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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.
As a photographer, she continues to hold solo exhibitions. She is also a patron of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust.
Stark was born in New York. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17284 |
Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17289 |
Kristi Yamaguchi
Kristine Tsuya "Kristi" 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. As a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo, she is the 1988 World Junior champion and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17291 |
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among his best known works are "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima", Symphony No. 3, his "St. Luke Passion", "Polish Requiem", "Anaklasis" and "Utrenja". Penderecki composed four operas, eigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17292 |
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 Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17293 |
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.
Böttiger was born in Reichenbach, in the kingdom of Saxony, and educated at Schulpforta and Leipzig. Under the influence of Joh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17296 |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17297 |
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). Its elevation is .
Its name is derived from two words of the local Wakhi lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17299 |
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ( – May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century. Born in Kiev to an ethnic Polish family, his concept of Suprematism s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17300 |
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 l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17303 |
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn ( – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer is also known in Russia as Karl Maksímovich Ber ().
Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and a founding father of embryology. He was an explorer of European Russia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17304 |
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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17306 |
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.
The idea for the Keystone Cops came from Hank Mann, who also played police chief Tehi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17307 |
Koenigsegg
Koenigsegg Automotive AB () is a manufacturer of high-performance sports cars, based in Ängelholm, Skåne County, Sweden.
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 CC8S, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17310 |
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast (, "Kaliningradskaya oblast"), often referred to as the Kaliningrad Region in English, or simply Kaliningrad, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation and an exclave of it, located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Its constitutional status is equal to each of the other 85 fed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17311 |
Kenneth MacAlpin
Kenneth MacAlpin (, ; 810 – 13 February 858), known in most modern regnal lists as Kenneth I, was a king of the Picts who, according to national myth, was the first king of Scots. He was thus later known by the posthumous nickname of , "The Conqueror". He became the apex and eponym of a dynasty—someti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17313 |
Khandi Alexander
Khandi Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer and actress. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s and was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988 to 1992.
During the 1990s, Alexander appeared in a number of films, include "CB4" (1993), "What'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17314 |
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17317 |
Konstantin Stanislavski
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski ("né" Alexeiev; ; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner. He was widely recognised as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed garnered him a reputation as one of the leading theatre directors of his generati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17318 |
K cell
K cell may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17319 |
Khartoum
Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan, the sixth-largest in Africa, the second-largest in North Africa, and the fourth-largest in the Arab world. Khartoum is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing north fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17320 |
Alpha-Ketoglutaric acid
α-Ketoglutaric acid (2-oxoglutaric acid) is one of two ketone derivatives of glutaric acid. The term "ketoglutaric acid," when not further qualified, almost always refers to the alpha variant. β-Ketoglutaric acid varies only by the position of the ketone functional group, and is much less commo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17322 |
Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named for the economist John Maynard Keynes) are various macroeconomic theories about how in the short run – and especially during recessions – economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand (total spending in the economy). In the Keynesia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17326 |
Kinetic energy
In physics, the kinetic energy (KE) of an object is the energy that it possesses due to its motion.
It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17327 |
Khoisan languages
The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a group of African languages originally classified together by Joseph Greenberg. Khoisan languages share click consonants and do not belong to other African language families. For much of the 20th century, they were thought to be genealogically rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17333 |
Katina Paxinou
Katina Paxinou (; 15 December 1900 – 22 February 1973) was a Greek film and stage actress.
She started her stage career in Greece in 1928 and was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Greece in 1932. The outbreak of World War II found her in the United Kingdom and she later moved to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17334 |
Klaus Barbie
Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was an SS and Gestapo functionary during the Nazi era. He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners of the Gestapo – primarily Jews and members of La Résistance – while stationed in Lyon under the collaborationist Vich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17335 |
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Modern usage of the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-administered territories o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17337 |
Kendall Square Research
Kendall Square Research (KSR) was a supercomputer company headquartered originally in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1986, near Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It was co-founded by Steven Frank and Henry Burkhardt III, who had formerly helped found Data General and E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17339 |
Kinglassie
Kinglassie (Gaelic: "Cille MoGhlasaidh") is a small village and parish in central Fife, Scotland. It is located two miles southwest of Glenrothes. In 2011, the population of the village was 1,684.
The civil parish has a population of 22,543 (in 2011).
