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16584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmuheen | Jasmuheen | Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve; 1957) is a proponent of "pranic nourishment" or breatharianism, the practice of living without food or fluid of any sort and regarded by the scientific community as a lethal pseudoscience. She makes appearances at New Age conferences worldwide, has hosted spiritual retreats in Thailand and ... |
16585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O | Jell-O | Jell-O is a variety of gelatin desserts (fruit-flavored gels), puddings, and no-bake cream pies. The original Jell-O gelatin dessert (genericized as jello) is the signature of the brand. Jell-O is a registered trademark of Kraft Heinz and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
The original gelatin dessert began in Le Roy, New... |
16586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly | Jelly | Jelly may refer to:
Food
Jelly (fruit preserves), a clear or translucent fruit spread or preserve
Jelly (dessert), a clear or translucent dessert
Entertainment
The Jellys, an English punk/pop band
"Jelly" (song), a 2006 song by Japanese electronic duo Capsule
Mr. Jelly, title character of the 1976 book Mr. Jell... |
16588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Saviola | Javier Saviola | Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández (; born 11 December 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward.
He represented both Barcelona and Real Madrid, also having notable spells with Benfica and Olympiacos, and was named as the youngest player on Pelé's FIFA 100 list of the 125 greatest living... |
16590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers%20Ju%2087 | Junkers Ju 87 | The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") was a German dive-bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 and served in Axis forces in... |
16591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Jarom | Book of Jarom | The Book of Jarom () is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. According to the text it was written by Jarom, a descendant of Jacob, the brother of the prophet Nephi.
The Book of Jarom is very short, consisting of only fifteen verses covering the years from 399 to 361 BC. Jarom was the son of Enos, and the ... |
16603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu%20Reeves | Keanu Reeves | Keanu Charles Reeves ( ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adve... |
16608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard | Keyboard | Keyboard may refer to:
Text input
Keyboard, part of a typewriter
Computer keyboard
Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
Musical keyboard, a set of adjacent keys or levers used to play a musical instrumen... |
16610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto%20%28instrument%29 | Koto (instrument) | The is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese and , and similar to the Mongolian , the Korean and , the Vietnamese , the Sundanese and the Kazakhstan . are roughly in length, and made from Paulownia wood (Paulownia tomentosa, known as )... |
16611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetics | Kinetics | Kinetics (, movement or to move) may refer to:
Science and medicine
Kinetics (physics), the study of motion and its causes
Rigid body kinetics, the study of the motion of rigid bodies
Chemical kinetics, the study of chemical reaction rates
Enzyme kinetics, the study of biochemical reaction rates catalysed by an en... |
16615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge | Kludge | A kludge or kluge () is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, and government. It is similar in meaning to t... |
16616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Crimson | King Crimson | King Crimson are a progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London, England. The band draws inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, industrial, electronic, experimental music and new wave. They exerted a strong influence on the early 1970s progres... |
16618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishka | Kishka | Kishka may refer to:
Kishka (food) or kishke, various types of sausage or stuffed intestine
Samiylo Kishka (1530–1602), nobleman from Bratslav
Intestine or Gut (zoology), in East Slavic languages, also used in English-language Yiddishisms
Kishka (prison cell), a type of cell in Soviet political prisons
Kyshka, Per... |
16619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram | Kilogram | The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), the metric system, having the unit symbol kg. It is a widely used measure in science, engineering and commerce worldwide, and is often simply called a kilo colloquially. It means 'one thousand grams'.
The kilogram was or... |
16622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting | Knitting | Knitting is a method by which yarn is manipulated to create a textile, or fabric. It is used to create many types of garments. Knitting may be done by hand or by machine.
