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Kick, Snare, Hats, Ride Kick, Snare, Hats, Ride is a live compilation album by British indie rock band Hefner. It was a self-released mail order album that was put out in 2001, compiling various live appearances by lead singer Darren Hayman and the full band.
Kickapoo River The Kickapoo River is a tributary of the Wisconsin River in the state of Wisconsin, in the United States. It is named for the Kickapoo Indians who occupied Wisconsin before the influx of white settlers in the early 19th Century.
Kickball Kickball is a playground game and also a competitive league game, similar to baseball, invented in the United States in about 1942. American World War II correspondent, Ernie Pyle, reported it being played by U.
Kicker (poker) A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank. For example, the hand Q-Q-10-5-2 is ranked as a pair of queens.
Kickers Offenbach Kickers Offenbach is a German football club in Offenbach am Main, Hessen. The club was founded on May 27, 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who left already established local clubs including Melitia, Teutonia, Viktoria, Germania and Neptun.
Kickflip The kickflip (originally magic flip, ollie flip, or ollie kickflip), also known simply as a flip is an aerial skateboarding trick where the skateboarder kicks his board in order to make it flip 360 degrees along the board's long axis. It was invented by Rodney Mullen, an early skateboarder.
Kicking a Dead Pig Kicking a Dead Pig is a remix album from Scottish band Mogwai, comprised of remixes of previously released tracks (primarily from Young Team (1997) by various artists, including Alec Empire, My Bloody Valentine, and Max Tundra.
Kicking and Screaming Kicking and Screaming (1995) is a film by Noah Baumbach about a group of college graduates who refuse to move on with their lives, each in his own peculiar way. The film, which starred Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, and featured Eric Stoltz, Olivia d'Abo and Parker Posey, premiered in 1995 at the prestigious New York Film Festival to critical acclaim.
Kicking Bear Kicking Bear (1846-1904), also called Mato Wanartaka, was an Oglala Lakota who became a band chief of the Minneconjou Lakota Sioux. He fought in several battles during the War for the Black Hills, including the Battle of Little Big Horn (Greasy Grass).
Kicking Horse River The Kicking Horse River is a river located in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The river begins near the Waputik Icefield in Yoho National Park and moves in a southwesterly direction past the towns of Field and Golden before reaching its confluence with the Columbia River.
Kicking It Old Skool Kicking It Old Skool is an upcoming 2007 American comedy film directed by Harvey Glazer and written by Trace Slobotkin. The cast includes, among others, Jamie Kennedy, Michael Rosenbaum, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Vivica A.
Kicking Mule Records Kicking Mule Records was a record label founded in 1972 by Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, who had previously been a co-founder of Takoma Records. The company's title comes from the country blues sexual two-timing allegory "there's another mule kicking in your stall".
Kickstart (TV series) Kickstart was a popular series on BBC television in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fronted by Peter Purves of Blue Peter fame, the show was the first (and most popular) television series to feature the sport of motocross.
Kid 'n Play Kid 'n Play were a wholesome hip-hop and comedy duo from New York City that were most popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The duo is comprised of Christopher "Kid" Reid (born April 5 1964 in The Bronx, New York City) and Christopher "Play" Martin (born July 10 1962 in Queens, New York City).
Kid (Templating Language) Kid is a simple template engine for XML-based vocabularies written in Python. Kid claims to have many of the best features of XSLT, TAL, and PHP, but "with much of the limitations and complexity stamped out".
Kid 606 Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost Depedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, Hardcore techno, and Breakcore scenes.
Kid Anarchy Kid Anarchy was a three-issue comic book series written and illustrated by George Cole and Mike McCarthy, and published by Fantagraphics Books between 1991 and 1992. Set in the Deep South in the fictitious small town of Yamston around the year 1981, it centers around the title character Tommy "Kid Anarchy" Delaney and his tight-knit group of friends.
Kid Azteca Luis Villanueva Paramo (June 21, 1913-March 16, 2002) was a Mexican boxer who was better known as Kid Azteca. Villanueva Paramo boxed professionally from 1932 to 1961, making him one of a small number of fighters that fought during four decades.
Kid B Kid B is a novel written by Linden Dalecki that was first published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin. The book is narrated in the first-person by the title character "Kid B" whose birth name is Breslin Kirwin.
Kid Cann Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900–June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota. According to INS documents, he was born in the shtetl of Rumnesk, Romania in 1900, but was brought to the United States in 1902.
Kid Carpet Kid Carpet, real name Ed Patrick, makes, in his own words, 'Kiddy Disco Punk' and 'Shit Hop', in his home studio using various equipment including samplers, casio keyboards, and various sellotape bound second hand toys such as plastic Fisher-Price guitars, and tamagotchi innards. Kid Carpet made his live debut at the 21st birthday party of Bristol's Watershed media center in May 2003 and has since toured with many acts including Willy Mason, Badly Drawn Boy, Mylo, The Go!
