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KELA KELA, or Kansaneläkelaitos (in Finnish), also FPA or Folkpensionsanstalten (in Swedish) Social Insurance Institute (SII in English), is a Finnish government agency in charge of payment for the national social security programs. It was founded in 1937 to handle retirement pay, but in the 1980s and 1990s its role was expanded to handle other fields like child benefits and unemployment benefits.
KEMA KEMA (formerly Keuring Electrotechnisch Materieel Arnhem) is a multinational corporation for consultancy, quality assurance and product certification of electrical equipment and networks. It was founded in Arnhem, Netherlands in 1927.
KEMY-LP KEMY-LP is a low-power television station in Eureka, California, broadcasting locally on channel 33 as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Founded July 20,1994, the station is owned by Raul Broadcasting, and is operated by the Eureka Television Group and Sainte Partners II, L.
KENN KENN, born Kenichiro Ohashi (大橋 賢一郎 Ōhashi Ken'ichirō) is a Japanese singer, seiyū and stage actor who was born on March 24 1982, in Tokyo. Currently being vocalist of the J-Rock band The NaB's, he made his debut as voice actor 2004 in the Japanese anime Yu-Gi-Oh!
KENO KENO is a sports/talk AM radio station in Las Vegas owned by the Lotus Broadcasting Corporation and featuring programming from the Fox Sports Radio network. KENO is now known as "Fox Sports Radio 1460".
KEO The KEO satellite is a satellite space time capsule which will be launched in 2009 or 2010 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when the satellite orbiting Earth will return. This project is supported by UNESCO (who voted it Project of the 21st Century), Hutchison Whampoa and the European Space Agency, among other institutions.
KEPA Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus (Service Centre for Development Cooperation), often referred as KEPA, is a service base for nongovernmental organizations in Finland interested in development work and global issues. It's a politically and ideologically independent organization that operates with funding from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
KERA-TV KERA-TV channel 13 is a Dallas-based member station of the Public Broadcasting Service. It primarily serves the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex from a transmitter located in Cedar Hill, but its viewing area includes Abilene, San Angelo, Texarkana, Tyler, Waco, and Wichita Falls, as well as parts of southern Oklahoma and southwestern Arkansas.
KERNAL The KERNAL is Commodore's name for the ROM-resident operating system core in its 8-bit home computers; from the original PET of 1977, via the extended, but strongly related, versions used in its successors; the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Plus/4, C16, and C128. The Commodore 8-bit machines' KERNAL consisted of the low-level, close-to-the-hardware, OS routines (in contrast to the BASIC interpreter routines, also located in ROM), and was user callable via a jump table whose central (oldest) part, for reasons of backwards compatibility, remained largely identical throughout the whole 8-bit series.
KESE-LP KESE-LP is the lone Telemundo affiliate serving the Yuma-El Centro (Imperial Valley) TV market, located in Yuma, Arizona. It is owned and operated by Gulf-California Broadcast Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the News-Press & Gazette Company of St.
KESQ-TV KESQ-TV is a television station in the Palm Springs, California market, broadcasting locally on channel 42 as an affiliate of ABC, and is also seen in Yucca Valley on channel 27 via translator station K27DS. Founded in November 1968 as KPLM-TV the station is owned by Gulf-California Broadcast Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of News-Press & Gazette Company] of [[St.
KEVC-CA KEVC-CA is a low-power Telefutura affiliate in Indio, California. The over-the-air signal on VHF channel 5 is very weak and directional (to protect KTLA), but the station is carried on many cable systems serving Indio, Palm Springs, and the Coachella Valley.
KEXP KEXP (formerly KCMU) is a public radio station based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in independent and alternative rock programmed by its disc jockeys. Its broadcasting license is owned by the University of Washington, which operates the station in a partnership with Paul Allen's Experience Music Project.
KEY OF HEART / DOTCH KEY OF HEART / DOTCH is BoA's 20th Japanese solo single and her 6th double A-side single. It will be available solely in CD+DVD format with a "special summer low price" and first pressing to commemorate this for being her 20th single.
KEYC-TV KEYC-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Mankato, Minnesota, with studios in neighboring North Mankato. It is the sole station in the market that it serves, ranked as the 11th smallest out of 210 in the United States.
