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16880
Karnataka
| image_seal = Seal of Karnataka.svg | etymology = Land of Kannadigas | nickname = "IT Capital of India" | motto = Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone triumphs) | anthem Jaya Bhārata Jananiya Tanujāte, Jaya Hē Karnāṭaka Māte | image_map = IN-KA.svg | coordinates | region = South India | before_was = Mysore State | formation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka
2025-04-05T18:32:34.296244
16881
Kashrut
(also or , }}) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people 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 Ashkenazi pronunciation of the term that in Sephardi or Modern Hebrew is pronounced ka...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut
2025-04-05T18:32:34.338508
16882
KLM
| headquarters = Amstelveen, Netherlands<!--Cited below--> | key_people Marjan Rintel (president & CEO) is the flag carrier of the Netherlands. KLM’s headquarters are located in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM group and a member of the SkyTeam airl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLM
2025-04-05T18:32:34.435983
16883
Kansas City Royals
| colors Royal blue, gold, powder blue, white<!-- The color codes for royal blue & gold are official, per https://images.ctfassets.net/iiozhi00a8lc/t118_url_logoroyals_url_svg/61ee81b127e5feb49aa4839e6b95ed7d/royalscom-landingpage.svg. Please do not change them. Thank you. --><br /> | name = Kansas City Royals | y3 = ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals
2025-04-05T18:32:34.514631
16887
Kosher (disambiguation)
Kosher is food that may be consumed according to 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 Chametz, the dietary ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_(disambiguation)
2025-04-05T18:32:34.517192
16890
Klingon language
<!-- On this page, Klingon text in the Latin alphabet is displayed in typewriter font, and with the modifier letter apostrophe ( ʼ ) rather than the ASCII apostrophe ( ' ), which is a punctuation mark. See Klingon language § Writing systems. --> }} | pronunciation = | speakers = None as a first language; around a doz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
2025-04-05T18:32:34.581264
16892
Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus (series)}} | series = Kid Icarus | released = |NES||Game Boy Advance|Nintendo 3DS|<!-- Do not list emulated releases such as Virtual Console -->}} | genre = Platform | engine | modes Single-player }} Kid Icarus<!-- See WP:JFN -->.}} is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus
2025-04-05T18:32:34.605004
16893
Kansas City (disambiguation)
The Kansas City metropolitan area is in Missouri and Kansas, United States. Kansas City may also refer to: Places Kansas City, Missouri, the anchor city of the metropolitan area Kansas City, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Oregon Music "Kansas City" (Leiber and Stoller song) covered by Wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_(disambiguation)
2025-04-05T18:32:34.607968
16894
Kylie Minogue
| image = File:Kylie_Minogue_Tension_Tour_Bangkok_02_(cropped).jpg | alt = An image of Kylie Minogue in a purple dress performing on stage. | caption = Minogue performing on the Tension Tour in 2025 | birth_name = Kylie Ann Minogue<!--she does not use her middle name--> | birth_date | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Minogue
2025-04-05T18:32:34.761935
16897
Knight
Equites|other uses|Knight (disambiguation)|and|Knights (disambiguation)}} , from the Codex Manesse]] 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. The co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight
2025-04-05T18:32:34.802753
16898
Kara Sea
| type = Sea | inflow | outflow | catchment | basin_countries Russia | length | width | area | depth | max-depth | volume | frozen = Practically all year round | reference }} The Kara Sea ; , }} is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Lapte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Sea
2025-04-05T18:32:34.813409
16899
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | highschool = Power Memorial<br/>(New York City, New York) | college = UCLA (1966–1969) | draft_year = 1969 | draft_round = 1 | draft_pick = 1 | draft_team = Milwaukee Bucks | career_start = 1969 | career_end = 1989 | career_position = Center | career_number = 33 | coach_s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar
2025-04-05T18:32:34.925600
16900
Kung fu (term)
thumb|Bruce Lee is an iconic figure of Kung fu In general, kung fu ( or kungfu ; pronounced ) refers to the Chinese martial arts also called 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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_fu_(term)
2025-04-05T18:32:34.933001
16903
Kuomintang
Kumintang}} <!--- Traditional Chinese shown as per MOS:ZH, our guideline on display of Chinese text ---> <br /><br /> | logo_size = 150 | colorcode = | leader = Sun Yat-sen | president = Chiang Kai-shek | logo = Emblem of the Kuomintang.svg | lang1 = Other | name_lang1 Nationalist Party of China<br /> Chinese Nationa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang
2025-04-05T18:32:35.045341
16904
KMT (disambiguation)
KMT often refers to Kuomintang, a political party in Taiwan. KMT or kmt may also refer to: "KMT" (song), 2017, by Drake Kmt (magazine), on ancient Egypt kilometre-tonne, km⋅t, or kmt, a unit of payload-distance King in Council (Sweden) or K.M:t, until 1975 km.t, a name for ancient Egypt using the hieroglyph Km K...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMT_(disambiguation)
2025-04-05T18:32:35.047585
16905
Kabbalah
Cabala}} Shaarei Ora]] Kabbalah or Qabalah ( ; |Qabbālā|reception, tradition}}) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (|Məqubbāl|receiver|labelnone}}). Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
2025-04-05T18:32:35.093332
16907
Kaang
Kaang may refer to: Kaang or Cagn, alternative spellings of ǀKaggen, a god in the San religion of southern Africa Kaang language, a Kuki-Chin language spoken by the Kaang Chins of Chin State, Burma See also Kaang Bong-kiun, a South Korean neuroscientist Kulbir Singh Kaang, a Punjabi literary critic Kang (disambiguatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaang
2025-04-05T18:32:35.094873
16908
Kadiogo Province
|pushpin_map |pushpin_label_position |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = |subdivision_type1 = Region |subdivision_name1 = Centre Region |subdivision_type2 |subdivision_name2 |seat_type =Capital |seat =Ouagadougou |government_type |leader_title |leader_name |leader_title1 <!-- for places with, say, both ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadiogo_Province
2025-04-05T18:32:35.100004
16910
Kagoshima
}} |official_name |settlement_type Core city <!-- images, nickname, motto ---> |image_skyline = Kagoshima Montage.jpg |image_caption = From top, left to right: Sengan-en Garden, Saigō Takamori statue, Kagoshima Aquarium, Ohara Festival, Tenmonkan, Hirakawa Zoological Park |image_flag = Flag of Kagoshima, Kagoshima.svg ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima
2025-04-05T18:32:35.137590
16911
Kajang
| other_name | native_name | nickname | motto Kajang Bandar Pilihan untuk Didiami<br>(Kajang: The Ideal City for Living) | website = | settlement_type = Town | image_map | image_skyline = File:Bandar Kajang, Hulu Langat District 20230618 120509.jpg | imagesize = 300px | image_caption | image_flag | image_seal = File...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajang
2025-04-05T18:32:35.148783
16912
Carl Benz
|birth_place = Mühlburg, Baden, German Confederation<br />(now Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) |death_date |death_place = Ladenburg, Baden, Weimar Republic |resting_place = Cemetery of Ladenburg |education = University of Karlsruhe |spouse = |children = 5 |significant_projects = Founded Fabrik für Maschinen zu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz
2025-04-05T18:32:35.168715
16913
Ceiba pentandra
|synonyms_ref In Spanish-speaking countries the tree is commonly known as "ceiba" and in French-speaking countries as fromager. The tree is cultivated for its cottonlike seed fibre, particularly in south-east Asia, and is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, silk-cotton or samauma.CharacteristicsThe tree grows up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba_pentandra
2025-04-05T18:32:35.178967
16914
Kyushu
| native_name_lang = ja | native_name_link = Japanese language | location = East Asia | coordinates | archipelago = Japanese Archipelago | area_km2 36782.37 | elevation_m = 1791 | country = | country_admin_divisions_title = Prefectures | country_admin_divisions = <br><br><br><br><br><br><br> | country_largest_city = ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu
2025-04-05T18:32:35.193502
16915
KAB-500KR
thumb|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 seeker employs a gimballed daylight television imaging sensor under a wide angle glass ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAB-500KR
2025-04-05T18:32:35.195847
16916
KAB-500L
thumb|KAB-500L guided bomb thumb|KAB-500L aerial bomb in Park Patriot thumb|KAB-500L aerial bomb in Park Patriot, rear angle 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 Aerospace Forces. The KAB-500L is long...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAB-500L
2025-04-05T18:32:35.197409
16917
Kamov Ka-50
<!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout, and guidelines. --> The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" (, English: kitefin shark), NATO reporting name Hokum A, is a Soviet/Russian single-seat attack helicopter with the distinctive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
2025-04-05T18:32:35.233462
16919
Kenny Dalglish
