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16773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kite (disambiguation) | A kite is a type of aircraft.
Kite or kites may also refer to:
Biology
Kite (bird)
Music
Kite (band), a Swedish synthpop duo
"Kite" (Arashi song)
"Kite" (U2 song)
"Kite" (Kate Bush song)
Kite (Kirsty MacColl album)
Kite (Stefanie Sun album)
"Kites" (song), a song by Simon Dupree
"Kite", a song by Nick Heyw... |
16774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20D%C3%B6nitz | Karl Dönitz | Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz; ; 16 September 1891 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later. As Supreme Comm... |
16775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto%20Protocol | Kyoto Protocol | The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part one) global warming is occurring and (part two) that human-made CO2 emissions ... |
16776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish | Kaddish | Kaddish or Qaddish or Qadish ( "holy") is a hymn praising God that is recited during Jewish prayer services. The central theme of the Kaddish is the magnification and sanctification of God's name. In the liturgy, different versions of the Kaddish are functionally chanted or sung as separators of the different sections ... |
16777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala | Kalevala | The Kalevala (, ) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of ... |
16779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku%20Klux%20Klan | Ku Klux Klan | The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Catholics, Native Americans as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, and atheists.
The Klan has existed in... |
16781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kylix (disambiguation) | A kylix or cylix is a type of drinking cup used in ancient Greece
Kylix may also refer to:
Kylix (gastropod), a genus of snails in the family Drilliidae
Cylix, the genus of a pipefish, Cylix tupareomanaia
Kylix (software), a programming tool |
16782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Kong%20%281933%20film%29 | King Kong (1933 film) | King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure fantasy horror monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was developed from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, an... |
16788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenning | Kenning | A kenning (Modern Icelandic: ) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English poetry. They continued to be a feature of Icelandic poetry (including rí... |
16789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kult%20%28role-playing%20game%29 | Kult (role-playing game) | Kult (Swedish for "Cult", stylized as KULT) is a contemporary horror role-playing game originally created by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén with illustrations by Nils Gulliksson, first published in Sweden by Äventyrsspel (later Target Games) in 1991. Kult is notable for its philosophical and religious depth as we... |
16790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Friedrich%20Abel | Carl Friedrich Abel | Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument.
Life
Abel was born in Köthen, a small German city, where his father, Christian Ferdinand Abel, had worked for yea... |
16791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kista | Kista | Kista () is a district in the borough of Rinkeby-Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. It has a strategic position located in between Sweden's main airport, the Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport and central Stockholm, and alongside the main national highway E4 economic artery. Kista comprises residential and commercial areas... |
16792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike%2C%20Yukon | Klondike, Yukon | The Klondike () is a region of the territory of Yukon, in northwestern Canada. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson City.
The area is merely an informal geographic region, and has no function to the territory as any kind of administrative region.
The Kl... |
16793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20cuisine | Korean cuisine | Korean cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Originating from ancient agricultural and nomadic traditions in Korea and southern Manchuria, Korean cuisine reflects a complex interaction of the natural environment and different cultural trends.
Korean cuisine is largely based on rice, veg... |
16794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte | Kilobyte | The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as 1000 (103); per this definition, one kilobyte is 1000 bytes. The internationally recommended unit symbol for the kilobyte is kB.
In some areas of information technology, particularly ... |
16795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Andree | Karl Andree | Karl Andree (20 October 1808 – 10 August 1875) was a German geographer.
Biography
Andree was born in Braunschweig. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berlin. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper Bremer Handelsblatt. From 1855, ... |
16796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper%20belt | Kuiper belt | The Kuiper belt () is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of s... |
16797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk (, "power station") are a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1969 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre. The group began as part of West Germany's experimental krautrock scen... |
16800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar%20Union | Kalmar Union | The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian, and ; Finnish: Kalmarin unioni; ) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, that from 1397 to 1523 joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including most of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas col... |
16801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav%20Maga | Krav Maga | Krav Maga (; Hebrew: , , lit. "contact combat") is a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido, and Karate. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situa... |
16802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Katzenjammer%20Kids | The Katzenjammer Kids | The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 and later drawn by Harold Knerr for 35 years (1914 to 1949). It debuted December 12, 1897, in the American Humorist, the Sunday supplement of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The comic strip was turned into a stage play in 1903... |
16803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone | Ketone | In chemistry, a ketone is a functional group with the structure R2C=O, where R can be a variety of carbon-containing substituents. Ketones contain a carbonyl group (a carbon-oxygen double bond). The simplest ketone is acetone (R = R' = methyl), with the formula CH3C(O)CH3. Many ketones are of great importance in biolo... |
16804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketene | Ketene | A ketene is an organic compound of the form R′R″C=C=O, where R and R' are two arbitrary monovalent chemical groups (or two separate substitution sites in the same molecule). The name may also refer to the specific compound ethenone , the simplest ketene.