Knitting creates stitches: loops of yarn in a row, either flat or in the round (tubular). There are usually many active stitches on the knitting nee... |
16623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Popper | Karl Popper | Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsi... |
16625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze | Kamikaze | , officially , were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks. About 3,800... |
16629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE | KDE | KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the Plasma Desktop (the default desktop environment on many Linux distributions),... |
16634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Adenauer | Konrad Adenauer | Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a Christian democratic party he co-founded, which under his leadership became... |
16635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars | Khazars | The Khazars () were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century AD established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. They created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the... |
16639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20%28rapper%29 | Frost (rapper) | Arturo Molina Jr. (born May 31, 1964), better known as Frost (originally Kid Frost), is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Los Angeles. He is the father of record producer Scoop DeVille.
Early life
Molina was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and occasionally lived with his family in mil... |
16641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtis%20Blow | Kurtis Blow | Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record/film producer, b-boy, DJ, public speaker and minister. He is the first commercially successful rapper and the first to sign with a major record label. "The Breaks", a single from hi... |
16642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia, and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia in the north and west, China in the east, and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south. The capital is Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana. Almat... |
16643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Kazakhstan | History of Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan, the largest country fully within the Eurasian Steppe, has been a historical crossroads and home to numerous different peoples, states and empires throughout history.
Overview
Human activity in the region began with the extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus one million–800,000 years ago in the Karatau Mo... |
16644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Kazakhstan | Geography of Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia (with 4% of the country in Eastern Europe). With an area of about 2,724,900 square kilometers, Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska. The country borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan to the sout... |
16645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Kazakhstan | Demographics of Kazakhstan | The demographics of Kazakhstan enumerate the demographic features of the population of Kazakhstan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. Some use the word Kazakh to refer to the Kazakh ethnic gro... |
16646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Kazakhstan | Politics of Kazakhstan | The politics of Kazakhstan takes place in the framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Kazakhstan is head of state and nominates the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament.
None of t... |
16647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Kazakhstan | Economy of Kazakhstan | The economy of Kazakhstan is the largest in Central Asia in both absolute and per capita terms. Kazakhstan has attracted more than $370 billion of foreign investments since becoming an independent republic after the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
It possesses oil reserves as well as minerals and metals. It also... |
16648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Kazakhstan | Telecommunications in Kazakhstan | This article provides an overview of the communications infrastructure of the country of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has a downturn in the development of telecommunications when compared to the rest of the European Union. However, it is increasing rapidly with each year, and it has one of the most advanced telecoms sectors ... |
16649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kazakhstan | Transport in Kazakhstan | The vast territory of Kazakhstan spans across . The population density is low in Kazakhstan, and the centers of industry and agriculture are spread out and remote from world markets.
Railways
Railways provide 68% of all cargo and passenger traffic to over 57% of the country. There are in common carrier service, exc... |
16650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Kazakhstan | Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan | The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan (, , ) is the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan. It consists of three branches (Ground Forces, Air Defense Forces, Naval Forces) as well as four independent formations (Air Assault Forces, Special Forces, Rocket and Artillery Forces, Territorial Troops). The National Guar... |
16651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Kazakhstan | Foreign relations of Kazakhstan | Foreign relations of Kazakhstan are primarily based on economic and political security. The Nazarbayev administration has tried to balance relations with Russia and the United States by sending petroleum and natural gas to its northern neighbor at artificially low prices while assisting the U.S. in the War on Terror. K... |
16653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Kenya | History of Kenya | A part of Eastern Africa, the territory of what is known as Kenya has seen human habitation since the beginning of the Lower Paleolithic. The Bantu expansion from a West African centre of dispersal reached the area by the 1st millennium AD. With the borders of the modern state at the crossroads of the Bantu, Nilo-Sahar... |
16654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Kenya | Geography of Kenya | The geography of Kenya is diverse, varying amongst its 47 counties. Kenya has a coastline on the Indian Ocean, which contains swamps of East African mangroves. Inland are broad plains and numerous hills. Kenya borders South Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, and Ethi... |
16655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Kenya | Demographics of Kenya | The demography of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in the Great Lakes region of East Africa. It is inhabited primarily by Bantu and Nilotic populations, with some Cushitic-speaking ethnic minorities in the north. Its total population was at 47,564,296 as of t... |
16656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Kenya | Politics of Kenya | The politics of Kenya take place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Kenya is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system in accordance with a new constitution passed in 2010.