}}</small> | image = Kenny Dalglish 2009 Singapore.jpg | caption = Dalglish in 2009 | full_name Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish | birth_date | position = Forward | youthyears1 = 1967–1968 | youthclubs1 = Cumbernauld United | youthyears2 = 1968–1969 | youthclubs2 = Celtic | years1 = 1969–1977 | clubs1 = Celtic | caps1 = 204...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Dalglish
2025-04-05T18:32:35.319938
16920
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge representation (KR) aims to model information in a structured manner to formally represent it as knowledge in knowledge-based systems. Whereas knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, or KR²) also aims to understand, reason and interpret knowledge. KRR is widely used in the field of artificial intel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning
2025-04-05T18:32:35.342315
16921
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Aided_Retrieval_in_Activity_Context
2025-04-05T18:32:35.344233
16923
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) Cur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernow
2025-04-05T18:32:35.344994
16926
Kabaddi
Kabaddi (, ) is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players. It is one of the traditional games of South Asia. In this game, a raider enters the opposing half of the court to touch defenders and attempt to return within 30 seconds without being tackled. Points are awarded for successful tags, while d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi
2025-04-05T18:32:35.366126
16928
Kerameikos
| coor_pinpoint | coordinates_footnotes | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Greece | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Attica | subdivision_type2 = City | subdivision_name2 = Athens | subdivision_type3 | subdivision_name3 | established_title | established_date | timezone1 | utc_offset1 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerameikos
2025-04-05T18:32:35.372869
16930
Kabir Bedi
| birth_place = Lahore, Punjab, British India <br/> | occupation = | years_active = 1971–present | mother = Freda Bedi | spouse |||}} | children = 3 | honors Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Early life and education Kabir Bedi was born in Lahore in the Punjab Province of British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir_Bedi
2025-04-05T18:32:35.424074
16932
Kamov Ka-25
<!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout. --> 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 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-25
2025-04-05T18:32:35.431652
16933
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainite
2025-04-05T18:32:35.434686
16934
KAIST
| administrative_staff 944 | campus = Urban<br /> (Daedeok Campus)<br /> (Seoul Campus) | colors | nickname | mascot | fightsong | affiliations = AEARU, AOTULE, APRU, [http://www.aspireleague.org/ ASPIRE League]. | footnotes | address | website = | logo = }} KAIST (originally the Korea Advanced Institute of Scie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAIST
2025-04-05T18:32:35.450314
16936
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle
2025-04-05T18:32:35.451357
16938
Kaolinite
, or in oxide notation: | IMAsymbol Kln | strunz = 9.ED.05 | system = Triclinic | class = Pedial (1) <br /><small>(same H-M symbol)</small> | symmetry = P1 | unit cell a 5.13 Å, b 8.89 Å <br />c 7.25 Å; α 90° <br />β 104.5°, γ 89.8°; Z 2 | color = White to cream, sometimes red, blue or brown tints from impurities and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolinite
2025-04-05T18:32:35.832148
16941
Kawasaki Ki-56
<!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout. --> 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 nam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ki-56
2025-04-05T18:32:35.888550
16942
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
{| | Ship yard number = 511 | Ship way number | Ship laid down 1 August 1936 | Ship launched = 5 May 1937 | Ship completed = 15 March 1938 | Ship christened | Ship acquired | Ship maiden voyage = 24 March 1938 | Ship in service = 1938–1939 | Ship out of service = 1 September 1939 | Ship identification = Radio ID (DJV...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff
2025-04-05T18:32:35.940770
16947
Kerberos (protocol)
(version 4) | discontinued | latest release version Version 5, Release 1.21 | latest release date | latest preview version | latest preview date <!-- --> | programming language = C | operating system = Cross-platform | platform | size | language | genre Authentication protocol | license | website }} Kerberos () is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
2025-04-05T18:32:36.005656
16948
Ketamine
| DailyMedID = Ketamine | pregnancy_AU = B3 | pregnancy_AU_comment | addiction_liability Moderate–high | routes_of_administration Any | class = NMDA receptor antagonist; general anesthetic; dissociative hallucinogen; analgesic; antidepressant | ATC_prefix = N01 | ATC_suffix = AX03 | legal_AU = S8 | legal_BR = C1 | le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
2025-04-05T18:32:36.115300
16954
Kickapoo people
