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16936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle | Kabyle | Kabyle people, an ethnic group in Algeria
Kabyle language
Kabyle alphabet, also known as Berber Latin alphabet
Kabyle grammar
Kabylie, the Kabyle ethnic homeland
Kabyles du Pacifique, a group of Algerians deported to New Caledonia after an uprising in 1871
Kabyle (ancient city), an ancient Thracian city in southe... |
16938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolinite | Kaolinite | Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral sheet of alumina () octahedra. Rocks that are rich in kaolinite are known as kaolin... |
16941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki%20Ki-56 | Kawasaki Ki-56 | The Kawasaki Ki-56 (, Type 1 Freight Transport) was a Japanese two-engine light transport aircraft used during World War II. It was known to the Allies by the reporting name "Thalia". 121 were built between 1940 and 1943.
Design and development
The Kawasaki Ki-56 was derived from the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra ai... |
16942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20Wilhelm%20Gustloff | MV Wilhelm Gustloff | MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilian refugees from East Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia and military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died... |
16947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos%20%28protocol%29 | Kerberos (protocol) | Kerberos () is a computer-network authentication protocol that works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. Its designers aimed it primarily at a client–server model, and it provides mutual authentication—both the user an... |
16948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine | Ketamine | Ketamine is a medication primarily used for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. It induces dissociative anesthesia, a trance-like state providing pain relief, sedation, and amnesia. The distinguishing features of ketamine anesthesia are preserved breathing and airway reflexes, stimulated heart function with increa... |
16954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickapoo%20people | Kickapoo people | The Kickapoo people (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi; ) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American and Indigenous Mexican tribe, originating in the region south of the Great Lakes. Today, three federally recognized Kickapoo tribes are in the United States: the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma,... |
16957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kata (disambiguation) | Kata is a martial arts term referring to a pattern of defense-and-attack. Kata may also mean:
People:
Kata (name)
Kata people or Katirs, alternative name for a tribal group of Afghanistan
Katariina Souri (born 1968), Finnish author, artist, columnist, and a Playboy Playmate of the Month
Kata, Georgian royal prince... |
16959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha%20rocket%20launcher | Katyusha rocket launcher | The Katyusha multiple rocket launcher () is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these deliver explosives to a target area more intensively than conventional artillery, but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload. The... |
16960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy%20Acker | Kathy Acker | Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, W... |
16966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor | Koh-i-Noor | The Koh-i-Noor (; from Persian , "Mountain of Light"), also spelt Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing . It is part of the British Crown Jewels. The diamond is currently set in the crown of The Queen Mother.
Possibly mined in Kollur Mine, India, during the period of the Ka... |
16971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass | Kvass | Kvass is a fermented cereal-based non-alcoholic or low alcoholic (0.5–1.0% or 1–2 proof) beverage with a slightly cloudy appearance, light-dark brown colour and sweet-sour taste. It may be flavoured with berries, fruits, herbs and honey.
Terminology
The word kvass is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European base *kwat- ('s... |
16972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold%E2%80%93Moser%20theorem | Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem | The Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) theorem is a result in dynamical systems about the persistence of quasiperiodic motions under small perturbations. The theorem partly resolves the small-divisor problem that arises in the perturbation theory of classical mechanics.
The problem is whether or not a small perturbation o... |
16973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kam (disambiguation) | Kam or Kaam (from Sanskrit: kama) means deep extensive desire, often sexual, and is counted among the cardinal sins in Sikhism.
Kam or KAM also refer to:
People and language
Kam (name), a list of people with either the given name, nickname or surname
Kam people, a Kadai people in China
Kam language, spoken in China
K... |
16974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack%20problem | Knapsack problem | The knapsack problem is a problem in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit and the total value is as large as possible. It derives its name from the pr... |
16976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernite | Kernite | Kernite, also known as rasorite, is a hydrated sodium borate hydroxide mineral with formula . It is a colorless to white mineral crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system typically occurring as prismatic to acicular crystals or granular masses. It is relatively soft with Mohs hardness of 2.5 to 3 and light with a ... |
16978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoprofen | Ketoprofen | Ketoprofen is one of the propionic acid class of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) with analgesic and antipyretic effects. It acts by inhibiting the body's production of prostaglandin.
It was patented in 1967 and approved for medical use in 1980.
Medical uses
Ketoprofen is generally prescribed for arthriti... |
16980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KY | KY | KY or Ky may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Ky Kiske, a fictional character in the Guilty Gear video game series
Kashiyatra, a festival in India
People
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930-2011), South Vietnamese general and prime minister
Ky Baldwin (born 2001), Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor
Ky Bowman (born... |
16984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea%20Institute%20for%20Advanced%20Study | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | The Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) is an advanced research institute in South Korea. It is located on a campus in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.
KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic scien... |
16985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki | Kabuki | is a classical form of Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily-stylised performances, the often-glamorous costumes worn by performers, and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.
Kabuki is thought to have originated in the very early Edo period, when founder Izumo no Okuni form... |
16986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20State%20University | Kent State University | Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in Ashtabula, Burton, East Liverpool, Jackson Township, New Philadelphia, Salem, an... |
16987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Freas | Kelly Freas | Frank Kelly Freas (August 27, 1922 – January 2, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists" and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Early life, education, and personal life
... |
16988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-knock%20joke | Knock-knock joke | The knock-knock joke is a type of audience-participatory joke cycle, typically ending with a pun. Knock-knock jokes are primarily seen as children's jokes, though there are exceptions.
The scenario is of a person knocking on the front door to a house. The teller of the joke says, "Knock, knock!"; the recipient respond... |
16989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangol | Kangol | Kangol is an English clothing company famous for its headwear. The name Kangol reflects the original production where the K was for knitting, the ANG was for angora, and the OL was for wool. Although no Kangol hat has ever actually been manufactured in Australia, the Kangaroo logo was adopted by Kangol in 1983 because ... |
16991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Moon | Keith Moon | Keith John Moon (23 August 19467 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who. He was noted for his unique style and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour and addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Moon grew up in Alperton, a suburb of Wembley, in Middlesex, and took up the drums during the earl... |
16992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene | Kerosene | Kerosene, paraffin, or lamp oil is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in aviation as well as households. Its name derives from (keros) meaning "wax", and was registered as a trademark by Canadian geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving in... |
16994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor | Kwashiorkor | Kwashiorkor ( , ) is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. It is thought to be caused by sufficient calorie intake, but with insufficient protein consumption (or lack of good quality protein), which distinguishes it from marasmus. Recent studies have... |
16995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini | Kundalini | In Hinduism, Kundalini (, ) is a form of divine feminine energy (or Shakti) believed to be located at the base of the spine, in the muladhara. It is an important concept in Śhaiva Tantra, where it is believed to be a force or power associated with the divine feminine or the formless aspect of the Goddess. This energy i... |
16999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaj%20Munk | Kaj Munk | Kaj Harald Leininger Munk (commonly called Kaj Munk) (13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II. He is commemorated as a martyr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 14... |
17001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi | Kohlrabi | Kohlrabi (pronounced ; scientific name Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group), also called German turnip, is a biennial vegetable, a low, stout cultivar of wild cabbage. It is another cultivar of the same species as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, and gai lan.
It can... |
17003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigoniidae | Tettigoniidae | Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (in Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 6,400 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, the Tettigoniidae are the only extant (living) ... |
17004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside%20layer | Kennelly–Heaviside layer | The Heaviside layer, sometimes called the Kennelly–Heaviside layer, named after Arthur E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside, is a layer of ionised gas occurring roughly between 90km and 150 km (56 and 93 mi) above the ground — one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere. It is also known as the E region. It reflects m... |
17006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot | Knot | A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a ... |
17007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaris | Kanaris | Kanaris may refer to:
People
Kanaris family members:
Aristeidis Kanaris (1831–1863), Greek Army officer, son of Konstantinos Kanaris
Konstantinos Kanaris (1790–1877), Greek admiral and statesman
Miltiadis Kanaris (1822–1901), Greek admiral and politician, son of Konstantinos Kanaris
Other uses
Greek ship Kanaris... |
17010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderhook | Kinderhook | Kinderhook may refer to:
Places in the United States
Kinderhook, Illinois
Kinderhook (town), New York
Kinderhook (village), New York, in the above town
Kinderhook, Ohio
Kinderhook Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River, New York
Kinderhook Township, Pike County, Illinois
Kinderhook Township, Michigan, in Branch... |
17011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca | Orca | The orca or killer whale (Orcinus orca) is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member. It is recognizable by its black-and-white patterned body. A cosmopolitan species, orcas can be found in all of the world's oceans in a variety of marine environments, from Arctic and An... |
17012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Philby | Kim Philby | Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold W... |
17013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamacite | Kamacite | Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites. The proportion iron:nickel is between 90:10 and 95:5; small quantities of other elements, such as cobalt or carbon may also be present. The mineral has a metallic luster, is gray and has no clear cleavage although its crystal structure... |