Executive power is exercised by the executive branch of g... |
16657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Kenya | Economy of Kenya | The Economy of Kenya is a market-based economy with a few state enterprises. Major industries include agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, manufacturing, energy, tourism and financial services. As of 2020, Kenya had the third largest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, coming behind Nigeria and South Africa.
The governm... |
16658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Kenya | Telecommunications in Kenya | Telecommunications in Kenya include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio and television
Radio stations:
state-owned radio broadcaster operates 2 national radio channels and provides regional and local radio services in multiple languages; a large number of private radio stations, i... |
16659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kenya | Transport in Kenya | Transport in Kenya refers to the transportation structure in Kenya. The country has an extensive network of paved and unpaved roads.
Kenya's railway system links the nation's ports and major cities and connects Kenya with neighbouring Uganda. There are 15 airports with paved runways.
Roads
According to the Kenya Roa... |
16660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya%20Defence%20Forces | Kenya Defence Forces | The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are the armed forces of the Republic of Kenya. They are made up of the Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, and Kenya Air Force. The current KDF was established, and its composition stipulated, in Article 241 of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya; it is governed by the KDF Act of 2012. Its main mission is... |
16661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Kenya | Foreign relations of Kenya | Kenya maintains relations with various countries around the world. Its closest ties are with its fellow Swahili-speaking neighbors in the African Great Lakes region. Swahili speaking neighbours mainly include countries in the East African Community such as Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. There's also... |
16664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%20Reef | Kingman Reef | Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef, east-west and north-south, in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa. It has an area of 3 hectares (0.03 km2) and is one of the unincorporated territories of the United States in Oceania. The ree... |
16674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati | Kiribati | Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: [Ribaberiki] Kiribati), is an independent island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is over 119,000 (2020), more than half of whom live on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba. There is a... |
16675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Kiribati | History of Kiribati | The islands which now form the Republic of Kiribati have been inhabited for at least seven hundred years, and possibly much longer. The initial Austronesian peoples’ population, which remains the overwhelming majority today, was visited by Polynesian and Melanesian invaders before the first European sailors visited the... |
16676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Kiribati | Geography of Kiribati | Kiribati consists of 32 atolls and one island scattered over all four hemispheres in an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the contiguous United States. The islands lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia in the Micronesian and Polynesian regions of the South Pacific. The three main island groupings are th... |
16677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Kiribati | Demographics of Kiribati | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Kiribati, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Population
Statistics
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA Wor... |
16678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Kiribati | Politics of Kiribati | Politics of Kiribati takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Beretitenti, President of Kiribati, is both the head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government, Beretitenti and his cabinet, all MPs. Legi... |
16680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Kiribati | Telecommunications in Kiribati | Kiribati has two international airports (Tarawa and Kiritimati). The main port is Betio (Tarawa). Phones are available only on Tarawa and Kiritimati and radio phones are used elsewhere. Kiribati has 2 newspapers (one private).
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use:
3,800 (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
20,... |
16681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kiribati | Transport in Kiribati | The following article outlines transport in Kiribati.
Roadways
There are 670 km of highways in Kiribati (1996 est.) of which 27 km are paved in South Tarawa (2001). The longest stretch of road travels from South Tarawa to North Tarawa.
