonetics, Burgess taught in the extramural department of Birmingham University (1946–50),

  • Kell, Sir Vernon (British military officer)

    MI5: …1909 under the leadership of Vernon Kell, then a captain in the British army, to identify and counteract German spies then working in Britain, which it did with great effect. Kell retired as a major general in 1924 and was later knighted but remained in charge of the agency until…

  • Kell, Vernon (British military officer)

    MI5: …1909 under the leadership of Vernon Kell, then a captain in the British army, to identify and counteract German spies then working in Britain, which it did with great effect. Kell retired as a major general in 1924 and was later knighted but remained in charge of the agency until…

  • Kellanova (American company)

    Kellogg Company, the multinational food manufacturer behind Corn Flakes, Pringles, Cheez-It, Eggo waffles, and Morningstar Farms, no longer exists as a single corporation. Founded in the early 1900s by the controversial figure Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, the company grew from a breakfast cereal

  • Kellar, Harry (American magician)

    Harry Kellar was the first great magician native to the United States. Called the “dean of magic” and “the most beloved magician in history,” he was the most popular magician from 1896 until 1908. (Read Harry Houdini’s 1926 Britannica essay on magic.) From age 12 to 18 Kellar learned magic while

  • Kellas, Eliza (American educator)

    Eliza Kellas was an American educator, best remembered for her strong and effective leadership of the Emma Willard School in Troy. Kellas graduated from the Potsdam Normal School (now State University of New York College at Potsdam) in 1889, remaining as a member of the faculty. In 1891 she was

  • Kellaway, Cecil (South African-American actor)

    Harvey: Chumley (Cecil Kellaway), releases Veta and attempts to track down Elwood. As it turns out, though, Chumley is able to see Harvey, and Veta—who has confessed to having seen him as well—eventually decides that Elwood’s affable disposition compensates for his eccentricities.

  • Kellaway, Edmund (British actor)

    George Seaton: Miracle on 34th Street and The Country Girl: …that the elderly man (Edmund Gwenn in an Oscar-winning performance) hired to play Santa Claus at Macy’s department store might actually be St. Nick. Seaton won an Oscar for his screenplay. Apartment for Peggy (1948) was a light romance, with Jeanne Crain and William Holden as campus newlyweds; Gwenn…

  • kellegi (floor covering)

    rug and carpet: Uses of rugs and carpets: The principal rug, or kellegi, averaging 12 × 6 feet (3.7 × 1.8 metres), is placed at one end of the arrangement of three carpets, so that its length stretches almost completely across their collective widths.

  • Keller, Christoph (German historian)

    history of Europe: The term and concept before the 18th century: … (1688), by the German historian Christoph Keller—although Keller observed that in naming the period he was simply following the terminology of earlier and contemporary scholars. By the late 17th century the most commonly used term for the period in Latin was medium aevum, and various equivalents of Middle Ages or…

  • Keller, Clayton (American hockey player)

    Utah Mammoth: …the team captain is forward Clayton Keller. It had a 38–31 record in its inaugural season. The Utah organization conducted several public polls to determine the team’s permanent name, and in May 2025 it announced that the franchise will be called the Utah Mammoth, after the extinct elephant species.

  • Keller, Ferdinand (Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian)

    Ferdinand Keller was a Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian who conducted the first systematic excavation of prehistoric Alpine lake dwellings, at Obermeilen on Lake Zürich. He thus initiated the study of similar remains elsewhere in Switzerland and Europe, from which much was learned about Late

  • Keller, Gottfried (Swiss author)

    Gottfried Keller was the greatest German-Swiss narrative writer of late 19th-century Poetischer Realismus (“Poetic Realism”). His father, a lathe artisan, died in Keller’s early childhood, but his strong-willed, devoted mother struggled to provide him with an education. After being expelled from

  • Keller, Harry (American magician)

    Harry Kellar was the first great magician native to the United States. Called the “dean of magic” and “the most beloved magician in history,” he was the most popular magician from 1896 until 1908. (Read Harry Houdini’s 1926 Britannica essay on magic.) From age 12 to 18 Kellar learned magic while

  • Keller, Helen (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, 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, 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)

    Thomas Keller is an American chef and restaurateur whose restaurant the French Laundry, in Yountville, California, consistently ranks among the best in the world. Keller is the first—and as of 2024 the only—American-born chef to receive three Michelin stars at different restaurants. He is renowned

  • Keller, Thomas Aloysius (American chef and restaurateur)

    Thomas Keller is an American chef and restaurateur whose restaurant the French Laundry, in Yountville, California, consistently ranks among the best in the world. Keller is the first—and as of 2024 the only—American-born chef to receive three Michelin stars at different restaurants. He is renowned

  • Kellerman, Annette (Australian athlete)

    physical culture: Women and athletics: …swimmer, vaudeville, and movie star Annette Kellerman epitomized the physical culture ideal. Beginning about 1905 Kellerman gained publicity for completing long-distance swims down the Thames, Seine, and Danube rivers and for attempting to cross the English Channel. She also introduced the one-piece bathing suit at a beach near Boston. Although…

  • 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 Company, the multinational food manufacturer behind Corn Flakes, Pringles, Cheez-It, Eggo waffles, and Morningstar Farms, no longer exists as a single corporation. Founded in the early 1900s by the controversial figure Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, the company grew from a breakfast cereal

  • Kellogg’s (American company)

    Kellogg Company, the multinational food manufacturer behind Corn Flakes, Pringles, Cheez-It, Eggo waffles, and Morningstar Farms, no longer exists as a single corporation. Founded in the early 1900s by the controversial figure Will Keith (W.K.) Kellogg, the company grew from a breakfast cereal

  • 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 (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 (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 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-centered” 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 behavior 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,…