17015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung | Kaohsiung | Kaohsiung City (; Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: Kao¹-hsiung²) is a special municipality in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban centre to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsiung city has a population of approximately 2.77 million people and is Taiwan's third most populous city and largest city... |
17016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov | Kuleshov | Kuleshov () and Kuleshova (; feminine) is a common Russian surname that traces its origins to Ukraine
People with this surname include:
Aleksey Kuleshov (b. 1979), a Russian volleyball player
Alla Kuleshova (b. 1945), Russian rower
Arkadi Kuleshov (b. 1914), a Belorussian poet and translator
Lev Kuleshov (1899–1... |
17020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubians | Kashubians | The Kashubians (; ; ), also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic (West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Pomerania, including its eastern part called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland. Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia. They speak the Kashubian language, which is classifi... |
17022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst | Karst | Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions. Subterranean drainage ... |
17023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand%20Pact | Kellogg–Briand Pact | The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris – officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, whic... |
17025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney | Kidney | The kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped organs found in vertebrates. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are about in length. They receive blood from the paired renal arteries; blood exits into the paired renal veins. Each kidney is attached to a ureter, a tub... |
17026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern | Kern | Kern or KERN may refer to:
Places
Kern, Alaska, a ghost town in Alaska
Kern, Austria, see Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck
Kern, California, a former unincorporated community in Kern County, California
Kern County, California, a county in the southern Central Valley of the U.S. state of California
Kern River, Cal... |
17027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit%20%28protocol%29 | Kermit (protocol) | Kermit is a computer file transfer/management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s. It provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, and character set conversion across many different computer ... |
17029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit%20the%20Frog | Kermit the Frog | Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character created and originally performed by Jim Henson. Introduced in 1955, Kermit serves as the everyman protagonist of numerous Muppet productions, most notably Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, as well as in other television series, feature films, specials, and public service announcem... |
17031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHAD | KHAD | Khadamat-e Aetla'at-e Dawlati (Pashto/ literally "State Intelligence Agency", also known as "State Information Services" or "Committee of State Security". Usually referred to by the acronym KHAD), was the main security agency and intelligence agency of Afghanistan. It functioned as the secret police when Afghanistan wa... |
17034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protea%20cynaroides | Protea cynaroides | Protea cynaroides, also called the king protea, is a flowering plant. It is a distinctive member of Protea, having the largest flower head in the genus. The species is also known as giant protea, honeypot or king sugar bush. It is widely distributed in the southwestern and southern parts of South Africa in the fynbos r... |
17035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele | Kantele | A kantele () or kannel () is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.
Construction
Small kantele
Modern instruments wi... |
17037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat | Kumquat | Kumquats (; , gāmgāt in Cantonese, jīnjú in Standard Mandarin), or cumquats in Australian English, are a group (Citrus japonica) of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae. They were previously classified as forming the now-historical genus Fortunella, or placed within Citrus, .
The edible fru... |
17038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyanite | Kyanite | Kyanite is a typically blue aluminosilicate mineral, found in aluminium-rich metamorphic pegmatites and sedimentary rock. It is the high pressure polymorph of andalusite and sillimanite, and the presence of kyanite in metamorphic rocks generally indicates metamorphism deep in the Earth's crust. Kyanite is also known as... |
17042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska%20Act | Kansas–Nebraska Act | The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 () was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce. Douglas introduced the bill intending to open up new... |
17043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope | Kaleidoscope | A kaleidoscope () is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of these mirrors are shown as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, from repeated reflection. These reflectors are usua... |
17044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20kestrel | Common kestrel | The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called "kestrel".
This spec... |
17045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmia%20latifolia | Kalmia latifolia | Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. Mountain laurel is the state flower of Conne... |
17047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KB | KB | KB, kB or kb may stand for:
Businesses and organizations
Banks
KB Kookmin Bank, South Korea
Kaupthing Bank, Iceland
Komerční banka, Czech Republic
Kasikornbank, Thailand
Karafarin Bank, Iran
Libraries
National Library of Sweden ()
National Library of the Netherlands ()
Sport
Kalix BF, a Swedish bandy club... |
17049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer%20Rouge | Khmer Rouge | The Khmer Rouge (; ; , ; "Red Khmer") is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by then Prime Minister Norodom Sihanouk to describe his country's h... |
17051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji%20Sahara | Kenji Sahara | Kenji Sahara (佐原 健二 Sahara Kenji) (born 14 May 1932) is a Japanese actor. He was born in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa. His real name is Masayoshi Kato (加藤 正好 Katō Masayoshi). Initially he used the name Tadashi Ishihara before changing it when he secured the lead role in Rodan (1956).