United States<br /></div> | languages = English, Spanish, Kickapoo | religions = Native American Church; Christianity (many Catholic, some Protestant); tribal religious practices | related = Sauk, Fox, other Algonquian peoples }} The Kickapoo people (; Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi; ) are an Algonquian-speaking Na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickapoo_people
2025-04-05T18:32:36.148960
16957
Kata (disambiguation)
Kata is a martial arts term referring to a pattern of defense-and-attack. Kata may also refer to: People Kata (given name), includes a list of people with the name Kata (surname), includes a list of people with the name Kata people or Katirs, alternative name for a tribal group of Afghanistan Places Kata, Myanma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata_(disambiguation)
2025-04-05T18:32:36.199352
16959
Katyusha rocket launcher
Katyusha}} <!-- Production history --> | designer = Georgy Langemak | design_date | manufacturer Voronezh Plant Comintern | production_date = 1941 | number = ~100,000 }} The Katyusha () is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher
2025-04-05T18:32:36.242717
16960
Kathy Acker
(disputed) | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date | death_place = Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico | occupation = | citizenship = United States | notableworks = Blood and Guts in High School (novel)<br>Great Expectations<br>New York (short story) | spouse = Robert Acker (1966–19??)<br>Peter Gordon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Acker
2025-04-05T18:32:36.318539
16966
Koh-i-Noor
| dimensions long| wide| deep}} | colour D (colourless) | diamond_type IIa | district = Guntur |country | cutter Levie Benjamin Voorzanger | owner Charles III in right of The Crown }} The ; ), and in Hindi, it is written as .}} also spelled Koh-e-Noor, Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor
2025-04-05T18:32:36.469912
16971
Kvass
(, to differentiate it from , 'acid', originally from , 'sour'); Belarusian: , ; Russian: , ; Ukrainian: , ; Latvian: ; Romanian: ; Hungarian: ; Serbian: ; Chinese: , ; Eastern Finnish: . Non-cognates include Estonian , Finnish , Georgian , ; Latvian (), Latgalian (, similar to Lithuanian ), Lithuanian (, similar to La...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
2025-04-05T18:32:36.621245
16972
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 of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser_theorem
2025-04-05T18:32:36.652583
16973
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 may 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 Chi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_(disambiguation)
2025-04-05T18:32:36.676451
16974
Knapsack problem
thumb|right|250px|Example of a one-dimensional (constraint) knapsack problem: which books should be chosen to maximize the amount of money while still keeping the overall weight under or equal to 15 kg? A multiple constrained problem could consider both the weight and volume of the books. (Solution: if any number of ea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
2025-04-05T18:32:36.758950
16976
Kernite
| IMAsymbol Ker | molweight = 273.22 g/mol | strunz = 6.DB.05 | system = Monoclinic | class = Prismatic (2/m) <br/><small>(same H-M symbol)</small> | symmetry = P2<sub>1</sub>/c | unit cell a 7.0172(2) <br/>b 9.1582(2) <br/>c 15.6774(5) [Å] <br/>β 108.861(2)°; Z 4 | color = Colorless, white | habit = Crystalline - occ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernite
2025-04-05T18:32:36.790792
16978
Ketoprofen
| MedlinePlus = a686014 | DailyMedID = Ketoprofen | pregnancy_AU = C | pregnancy_AU_comment | pregnancy_category | routes_of_administration = By mouth, topical, intravenous | class | ATCvet | ATC_prefix = M01 | ATC_suffix = AE03 | ATC_supplemental = , <!-- Legal status --> | legal_AU = S3 | legal_AU_comment = / S4 | ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoprofen
2025-04-05T18:32:36.849577
16980
KY
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 1997)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KY
2025-04-05T18:32:36.896890
16984
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
| num_staff | website }} 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 fundament...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Institute_for_Advanced_Study
2025-04-05T18:32:36.926758
16985
Kabuki
}} at the Ichimura-za theater theatre in Edo. Triptych woodblock print by Utagawa Toyokuni III.|383x383px]] is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily stylised performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costumes, and for the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki
2025-04-05T18:32:36.999669
16986
Kent State University
| type = Public research university | endowment $301.4 million (2021) | president = Todd Diacon | city = Kent | state = Ohio | country = United States | coor | campus Suburban college town<br /> (Main campus) | academic_affiliations = | parent = University System of Ohio | students 25,630 (Kent)<br /> 34,76...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_University
