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Khalsa Aid Khalsa Aid was established in 1999 as an international non-profit aid and relief organization founded on the Sikh principles of selfless service and universal love. Khalsa Aid is a UK Registered Charity (#1080374) with the UK Charities Commission and also has volunteers in North America & Asia.
Khalsa College, Amritsar Khalsa College is a historic educational institution in the northern Indian city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab, India. Founded in 1892, the sprawling 300-acre campus is located about eight km outside of the city center on the Amritsar-Lahore highway (part of the Grand Trunk Road), adjoining Guru Nanak Dev University campus, to which Khalsa College is academically affiliated.
Khalsa Sporting Club Khalsa Sporting Club are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 1995. The team is a member of the Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCSL), a recognised Division III league in the American Soccer Pyramid which features teams from western Canada and the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.
Khalwa Khalwah also spelled Khalwa is a Sufi practice similar to the Christian practice of retreat. A Sufi murid will enter khalwa under the direction of a shaykh for a given period, sometimes for as long as 40 days, emerging only to pray and, usually, to discuss dreams, visions and the like with the shaykh.
Khalyzians The Chalyzians / Khalyzians (also called Khalis/Khwalis: Arabic/khwarezmian, Khalisioi: Byzantine Greek and Kaliz: Magyar - pronounced Kalish), were a people mentioned by the 12th century Byzantine historian John Kinnamos.
Kham Kham (Wylie transliteration: Khams; Tibetan: ŕ˝ŕ˝ŕ˝¦; Simplified Chinese: ĺş·; Pinyin: KÄng) province is one of several provinces comprising traditional Tibet (the others are Amdo and Ăś-Tsang). During the Republic of China's rule over mainland China (1911-1949), most of the region was called Xikang Province (čĄżĺş·çś XÄ«kÄng ShÄ›ng).
Kham language Kham (also Khamkura, Kamkura) is a language complex of Bodic Tibeto-Burmese lects spoken in the remoter highlands of Rapti Zone and Dhaulagiri Zone, western Nepal by the four northern clans of the Magar tribe, called collectively Kham Magars or Northern Magars.
Khama III Khama III (1837?-1923), also known as Khama the Good, was the kgosi (meaning chief or king) of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), who made his country a protectorate of the United Kingdom to ensure its survival against Boer and Ndebele encroachments.
Khamani Griffin Khamani Griffin (born 1 August 1998 in Oakland, California) is an American actor who currently stars in the TV series All Of Us. He also starred in the movie Daddy Day Care and has appeared in ER and My Name Is Earl.
Khamba The Khamba, also known as Khemba, inhabit around the Yang-Sang-Chu valley, which is also known as the Yongyap valley in the West Siang district, nearing the Tibetan border. Within the valley they inhabit in the villages Yorton, Lango, Tashigong, Nyukong and Mangkota.
Khambhat Khambhat , formerly known as Cambay, is a city and a municipality in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was formerly an important trading center, although its harbor has gradually silted up, and the maritime trade has moved elsewhere.
Khame Ruins, Zimbabwe Khame (also written as Kame or Kami) was the capital of the Torwa State that emerged as a strong power in southwestern Zimbabwe after the decline of Great Zimbabwe in the 15th Century. In the late 17th Century the site was burned and levelled by the Rozwi, who then took it over.
Khamis al-Obeidi Khamis al-Obeidi () (July 7, 1966 – June 21, 2006) was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 until his assassination. He was a Sunni Muslim, was married and had six children.
Khamis Farhan Khalaf abd al Fahdawi Khamis Farhan Khalaf abd al Fahdawi (Arabic: خميس ŮرŘان خل٠عبد الŮهداŮŮŠ), also known as Abu Seba (Arabic: أب٠سبأ), is alleged to be one of the leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and alleged to be responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Egyptian diplomat Ihab al-Sherif on July 2, 2005.
Khamis Mosque The Khamis Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الخميس; transliterated: Masjid al-Khamys) is believed to be the first mosque in Bahrain, built during the era of the Umayyad caliph Umar II. The identical twin minarets of this ancient Islamic monument make it easily noticeable as one drives along the Shaikh Salman Road in Khamis.
Khamis Mushait Khamis Mushayt (Arabic: خميس مشيط Khamis Mushayt) is a city in south-west Saudi Arabia, located 35 minutes east of Abha, the provincial seat of the Asir province in southwest Saudi Arabia. Until the 1960's Khamis Mushait was a small town of less than 50,000 servicing the surrounding mild-climate agricultural region.
Khammam Fort Construction of the Khammam Fort (India) was initiated around 950 when the Telugu area (now Andhra Pradesh) was ruled by the Kakatiya dynasty (10th - 13th century). The Reddi Kings Velma and Laksham (Reddi dynasty 1328 - 1428) were actively involved in the construction of the fort situated on the Stambhadri hill.
Khamosh Pani Khamosh Pani (Punjabi: خامŮŘ´ پانی; lit. Silent Waters) is a 2003 French/German production about a single mother and her young son; set in a 1970s Pakistani village which is coming under radical influence.
Khamoshi Khamoshi (Hindi: ख़ामोशी, Urdu: خامŮŘ´ŰŚ, translation: "Silence") is a 1969 black-and-white Hindi film directed by Asit Sen. Another film by the same name was made by Sanjay Leela Bhansali in 1996.
Khamovniki Khamovniki () is one of the municipal districts of Moscow within the Central administrative district. The district derives its name from Khamovnaya sloboda which was named so because of a special linen called kham (Ń…Đ°ĐĽ) weaved there.
Khamti The Khamti, whose name is also spelt as as Hkamti by the Burmese and Khampti by the Assamese, is a sub-group of the Shan people found in the Sagaing Division Hkamti District in northwestern Myanmaras well as Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh in India. Smaller numbers can be found in parts of Assam as well as the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Khamyang Khamyang, also known as Shyam is a tribal group found primarily in Tinsukia district of Assam as well as adjacent parts of Arunachal Pradesh. They have a population of 35,000, of which only a small minority speak the native Tai-based language.
Khan (band) Formed by Steve Hillage in 1971, Khan’s bio reads like a who’s who of former and future celebs from Egg, Gong, Hatfield & The North and National Health. The initial line-up of this early 70’s Canterbury outfit consisted of keyboard player Dave Stewart, guitarist Steve Hillage, bassist Nick Greenwood and drummer Pip Pyle.
