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KTLN-TV KTLN-TV is a Christian-themed TV station in San Francisco broadcasting on UHF channel 68. KTLN and the Total Living Network are a part of Chicago-based Christian Communications of Chicagoland, the former owners of Chicago's WCFC-TV.
KTM Komuter KTM Komuter is an electrified commuter train service first introduced in 1995, catering especially to commuters in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding suburban areas. It is a popular mode of transportation for commuters working in Kuala Lumpur, as they can travel to the city without the hassle of traffic congestion.
KTMD KTMD is a full-power television station located in Galveston, Texas transmitting over analog channel 47, digital 48. The station is owned and operated by NBC Universal and is the Telemundo affiliate for Houston, Texas, and its surrounding area.
KTMF KTMF is a full-service television station in Missoula, Montana, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 23 and in digital on UHF channel 36 as an affiliate of ABC. Founded April 12, 1989, the station is owned by Max Media of Montana.
KTMO-LP KTMO-LP is a low-power television station in Amarillo, Texas, broadcasting locally on channel 36 as an affiliate of Telemundo, a Spanish-language television network. The station is also carried as a digital subchannel of KFDA-TV, digital channel 9.
KTMW KTMW is a full-service television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 20 as an independent religious broadcaster. Founded December 8,1997, the station is owned by Alpha & Omega Communications.
KTNC-TV KTNC-TV, over-the-air channel 42, is an Azteca America affiliate in Concord, California, serving the Sacramento and San Francisco areas. It is owned by Pappas Telecasting and has a kW power of 2240 over the air.
KTNF KTNF is Minnesota's locally owned affiliate of Air America Radio branded as Air America Minnesota, it offers a combination of locally produced and nationally syndicated progressive talk programming. In the summer of 2004, the station was purchased by Janet Robert, former Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for the US House of Representatives, to provide a local outlet for Air America radio broadcasting.
KToon KToon is a free software/open source 2D animation Toolkit designed by Colombian Toonka Films for animators, and released under the GNU General Public License. KToon is only available for Unix-like systems (such as GNU/Linux), but development of a Windows version is likely.
KTRM (FM) KTRM is an FM non-commercial/educational radio station operated by students at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Dubbed "The Edge", the station plays alternative music, with specialty shows hosted by disc jockeys with prior experience at the station.
KTRT Joint Venture KTRT Joint Venture, or abbreviated "KTRT JV" or shorter "KTRT", indicates the organization formed among KUMAGAI GUMI, TAIWAN KUMAGAI, RSEA, and TA-YO-WEI, all of which are leading companies in Taiwanese building industry. KTRT JV as a team with mastery of architectural, constructional, and electrical/mechanical/plumbing techniques was renowned for main-contracting "Taipei Financial Center Project", the greatest construction project in Taiwan ever.
KTSB-LP KTSB-LP is a low-power Class A television station in Santa Barbara, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 43 as an affiliate of Telefutura. Founded September 28, 1995, the station is owned and operated by Entravision Communications and shares facilities with Univision affiliate and sister station KPMR.
KTTH KTTH is a conservative radio station, owned by Bonneville International, broadcasting at 770 kHz in Seattle, Washington. The station has taken many of the prominent hosts from rival local broadcaster, KVI (at one point their slogan was temporarily changed to "3 letter radio is dead" (referring to KVI, since it is a 3 letter station), including Rush Limbaugh and movie critic Michael Medved (whose home station is KTTH).
KTTV KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, it is branded on-air as "Fox 11".
KTU (band) KTU is a progressive/experimental musical supergroup. In 2004 Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto started collaborating with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, forming KTU out of their respective duos TU and Kluster.
KTUD-CA KTUD-CA (Channel 25 analog) is an independent television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market owned and operated by the Greenspun Broadcasting, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation. Unlike other low-powered television stations, it is available on channel 14 through Cox Cable, however, it is not yet available on USDTV.
KTVD KTVD, channel 20, is a MyNetworkTV affiliated television station based in Denver, Colorado, and owned by the Gannett Company. The station is a sister to KUSA, Denver's NBC affiliate and is housed and operated out of KUSA's high definition studios.
KTVE KTVE, Channel 10, is the NBC affiliate for the El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana DMA. Although KTVE’s City of License with the FCC is El Dorado, the station’s main office is located in West Monroe, Louisiana, with the original main office in El Dorado featuring only a few staff members, including one news reporter/photographer.