KEYF-AM KEYF-AM is an Adult Standards outlet based in Spokane, Washington. The Citadel Broadcasting Corporation station broadcasts at 1050 kHz with an ERP of 5 kW Daytime/260w Nighttime and its COL is Dishman, Washington.
KEYU KEYU, known locally as UnivisiĂłn Amarillo or UnivisiĂłn 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41. Founded February 6,1998, the station is owned by Equity Broadcasting.
KEZK KEZK, also known as Soft-Rock 102.5 FM, first went on the air in 1974 with an easy-listening format, and kept that format on that station until the beginning of 1991, when they switched from easy-listening to the current soft adult contemporary music format.
KĘ·etwĂłres rule The so-called rule of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) has been observed by earlier scholars, but has only recently attracted enough attention to be named, probably first by Helmut Rix in 1985. It is a sound law of PIE accent, stating that in a word of three syllables Ă©-o-X the accent will be moved to the penultimate, e-Ăł-X.
Kfar Blum Kfar Blum (כפר בלום) is an Israeli kibbutz in the Hula Valley, in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, about 6 km southeast of the town of Qiryat Shemona. In 1994 the population was 615"Kfar Blum", The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online, Columbia University Press, New York, 2005.
Kfar Darom Kfar Darom was an Israeli community within Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. It was founded on 250 dunam (250,000 m²) of land purchased in 1930 by Tuvia Miller for a fruit orchard on the site of an ancient Jewish settlement of the same name mentioned in the Talmud.
Kfar Etzion Kfar Etzion () is an Israeli kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron. Originally settled as Migdal Eder (מגדל עדר) in 1927 by Yemenite immigrants, it was abandoned in 1929 as a result of the 1929 Palestine riots.
Kfar Malal Kfar Malal () is an agricultural moshav ("village") in the Sharon region in central Israel. Originally established as Ein Khai ("living fountain") in 1916, it was later named after Rabbi Moshe Leib Lilienblum (משה לייב לילינבלום), whose acronym in Hebrew is "MLL" (מל"ל).
Kfar Saba Kfar Saba (Hebrew: כפר סבא; literally: "Grandfather's Village"; officially also spelled Kefar Sava) is a city in the Sharon area, Center District of Israel in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2006 the city had a total population of 81.
Kfar Sirkin Kfar Sirkin or Kefar Syrkin () is a moshav in Israel within the municipal jurisdiction of the Drom Hasharon Regional Council near the city of Petah Tikva. Founded in 1933, it was named after the famous Zionist Nachman Syrkin.
Kfar Yam Kfar Yam was a small outpost and one of the Gaza Strip Israeli Settlements abandoned in Israel's 2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan|disengagement plan. It was a non-religious community established in 1983, and had a population of 10 (4 families).
Kfar-Kama Kfar-Kama is a town located in the Galilee, Israel, with a population of 2,900. It is home to the Circassian Muslims, who enjoy, like Druzes, a status aparte, being voluntarily subjected to the military service in the IDF.
Kfarfakoud Kfarfakoud (Kfarfakud or Kafarfakoud كفرفاقود) is a village in Lebanon that lies between the valleys of the coastal Lebanese chain of mountains. The neighbourhood of the village is almost all green; it has an oak forest at the eastern side.
Kfarsghab Kfarsghab (كفرصغاب in Arabic) is a village located in the North Lebanon region. It is situated in what is regarded in the north of Lebanon as a very holy and spiritually dearly held location – the Valley of Qadisha.
Kfir Brigade The Israeli Kfir Brigade, formerly known as the 900 Brigade is one of the most recent Infantry Corps brigade commanded by the 162nd Division (Utzvat Ha'Plada) in the Central regional command of the Israel Defense Forces.
KFAN (AM) KFAN (1130 AM) is a sports talk radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota, whose in-house programs also can be heard in North Dakota, Wisconsin and other areas of Minnesota through The FAN Sports Radio Network.
KFAQ KFAQ 1170 AM is a talk radio station in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. The station is owned by Journal Broadcast Group and airs national talk shows such as Coast to Coast AM, Mike Gallagher, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Brian and the Judge, Laura Ingraham, John Gibson, Mark Levin and Monica Crowley.
KFAT (radio) KFAT radio was a mix of country, rock, blues, Hawaiian, western swing, comedy, rockabilly, Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk and etc. It broadcast from Gilroy, California from August 1975 through January 1983.