The village of Kinglassie (pronounced Kin-glassie) lie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17341 |
Kordofanian languages
The Kordofanian languages are a geographic grouping of five language groups spoken in the Nuba Mountains of the Kurdufan, Sudan: Talodi–Heiban languages, Lafofa languages, Rashad languages, Katla languages and Kadu languages. The first four groups are branches of the Niger–Congo family, whereas K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17348 |
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. He won four National Film Awards in India, and internationally his films won the Palme d'Or (Grand Prize) at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17351 |
Katherine MacLean
Katherine Anne MacLean (January 22, 1925 – September 1, 2019) was an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society.
Damon Knight wrote, "As a science fiction writer she has few peers; her w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17353 |
Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda (born April 28, 1924), also known as KK, is a Zambian former politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991.
Kaunda is the youngest of eight children born to an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, an immigrant from Malawi. He was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17355 |
K2
K2, at above sea level, is the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest at . It is located on the China–Pakistan border between Baltistan in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, and Dafdar Township in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. K2 is the highest point of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17359 |
Komodo dragon
The Komodo dragon ("Varanus komodoensis"), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang. A member of the monitor lizard family Varanidae, it is the largest extant species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of in rar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17360 |
Kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks. Various industries use rotary kilns for pyropro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17361 |
Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word "hymn" derives from Greek ("hymnos"), which means "a song of praise". A writer of hymns is known as a hymni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13756 |
History of physics
Physics is a branch of science whose primary objects of study are matter and energy. Discoveries of physics find applications throughout the natural sciences and in technology, since matter and energy are the basic constituents of the natural world. Some other domains of study—more limited in their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 |
Hydrofoil
A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water. They are similar in appearance and purpose to aerofoils used by aeroplanes. Boats that use hydrofoil technology are also simply termed hydrofoils. As a hydrofoil craft gains speed, the hydrofoils lift the boat's hull out of the water, decreas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13761 |
Henri Chopin
Henri Chopin (18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008) was an avant-garde poet and musician.
Henri Chopin was born in Paris,18 June 1922, one of three brothers, and the son of an accountant. Both his siblings died during the war. One was shot by a German soldier the day after an armistice was declared in Paris, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13763 |
Hassium
Hassium is a chemical element with the symbol Hs and the atomic number 108. Hassium is highly radioactive; the most stable known isotope, 269Hs, has a half-life of approximately 16 seconds. One of its isotopes, 270Hs, has magic numbers of both protons and neutrons for deformed nuclei, which gives it greater st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13764 |
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923) is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13765 |
Hydra (genus)
Hydra ( ) is a genus of small, fresh-water organisms of the phylum Cnidaria and class Hydrozoa. They are native to the temperate and tropical regions. Biologists are especially interested in "Hydra" because of their regenerative ability – they do not appear to die of old age, or indeed to age at all.
"H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13767 |
Hydrus
Hydrus is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in late 1597 (or early 1598) in Amsterdam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13768 |
Hercules
Hercules () is a Roman hero and god. He was the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
The Romans adapted the Greek ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13770 |
History of Poland
The history of Poland () spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, communism, and the restoration of democracy.
The roots... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13772 |
Houston
Houston ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas, fourth most populous city in the United States, most populous city in the Southern United States, as well as the sixth most populous in North America, with an estimated 2019 population of 2,320,268. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13774 |
Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital data using one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13777 |
Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew or Jewish calendar (Hebrew: , ) is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of Torah portions, "yahrzeits" (dates to commemorate the death of a relative), and daily Psalm rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13782 |
The Holocaust Industry
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman Finkelstein, in which the author argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13786 |
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (; or, more commonly, the Golden Dawn ("Aurora Aurea")) was a secret society devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known as a magical order, the Herme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13787 |
Hash function
A hash function is any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to fixed-size values. The values returned by a hash function are called "hash values", "hash codes", "digests", or simply "hashes". The values are used to index a fixed-size table called a "hash table". Use of a hash function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13790 |
High jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern most practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. In the modern era, athletes run towards the bar and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13791 |
Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (; ; , fl. 504/3 BC–501/0 BC) son of Bloson, was a pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern-day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire.
Due to the oracular and paradoxical nature of his philosophy, and his fondness for word play, he was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13792 |
Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent person still living to have walked on the Moon.
In December 1972, as one of the crew on board Apollo 17, Schmitt became th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13793 |
Hilaire Rouelle
Hilaire Marin Rouelle (15 February 1718 – 7 April 1779) was an 18th-century French chemist. Commonly cited as the 1773 discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave had discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as "le cadet" (the younger) to disti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13795 |
Hammer
A hammer is a tool consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock. Hammers are used for a wide range of driving, shaping, and breaking a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13802 |
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with "katakana", "kanji" and in some cases "rōmaji" (Latin script). It is a phonetic lettering system. The word "hiragana" literally means "ordinary" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrasted with kanji).