KTVH KTVH is a full-service television station serving Helena, Montana and the surrounding area as an NBC affiliate, broadcasting on analog channel 12 and digital channel 14. The station is owned by Beartooth Communications Company, a subsidiary of Sunbelt Communications Company of Las Vegas, Nevada.
KTVL KTVL Channel 10 (known as "News 10") is a CBS television affiliate based in Medford, Oregon and broadcasts its signal from their transmitter high atop Mount Ashland, 15 miles south of the city. The station covers eight counties in southern Oregon and northern California.
KTVP-LP KTVP-LP is a low-power broadcast television station located in Phoenix, Arizona, broadcasting in analog on UHF channel 22 from South Mountain in Phoenix, and is an affiliate of Almavision, a Spanish-language Christian television network. KTVP-LP is owned by Mako Communications LLC of Corpus Christi, Texas.
KTVQ KTVQ is a broadcast television station on channel 2 (Cable channel 5) in Billings, Montana USA, owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company and is the flagship of the Montana Television Network. Signed on as KOOK-TV and always being a CBS affiliate, the station began broadcasting on November 9, 1953.
KTVS-LP KTVS-LP is a low-power television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 36 as an independent broadcaster. Founded October 31, 1986, the station is owned by Alpha Omega Broadcasting.
KTVT KTVT, channel 11, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area. The station is co-owned with independent station KTXA (channel 21), and the two stations share facilities in Fort Worth and Dallas.
KTVX KTVX ("ABC4") is the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah. A large translator network of over 100 translator stations extends the station's coverage throughout the state and into parts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming.
KTWO-TV KTWO-TV, also known as K2, is an ABC affiliate based in Casper, Wyoming. It also operates a semi-satellite station, KDEV, channel 33, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and operates several low-powered repeaters across the state.
KTXA KTXA, channel 21, is an independent television station based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth designated market area. With its transmitter in Cedar Hill, KTXA is owned by the CBS Corporation and is the sister station of CBS outlet KTVT (channel 11).
KTXS-TV KTXS-TV is the ABC television affiliate service the Abilene and Sweetwater, Texas viewing area. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12 (or channel 4 on Cable, Sattelite and Digital Cable) from a broadcasting tower near Trent, Texas.
KTXT-TV KTXT-TV (analog channel 5 and digital channel 39) is a PBS member station, and the broadcast media educational television station of Texas Tech University. KTXT also broadcasts a secondary high-definition signal on channel 5-3.
Ku (protein) Ku is a heterodimer of two polypeptides, Ku70 and Ku80, so named because the molecular weight of the human Ku proteins is around 70 kDa and 80 kDa. Ku binds to DNA double-strand breaks is required for the non-homologous end joining pathway of DNA repair.
Ku Ding tea Ku Ding tea (苦釘茶; pinyin:kǔdīng chá; literally "bitter nail/spike tea") or Kuding cha is a particularly bitter-tasting Chinese tisane which due to their similarities in appearance is derived from several plant speciesTam CF, Peng Y, Liang ZT, He ZD, Zhao ZZ., 2006.
Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, antisemitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism. These organizations have often used terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation such as cross burning to oppress African Americans and other groups.
Ku Klux Klan regalia and insignia The costume of the Ku Klux Klan is perhaps the most distinctive feature of that organization, and is recognised worldwide. It is sometimes known as the 'Glory Suit' by those who wear it, and many pejoratives by the Klan's numerous opponents.
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Ku-ring-gai Chase is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 25 km north of Sydney located largely within the Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby, Warringah and Pittwater municipal areas. Ku-ring-gai Chase is also officially classed as a suburb by the Geographical Names Board of NSW.
Kuadam Kuadam (also known as Kua or more popularly Kapadapuram) was the capital of the ancient Pandian kingdom of the Meen'Koodal epoch (the second Sangam academy). The grand old poet and sage Nakkeerar and the Iraiyanaar porul'urai mentions that Kuadam was the capital from c.
Kuai Liang Kuai Liang (蒯良), styled Zirou (子柔), was a skilled strategist who served Liu Biao, a regional warlord, during the final days of the Later Han Dynasty in ancient China. He was responsible for the plot that resulted in the death of Sun Jian, a major general-turned-warlord that established the foundation for what would become the Eastern Wu Empire.
