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K09VR K09VR channel 9, known on-air as TSTV (or Texas Student Television, formerly KVR-TV) is the student-run television station of The University of Texas at Austin, operated by Texas Student Media. Founded in 1995, it is the only FCC-licensed television station in the country that is entirely run by students.
K11TW K11TW, known locally as KIIT, is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, broadcasting locally as an affiliate of Fox, with additional programming from UPN. The station is a Class-A operation, even though the station's official calls are still translator-style calls.
K12OZ K12OZ is a low-power television station in Fresno, California, broadcasting locally in analog on VHF channel 12. Founded November 6, 1995, the station is owned and operated by Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc.
K13XD K13XD (branded as KXD) Channel 13 is the CBS affiliate in Fairbanks, Alaska. It signed on the air on August 7, 1996 as the area's sixth television station, four months after longtime CBS station KTVF dropped the network in favor of NBC.
K14LM K14LM is a low-power Class A television station in San Antonio, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 14 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded July 19, 1994, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcast Network Inc.
K17FA K17FA is a low-powered station in Willmar, Minnesota affiliated with TV Land. This station is owned and operated by UHF-TV Inc, which offers TV Land as part of a limited line-up of cable and broadcast channels to Willmar-area viewers.
K18DD K18DD is a low-power television station serving Camp Verde, Arizona and the entire Verde Valley. Owned by Central States Communications of Camp Verde, the station broadcasts locally-produced programming, as well as programming from the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN), and overnight programming from ShopNBC.
K19FD K19FD is a low-power television station serving Camp Verde, Arizona. It broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 19 from its transmitter located on Squaw Peak south of town, and is an affiliate of The Hope Channel, the flagship station of the Adventist Television Network (ATN), operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
K1ck eSports Club The K1ck eSports Club Association started its activity in September 2005 and it was registered as a result of the online gaming clan founded in October 1998, K1ck. Usually found performing in the many LAN (Local area network) tournaments that take place around the world, mainly in LAN Parties, K1ck are the only Portuguese eSports Association legally registered and in activity that evolved from an online gaming clan.
K2 (Japanese band) K2 (Japanese; ケăĽă„ăĽ) is the noise music project of Japanese musician Kimihide Kusafuka. K2's work typically consists of crashing, creaking, and scraping sounds made with pieces of junk metal, usually edited in a jarring, unpredictable style, and often accompanied by the sounds of various electronics.
K21DO K21DO is a low-power Class A television station in Palm Springs, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 21 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded October 29, 1991, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcast Network, Inc.
K21GX K21GX channel 21 is a religious television station based in Salem, Oregon, with a repeater, K26CJ channel 26, in Portland, Oregon. The station is owned by Northwest Christian Broadcasting, a non-profit organization.
K22BI K22BI is a low-power Class A television station in Walla Walla, Washington, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 22 as an affiliate of The Hope Channel and The Worship Network. K22BI is also seen on translator stations K21EK, UHF channel 21, and K28FT, UHF channel 28, both in Walla Walla.
K25AL K25AL is a low-power Class A television station serving Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 25 as a Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) affiliate and is owned by Lake Havasu Christian Television of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
K25FW K25FW-LP is a Home Shopping Network affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in Corsicana, Texas, owned and operated by Ventana TV Inc. Its affiliate is available on North Texas cable companies such as Time Warner Cable (Channel 75), Charter Communications (Channels vary), Verizon FiOS (Channel 121), as well as DirecTV and Dish Network; however neither HSN or K25FW are available on USDTV yet.
K26GS K26GS is a low-power television station in Harrison, Arkansas, broadcasting locally on channel 26 as an affiliate of FamilyNet, with additional programming from America One. Founded February 1,2002, the station is owned by Mountain Communications, Inc.
K27EU K27EU is a low-power Class A television station in Sacramento, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 27 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded August 21, 1990, the station is owned by Abundant Life Broadcasting, Inc.
K300 NIFV A replacement for the South Korean K200 series infantry fighting vehicles are currently being tested, designated as K300 or XK21 NIFV (Next-generation Infantry Fighting Vehicle). The initial production is set for 2008.
K30DJ K30DJ is a low-power Class A television station in Wichita Falls, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 30 as an affiliate of FamilyNet and The Worship Network. Founded January 29, the station is owned by Christian Family Network TV, Inc.
K31GL K31GL is a low-powered Almavision affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in DeSoto, Texas, owned and operated by Mako Communications. It is not available on either Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Verizon FiOS, or USDTV at this time.
K34HO K34HO is a low-powered station in Willmar, Minnesota affiliated with The Weather Channel. This station is owned and operated by UHF-TV Inc, which offers The Weather Channel as part of a limited line-up of cable and broadcast channels to Willmar-area viewers.
K36DB K36DB is a low-power Class A television station in Avon, Colorado, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 36 as an affiliate of Resort Sports Network. Founded September 17, 1992, the station is owned by Resort Television USA.
K41FQ K41FQ is a low-power television station in Springfield, Missouri, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 41. Founded February 28, 1989, it is an owned and operated station belonging to Trinity Broadcasting Network, and rebroadcasts the signal of TBN via satellite.
K42 K42 is an open-source research operating system currently being developed primarily at IBM TJ Watson Research Center for cache-coherent 64-bit multiprocessor systems. The main focus of this OS is to address performance and scalability issues of system software on large-scale, shared memory, NUMA multiprocessor computers.
K43FO K43FO is a low-power Class A television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 43 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded February 22, 1995, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcasting Network.
K45IE K45IE is a low-power television station in Vail, Colorado, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 45 as an affiliate of Resort Sports Network. Founded September 17, 1992, the station is owned by Vail Associates.
K47DF K47DF is a low-power television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, broadcasting locally on channel 47 as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by KVOA Communications, Incorporated (named for a sister station in Tucson, Arizona), a subsidiary of the Evening Post Publishing Company.
K47DR K47DR is a low-power television station in Farmington, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 47 as an affiliate of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Founded June 4, 1990, the station is owned by Christian Broadcasting Communications.
K51GK K51GK is a low-power Class A television station in Sioux City, Iowa, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 51 as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcast Network. Founded October 15, 1992, the station is owned by Cornerstone Faith Center.