Although they are highly useful, most ketenes are unstable. Whe... |
16806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kistvaen | Kistvaen | A kistvaen or cistvaen is a tomb or burial chamber formed from flat stone slabs in a box-like shape. If set completely underground, it may be covered by a tumulus. The word is derived from the Welsh cist (chest) and maen (stone). The term originated in relation to Celtic structures, typically pre-Christian, but in anti... |
16807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Stanley%20Robinson | Kim Stanley Robinson | Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published twenty-two novels and numerous short stories but is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and fe... |
16808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Arthur | King Arthur | King Arthur (, , ) was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of Welsh and English folklore and literary invention, and modern historians ge... |
16810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Zuse | Konrad Zuse | Konrad Zuse (; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its ... |
16812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw%20Mountain%20Landis | Kenesaw Mountain Landis | Kenesaw Mountain Landis (; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the C... |
16814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%E2%80%93Poinsot%20polyhedron | Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron | In geometry, a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron is any of four regular star polyhedra.
They may be obtained by stellating the regular convex dodecahedron and icosahedron, and differ from these in having regular pentagrammic faces or vertex figures. They can all be seen as three-dimensional analogues of the pentagram in one w... |
16815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w | Kraków | Kraków (), also known in English as Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of ... |
16818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora%20%28instrument%29 | Kora (instrument) | The kora (Manding languages: köra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp.
Description
The kora is built from a large calabash, cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a r... |
16820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Kenyon | Kathleen Kenyon | Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. She was Princ... |
16821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callicrates | Callicrates | Callicrates or Kallikrates (; ) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BC. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13). An inscription identifies him as the architect of "the Temple of Nike" on the Acropolis of Athens (IG I3 35). The temple in question is ... |
16822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Jerusalem | Kingdom of Jerusalem | The Kingdom of Jerusalem (; ; Arabic: مملكة القدس) also known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem or the Frankish Kingdom of Palestine, was a Crusader state established in the Southern Levant by Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 after the First Crusade. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when its... |
16824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball | Korfball | Korfball () is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. It is played by two teams of eight players with four female players and four male players in each team. The objective is to throw a ball into a netless basket that is mounted on a high pole.
The sport was invented by Dutch school teacher Nico B... |
16826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul | Kabul | Kabul (; , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the eastern section of the country. It is also a municipality, forming part of the greater Kabul Province, and divided into 22 districts. According to estimates in 2021, the population of Kabul was 4.6 million and it serves as Afghanistan's pol... |
16827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Bacon | Kevin Bacon | Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. His films include the musical-drama film Footloose (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK (1991), the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995), and the mystery drama Mystic River (2003). Bacon i... |
16829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornilov | Kornilov | Kornilov () and Kornilova (feminine; ) is a common Russian surname derived from the baptismal name Kornil (). Notable people with this surname include:
Aleksandr Kornilov (1862–1925), Russian historian and politician
Aleksandr Kornilov (born 1985), Russian Olympic rower
Boris Kornilov (1907–1938), Soviet poet
Denis Ko... |
16830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20technology | Keyboard technology | The technology of computer keyboards includes many elements. Among the more important of these is the switch technology that they use. Computer alphanumeric keyboards typically have 80 to 110 durable switches, generally one for each key. The choice of switch technology affects key response (the positive feedback that a... |
16831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick | Kick | A kick is a physical strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike). This type of attack is used frequently by hooved animals as well as humans in the context of s... |
16838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid%20al-Mihdhar | Khalid al-Mihdhar | Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (, ; also transliterated as Almihdhar) (May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001) was a Saudi Arabian terrorist hijacker. He was one of the five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.