KFAX Now a 50,000 watt clear channel AM station in San Francisco, KFAX began life in the early 1930s as a tiny 50 watt station, KJBS, run entirely on Willard Storage automobile batteries, as an advertising gimmick for Julius Brunton & Sons Automotive, the local outlet for Willard Batteries. Ironically, S.
KFBK KFBK AM ("NewsTalk 1530") is an AM radio station in Sacramento, California broadcasting on a frequency of 1530 kHz. KFBK is a class A clear channel station, formerly designated as a class "I-B" station, sharing 1530 with WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio.
KFC Core KFC Core is the debut album from Tokyo-Brighton based artist DJ Scotch Egg. The album contains 12 tracks of chiptune and breakcore music which was alledgely recorded with a Gameboy, a Loudspeaker, and some effects Pedals.
KFC Cup The KFC Cup is the current name of the domestic one-day cricket competition in the West Indies, named after its chief sponsor, the fast food chain KFC. In recent years, it has been run over a week's time as a group stage followed by knock-out stages, unlike the sister competitions, the ING Cup in Australia and National League in England, which run as league competitions over the course of six months.
KFC Skin Piles A 12" album with quotes, movie samples (mainly taken from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), guitar shards, and beats. The point of the album was for DJ's to remix and scratch for themselves, this is why the album was never released on CD.
KFDF-CA KFDF-CA is a Class A low power television station in Fort Smith, Arkansas, broadcasting in analog on VHF channel 10 as an affiliate of Retro Television Network (RTN). The station is owned by Equity Broadcasting under licensee Fort Smith 46, Inc.
KFDM-TV KFDM-TV is the CBS affiliate in the Beaumont / Port Arthur, Texas market. Licensed to Beaumont, it operates a digital subchannel carrying CW, which is also available on channel 10 on most cable systems in the area.
KFGO KFGO is a news and talk radio station owned by James Ingstad based in Fargo, North Dakota on 790 AM. The station is the production home of The Ed Schultz Show, a syndicated liberal talk show hosted by Ed Schultz, though it no longer airs the show since January 25, 2006 (though KQWB-AM 1660 in Fargo airs it).
KFI KFI is an AM radio station that began operating on March 31, 1922 as one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear channel" stations. Currently, it operates as a talk radio station, airing a mixture of syndicated and locally originated news and talk programming.
KFMK-FM KFMK (The New Jammin' 105-9) is an Austin, Texas radio station operating a Rhythmic Adult Contemporary format. It is licensed to Round Rock, Texas with an ERP of 4500 watts from a transmitter site near West Lake Hills, TX and is owned by Clear Channel Radio.
KFNN KFNN is a commercial Business News formatted radio station in Mesa, Arizona, broadcasting to the Phoenix, Arizona area on 1510 AM. KFNN began airing primarily syndicated content across the country, and now has an extensive lineup of local and national programs, including Ray Lucia, Jim Cramer, and Sinclair Noe.
KFNX KFNX 1100 is a news/talk radio station licensed to Cave Creek, Arizona and broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. They feature mostly brokered health and financial programs, as well as local political talk shows such as Phoenix talk radio veteran Charles Goyette, Clancy Jane, and John Dayl.
KFOL-CA KFOL-CA and KJUN-CA are Class A low-power television stations in Houma and Morgan City, Louisiana, respectively, owned locally by Folse Communications LLC. KFOL broadcasts locally in analog on UHF channel 30, while KJUN broadcasts locally in analog on VHF channel 7.
KFOR-TV KFOR-TV, "Oklahoma's NewsChannel4" is the NBC affiliate based out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, owned by the New York Times Company and known for its stability in the anchor seat, KFOR made significant gains in viewership in the 1990s before settling into a three-way battle for news leadership with Griffin Communications-owned KWTV and Hearst-Argyle station KOCO.
KFPH-TV KFPH-TV is a full-service television station in Flagstaff, Arizona, providing over-the-air service to Flagstaff and the Verde Valley as a Telefutura affiliate. The station broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 13 and in digital on UHF channel 27, and is carried by cable television systems in Flagstaff, Sedona and Cottonwood.
