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16,928 | # Kerameikos
## Museum
The area is enclosed and visitable through an entrance on the last block of Ermou Street, close to the intersection with Peiraios Street. The Kerameikos Museum is housed there, in a small neoclassical building that houses the most extensive collection of burial-related artifacts in Greece, vary... | 210 | Kerameikos | 2 |
16,930 | # Kabir Bedi
**Kabir Bedi** (born 16 January 1946) is an Indian actor. His career has spanned three continents covering India, the United States and especially Italy among other Western countries in three media: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in *Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love... | 785 | Kabir Bedi | 0 |
16,930 | # Kabir Bedi
## Career
### Charity
In February 2017, Bedi was announced as the new \'brand ambassador\' for international development organisation, Sightsavers, saying on his appointment, \"Today there is immense awareness and attempt towards eye health and care in India and Sightsavers have shown way to people at la... | 400 | Kabir Bedi | 1 |
16,930 | # Kabir Bedi
## Filmography
### Films
Year Film title Character
------ --------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------
1971 *Hulchul* Mahesh Jetley #3
... | 429 | Kabir Bedi | 2 |
16,930 | # Kabir Bedi
## Filmography
### Television
TV show title Release year Status Character
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ ------------------------ -------------------... | 358 | Kabir Bedi | 3 |
16,930 | # Kabir Bedi
## Radio
Radio title Release year Status Character
------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- ------------ -----------
Ch@t (Italian fiction) 2007 RAI Radio2 S... | 152 | Kabir Bedi | 4 |
16,932 | # Kamov Ka-25
The **Kamov Ka-25** (NATO reporting name \"**Hormone**\") is a naval helicopter, developed for the Soviet Navy in the USSR from 1958.
## Design and development {#design_and_development}
In the late 1950s there was an urgent demand for anti-submarine helicopters for deployment on new ships equipped with... | 419 | Kamov Ka-25 | 0 |
16,932 | # Kamov Ka-25
## Variants
Ka-25BSh: (NATO reporting name \'Hormone-A\') Variants are used in the anti-submarine warfare role, equipped with radar, dipping sonar and a towed MAD and armed with torpedoes and nuclear or conventional depth-charges.\
Ka-25BShZ: Mine-sweeping version, eight built.\
Ka-25C: Little-known upg... | 276 | Kamov Ka-25 | 1 |
16,933 | # Kainite
**Kainite** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|aɪ|n|aɪ|t}}`{=mediawiki} or `{{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|eɪ|n|aɪ|t}}`{=mediawiki}) (KMg(SO~4~)Cl·3H~2~O) is an evaporite mineral in the class of \"Sulfates (selenates, etc.) with additional anions, with H~2~O\" according to the Nickel--Strunz classification. It is a hydrated potassium-magnesium... | 279 | Kainite | 0 |
16,941 | # Kawasaki Ki-56
The **Kawasaki Ki-56** (*一式貨物輸送機*, 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**. One-hundred twenty-one were built between 1940-43.
## Design and development {#design_and_development... | 277 | Kawasaki Ki-56 | 0 |
16,947 | # Kerberos (protocol)
**Kerberos** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɜːr|b|ər|ɒ|s}}`{=mediawiki}) 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 clie... | 469 | Kerberos (protocol) | 0 |
16,947 | # Kerberos (protocol)
## Protocol
### Description
The client authenticates itself to the **Authentication Server (AS)** which is part of the **key distribution center** **(KDC)**. The KDC issues a **ticket-granting ticket (TGT)**, which is time stamped and encrypts it using the **ticket-granting service\'s (TGS)** s... | 943 | Kerberos (protocol) | 1 |
16,947 | # Kerberos (protocol)
## Support by operating systems {#support_by_operating_systems}
### Microsoft Windows {#microsoft_windows}
Windows 2000 and later versions use Kerberos as their default authentication method. Some Microsoft additions to the Kerberos suite of protocols are documented in RFC 3244 \"Microsoft Wind... | 279 | Kerberos (protocol) | 2 |
16,947 | # Kerberos (protocol)
## Drawbacks and limitations {#drawbacks_and_limitations}
- Kerberos has strict time requirements, which means that the clocks of the involved hosts must be synchronized within configured limits. The tickets have a time availability period, and if the host clock is not synchronized with the Ke... | 338 | Kerberos (protocol) | 3 |
16,959 | # Katyusha rocket launcher
Katyusha}} `{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}`{=mediawiki} `{{Infobox weapon
| name = Katyusha
| image = Katyusha Rocket Launcher - Artillery Museum - St. Petersburg - Russia.jpg
| image_size = 300
| caption = BM-13 Katyusha multiple rocket lau... | 535 | Katyusha rocket launcher | 0 |
16,959 | # Katyusha rocket launcher
## World War II {#world_war_ii}
Katyusha rocket launchers, which were built in Voronezh, were mounted on many platforms during World War II, including on trucks, artillery tractors, tanks, and armoured trains, as well as on naval and riverine vessels as assault support weapons. Soviet engin... | 912 | Katyusha rocket launcher | 1 |
16,959 | # Katyusha rocket launcher
## World War II {#world_war_ii}
### Variants
Soviet World War II rocket systems were named according to set patterns:
- Ground vehicles were designated BM-*x*-*y*, where *x* referred to the rocket model and *y* the number of launch rails or tubes.