Khan Jahan Ali Khan Jahan Ali (Bangla: খান জাহান আলী) (died 25 October,1459), also known as Ulugh Khan and Khan-i-Azam, was a Muslim Saint and local ruler in Bagerhat (now in Bangladesh). He built the great Bagerhat Shat Gambuj Masjid (60 dome mosque).
Khan Kluay Khan Kluay (Thai: ŕ¸ŕą‰ŕ¸˛ŕ¸™ŕ¸ŕ¸Ąŕą‰ŕ¸§ŕ¸˘; ) is a 2006 Thai computer-animated feature film set during Ayutthaya-era Siam about an elephant who wanders away from his mother and eventually becomes the war elephant for King Naresuan.
Khan Mohammad Khan Mohammad (born January 1]], 1928) was a member of Pakistan's first Test team that played against India in 1952. Born in Lahore, Punjab, he played in 13 Tests as an opening bowler who shared the new ball with Fazal Mahmood.
Khan Shatyry Khan Shatyry is a giant transparent tent currently under construction in Astana, capital city of Kazakhstan. The architectural project was unveiled by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on 9 December 2006.
Khan Yunis Khan Yunis (; literally Jonah's Inn) is a city and adjacent refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the city, its refugee camp, and its immediate surroundings had a total population of 200,704 in 1997.
Khanasor Expedition Khanasor Expedition (Armenian: ) was performed by the Armenian militia against the Kurdish Mazrik tribe on July 25, 1897. In 1896, during the Defense of Van, the Mazrik tribe ambushed a squad of Armenian defenders and mercilessly slaughtered them.
Khanate of Kazan The Kazan Khanate (Tatar: Qazan xanlığı/Казан ханлыгы; Russian: КазанŃкое Ń…Đ°Đ˝Ńтво, tr: Kazanskoe khanstvo) was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan.
Khanate of Khiva The Khanate of Khiva (Uzbek: Xiva Xonligi) was the name of a Central Asian state that existed in the historical region of Khwarezm from 1515 to 1920. It was ruled over by the Kungrads, a branch of the Astrakhans, themselves a Genghisid dynasty, and its capital was at Khiva.
Khanate of Kokand The Khanate of Kokand (Uzbek: Qo'qon Xonligi) was a state in Central Asia that existed from 1709–1876 within the territory of modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It was established when the Shaybanid emir Shahrukh of the Minglar Uzbeks established an independent principality in the western part of the Fergana Valley.
Khanbaliq Khanbaliq or Cambuluc ("great residence of the Khan") is the ancient Mongol name for the city at the present location of Beijing, the current capital of the People's Republic of China. It was known in the Chinese language as Dadu (大é˝), meaning "great metropolitan" or "great capital".
Khancoban, New South Wales Khancoban is a small town in Tumbarumba Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The town is located 567 kilometres from the state capital, Sydney and 13 kilometres from the state border with Victoria, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, near the upper reaches of the Murray River.
Khandavaprastha Khandavaprastha (Sanskrit: खाण्डवप्रस्‍थ) was a forest region on the banks of Yamuna river. Pandavas received the region when Dritrashtra divided the kigdome between his sons and the Pandavas.
Khandelwal Vijay Kumar (Munni Bhaia) Vijay Kumar Khandelwal (born 22 April, 1936) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Betul constituency of Madhya Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
Khandoba Khandoba, also known as Khanderao, is a Hindu folk deity, worshipped by the people of Maharashtra in India. The worship of Khandoba developed during the 9th/10th centuries from a folk deity into a composite god pocessing the attributes of Shiva, Bhairava and of Surya.
Khandro Rinpoche Khandro Rinpoche, the daughter of His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen, was born in Kalimpong, India in 1967. At the age of two, Rinpoche was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje the 16th Karmapa as the re-incarnation of the Great Dakini of Tsurphu, Khandro Ugyen Tsomo, who was one of the most well known female masters of her time.
Khandu Rangnekar Khanderao Moreshwar 'Khandu' Rangnekar (born June 27, 1917, Bombay - died October 11, 1984, Thana, Maharashtra) was an Indian Test cricketer. Rangnekar was an attacking batsman who was considered the best Indian lefthander of his time.
Khandu Wangchuk Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk (born 1950) is a member of the Council of Ministers of Bhutan. He was chairman of the Council (Prime Minister) from 2001 until 2002, and has been the foreign minister of Bhutan since 2003.
Khanith Khanith (variant transcription Xanith) is a vernacular Arabic term for both standard written Arabic mukhannath and khuntha. The Arabic word Mukhannath مخنث (literally "effeminate") refers to individuals with a gender identity that is discordant with their visible sexual organs.
Khankala attack On August 19, 2002, a Russian-made Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile hit an overloaded Mi-26 helicopter, causing it to crash in a minefield and burn down at the main military base at Khankala near the capital city of Grozny, Chechnya. A total of 127 Russian Army troops and crew from the Russian Air Force base at Mozdok were killed in the crash, the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation and one of the worst disasters in Russian military history.
Khanoda (album) Khanoda is the self-titled debut album by singer Khanoda, released on October 31st, 1988 (see 1988 in music). The album is currently out of print however Khanoda gained the rights to the original masters in 1998 when compiling tracks for the US and EU versions of Klosure.
Khanpur Dam Khanpur Dam is a dam located on the Haro River near the town of Khanpur, about 25 miles from Islamabad, Pakistan. It forms Khanpur Lake, a reservoir which supplies drinking water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi and irrigation water to many of the agricultural and industrial areas surrounding the cities.
Khanqah A khanqah (also transliterated as khanqa and khaneqa Persian: خانگاه khanegah and خانقاه khaneghah) is traditionally a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa, and is a place for spiritual retreat and character reformation. In the past, and to a lesser extent nowadays, they often served as hospices for Sufi travelers (Salik) and Islamic students (Talib).
Khanty language Khanty or Xanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, as well as in Alexandrovsky and Kargosoksky Districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia.
Khanty Ocean Khanty Ocean was an ancient, small ocean that existed near the end of the Precambrian time to the Silurian. It was between Baltica and the Siberian continent, with the bordering oceans of Panthalassa to the north, Proto-Tethys to the northeast, and Paleo-Tethys to the south and east.
Khanty people Khanty (obsolete: Ostyaks) are an endangered indigenous people calling themself Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with Mansi peoples. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian.
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra (), or Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). The people native of the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people, whose languages are the closest relatives to Hungarian.
Khanya College Khanya College is an independent non-governmental organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1986, the primary aim of Khanya College is to assist various constituencies within working class and poor communities to respond to the challenges posed by the forces of economic and political globalisation.
