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17129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahl%C3%BAa | Kahlúa | Kahlúa () is a brand of coffee liqueur owned by the Pernod Ricard company and produced in Veracruz, Mexico. The drink contains rum, sugar, and arabica coffee.
History
Pedro Domecq began producing Kahlúa in 1936. It was named Kahlúa, meaning "House of the Acolhua people" in the Veracruz Nahuatl language. Jules Berman ... |
17130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey%20Grammer | Kelsey Grammer | Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor, comedian, producer, director and writer, best known for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers and its spin-off Frasier, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. He is al... |
17131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemerovo | Kemerovo | Kemerovo () is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitim and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin. Its population was 532,981 in the 2010 Census; 484,754 in the 2002 Census; 520,263 in the 1989 Census.
The city was... |
17133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channels%20of%20the%20Hawaiian%20Islands | Channels of the Hawaiian Islands | In an archipelago like the Hawaiian Islands the water between islands is typically called a channel or passage. Described here are the channels between the islands of Hawaiʻi, arranged from northwest to southeast.
Kaulakahi Channel
The Kaulakahi Channel separates the islands of Niʻihau and Kauaʻi. It is wide. Kaula... |
17134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp%20Town | Kemp Town | Kemp Town Estate, also known as Kemp Town, is a 19th-century Regency architecture residential estate in the east of Brighton in East Sussex, England, UK. It consists of Arundel Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex Square, Chichester Terrace, and the Kemp Town Enclosures (the gardens). The estate was conceived and financed b... |
17135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20Derby | Kentucky Derby | The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings car... |
17138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword | Keyword | Keyword may refer to a word or a sort of phrase that can be associated with a particular subject, document or moment. It is used to explore or run specific searches in the title, in subject, in write ups, in documents and for internet search.
In context of programming language, a keyword is a closely related or associ... |
17139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX-87 | FX-87 | FX-87 is a polymorphic typed functional language based on a system for static program analysis in which every expression has two static properties: a type and an effect. In a study done by MIT, FX-87 yields similar performance results as functional languages on programs that do not contain side effects (Fibonacci, Fact... |
17140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katal | Katal | The katal (symbol: kat) is the unit of catalytic activity in the International System of Units (SI). It is a derived SI unit for quantifying the catalytic activity of enzymes (that is, measuring the enzymatic activity level in enzyme catalysis) and other catalysts.
The katal is invariant of the measurement procedure,... |
17143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala | Koala | The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern region... |
17147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20micro | Killer micro | A killer micro is a microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. It originally referred to the replacement of vector supercomputers built with bipolar technology by Massively Parallel Processors (MPP) assembled from a larger number of lower performing microprocessor... |
17148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20poke | Killer poke | In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing physical hardware damage on a machine or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values, via, for example, BASIC's POKE command, into a memory-mapped control register. The term is typically used to describe a family of fairly well known tricks that can overl... |
17149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20file | Kill file | A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a file used by some Usenet reading programs to discard articles matching some unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header lines. Adding a person or subject to one's kill file means that person or topic will be ignored by one's newsreader in the future. By ... |
17151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobaud | Kilobaud | Kilobaud may refer to:
One thousand baud
P.H.I.R.M., a 1980s computer hacking group originally known as Kilobaud
Kilobaud Microcomputing, a homebrew computer magazine from the 1980s |
17152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit | Kilobit | The kilobit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix kilo- (symbol k) is defined in the International System of Units (SI) as a multiplier of 103 (1 thousand), and therefore,
1 kilobit = = 1000 bits.
The kilobit has the unit symbol kbit or kb.
Using the common byte size o... |
17154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit%20Carson | Kit Carson | Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. He was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime by biographies and news articles, and exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime nov... |
17155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirin | Kirin | Kirin may refer to:
Mythology and fiction
Qilin or Kirin, a mythical creature known in various East Asian cultures
Ki-rin (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of monster in D&D
Kirin, a type of monster in Monster Hunter
Kirin, a type of creature in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series
Places
Jilin or Kirin, a ... |
17156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipper | Kipper | A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish, that has been split in a butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering wood chips (typically oak).