- towed trailers and sledges used the ... | 668 | Katyusha rocket launcher | 2 |
16,959 | # Katyusha rocket launcher
## World War II {#world_war_ii}
### Combat history {#combat_history}
The multiple rocket launchers were top secret at the beginning of World War II and a special unit of NKVD troops was raised to operate them. On July 14, 1941, an experimental artillery battery of seven launchers was first ... | 393 | Katyusha rocket launcher | 3 |
16,959 | # Katyusha rocket launcher
## Post-war development {#post_war_development}
The success and economy of multiple rocket launchers (MRL) have led them to continue to be developed. In the years following WWII, the BM-13 was replaced by the 140 mm BM-14 and the BM-31 was replaced by the 240 mm BM-24. During the Cold War, ... | 249 | Katyusha rocket launcher | 4 |
16,972 | # 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 ... | 714 | Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem | 0 |
16,976 | # Kernite
**Kernite**, also known as **rasorite**, is a hydrated sodium borate hydroxide mineral with formula `{{chem|Na|2|B|4|O|6|(OH)|2|·3H|2|O}}`{=mediawiki}. It is a colorless to white mineral crystallizing in the monoclinic crystal system typically occurring as prismatic to acicular crystals or granular masses. I... | 221 | Kernite | 0 |
16,984 | # 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 30 acre campus in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.
KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world leading research institute where international elite scholars gather an... | 118 | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | 0 |
16,988 | # Knock-knock joke
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?\... | 622 | Knock-knock joke | 0 |
16,999 | # 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 L... | 577 | Kaj Munk | 0 |
16,999 | # Kaj Munk
## Playwright
Munk often used a historical background for his plays---among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and George Bernard Shaw. As a playwright, Munk became known for \"strong characters\"---integrated people who fight wholeheartedly for their ideals (whethe... | 284 | Kaj Munk | 1 |
17,006 | # Knot
thumb\|upright=2\|*\[\[Nordisk familjebok\]\]* knots: `{{Ordered list|
|Yarn knot ([[The Ashley Book of Knots|ABoK]] #2688)
|[[Manrope knot]] ([[The Ashley Book of Knots|ABoK]] #847)
|[[Granny knot]] ([[The Ashley Book of Knots|ABoK]] #1206)
|[[Wall and crown knot]] ([[The Ashley Book of Knots|ABoK]] #670, #671... | 402 | Knot | 0 |
17,006 | # Knot
## Use
There is a large variety of knots, each with properties that make it suitable for a range of tasks. Some knots are used to attach the rope (or other knotting material) to other objects such as another rope, cleat, ring, or stake. Some knots are used to bind or constrict objects. Decorative knots usually... | 444 | Knot | 1 |
17,006 | # Knot
## Properties
### Strength
Knots weaken the rope in which they are made. When knotted rope is strained to its breaking point, it almost always fails at the knot or close to it, unless it is defective or damaged elsewhere. The bending, crushing, and chafing forces that hold a knot in place also unevenly stress... | 768 | Knot | 2 |
17,006 | # Knot
## Components
:
### Bight
: A bight is any curved section, slack part, or loop between the ends of a rope, string, or yarn.