Kid Comedies During the 1920s and early 1930s, many studios tried to copy the success of the world famous series Our Gang. Most of these series have long been forgotten about, but there has been much information found on these.
Kid Confucius Kid Confucius are a nine-piece Australian soul and hip hop band from Sydney, Australia. They formed in 2001 and have since played over 200 live shows and in 2005 released one self-titled album and three singles,Last Straw, Words and Skintight.
Kid Congo Powers Kid Congo Powers is the stage name of Brian Tristan (born 1960, Los Angeles, California), an American rock guitarist and singer, best known as a member of The Gun Club, The Cramps, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Most of his career has found him exploring the territory where punk rock joins older "roots music" styles (see psychobilly, cowpunk, horror punk).
Kid Courageous Kid Courageous is a band from Australia. The band consists of Mick Anderson (lead vocals, piano), Huw Griffiths (guitar, vocals), Patrick Ricapito (lead guitar), Laurent Saligne (drums) and Dave Simon (bass guitar).
Kid Creole (rapper) Kid Creole (also spelled Kidd Creole, born Nate Glover in New York City, New York) is a rapper, one of the pioneers of old school hip-hop as a member of the Sugar Hill group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five with his brother Melle Mel.
Kid Crusader Kid Crusader is a member of the Titans East, debuting in Teen Titans #42. Originally, the character was named "Choir Boy",Dan DiDio talks about the upcomming Titans East in DC Nation #22 as stated by Dan Didio in DC Nation.
Kid Dakota Kid Dakota is a two-man American indie rock band, formed in 2001 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by guitarist and vocalist Darren Jackson. After working on his own music during the mid 90s, "[Jackson] met drummer Christopher McGuire, and music began to flow.
Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite was a Philadelphia-based melodic hardcore band consisting of drummer Dave Wagenschutz, guitarist Dan Yemin, and vocalist Jason Shevchuk, as well as original bassist Steve Farrell and eventual replacement Michael "Spider" Cotterman. The band put out two full-lengths before lead singer Jason Shevchuk left the band in order to finish film/editing school; the act subsequently disbanded.
Kid Elberfeld Norman Arthur "Kid" Elberfeld (April 13, 1875 in Pomeroy, Ohio - January 13, 1944 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies (1898), Cincinnati Reds (1899), Detroit Tigers (1901-1903), New York Highlanders (1903-1909), Washington Senators (1910-1911), and Brooklyn Robins (1914). Elberfled also managed the New York Highlanders.
Kid Eternity Kid Eternity is a comic book superhero who first premiered in Hit Comics #25, published by Quality Comics in December, 1942. The character - as well as all of Quality's intellectual properties were sold to DC Comics in 1956 (though most of the said properties lapsed into public domain by that point).
Kid Gravity Kid Gravity is a comic that regularly appears in Disney Adventures Magazine. It first appeared in 2002, and focuses on Kid Gravity, a future space adventurer that attends the Hawking School of Astronautics and Astrophysics.
Kid hack A kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States. The word hack, meaning a horse-drawn cab, is short for hackney carriage.
Kid Chameleon (video game) Kid Chameleon is a video game released for the Mega Drive/Genesis. The premise of the game is that the main character "Kid Chameleon" can use masks to change into different characters in order to use different abilities.
Kid Charlemagne "Kid Charlemagne" is a song by the rock group Steely Dan, which was released as a single from their 1976 album The Royal Scam. It is notable as a fusion of a disco rhythm and jazz harmonies with rock and roll instrumentals and lyrical style.
Kid Icarus is a platforming video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in 1986 and the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. It is the first of only two games released in the Kid Icarus series.
Kid Kenobi Kid Kenobi is an Australian DJ who won People's Choice NSW DJ of the Year in 2001 at the Australian Dance Music Awards, and Technics Australian DJ of the Year in 2001-2005. He has been featured in FHM, Rolling Stone, Ralph and Urb and also writes for some music papers, and has done some music production, notably Ministry of Sound Australia's "A Clubbers Guide to the Breaks".
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World Kid Klown actually started life as a Mickey Mouse game in Japan. Released as part of the mostly Game Boy Mickey Mouse series, Mickey Mouse III: Dream Balloon was released in September 1992 by Kemco in Japan for the Famicom.
Kid Koala Eric San (born 1974 in Vancouver, Canada), who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Montreal, Quebec based DJ and turntablist. He is signed to the British Ninja Tune record label and also tours and performs with a jam band, Bullfrog.
Kid Mystic Kid Mystic is an action-adventure game with RPG qualities. It was originally released by eGames as Spooky Castle: The Adventures of Kid Mystic in 1999, but in 2004, Hamumu Software re-released it with new monsters, modes, and other improvements.