In Britain, Ireland and some regions of North America, kippers are most commonly consumed for bre... |
17157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipsigis%20people | Kipsigis people | The Kipsigis (spelt phonetically proper as Kipsigiis), are a South Eastern Nilotic people who predominantly live in western region of Kenya within the larger Kericho District of the former Rift Valley province. Their eponym roughly translates as 'a repductively sucessful bunch'. The IBEAC company and the British coloni... |
17160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife | Knife | A knife (plural knives; from Old Norse 'knife, dirk') is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, usually attached to a handle or hilt. One of the earliest tools used by humanity, knives appeared at least 2.5 million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools. Originally made of wood, bone, and stone (such as... |
17163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockout | Knockout | A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, as well as fighting-based video games. A full knockout is considered any lega... |
17165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari%20Desert | Kalahari Desert | The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for , covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal desert, whose name is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place".
Etymolo... |
17166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katanga%20Province | Katanga Province | Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Se... |
17168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathmandu | Kathmandu | Kathmandu (; , ), officially the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (), is the capital and the most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households in 2021 and 2.9 million people in its urban agglomeration. It is located in the Kathmandu Valley, a large valley in the high plateaus in central Nepal... |
17169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kington%20Magna | Kington Magna | Kington Magna is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England, about southwest of Gillingham.
History
The name Kington Magna means 'great King's Town'; it derives from cyne- (later cyning) and tūn, Old English for 'royal estate or manor'. The affix magna, Latin for great, was added to dist... |
17171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiosk | Kiosk | Historically, a kiosk () was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward. Today, several examples of this type of kiosk still exist in and around the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, and they can be seen in Balkan countri... |
17174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowbot%20Information%20Service | Knowbot Information Service | The Knowbot Information Service (KIS), also known as netaddress, is an Internet user search engine that debuted in December 1989. Although it searched users, not content, it could be argued to be the first search engine on the Internet as it queried more than a single network for information. It provided a uniform user... |
17176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS%20principle | KISS principle | KISS, an acronym for keep it simple, stupid, is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The phrase ha... |
17177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit | Kit | Kit may refer to:
Places
Kitt, Indiana, US, formerly Kit
Kit, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
Kit Hill, Cornwall, England
People
Kit (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
Barys Kit (1910–2018), Russian-born American rocket scientist
Animals
Young animals:
A short form of kitten, a youn... |
17178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KL0 | KL0 | Kernel Language 0 (KL0) is a sequential logic programming language based on Prolog, used in the ICOT Fifth generation computer project.
References
Prolog programming language family
Japanese inventions |
17179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KL1 | KL1 | KL1, or Kernel Language 1 is an experimental AND-parallel version of KL0 developed for the ICOT Fifth Generation Computer project. KL1 is an implementation of Flat GHC (a subset of the Guarded Horn Clauses language by Kazunori Ueda), making it a parallelised Prolog variant.
References
External links
The KLIC Associa... |
17180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamath%20people | Klamath people | The Klamath people are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Today Klamath people are enrolled in the federally recognized tribes:
Klamath Tribes (Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin (Yahuskin) Band of Northern Paiute Indians), Oregon
Quartz Valley Indian Community... |
17186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerer%E2%80%93May%20System | Klerer–May System | The Klerer–May System is a programming language developed in the mid-1960s, oriented to numerical scientific programming, whose most notable feature is its two-dimensional syntax based on traditional mathematical notation.
For input and output, the Klerer–May system used a Friden Flexowriter modified to allow half-lin... |
17188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KL-ONE | KL-ONE | KL-ONE (pronounced "kay ell won") is a knowledge representation system in the tradition of semantic networks and frames; that is, it is a frame language. The system is an attempt to overcome semantic indistinctness in semantic network representations and to explicitly represent conceptual information as a structured i... |
17190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipchoge%20Keino | Kipchoge Keino | Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino (born 17 January 1940) is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete. He was the chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) until 29 September 2017. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Keino was among the first in a long line of successful middle and long distance runners to come from the countr... |
17193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud%20Rasmussen | Knud Rasmussen | Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
Early ye... |
17195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knute%20Rockne | Knute Rockne | Knute Kenneth Rockne ( ; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was a Norwegian-American player and coach of American football at the University of Notre Dame. Leading Notre Dame for 13 seasons, Rockne would accumulate over 100 wins and three national championships.