Water transport
Ports and harbours include Banaba, Betio, English Harbor, and Kant... |
16683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Kiribati | Foreign relations of Kiribati | Kiribati is a full member of the Commonwealth, the IMF and the World Bank, and became a full member of the United Nations in 1999. Kiribati hosted the Thirty-First Pacific Islands Forum in October 2000. Kiribati has Least Developed Country Status and its interests rarely extend beyond the region. Through accession to t... |
16685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Kuwait | History of Kuwait | Kuwait is a sovereign state in Western Asia located at the head of the Persian Gulf. The geographical region of Kuwait has been occupied by humans since antiquity, particularly due to its strategic location within Mesopotamia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kuwait was a prosperous maritime port city and th... |
16686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Kuwait | Geography of Kuwait | Kuwait is a country in the Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Kuwait is located at the far northwestern corner of the Persian Gulf. Kuwait is 17,820 square kilometres in size. At its most distant points, it is about north to south, and east to west. Kuwait's area consists mostly o... |
16687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Kuwait | Demographics of Kuwait | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Kuwait ().
Expatriates account for around 70% of Kuwait's total population, with Kuwaitis constituting 28%-32% of the total population. The government and some Kuwaiti citizens consider the proportion of expatriates (which has been relatively stable s... |
16688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20of%20Kuwait | Government of Kuwait | Kuwait is an emirate. The political system consists of an appointed judiciary, appointed government (dominated by the Al Sabah ruling family), and nominally elected parliament.
Executive branch
The Constitution of Kuwait was approved and promulgated in 17 November 1962.
Government
The prime minister chooses the cabi... |
16689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Kuwait | Economy of Kuwait | The economy of Kuwait is a wealthy petroleum-based economy. Kuwait is one of the richest countries in the world. The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest-valued unit of currency in the world. According to the World Bank, Kuwait is the fifth richest country in the world by gross national income per capita. Kuwait's economy is t... |
16690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Kuwait | Telecommunications in Kuwait | Telecommunications in Kuwait provides information about the telephone, Internet, radio, and television infrastructure in Kuwait.
Infrastructure
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use:
514,700 (2011), 510,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.9 million (2011), 2.7 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general ass... |
16691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kuwait | Transport in Kuwait | As a small country, local transport in Kuwait is largely road-based with one car for every 2.25 people. Bus services make up Kuwait's entire public transport network. There are seven airports in Kuwait, the largest of which and solely allocated for civil use is Kuwait International Airport. The Gulf Railway is currentl... |
16692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait%20Military%20Forces | Kuwait Military Forces | The Kuwait Military Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة الكويتية romanized: Al-Quwwat Al-Musallahah Al-Kuwaitiyah) are the military forces of the State of Kuwait. They consist of the Kuwait Air Force, the Kuwait Army, the Kuwait Navy & the Kuwait National Guard. The governing bodies are the Kuwait Ministry of Defense, the ... |
16693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Kuwait | Foreign relations of Kuwait | Since its independence in 1961, Kuwait maintained strong international relations with most countries, especially nations within the Arab world. Its vast oil reserves gives it a prominent voice in global economic forums and organizations like the OPEC. Kuwait is also a major ally of ASEAN, a regional ally of China, and ... |
16695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Kyrgyzstan | History of Kyrgyzstan | The history of the Kyrgyz people and the land now called Kyrgyzstan goes back more than 3,000 years. Although geographically isolated by its mountainous location, it had an important role as part of the historical Silk Road trade route. Turkic nomads, who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states such as the First and... |
16696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Kyrgyzstan | Geography of Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked nation in Central Asia, west of the People's Republic of China. Less than a seventh the size of Mongolia, at 199,951 square kilometers, Kyrgyzstan is one of the smaller Central Asian states. The national territory extends about from east to west and from north to south.
Kyrgyzstan is borde... |
16697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Kyrgyzstan | Demographics of Kyrgyzstan | The Demographics of Kyrgyzstan is about the demographic features of the population of Kyrgyzstan, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. The name Kyrgyz, both for the people and the country, means... |
16698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Kyrgyzstan | Politics of Kyrgyzstan | The politics of Kyrgyzstan, officially known as the Kyrgyz Republic, takes place in the framework of a presidential system representative democratic republic, whereby the President is head of state and the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers is head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legisl... |
16699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Kyrgyzstan | Economy of Kyrgyzstan | The economy of Kyrgyzstan is heavily dependent on the agricultural sector. Cotton, tobacco, wool, and meat are the main agricultural products, although only tobacco and cotton are exported in any quantity. According to Healy Consultants, Kyrgyzstan's economy relies heavily on the strength of industrial exports, with pl... |
16700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Kyrgyzstan | Telecommunications in Kyrgyzstan | Telecommunications in Kyrgyzstan include fixed and mobile telephones and the Internet.