Khanzada Khan Haji Khanzada Khan is a politician belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party. He has twice contested elections for the National Assembly of Pakistan from his native constituency of Mardan district in NWFP, Pakistan, one of which he won in 1993.
Khao Phra Wihan National Park This Thai National park is the gateway to Khao Phra Whihan in Cambodia (see also Prasat Preah Vihear) from Thailand. The entrance to the Temple Ruins is generally open to everyone and no visa is required but on occasion is closed due to Thai-Cambodian political tensions.
Khao Yai National Park Khao Yai National Park (Thai เขาŕąŕ¸«ŕ¸Ťŕą) is a national park in Thailand. It lies largely in Nakhon Ratchasima Province (Khorat), but also includes parts of Saraburi, Prachinburi and Nakhon Nayok provinces.
Khaosai Galaxy Khaosai Galaxy (Thai: เขาทราย ŕąŕ¸ŕąŕ¸Ąŕą‡ŕ¸„ซีŕą) (real name: Sura Saenkham) (born May 15, 1959) was one of the sport of boxing's greatest champions ever, and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Khaosan Road Khaosan road or Khao San road () is a short road in central Bangkok, Thailand. It is located at , in the Banglamphu neighborhood (Phra Nakhon district) about 1 km north from the Grand Palace with Wat Phra Kaew.
Khap Khap (Hindi:खाप, IAST: khÄpa) and Sarv Khap (सर्व खाप) was a system of social administration and organization in the republics of Northwestern states like Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India since ancient times. Khap is a term for a social - political grouping and used in a geographical sense.
Khaplu Khaplu (35° 10' 0 N, 76° 19' 60 E, altitude 2,560m) is the capital town of the Ghangche District of northern Pakistan. Lying 103 km (64 miles) east of Skardu town, it was the second-largest kingdom in old Baltistan.
Khapper Khapper is a 19th century colloquialism that comes from the Yiddish word for catcher. The khappers kidnapped Jewish boys (sometimes as young as eight) to fill out a quota for cantonists, Jewish recruits to the Russian Army.
Khara Dupatta The Khara Dupatta (standing veil) is an outfit composed of a kurta (tunic), chooridaar (ruched pair of pants), and 6 yard dupatta (veil) and is traditionally worn by Hyderabadi brides. Sometimes the kurta is sleeveless and worn over a koti resembling a choli.
Khara-Khoto Khara-Khoto refers to a Tangut city ruined by Genghis Khan in 1227 and discovered by Russian explorer Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov during an expedition of the Gobi desert from 1907–1909. No less than 2,000 books in Tangut language were uncovered there.
Kharadar Kharadar is one of the neighborhoods of Saddar Town in Karachi, Pakistan. Kharadar litearlly means salty gate in both Sindhi and Urdu; the neighborhood might have received this name because it is located near the Arabian Sea.
Kharahostes Kharahostes was an Indo-Scythian ruler (probably a satrap) in the northern Indian subcontinent around 10 BCE- 10 CE. He is known from his coins, often in the name of Azes II, and from an inscription on the Mathura lion capital.
Kharan District Kharan (Urdu: خاران ) is a district in the north west of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Kharan was notified as a district in 1951 and the Deputy Commissioner’s office started functioning on March 15th 1952.
Kharg Island Kharg Island (Persian: جزیره خارک, also sometimes written as Khark Island) is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran. It is located 25 km (16 miles) off the coast of Iran and 483 km (300 miles) northwest of the Strait of Hormuz ().
Kharga Oasis Al-Waha al-Kharga (meaning the outer oasis) (Arabic الخارجة, Standard Arabic pronunciation al-KhÄrija, Egyptian colloquial Arabic al-KhÄrga) is the southernmost of Egypt's five western oases. It is located in the Libyan Desert, about 200 km to the west of the Nile valley, and is some 150 km long.
Khari Jones Khari Okang Jones [ke-HAR-ee] (born May 16, 1971 in Hammond, Indiana) is a former professional Canadian football player and current television sports reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Jones played quarterback in the Canadian Football League, where he enjoyed his most success with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Khari Long Khari Long (born May 23, 1982 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American football player who currently plays defensive end for the Chicago Bears. He played in 39 college games (22 starts) at Baylor University, finishing with 145 tackles, 19.
Khari Stephenson Khari Stephenson (born January 18, 1981 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican football player (midfielder), who in 2007 will play for Swedish club AIK of Allsvenskan. Stephenson joined the club on a four-year contract in January 2007 following a highly successful season at Gothenburg based club GAIS in 2006.
Kharia Kharia can refer to one of the tribal (adivasi) group of people, living in Jharkhand, and Orissa states, India or to the Austro-Asiatic language spoken by these peoples. In the late 20th century, the population of Kharia people were around 300,000.
Khariboli Khariboli (also Khadiboli, Khadi-Boli, or Khari dialect), (/ /; Hindi: खड़ी बोली; Urdu: Ůهڑى بŮلى, khaṛī bolÄ«; lit. 'standing dialect') is a dialect of the Hindi language native to western Uttar Pradesh and the Delhi region in India.
Kharijites Kharijites (Arabic Ř®Ůارج, literally "Those who Go Out" "Schisms and Heterodoxy among the Muslims", hosted on irfi.org) is a general term embracing a variety of Islamic sects which, while initially accepting the caliphate of Ali, later rejected him.
Kharis Kharis is the name of the mummy featured in the four films produced by Universal Studios in the 1940's following their original 1932 film The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff as a different mummy character, Imhotep. Inspired by worldwide interest in Egyptian archeology of the era, the Mummy is the only major Universal monster of the 1920's, 30's, and 40's whose origin as a fearsome being is credited to the films in which he appears; the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the Invisible Man all originated in literature, and the Wolf Man was derived from werewolf myths.
Kharitonov's theorem Kharitonov's theorem is a result used in control theory to assess the stability of a dynamical system when the physical parameters of the system are not known precisely. When the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial are known, the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion can be used to check if the system is stable (i.
Kharja The kharja (in Arabic , meaning "final"), also known as jarcha in Spanish, is the final refrain of a series of a muwashshah, a lyric genre of Al-Andalus (the Islamic Iberian Peninsula) written in Arabic or Hebrew, commonly with five stanzas, each consisting of four to six lines. The final two lines of each stanza act as a refrain which is known as a kharja.