Kuakata Kuakata (Bangla: কুয়াকাটা) is a scenic sea beach in south-western Bangladesh. It is about 320 Kilometres south of Dhaka, the capital, and about 70 Kilometres from the Patuakhali District headquarters.
Kuala Belait Kuala Belait (, Jawi: کوالا بلايت )is a town located in Brunei. It is the second largest town in the country, after Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei and functions as the administrative town for the Belait District.
Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange The Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) was the first futures exchange in Malaysia and all of Southeast Asia, established in 1980. In 1992, the Malaysian Monetary Exchange was incorporated to assist in the exchange's expansion to financial futures.
Kuala Lumpur Composite Index The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) is a stock market index generally accepted as the local stock market barometer. Introduced in 1986 to answer the need for a stock market index which would serve as an accurate performance indicator of the Malaysian stock market as well as the economy.
Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road is a urban and municipal ring road system of Kuala Lumpur consisting Jalan Sultan Ismail (Jalan Treacher), Jalan Imbi, Jalan Hang Tuah (Jalan Shaw) and Federal Route 1 (Jalan Kuching, Jalan Sultan Hisamuddin (Victory Avenue), Jalan Kinabalu and Jalan Maharajalela (Jalan Birch)). Kuala Lumpur's heart of shopping complexes, the Golden Triangle is located within the ring road.
Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad ("KLK")(BMSB Stock Code: 2445), had its origins in 1906 when its predecessor company, The Kuala Lumpur Rubber Company, Limited ("KLR"), was formed in London to invest in rubber estates in Malaya, as it was known then. It started with some 6 square kilometres of rubber plantations, including some coffee.
Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1 Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 1 is a urban and municipal main ring road in Kuala Lumpur. It is also known as Kuala Lumpur-Petaling Jaya Traffic Dispersal Scheme, Jalan Tun Razak, Lebuhraya Mahameru, Jalan Damansara, Jalan Istana and Jalan Lapangan Terbang by Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR).
Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2 Federal route 54 Damansara-Puchong Expressway Kuala Lumpur-Rawang Highway Karak ExpresswayJalan Genting KlangAmpang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated HighwayCheras Highway Salak ExpresswaySungai Besi ExpresswayShah Alam Expressway
Kuala Lumpur Mini-Bus Service The Kuala Lumpur Mini-Bus Service or Bas Mini was a popular and the oldest public transportation in Kuala Lumpur city and also in the Klang Valley region, Malaysia. However, on 1 July 1998, this mini-bus service would no longer been use and replaced by Intrakota bus service and later Rapid KL buses on 2005.
Kuala Lumpur Sentral Kuala Lumpur Sentral (KL Sentral) or Sentral Kuala Lumpur is the main railway station of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Opened on April 16, 2001, it was built to replace the old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, a colonial-era landmark which remains open for commuter trains only.
Kuala Lumpur Tower The Kuala Lumpur Tower (officially known as Menara Kuala Lumpur; referred later as KL Tower) is a tall tower located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was built in 1995. It is used for communication purposes and features an antenna that reaches 421 m (1,381 ft), which currently makes it the fifth tallest tower in the world.
Kuala Namu International Airport Kuala Namu International Airport is a new airport under construction to replace Polonia International Airport, site of several crashes, and inappropriately located in the centre of the city of Medan, and with a difficult takeoff path, and short runway. Construction began on 29 June 2006 shortly before the first anniversary of the crash of Mandala Airlines Flight 091].
Kuala Penyu Kuala Penyu is a town located in Interior Division of Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Its population was estimated to be around 14,271 in 1991, with ethnic Kadazan or Dusun Tatana forming the largest single ethnic group.
Kuan Hsin-chi Kuan Hsin Chi () is chairman of the Civic Party, as well as the chairman of the Department of Government and Public Administration in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He will retire in the 2006-07 academic year.
Kuan pha na dum Kuan Pha Na Dum is the name of a Folklore hero from Laotian Mythology which translates roughly as Heavenly Axe Wielder With A Black Mark On His Face. He was born with a mystical axe and a black tattoo or scar across his face.
Kuan Yoke Loon Andrew Kuan Yoke Loon Andrew () is the managing director of executive search firm Blue Arrow. From 2001 to 2004, Kuan was the group chief financial officer of the Jurong Town Corporation, one of four designated statutory boards that confer eligibility to contest in the presidential elections.