2025-04-05T18:32:37.070396
16987
Kelly Freas
| birth_place = Hornell, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = West Hills, California, U.S. | occupation = Artist, illustrator | genre = Fantasy, science fiction | period –2004 After his parents divorced, his mother remarried in 1939, and he took on his stepfather's last name of Freas. Frank Kelly Freas (prono...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Freas
2025-04-05T18:32:37.107096
16988
Knock-knock joke
| target | language English }} The knock-knock joke is an audience-participation joke cycle; a knock-knock joke is primarily a child's joke, 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 responds, "Who's there...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-knock_joke
2025-04-05T18:32:37.148859
16989
Kangol
| location_city = Cleator, Cumbria | location_country = England | locations | key_people | area_served | industry Textile | num_employees | parent Frasers Group | divisions | subsid | caption | homepage | dissolved | footnotes | intl = }} Kangol is a British clothing company famous for its headwear. The name Kang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangol
2025-04-05T18:32:37.174818
16991
Keith Moon
| birth_place = Wembley, Middlesex, England | death_date | death_place = Mayfair, London, England | resting_place = Golders Green Crematorium, London, England | spouse | partner = Annette Walter-Lax (1975–1978) | children = 1 | occupation = | module = | genre = | years_active = 1962–1978 | past_member_of = The Who...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Moon
2025-04-05T18:32:37.236104
16992
Kerosene
Kerosene, or paraffin, 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 the Greek (kērós) meaning "wax", and was registered as a trademark by Nova Scotia geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene
2025-04-05T18:32:37.304508
16994
Kwashiorkor
Kwashiorkor ( , is also ) is a form of severe protein malnutrition characterized by edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrates. However, the exact cause of kwashiorkor is still unknown. Inadequate food supply is correlated with kwashiorkor; occurrences in high-income countries are rare. It occurs amongst weanin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor
2025-04-05T18:32:37.360591
16995
Kundalini
s, and nadis]] 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 Goddes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
2025-04-05T18:32:37.412979
16999
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaj_Munk
2025-04-05T18:32:37.523503
17001
Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi (; pronounced in English; scientific name Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group), also called German turnip or turnip cabbage, is a biennial vegetable, a low, stout cultivar of wild cabbage. It is a cultivar of the same species as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi
2025-04-05T18:32:37.581930
17003
Tettigoniidae
|image = Tettigonia viridissima qtl2.jpg |image_caption = Tettigonia viridissima |image2 = Tettigonia viridissima - sound.ogg |image2_caption = Stridulation of T. viridissima |display_parents = 3 |parent_authority = Krauss, 1902 |taxon = Tettigoniidae |authority = Krauss, 1902 |subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies |subdivis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigoniidae
2025-04-05T18:32:37.642067
17004
Kennelly–Heaviside layer
thumb|Layers of the ionosphere. The Kennelly–Heaviside layer is the E region The 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 a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly–Heaviside_layer
2025-04-05T18:32:37.666933
17006
Knot
thumb|upright=2| knots: thumb| on Elbe 1 (ship, 1965) 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 rop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot
2025-04-05T18:32:37.728708
17007
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaris
2025-04-05T18:32:37.754398
17010
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderhook
2025-04-05T18:32:37.804673
17011
Orca
Killer Whale The Avengers)|1962 tokusatsu film|Killer Whale (film)Killer Whale (film)}} | name Orca<br />Killer whale | image = Killerwhales jumping.jpg | image_alt = Two killer whales jump above the sea surface, showing their black, white and grey colouration. The closer whale is upright and viewed from the side, whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca
2025-04-05T18:32:37.927741
17012
Kim Philby
| allegiance = | codename1 = Sonny, Stanley | awards = Order of Lenin<br />Order of Friendship of Peoples | birth_name = Harold Adrian Russell Philby | birth_date | birth_place = Ambala, Punjab, British India | death_date | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR | buried | spouse = | parents = St John Philby | e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby
2025-04-05T18:32:37.981563
17013
Kamacite
m) <br/>H-M symbol: (4/m 2/m) | symmetry = Imm | color = Iron black, steel gray | habit = Massive – uniformly indistinguishable crystals forming large masses | cleavage = Indistinct | fracture = Hackly – Jagged, torn surfaces, (e.g. fractured metals). | mohs = 4 | luster = Metallic | refractive | opticalprop | bire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamacite
2025-04-05T18:32:38.019458
17015
Kaohsiung
| other_name = Takau, Takao, Takow | settlement_type = Special municipality | image_skyline = | imagesize = 300px | image_caption | image_flag Flag of Kaohsiung City.svg | image_seal = Emblem of Kaohsiung City.svg | seal_type Logo (stylized form of ) | etymology = Takao Prefecture | nickname = The Harbor City (Gǎngdū)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung
2025-04-05T18:32:38.128482
17016
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), Russian volleyball player Alla Kuleshova (b. 1945), Russian rower Arkadi Kuleshov (1914–1978), Belarusian poet and translator Dmitry Kuleshov (born 197...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov
2025-04-05T18:32:38.154380
17020
Kashubians
<br /><br /> (diaspora)<br /> (diaspora) | languages = Kashubian, Polish (New mixed dialects, Kociewie dialect, Krajna dialect, Bory Tucholskie dialect), historically East Pomeranian & Low Prussian | religions = Roman Catholicism, Protestantism | image = Kashubians_2005.png | image_caption <div style"text-align: left>P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashubians
2025-04-05T18:32:38.255684
17022
Karst
thumb|Typical karst terrain of the Dinaric Alps thumb|Li Jiang fengcong (cone karst) in Guilin as part of the South China Karst thumb|Karst formation of the Serra de Tramuntana Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and dolomite. It is characterized by features...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst
2025-04-05T18:32:38.337432
17023
Kellogg–Briand Pact
, Paris, France | date_sealed | date_effective | condition_effective | date_expiration <!-- OR: --> | date_expiry <!-- --> | provisional_application | mediators <!-- format this as a bullet list --> | negotiators = * Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State * Aristide Briand, Minister of Foreign Affairs | original_signat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg–Briand_Pact
2025-04-05T18:32:38.373331
17025
Kidney
In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are about in length. They receive blood ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney
2025-04-05T18:32:38.513993
17026
Kern
Kern or KERN may refer to: People Kern (surname), includes a list of people with the name Kern (soldier), a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies Places Kern, Alaska, a ghost town in Alaska Kern, Austria, see Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck Kern, California, a former unincorporated community in Kern C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern
2025-04-05T18:32:38.540486
17027
Kermit (protocol)
<!--Fill in: Year (4 digits), month and day (2 digits)--> | based on | influenced | osilayer | ports | rfcs | hardware }} Kermit is a computer file transfer and management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s. It provides a consiste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol)
2025-04-05T18:32:38.570376
17029
Kermit the Frog
Joy DiMenna, the only daughter of Kermit Kalman Cohen, who worked as a sound engineer at WBAL-TV during Jim Henson's time with Sam and Friends, recalls that the puppet was named after her father. According to Cohen's obituary, as well as DiMenna and Lenny Levin, a colleague of Cohen's at WBAL: }} Another common belie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog
2025-04-05T18:32:38.628820
17031
KHAD
<br /> | nativename_r = <br /> | seal = Emblem of the KHAD (1980-1987).svg | seal_width = 140px | seal_caption = KhAD emblem from 1980 to 1987 | formed = | preceding1 = Istikhbarat (–1978) | preceding2 = AGSA (1978–1979) | preceding3 = KAM (1979–1979) | dissolved = | superseding1 = WAD (1987–1992) | superseding2 = ND...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHAD
2025-04-05T18:32:38.689197
17034
Protea cynaroides
| range_map_caption = IUCN range | range_map2 = Dist Map P Cynaroides 3.jpg | synonyms = *Scolymocephalus cynaroides (L.) Kuntze *Erodendrum cynariflorum Knight *Protea cyclophylla (Gand.) Gand. & Schinz *Protea eriolepis (Gand.) Gand. & Schinz *Protea petiolata H.Buek ex Meisn. *Protea woodwardii Endl. | synonym...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protea_cynaroides
2025-04-05T18:32:38.714397
17035
Kantele
thumb|Two five string kanteles by Melodia Soitin (2014). The shape of the upper kantele is more traditional, while the shape for the kantele below is slightly modernised A kantele () or kannel () is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele
2025-04-05T18:32:38.740149
17037
Kumquat