Kharkiv Metro The Kharkiv Metro (; ) is the metro system that serves the city of Kharkiv (Kharkov), the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after Kiev) and the fifth in the USSR when it opened in 1975.
Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau, often simply called Morozov Design Bureau or abbreviated KMDB, is a state-owned company in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which designs armoured vehicles, including the T-80 and T-84 main battle tanks, as well as military prime movers. It was responsible for many important Soviet AFVs, including BT tank series, T-34, T-55, and T-64.
Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute" is the first technical university in Ukraine. It was founded in 1885 as a practical institute of technology with two departments - mechanical and chemical that could offer training to 125 persons.
Kharkiv University Kharkiv National University (also known as Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukrainian: ХарківŃький національний ŃніверŃитет імені Каразіна), in the city of Kharkiv, is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasyl Karazin, (after whom the university is now named), becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv.
Kharkivskyi neighborhood, Kiev Kharkivskyi neighborhood, in Kiev, Ukraine, often referred to as Kharkivskyi masyv () was first developed between the mid 1980s and early 1990s as an expansion of the Darnytsia neighborhood of the city. The name is rather symbolic than historic: it simply indicates that the area lies on route to the city of Kharkiv.
Kharkov School of Psychology Kharkov School of Psychology (ХарьковŃкая ĐżŃихологичеŃкая Ńкола) is a tradition of developmental psychological research conducted in the paradigm of Lev Vygotsky's "sociocultural theory of mind" and Leontiev's psychological activity theory.
KharoṣáąhÄ« The script, also known as the GÄndhÄrÄ« script, is an ancient abugida (an alphasyllabary, based on consonants with graphical variations to express their associated vowels) used by the Gandhara culture of historic northwest Indian subcontinent to write the GÄndhÄrÄ« and Sanskrit languages. It was in use from the 4th century BC until it died out in its homeland around the 3rd century AD.
Kharsuf Kharsuf are plant-like fryhtans from the universe of Seven Kingdoms. Their abilities include the creation of Lishorrs, giant plants that spit acid and can camouflage into trees, and the kharsuf critical attack of a huge bolt of energy.
Khartoum Khartoum (الخرطŮŮ… al-ḪaráąĹ«m "Elephant Trunk") is the capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the point where the White Nile, flowing north from Uganda, meets the Blue Nile, flowing west from Ethiopia.
Khartoum diplomatic assassinations The Khartoum diplomatic assassinations took place between 1 March 1973 and 3 March 1973 in the capital city of Sudan, Khartoum and were executed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Three Western diplomats were murdered during a lengthy hostage-taking.
Khartoum Resolution The Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967 was issued at the conclusion of a meeting between the leaders of eight Arab countries in the wake of the Six-Day War. The resolution, which formed a basis of the policies of these governments toward Israel until the Yom Kippur War of 1973, called for:
Khasa River The Khasa River (Arabic:نهر خاصة) is a winterbourne river which runs through the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. It dries up completely in the summer but turns into a raging river sometime during the winter, flooding its banks at times as happened in the 1950s.
Khasab Khasab (Arabic: خصب)town is the regional center of Musandam Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. It is located very close to the Strait of Hormuz about 60 km away from Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
Khasan Baroev Khasan Baroev Russian: ĐĄĐ°ŃĐ°Đ˝ Махарбекович Бароев; born December 1, 1982 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is an Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. He is also the 2003 world champion.
Khasas The Khasas are an ancient people, believed to be a section of the Indo-Iranians who originally belonged to Central Asia from where they had penetrated, in remote antiquity, the Himalayas through Kashgar and Kashmir and dominated the whole hilly region. They are believed to have given their names to Kashgar, Kashi (Central Asia), Kashkara, Kashmir, Khashali (south-east of Kashmir) Kashatwar and other recognizable colonies at the present day in the hills from Kashmir down to Nepal as also in various plains.
Khasav-Yurt Accord Khasav-Yurt Accord was a ceasefire agreement that marked the end of the First Chechen War, signed in Khasav-Yurt on August 30, 1996 between Alexander Lebed and Aslan Maskhadov. The agreement was broken after the Shamil Basayev's raid on Dagestan followed by the Second Chechen War.
Khash (dish) Khash (Armenian: Ô˝ŐˇŐ·) is a traditional Armenian dish, originating in the Shirak region. Formerly a nutritious winter food for the rural poor, it is now considered a delicacy, and is enjoyed as a festive winter meal, usually by a company of men.
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (15 January 1926 - 14 August 1984) or KD Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. Since 1900 when Norman Pritchard won 2 silver medals in athletics, India had won gold medals only in field hockey, a team sport.
Khashyar Darvich Khashyar Darvich is a documentary film producer and director who is currently producing and directing a documentary film about the Dalai Lama entitled "Dalai Lama Renaissance," which is narrated by actor Harrison Ford.
Khasi The Khasi are a tribe in Meghalaya, India and in parts of Bangladesh, who call themselves Hynniew trep (which means "the seven huts" in the Khasi language). They comprise almost fifty percent of the population of Meghalaya, the remainder of whom are mostly Garo.
Khasi language Khasi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Meghalaya state in India. Khasi is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and is distantly related to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family, which is found in east-central India.
Khasi Pine The Khasi Pine (Pinus kesiya) is a pine native to the Khasi hills in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya from where it got its name. The range extends south and east from there to northern Thailand, southernmost China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Khasso Khasso or Xaaso was a West African kingdom of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, occupying territory in what is today Senegal and the Kayes Region of Mali. Its capital was at Medina, Senegal until its fall.
Khat Khat (Catha edulis, family Celastraceae, Ge'ez ጫት ÄŤĚŁÄt; Arabic: قات), pronounced "cot" and also known as qat, gat, chat, and miraa), is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it is a shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall, with evergreen leaves 5–10 cm long and 1–4 cm broad.
Khatib Khatib or khateeb (خطيب khaáąÄ«b) is an Islamic Arabic term used to describe a person who delivers the sermon (khuáąbah), during the Friday prayer or Eid prayers. The khatib also leads the prayers on Friday and during the Eid prayer.
Khatkhate In Indian Cuisine, Khatkhate is an exotic mixed vegetable stew, a Goan and Konkani dish, made with at least five vegetables, grated coconut, jaggery, kokum, tamarind, tirfala (special spices from Konkan region), dried red chillies, garam masala powder, and turmeric powder. The vegetables include raddish (mooli), potato, sweet potato (ratala), carrots, corn on the cobs, pumpkins (bhopala), and seasonal vegetables available at the time.