Kuantan Port Situated about 25 KM to the north of Kuantan city and facing South China Sea, Kuantan Port (Latitude 3°58'N, Longitude 103° 26'E) is a multipurpose all-weather port with excellent and well-developed infrastructure, complemented by an excellent road and rail networks that make it the leading maritime trade and logistics centre and also the only port that has container handling facility in the East Coast Region of Peninsular Malaysia.
Kuapa Kokoo Kuapa Kokoo is a cocoa farmers' co-operative organisation, established in Ghana in 1993. It was formed following the Ghanaian government's liberalisation of internal cocoa marketing in 1992, which, farmers feared, would lead to the entry of private companies into the market with whom they would be unable to compete.
Kuarit Kuarit is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mirab Gojjam Zone, Kuarit is bordered on the southwest by Jabi Tehnan, on the west by Sekela, on the north by Adet, on the east by the Misraq Gojjam Zone, and on the southeast by Dega Damot.
Kuat Drive Yards Kuat Drive Yards is the largest military shipbuilding corporation in the fictional Star Wars universe and owns several subsidiary corporations including Kuat Systems Engineering and Rothana Heavy Engineering (the latter of which provided armament and ships for Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's clone army during the Clone Wars). KDY is one of the few major corporations which sided with the Galactic government during the Clone Wars, against the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
KuÄŤi KuÄŤi is one of Montenegro's Highland clans, and is also a name of geographical region in eastern Montenegro which the clan populates. The region is located north-east of Podgorica, an extends alonthe border with Albania.
Kuća Cveća The Kuća Cveća (Serbian Cyrillic: Кућа Цвећа; English: The House of Flowers), is the mausoleum of the leader of the former Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, who died on May 4 1980. It is located in Dedinje, Belgrade, Serbia.
Kućište Kućište is small village on the southern coast of the Pelješac peninsula on the Dubrovnik-Neretva county (Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija) of Croatia. Inhabitants have a long sea-faring tradition, the income from which allowed them to build, for the time, the large, affluent, stone mansions characteristic of the area.
Kuba Kingdom The Kuba Kingdom (also Kuba or Ba Kuba)(1625-1900) was a pre-colonial Central African state surrounded by the Sankuru, Lulua and Kasai rivers in the southeast of what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). The Kuba had migrated during the 16th century from the north.
Kubaba Kubaba (in the Weidner "Chronicle"), or Kug-Baba, or elsewhere as Kubau, is the name of the only queen in the Sumerian king list. "The house of Kubaba" is mentioned "in the reign of Puzur-Nirah, king of Akšak" (line 38) in the Weidner "Chronicle", a propagandistic letter attempting to predate the shrine of Marduk to an early period: "Kubaba gave bread to the fisherman and gave water, she made him offer the fish to Esagila" (line 43).
Kuban Kuban () is a region of Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga Delta and the Caucasus. It comprises Russia's Krasnodar Krai, Adygeya, Karachayevo-Cherkessiya and part of Stavropol Krai.
Kuban Shield Kuban Shield (German: Ă„rmelschild Kuban) is a German military award instituted on September 21, 1943 to commemorate those who fought to preserve the bridgeheads in the Kuban region from February 1943 until they were abandoned in October. Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnel were awarded the shield based on a fairly complicated point system.
Kuban State University of Technology Kuban State University of Technology is one of the first higher educational institutions established in the southern region of Russia. It was founded on 16 June 1918 as the North-Caucasian Polytechnic Institute.
Kubasaki High School Kubasaki High School is a United States Department of Defense Dependent School located on Okinawa. Kubasaki is one of the two oldest schools of Department of Defense Dependents Schools existing, the other being Heidelberg High School.
Kubb Kubb is a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden sticks at them. The word "Kubb" (rhymes with rube) means "wooden block" in the Gotland dialect of Swedish.
Kuber Peak Kuber Peak (Vrah Kuber 'vr&h 'ku-ber) is a 770m peak in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island. Named after Khan Kuber whose Bulgarians left Panonia to settle in Western Macedonia and Albania around 680 AD, and established a state that in the early 8th Century AD merged with the First Bulgarian Kingdom.
