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KAC (video Game Company)
KAC or Kac may refer to: Organizations * Kenitra Athletic Club, a football club in Kenitra, Morocco * Knight's Armament Company, US * Korea Airports Corporation * Kosciusko Alpine Club, an Australian ski club People * Eduardo Kac (born 1960), Brazilian-American artist * Mac Kac (1920–1987), French jazz drummer * Mark Kac (1914–1984), Polish-American mathematician * Victor Kac (born 1943), Russian-American mathematician Places * Kać, Novi Sad, South Bačka District, Serbia * Kenyon Athletic Center, Gambier, Knox County, Ohio, US * Kiaracondong railway station, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, code Other * ICAO designator for Kuwait Airways See also * Kács, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary * KACS KACS (90.5 FM) is the main station signal of a local listener-supported non-commercial independent radio network broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to Chehalis, Washington, United States. The network is currently owned by Chehalis Valle ..., a radio station in Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenitra Athletic Club
Kenitra ( ar, القُنَيْطَرَة, , , ; ber, ⵇⵏⵉⵟⵔⴰ, Qniṭra; french: Kénitra) is a city in north western Morocco, formerly known as Port Lyautey from 1932 to 1956. It is a port on the Sebou river, has a population in 2014 of 431,282, is one of the three main cities of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region and the capital of the Kenitra Province. During the Cold War Kenitra's U.S. Naval Air Facility served as a stopping point in North Africa. History Ancient history The history of the city begins with the foundation of a trading-post by the Carthaginian, known back then as Thamusida. Under the Antonine dynasty, a Venus temple was built there. Before the French protectorate, the Kasbah Mahdiyya was the only construction in the area where the modern city can today be found. Colonial and recent history In March 1912 the French government and the Sultan of Morocco, Abd al-Hafid, signed the Treaty of Fez. Because of his growing unpopularity, the Sultan asked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knight's Armament Company
Knight's Armament Company (KAC) is an American firearms and firearms parts manufacturer, best known for producing the Rail Interface System (RIS) and the Rail Adapter System (RAS) grips for firearms use. They currently produce a variety of firearms, specifically AR-15 rifles. One of their best known rifles is the SR-25 semi-automatic designated marksman rifle. KAC is owned by C. Reed Knight and is based in Titusville, Florida. Knight's Manufacturing Company (KMC) is the division of KAC responsible for products aimed at the civilian market. History The United States military, as well as special forces and police around the world use KAC RIS/RAS conversions for many popular firearms, including the American M16/ M4 rifles and the popular Heckler & Koch MP5 series submachine guns. The RIS/RAS system allows for the mounting of accessories to firearms without additional tools or modifications, and is used, alongside a KAC suppressor and forward grip on the "Special Operations Peculia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea Airports Corporation
Korea Airports Corporation was established in 1980 in Seoul, South Korea to carry out construction, checks and balances, management and operation of airports and to manage air transportation efficiently. As an organization specializing in airport management, KAC manages and operates total of 14 airports in Korea including Gimpo, Gimhae, Jeju, Daegu, Muan, Cheongju, and Yangyang international airport. KAC also manages the Area Control Center, 10 VOR/TACs and Korea Civil Aviation Training Center. Its headquarters are on the property of Gimpo International Airport in Gangseo-gu, Seoul. Timeline * May 30, 1980 – Founded International Airport Authority * July 1, 1980 – Acquired the right to operate Gimpo International Airport * May 9, 1983 – Acquired the right to operate Gimhae International Airport * June 1, 1984 – Opened Civil Aviation Training Center * September 6, 1985 – Acquired the right to operate Jeju International Airport ( Jeju Island) * April 7, 1990 – Rename ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosciusko Alpine Club
Kosciusko Alpine Club (KAC) is the second oldest ski club in Australia after the Kiandra Pioneer Ski Club (1861). It was founded in 1909, two months after the NSW Government opened the Hotel Kosciusko at Diggers Creek, the first hotel in the Kosciusko area. The Hotel Kosciusko became the winter home of KAC until 1930 when the Kosciusko Chalet opened at Charlotte's Pass. KAC was the only ski club in the Kosciuszko area until 1920 when the Ski Club of Australia was formed. KAC pioneered ski racing at Kosciuszko in 1909 and in 1913 introduced the Summit Trophy for the fastest trip on skis, during a winter season, from the Hotel Kosciusko to the summit of Mt Kosciuszko and return (55 km). The Summit Trophy was the most prized ski competition in NSW until World War II. As it was the major skiing body in Australia at the time, KAC in 1919 instituted the Australian Championship, a single event, eight-kilometre cross country race and continued to run this event until 1929 after which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Kac
Eduardo Kac dwardoʊ kæts; ĕd·wâr′·dō kăts(1962) is a contemporary artist of dual nationality (American and Brazilian) whose artworks span a wide range of practices, including performance art, poetry, holography, interactive art, digital and online art, and bio art. He is particularly well known for his works of space art. Kac began his art career in 1980 as a performance artist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1982 he created his first digital work and in 1983 he invented holopoetry, exploring holography as an interactive art form. In 1985 he began creating animated poetic works on the French Minitel platform. Throughout the 1980s Kac created telecommunications artworks, using media such as fax, television, and slow scan tv. In 1986 Kac created his first work of telepresence art, in which he used robots to bridge two or more physical locations. During the 1990s he continued to produce these works, expanding his practice with works of interspecies communications. In 1997 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac Kac