Hiragana and kat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13804 |
Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen ( , , ), also called Staufer, was a noble dynasty of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079 and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254. The most prominent kings Frederick I (1155), Henry VI (1191) and Frederick II (1220) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13805 |
History of Malaysia
Malaysia is located on a strategic sea-lane that exposes it to global trade and various cultures. Strictly, the name "Malaysia" is a modern concept, created in the second half of the 20th century. However, contemporary Malaysia regards the entire history of Malaya and Borneo, spanning thousands of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13806 |
Kiwi
Kiwi ( ) or kiwis are flightless birds native to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae. Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites (which also consist of ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries).
DNA sequence comparisons have yielded the surprisin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17362 |
Kiwifruit
Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside Australia and New Zealand), or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus "Actinidia". The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit ("Actinidia deliciosa" 'Hayward') is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg: in length a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17363 |
Kiel Canal
The Kiel Canal (, literally "North-[to]-Baltic Sea canal", formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal) is a freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal was finished in 1895, but later widened, and links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau. An average of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17364 |
Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch, ForMemRS (21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
Bloch was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17367 |
Klement Gottwald
Klement Gottwald (23 November 1896 – 14 March 1953) was a Czechoslovak communist politician, who was the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1929 until his death in 1953–titled as General Secretary until 1945 and as Chairman from 1945 to 1953. He was the first leader of Communist Czec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17372 |
Kettlebaston
Kettlebaston is a village and a civil parish with just over 30 inhabitants in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England, located around east of Lavenham. From the 2011 Census the population of the village was not maintained and is included in the civil parish of Chelsworth. It derives its name from Kitelbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17375 |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. Sometimes described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.
Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, and the young... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17378 |
Kami
In Shinto, kami are not separate from nature, but are of nature, possessing positive and negative, and good and evil characteristics. They are manifestations of , the interconnecting energy of the universe, and are considered exemplary of what humanity should strive towards. Kami are believed to be "hidden" from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17379 |
Koalang
Koalang is a term coined by Janusz A. Zajdel, a Polish science fiction writer. It is a language used by people in a totalitarian world called "Paradyzja" in his 1984 novel of the same name. The ""ko-al"" in ""koalang"" derives from the Polish words 'kojarzeniowo-aluzyjny' ("associative-allusive").
Because Par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17381 |
Kobellite
Kobellite (Pb22Cu4(Bi,Sb)30S69) is a gray, fibrous, metallic mineral. It is also a sulfide mineral consisting of antimony, bismuth, and lead. It is a member of the izoklakeite - berryite series with silver and iron substituting in the copper site and a varying ratio of bismuth, antimony, and lead. It crystal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17382 |
Kayak
A kayak is a small, narrow watercraft which is typically propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle. The word kayak originates from the Greenlandic word "qajaq" ().
The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each seating one paddler. The cockpit is sometimes covered by a spray deck tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17383 |
Imperial German Navy
The Imperial German Navy () was the navy created at the time of the formation of the German Empire. It existed between 1871 and 1919, growing out of the small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy), which primarily had the mission of coastal defence. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17385 |
Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine (, ) was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war "Reichsmarine" (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The "Kriegsmarine" was one of three official branches, along with the "Heer" and the "Luftwaffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17386 |
Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor (K of L), officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s. It operated in the United States as well in Canada, and had chapters also in Great Britain and Australia. Its most important leade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17387 |
Kryptonite
Kryptonite is a fictional material that appears primarily in Superman stories. In its most well-known form, it is a green, crystalline material originating from Superman's home world of Krypton, that emits a peculiar radiation that weakens Superman, but is generally harmless to humans when exposed to it in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17390 |
Kosovo
Kosovo (; , or , ; , ), officially the Republic of Kosovo (; ), is a partially-recognised state in Southeast Europe, subject to a territorial dispute with the Republic of Serbia.
Defined in an area of , Kosovo is landlocked in the center of the Balkans and bordered by the uncontested territory of Serbia to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17391 |
Konqueror
Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems (such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image). It forms a core part of the KDE Software Compilation. Developed by volunteers, Konqueror can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17392 |
Key signature
In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp (), flat (), and rarely, natural () symbols placed together on the staff. Key signatures are generally written immediately after the clef at the beginning of a line of musical notation, although they can appear in other parts of a score, notably afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17394 |
Kutia
Kutia or kutya is a ceremonial grain dish with sweet gravy traditionally served by Eastern Orthodox Christians in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia during the Christmas - Feast of Jordan holiday season and/or as part of a funeral feast. The word with a descriptor is also used to describe the eves of Christmas, New Yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17395 |
Kid Rock
Robert James Ritchie Sr. (born January 17, 1971), better known by his stage names Kid Rock and Bobby Shazam, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, disc jockey, musician, record producer, and actor. In a career spanning 30 years, Rock's musical style alternates between rock, hip hop, and country. A multi-i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17396 |
Knaresborough Castle
Knaresborough Castle is a ruined fortress overlooking the River Nidd in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.