K53GF K53GF, or KGF-53, is a low-power television station serving Phoenix, Arizona as a Spanish-language independent station. It provides over-the-air service on analog channel 53 from its transmitter on South Mountain.
K54JS K54JS-LP is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mintz Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 54 and licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas.
K56flex K56flex (a combination of Rockwell's K56Plus and Lucent's V.Flex2 proposals) was a proprietary modem chipset from Rockwell and Lucent that gave users the possibility of receiving data on ordinary phone lines at 56 kbit/s as opposed to the previous maximum of 33.
K57HX K57HX is a low-power television station in Mesa, Arizona. It provides over-the-air analog service on UHF channel 57 to Mesa and the East Valley from its transmitter on Usery Mountain and broadcasts programming from Home Shopping Network (HSN).
K58GC K58GC is a low-power television station in Rochester, Minnesota, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 58 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded October 28, 1993, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc.
K61GH K61GH is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by International Communications Network Inc. It broadcasts on channel 61 and licensed to San Diego, California.
K68DJ K68DJ, known on-air as KAJA Telemundo, is a low-power television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, broadcasting locally on channel 68 as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is co-owned with KRIS-TV and K47DF (both of which are owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company through KVOA Communications, Incorporated).
K890 The K890 is a unique submachine gun that was manufactured as a prototype during the 1950's. The reason it was not widely manufactured was mainly due to an awkwardly shaped stock that made it difficult to use accurately and a miscalculated barrel length, which also contributed to the difficulty in aiming.
K9 Magazine K9 Magazine is a British dog magazine published by K9 Media Ltd. It was conceived to fill a perceived gap in the UK magazine market for a dog magazine aimed at a mainstream audience of dog lovers rather than 'specialist' titles aimed at professional interest dog owners.
Ka Lae Ka Lae ("the point" in Hawaiian), also known as South Point, is the southernmost point on the island of Hawaii and in the state of Hawaii, and is also the southernmost point in the United States, at an approximate latitude of 19° North. The Ka Lae area is registered as a National Historic Landmark District.
Ka Leo O Hawaii Ka Leo O Hawai‘i (The Voice of Hawai‘i) is the student newspaper at the University of Hawai‘i at MÄnoa, founded in 1922 (as the Mirror). "Ka Leo" is printed Monday through Thursday during the fall and spring semesters, and Thursday during the summer semester.
Ka Mate "Ka Mate" is a MÄori haka attributed to Te Rauparaha, war leader of the NgÄti Toa tribe, and originated on the island of Aotearoa, known today as New Zealand. The haka is an action chant, often described as a "war dance", but more a chant with hand gestures and foot stamping, originally performed by warriors before a battle, proclaiming their strength and prowess and generally verbally challenging the opposition.
Ka River Ka River (also known as Gulbin Ka River) is a river in the northern part of Nigeria. Originating in Zamfara State, it runs some 250 kilometers west into Kebbi State where it joins with the Sokoto River 100 km south of Birnin Kebbi, shortly before joining the Niger River.
Ka'a'awa, Hawai'i Kaaawa is a small community and census-designated place (CDP) located in the windward district of Koolauloa, City & County of Honolulu on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. As of the 2000 Census, the total population for Kaaawa was 1,324.
Ka'b bin Zuhayr Ka'b bin Zuhayr was the elder son of Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ, whose early work satirised Islam, but who subsequently converted and wrote the ode Baanat Su'aad which became known as Qasidat al-Burda as the Prophet is reputed to have given him his cloak (burda) after hearing it. This is not to be confused with the much later (and now more-recited) "Qasidat al-Burda" of al-Busiri.
Ka'ba-i Zartosht The Ka'ba-i Zartosht (alt: Kaba-i Zardusht, Kaba-ye Zardosht), meaning the "Cube of Zoroaster", is a 5th century BC Achaemenid-era edifice at Naqsh-e Rustam, an archaeological site just northwest of Persepolis, Iran.
Ka'usiyeh Dynasty The Ka'usiyeh Dynasty ruled Tabaristan (now Mazandaran in northern Iran) from 665 to about 1006. It was a branch of the Bavand Dynasty, based in a mountainous region south-west of Sari, whose isolation played a rĂ´le in the survival of the early dynasty.
Ka-Ha-Si In Inuit mythology, Ka-Ha-Si was a lazy Inuit boy who was shunned by his tribe for his constant sleeping. In a dream, a loon spoke to him and said he had to save his tribe from a famine because the hunters had been unable to find game.
Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche at the great stupa of Boudhanath in Nepal. The abbot and vajra master are Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Chokling Rinpoche, respectively.
Ka-tzetnik Ka-tzetnik (KZ-nik, Kazetnik, Katsetnik) is a Yiddish word for an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp. The word is derived from the abbreviation KZ (pronounced as Kah-Tzet) for the German word Konzentrationslager by the addition of the suffix -nik of Slavic origin, which approximately corresponds to the English suffix "-er".
Ka-Zar Ka-Zar (pronounced "KAY-sar") is the name of three jungle-dwelling fictional characters. The first appeared in pulp magazines of the 1930s, and was adapted for his second iteration, as a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and '40s predecessor of Marvel Comics.
Ka/Ks ratio In genetics, the Ka/Ks ratio or dN/dS ratio is the ratio of non-synonymous substitutions (Ka) to synonymous substitutions (Ks), which can be used as an indication of selection of a protein-coding gene. Genetics]
Kaa's Hunting "Kaa's Hunting" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in The Jungle Book (1894) where it is accompanied by the poem "Road Song of the Bandar-log".
Kaaba The Kaaba (Arabic: ), also known as al-Kaâ€abatu’l-Musharrafat (), al-Baytu l-â€AtÄ«q ( "The Primordial House"), or al-Baytu’l-ḤarÄm ( "The Sacred House"), is a large cuboidal building located inside the mosque known as al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The mosque was built around the original Kaaba.
Kaabu The Kingdom of Kaabu or Gabu or N’Gabu (1537-1867) was a Mandinka Kingdom of Guinea Bissau that rose to prominence in the region thanks to its origins as a former province of the Mali Empire. After the decline of the Mali Empire, Kaabu became an independent kingdom.