Jean-Baptiste Reilles (29 May 1920 – 17 August 1987), whose stage name was Mac Kac, was a French jazz drummer. He was known for being one of the first to release a rock and roll album in French. Biography Mac Kac, had Catalan roots and came from a Manouche family, his career began in the mid-1930s in Toulouse. Reilles played in the mid-1940s in Michel de Villers orchestra and quintet, with whom he participated on the swing record ''How High the Moon''. During this time he also worked with Big Boy Goudie and George Johnson, in the early 50s with Raymond Le Sénéchal, Guy Lafitte / Peanuts Holland, Bernard Peiffer and His Saint Germain Des Pres Orchestra and in the trio with Jean-Marie Ingrand and further with Stéphane Grappelli, Jean-Pierre Sasson and Maxim Saury. In 1955 he was a member of Jay Cameron's International Sax band and the Don Rendell / Bobby Jaspar Combo. In the 1950s he worked with Buck Clayton, Sacha Distel, Lionel Hampton, Peanuts Holland, Guy Lafitte, Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kac
Mark Kac ( ; Polish: ''Marek Kac''; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, " Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Biography He was born to a Polish-Jewish family; their town, Kremenets (Polish: "Krzemieniec"), changed hands from the Russian Empire (by then Soviet Ukraine) to Poland after the Peace of Riga, when Kac was a child.Obituary in ''Rochester Democrat & Chronicle'', 11 November 1984 Kac completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Polish |
Victor Kac
Victor Gershevich (Grigorievich) Kac (russian: link=no, Виктор Гершевич (Григорьевич) Кац; born 19 December 1943) is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He co-discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl character formula#Weyl.E2.80.93Kac character formula, Weyl–Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities. He classified the finite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebras, and found the Kac determinant formula for the Virasoro algebra. He is also known for the Kac–Weisfeiler conjectures with Boris Weisfeiler. Biography Kac studied mathematics at Moscow State University, receiving his MS in 1965 and his PhD in 1968. From 1968 to 1976, he held a teaching position at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine Building (MIEM). He left the Soviet Union in 1977, becoming an associate professor of mathematics at MIT. In 1981, he was promoted to full professor. Kac received a Sloa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kać
Kać () is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population was 11,612 at the 2011 census. Name In Serbian, the town is known as ''Kać'' or Каћ, in Croatian as ''Kać'', in Hungarian as ''Káty'', and in German as ''Katsch''. History It was first mentioned during the administration of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in 1276 as ''in villa Hatt'', while in 1332/33, it was mentioned as ''Mathias de Shacz''. During the Habsburg rule in the 18th and 19th century, the village was part of the Military Frontier (the Šajkaš Battalion section). Demographics Culture and sport Jugović is a team handball club from Kać. It competes in the Serbian First League of Handball since 1984. It was founded in 1956 under the name Mladost and changed its name to Jugović in 1960. Jugović won the EHF Challenge Cup in the 2000/2001 season. There is a soccer team, also named Jugović, founded on 16 August 1912. It competes in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon Athletic Center
The Lowry Center (formerly Kenyon Athletic Center) is an athletic center and student union serving the Kenyon College and Gambier village communities in Ohio. It was designed by architect Graham Gund and opened to the public on 25 January 2006. The facility cost approximately $70 million to build. Planning and construction Plans were begun in 2001 for an athletic center to replace the then-outdated Ernst Center and Wertheimer Fieldhouse that had previously served Kenyon College. The building was originally intended to be called the Fitness, Recreation, and Athletic facility (FRA). Designs were made in collaboration with coaches and other athletics personnel, such as swimming coach Jim Steen, who was consulted while making designs for the "state-of-the-art" natatorium. The KAC was built on the south end of Kenyon's campus, over the site of the former Wertheimer Fieldhouse, which was demolished to make way for the new facility. Construction began in 2003 and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiaracondong Railway Station
Kiaracondong Station is the second largest railway station in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It is located near the Kiaracondong street (also known as Ibrahim Adjie street), on the Kiaracondong district, Bandung. The station located near the Kiaracondong traditional market and Kiaracondong fly over road. The train station located is in Kiaracondong, on the eastern side of Bandung. Services This Station only serve economy class passenger train to east side of Bandung, as well as several intercity train that crossing this station from Jakarta, and several commuter train servicing destinations in greater Bandung. Intercity Trains that use this station : * ''Kahuripan'', from and to * ''Kutojaya Selatan'', from and to * ''Lodaya'', to and * ''Mutiara Selatan'', to and * ''Pasundan'', from and to * '' Serayu'', to and * ''Malabar Malabar may refer to the following: People * Malabars, people originating from the Malabar region of India * Malbars or Malabars, people of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuwait Airways
Kuwait Airways ( ar, الخطوط الجوية الكويتية, ) is the national carrier of Kuwait, with its head office on the grounds of Kuwait International Airport, Al Farwaniyah Governorate. It operates scheduled international services throughout the Middle East, to the Indian subcontinent, Europe, Southeast Asia and North America, from its main base at Kuwait International Airport. History The carrier traces its history back to 1953, when ''Kuwait National Airways'' was formed by a group of Kuwaiti businessmen; initially, the government took a 50% interest. That year, a five-year management contract was signed with ''British International Airlines'' (BIA), a BOAC subsidiary in Kuwait that operated charter flights and provided maintenance services. Two Dakotas were bought, and operations started on . The carrier transported 8,966 passengers in its first year of operations. In , the name ''Kuwait Airways'' was adopted. In , a new contract for management and operation was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