Kid Nichols Charles Augustus Nichols (September 14, 1869 - April 11, 1953), better known as Kid Nichols, was a Major League Baseball pitcher at the turn of the 20th century. Admired for his steadfast consistency year-in and year-out, Nichols amassed 361 wins over his 15 year career, the 7th highest total in major league history.
Kid Notorious Kid Notorious was a Flash-animated television series which aired for nine weeks (October 2003 – December 2003) on Comedy Central and is currently running on the UK version of Adult Swim. It starred Hollywood film producer Robert Evans as himself.
Kid Power Kid Power was a 17-episode, 30-minute animated cartoon series produced by Rankin-Bass/Videocraft Productions. It aired in the USA on ABC television Saturday mornings in the 1972-1973 season at 11:30 am (10:30 am Central and Pacific time), and Sunday mornings in the 1973-1974 season at 10:00 am (Eastern), which could be locally preempted.
Kid Rock Robert James Ritchie (born January 17 1971), best known as Kid Rock, is an American rapper, singer and rock musician most notable for his albums along side his rap/hard rock/country band, Twisted Brown Trucker.
Kid Speedy Kid Speedy is an Adobe Flash game published by the fictional company Videlectrix. It centers around a racer named Kid Speedy who tries to come in not last place in eight races in order to buy an operation for the orphanage (though this changes when the unlockable characters are used).
Kid Stuff Records Kid Stuff Records was a record label of the 1980s devoted to children's music. The label's albums (including both read-along records and full-length LPs) were mostly tie-ins for franchises such as Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, The Pink Panther Show, Fat Albert and Masters of the Universe, along with video games such as Pac-Man and Yars' Revenge.
Kid's Story Kid's Story is one of 9 short films in The Animatrix series that reveals more about the world of The Matrix. It was written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, with animation and production design by Studio 4°C, Tokyo.
Kidarites The Kidarite (Chinese: Ki-To-Lo) dynasty of the "Ki" clan led the Xionites and came from the proto-Mongolic Uar about whom it has been said that their legendary ancestor was Afrasiabus. If the Uar were not already present in Turpan, it is thought that when Liu Can was overthrown by Jin Zhun, and Shi Le established his state, many of the Uar around Pingyang (ĺąłé™˝, in modern Linfen, Shanxi) fled west along the Silk Road causing the Xionites to encroach upon Khorasan and the frontiers of the Kushan state around 320 AD.
Kidd antigen system The Kidd antigen system (also known as Jk antigen) is present on the membranes of red blood cells and the kidney and helps determine a person's blood type. The Jk antigen is found on a protein responsible for urea transport in the red blood cells and the kidney.
Kidd Brewer Stadium Kidd Brewer Stadium is Appalachian State University's (ASU) 16,650-seat multi-purpose stadium in Boone, North Carolina. It opened in 1962 and stands 3,333 feet above sea level, the highest collegiate football stadium east of the Mississippi River.
Kidd class destroyer The Kidd class destroyers (often called the "dead-admiral" class or the "Ayatollah" class) are a series of vessels based upon the hull of the Spruance class destroyers. These ships were originally ordered by the Shah of Iran for service in the Persian Gulf in an air defense role.
Kidd Field Kidd Field is an athletic facility used primarily by UTEP in El Paso, TX. Contstructed for its then-primary use as a football field in 1938, it was the site of the Sun Bowl until 1963 when Sun Bowl Stadium opened.
Kidd Kraddick Kidd Kraddick was born David Cradick in Tampa Bay, Florida, Kraddick is a popular radio personality based in Dallas, Texas that hosts the radio show, "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning". The show, co-hosted by Big Al Mack, Kellie Rasberry, JC, and Taylor is broadcast from 5-10am CST on weekday mornings and nationally syndicated in 49 markets.
Kidd Kraddick in the Morning Kidd Kraddick in the Morning is a syndicated radio morning show, airing 5am-10am CST, and primarily serving CHR/Top 40 formatted stations. Based in Las Colinas, Texas, the show has 51 affiliates, including flagship station KHKS in Dallas, Texas.
Kidd Video Kidd Video was a Saturday morning cartoon airing on NBC from 1984 to 1986. The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (played by live-action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called The Flipside.
Kidder Massacre The Kidder Massacre of 29 June, 1867 refers to the killing of a Lyman Kidder along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men. They were ordered to take dispatches from General William Sherman to General George A.
Kidderminster Rural District Kidderminster Rural District was a Rural District in Worcestershire, England until 1974 when it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the new Wyre Forest District, together with the boroughs of Kidderminster and Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn urban district.
Kidderminster Shuttle The Kidderminster Shuttle is a free weekly newspaper distributed to households in the Wyre Forest area of Worcestershire, England on a Thursday. In the Stourport area it is known as the Stourport News, and there is also a paid-for edition, the Kidderminster Times; all three papers have had identical editorial content since 2005, however the Stourport News had until April 2006 its own mast head front page.