Al-Mihdhar was born in Saudi Ara... |
16839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo- | Kilo- | Kilo is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication by one thousand (103). It is used in the International System of Units, where it has the symbol k, in lower case.
The prefix kilo is derived from the Greek word (), meaning "thousand".
In 19th century English it was sometimes spelled chilio,... |
16843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro | Utamaro | Kitagawa Utamaro (; – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of ... |
16844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi%20Annan | Kofi Annan | Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as cha... |
16846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky | Kentucky | Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to the east; Tennessee to the south; and Missouri to the west. The Commonwealth's northern border is defined by the Ohio ... |
16848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis | Kurtosis | In probability theory and statistics, kurtosis (from , kyrtos or kurtos, meaning "curved, arching") is a measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. Like skewness, kurtosis describes the shape of a probability distribution and there are different ways of quantifying it ... |
16849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon%20Ichikawa | Kon Ichikawa | was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). His fi... |
16850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20van%20het%20Reve | Karel van het Reve | Karel van het Reve (19 May 1921 – 4 March 1999) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.
He was born in Amsterdam and was raised as a communist. He lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime. With his help, wo... |
16851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana | Katakana | is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kan... |
16852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia%20Asamiya | Kia Asamiya | , best known by the pen name , is a Japanese manga artist whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences.
He is well known for using influences from American comics, television, and films in his work, and describes himself as a big fan of Batman and Star Wars. One of the most widely published Japane... |
16853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%C3%A1b-i-Aqdas | Kitáb-i-Aqdas | The Kitáb-i-Aqdas (), or simply Aqdas () is the central religious text of the Baháʼí Faith written by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873. Though it is the main source of Baháʼí laws and practices, much of the content deals with other matters, like foundational principles of the religion, the establishmen... |
16854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala%20Lumpur | Kuala Lumpur | {{Infobox settlement
| name = Kuala Lumpur
| settlement_type = Federal territory and Commercial capital city
| official_name = Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur{{nobold|Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur}}
| translit_lang1 = Other
| translit_lang1_type1 = Jawi
| trans... |
16855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20State%20University | Kansas State University | Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas. It has an enrollment of 16,... |
16857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting%20Kansas%20City | Sporting Kansas City | Sporting Kansas City, often shortened to Sporting KC, is an American professional soccer club based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The administrative offices are located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and the team clubhouse and practice facilities are located in Kansas City, Kansas, near Children's Mercy Par... |
16858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights%20of%20Columbus | Knights of Columbus | The Knights of Columbus (K of C) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Michael J. McGivney on March 29, 1882. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. It is led by Patrick E. Kelly, the order's 14th Supreme Knight.
The organization was founded in March 1882 as a mutual benefit society for wo... |
16860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20sword | Japanese sword | A is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as the Yayoi period (1000 BC – 300 AD), though most people generally refer to the curved blades made after the Heian period (794 – 1185) when speaking of "Japanese swords". There are many types of Japanese swords that d... |
16861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works, with further collections being published after his death.
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended... |
16862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan | Koan | A (; , ; , ; ) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen.
Etymology
The Japanese term is the Sino-Japanese reading of the Chinese word (). The term is a compound word, consisting of the characters "pub... |
16864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma | Karma | Karma (; , ; ) means action, work, or deed. For the believers in spirituality the term also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect, often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein intent and actions of an individual (cause) influence the future of that individual (effect): Good intent and good... |
16869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights%20Templar | Knights Templar | The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar, or simply the Templars, was a Catholic military order, one of the most wealthy and popular of the Western Christian military orders. They were founded in 1119, headquartered on the Templ... |
16871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa | Kazaa | Kazaa Media Desktop (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") is a discontinued peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks. Kazaa was subsequently under license as a legal music subscription service by Atrinsic... |
16873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimono | Kimono | The is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a T-shaped, wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, and is worn left side wrapped over right, unless the wearer is deceased. The kimono is traditionally worn with a broad sash, called an , and is commonly wor... |
16876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston%20upon%20Thames | Kingston upon Thames | Kingston upon Thames (hyphenated until 1965, colloquially known as Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, South West London, England. It is situated on the River Thames and southwest of Charing Cross. It is notable as the ancient market town in which Saxon kings were crowned and today is the... |
60533355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Amie | Anne Amie | Anne Amie is an Indian playback singer. Her career began when she sang her first solo, "Ethu Meghamari", in the film Kochavva Paulo Ayyappa Coelho.