### Bitter end {#bitter_end}
: As a ropeworker\'s term, \"bitter end\" refers to the end of a rope that is tied off. In British nautical usage, the bitter end is the ship end o... | 348 | Knot | 3 |
17,006 | # Knot
## Knot categories {#knot_categories}
The list of knots is extensive, but common properties allow for a useful system of categorization. For example, *loop* knots share the attribute of having some kind of an anchor point constructed on the standing end (such as a loop or overhand knot) into which the working ... | 937 | Knot | 4 |
17,006 | # Knot
## Knot theory {#knot_theory}
Knot theory is a branch of topology. It deals with the mathematical analysis of knots, their structure and properties, and with the relationships between different knots. In topology, a knot is a figure consisting of a single loop with any number of crossing or knotted elements: a... | 770 | Knot | 5 |
17,013 | # Kamacite
**Kamacite** is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites. According to the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) it is considered a proper nickel-rich variety of the mineral native iron. The proportion iron:nickel is between 90%:10% and 95%:5%; small quantities of othe... | 749 | Kamacite | 0 |
17,013 | # Kamacite
## Physical properties {#physical_properties}
### Magnetism
As the meteorite cools below 750 °C iron becomes magnetic as it moves into the kamacite phase. During this cooling the meteorite takes on non-conventional thermoremanent magnetization. Thermoremanent magnetization on Earth gives iron minerals form... | 287 | Kamacite | 1 |
17,013 | # Kamacite
## Chemistry
### Formula and dominant elements {#formula_and_dominant_elements}
Kamacite is made up of a repeating unit of α-(Fe, Ni), `{{chem|Fe|0.9|Ni|0.1}}`{=mediawiki}, in which both iron and nickel have the valence zero (Fe^0^ and Ni^0^) as they are metallic native elements commonly found in iron met... | 866 | Kamacite | 2 |
17,013 | # Kamacite
## Geologic occurrences {#geologic_occurrences}
Kamacite meteorites have been found on every continent on Earth and have also been found on Mars.
### Meteorites
Kamacite is primarily associated with meteorites because it needs high temperatures, low pressures and few other more reactive elements like oxy... | 274 | Kamacite | 3 |
17,013 | # Kamacite
## Specific examples {#specific_examples}
### Meteor crater Arizona {#meteor_crater_arizona}
Kamacite has been found and studied in Meteor Crater, Arizona. Meteor Crater was the first confirmed meteor impact site on the planet, and was not universally recognized as such until the 1950s. In the 1960s Unite... | 384 | Kamacite | 4 |
17,016 | # Kuleshov
**Kuleshov** (*Кулешо́в*) and **Kuleshova** (*Кулешова*; 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), Belaru... | 97 | Kuleshov | 0 |
17,023 | # 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 ... | 379 | Kellogg–Briand Pact | 0 |
17,023 | # Kellogg–Briand Pact
## Parties
thumb\|upright=2.0\| `{{legend|#007F09|Original signatories}}`{=mediawiki} `{{legend|#00FE1E|Subsequent adherents}}`{=mediawiki} `{{legend|#00FFFF|Territories of parties}}`{=mediawiki} `{{legend|#007F7F|[[League of Nations mandate]]s administered by parties}}`{=mediawiki} The plan was... | 475 | Kellogg–Briand Pact | 1 |
17,023 | # Kellogg–Briand Pact
## Effect and legacy {#effect_and_legacy}
The 1928 Kellogg--Briand Pact was concluded outside the League of Nations and remains in effect. One month following its conclusion, a similar agreement, the General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, was concluded in Geneva, which... | 918 | Kellogg–Briand Pact | 2 |
17,034 | # Protea cynaroides
***Protea cynaroides***, also called the **king protea** (from *koningsprotea*, *isiQwane sobukumkani*), 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... | 519 | Protea cynaroides | 0 |
17,034 | # Protea cynaroides
## Ecology
*Protea cynaroides* grows in a harsh environment with dry, hot summers and wet, cold winters. Several adaptions include tough, leathery leaves, which helps to prevent excessive loss of moisture, and a large taproot which penetrates deep into the soil to reach underground moisture. Like ... | 502 | Protea cynaroides | 1 |
17,035 | # Kantele
`{{listen
| filename=DIY_kantele_sample_raw.ogg
| title=5-string kantele
| description=Sounds samples from a home-made 5-string kantele
| format=[[Ogg]]
}}`{=mediawiki}
A **kantele** (`{{IPA|fi|ˈkɑntele|lang}}`{=mediawiki}) or **kannel** (`{{IPA|fi|ˈkɑnːel|lang}}`{=mediawiki}) is a traditional Finnish a... | 720 | Kantele | 0 |