Khalsa College, Amritsar Khalsa College is a historic educational institution in the northern Indian city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab, India. Founded in 1892, the sprawling 300-acre campus is located about eight km outside of the city center on the Amritsar-Lahore highway (part of the Grand Trunk Road), adjoining Guru Nanak Dev University campus, to which Khalsa College is academically affiliated.
Khalsa Sporting Club Khalsa Sporting Club are a Canadian soccer team, founded in 1995. The team is a member of the Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCSL), a recognised Division III league in the American Soccer Pyramid which features teams from western Canada and the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.
Khalwa Khalwah also spelled Khalwa is a Sufi practice similar to the Christian practice of retreat. A Sufi murid will enter khalwa under the direction of a shaykh for a given period, sometimes for as long as 40 days, emerging only to pray and, usually, to discuss dreams, visions and the like with the shaykh.
Khalyzians The Chalyzians / Khalyzians (also called Khalis/Khwalis: Arabic/khwarezmian, Khalisioi: Byzantine Greek and Kaliz: Magyar - pronounced Kalish), were a people mentioned by the 12th century Byzantine historian John Kinnamos.
Kham Kham (Wylie transliteration: Khams; Tibetan: ŕ˝ŕ˝ŕ˝¦; Simplified Chinese: ĺş·; Pinyin: KÄng) province is one of several provinces comprising traditional Tibet (the others are Amdo and Ăś-Tsang). During the Republic of China's rule over mainland China (1911-1949), most of the region was called Xikang Province (čĄżĺş·çś XÄ«kÄng ShÄ›ng).
Kham language Kham (also Khamkura, Kamkura) is a language complex of Bodic Tibeto-Burmese lects spoken in the remoter highlands of Rapti Zone and Dhaulagiri Zone, western Nepal by the four northern clans of the Magar tribe, called collectively Kham Magars or Northern Magars.
Khama III Khama III (1837?-1923), also known as Khama the Good, was the kgosi (meaning chief or king) of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), who made his country a protectorate of the United Kingdom to ensure its survival against Boer and Ndebele encroachments.
Khamani Griffin Khamani Griffin (born 1 August 1998 in Oakland, California) is an American actor who currently stars in the TV series All Of Us. He also starred in the movie Daddy Day Care and has appeared in ER and My Name Is Earl.
Khamba The Khamba, also known as Khemba, inhabit around the Yang-Sang-Chu valley, which is also known as the Yongyap valley in the West Siang district, nearing the Tibetan border. Within the valley they inhabit in the villages Yorton, Lango, Tashigong, Nyukong and Mangkota.
Khambhat Khambhat , formerly known as Cambay, is a city and a municipality in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was formerly an important trading center, although its harbor has gradually silted up, and the maritime trade has moved elsewhere.
Khame Ruins, Zimbabwe Khame (also written as Kame or Kami) was the capital of the Torwa State that emerged as a strong power in southwestern Zimbabwe after the decline of Great Zimbabwe in the 15th Century. In the late 17th Century the site was burned and levelled by the Rozwi, who then took it over.
Khamis al-Obeidi Khamis al-Obeidi () (July 7, 1966 – June 21, 2006) was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 until his assassination. He was a Sunni Muslim, was married and had six children.
Khamis Farhan Khalaf abd al Fahdawi Khamis Farhan Khalaf abd al Fahdawi (Arabic: خميس ŮرŘان خل٠عبد الŮهداŮŮŠ), also known as Abu Seba (Arabic: أب٠سبأ), is alleged to be one of the leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and alleged to be responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Egyptian diplomat Ihab al-Sherif on July 2, 2005.
Khamis Mosque The Khamis Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الخميس; transliterated: Masjid al-Khamys) is believed to be the first mosque in Bahrain, built during the era of the Umayyad caliph Umar II. The identical twin minarets of this ancient Islamic monument make it easily noticeable as one drives along the Shaikh Salman Road in Khamis.
Khamis Mushait Khamis Mushayt (Arabic: خميس مشيط Khamis Mushayt) is a city in south-west Saudi Arabia, located 35 minutes east of Abha, the provincial seat of the Asir province in southwest Saudi Arabia. Until the 1960's Khamis Mushait was a small town of less than 50,000 servicing the surrounding mild-climate agricultural region.
Khammam Fort Construction of the Khammam Fort (India) was initiated around 950 when the Telugu area (now Andhra Pradesh) was ruled by the Kakatiya dynasty (10th - 13th century). The Reddi Kings Velma and Laksham (Reddi dynasty 1328 - 1428) were actively involved in the construction of the fort situated on the Stambhadri hill.
Khamosh Pani Khamosh Pani (Punjabi: خامŮŘ´ پانی; lit. Silent Waters) is a 2003 French/German production about a single mother and her young son; set in a 1970s Pakistani village which is coming under radical influence.
Khamoshi Khamoshi (Hindi: ख़ामोशी, Urdu: خامŮŘ´ŰŚ, translation: "Silence") is a 1969 black-and-white Hindi film directed by Asit Sen. Another film by the same name was made by Sanjay Leela Bhansali in 1996.
Khamovniki Khamovniki () is one of the municipal districts of Moscow within the Central administrative district. The district derives its name from Khamovnaya sloboda which was named so because of a special linen called kham (Ń…Đ°ĐĽ) weaved there.
Khamti The Khamti, whose name is also spelt as as Hkamti by the Burmese and Khampti by the Assamese, is a sub-group of the Shan people found in the Sagaing Division Hkamti District in northwestern Myanmaras well as Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh in India. Smaller numbers can be found in parts of Assam as well as the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Khamyang Khamyang, also known as Shyam is a tribal group found primarily in Tinsukia district of Assam as well as adjacent parts of Arunachal Pradesh. They have a population of 35,000, of which only a small minority speak the native Tai-based language.
Khan (band) Formed by Steve Hillage in 1971, Khan’s bio reads like a who’s who of former and future celebs from Egg, Gong, Hatfield & The North and National Health. The initial line-up of this early 70’s Canterbury outfit consisted of keyboard player Dave Stewart, guitarist Steve Hillage, bassist Nick Greenwood and drummer Pip Pyle.
Khan Jahan Ali Khan Jahan Ali (Bangla: খান জাহান আলী) (died 25 October,1459), also known as Ulugh Khan and Khan-i-Azam, was a Muslim Saint and local ruler in Bagerhat (now in Bangladesh). He built the great Bagerhat Shat Gambuj Masjid (60 dome mosque).