KFQX KFQX is a television station in Grand Junction, Colorado, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 4 as an affiliate of Fox. Founded February 10, 1993, the station is owned by Parker Broadcasting and operated by Hoak Media Corporation through a LMA, which also owns KREX-TV.
KFRE-CA KFRE-CA is a low-power Class A television station licensed to Tulare, California, but serving Bakersfield per Special Temporary Authority (STA). Under the terms of the STA, the station, while licensed to broadcast in analog on UHF channel 40, actually broadcasts on channel 27, having been displaced by the DTV companion channel for Fresno PBS member station KVPT.
KFRN KFRN 1280 AM is a non-commercial traditional Christian radio station licensed to Long Beach, California and serving the Los Angeles market, which runs programming from Family Radio. Its transmitter is located in Wilmington, California.
KFSF-TV KFSF-TV (Channel 66) is a Univision-owned television station affiliated with TeleFutura, their new Spanish 24-hour network founded in January, 2002. KFSF is licensed to Vallejo and serves the San Francisco Bay Area.
KFTR-TV KFTR-TV, "Telefutura 46 Los Angeles" is an UnivisiĂłn owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area, and is the West Coast flagship station of the Telefutura network, their new Spanish 24-hour network founded in January, 2002. KFTR is licensed to Ontario and serves the Los Angeles area.
KFTU-TV KFTU-TV is a full-service television station serving Douglas, Arizona, Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico and surrounding areas of Cochise County and northeast Sonora. The station broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 3 as an affiliate of Spanish-language network TeleFutura.
KFTV KFTV is a full-power television station in Hanford, California, serving the Fresno area as a UnivisiĂłn owned-and-operated affiliate. KFTV broadcasts locally on channel 21, and airs Spanish-language entertainment programming.
KFVE KFVE, also known by the brand K5 The Home Team, is the licensed broadcast affiliate of MyNetworkTV in Hawaii. Based in Honolulu, KFVE first broadcast from channel 5 in 1987, becoming the final VHF station in the market.
KFVS-TV KFVS-TV, Channel 12, is the CBS affiliate in Cape Girardeau, Missouri that serves the Paducah, Kentucky–Cape Girardeau–Harrisburg, Illinois television market. It is in the 81st demographic market area (DMA).
KFWB (AM) KFWB is a Los Angeles, California AM radio station operating on 980 kHz with 5,000 watts of power from a transmitter site near Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, California. The station has had an all-news format since 1968.
KFX (aircraft) The KFX is a project to develop an indigenous fighter aircraft for the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). It was first announced by South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun at the graduation ceremony of the Air Force Academy on 18th March 2003.
KFXF KFXF Fox 7 is the Fox affiliate in Fairbanks, Alaska, signing on the air on April 20, 1992 as the area's first commercial station (and fifth in general after KJNP-TV in 1981) since KTVF and KATN both started in 1955; until then, they were the only two major network stations. The call letters were K07UU before becoming KFXF and upgrading to full-power status in 1995.
KFXO-LP KFXO-LP is a low-power television station in Bend, Oregon, broadcasting on channel 39 as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Meredith Corporation and is referred to on the air as Fox Central Oregon.
KFXR (AM) KFXR is a classic country format radio station based out of the Dallas, Texas area, broadcasting on 1190 AM, and which began broadcasting in 1947, with original ownership by Greystone Broadcasting of Kansas City, Kansas.Staff and wire reports.
Kgalema Motlhanthe Kgalema Motlhanthe grew up influenced by the revolutionary ideologies of the Black Consciousness Movement which was led by the legendary Steven Bantu Biko. Kgalema was detained by the ruthless South African apartheid in 1977 the year after the infamous 1976 Soweto stundent unprising at the age of 28 .
Kgatleng District Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular The No.
Kgosi Galeshewe Kgosi (Chief) Galeshewe was a chief of the Tlhaping tribe in South Africa. The Kimberley (now Sol Plaatje Municipality) township of Galeshewe as well as a South African Navy fast attack craft is named after him.
KGB (band) KGB is a Tatar rock band, located in Finland. The band issued a cassette based album in the early to mid 1980s, featuring songs originally written and recorded by the British Progressive Rock group, Gentle Giant except the lyrics were translated into and sung in Finnish.
KGB (Belarus) The KGB, in Belarus (transliteration of "КГБ"), is the Russian-language acronym for the Committee for State Security (Russian: ; transliteration: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) is that country's secret police.