17,038 | # 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 ... | 483 | Kyanite | 0 |
17,038 | # Kyanite
## Occurrence
Kyanite occurs in biotite gneiss, mica schist, and hornfels, which are metamorphic rocks formed at high pressure during regional metamorphism of a protolith which is rich in aluminium (a *pelitic* protolith). Kyanite is also occasionally found in granite and pegmatites and associated quartz ve... | 516 | Kyanite | 1 |
17,045 | # Kalmia latifolia
***Kalmia latifolia***, the **mountain laurel**, **calico-bush**, or **spoonwood**, is a flowering plant and one of the 10 species in the genus of Kalmia belonging to the heath(er) family Ericaceae. It is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine to northern Florid... | 789 | Kalmia latifolia | 0 |
17,045 | # Kalmia latifolia
## Wood
The wood of the mountain laurel is heavy and strong but brittle, with a close, straight grain. It has never been a viable commercial crop as it does not grow large enough, yet it is suitable for wreaths, furniture, bowls and other household items. It was used in the early 19th century in wo... | 295 | Kalmia latifolia | 1 |
17,051 | # 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 birth 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).
## S... | 645 | Kenji Sahara | 0 |
17,055 | # Kotoamatsukami
In Shinto, `{{Nihongo||別天津神|'''Kotoamatsukami'''|extra=literally "distinguishing heavenly ''[[kami]]''"}}`{=mediawiki} 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... | 346 | Kotoamatsukami | 0 |
17,059 | # Karel Hynek Mácha
**Karel Hynek Mácha** (`{{IPA|cs|ˈkarɛl ˈɦɪnɛk ˈmaːxa}}`{=mediawiki}) (16 November 1810 -- 5 November 1836) was a Czech romantic poet. His poem *Máj* is among the most important poems in the history of Czech literature.
## Biography
Mácha was born on 16 November 1810 in Prague. He grew up in Prag... | 650 | Karel Hynek Mácha | 0 |
17,066 | # Kirlian photography
**Kirlian photography** is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Soviet scientist Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939, accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a high-voltage sou... | 489 | Kirlian photography | 0 |
17,066 | # Kirlian photography
## Overview
Kirlian photography is a technique for creating contact print photographs using high voltage. The process entails placing sheet photographic film on top of a metal discharge plate. The object to be photographed is then placed directly on top of the film. High voltage current is momen... | 270 | Kirlian photography | 1 |
17,066 | # Kirlian photography
## Research
Kirlian photography has been a subject of scientific research, parapsychology research and pseudoscientific claims.
### Scientific research {#scientific_research}
Results of scientific experiments published in 1976 involving Kirlian photography of living tissue (human finger tips) ... | 814 | Kirlian photography | 2 |
17,066 | # Kirlian photography
## In popular culture {#in_popular_culture}
Kirlian photography has appeared as a fictional element in numerous books, films, television series, and media productions, including the 1975 film *The Kirlian Force*, re-released under the more sensational title *Psychic Killer*. Kirlian photographs ... | 323 | Kirlian photography | 3 |
17,072 | # Kalsilite
**Kalsilite** (KAlSiO~4~) 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 | 33 | Kalsilite | 0 |
17,078 | # 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*. ... | 237 | K. W. Jeter | 0 |
17,079 | # 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 ... | 430 | Kay Redfield Jamison | 0 |
17,079 | # Kay Redfield Jamison
## Academic contributions {#academic_contributions}
Her latest book, *Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire*, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Biography in 2018.
Her book *Manic-Depressive Illness*, first published in 1990 and co-authored with psychiatrist Frederick K. Goodwin is considere... | 370 | Kay Redfield Jamison | 1 |
17,079 | # Kay Redfield Jamison
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Jamison has said she is an \"exuberant\" person who longs for peace and tranquility but in the end prefers \"tumultuousness coupled to iron discipline\" to a \"stunningly boring life.\" In *An Unquiet Mind*, she concluded:
> I long ago abandoned the notion of ... | 515 | Kay Redfield Jamison | 2 |
17,083 | # 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.