Kubert Leung Kubert Leung 梁翹柏 is a musician and Cantopop songwriter in Hong Kong. He is one of the pioneers of Cantopop bands who has setup Life Exhibition and Ukiyo-e 「浮世繪」two important Hong Kong bands in 1980s.
Kubi Indi Kubi Chaza Indi is a Zimbabwean development activist and businesswoman. Under her maiden name, Kubi Chaza, she was an actress in the UK, appearing in Live and Let Die in 1973 as a saleswoman chatting up James Bond.
Kubilay Türkyılmaz Kubilay Türkyılmaz (born 4 March 1967 in Bellinzona, Switzerland) is a former Turkish-Swiss footballer, born to Turkish parents. He is best-known as the joint all-time leading goal scorer for the Swiss national team, with 34 goals in 62 appearances between 1988 and 2001.
Kubing Also called kobing (Maranao), kolibau (Tingguian), aru-ding (Tagbanua)), aroding (Palawan), kulaing (Yakan), karombi (Toraja), yori (Kailinese). Ones made of sugar palm-leaf are called karinta (Munanese), ore-ore mbondu or ore Ngkale (Butonese).
Kublai Khan Qubilai Khan, kubilai Khan or "the last of the Great Khans" (September 23, 1215 - February 18, 1294) (Mongolian: Хубилай хаан, ), was a Mongol military leader. He was the fifth Khagan (1260–1294) of the Mongol Empire as well as the founder and the first Emperor (1271–1294) of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty.
Kublai Khan (band) Kublai Khan is a thrash metal band formed in 1985 in Minnesota. The band was founded by guitarist and vocalist Greg Handevidt (who had just returned from California having finished a short stint around 1984 playing for the early beginnings of Megadeth) and guitarist Kevin Idso.
Kubota Garden Kubota Garden is a 20 acre (81,000 m²) Japanese garden in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. A public park since 1987, it was begun in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota, who had arrived from Shikoku, Japan, 20 years before, and started his own gardening company in 1923.
Kubotan The Kubotan (sometimes spelled Kubaton) or self-defense keychain, is a highly accessible, durable, and effective self-defense weapon. It is essentially a shortened Yawara, usually less than 8" long and slightly thicker than a marker pen.
Kubrat Knoll Kubrat Knoll (Kubratova Mogila ku-'bra-to-va mo-'gi-la) is a rocky peak of elevation 140 m at the base of Inott Point, eastern Livingston Island. It is named after Khan Kubrat, 632-668 AD, who founded the Kingdom of Great Bulgaria on the territory bounded by the Caucasus, Volga and the Carpathians in 632 AD.
Kubrawiya The Kubrawiya order is a Sufi order ("tariqa") named after its 13th century founder Najmeddin Kubra. One of the branches, the Nurbakhshi Kubrawi lineage, embraced Shi'ism and is named after Muhammad Nurbakhsh.
Kubrick (toy) Kubrick is a line of collectible figures and associated products created by Japanese toy company MediCom Toy Inc. Kubrick figures are produced in three scales, designated as 100% (six centimeters high), 400% (24 centimeters high), and 1000% (60 centimeters high).
Kubuna Confederacy Kubuna is one of three confederacies which comprise Fiji's House of Chiefs, to which all of Fiji's chiefs belong. It consists of the provinces of Tailevu, Naitasiri, Lomaiviti, and parts of the western provinces of Ba, Ra.
Kuda Bux Kuda Bux (1906 - February 5, 1981) was an Indian mystic and magician. One of his most famous tricks was one in which he would cover his eyes with soft dough, blindfold himself, swath his entire head in strips of cloth, and yet still be able to see.
Kudamon Kudamon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Rookie-level Exalted Beast Digimon based on the mythical Kudagitsune, a Pipe Fox spirit. The Digimon partner of Commander Satsuma, Kudamon is calm and collected sort who carries out precise assessments of things and can progress through battle with superiority and smugness.
Kudat Kudat is a town in Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. It serves as the administrative center for the Kudat Division, which includes the towns of Kudat, Pitas, Kota Marudu, and some offshore islands.
Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 In statistics, the Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 (KR-20) is a measure of internal consistency reliability for measures with dichotomous choices. It is analogous to Cronbach's α, except Cronbach's α is used for non-dichotomous measures.