Kidderpore Khidirpur or Kidderpore (Bengali: খিদিরপŕ§ŕ¦° khidirpur) is a major locality of the city of Kolkata. It is located in the central-west part of the city and is surrounded by the localities of Alipore in the east, Ekbalpore in the south, Hastings in the north, Garden Reach in the south-west and the Hooghly River in the west.
Kiddie rides Kiddie rides are coin-operated rides that appear in amusement parks, malls as well as outside supermarkets and large stores such as K-mart and Sav-On. Once the ride is activated with a coin, it moves, motion determined by ride type (miniature ferris wheel, miniature carousel, track ride or stationary platform ride).
Kiddieland Amusement Park Kiddieland Amusement Park is an amusement park in Chicagoland, located just west of Chicago at the corner of North Avenue and First Avenue in Melrose Park, Illinois. It is home to several classic rides including the Little Dipper roller coaster, which opened in 1950.
Kidding Aside Kidding Aside (The British Childfree Association) was founded in 2000 and exists in order to campaign for the rights of British childfree people. It is thought to be the first politically active childfree movement in the world and strives to introduce the childfree voice into relevant British political debate.
Kidding on the square To "kid on the square" is to be joking, but at the same time really mean it. In this context, the square means "genuine" or "true" in the same sense as fair and square and square deal and three square meals, with an origin in carpentry, where a square is a tool used to ensure that objects are perpendicular to one another.
Kiddush Kiddush (Hebrew: קידוש, literally, "sanctification") is the act of sanctifying Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) or a Jewish holiday through the act of reciting a blessing over a cup of kosher wine or kosher grape juice. Because the Torah speaks of Shabbat using the language Shamor v'Zakhor, keep it and remember it, Jews believe that Shabbat law consists both of what one may not do and what one must do in order to make the day special.
Kiddush club "Kiddush Club" is a slang term applied wherever an informal group of people leave a synagogue's sanctuary during Jewish services on Shabbat (Saturday) morning to congregate, make kiddush (frequently over liquor) and socialize. Participants often leave services during the Haftorah reading or the sermon.
Kiddush Hashem Kiddush hashem (Hebrew: קידוש השם; "sanctification of the name of God") is a precept of Judaism as expressed in the Torah for any Jew to: "To sanctify His Name" , and conversely not to bring dishonor or shame to God's name which is known as Chillul Hashem: "Not to profane His Name" . Thus any action by a Jew that brings honor, respect, and glory to God is considered to be a Kiddush Hashem, whereas any behavior or action that disgraces, harms or shames God and his Torah is regarded as a Chillul Hashem which means a "desecration of God".
Kiddy Kong Kiddy Kong (known as Dinky Kong in Japan: ă‡ă‚Łăłă‚㼠カăłă‚° DinkÄ« Kangu) was created by Rareware to be partnered up with his cousin Dixie Kong in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! for the game.
Kiddy-Widdy-Winkies "Kiddy-Widdy-Winkies" is an original song from the musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was first performed by actor, Richard O'Brien as "The Child Catcher" while he is in search of children wandering the streets of Vulgaria.
Kidepo Valley National Park Kidepo Valley National Park is a 1436 km2 national park in Karamoja region in northwest Uganda. Kidepo is rugged savannah, dominated by the 2750 m Mount Morungole and transected by the Rivers Kidepo and Narus .
Kidili In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Mandjindja), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth. The Wati-kutjara wounded him in battle, castrating him with a boomerang, and he died of his wounds in a waterhole.
Kidlat Tahimik Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik, is a movie director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated through their critiques of neocolonialism with the Third Cinema movement.
Kidlington Kidlington is a large village and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. It is located 10 km (6 miles) north of Oxford and 27 km (17 miles) south of Banbury, between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal.
KidĹŤ Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken is an anime about Yuuko Kondo, Toshie Hijikata, and Kaoru Okita (respectively the daughters of Isami Kondo, Toshizo Hijikata, and Souji Okita), who are magical girl variants of Shinsengumi, a police force, and of Sakamoto Ryunosuke and his illegal companion, Nekomaru. Originally an OVA, it was also adapted into a television series.
Kidman Way The Kidman Way is an important highway in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, which is designated as State Highway 87. It is named after Sir Sidney Kidman, Australian cattle king and philantrophist who owned a large number of cattle stations along the path, many still owned by his descendants.
KidMark Kidmark is the name of the company that owns (or owned) the rights to the original 13 Dragon Ball episodes as well as the first movie, Curse of the Blood Rubies. These versions originally aired sometime between 1997 and 1998 because of the success of Dragon Ball Z.