Khan Kluay Khan Kluay (Thai: ŕ¸ŕą‰ŕ¸˛ŕ¸™ŕ¸ŕ¸Ąŕą‰ŕ¸§ŕ¸˘; ) is a 2006 Thai computer-animated feature film set during Ayutthaya-era Siam about an elephant who wanders away from his mother and eventually becomes the war elephant for King Naresuan.
Khan Mohammad Khan Mohammad (born January 1]], 1928) was a member of Pakistan's first Test team that played against India in 1952. Born in Lahore, Punjab, he played in 13 Tests as an opening bowler who shared the new ball with Fazal Mahmood.
Khan Shatyry Khan Shatyry is a giant transparent tent currently under construction in Astana, capital city of Kazakhstan. The architectural project was unveiled by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on 9 December 2006.
Khan Yunis Khan Yunis (; literally Jonah's Inn) is a city and adjacent refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the city, its refugee camp, and its immediate surroundings had a total population of 200,704 in 1997.
Khanasor Expedition Khanasor Expedition (Armenian: ) was performed by the Armenian militia against the Kurdish Mazrik tribe on July 25, 1897. In 1896, during the Defense of Van, the Mazrik tribe ambushed a squad of Armenian defenders and mercilessly slaughtered them.
Khanate of Kazan The Kazan Khanate (Tatar: Qazan xanlığı/Казан ханлыгы; Russian: КазанŃкое Ń…Đ°Đ˝Ńтво, tr: Kazanskoe khanstvo) was a medieval Tatar state which occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia, Mordovia, parts of Udmurtia and Bashkortostan; its capital was the city of Kazan.
Khanate of Khiva The Khanate of Khiva (Uzbek: Xiva Xonligi) was the name of a Central Asian state that existed in the historical region of Khwarezm from 1515 to 1920. It was ruled over by the Kungrads, a branch of the Astrakhans, themselves a Genghisid dynasty, and its capital was at Khiva.
Khanate of Kokand The Khanate of Kokand (Uzbek: Qo'qon Xonligi) was a state in Central Asia that existed from 1709–1876 within the territory of modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It was established when the Shaybanid emir Shahrukh of the Minglar Uzbeks established an independent principality in the western part of the Fergana Valley.
Khanbaliq Khanbaliq or Cambuluc ("great residence of the Khan") is the ancient Mongol name for the city at the present location of Beijing, the current capital of the People's Republic of China. It was known in the Chinese language as Dadu (大é˝), meaning "great metropolitan" or "great capital".
Khancoban, New South Wales Khancoban is a small town in Tumbarumba Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The town is located 567 kilometres from the state capital, Sydney and 13 kilometres from the state border with Victoria, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, near the upper reaches of the Murray River.
Khandavaprastha Khandavaprastha (Sanskrit: खाण्डवप्रस्‍थ) was a forest region on the banks of Yamuna river. Pandavas received the region when Dritrashtra divided the kigdome between his sons and the Pandavas.
Khandelwal Vijay Kumar (Munni Bhaia) Vijay Kumar Khandelwal (born 22 April, 1936) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Betul constituency of Madhya Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
Khandoba Khandoba, also known as Khanderao, is a Hindu folk deity, worshipped by the people of Maharashtra in India. The worship of Khandoba developed during the 9th/10th centuries from a folk deity into a composite god pocessing the attributes of Shiva, Bhairava and of Surya.
Khandro Rinpoche Khandro Rinpoche, the daughter of His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen, was born in Kalimpong, India in 1967. At the age of two, Rinpoche was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje the 16th Karmapa as the re-incarnation of the Great Dakini of Tsurphu, Khandro Ugyen Tsomo, who was one of the most well known female masters of her time.
Khandu Rangnekar Khanderao Moreshwar 'Khandu' Rangnekar (born June 27, 1917, Bombay - died October 11, 1984, Thana, Maharashtra) was an Indian Test cricketer. Rangnekar was an attacking batsman who was considered the best Indian lefthander of his time.
Khandu Wangchuk Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk (born 1950) is a member of the Council of Ministers of Bhutan. He was chairman of the Council (Prime Minister) from 2001 until 2002, and has been the foreign minister of Bhutan since 2003.
Khanith Khanith (variant transcription Xanith) is a vernacular Arabic term for both standard written Arabic mukhannath and khuntha. The Arabic word Mukhannath مخنث (literally "effeminate") refers to individuals with a gender identity that is discordant with their visible sexual organs.
Khankala attack On August 19, 2002, a Russian-made Igla shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile hit an overloaded Mi-26 helicopter, causing it to crash in a minefield and burn down at the main military base at Khankala near the capital city of Grozny, Chechnya. A total of 127 Russian Army troops and crew from the Russian Air Force base at Mozdok were killed in the crash, the greatest loss of life in the history of helicopter aviation and one of the worst disasters in Russian military history.
Khanoda (album) Khanoda is the self-titled debut album by singer Khanoda, released on October 31st, 1988 (see 1988 in music). The album is currently out of print however Khanoda gained the rights to the original masters in 1998 when compiling tracks for the US and EU versions of Klosure.
Khanpur Dam Khanpur Dam is a dam located on the Haro River near the town of Khanpur, about 25 miles from Islamabad, Pakistan. It forms Khanpur Lake, a reservoir which supplies drinking water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi and irrigation water to many of the agricultural and industrial areas surrounding the cities.
Khanqah A khanqah (also transliterated as khanqa and khaneqa Persian: خانگاه khanegah and خانقاه khaneghah) is traditionally a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa, and is a place for spiritual retreat and character reformation. In the past, and to a lesser extent nowadays, they often served as hospices for Sufi travelers (Salik) and Islamic students (Talib).
Khanty language Khanty or Xanty language, also known as the Ostyak language, is a language of the Khant peoples. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, as well as in Alexandrovsky and Kargosoksky Districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia.
Khanty Ocean Khanty Ocean was an ancient, small ocean that existed near the end of the Precambrian time to the Silurian. It was between Baltica and the Siberian continent, with the bordering oceans of Panthalassa to the north, Proto-Tethys to the northeast, and Paleo-Tethys to the south and east.
Khanty people Khanty (obsolete: Ostyaks) are an endangered indigenous people calling themself Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with Mansi peoples. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian.
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra (), or Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). The people native of the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people, whose languages are the closest relatives to Hungarian.
Khanya College Khanya College is an independent non-governmental organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Established in 1986, the primary aim of Khanya College is to assist various constituencies within working class and poor communities to respond to the challenges posed by the forces of economic and political globalisation.