Kaafu Atoll Kaafu Atoll is an administrative atoll from the Maldives. This administrative atoll has four natural atolls collectively called the Malé Atoll: (from north to south) Kaashidhoo, Gaafaru, the North Malé Atoll and the South Malé Atoll.
Kaagaz Ke Phool Kaagaz Ke Phool (Hindi: कागज़ के फूल, English: Paper Flowers) is a 1959 Hindi film, Guru Dutt's last as a director. This is the story of Suresh Sinha, a famous film director played by Guru Dutt himself.
Kaahumanu III Queen consort Miriam Auhea Kalani Kui Kawakiu o Kekauluohi Kealiiuhiwaihanau o Kalani Makahonua Ahilapalapa Kai Wikapu o Kaleilei a Kalakaua also known as Ka'ahumanu III (27 July 1794 - 7 June 1845), was Kuhina Nui of Hawaii and a queen consort of king Kamehameha the Great.
Kaahumanu Society The Ahahui Kaahumanu Society is a civic club in Hawaii formed in 1864 to celebrate the life of Queen Kaahumanu and to preserve the monarchy in Hawaii. It is considered one of the oldest royal societies in the world.
Kaamelott Kaamelott is a French comedy television series which parodies the Arthurian legend. Broadcast on M6 in France since 2005 in prime time (20h30 to 20h40), and on TSR2 in Switzerland, each season it has attracted more viewers, with records reaching about 5 millions viewers each evening.
Kaamya karma Kaamya karmas refer to those Karmas (or rituals) in Hinduism which are performed with a specific objective in view. Unlike Nitya karmas, these rituals are not required by the Shastras to be performed on a daily or regular basis, but these may be performed only for acquiring some desire.
Kaante Kaante (Hindi: कांटे, Urdu: کانٹے) is a 2002 Bollywood film directed by Sanjay Gupta and starring Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role. The film is a Hindi remake of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
Kaapmuiden Kaapmuiden (Cape Mouth) is a small farming town situated at the confluence of the Kaap and Crocodile Rivers in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce sugarcane, subtropical fruit and vegetables.
Kaapse Klopse The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse) is a minstrel festival that takes place annually in Cape Town, South Africa. Up to 13,000 minstrels in whiteface take to the streets garbed in shockingly bright colours, either carrying colourful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments.
Kaarlo Juho StĂĄhlberg Kaarlo Juho StĂĄhlberg (January 28, 1865 - September 22, 1952) was a prominent jurist and academic, who played a central role in the drafting of the Constitution of Finland in 1919. He was the first President of Finland (1919-1925) and a Nationalist Liberal.
Kaartika Kaarthika (Hindi: कातिक kaatik or कार्तिक kaartik, Bangla: কার্ত্তিক Kartik), is a month of the Hindu and Bengali calendars. In India's national civil calendar, Kaartika is the eighth month of the year, beginning on 23 October and ending on 21 November.
Kaaterskill Falls Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, on the north side of Kaaterskill Clove, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County's Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York.
Kaaterskill Junction Railroad Station The Kaaterskill Junction Station, branch MP 11.8, was one of the smallest stations on the Ulster & Delaware, and served as the station at the junction between the Stony Clove and Kaaterskill Branch and the Hunter Branch, hence the word "junction" in its name.
Kaava A Kaava is a fantasy creature with three heads, two tails, and acid saliva. Most are capable of spitting acid at a range of up to fifty feet, but some of the bigger ones are known to have a range of up to two-hundred, with reduced accuracy.
Kaavya Viswanathan Kaavya Viswanathan (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian American undergraduate student in the Harvard College class of 2008 who came to public attention when her debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, was revealed to have been plagiarized from multiple sources.
Kañiwa Kañiwa is a species of goosefoot, similar in character and uses to the closely related quinoa. It has important beneficial characteristics including tolerance of high mountain conditions and the grain's high protein content and lack of the saponins which complicate quinoa use, but its domestication is not complete and non-uniformity of grain ripening is a limitation.
Kaçkar Mountains Kaçkar mountains or Kaçkar Dağları or simply Kaçkar(s) is a mountain range rising above along the Black Sea coast in Eastern Turkey. With highest peak Kaçkar Dağı (elevation 3937 metres), and mountain plateaus at about 3000m elevation, it is the highest part of Pontic Mountains.
KaÄŤamak KaÄŤamak is a traditional Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian dish made of corn flour, potato and, sometimes, feta Cheese or Skorup. Similar to the Italian Polenta, it is prepared by boiling the mixture thick or rare depending on taste, and then mashing while the pot is still on fire.
Kačarevo Kačarevo (Качарево) is a town in northern Serbia, situated in the municipality of Pančevo, South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 7,624 people (2002 census).
Kağıthane Kağıthane is a working class district of the city of İstanbul, Turkey in a valley inland from the upmarket Etiler. Built along a stream that runs into the Golden Horn and although very central, it is one of the most miserable residential districts of Istanbul.
Kaba Ma Kyei Kaba Ma Kyei ("Till the End of the World, Myanmar") is the national anthem of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is often translated as "We Shall Never Give Up Our Motherland, Myanmar", but is relatively inaccurate in translating the title's meaning.
Kabab Torsh Kabab Torsh is a traditional kebab from Gilan province in Iran. It is made with beef - usually sirloin or tenderloin - marinated in a paste made of crushed walnuts, pomegranate juice, chopped parsley, olive oil, and crushed garlic.
Kabaddi Kabaddi (sometimes written Kabbadi or Kabadi) (Hindi: कबड्डी; ) is a team sport originally from South Asia. It is popular throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia, is the national game of Bangladesh and state game of Punjab, India.
Kabadi Wala KabadiWala, meaning "one with junk", is a term in Hindustani used commonly to refer to a person who deals with used household objects. They wander the streets with a bag, bicycle, or a cart shouting for "Kabad" i.
Kabalas The Kabalas were a four-piece band out of the Quad Cities area of the American Mid-West whose musical foundations were based firmly in a traditional Eastern European Klezmer style that mixed in Jewish folksongs, Polka and popular music. The members of the band were Scott Morschauser (vocals, accordion, guitar, percussion); Barry "The Wolfman" Wolf (accordion); "Nervous" Neal Smith (saxophones, backup vocals, flute, clarinet); and the late "Mr.