Career
She participated in the music reality show, Star Singer on Asianet. Subsequently, she got a chance to work with Shaan Rahman for the film Kochavva Paulo Ayyappa Co... |
16880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka | Karnataka | Karnataka (; ISO: , ) is a state in the south western region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as the State of Mysore , it was renamed Karnataka in 1973. The state corresponds to the Carnatic region. Its capital and largest city is Bangalore.... |
16881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut | Kashrut | Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, ) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher ( in English, ), from the Ashkenazic pronunciation (KUHsher) of Hebrew kashér (), meaning "fit" (in... |
16882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM | KLM | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (literal translation: Royal Aviation Company, Inc.), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is part of the Air France–KLM group and a member of th... |
16883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20City%20Royals | Kansas City Royals | The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1969, and has played in four World Series, winning in 1985 ... |
16887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kosher (disambiguation) | Kosher is food that may be consumed according to the Kashrut, or Jewish dietary laws.
Kosher may also refer to:
Kosher (band), an American punk rock band formed in 1995 in Warrensburg, Missouri
Kosher Gym, a fitness club on Coney Island Avenue in the Midwood section of Flatbush, Brooklyn
See also
Absolutely Kosher ... |
16890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon%20language | Klingon language | The Klingon language (, : , ) is the constructed language spoken by a fictional alien race, the Klingons, in the Star Trek universe.
Described in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon features. The language's basic soun... |
16892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20Icarus | Kid Icarus | Kid Icarus is a platform game for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America. It was released in Japan in December 1986, in Europe in February 1987, and in North America in July 1987.
The plot of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for thre... |
16893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20City%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kansas City (disambiguation) | Kansas City is a metropolitan area in Missouri and Kansas, anchored by Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City may also refer to:
Kansas City, Missouri, the largest city in the metropolitan area
Places
Kansas City, Kansas
North Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Oregon
Music
"Kansas City" (Leiber and Stoller song)
... |
16894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie%20Minogue | Kylie Minogue | Kylie Ann Minogue (; born 28 May 1968), sometimes known mononymously as Kylie, is an Australian singer and actress who holds both Australian and British citizenship. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinventing h... |
16897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight | Knight | A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Greek hippeis and hoplite (ἱππεῖς) and Roman eques and centurion of classical ... |
16898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%20Sea | Kara Sea | The Kara Sea (, Karskoye more) is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all extensions of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is named a... |
16899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem%20Abdul-Jabbar | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most V... |
16900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20fu%20%28term%29 | Kung fu (term) | In general, kung fu/kungfu ( or ; pronounced ) refers to the Chinese martial arts also called wushu and quanfa. In China, it refers to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete. In its original meaning, kung fu can refer to any discipline or skill achieved through hard work ... |
16903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang | Kuomintang | The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD) or the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a major political party in the Republic of China throughout its historical periods in both the Chinese mainland as well as Taiwan. It was the dominant ruling party of the Republic of China on the mainland from 1928 to 19... |
16904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMT%20%28disambiguation%29 | KMT (disambiguation) | KMT often refers to Kuomintang, a political party in Republic of China (Taiwan).
KMT or kmt may also refer to:
"KMT" (song), a 2017 song by Drake
Kmt (magazine), a magazine on ancient Egypt
kilometre-tonne or kmt, a unit of payload-distance
King in Council (Sweden) or K.M:t, a term of constitutional importance tha... |
16905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah | Kabbalah | Kabbalah ( Qabālā, literally "reception, tradition" or "correspondence") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mekubal ( Məqubāl). The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its ... |
16908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadiogo%20Province | Kadiogo Province | Kadiogo is a province of Burkina Faso, located in its Centre Region. Its area is of 2,805 km2, containing six departments and a population of 3,032,668 (2019). Its capital is also the state capital, Ouagadougou. It features the central plateau of the country. It is highly urbanized and is both the most populated and th... |
16910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima | Kagoshima | , abbreviated to , is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyushu, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of the Eastern world" for its bay location (Aira Caldera), hot climate, and emblematic stratov... |
16911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajang | Kajang | Kajang is a town in southeastern Selangor, Malaysia. It is located 20 km southeast of downtown Kuala Lumpur, in the coterminous mukim (commune) of Kajang in the Hulu Langat District.