Khanzada Khan Haji Khanzada Khan is a politician belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party. He has twice contested elections for the National Assembly of Pakistan from his native constituency of Mardan district in NWFP, Pakistan, one of which he won in 1993.
Khao Phra Wihan National Park This Thai National park is the gateway to Khao Phra Whihan in Cambodia (see also Prasat Preah Vihear) from Thailand. The entrance to the Temple Ruins is generally open to everyone and no visa is required but on occasion is closed due to Thai-Cambodian political tensions.
Khao Yai National Park Khao Yai National Park (Thai เขาŕąŕ¸«ŕ¸Ťŕą) is a national park in Thailand. It lies largely in Nakhon Ratchasima Province (Khorat), but also includes parts of Saraburi, Prachinburi and Nakhon Nayok provinces.
Khaosai Galaxy Khaosai Galaxy (Thai: เขาทราย ŕąŕ¸ŕąŕ¸Ąŕą‡ŕ¸„ซีŕą) (real name: Sura Saenkham) (born May 15, 1959) was one of the sport of boxing's greatest champions ever, and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Khaosan Road Khaosan road or Khao San road () is a short road in central Bangkok, Thailand. It is located at , in the Banglamphu neighborhood (Phra Nakhon district) about 1 km north from the Grand Palace with Wat Phra Kaew.
Khap Khap (Hindi:खाप, IAST: khÄpa) and Sarv Khap (सर्व खाप) was a system of social administration and organization in the republics of Northwestern states like Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India since ancient times. Khap is a term for a social - political grouping and used in a geographical sense.
Khaplu Khaplu (35° 10' 0 N, 76° 19' 60 E, altitude 2,560m) is the capital town of the Ghangche District of northern Pakistan. Lying 103 km (64 miles) east of Skardu town, it was the second-largest kingdom in old Baltistan.
Khapper Khapper is a 19th century colloquialism that comes from the Yiddish word for catcher. The khappers kidnapped Jewish boys (sometimes as young as eight) to fill out a quota for cantonists, Jewish recruits to the Russian Army.
Khara Dupatta The Khara Dupatta (standing veil) is an outfit composed of a kurta (tunic), chooridaar (ruched pair of pants), and 6 yard dupatta (veil) and is traditionally worn by Hyderabadi brides. Sometimes the kurta is sleeveless and worn over a koti resembling a choli.
Khara-Khoto Khara-Khoto refers to a Tangut city ruined by Genghis Khan in 1227 and discovered by Russian explorer Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov during an expedition of the Gobi desert from 1907–1909. No less than 2,000 books in Tangut language were uncovered there.
Kharadar Kharadar is one of the neighborhoods of Saddar Town in Karachi, Pakistan. Kharadar litearlly means salty gate in both Sindhi and Urdu; the neighborhood might have received this name because it is located near the Arabian Sea.
Kharahostes Kharahostes was an Indo-Scythian ruler (probably a satrap) in the northern Indian subcontinent around 10 BCE- 10 CE. He is known from his coins, often in the name of Azes II, and from an inscription on the Mathura lion capital.
Kharan District Kharan (Urdu: خاران ) is a district in the north west of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Kharan was notified as a district in 1951 and the Deputy Commissioner’s office started functioning on March 15th 1952.
Kharg Island Kharg Island (Persian: جزیره خارک, also sometimes written as Khark Island) is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran. It is located 25 km (16 miles) off the coast of Iran and 483 km (300 miles) northwest of the Strait of Hormuz ().
Kharga Oasis Al-Waha al-Kharga (meaning the outer oasis) (Arabic الخارجة, Standard Arabic pronunciation al-KhÄrija, Egyptian colloquial Arabic al-KhÄrga) is the southernmost of Egypt's five western oases. It is located in the Libyan Desert, about 200 km to the west of the Nile valley, and is some 150 km long.
Khari Jones Khari Okang Jones [ke-HAR-ee] (born May 16, 1971 in Hammond, Indiana) is a former professional Canadian football player and current television sports reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Jones played quarterback in the Canadian Football League, where he enjoyed his most success with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Khari Long Khari Long (born May 23, 1982 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American football player who currently plays defensive end for the Chicago Bears. He played in 39 college games (22 starts) at Baylor University, finishing with 145 tackles, 19.
Khari Stephenson Khari Stephenson (born January 18, 1981 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican football player (midfielder), who in 2007 will play for Swedish club AIK of Allsvenskan. Stephenson joined the club on a four-year contract in January 2007 following a highly successful season at Gothenburg based club GAIS in 2006.
Kharia Kharia can refer to one of the tribal (adivasi) group of people, living in Jharkhand, and Orissa states, India or to the Austro-Asiatic language spoken by these peoples. In the late 20th century, the population of Kharia people were around 300,000.
Khariboli Khariboli (also Khadiboli, Khadi-Boli, or Khari dialect), (/ /; Hindi: खड़ी बोली; Urdu: Ůهڑى بŮلى, khaṛī bolÄ«; lit. 'standing dialect') is a dialect of the Hindi language native to western Uttar Pradesh and the Delhi region in India.
Kharijites Kharijites (Arabic Ř®Ůارج, literally "Those who Go Out" "Schisms and Heterodoxy among the Muslims", hosted on irfi.org) is a general term embracing a variety of Islamic sects which, while initially accepting the caliphate of Ali, later rejected him.
Kharis Kharis is the name of the mummy featured in the four films produced by Universal Studios in the 1940's following their original 1932 film The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff as a different mummy character, Imhotep. Inspired by worldwide interest in Egyptian archeology of the era, the Mummy is the only major Universal monster of the 1920's, 30's, and 40's whose origin as a fearsome being is credited to the films in which he appears; the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the Invisible Man all originated in literature, and the Wolf Man was derived from werewolf myths.
Kharitonov's theorem Kharitonov's theorem is a result used in control theory to assess the stability of a dynamical system when the physical parameters of the system are not known precisely. When the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial are known, the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion can be used to check if the system is stable (i.
Kharja The kharja (in Arabic , meaning "final"), also known as jarcha in Spanish, is the final refrain of a series of a muwashshah, a lyric genre of Al-Andalus (the Islamic Iberian Peninsula) written in Arabic or Hebrew, commonly with five stanzas, each consisting of four to six lines. The final two lines of each stanza act as a refrain which is known as a kharja.