Selected filmography
Sahara did a lot o... |
17055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotoamatsukami | Kotoamatsukami | In Shinto, is the collective name for the first gods which came into existence at the time of the creation of the universe. They were born in Takamagahara, the world of Heaven at the time of the creation. Unlike the later gods, these deities were born without any procreation.
The three deities that first appeared wer... |
17056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Atsumi | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Kiyoshi Atsumi (渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi), born Yasuo Tadokoro (田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo, 10 March 1928 – 4 August 1996), was a Japanese actor. He was born in Tokyo, and started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 195... |
17059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Hynek%20M%C3%A1cha | Karel Hynek Mácha | Karel Hynek Mácha () (16 November 1810 – 5 November 1836) was a Czech romantic poet.
Biography
Mácha grew up in Prague, the son of a foreman at a mill. He learned Latin and German in school. He went on to study law at Prague University; during that time he also became involved in theatre (as an actor he first appeare... |
17060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp | Krupp | The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, is famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG (Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp after acquiring Hoesch AG in 1991 and lasting until 1999), was t... |
17062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame%20Nkrumah | Kwame Nkrumah | Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organi... |
17063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin | Guanyin | Guanyin, Guan Yin or Kuan Yin () () is the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion. She is the East Asian equivalent of Avalokiteśvara (), and has been adopted by other Eastern religions including Chinese folk religion. She was first given the appellation of "goddess of mercy" or the mercy goddess by Jesuit mis... |
17064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo | Kangaroo | The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia and N... |
17066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian%20photography | Kirlian photography | Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939, accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a high-voltage source, an image is produced on the photographi... |
17067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chios | Chios | Chios (; ) is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the northern Aegean Sea. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of mastic gum and its nickname is "the Mastic Island". Tourist attractions include its medieval villages and the 11th-century monastery of... |
17068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds | Kurds | Kurds () or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria. There are exclaves of Kurds in Central Anatolia, Khorasan, and the Caucasus, as well as significant Kurdish diaspo... |
17070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein%20theory | Kaluza–Klein theory | In physics, Kaluza–Klein theory (KK theory) is a classical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built around the idea of a fifth dimension beyond the common 4D of space and time and considered an important precursor to string theory. Gunnar Nordström had an earlier, similar idea. But in that case, a... |
17072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalsilite | Kalsilite | Kalsilite (KAlSiO4) is a vitreous white to grey feldspathoidal mineral that is found in some potassium-rich lavas, such as from Chamengo Crater in Uganda. It has a relative hardness of 5.5.
References
Webmineral.com
Handbook of Mineralogy
Potassium minerals
Aluminium minerals
Feldspathoid
Hexagonal minerals
Miner... |
17073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangchenjunga | Kangchenjunga | Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, is the third highest mountain in the world. It rises with an elevation of in a section of the Himalayas called Kangchenjunga Himal delimited in the west by the Tamur River, in the north by the Lhonak Chu and Jongsang La, and in the east by the Teesta River. It lies between Ind... |
17076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenilworth%20Castle | Kenilworth Castle | Kenilworth Castle is a castle in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England which was founded during the Norman conquest of England; with development through to the Tudor period. It has been described by the architectural historian Anthony Emery as "the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later ... |
17077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Lorenz | Konrad Lorenz | Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He ... |
17078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20W.%20Jeter | K. W. Jeter | Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950), is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, and has written three sequels to Blade Runner. Jeter also gained recogn... |
17079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Redfield%20Jamison | Kay Redfield Jamison | Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer. Her work has centered on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She holds the post of the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary ... |
17080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaoke | Karaoke | Karaoke (; ; , clipped compound of Japanese kara "empty" and ōkesutora "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to recorded music using a microphone. The music is an instrumental version of a well-known popular song. Lyrics are usually displayed on... |
17083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keykode | Keykode | Keykode (also written as either KeyKode or KeyCode) is an Eastman Kodak Company advancement on edge numbers, which are letters, numbers and symbols placed at regular intervals along the edge of 35 mm and 16 mm film to allow for frame-by-frame specific identification. It was introduced in 1990.
Keykode is a variation o... |
17086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knout | Knout | A knout is a heavy scourge-like multiple whip, usually made of a series of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated. The English word stems from a spelling-pronunciation of a French transliteration of the Russian word кнут (knut), which simply means "whip".