Kabane Kabane (ĺ§“) were hereditary titles used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing. There were over 30; some of the more common kabane were omi (臣), muraji (連), miyatsuko (é€ ), kimi (ĺ›), atai (値), fubito (史), agatanushi (県主), suguri (村主).
Kabapu Doctor Kabapu is the name of a fictitious character in Rikudo Koshi's manga and anime series Excel Saga. Occupying a position of inscrutable power in F City, F Prefecture, he is the mysterious and dedicated, if unloved, founder and head of the Municipal Force Daitenzin and its front organization, the Department of City Security.
Kabard Kabarda, Kabard or Kabarid are simply alternative ways of referring to the Kabar people of the northern Caucasus more commonly known by the plural term Kabardin (or Kebertei as they term themselves). Originally they (with Besleney tribe) comprised the semi-nomadic eastern branch of what was once the Adyghe tribal fellowship.
Kabardian (horse) The Kabardian horse breed is a breed from the Caucasus, currently part of Russia and Georgia. Historically the breed has been known for at least 400 years, but its origins are considered to be as old as the Hittite civilisation.
Kabardino-Balkaria Kabardino-Balkar Republic or Kabardino-Balkaria (; Kabardian: Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр РеŃĐżŃбликэ; Balkar: Къабарты-Малкъар РеŃĐżŃблика) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic), located in the northern Caucasus. The direct transliteration of the republic's name in the Russian language is Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika or informally as Kabardino-Balkariya.
Kabartonjo Kabartonjo is a small administrative highland town and division in the larger Baringo District of the Rift Valley Province, Kenya. The highlands surrounding Kabartonjo are called Kamasia, from the Kalenjin word kamâ:s 'cool highlands'.
Kabataan Habambuhay: Ang Gabay ni Cory Quirino tungo sa Kagandahan at Kalusugan Kabataan Habambuhay: Ang Gabay ni Cory Quirino sa Kagandahan at Kalusugan (ISBN 971-27-1759-3) is a book written by Filipina beauty and health expert Cory Quirino. It is the fourth in her "Forever Young" series of books about health, fitness and nutrition.
Kabayama Sukenori (9 December 1837 - 8 February 1922) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and later became the first Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan during the island's period as a Japanese colony. He is also sometimes referred to as Kabayama Motonori.
Kabba Samura Kabba Samura (born November 26, 1981 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international soccer player, who currently plays as a striker for Aalesunds FK in the Norwegian Premier League. Samura began his career with Mighty Blackpool in the Sierra Leonean Premier League.
Kabbabish Kabbabish ("goatherds": James Bruce derives the name from hebsh, sheep), a tribe of African nomads of Semitic origin. It is perhaps the largest "Arab" tribe in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and its many clans are scattered over the country extending SW from the province of Dongola to the confines of Darfur.
Kabbalah Kabbalah (, Tiberian: , QabbÄlÄh, Israeli: Kabala) literally means "receiving", in the sense of a "received tradition", and is sometimes transliterated as Cabala, Kabbala, Qabalah, or other permutations. Kabbalah esoterically interprets the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and classical Jewish texts (halakha and aggadah) and practices (mitzvot), as expressing a mystical doctrine concerning God's simultaneous immanence and transcendence, an attempted resolution to the ancient paradox of how the ultimate Being—"that which is not conceivable by thinking" (Isaac the Blind)—nevertheless comes to be known and experienced by the created world.
Kabbalah Centre The Kabbalah Centre is a worldwide educational organization with headquarters in Los Angeles, California that offers a number of beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses on Kabbalah, both online and through its locally established centres. The authenticity of the organisation's teaching is disputed, particularly by traditional religious leaders who do not approve of the Centre's open door policy of allowing non-Jews and women to study its teachings, and by many others who feel the Kabbalah Centre has commercialized and distorted Kabbalah.
Kabbalistic astrology Kabbalistic astrology or Mazal, Mazalot (zodiac, destiny) is astrology based upon the Hebrew Kabbalah to interpret and delineate a person's birth chart. In Hebrew, astrology was called hokmat ha-nissayon, "the wisdom of prognostication", in distinction to hokmat ha-hizzayon (wisdom of star-seeing, or astronomy).
Kabbinale Kabbinale, a village at the foot of the Western Ghats (Sahyadri) Agumbe range, is situated in Karkala taluk of the Udupi district of Karnataka state, India. In the Kannada language, kabbinale means "sugarcane stream.
Kabel (typeface) Kabel is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by German typeface designer Rudolf Koch, and released by the Klingspor foundry in 1927. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable.
Kabel Deutschland Kabel Deutschland is a cable company operating in Germany, serving some Bundesländer, but not Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hessen and east Thuringia. It broadcasts the pay TV platform Kabel Digital.
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Hindi: कŕ¤ŕĄ€ अलविदा न कहना, Urdu: کبھی الŮداع Ů†Ű Ú©Űنا, English: Never Say Goodbye) is a film directed by Karan Johar and produced under the Dharma Productions banner. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan and Kiron Kher in pivotal roles.
Kabhi Kabhie Kabhi Kabhie is a 1976 Hindi movie, produced and directed by Yash Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee, Simi Garewal, Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. This was Yash Chopra's second directorial film with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor in the lead roles after Deewar.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Hindi: कŕ¤ŕĄ€ ख़ŕĄŕ¤¶ŕĄ€ कŕ¤ŕĄ€ ग़म, Urdu: کبھی Ř®ŮŘ´ŰŚ کبھی غم - "Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness") is a Bollywood film released in India and countries with large NRI populations on December 14, 2001.
Kabi The Kabi (or Kabi Kabi) nation are an Aboriginal Murri people of Australia, and corresponding language group of the South Eastern Queensland coast, stretching from Brisbane up to Gladstone. In their language, "Kabi" means "No".
Kabi Longstock Kabi Longstock is a town in the Indian state of Sikkim just 17Â kilometres north of the capital Gangtok. The town is the location of the site where a friendship treaty was signed betwee the Lepcha chief Tekung Tek and the Bhutia chief Khey Bum Sar.