KGB (computer game) KGB is a computer game released for the Commodore Amiga and IBM PC Compatible computers in 1992. Set in the decadent final days of the Soviet Union, KGB is considered to be quite difficult, even for experienced gamers, since it relies on a real time clock and correct/wrong answers which can end the game immediately or after an event needed to be triggered.
KGBN-CA KGBN-CA is a Class A broadcast television station in Ponca City, Oklahoma, affiliated with America One. It broadcasts locally in analog on UHF channel 27 and is carried by CableOne in Ponca City on channel 20 and by Suddenlink in Blackwell, Oklahoma on channel 8.
KGBV Scheme The Government of India has introduced the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme to provides educational facilities for girls belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, minority communities and families below the poverty line in Educationally Backward Blocks.
KGC KGC is a musical collaboration between Sascha Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli of KMFDM and Dean Garcia of Curve, formed in 2006. Their first album, entitled Dirty Bomb, was released exclusively to the KMFDM Online Store on December 14th 2006.
KGCW-TV KGCW-TV is a CW affiliate for the Quad Cities. The station, which is owned by Burlington Television Acquisitions (a subsidiary of Grant Broadcasting, making it a sister station to KLJB-TV), broadcasts at analog channel 26/digital channel 41 and is licensed to Burlington, Iowa.
KGGR (AM) KGGR is an AM Black gospel radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, airing only during the Daytime hours. The station has had its gospel format since 1990, and is owned by Mortenson Broadcasting.
KGHB-CA KGHB-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Pueblo, Colorado, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 27 as an affiliate of Univision. Founded August 21, 1990, the station is owned by Entravision Communications.
KGLA KGLA, "Radio Tropical Caliente", is a Spanish Tropical outlet serving the New Orleans area. The station, which is owned by Crocodile Broadcasting, operates at 1540 kHz with 1 kW/Daytime-only power and is licensed to Gretna, Louisiana.
KGMB KGMB is the licensed broadcast affiliate of CBS in Hawaii. With its transmitter located in Honolulu and broadcasting on channel 9 (analog)/7 (digital), the station is currently owned by Emmis Communications and has satellite feeds on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu.
KGMC KGMC, C43, is an independent station serving the San Joaquin Valley, which also features programming from Jewelry TV and America One. The Station is owned by Cocola Broadcasting, and is licensed to Clovis, California.
KGME KGME, branded XTRA Sports 910, is a sports talk radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. KGME is owned by Clear Channel Communications, the former owners of Mexican station XETRA in Southern California, where the XTRA name came from.
KGMO KGMO is an FM radio station broadcasting from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and reaching portions of extreme southern Illinois, Western Kentucky, Southeast Missouri, northeast Arkansas and northwest Tennessee with its 100,000 watt signal. Its current format is rock, although it has had an oldies format in the past.
KGNM KGNM 1270 AM is a Saint Joseph, Missouri area Christian radio station that airs such national programs such as Chuck Swindoll, Woodrow Kroll, Greg Laurie, Chuck Colson and local shows from folks such as Brian Zahnd. KGNM also airs Christian music during other parts of the day and on most of the weekends.
KGNS-TV KGNS-TV is the NBC television affiliate for Laredo, Texas as well as surrounding areas in both Texas and Mexico. The station is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting and is the only English-language station to provide news in the Laredo market.
KGO (AM) KGO 810 kHz on the AM band, is a news-talk format radio station based in San Francisco, California owned by ABC/Disney, which has announced that it would sell its ABC Radio holdings including KGO to Citadel Broadcasting. The sale is expected to close by the end of 2006.
KGOL (AM) KGOL (branded as Asia 1) is a Houston, Texas AM radio station that serves mostly Asian listeners with a mix of Indian, Chinese, Filipino and Pakistani language programs. The station broadcasts on AM frequency 1180 kHz and is under ownership of Entravision Communications.
KGPX KGPX is an i network television station in Spokane, Washington, owned and operated by ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications). It broadcasts on channel 34 (analog) from a transmitter atop Browne Mountain southeast of Spokane.
KGRL KGRL is a non-profit non-commercial internet radio station that plays all female artist mixed-genre, easy-listening, flower-powered hits from past to present. KGRL is listener supported and that means KGRL is free of advertisements.