Geography and development
Kajang is about half an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur's central business district, primarily through Jalan C... |
16912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Benz | Carl Benz | Carl Friedrich Benz (; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929), sometimes also Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical automobile and first car put into series production. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886.
H... |
16913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba%20pentandra | Ceiba pentandra | Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa. A somewhat smaller variety was introduced to South... |
16914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu | Kyushu | is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands.
In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established a... |
16915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAB-500KR | KAB-500KR | The KAB-500Kr (Correctable air bomb - 500 kg) is an electro-optical TV-guided fire and forget bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1980s. It remains in service with the CIS and various export customers.
The KAB-500Kr is analogous to the American GBU-15 weapon. It uses a standard Soviet/Russian FAB-500 general... |
16916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAB-500L | KAB-500L | The KAB-500L is a laser-guided bomb developed by the Soviet Air Force, entering service in 1975. It remains in service with the CIS and post-Soviet Russian Air Force.
The KAB-500L is a standard FAB-500 general-purpose bomb, which has a nominal weight of , fitted with a semi-active laser seeker and guidance fins, turn... |
16917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov%20Ka-50 | Kamov Ka-50 | The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" (, English: kitefin shark, NATO reporting name: Hokum A) is a Russian single-seat attack helicopter with the distinctive coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995. It is manufactured by the Progress com... |
16919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Dalglish | Kenny Dalglish | Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former football player and manager. During his career, he made 338 appearances for Celtic and 515 for Liverpool, playing as a forward, and earned a record 102 full caps for the Scotland national team, scoring 30 goals, also a joint-record. Dalglish won t... |
16920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20representation%20and%20reasoning | Knowledge representation and reasoning | Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, KR²) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can use to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medical condition or having a dialog in a natural language. Knowledge representa... |
16921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Aided%20Retrieval%20in%20Activity%20Context | Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context | Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context (KARNAC) is a system being developed in the United States for use in profiling different categories of terrorist attacks to determine the components of possible future terrorist incidents.
Information for KARNAC is generally to be derived from structured, semi-structured a... |
16923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernow | Kernow | Kernow may refer to:
Cornwall (), a county of the UK
Kernow (bus company), a bus company in Cornwall
Mebyon Kernow, a political party in Cornwall
See also
Cornouaille (), a region of Brittany, France
Kern (disambiguation)
Cornwall (disambiguation)
Cornwallis (disambiguation)
Cornouaille (disambiguation) |
16926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi | Kabaddi | Kabaddi is a contact team sport with origins in Ancient India. Played between two teams of seven players, the objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a "raider", to run into the opposing team's half of a court, touch out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their own hal... |
16928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerameikos | Kerameikos | Kerameikos (, ) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters' quarter of t... |
16930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir%20Bedi | Kabir Bedi | Kabir Bedi (born 16 January 1946) is an Indian film actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other European countries in three media: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story and t... |
16931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaber | Kaber | Kaber may refer to:
a variant spelling for caber
People
Kaber (Jubilees), a person named in the Book of Jubilees
Place
Kaber, Cumbria |
16932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov%20Ka-25 | Kamov Ka-25 | The Kamov Ka-25 (NATO reporting name "Hormone") is a naval helicopter, developed for the Soviet Navy in the USSR from 1958.
Design and development
In the late 1950s there was an urgent demand for anti-submarine helicopters for deployment on new ships equipped with helicopter platforms entering service with the Soviet... |
16933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainite | Kainite | Kainite ( or ) (KMg(SO4)Cl·3H2O) is an evaporite mineral in the class of "Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H2O" according to the Nickel–Strunz classification. It is a hydrated potassium-magnesium sulfate-chloride, naturally occurring in irregular granular masses or as crystalline coatings in cavi... |
16934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAIST | KAIST | The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public, research-oriented science and engineering institution. KAIST is considered to be one o... |
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