The origina... |
17087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Tsiolkovsky | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (; – 19 September 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist who pioneered astronautic theory. Along with the Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Transylvanian German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and a... |
17090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAOS | KAOS | KAOS or Kaos may refer to:
People
Kaos One (born 1971), Italian rapper
Kaos of Iberia, an ancient king of Causasian Iberia
Kenny Kaos or Kaos (born 1970), American professional wrestler
Wych Kaosayananda or Kaos (born 1974), Thai film director
Fiction
KAOS (Get Smart), a fictional criminal spy agency in Get Sm... |
17091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khornerstone | Khornerstone | In computer performance testing, Khornerstone is a multipurpose benchmark from Workstation Labs used in various periodicals such as UNIX Review.
The benchmark consists of 22 separate tests, including public domain components (such as Sieve and Dhrystone) as well as proprietary components. Since it contains proprietary... |
17094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ket | Ket | Ket or KET may refer to:
People
Ket people, a people of Siberia
Ket language, the language of the Ket people
Ket Sivan (born 1981), Cambodian swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events
Places
Ket (river), a river in Siberia
Keť, a village in south-west Slovakia
Literature
Ket (Greyhawk), a fictional natio... |
17095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary%20Mullis | Kary Mullis | Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist. In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and was awarded the Japan Prize in the same year. PCR became a central technique in... |
17096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey%20Reports | Kinsey Reports | The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by W.B. Saunders. The two best-s... |
17098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo | Kendo | is a modern Japanese martial art, descended from kenjutsu (one of old Japanese martial arts, swordsmanship), that uses bamboo swords (shinai) as well as protective armor (bōgu). Today, it is widely practiced within Japan and has spread to many other nations across the world.
Kendo is an activity that combines martial ... |
17100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher | Kingfisher | Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania but also can be seen in Europe. They can be found in deep forests near calm ponds and s... |
17102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesgrave | Kesgrave | Kesgrave is a town in the English county of Suffolk on the eastern edge of Ipswich. Kesgrave forms part of the wider Ipswich Built-up area.
History
The area was recorded as Gressgrava in the Domesday Book, by the late 15th century its name had become Kesgrave. Kesgrave remained a small agricultural settlement with ju... |
17103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Waldheim | Kurt Waldheim | Kurt Josef Waldheim (; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service i... |
17104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20K6 | AMD K6 | The K6 microprocessor was launched by AMD in 1997. The main advantage of this particular microprocessor is that it was designed to fit into existing desktop designs for Pentium-branded CPUs. It was marketed as a product that could perform as well as its Intel Pentium II equivalent but at a significantly lower price. T... |
17105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K7 | K7 | K7, K07 or K-7 may refer to:
A complete graph with 7 Vertices
Bluebird K7, a high speed hydroplane raced by Donald Campbell
Daewoo Precision Industries K7, a submachine gun with an integrated suppressor
Deep Space Station K7, a fictional space station featured in the Star Trek episodes "The Trouble With Tribbles" ... |
17106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q | KA9Q | KA9Q, also called KA9Q NOS or simply NOS, was a popular early implementation of TCP/IP and associated protocols for amateur packet radio systems and smaller personal computers connected via serial lines. It was named after the amateur radio callsign of Phil Karn, who first wrote the software for a CP/M system and then ... |
17112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC | HMAC | In cryptography, an HMAC (sometimes expanded as either keyed-hash message authentication code or hash-based message authentication code) is a specific type of message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function and a secret cryptographic key. As with any MAC, it may be used to simultaneously verif... |
17114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20escrow | Key escrow | Key escrow (also known as a "fair" cryptosystem) is an arrangement in which the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data are held in escrow so that, under certain circumstances, an authorized third party may gain access to those keys. These third parties may include businesses, who may want access to employees' secure bus... |
17116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20frame | Key frame | A key frame (or keyframe) in animation and filmmaking is a drawing or shot that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition. These are called frames because their position in time is measured in frames on a strip of film or on a digital video editing timeline. A sequence of key frames defines which ... |
17120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurf%C3%BCrstendamm | Kurfürstendamm | The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially Ku'damm, ) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former Kurfürsten (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevard can be considered the Champs-Élysées of Berlin and is lined with shops, houses, hotels and restaurants. In particula... |
17121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Schwitters | Kurt Schwitters | Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as ins... |
17122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Noland | Kenneth Noland | Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color Schoo... |
17123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi | Karachi | Karachi (; ; ; ALA-LC: , , ) is the largest city in Pakistan and the twelfth-largest city in the world. It is the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Ranked as a beta-global city, it is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre, with an estimated GDP of $164 billion (PPP) . Karachi is Pakistan's most c... |
17125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen%20Islands | Kerguelen Islands | The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly but officially , ), also known as the Desolation Islands ( in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large igneous province mostly submerged in the southern Indian Ocean. They are among t... |
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