KGSE KGSE stands for Kooperative Gesamtschule Elmshorn, which is German for Cooperative Comprehensive School Elmshorn. The KGSE is a comprehensive school situated in Elmshorn, thus allowing pupils to get all three German major degrees (Hauptschulabschluss, Realschulabschluss (roughly equivalent to GCSE's in the UK) and Abitur (equivalent of A-Levels in the UK).
KGTF KGTF is a full-power television station located in Hagåtña (Agana), Guam transmitting over analog channel 12, digital 5. The station is operated and funded by the Guam Educational Telecommunications Corporation.
Kh-25 The Kh-25 is a Russian ARM that can be carried on double or single ejector racks on most Russian strike aircraft. It has been developed by Zvezda-Strela in cooperation with Sukhoi in order to replace the Kh-23 missile which was too complicated to guide in a combat situation.
Kh-29 The Kh-29 (NATO codename AS-14) is a Russian ASM, made by the Molniya Design Bureau (their only air to ground munition) and has several variations, the Kh-29TD television guided missile, and the Kh-29L laser-guided missile, as well as the Kh-29D, with a thermal imaging head.
Kha Kha, or Ha, (Х, х) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the voiceless velar fricative like the 'ch' in German 'Bach' except when followed by a palatalizing vowel, when it represents ; this is considered an allophone rather than a separate phoneme. It derives from the Greek letter chi (Χ, χ).
Kha'y Kha'y was a royal chief vintner of Ancient Egyptian times whose name is recorded on 6 of the 36 wine amphoras found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Five the amphoras with Kha'y listed were designated as from the King's personal estate with the sixth listed as from the estate of the royal house of Aten.
Khaan Khaan (IPA pronunciation: , etymology: Derived from the Mongolian for 'lord') was an oviraptorid dinosaur that was found in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia and lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, 70 million years ago.
Khabarovsk Bridge Khabarovsk Bridge (1916) is a railway bridge that carries the Trans-Siberian Railway across the Amur River near the city of Khabarovsk. Measuring some 2,590 meters (about 8,500 feet) in length, the structure remained the longest bridge in Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and Eurasia for decades.
Khabarovsk War Crime Trials Khabarovsk War Crime Trials were a series of hearings held between December 25 - 31st, 1949 in the Russian industrial city of Khabarovsk, (Хабáровск) situated on the Russian Far East (Дáльний Востóк). Here, 12 members of the Kantogun were put on trial for the manufacture and use of biological weapons during World War Two.
Khabomai The Khabomai Rocks (Russian: Хабомай (Khabomai), Japanese: 歯舞諸島 (Habomai Shotō)) are a group of islets in the southernmost Kuril Islands. They are currently under Russian administration, but are, together with Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan, claimed by Japan.
Khaboris Codex The Khaburis Codex ( alternate spelling Khaboris , Khabouris) is a late and unremarkable Syriac manuscript of the New Testament. The Khaburis Codex is the complete Peshitta New Testament containing 22 books, in comparison to the Western New Testament Canon which contains 27 books.
Khabur River The Khabur River (Arabic: نهر الخابور; also transliterated as Habor River or Habur River) is a river that begins in southeastern Turkey and flows south to Syria, where it eventually empties into the Euphrates River. The river, with its several branches, such as the Aweidj, Dara, Djirdjib, Jaghjagh, Radd and Zergan Rivers, is not a major water course, and during most of the year is represented by wadis (dry riverbeds).
Khadaffy Janjalani Khadaffy Abubakar Janjalani (also transliterated as Khadafy Janjalani, Khadafi Janjalani, and Khaddafi Janjalani) (March 3, 1975–September 4, 2006) was the nominal leader of the Filipino militant group Abu Sayyaf and the leader of one of its factions.
Khadakwasla Khadakwasla is a moderate sized dam on the Mutha river, located about 20 kilometres southwest of the city of Pune, and named after the nearby village of Khadakwasla. This dam is one of the main sources of water for the city of Pune.
Khadgar In the fictional Warcraft universe, Archmage Khadgar was one of the most powerful wizards to have ever lived, and one of the greatest heroes of the Alliance. At an age of 17, Khadgar was sent by the Kirin Tor to apprentice under Medivh in his tower at Karazhan.
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