Kidnapped (novel) Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges and Seamus Heaney.
Kidnapping Kidnapping, a word derived from kid = 'child' and nap (nab) = 'snatch', recorded since 1673, was originally used as a term for the practice of stealing children for use as servants or laborers in the American colonies. has come to mean any illegal capture or detention of a person or people against their will, regardless of age, as for ransom]; since 1768 the term abduction was also used in this sense.
Kidney development In humans, the metanephros (adult kidney) begins as an aggregate of mesenchymal cells that are detectable by the fifth gestational week as two small areas in the intermediate mesoderm close to the pelvic aorta. It is approximately at this time that the nephric duct produces a finger-like projection called the ureteric bud that has, or will soon invade, the aggregate of cells known as the metanephric mesenchyme.
Kidney dish A kidney dish is a kidney-shaped bowl used in medical and surgical wards to receive soiled dressings and other medical waste. Reusable dishes are usually made from bright stainless steel, while disposable ones may be made from paper pulp or plastic.
Kidney transplantation Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the recipient organ.
Kidneythieves Kidneythieves is an Industrial rock band led by Free Dominguez (vocals) and Bruce Somers (guitar/engineering). Along the way they picked up other band members such as Chris Schleyer (guitar), Christian Dorris (bass), and Sean Sellers (drum).
Kido Takayoshi ; 11 August 1833 - 26 May 1877), also referred as Kido KĹŤin was a Japanese statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. He used the alias Niibori Matsusuke (ć–°ĺ €ćťľčĽ” Niibori Matsusuke) when he worked against the shogun.
Kidon Kidon (Hebrew: "bayonet") is the name of a department within Israel's Mossad that is responsible for assassination and kidnapping. It was exposed by former Mossad katsa Victor Ostrovsky in his 1990 book By Way of Deception.
Kidou Keiji Jiban , translated into English as Mobile Detective Jiban, is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei, aired by TV Asahi in Japan from January 29, 1989 to January 28, 1990 with 52 episodes and a feature movie. It was also translated as Mobile Sheriff Jiban.
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna (ć¦ĺ ´ă®çµ†)is a Japanese arcade game set in the original Gundam universe (Mobile Suit Gundam). The game was created by Bandai Namco and Banpresto and was released late 2006.
Kidpower KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER, International (also known as KIDPOWER) is a non-profit organization that teaches people of all ages and abilities safety, confidence, self-protection and advocacy skills. Educators, mental health professionals, and law enforcement agencies endorse the organization for its ability to provide participants with skills that help to prevent bullying, molestation, assaults and abductions.
Kidričevo Kidričevo is a town and a municipality in Slovenia, near Ptuj. It was formerly named Strnišče and renamed to its current name after World War II for Boris Kidrič, the first president of the Slovene government, while Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.
Kidrobot Kidrobot (intentionally spelled as one word rather than two) is a producer and retailer of designer toys founded in 2002 by Paul Budnitz. Kidrobot has a commercial website, as well as retail stores in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, specializing in artist-created toys and imports from Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe.
Kidron Valley The Kidron Valley (, Naḥal Qidron; also Qidron Valley; , Wadi al-Joz) is valley near Jerusalem which features significantly in the Bible. An ephemeral stream flows through it with occasional flash floods in the rainy winter months.
Kids & Teens TV Kids & Teens Television is a 24/7 children's channel exclusive to the Sky Angel satellite network and provides high-quality, entertaining and educational programming for all young ages, from toddlers to teens. Offering a variety of programming geared to each age group, KTV has cartoons, animated shows, talk shows, Christian music videos, dramas and musicals, as well as shows centered on creation science and social issues, health and fitness.
Kids (1970s magazine) Kids was a children's magazine published in the early 1970s (unrelated to the later Kids magazine of the 2000s). Its aim was to create a magazine which was, as much as possible, created and edited by children themselves, with minimal adult supervision.
Kids (2000s magazine) Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together was a children's magazine published in the mid-2000s (unrelated to the earlier Kids magazine of the 1970s). Kids, which was originally launched in 2002 as Martha Stewart Kids,Write News (3 July 2006).
Kids Against Combs Kids Against Combs are a Brooklyn-based band who have been described as "indie agit-popsters" whose songs include "Capitalism Is Going To Break Your Heart" and "Fuck This, I'm Moving to Canada". The band is fronted by "Degal", a graduate student in political science at St.
Kids Against Hunger Feeding Children International is a nonprofit organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. This is being achieved through the Kids Against Hunger program.
Kids club A kids club is a kind of fan club, created not around a celebrity, but rather around a commercial entity that caters to children or families, or its mascot. Kids clubs serve as a promotional tool for such entities, trading discount coupons, exclusive items, a newsletter and other offerings in exchange for family goodwill and a measure of marketing and demographic information.
