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Dayan
Israeli soldier and statesman. Born on Israel's first kibbutz of Russian parents, he became a guerrilla fighter against Arab raiders. Later he joined the illegal Jewish defense force Haganah. He lost an eye fighting the Vichy French in Syria during World War II. He was army chief of staff during the Suez Crisis (1956) and later agriculture minister (1959-64). He was appointed defense minister just before the Six-Day War, and the Israeli victory brought him widespread adulation; he served until 1974. He joined the opposition Likud as foreign minister when it came into power in 1977 and helped broker the 1978 Camp David Accords. See also Arab-Israeli Wars.
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.
maya
In Hinduism, a powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real. The word maya originally referred to the wizardry with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion, and its philosophical sense is an extension of this meaning. The concept is especially important in the Advaita school of the orthodox system of Vedanta, which sees maya as the cosmic force that presents the infinite Brahman as the finite phenomenal world.
Group of Mesoamerican Indians who between AD 250 and 900 developed one of the Western Hemisphere's greatest civilizations. By AD 200 they had developed cities containing palaces, temples, plazas, and ball courts. They used stone tools to quarry the immense quantities of stone needed for those structures; their sculpture and relief carving were also highly developed. Mayan hieroglyphic writing survives in books and inscriptions. Mayan mathematics featured positional notation and the use of the zero; Mayan astronomy featured an accurately determined solar year and precise tables of the positions of Venus and the moon. ...
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