K11TW K11TW, known locally as KIIT, is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, broadcasting locally as an affiliate of Fox, with additional programming from UPN. The station is a Class-A operation, even though the station's official calls are still translator-style calls.
K12OZ K12OZ is a low-power television station in Fresno, California, broadcasting locally in analog on VHF channel 12. Founded November 6, 1995, the station is owned and operated by Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc.
K13XD K13XD (branded as KXD) Channel 13 is the CBS affiliate in Fairbanks, Alaska. It signed on the air on August 7, 1996 as the area's sixth television station, four months after longtime CBS station KTVF dropped the network in favor of NBC.
K14LM K14LM is a low-power Class A television station in San Antonio, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 14 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded July 19, 1994, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcast Network Inc.
K17FA K17FA is a low-powered station in Willmar, Minnesota affiliated with TV Land. This station is owned and operated by UHF-TV Inc, which offers TV Land as part of a limited line-up of cable and broadcast channels to Willmar-area viewers.
K18DD K18DD is a low-power television station serving Camp Verde, Arizona and the entire Verde Valley. Owned by Central States Communications of Camp Verde, the station broadcasts locally-produced programming, as well as programming from the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN), and overnight programming from ShopNBC.
K19FD K19FD is a low-power television station serving Camp Verde, Arizona. It broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 19 from its transmitter located on Squaw Peak south of town, and is an affiliate of The Hope Channel, the flagship station of the Adventist Television Network (ATN), operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
K1ck eSports Club The K1ck eSports Club Association started its activity in September 2005 and it was registered as a result of the online gaming clan founded in October 1998, K1ck. Usually found performing in the many LAN (Local area network) tournaments that take place around the world, mainly in LAN Parties, K1ck are the only Portuguese eSports Association legally registered and in activity that evolved from an online gaming clan.
K2 (Japanese band) K2 (Japanese; ケăĽă„ăĽ) is the noise music project of Japanese musician Kimihide Kusafuka. K2's work typically consists of crashing, creaking, and scraping sounds made with pieces of junk metal, usually edited in a jarring, unpredictable style, and often accompanied by the sounds of various electronics.
K21DO K21DO is a low-power Class A television station in Palm Springs, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 21 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded October 29, 1991, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcast Network, Inc.
K21GX K21GX channel 21 is a religious television station based in Salem, Oregon, with a repeater, K26CJ channel 26, in Portland, Oregon. The station is owned by Northwest Christian Broadcasting, a non-profit organization.
K22BI K22BI is a low-power Class A television station in Walla Walla, Washington, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 22 as an affiliate of The Hope Channel and The Worship Network. K22BI is also seen on translator stations K21EK, UHF channel 21, and K28FT, UHF channel 28, both in Walla Walla.
K25AL K25AL is a low-power Class A television station serving Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 25 as a Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) affiliate and is owned by Lake Havasu Christian Television of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
K25FW K25FW-LP is a Home Shopping Network affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in Corsicana, Texas, owned and operated by Ventana TV Inc. Its affiliate is available on North Texas cable companies such as Time Warner Cable (Channel 75), Charter Communications (Channels vary), Verizon FiOS (Channel 121), as well as DirecTV and Dish Network; however neither HSN or K25FW are available on USDTV yet.
K26GS K26GS is a low-power television station in Harrison, Arkansas, broadcasting locally on channel 26 as an affiliate of FamilyNet, with additional programming from America One. Founded February 1,2002, the station is owned by Mountain Communications, Inc.
K27EU K27EU is a low-power Class A television station in Sacramento, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 27 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded August 21, 1990, the station is owned by Abundant Life Broadcasting, Inc.
K300 NIFV A replacement for the South Korean K200 series infantry fighting vehicles are currently being tested, designated as K300 or XK21 NIFV (Next-generation Infantry Fighting Vehicle). The initial production is set for 2008.
K30DJ K30DJ is a low-power Class A television station in Wichita Falls, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 30 as an affiliate of FamilyNet and The Worship Network. Founded January 29, the station is owned by Christian Family Network TV, Inc.
K31GL K31GL is a low-powered Almavision affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in DeSoto, Texas, owned and operated by Mako Communications. It is not available on either Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Verizon FiOS, or USDTV at this time.
K34HO K34HO is a low-powered station in Willmar, Minnesota affiliated with The Weather Channel. This station is owned and operated by UHF-TV Inc, which offers The Weather Channel as part of a limited line-up of cable and broadcast channels to Willmar-area viewers.
K36DB K36DB is a low-power Class A television station in Avon, Colorado, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 36 as an affiliate of Resort Sports Network. Founded September 17, 1992, the station is owned by Resort Television USA.
K41FQ K41FQ is a low-power television station in Springfield, Missouri, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 41. Founded February 28, 1989, it is an owned and operated station belonging to Trinity Broadcasting Network, and rebroadcasts the signal of TBN via satellite.
K42 K42 is an open-source research operating system currently being developed primarily at IBM TJ Watson Research Center for cache-coherent 64-bit multiprocessor systems. The main focus of this OS is to address performance and scalability issues of system software on large-scale, shared memory, NUMA multiprocessor computers.
K43FO K43FO is a low-power Class A television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 43 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded February 22, 1995, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcasting Network.
K45IE K45IE is a low-power television station in Vail, Colorado, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 45 as an affiliate of Resort Sports Network. Founded September 17, 1992, the station is owned by Vail Associates.
K47DF K47DF is a low-power television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, broadcasting locally on channel 47 as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by KVOA Communications, Incorporated (named for a sister station in Tucson, Arizona), a subsidiary of the Evening Post Publishing Company.
K47DR K47DR is a low-power television station in Farmington, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 47 as an affiliate of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Founded June 4, 1990, the station is owned by Christian Broadcasting Communications.
K51GK K51GK is a low-power Class A television station in Sioux City, Iowa, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 51 as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcast Network. Founded October 15, 1992, the station is owned by Cornerstone Faith Center.
K53GF K53GF, or KGF-53, is a low-power television station serving Phoenix, Arizona as a Spanish-language independent station. It provides over-the-air service on analog channel 53 from its transmitter on South Mountain.
K54JS K54JS-LP is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by Mintz Broadcasting. It broadcasts on channel 54 and licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas.