Kids Help Phone Kids Help Phone (in French Jeunesse, j'Ă©coute) is a Canadian organization which provides counselling and education for the benefit of children, which is free to use through it's toll-free phone counselling service for children and youth. The organization is a charity with no government assistance, and relies on donations.
Kids in the Way Kids in the Way is a Christian rock group from Indianapolis, Indiana. Their songs mainly have darker references, and talk about love, death, and political messages (in the song "Burt Rutan"), and often convey undertones of their collective faith as Christians.
Kids News Network Kids News Network, created 1991 in New York City by JoAnna Levenglick, is a TV news magazine show done by children that covers entertainment, pro sports, books, technology, style, and health. Celebrity interviews are one-on-one, and are done by two young reporters who have been doing interviews since 1993, and have traveled all over the United States doing movie junkets and being on the set of movies.
Kids Next Door Organization The Kids Next Door, or KND for short, is a worldwide organization of trained kids under the age of 13 who battle adult tyranny in the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door. The current age of the KND, the seventh age, was founded by Numbuh 0, after he discovered the legendary "Book of KND".
Kids Say the Darndest Things Kids Say the Darndest Things was a TV show hosted by Bill Cosby and co-hosted by Art Linkletter that aired on CBS in the late 1990s. It is based on Art Linkletter's TV show, Art Linkletter's House Party, which aired five days a week on CBS for more than twenty years.
Kickapoo River The Kickapoo River is a tributary of the Wisconsin River in the state of Wisconsin, in the United States. It is named for the Kickapoo Indians who occupied Wisconsin before the influx of white settlers in the early 19th Century.
Kickball Kickball is a playground game and also a competitive league game, similar to baseball, invented in the United States in about 1942. American World War II correspondent, Ernie Pyle, reported it being played by U.
Kicker (poker) A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank. For example, the hand Q-Q-10-5-2 is ranked as a pair of queens.
Kickers Offenbach Kickers Offenbach is a German football club in Offenbach am Main, Hessen. The club was founded on May 27, 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who left already established local clubs including Melitia, Teutonia, Viktoria, Germania and Neptun.
Kickflip The kickflip (originally magic flip, ollie flip, or ollie kickflip), also known simply as a flip is an aerial skateboarding trick where the skateboarder kicks his board in order to make it flip 360 degrees along the board's long axis. It was invented by Rodney Mullen, an early skateboarder.
Kicking a Dead Pig Kicking a Dead Pig is a remix album from Scottish band Mogwai, comprised of remixes of previously released tracks (primarily from Young Team (1997) by various artists, including Alec Empire, My Bloody Valentine, and Max Tundra.
Kicking and Screaming Kicking and Screaming (1995) is a film by Noah Baumbach about a group of college graduates who refuse to move on with their lives, each in his own peculiar way. The film, which starred Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, and featured Eric Stoltz, Olivia d'Abo and Parker Posey, premiered in 1995 at the prestigious New York Film Festival to critical acclaim.
Kicking Bear Kicking Bear (1846-1904), also called Mato Wanartaka, was an Oglala Lakota who became a band chief of the Minneconjou Lakota Sioux. He fought in several battles during the War for the Black Hills, including the Battle of Little Big Horn (Greasy Grass).
Kicking Horse River The Kicking Horse River is a river located in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The river begins near the Waputik Icefield in Yoho National Park and moves in a southwesterly direction past the towns of Field and Golden before reaching its confluence with the Columbia River.
Kicking It Old Skool Kicking It Old Skool is an upcoming 2007 American comedy film directed by Harvey Glazer and written by Trace Slobotkin. The cast includes, among others, Jamie Kennedy, Michael Rosenbaum, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Vivica A.
Kicking Mule Records Kicking Mule Records was a record label founded in 1972 by Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, who had previously been a co-founder of Takoma Records. The company's title comes from the country blues sexual two-timing allegory "there's another mule kicking in your stall".
Kickstart (TV series) Kickstart was a popular series on BBC television in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fronted by Peter Purves of Blue Peter fame, the show was the first (and most popular) television series to feature the sport of motocross.
Kid 'n Play Kid 'n Play were a wholesome hip-hop and comedy duo from New York City that were most popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The duo is comprised of Christopher "Kid" Reid (born April 5 1964 in The Bronx, New York City) and Christopher "Play" Martin (born July 10 1962 in Queens, New York City).
Kid (Templating Language) Kid is a simple template engine for XML-based vocabularies written in Python. Kid claims to have many of the best features of XSLT, TAL, and PHP, but "with much of the limitations and complexity stamped out".
Kid 606 Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost Depedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, Hardcore techno, and Breakcore scenes.
Kid Anarchy Kid Anarchy was a three-issue comic book series written and illustrated by George Cole and Mike McCarthy, and published by Fantagraphics Books between 1991 and 1992. Set in the Deep South in the fictitious small town of Yamston around the year 1981, it centers around the title character Tommy "Kid Anarchy" Delaney and his tight-knit group of friends.