The castle was first built by a Norman baron in on a cliff above the River Nidd. There is documentary evidence dating from 1130 referring to works carried out at the castle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17398 |
Calligra
Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting.
Calligra uses the OpenDocument format as its default file fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17399 |
Fumimaro Konoe
Prince was a Japanese politician and Prime Minister who presided over Japan's invasion of China in 1937 and the deterioration in relations with the United States and its allies. He also played a central role in Japan's transformation into a totalitarian state by passing the National Mobilization Law and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17401 |
Kowtow
Kowtow, which is borrowed from "koutou" in Mandarin Chinese ("kau tau" in Cantonese), is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. In East Asian culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence. It was widely used to show rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17405 |
Kamchatka Oblast
Kamchatka Oblast (, "Kamchatskaya oblast") was, until being incorporated into Kamchatka Krai on July 1, 2007, a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). To the north, it bordered Magadan Oblast and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Koryak Autonomous Okrug was located in the northern part of the oblast. Includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17407 |
Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg (pronounced ; , ; ) is a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants (). Kołobrzeg is located on the Parsęta River on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (in the middle of the section divided by the Oder and Vistula Rivers). It has been the capital of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17410 |
Konix Multisystem
The Konix Multisystem was a cancelled video game system under development by Konix, a British manufacturer of computer peripherals.
The Konix Multisystem began life in 1988 as an advanced Konix peripheral design intended to build on the success of the company's range of joysticks. The design, codena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17411 |
Klein bottle
In topology, a branch of mathematics, the Klein bottle () is an example of a non-orientable surface; it is a two-dimensional manifold against which a system for determining a normal vector cannot be consistently defined. Informally, it is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17412 |
Icehenge
Icehenge is a science fiction novel by American author Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 1984.
Though published almost ten years before Robinson's Mars trilogy, and taking place in a different version of the future, "Icehenge" contains elements that also appear in his Mars series, such as extreme human long... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17414 |
Knights Who Say "Ni!"
The Knights Who Say "Ni!", also called the Knights of Ni, are a band of knights encountered by King Arthur and his followers in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". They demonstrate their power by shouting "Ni!" (pronounced "nee"), terrifying the party, whom they refuse to allow passage th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17415 |
Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah ( "Mamléḵeṯ Yehudāh"; "Ya'uda"; "Bēyt Dāwīḏ") was an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant. The Hebrew Bible depicts it as the successor to the United Monarchy, a term denoting the Kingdom of Israel under biblical kings Saul, David and Solomon and covering the territory of two h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17423 |
Calligra Words
Calligra Words is a word processor, which is part of Calligra Suite and developed by KDE as free software.
When the Calligra Suite was formed, unlike the other Calligra applications Words was not a continuation of the corresponding KOffice application – KWord. The Words was largely written from scratch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17430 |
Kenneth Lee Pike
Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics, the coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic" and the developer of the constructed language Kalaba-X for use in teaching the theory and practice of translation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17431 |
K-Meleon
K-Meleon is an open-source web browser for Microsoft Windows. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey, K-Meleon's design goal is to provide a fast and reliable web browser while providing a highly customizable interface and using system resources efficiently. It is released unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17439 |
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer (; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.
Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in "Mephisto" (1981), "Never Say Never Again" (1983), "Out of Africa" (1985), "Hanussen" (1988)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17440 |
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a military aerial refueling aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It is the predominant variant of the C-135 Stratolifter family of transport aircraft. The KC-135 was the US Air Force's first jet-pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17441 |
Katsuhiro Otomo
Katsuhiro Otomo was born in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture and grew up in Tome-gun. While he was in high school he was fascinated with movies, often taking a three-hour train ride during school holidays just to see them. In 1973 he graduated high school and left Miyagi, heading to Tokyo with the hopes of beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17442 |
Kate Bush
Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, dancer, songwriter, and record producer. In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17443 |
Kittiwake
The kittiwakes (genus Rissa) are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the black-legged kittiwake ("Rissa tridactyla") and the red-legged kittiwake ("Rissa brevirostris"). The epithets "black-legged" and "red-legged" are used to distinguish the two species in North America, but in E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17445 |
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