K56flex K56flex (a combination of Rockwell's K56Plus and Lucent's V.Flex2 proposals) was a proprietary modem chipset from Rockwell and Lucent that gave users the possibility of receiving data on ordinary phone lines at 56 kbit/s as opposed to the previous maximum of 33.
K57HX K57HX is a low-power television station in Mesa, Arizona. It provides over-the-air analog service on UHF channel 57 to Mesa and the East Valley from its transmitter on Usery Mountain and broadcasts programming from Home Shopping Network (HSN).
K58GC K58GC is a low-power television station in Rochester, Minnesota, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 58 as an affiliate of 3ABN. Founded October 28, 1993, the station is owned by Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc.
K61GH K61GH is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Mexico-based Multimedios Television, owned and operated by International Communications Network Inc. It broadcasts on channel 61 and licensed to San Diego, California.
K68DJ K68DJ, known on-air as KAJA Telemundo, is a low-power television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, broadcasting locally on channel 68 as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is co-owned with KRIS-TV and K47DF (both of which are owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company through KVOA Communications, Incorporated).
K890 The K890 is a unique submachine gun that was manufactured as a prototype during the 1950's. The reason it was not widely manufactured was mainly due to an awkwardly shaped stock that made it difficult to use accurately and a miscalculated barrel length, which also contributed to the difficulty in aiming.
K9 Magazine K9 Magazine is a British dog magazine published by K9 Media Ltd. It was conceived to fill a perceived gap in the UK magazine market for a dog magazine aimed at a mainstream audience of dog lovers rather than 'specialist' titles aimed at professional interest dog owners.
Ka Lae Ka Lae ("the point" in Hawaiian), also known as South Point, is the southernmost point on the island of Hawaii and in the state of Hawaii, and is also the southernmost point in the United States, at an approximate latitude of 19° North. The Ka Lae area is registered as a National Historic Landmark District.
Ka Leo O Hawaii Ka Leo O Hawai‘i (The Voice of Hawai‘i) is the student newspaper at the University of Hawai‘i at MÄnoa, founded in 1922 (as the Mirror). "Ka Leo" is printed Monday through Thursday during the fall and spring semesters, and Thursday during the summer semester.
Ka Mate "Ka Mate" is a MÄori haka attributed to Te Rauparaha, war leader of the NgÄti Toa tribe, and originated on the island of Aotearoa, known today as New Zealand. The haka is an action chant, often described as a "war dance", but more a chant with hand gestures and foot stamping, originally performed by warriors before a battle, proclaiming their strength and prowess and generally verbally challenging the opposition.
Ka River Ka River (also known as Gulbin Ka River) is a river in the northern part of Nigeria. Originating in Zamfara State, it runs some 250 kilometers west into Kebbi State where it joins with the Sokoto River 100 km south of Birnin Kebbi, shortly before joining the Niger River.
Ka'a'awa, Hawai'i Kaaawa is a small community and census-designated place (CDP) located in the windward district of Koolauloa, City & County of Honolulu on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. As of the 2000 Census, the total population for Kaaawa was 1,324.
Ka'b bin Zuhayr Ka'b bin Zuhayr was the elder son of Zuhayr ibn Abî Sûlmâ, whose early work satirised Islam, but who subsequently converted and wrote the ode Baanat Su'aad which became known as Qasidat al-Burda as the Prophet is reputed to have given him his cloak (burda) after hearing it. This is not to be confused with the much later (and now more-recited) "Qasidat al-Burda" of al-Busiri.
Ka'ba-i Zartosht The Ka'ba-i Zartosht (alt: Kaba-i Zardusht, Kaba-ye Zardosht), meaning the "Cube of Zoroaster", is a 5th century BC Achaemenid-era edifice at Naqsh-e Rustam, an archaeological site just northwest of Persepolis, Iran.
Ka'usiyeh Dynasty The Ka'usiyeh Dynasty ruled Tabaristan (now Mazandaran in northern Iran) from 665 to about 1006. It was a branch of the Bavand Dynasty, based in a mountainous region south-west of Sari, whose isolation played a rĂ´le in the survival of the early dynasty.
Ka-Ha-Si In Inuit mythology, Ka-Ha-Si was a lazy Inuit boy who was shunned by his tribe for his constant sleeping. In a dream, a loon spoke to him and said he had to save his tribe from a famine because the hunters had been unable to find game.
Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche at the great stupa of Boudhanath in Nepal. The abbot and vajra master are Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Chokling Rinpoche, respectively.
Ka-tzetnik Ka-tzetnik (KZ-nik, Kazetnik, Katsetnik) is a Yiddish word for an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp. The word is derived from the abbreviation KZ (pronounced as Kah-Tzet) for the German word Konzentrationslager by the addition of the suffix -nik of Slavic origin, which approximately corresponds to the English suffix "-er".
Ka-Zar Ka-Zar (pronounced "KAY-sar") is the name of three jungle-dwelling fictional characters. The first appeared in pulp magazines of the 1930s, and was adapted for his second iteration, as a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and '40s predecessor of Marvel Comics.
Ka/Ks ratio In genetics, the Ka/Ks ratio or dN/dS ratio is the ratio of non-synonymous substitutions (Ka) to synonymous substitutions (Ks), which can be used as an indication of selection of a protein-coding gene. Genetics]
Kaa's Hunting "Kaa's Hunting" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in The Jungle Book (1894) where it is accompanied by the poem "Road Song of the Bandar-log".
Kaaba The Kaaba (Arabic: ), also known as al-Kaâ€abatu’l-Musharrafat (), al-Baytu l-â€AtÄ«q ( "The Primordial House"), or al-Baytu’l-ḤarÄm ( "The Sacred House"), is a large cuboidal building located inside the mosque known as al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The mosque was built around the original Kaaba.
Kaabu The Kingdom of Kaabu or Gabu or N’Gabu (1537-1867) was a Mandinka Kingdom of Guinea Bissau that rose to prominence in the region thanks to its origins as a former province of the Mali Empire. After the decline of the Mali Empire, Kaabu became an independent kingdom.