K... | 433 | Keykode | 0 |
17,083 | # Keykode
## Keykode
With the popularity of telecine transfers and video edits, Kodak invented a machine readable edge number that could be recorded via computer, read by the editing computer and automatically produce a \"cut list\" from the video edit of the film.
To do this, Kodak utilized the USS-128 barcode alon... | 419 | Keykode | 1 |
17,086 | # Knout
A **knout** `{{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|aʊ|t}}`{=mediawiki} (*кнут*, `{{IPA|ru|knut}}`{=mediawiki}) is a Russian whip that consists of a rawhide thong or a rope attached to a long wooden handle. Commonly used for prodding horses or cattle, knouts were also used for flagellation as a corporal punishment in Russian history. ... | 268 | Knout | 0 |
17,091 | # 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 i... | 80 | Khornerstone | 0 |
17,102 | # Kesgrave
**Kesgrave** is a town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The town is close to both Ipswich and Woodbridge. 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 b... | 327 | Kesgrave | 0 |
17,104 | # 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 l... | 558 | AMD K6 | 0 |
17,106 | # 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 C... | 196 | KA9Q | 0 |
17,114 | # 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 ... | 412 | Key escrow | 0 |
17,116 | # Key frame
In animation and filmmaking, a **key frame** (or **keyframe**) is a drawing or shot that defines the starting and ending points of a 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... | 315 | Key frame | 0 |
17,116 | # Key frame
## Video compression {#video_compression}
In video compression, a key frame, also known as an intra-frame, is a frame in which a complete image is stored in the data stream. In video compression, only changes that occur from one frame to the next are stored in the data stream, in order to greatly reduce t... | 331 | Key frame | 1 |
17,129 | # Kahlúa
**Kahlúa** (`{{IPA|es|kaˈlu.a|lang}}`{=mediawiki}) 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 ... | 432 | Kahlúa | 0 |
17,134 | # 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. It consists of Arundel Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex Square, Chichester Terrace, and the Kemp Town Enclosures (the gardens). The estate was conceiv... | 423 | Kemp Town | 0 |
17,139 | # 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 (Fi... | 95 | FX-87 | 0 |
17,147 | # 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 perfo... | 124 | Killer micro | 0 |
17,148 | # 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 t... | 804 | Killer poke | 0 |
17,148 | # Killer poke
## Specific examples {#specific_examples}
### MSi Laptops UEFI {#msi_laptops_uefi}
Systemd mounts variables used by Unified Extensible Firmware Interface on Linux system\'s sysfs as writable by the root user of a system. As a result, it is possible for the root user of a system to completely brick a sys... | 77 | Killer poke | 1 |
17,149 | # Kill file
A **kill file** (also **killfile**, **bozo bin** or **twit list**) is a file that stores text matching patterns that are used in some Usenet reading programs to filter out (ignore) articles by subject, author, or other header information. Adding a pattern to a kill file results in matching articles being i... | 308 | Kill file | 0 |
17,156 | # 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 the United Kingdom, Ireland and some regions of North America, kippers are most ... | 802 | Kipper | 0 |
17,156 | # Kipper
## Industry
Kippers produced in the Isle of Man are exported around the world. Thousands are produced annually in the town of Peel, where two kipper houses, Moore\'s Kipper Yard (founded 1882) and Devereau and Son (founded 1884), smoke and export herring.