Kudla Kudla (Tulu) is another name for the coastal South-Indian city of Mangalore which is the headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka. Kudla is in between the Netravathi and Gurupura (Phalguni) Rivers which flow from the Western Ghats (Sahyadri) to the Arabian Sea.
Kudlow & Cramer Kudlow & Cramer was a CNBC American business and politics television program with Lawrence Kudlow and James Cramer. The program initially replaced Hardball with Chris Matthews, which moved to sister channel MSNBC, for the 8 p.
Kudos Kudos (IPA pronunciation: ), from the Greek κύδος kydos (literally "that which is heard of") means fame and renown resulting from an act or achievement; by extension is often used as a praising remark. It entered English as British university slang in the early 1800s.
Kudos (production company) Kudos Film & Television is a British television production company, which has produced drama series for most of the major television networks in the UK. Its best-known series are the spy drama Spooks (2002–date; known as MI5 in the United States), con-artist thriller series Hustle (2004–date), time travel / police drama Life on Mars (2006–2007) and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006).
Kudsi Erguner Kudsi Erguner, born in the 1950s in Istanbul, Turkey, is considered a master of traditional Mevlevi Sufi and is one of the best-known players of the Turkish ney flute. As a boy, Kudsi and his father Ulvi Erguner performed hypnotic and spiritual dance rituals from the Mevlevi-Sufi tradition at Dervish ceremonies.
Kudu dung spitting Kudu dung spitting (Bokdrol Spoeg in Afrikaans) is a sport in some parts of Africa. In the competition small, hard pellets of dung from the Kudu (a type of Antelope) are spat, with the furthest distance reached being the winner.
Kudurru Kudurru were stone sculptures used as boundary stones and as records of land grants to vassals by the Kassites in ancient Mesopotamia between the 16th and 12th centuries BCE. The word is Akkadian for "frontier" or "boundary.
Kuebrich Kuebrich is a surname of a small group of farmers who immigrated from the Bavarian towns of Bamburg and Nordhalben to the United States, circa 1900. Although the name exists only in Germany and the United States, its roots are most likely Chekoslovakian, where the relatively more common name Kubricht exists.
Kueh kochi Kueh kochi or kueh koci is a Malaysian pastry (also known as Passover cake in English) made from ground unpolished glutinous rice. For the Eurasians in Malaysia and Singapore, this snack is often sold at funerals.
Kuehn Family Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn (sometimes refered to as Kuhn) was a Nazi who had close ties to Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. In 1935 Goebbels offered Kuehn a job working for Japanese intelligence in Hawaii he accepted and moved his family to Honolulu on August 15, 1935.
Kuehneosaurus Kuehneosaurus was a late Triassic reptile -- of the order Squamata, not a dinosaur -- which was about two feet long, and had ribs which jutted out from its body as much as one foot (30 cm), in a way apparently designed for gliding, like the modern flying dragon.
Kuelap The fortress of Kuelap (or Cuélap), associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings. The structure, situated on a ridge overlooking the Utcubamba Valley in northern Peru, is roughly 600 meters in length and 110 meters in width.
Kuen Cheng Girls School Kuen Cheng Girls School or SMJK (C) P Kuen Cheng (Chinese: "坤成女子中学") is a famous secondary girls school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The school is located at Jalan Syed Putra not far from Istana Negara between Brickfields and Bukit Petaling.
Kuen-Do Kuen-Do (拳道) literally means "the way of the fist." However, in the intended Chinese term, the character "fist" is also synonymous with "style of martial art" and "martial art" itself.
Kuensel Kuensel was the sole newspaper in Bhutan up until April 2006 when it was joined by the Bhutan Times and Bhutan Observer in June 2006. Founded in 1967 as an internal government bulletin and transformed in 1986 into a weekly newspaper, Kuensel is published in three language editions: Dzongkha (the national language), English, and Nepali.
Kufi A kufi is a short rounded cap, traditionally worn by Muslims, although within the United States, it has become more commonly identified with persons of African descent, who wear it to show pride in their history and their religion. Often made of kente cloth or crocheted in a variety of yarns, kufis were popular fashion items throughout hip hop culture during the late-1980s/early-1990s.
Kufic Kufic is the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts and consists of a modified form of the old Syriac script. Its name is derived from the city of Kufa (in modern-day Iraq), although it was known in Mesopotamia at least 100 years before the foundation of Kufa.

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