Kaafu Atoll Kaafu Atoll is an administrative atoll from the Maldives. This administrative atoll has four natural atolls collectively called the Malé Atoll: (from north to south) Kaashidhoo, Gaafaru, the North Malé Atoll and the South Malé Atoll.
Kaagaz Ke Phool Kaagaz Ke Phool (Hindi: कागज़ के फूल, English: Paper Flowers) is a 1959 Hindi film, Guru Dutt's last as a director. This is the story of Suresh Sinha, a famous film director played by Guru Dutt himself.
Kaahumanu III Queen consort Miriam Auhea Kalani Kui Kawakiu o Kekauluohi Kealiiuhiwaihanau o Kalani Makahonua Ahilapalapa Kai Wikapu o Kaleilei a Kalakaua also known as Ka'ahumanu III (27 July 1794 - 7 June 1845), was Kuhina Nui of Hawaii and a queen consort of king Kamehameha the Great.
Kaahumanu Society The Ahahui Kaahumanu Society is a civic club in Hawaii formed in 1864 to celebrate the life of Queen Kaahumanu and to preserve the monarchy in Hawaii. It is considered one of the oldest royal societies in the world.
Kaamelott Kaamelott is a French comedy television series which parodies the Arthurian legend. Broadcast on M6 in France since 2005 in prime time (20h30 to 20h40), and on TSR2 in Switzerland, each season it has attracted more viewers, with records reaching about 5 millions viewers each evening.
Kaamya karma Kaamya karmas refer to those Karmas (or rituals) in Hinduism which are performed with a specific objective in view. Unlike Nitya karmas, these rituals are not required by the Shastras to be performed on a daily or regular basis, but these may be performed only for acquiring some desire.
Kaante Kaante (Hindi: कांटे, Urdu: کانٹے) is a 2002 Bollywood film directed by Sanjay Gupta and starring Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role. The film is a Hindi remake of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
Kaapmuiden Kaapmuiden (Cape Mouth) is a small farming town situated at the confluence of the Kaap and Crocodile Rivers in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce sugarcane, subtropical fruit and vegetables.
Kaapse Klopse The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse) is a minstrel festival that takes place annually in Cape Town, South Africa. Up to 13,000 minstrels in whiteface take to the streets garbed in shockingly bright colours, either carrying colourful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments.
Kaarlo Juho StĂĄhlberg Kaarlo Juho StĂĄhlberg (January 28, 1865 - September 22, 1952) was a prominent jurist and academic, who played a central role in the drafting of the Constitution of Finland in 1919. He was the first President of Finland (1919-1925) and a Nationalist Liberal.
Kaartika Kaarthika (Hindi: कातिक kaatik or कार्तिक kaartik, Bangla: কার্ত্তিক Kartik), is a month of the Hindu and Bengali calendars. In India's national civil calendar, Kaartika is the eighth month of the year, beginning on 23 October and ending on 21 November.
Kaaterskill Falls Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York, on the north side of Kaaterskill Clove, between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County's Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York.
Kaaterskill Junction Railroad Station The Kaaterskill Junction Station, branch MP 11.8, was one of the smallest stations on the Ulster & Delaware, and served as the station at the junction between the Stony Clove and Kaaterskill Branch and the Hunter Branch, hence the word "junction" in its name.
Kaava A Kaava is a fantasy creature with three heads, two tails, and acid saliva. Most are capable of spitting acid at a range of up to fifty feet, but some of the bigger ones are known to have a range of up to two-hundred, with reduced accuracy.
Kaavya Viswanathan Kaavya Viswanathan (born January 16, 1987) is an Indian American undergraduate student in the Harvard College class of 2008 who came to public attention when her debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, was revealed to have been plagiarized from multiple sources.
Kañiwa Kañiwa is a species of goosefoot, similar in character and uses to the closely related quinoa. It has important beneficial characteristics including tolerance of high mountain conditions and the grain's high protein content and lack of the saponins which complicate quinoa use, but its domestication is not complete and non-uniformity of grain ripening is a limitation.
Kaçkar Mountains Kaçkar mountains or Kaçkar Dağları or simply Kaçkar(s) is a mountain range rising above along the Black Sea coast in Eastern Turkey. With highest peak Kaçkar Dağı (elevation 3937 metres), and mountain plateaus at about 3000m elevation, it is the highest part of Pontic Mountains.
KaÄŤamak KaÄŤamak is a traditional Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian dish made of corn flour, potato and, sometimes, feta Cheese or Skorup. Similar to the Italian Polenta, it is prepared by boiling the mixture thick or rare depending on taste, and then mashing while the pot is still on fire.
Kačarevo Kačarevo (Качарево) is a town in northern Serbia, situated in the municipality of Pančevo, South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The town has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 7,624 people (2002 census).
Kağıthane Kağıthane is a working class district of the city of İstanbul, Turkey in a valley inland from the upmarket Etiler. Built along a stream that runs into the Golden Horn and although very central, it is one of the most miserable residential districts of Istanbul.
Kaba Ma Kyei Kaba Ma Kyei ("Till the End of the World, Myanmar") is the national anthem of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is often translated as "We Shall Never Give Up Our Motherland, Myanmar", but is relatively inaccurate in translating the title's meaning.
Kabab Torsh Kabab Torsh is a traditional kebab from Gilan province in Iran. It is made with beef - usually sirloin or tenderloin - marinated in a paste made of crushed walnuts, pomegranate juice, chopped parsley, olive oil, and crushed garlic.
Kabaddi Kabaddi (sometimes written Kabbadi or Kabadi) (Hindi: कबड्डी; ) is a team sport originally from South Asia. It is popular throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia, is the national game of Bangladesh and state game of Punjab, India.
Kabadi Wala KabadiWala, meaning "one with junk", is a term in Hindustani used commonly to refer to a person who deals with used household objects. They wander the streets with a bag, bicycle, or a cart shouting for "Kabad" i.
Kabalas The Kabalas were a four-piece band out of the Quad Cities area of the American Mid-West whose musical foundations were based firmly in a traditional Eastern European Klezmer style that mixed in Jewish folksongs, Polka and popular music. The members of the band were Scott Morschauser (vocals, accordion, guitar, percussion); Barry "The Wolfman" Wolf (accordion); "Nervous" Neal Smith (saxophones, backup vocals, flute, clarinet); and the late "Mr.