Rockne is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in colleg... |
17198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kariba%20Dam | Kariba Dam | The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam stands tall and long. The dam forms Lake Kariba, which extends for and holds of water.
Construction
The dam was constructed on the orders of the Government of the Federation o... |
17199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keilhauite | Keilhauite | Keilhauite (also known as yttrotitanite) is a variety of the mineral titanite of a brownish black color, related to titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, calcium oxide, and yttrium oxide. The variety was described in 1841 and named for Baltazar Mathias Keilhau (1797–1858) a Norwegi... |
17202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley%20Amis | Kingsley Amis | Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Ji... |
17204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana | Kana | The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include: (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese; the most prominent magana system being ; the two descendants of man'yōgana, (2) cursive ,... |
17206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMS | KMS | KMS may refer to:
Organizations
National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark, or Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen
Keenie Meenie Services, private military contractor
Places and structures
Kumasi Airport, IATA code KMS, a national airport in Ghana
Medical
Kabuki makeup syndrome
Technology
Kernel mode-setting, of computer di... |
17209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights%20of%20the%20Lambda%20Calculus | Knights of the Lambda Calculus | The Knights of the Lambda Calculus is a semi-fictional organization of expert Lisp and Scheme hackers. The name refers to the lambda calculus, a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which Lisp is intimately connected, and references the Knights Templar.
There is no actual organization that goes by th... |
17210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowbot | Knowbot | A knowbot is a kind of bot that collects information by automatically gathering certain specified information from web sites.
KNOWBOT is the acronym for Knowledge-Based Object Technology. This term, used as early as 1988 and known to have been implemented by December 1989 at the latest describes computer-based object... |
17211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth | Knuth | Knuth is a name of Nordic origin. Knuth may refer to:
As a surname:
Daniel Knuth, American politician, environmentalist, and educator
Donald Knuth, American computer scientist; whence:
The Art of Computer Programming, often referred to by the author's name
Knuth's Algorithm X
21656 Knuth, Asteroid
Knuth–Morris–Pratt... |
17212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOMPILER | KOMPILER | In computing, the KOMPILER was one of the first language compilation and runtime systems for International Business Machines' IBM 701, the fastest commercial U.S. computer available in 1955.
Information on KOMPILER is listed on page 16 of Volume 2, Number 5 (May 1959) of the Communications of the ACM. Known versions a... |
17213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell | KornShell | KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial development was based on Bourne shell source code. Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike Veach and Pat Sullivan, who wrote the Emacs and vi-style li... |
17214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt | Kilt | A kilt ( ; Irish: féileadh) is a type of knee-length men’s dress skirt non-bifurcated with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands. It is first recorded in the 16th century as the great kilt, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloa... |
17216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Query%20and%20Manipulation%20Language | Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language | The Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language, or KQML, is a language
and protocol for communication among software agents and knowledge-based systems. It was
developed in the early 1990s as part of the DARPA knowledge Sharing Effort, which was aimed at developing techniques for building large-scale knowledge bases whi... |
17217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KR | KR | KR is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and WMO country code for South Korea.
KR or Kr may also refer to:
Sports
KR (basketball club), associated with Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur
Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, an Icelandic football club
Kickoff returner, in American and Canadian football
Transportation
Comores Aviation Int... |
17220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Jane%20Olson | Sara Jane Olson | Sara Jane Olson (born Kathleen Ann Soliah on January 16, 1947) was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in the 1970s. She grew up in Palmdale, California, the daughter of Norwegian-American parents, Elsie Soliah (née Engstrøm) and Palmdale High School English teacher and coach Martin Soliah.
She went into... |
17224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Recursive%20Calculator | Kent Recursive Calculator | KRC (Kent Recursive Calculator) is a lazy functional language developed by David Turner from November 1979 to October 1981 based on SASL, with pattern matching, guards and ZF expressions (now more usually called list comprehensions).