Communications policy
The long-term goal of the government's information and communications technology strategy is for the telecommunications sector to contribute 5 percent to gross domestic product by 2010. The June 2006 launch of... |
16701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kyrgyzstan | Transport in Kyrgyzstan | Transport in Kyrgyzstan is severely constrained by the country's alpine topography. Roads have to snake up steep valleys, cross passes of altitude and more, and are subject to frequent mud slides and snow avalanches. Winter travel is close to impossible in many of the more remote and high-altitude regions. Additional ... |
16702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20the%20Kyrgyz%20Republic | Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic | The Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic (; Qırğız Respublikasının Quralduu Küçtörü) is the national military of Kyrgyzstan. It was originally formed from the former Soviet forces of the Turkestan Military District stationed in newly independent Kyrgyzstan. It consists of the Ground Forces, the Air Force and the Nationa... |
16703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Kyrgyzstan | Foreign relations of Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyzstan favors close relations with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, particularly Kazakhstan and Russia.
While Kyrgyzstan was initially determined to stay in the ruble zone, the stringent conditions set forth by the Russian Government prompted Kyrgyzstan to introduce its own currency, the so... |
16705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool%20Keith | Kool Keith | Keith Matthew Thornton (born October 7, 1963), better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper and record producer from The Bronx, New York known for his surreal, abstract and often profane or incomprehensible lyrics. Kool Keith has recorded prolifically both as a solo artist and in group collaboration... |
16707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Cobain | Kurt Cobain | Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, artist and musician. He was the frontman of the rock band Nirvana, serving as the band's guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona, Cobain's compositio... |
16708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Beck | Kent Beck | Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile ... |
16709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20krona | Swedish krona | The krona (; plural: kronor; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the official currency of Sweden. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value. In English, the currency is someti... |
16710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krone | Krone | Krone (the cognate of Crown) may refer to:
General
Crown (headgear)
ADC KRONE & The KRONE Group in ADC Telecommunications
KRONE LSA-PLUS, a popular telecommunications connector, or krone tool
Krone an der Brahe, the German name for Koronowo, Poland
Diu Crône, a medieval poem
Kronen Zeitung, an Austrian tabloid
... |
16712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kattegat | Kattegat | The Kattegat (; ) is a sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish Straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Västergötland, Skåne, Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden in the east. The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Danish Straits. The sea area ... |
16714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov%20test | Kolmogorov–Smirnov test | In statistics, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (K–S test or KS test) is a nonparametric test of the equality of continuous (or discontinuous, see Section 2.2), one-dimensional probability distributions that can be used to compare a sample with a reference probability distribution (one-sample K–S test), or to compare two sa... |
16716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas | Kansas | Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Ka... |
16717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K | K | K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is kay (pronounced ), plural kays. The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive.
History
The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the s... |
16718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kappa (disambiguation) | Kappa is a letter of the Greek alphabet.
Kappa may also refer to:
Measurement
Cohen's kappa, also known as Kappa statistic
Fleiss' kappa, another measure of inter-annotator agreement
Kappa number, a measure of lignin content in wood pulp
Companies
Kappa (brand), an Italian sportswear brand
Kappa Publishing Grou... |
16720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper%27s%20test | Kuiper's test | Kuiper's test is used in statistics to test that whether a given distribution, or family of distributions, is contradicted by evidence from a sample of data. It is named after Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Kuiper.