Kabane Kabane (ĺ§“) were hereditary titles used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing. There were over 30; some of the more common kabane were omi (臣), muraji (連), miyatsuko (é€ ), kimi (ĺ›), atai (値), fubito (史), agatanushi (県主), suguri (村主).
Kabapu Doctor Kabapu is the name of a fictitious character in Rikudo Koshi's manga and anime series Excel Saga. Occupying a position of inscrutable power in F City, F Prefecture, he is the mysterious and dedicated, if unloved, founder and head of the Municipal Force Daitenzin and its front organization, the Department of City Security.
Kabard Kabarda, Kabard or Kabarid are simply alternative ways of referring to the Kabar people of the northern Caucasus more commonly known by the plural term Kabardin (or Kebertei as they term themselves). Originally they (with Besleney tribe) comprised the semi-nomadic eastern branch of what was once the Adyghe tribal fellowship.
Kabardian (horse) The Kabardian horse breed is a breed from the Caucasus, currently part of Russia and Georgia. Historically the breed has been known for at least 400 years, but its origins are considered to be as old as the Hittite civilisation.
Kabardino-Balkaria Kabardino-Balkar Republic or Kabardino-Balkaria (; Kabardian: Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр РеŃĐżŃбликэ; Balkar: Къабарты-Малкъар РеŃĐżŃблика) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic), located in the northern Caucasus. The direct transliteration of the republic's name in the Russian language is Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika or informally as Kabardino-Balkariya.
Kabartonjo Kabartonjo is a small administrative highland town and division in the larger Baringo District of the Rift Valley Province, Kenya. The highlands surrounding Kabartonjo are called Kamasia, from the Kalenjin word kamâ:s 'cool highlands'.
Kabataan Habambuhay: Ang Gabay ni Cory Quirino tungo sa Kagandahan at Kalusugan Kabataan Habambuhay: Ang Gabay ni Cory Quirino sa Kagandahan at Kalusugan (ISBN 971-27-1759-3) is a book written by Filipina beauty and health expert Cory Quirino. It is the fourth in her "Forever Young" series of books about health, fitness and nutrition.
Kabayama Sukenori (9 December 1837 - 8 February 1922) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and later became the first Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan during the island's period as a Japanese colony. He is also sometimes referred to as Kabayama Motonori.
Kabba Samura Kabba Samura (born November 26, 1981 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international soccer player, who currently plays as a striker for Aalesunds FK in the Norwegian Premier League. Samura began his career with Mighty Blackpool in the Sierra Leonean Premier League.
Kabbabish Kabbabish ("goatherds": James Bruce derives the name from hebsh, sheep), a tribe of African nomads of Semitic origin. It is perhaps the largest "Arab" tribe in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and its many clans are scattered over the country extending SW from the province of Dongola to the confines of Darfur.
Kabbalah Kabbalah (, Tiberian: , QabbÄlÄh, Israeli: Kabala) literally means "receiving", in the sense of a "received tradition", and is sometimes transliterated as Cabala, Kabbala, Qabalah, or other permutations. Kabbalah esoterically interprets the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and classical Jewish texts (halakha and aggadah) and practices (mitzvot), as expressing a mystical doctrine concerning God's simultaneous immanence and transcendence, an attempted resolution to the ancient paradox of how the ultimate Being—"that which is not conceivable by thinking" (Isaac the Blind)—nevertheless comes to be known and experienced by the created world.
Kabbalah Centre The Kabbalah Centre is a worldwide educational organization with headquarters in Los Angeles, California that offers a number of beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses on Kabbalah, both online and through its locally established centres. The authenticity of the organisation's teaching is disputed, particularly by traditional religious leaders who do not approve of the Centre's open door policy of allowing non-Jews and women to study its teachings, and by many others who feel the Kabbalah Centre has commercialized and distorted Kabbalah.
Kabbalistic astrology Kabbalistic astrology or Mazal, Mazalot (zodiac, destiny) is astrology based upon the Hebrew Kabbalah to interpret and delineate a person's birth chart. In Hebrew, astrology was called hokmat ha-nissayon, "the wisdom of prognostication", in distinction to hokmat ha-hizzayon (wisdom of star-seeing, or astronomy).
Kabbinale Kabbinale, a village at the foot of the Western Ghats (Sahyadri) Agumbe range, is situated in Karkala taluk of the Udupi district of Karnataka state, India. In the Kannada language, kabbinale means "sugarcane stream.
Kabel (typeface) Kabel is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by German typeface designer Rudolf Koch, and released by the Klingspor foundry in 1927. The face was named to honor the newly completed trans-Atlantic telephone cable.
Kabel Deutschland Kabel Deutschland is a cable company operating in Germany, serving some Bundesländer, but not Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hessen and east Thuringia. It broadcasts the pay TV platform Kabel Digital.
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Hindi: कŕ¤ŕĄ€ अलविदा न कहना, Urdu: کبھی الŮداع Ů†Ű Ú©Űنا, English: Never Say Goodbye) is a film directed by Karan Johar and produced under the Dharma Productions banner. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan and Kiron Kher in pivotal roles.
Kabhi Kabhie Kabhi Kabhie is a 1976 Hindi movie, produced and directed by Yash Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee, Simi Garewal, Shashi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. This was Yash Chopra's second directorial film with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor in the lead roles after Deewar.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (Hindi: कŕ¤ŕĄ€ ख़ŕĄŕ¤¶ŕĄ€ कŕ¤ŕĄ€ ग़म, Urdu: کبھی Ř®ŮŘ´ŰŚ کبھی غم - "Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness") is a Bollywood film released in India and countries with large NRI populations on December 14, 2001.
Kabi The Kabi (or Kabi Kabi) nation are an Aboriginal Murri people of Australia, and corresponding language group of the South Eastern Queensland coast, stretching from Brisbane up to Gladstone. In their language, "Kabi" means "No".
Kabi Longstock Kabi Longstock is a town in the Indian state of Sikkim just 17Â kilometres north of the capital Gangtok. The town is the location of the site where a friendship treaty was signed betwee the Lepcha chief Tekung Tek and the Bhutia chief Khey Bum Sar.
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