Two implementations of KRC were written: David Turner's original one in BCPL running o... |
17226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax | Kremvax | Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema of CWI (... |
17227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRL%20%28programming%20language%29 | KRL (programming language) | KRL is a knowledge representation language, developed by Daniel G. Bobrow and Terry Winograd while at Xerox PARC and Stanford University, respectively. It is a frame-based language.
KRL was an attempt to produce a language which was nice to read and write for the engineers who had to write programs in it, processed l... |
17230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSH | KSH | KSH or ksh may refer to:
Kenyan shilling, the currency of Kenya
KornShell, a Unix shell developed by David Korn in the early 1980s
Kölsch language (ISO 639-3 language code), a Ripuarian dialect spoken in Germany
, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office
Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Airport (IATA airport code), in Kermans... |
17231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSL | KSL | KSL may refer to:
Companies and organizations
KSL (radio), KSL-AM and KSL-FM, stations in Utah, US
KSL-TV, Utah, US
KSL.com, a Utah-based news website
Key Sounds Label, a Japanese record label
Knowledge Systems Laboratory, AI lab at Stanford
Korea StarCraft League, a tournament
Locations and transportation
Ka... |
17232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Systems%20Laboratory | Knowledge Systems Laboratory | Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) was an artificial intelligence research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University until 2007, located in the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford. Work focused on knowledge representation for shareable engineering knowledge bases and systems, com... |
17233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSR | KSR | KSR may refer to:
Kam Sheung Road station, Hong Kong; MTR station code
Kendall Square Research, former supercomputer company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Keyboard Send Receive, a type of teleprinter made by Teletype Corporation
KSR v. Teleflex, a US patent lawsuit
Katahdin Scout Reservation, a BSA camp in Maine... |
17234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTH | KTH | KTH may refer to:
Keat Hong LRT station, Singapore, LRT station abbreviation
Kent House railway station, London, National Rail station code
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a university in Sweden
KTH Krynica, a Polish ice hockey team
Khyber Teaching Hospital, a university hospital in Pakistan
.kth, the extensio... |
17240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John-F.-Kennedy-Platz | John-F.-Kennedy-Platz | John-F.-Kennedy-Platz (John F. Kennedy Square), formerly Rudolph-Wilde-Platz, in the Schöneberg section of Berlin is the square in front of the former city hall of West Berlin (Rathaus Schöneberg). It was here, on June 26, 1963, that US President John F. Kennedy gave his famous speech to the Berliners, in which he stat... |
17241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto%20Common%20Lisp | Kyoto Common Lisp | Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) is an implementation of Common Lisp by Taichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in the 1984 first edition of Guy Steele's book Common Lisp the Language and is available under a licenc... |
17245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Gustav%20Ahlefeldt | Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt | Karl Gustav Henry Folmer Ahlefeldt (13 March 1910 – 25 March 1985) was a Danish film actor. He appeared in the Carl Theodor Dreyer masterpiece Gertrud (1965).
Filmography
References
External links
1910 births
1985 deaths
Danish male film actors
Male actors from Copenhagen
20th-century Danish male actors |
17246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateretes | Kateretes | Kateretes is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae. There are about six described species in Kateretes.
Species
These six species belong to the genus Kateretes:
Kateretes dalmatinus (Sturm, 1844) g
Kateretes flavicans (Fairmaire, 1860) g
Kateretes mixtus Kirejtshuk, 1989 g
Kateretes pusi... |
17248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keflav%C3%ADk | Keflavík | Keflavík (pronounced , meaning Driftwood Bay) is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland. It is included in the municipality of Reykjanesbær whose population as of 2016 is 15,129.
In 1995, Keflavik merged with nearby Njarðvík and Hafnir to form the municipality of Reykjanesbær.
History
Founded in the 16t... |
17249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Parry | James Parry | James Parry (born July 13, 1967), commonly known by his nickname and username Kibo , is a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long signature, and a machine-assisted knack for "kibozing": joining any thread in which "kibo" was mentioned. His exploits have earned him a mult... |
17250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiritimati | Kiritimati | Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati. The name is derived from the English word "Christmas" written in Gilbertese according to its phonology, in which the combination ti is pronounced s, giving .