Kid Azteca Luis Villanueva Paramo (June 21, 1913-March 16, 2002) was a Mexican boxer who was better known as Kid Azteca. Villanueva Paramo boxed professionally from 1932 to 1961, making him one of a small number of fighters that fought during four decades.
Kid B Kid B is a novel written by Linden Dalecki that was first published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin. The book is narrated in the first-person by the title character "Kid B" whose birth name is Breslin Kirwin.
Kid Cann Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900–June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was the most notorious mobster in the history of Minnesota. According to INS documents, he was born in the shtetl of Rumnesk, Romania in 1900, but was brought to the United States in 1902.
Kid Carpet Kid Carpet, real name Ed Patrick, makes, in his own words, 'Kiddy Disco Punk' and 'Shit Hop', in his home studio using various equipment including samplers, casio keyboards, and various sellotape bound second hand toys such as plastic Fisher-Price guitars, and tamagotchi innards. Kid Carpet made his live debut at the 21st birthday party of Bristol's Watershed media center in May 2003 and has since toured with many acts including Willy Mason, Badly Drawn Boy, Mylo, The Go!
Kid Comedies During the 1920s and early 1930s, many studios tried to copy the success of the world famous series Our Gang. Most of these series have long been forgotten about, but there has been much information found on these.
Kid Confucius Kid Confucius are a nine-piece Australian soul and hip hop band from Sydney, Australia. They formed in 2001 and have since played over 200 live shows and in 2005 released one self-titled album and three singles,Last Straw, Words and Skintight.
Kid Congo Powers Kid Congo Powers is the stage name of Brian Tristan (born 1960, Los Angeles, California), an American rock guitarist and singer, best known as a member of The Gun Club, The Cramps, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Most of his career has found him exploring the territory where punk rock joins older "roots music" styles (see psychobilly, cowpunk, horror punk).
Kid Courageous Kid Courageous is a band from Australia. The band consists of Mick Anderson (lead vocals, piano), Huw Griffiths (guitar, vocals), Patrick Ricapito (lead guitar), Laurent Saligne (drums) and Dave Simon (bass guitar).
Kid Creole (rapper) Kid Creole (also spelled Kidd Creole, born Nate Glover in New York City, New York) is a rapper, one of the pioneers of old school hip-hop as a member of the Sugar Hill group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five with his brother Melle Mel.
Kid Crusader Kid Crusader is a member of the Titans East, debuting in Teen Titans #42. Originally, the character was named "Choir Boy",Dan DiDio talks about the upcomming Titans East in DC Nation #22 as stated by Dan Didio in DC Nation.
Kid Dakota Kid Dakota is a two-man American indie rock band, formed in 2001 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by guitarist and vocalist Darren Jackson. After working on his own music during the mid 90s, "[Jackson] met drummer Christopher McGuire, and music began to flow.
Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite was a Philadelphia-based melodic hardcore band consisting of drummer Dave Wagenschutz, guitarist Dan Yemin, and vocalist Jason Shevchuk, as well as original bassist Steve Farrell and eventual replacement Michael "Spider" Cotterman. The band put out two full-lengths before lead singer Jason Shevchuk left the band in order to finish film/editing school; the act subsequently disbanded.
Kid Elberfeld Norman Arthur "Kid" Elberfeld (April 13, 1875 in Pomeroy, Ohio - January 13, 1944 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies (1898), Cincinnati Reds (1899), Detroit Tigers (1901-1903), New York Highlanders (1903-1909), Washington Senators (1910-1911), and Brooklyn Robins (1914). Elberfled also managed the New York Highlanders.
Kid Eternity Kid Eternity is a comic book superhero who first premiered in Hit Comics #25, published by Quality Comics in December, 1942. The character - as well as all of Quality's intellectual properties were sold to DC Comics in 1956 (though most of the said properties lapsed into public domain by that point).
Kid Gravity Kid Gravity is a comic that regularly appears in Disney Adventures Magazine. It first appeared in 2002, and focuses on Kid Gravity, a future space adventurer that attends the Hawking School of Astronautics and Astrophysics.
Kid hack A kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th century in the United States. The word hack, meaning a horse-drawn cab, is short for hackney carriage.
Kid Chameleon (video game) Kid Chameleon is a video game released for the Mega Drive/Genesis. The premise of the game is that the main character "Kid Chameleon" can use masks to change into different characters in order to use different abilities.
Kid Charlemagne "Kid Charlemagne" is a song by the rock group Steely Dan, which was released as a single from their 1976 album The Royal Scam. It is notable as a fusion of a disco rhythm and jazz harmonies with rock and roll instrumentals and lyrical style.