Kuiper's test is closely related to the better-known Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (or K-S test as it is often c... |
16724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%20Hammett | Kirk Hammett | Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, Hammett was ranked 11th on Rolling Stone's list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists... |
16726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kul%20Tigin | Kul Tigin | Kul Tigin ( , Pinyin: Quètèqín, Wade-Giles: chüeh-t'e-ch'in, Xiao'erjing: ٿُؤ تْ ٿٍ, AD 684–731) was a general and a prince of the Second Turkic Khaganate.
Etymology
Necip Asım (1921) for the first time did read his name as köl, based on the etymology of Mahmud al-Kashgari, meaning "lake, sea". Radloff did read this ... |
16733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky%20Friedman | Kinky Friedman | Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.
Friedman was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election f... |
16736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20G%C3%B6del | Kurt Gödel | Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( , ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an immense effect upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when... |
16743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Marx | Karl Marx | Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx'... |
16744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keno | Keno | Keno is a lottery-like gambling game often played at modern casinos, and also offered as a game by some state lotteries.
Players wager by choosing numbers ranging from 1 through (usually) 80. After all players make their wagers, 20 numbers (some variants draw fewer numbers) are drawn at random, either with a ball mac... |
16745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyanthropus | Kenyanthropus | Kenyanthropus is a hominin genus identified from the Lomekwi site by Lake Turkana, Kenya, dated to 3.3 to 3.2 million years ago during the Middle Pliocene. It contains one species, K. platyops, but may also include the 2 million year old Homo rudolfensis, or K. rudolfensis. Before its naming in 2001, Australopithecus a... |
16746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate | Karate | (; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; tii in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian White Crane. Karate is now predominantly a striking art using punching, kicking, kne... |
16748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickboxing | Kickboxing | Kickboxing is a group of stand-up combat sports and a form of boxing based on kicking and punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favor the use of kicks. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defence, general fitness, or as a contact sport. Some ... |
16749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea | Korea | Korea is a region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided between two countries at or near the 38th parallel, North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (the Republic of Korea). Korea consists of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and several minor islands near the peninsula. It is bo... |
16750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%20star | Kleene star | In mathematical logic and computer science, the Kleene star (or Kleene operator or Kleene closure) is a unary operation, either on sets of strings or on sets of symbols or characters. In mathematics
it is more commonly known as the free monoid construction. The application of the Kleene star to a set is written as . I... |
16756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20language | Korean language | Korean ( , hangugeo; , chosŏnmal) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people, mainly Korean, as of 2020. It is the official and national language of both North Korea and South Korea (originally Korea), with different standardized official forms used in each country. It is a recognised minority languag... |
16757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20MacLachlan | Kyle MacLachlan | Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (; McLachlan, February 22, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks (1990–1991; 2017) and its film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as well as roles in two of David Lynch's films: Paul Atreides in Dune (1984) and Jeffrey Beaumont in Blu... |
16759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevlar | Kevlar | Kevlar (para-aramid) is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires. It is typically spun into ropes... |
16760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%20War | Kosovo War | The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA... |
16766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent | Kent | Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover. The county to... |
16767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20James%20Version | King James Version | The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. The books of the King James Version include 39 books of the O... |
16768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Spacey | Kevin Spacey | Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer, and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles in film and television. Spacey's first roles in film were in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), and Working Girl (1988). He gained critical acclaim in the ... |
16769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20Eric%20Drexler | K. Eric Drexler | Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for studies of the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and ... |
16771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel | Kernel | Kernel may refer to:
Computing
Kernel (operating system), the central component of most operating systems
Kernel (image processing), a matrix used for image convolution
Compute kernel, in GPGPU programming
Kernel method, in machine learning
Kernelization, a technique for designing efficient algorithms
Kernel, a ... |
16772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20War | Korean War | {{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Korean War
| partof = the Cold War and the Korean conflict
| image = Korean War Montage 2.png
| image_size = 300px
| caption = Clockwise from top:
| date =
| place = Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of J... |
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