The island has the gre... |
17253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubla%20Khan | Kubla Khan | Kubla Khan () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a ... |
17254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubian%20language | Kashubian language | Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: , ) is a West Slavic lect belonging to the Lechitic subgroup along with Polish and Silesian. Although often classified as a language in its own right, it is sometimes viewed as a dialect of Pomeranian or as a dialect of Polish.
In Poland, it has been an officially recognized ethnic-m... |
17256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Milford | Kim Milford | Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988), known professionally as Kim Milford, was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. He was known for his stage acting in musicals such as The Rocky Horror Show and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Early years
Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford grew up in Win... |
17257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Kesey | Ken Kesey | Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the Univer... |
17260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar | Kandahar | Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the capital of Kandahar Province as well as the de facto capital of the Taliban, fo... |
17262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar%20Schwenckfeld | Caspar Schwenckfeld | Caspar (or Kaspar) Schwen(c)kfeld von Ossig () (1489 or 1490 – 10 December 1561) was a German theologian, writer, physician, naturalist, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist. He was one of the earliest promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.
Schwenckfeld came to Reformation princi... |
17264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitt%20Peak%20National%20Observatory | Kitt Peak National Observatory | The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. With more than twenty optical and two radio telescopes, it is one of the largest gatherings ... |
17268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz%20Stockhausen | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory t... |
17269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20MacLeod | Ken MacLeod | Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. He has won Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, nominated for Arthur C. Clarke Award
Biography
MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland on 2 August 1954. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a co... |
17270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanem%E2%80%93Bornu%20Empire | Kanem–Bornu Empire | The Kanem–Bornu Empire existed in areas which are now part of Niger, Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria. It was known to the Arabian geographers as the Kanem Empire from the 8th century AD onward and lasted as the independent kingdom of Bornu (the Bornu Empire) until 1900.
The Kanem Empire (c. 700–1380) was located in the pre... |
17272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Chernenko | Konstantin Chernenko | Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He briefly led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death on 10 March 1985.
Born to a poor family from Siberia, Chernenko joined the Komsom... |
17273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komondor | Komondor | The Komondor (), also known as the Hungarian sheepdog, is a large, white-coloured Hungarian breed of livestock guardian dog with a long, corded coat.
Sometimes referred to as 'mop dogs', the Komondor is a long-established dog breed commonly employed to guard livestock and other property. The Komondor was brought to Eu... |
17274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeshond | Keeshond | The Keeshond ( , plur. Keeshonden) is a medium-sized dog with a plush, two-layer coat of silver and black fur with a ruff and a curled tail. It originated in Holland, and its closest relatives are the German spitzes such as the Großspitz (Large Spitz), Mittelspitz (Medium Spitz), Kleinspitz (Miniature Spitz), Zwergspit... |
17275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krag%E2%80%93J%C3%B8rgensen | Krag–Jørgensen | The Krag–Jørgensen is a repeating bolt-action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century. It was adopted as a standard arm by Norway, Denmark, and the United States. About 300 were delivered to Boer forces of the South African Republic.
A distinctive feature o... |
17276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa | Krakatoa | Krakatoa (), also transcribed Krakatau (; ), is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcanic island group (Krakatoa Archipelago) comprising four islands. Two, Lang and Verlaten, are remnants of a previous volcanic edifice ... |
17278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin%20%28fortification%29 | Kremlin (fortification) | A kremlin (, ) is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. This word is often used to refer to the most famous one, the Moscow Kremlin, or metonymically to the government that is based there. Other such fortresses are called detinets, such as the Novgorod Detinets.
Etymology
The Russian word... |
17282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev%20wave | Kondratiev wave | In economics, Kondratiev waves (also called supercycles, great surges, long waves, K-waves or the long economic cycle) are hypothesized cycle-like phenomena in the modern world economy. The phenomenon is closely connected with the technology life cycle.
It is stated that the period of a wave ranges from forty to sixty... |
17284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koo%20Stark | Koo Stark | Kathleen Norris Stark (born April 26, 1956), better known as Koo Stark, is an American photographer and actress, known for her relationship with Prince Andrew. She is a patron of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, museum of the Victorian pioneer photographer.
