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Wikipedia
is the name of
- Mount Kongō, a mountain in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
The mountain has lent its name to a series of Japanese naval ships:
- the Imperial Japanese Navy's ironclad (1877-1909);
- the battleship (1912-1945) — the nameship of her class; and
- the , launched in 1991 — also the nameship of her class.
Other uses of the name include:
- Kongō school of Noh theatre;
- former sumo wrestler Kongō Masahiro whose highest rank was sekiwake
Kongo is a 1932 talking Pre-Code film directed by William J. Cowen and starring Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, and Virginia Bruce. It is an adaptation of the 1926 Broadway play of the same name, which had starred Huston.
This film is also a remake of the 1928 film West of Zanzibar, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore, which itself was also based on the 1926 play. Kongo was shot on the same sets as Red Dust, and made the same year as Freaks .
Kongo has been a rarely seen film through the decades, but in recent years it has appeared on Turner Classic Movies. The film was released on DVD as part of the Warner Archive Collection series on May 3, 2011.
Usage examples of "kongo".
Now she found that the kongo was no longer in its pouch in her black slacks, nor were the lockpicks in the seam.
Abdullah de Baza, for not only was the man a proven and doughty warrior, a born leader of men, and a pious Christian of well-proven loyalties, but he had had the invaluable experience of large-scale slaving on the Rio Kongo, was levelheaded, and rational, and possessed a turn of mind that had allowed him to turn disadvantages into very distinct advantages in both military and business senses, over the years of his life in the New World.
On the morning of the ninth day after their departure from the point off the mouth of the Rio Kongo, they spotted the telltale discoloration of the sea that denoted the debouchment of a large river to the immediate north, and by midafternoon, Abdullah was dickering with a pilot who had come out in a barge from the Port of Saints Peter and Paul.
On the morning of the ninth day after their departure from the point off the mouth of the Rio Kongo, they spotted the telltale discoloration of the sea that denoted the debouchment of a large river to the immediate north, and by mid-afternoon, Abdullah was dickering with a pilot who had come out in a barge from the Port of Saints Peter and Paul.
You will see two of their new Takanami class guided missile destroyers and one of their Kongo class Aegis destroyers, the Myoko, form up with us in the next hour or so.
Henry Kissinger has at long last discovered the cause: the Kongo are pro-United States, and the Mbundu are followers of Karl Marx.