Kharkiv Metro The Kharkiv Metro (; ) is the metro system that serves the city of Kharkiv (Kharkov), the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after Kiev) and the fifth in the USSR when it opened in 1975.
Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau, often simply called Morozov Design Bureau or abbreviated KMDB, is a state-owned company in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which designs armoured vehicles, including the T-80 and T-84 main battle tanks, as well as military prime movers. It was responsible for many important Soviet AFVs, including BT tank series, T-34, T-55, and T-64.
Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute" is the first technical university in Ukraine. It was founded in 1885 as a practical institute of technology with two departments - mechanical and chemical that could offer training to 125 persons.
Kharkiv University Kharkiv National University (also known as Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukrainian: ХарківŃький національний ŃніверŃитет імені Каразіна), in the city of Kharkiv, is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasyl Karazin, (after whom the university is now named), becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv.
Kharkivskyi neighborhood, Kiev Kharkivskyi neighborhood, in Kiev, Ukraine, often referred to as Kharkivskyi masyv () was first developed between the mid 1980s and early 1990s as an expansion of the Darnytsia neighborhood of the city. The name is rather symbolic than historic: it simply indicates that the area lies on route to the city of Kharkiv.
Kharkov School of Psychology Kharkov School of Psychology (ХарьковŃкая ĐżŃихологичеŃкая Ńкола) is a tradition of developmental psychological research conducted in the paradigm of Lev Vygotsky's "sociocultural theory of mind" and Leontiev's psychological activity theory.
KharoṣáąhÄ« The script, also known as the GÄndhÄrÄ« script, is an ancient abugida (an alphasyllabary, based on consonants with graphical variations to express their associated vowels) used by the Gandhara culture of historic northwest Indian subcontinent to write the GÄndhÄrÄ« and Sanskrit languages. It was in use from the 4th century BC until it died out in its homeland around the 3rd century AD.
Kharsuf Kharsuf are plant-like fryhtans from the universe of Seven Kingdoms. Their abilities include the creation of Lishorrs, giant plants that spit acid and can camouflage into trees, and the kharsuf critical attack of a huge bolt of energy.
Khartoum Khartoum (الخرطŮŮ… al-ḪaráąĹ«m "Elephant Trunk") is the capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the point where the White Nile, flowing north from Uganda, meets the Blue Nile, flowing west from Ethiopia.
Khartoum diplomatic assassinations The Khartoum diplomatic assassinations took place between 1 March 1973 and 3 March 1973 in the capital city of Sudan, Khartoum and were executed by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Three Western diplomats were murdered during a lengthy hostage-taking.
Khartoum Resolution The Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967 was issued at the conclusion of a meeting between the leaders of eight Arab countries in the wake of the Six-Day War. The resolution, which formed a basis of the policies of these governments toward Israel until the Yom Kippur War of 1973, called for:
Khasa River The Khasa River (Arabic:نهر خاصة) is a winterbourne river which runs through the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. It dries up completely in the summer but turns into a raging river sometime during the winter, flooding its banks at times as happened in the 1950s.
Khasab Khasab (Arabic: خصب)town is the regional center of Musandam Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. It is located very close to the Strait of Hormuz about 60 km away from Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
Khasan Baroev Khasan Baroev Russian: ĐĄĐ°ŃĐ°Đ˝ Махарбекович Бароев; born December 1, 1982 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is an Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. He is also the 2003 world champion.
Khasas The Khasas are an ancient people, believed to be a section of the Indo-Iranians who originally belonged to Central Asia from where they had penetrated, in remote antiquity, the Himalayas through Kashgar and Kashmir and dominated the whole hilly region. They are believed to have given their names to Kashgar, Kashi (Central Asia), Kashkara, Kashmir, Khashali (south-east of Kashmir) Kashatwar and other recognizable colonies at the present day in the hills from Kashmir down to Nepal as also in various plains.
Khasav-Yurt Accord Khasav-Yurt Accord was a ceasefire agreement that marked the end of the First Chechen War, signed in Khasav-Yurt on August 30, 1996 between Alexander Lebed and Aslan Maskhadov. The agreement was broken after the Shamil Basayev's raid on Dagestan followed by the Second Chechen War.
Khash (dish) Khash (Armenian: Ô˝ŐˇŐ·) is a traditional Armenian dish, originating in the Shirak region. Formerly a nutritious winter food for the rural poor, it is now considered a delicacy, and is enjoyed as a festive winter meal, usually by a company of men.
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (15 January 1926 - 14 August 1984) or KD Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games. Since 1900 when Norman Pritchard won 2 silver medals in athletics, India had won gold medals only in field hockey, a team sport.
Khashyar Darvich Khashyar Darvich is a documentary film producer and director who is currently producing and directing a documentary film about the Dalai Lama entitled "Dalai Lama Renaissance," which is narrated by actor Harrison Ford.
Khasi The Khasi are a tribe in Meghalaya, India and in parts of Bangladesh, who call themselves Hynniew trep (which means "the seven huts" in the Khasi language). They comprise almost fifty percent of the population of Meghalaya, the remainder of whom are mostly Garo.
Khasi language Khasi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Meghalaya state in India. Khasi is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and is distantly related to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family, which is found in east-central India.
Khasi Pine The Khasi Pine (Pinus kesiya) is a pine native to the Khasi hills in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya from where it got its name. The range extends south and east from there to northern Thailand, southernmost China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Khasso Khasso or Xaaso was a West African kingdom of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, occupying territory in what is today Senegal and the Kayes Region of Mali. Its capital was at Medina, Senegal until its fall.
Khat Khat (Catha edulis, family Celastraceae, Ge'ez ጫት ÄŤĚŁÄt; Arabic: قات), pronounced "cot" and also known as qat, gat, chat, and miraa), is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it is a shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall, with evergreen leaves 5–10 cm long and 1–4 cm broad.
Khatib Khatib or khateeb (خطيب khaáąÄ«b) is an Islamic Arabic term used to describe a person who delivers the sermon (khuáąbah), during the Friday prayer or Eid prayers. The khatib also leads the prayers on Friday and during the Eid prayer.
Khatkhate In Indian Cuisine, Khatkhate is an exotic mixed vegetable stew, a Goan and Konkani dish, made with at least five vegetables, grated coconut, jaggery, kokum, tamarind, tirfala (special spices from Konkan region), dried red chillies, garam masala powder, and turmeric powder. The vegetables include raddish (mooli), potato, sweet potato (ratala), carrots, corn on the cobs, pumpkins (bhopala), and seasonal vegetables available at the time.
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