Mallaig, once the busiest herring port in Europe, is... | 320 | Kipper | 1 |
17,165 | # Kalahari Desert
The **Kalahari Desert** is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900000 km2 including much of Botswana as well as 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... | 290 | Kalahari Desert | 0 |
17,165 | # Kalahari Desert
## Climate
The climate is sub-humid rather than semi-arid in the north and east, where the dry forests, savannahs, and salt lakes prevail. South and west, where the vegetation is predominantly xeric savanna or even a semi-desert, the climate is \"Kalaharian\" semi-arid. The Kalaharian climate is sub... | 694 | Kalahari Desert | 1 |
17,165 | # Kalahari Desert
## Vegetation and flora {#vegetation_and_flora}
Due to its low aridity, the Kalahari supports a variety of flora. The native flora includes acacia trees and many other herbs and grasses. The kiwano fruit, also known as the horned melon, melano, African horned cucumber, jelly melon, or hedged gourd, ... | 439 | Kalahari Desert | 2 |
17,165 | # Kalahari Desert
## Fauna
The Kalahari is home to the lion (*Panthera leo*), cheetah (*Acinonyx jubatus*), African leopard (*Panthera pardus*), spotted hyena (*Crocuta crocuta*), brown hyena (*Parahyaena brunnea*), and African wild dog (*Lycaon pictus pictus*). Birds of prey include the secretarybird (*Sagittarius s... | 363 | Kalahari Desert | 3 |
17,169 | # Kington Magna
**Kington Magna** is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England, about 3+1/2 mi 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 aff... | 320 | Kington Magna | 0 |
17,174 | # 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 ... | 210 | Knowbot Information Service | 0 |
17,176 | # KISS principle
**KISS**, an acronym for \"**Keep it simple, stupid!**\", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. First seen partly in American English by at least 1938, KISS implies that simplicity should be a design goal. The phrase has been associated with aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson. The t... | 753 | KISS principle | 0 |
17,178 | # KL0
**Kernel Language 0** (**KL0**) is a sequential logic programming language based on Prolog, used in the ICOT Fifth generation computer project | 23 | KL0 | 0 |
17,179 | # 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 | 46 | KL1 | 0 |
17,180 | # 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
- Qu... | 756 | Klamath people | 0 |
17,180 | # Klamath people
## Culture
### Subdivisions
Traditionally there were several cultural subdivisions among the Klamath, based on the location of their residency within the Klamath Basin. Despite this, the five recognized \"tribelets\" (the Klamath Tribes count six) mutually considered each other the same ethnic group... | 520 | Klamath people | 1 |
17,180 | # Klamath people
## Classifications
The Klamath people are grouped with the Plateau Indians---the peoples who originally lived on the Columbia River Plateau. They were most closely linked with the Modoc people.
## Language
The Klamath spoke one dialect of the Klamath--Modoc language - the northern or \"fi-ukshikni\... | 141 | Klamath people | 2 |
17,186 | # 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... | 166 | Klerer–May System | 0 |
17,188 | # 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... | 288 | KL-ONE | 0 |
17,199 | # 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 (... | 76 | Keilhauite | 0 |
17,204 | # Kana
are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, *kana* most commonly refers to *hiragana* and *katakana*. It can also refer to their ancestor `{{nihongo|'''''magana'''''|真仮名|extra={{lit}} 'true kana'}}`{=mediawiki}, which were Chinese characters used phonetically to transcrib... | 603 | Kana | 0 |
17,204 | # Kana
## Hiragana and katakana {#hiragana_and_katakana}
The following table reads, in gojūon order, as *a*, *i*, *u*, *e*, *o* (down first column), then *ka*, *ki*, *ku*, *ke*, *ko* (down second column), and so on. *n* appears on its own at the end. Asterisks mark unused combinations.
+-----------------------------... | 1,105 | Kana | 1 |
17,204 | # Kana
## Modern usage {#modern_usage}
The difference in usage between hiragana and katakana is stylistic. Usually, hiragana is the default syllabary, and katakana is used in certain special cases. Hiragana is used to write native Japanese words with no kanji representation (or whose kanji is thought obscure or diffi... | 939 | Kana | 2 |
17,204 | # Kana
## In Unicode {#in_unicode}
The hiragana range in Unicode is U+3040 \... U+309F, and the katakana range is U+30A0 \... U+30FF. The obsolete and rare characters (*wi* and *we*) also have their proper code points.
Characters U+3095 and U+3096 are hiragana small *ka* and small *ke*, respectively. U+30F5 and U+30... | 285 | Kana | 3 |
17,209 | # 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 ... | 219 | Knights of the Lambda Calculus | 0 |
17,210 | # Knowbot
A **knowbot** is a kind of bot that automatically collects 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 objects developed... | 103 | Knowbot | 0 |
17,211 | # Knuth
**Knuth** is a surname of Nordic origin | 9 | Knuth | 0 |
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