Early life and education
Stark was born in New York. Her par... |
17289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment%20Voroshilov | Kliment Voroshilov | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (, , Klyment Okhrimovyč Vorošylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (, Klim Vorošilov; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union, the highest military ra... |
17291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi%20Yamaguchi | Kristi Yamaguchi | Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American former figure skater. In ladies' singles, Yamaguchi is the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1991 and 1992), and the 1992 U.S. champion. In 1992, she became the first Asian American woman to win a gold medal in a Winter Olympic competition. As... |
17292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof%20Penderecki | Krzysztof Penderecki | Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was an internationally renowned Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. Penderecki's oeuvre includes four operas, eigh... |
17293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krugerrand | Krugerrand | The Krugerrand (; ) is a South African coin, first minted on 3 July 1967 to help market South African gold and produced by Rand Refinery and the South African Mint. The name is a compound of Paul Kruger, the former President of the South African Republic (depicted on the obverse), and rand, the South African unit of cu... |
17294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%C4%91or%C4%91evi%C4%87%20dynasty | Karađorđević dynasty | The Karađorđević (, Karađorđevići / Карађорђевићи, ) dynasty is a Serb family, founded by Karađorđe Petrović (1768-1817), the veliki vožd ("grand leader") of Serbia during the First Serbian Uprising of 1804-1813. In the course of the 19th century the relatively short-lived dynasty was supported by the Russian Empire a... |
17296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20B%C3%B6ttiger | Karl Böttiger | Karl August Böttiger (8 June 1760 – 17 November 1835) was a German archaeologist and classicist, and a prominent member of the literary and artistic circles in Weimar and Jena.
Biography
Böttiger was born in Reichenbach, in the kingdom of Saxony, and educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig. Under the influence of Johan... |
17297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ferdinand%20Braun | Karl Ferdinand Braun | Karl Ferdinand Braun (; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology: he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi "for their contributions to th... |
17299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khunjerab%20Pass | Khunjerab Pass | Khunjerab Pass (; ; ) is a -high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains, in a strategic position on the northern border of Pakistan (Gilgit–Baltistan's Hunza and Nagar Districts) and on the southwest border of China (Xinjiang).
Mutsjliga Pass is a -high mountain pass at
near Khunjerab Pass.
Etymology
Its nam... |
17300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir%20Malevich | Kazimir Malevich | Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ( – 15 May 1935) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective art (or abstract art) in the 20th century. Born in Kyiv to an ethnic Polish family, his concept of Suprematism sought to deve... |
17302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiki%20Kaifu | Toshiki Kaifu | was a Japanese politician who served as the 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.
Early life and education
Kaifu was born in Nagoya City on 2 January 1931. He was educated at Chuo University and Waseda University.
Career
A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Kaifu ran successfully for the 1960 ... |
17303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakinomoto%20no%20Hitomaro | Kakinomoto no Hitomaro | Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂 or 柿本 人麿; – ) was a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat of the late Asuka period. He was the most prominent of the poets included in the Man'yōshū, the oldest waka anthology, but apart from what can be gleaned from hints in the Man'yōshū, the details of his life are largely uncertain. He w... |
17304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ernst%20von%20Baer | Karl Ernst von Baer | Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn ( – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographic... |
17306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20and%20Virginia%20Resolutions | Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional those a... |
17307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone%20Cops | Keystone Cops | The Keystone Cops (often spelled "Keystone Kops") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.
History
The idea for the Keystone Cops came from Hank Mann, and they were named for the Keystone st... |
17310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg | Koenigsegg | Koenigsegg Automotive AB () is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars, based in Ängelholm, Skåne County, Sweden.
Company
The company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by Christian von Koenigsegg, with the intention of producing a "world-class" sports car. Many years of development and testing led to the C... |
17311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad%20Oblast | Kaliningrad Oblast | Kaliningrad Oblast () is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave, and is situated on the Baltic coast. The oblast's largest city and administrative centre is the city of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg. The oblast's port city of Baltiysk is Russia's only port on the Baltic Sea that rem... |
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