| j = gam<sup>1</sup>-gwat<sup>1</sup> | y = gāmgwāt | ci = | poj = kim-kiat | kanji = 金柑 | romaji = kinkan | hangul = 금귤 | hanja = 金橘 | rr = geumgyul | tha = ส้มจี๊ด | rtgs = somchíd | vie = kim quất | lang1 = ne | lang1_content = मुन्तला (muntala) }} Kumquats ( ), or cumquats in Australian English, are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat
2025-04-05T18:32:38.792173
17038
Kyanite
| IMAsymbol Ky | strunz = 9.AF.15 | system = Triclinic | class = Pinacoidal () <br/><small>(same H-M symbol)</small> | symmetry = P | unit cell a 7.1262(12) Å <br/>b 7.852(10) Å <br/>c 5.5724(10) Å <br/>α 89.99(2)°, β 101.11(2)° <br/>γ 106.03(1)°; Z 4 | color = Blue, white, rarely green, light gray to gray, rarely yell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyanite
2025-04-05T18:32:38.819644
17042
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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas–Nebraska_Act
2025-04-05T18:32:38.948408
17043
Kaleidoscope
thumb|A toy 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 symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection. These ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope
2025-04-05T18:32:38.984589
17044
Common kestrel
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision = About 10, see text | synonyms = Falco rupicolus <small>Daudin, 1800</small> (but see text)<br /> Falco tinnunculus interstictus <small>(lapsus)</small> }} The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel or Old World kestrel, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_kestrel
2025-04-05T18:32:39.025896
17045
Kalmia latifolia
Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, calico-bush, Description Kalmia latifolia is an evergreen shrub growing tall. The leaves are 3–12 cm long and 1–4 cm wide. The flowers are hexagonal, sometimes appearing to be pentagonal, ranging from light pink to white, and occur in clusters. There are several named cultivars t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmia_latifolia
2025-04-05T18:32:39.056037
17047
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 clu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KB
2025-04-05T18:32:39.077825
17049
Khmer Rouge
| native_name_lang = km | other_name | leader Pol Pot | foundation | dates – }} * 1951–1968 (political party) * 1968–1975 (insurgency) * 1975–1979 (government) * 1979–1999 (insurgency) | merger | split | predecessor | merged | successor | motives | area | size | headquarters = Phnom Penh, Cambodia | ideology | pos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
2025-04-05T18:32:39.193981
17051
Kenji Sahara
| birth_place = Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan | death_date | death_place | height | occupation = Actor | caption = Sahara on the set of King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) | other_names = Tadashi Ishihara, Jun Manjōme | years_active = 1953–2013 | spouse = }} Kenji Sahara (佐原 健二 Sahara Kenji) (born 14 May 1932) is a Japa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Sahara
2025-04-05T18:32:39.235898
17055
Kotoamatsukami
frame 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 appeare...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotoamatsukami
2025-04-05T18:32:39.240353
17056
Kiyoshi Atsumi
}} ) | birth_date | birth_place = Taito, Tokyo, Japan | death_date | death_place = Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan | other_names | years_active 1951–1996 | spouse | awards People's Honour Award<br>(1996) }} , born , was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Tora-san in the Japanese comedy film series Otoko wa Tsura...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Atsumi
2025-04-05T18:32:39.269202
17059
Karel Hynek Mácha
| birth_place = Prague, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) | death_date | death_place = Litoměřice, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) | resting_place = Vyšehrad, Prague | occupation = Poet | language = Czech | nationality = Czech | movement = Czech national revival | period | genre | subject | notableworks "Máj"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Hynek_Mácha
2025-04-05T18:32:39.275226
17060
Krupp
| logo = Krupp Logo.svg | logo_size = 200px | image | image_caption | type = Aktiengesellschaft | traded_as | fate Merged with Thyssen AG | defunct = 1999 | predecessor | successor ThyssenKrupp | foundation = in Essen, Germany | founder = Friedrich Krupp | location_city | location_country | area_served = Worldwide | ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp
2025-04-05T18:32:39.287074
17062
Kwame Nkrumah
| image = The National Archives UK - CO 1069-50-1.jpg | caption = Portrait of Kwame Nkrumah | office = President of Ghana | term_start = 1 July 1960 | term_end = 24 February 1966 | predecessor = Office established | successor = Joseph Arthur Ankrah as Chairman of the NLC | order1 = 3rd | office1 = Chairperson of the Or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah
2025-04-05T18:32:39.372795