Kid Icarus is a platforming video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in 1986 and the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. It is the first of only two games released in the Kid Icarus series.
Kid Kenobi Kid Kenobi is an Australian DJ who won People's Choice NSW DJ of the Year in 2001 at the Australian Dance Music Awards, and Technics Australian DJ of the Year in 2001-2005. He has been featured in FHM, Rolling Stone, Ralph and Urb and also writes for some music papers, and has done some music production, notably Ministry of Sound Australia's "A Clubbers Guide to the Breaks".
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World Kid Klown actually started life as a Mickey Mouse game in Japan. Released as part of the mostly Game Boy Mickey Mouse series, Mickey Mouse III: Dream Balloon was released in September 1992 by Kemco in Japan for the Famicom.
Kid Koala Eric San (born 1974 in Vancouver, Canada), who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Montreal, Quebec based DJ and turntablist. He is signed to the British Ninja Tune record label and also tours and performs with a jam band, Bullfrog.
Kid Mystic Kid Mystic is an action-adventure game with RPG qualities. It was originally released by eGames as Spooky Castle: The Adventures of Kid Mystic in 1999, but in 2004, Hamumu Software re-released it with new monsters, modes, and other improvements.
Kid Nichols Charles Augustus Nichols (September 14, 1869 - April 11, 1953), better known as Kid Nichols, was a Major League Baseball pitcher at the turn of the 20th century. Admired for his steadfast consistency year-in and year-out, Nichols amassed 361 wins over his 15 year career, the 7th highest total in major league history.
Kid Notorious Kid Notorious was a Flash-animated television series which aired for nine weeks (October 2003 – December 2003) on Comedy Central and is currently running on the UK version of Adult Swim. It starred Hollywood film producer Robert Evans as himself.
Kid Power Kid Power was a 17-episode, 30-minute animated cartoon series produced by Rankin-Bass/Videocraft Productions. It aired in the USA on ABC television Saturday mornings in the 1972-1973 season at 11:30 am (10:30 am Central and Pacific time), and Sunday mornings in the 1973-1974 season at 10:00 am (Eastern), which could be locally preempted.
Kid Rock Robert James Ritchie (born January 17 1971), best known as Kid Rock, is an American rapper, singer and rock musician most notable for his albums along side his rap/hard rock/country band, Twisted Brown Trucker.
Kid Speedy Kid Speedy is an Adobe Flash game published by the fictional company Videlectrix. It centers around a racer named Kid Speedy who tries to come in not last place in eight races in order to buy an operation for the orphanage (though this changes when the unlockable characters are used).
Kid Stuff Records Kid Stuff Records was a record label of the 1980s devoted to children's music. The label's albums (including both read-along records and full-length LPs) were mostly tie-ins for franchises such as Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, The Pink Panther Show, Fat Albert and Masters of the Universe, along with video games such as Pac-Man and Yars' Revenge.
Kid's Story Kid's Story is one of 9 short films in The Animatrix series that reveals more about the world of The Matrix. It was written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, with animation and production design by Studio 4°C, Tokyo.
Kidarites The Kidarite (Chinese: Ki-To-Lo) dynasty of the "Ki" clan led the Xionites and came from the proto-Mongolic Uar about whom it has been said that their legendary ancestor was Afrasiabus. If the Uar were not already present in Turpan, it is thought that when Liu Can was overthrown by Jin Zhun, and Shi Le established his state, many of the Uar around Pingyang (ĺąłé™˝, in modern Linfen, Shanxi) fled west along the Silk Road causing the Xionites to encroach upon Khorasan and the frontiers of the Kushan state around 320 AD.
Kidd antigen system The Kidd antigen system (also known as Jk antigen) is present on the membranes of red blood cells and the kidney and helps determine a person's blood type. The Jk antigen is found on a protein responsible for urea transport in the red blood cells and the kidney.
Kidd Brewer Stadium Kidd Brewer Stadium is Appalachian State University's (ASU) 16,650-seat multi-purpose stadium in Boone, North Carolina. It opened in 1962 and stands 3,333 feet above sea level, the highest collegiate football stadium east of the Mississippi River.
Kidd class destroyer The Kidd class destroyers (often called the "dead-admiral" class or the "Ayatollah" class) are a series of vessels based upon the hull of the Spruance class destroyers. These ships were originally ordered by the Shah of Iran for service in the Persian Gulf in an air defense role.
Kidd Field Kidd Field is an athletic facility used primarily by UTEP in El Paso, TX. Contstructed for its then-primary use as a football field in 1938, it was the site of the Sun Bowl until 1963 when Sun Bowl Stadium opened.
Kidd Kraddick Kidd Kraddick was born David Cradick in Tampa Bay, Florida, Kraddick is a popular radio personality based in Dallas, Texas that hosts the radio show, "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning". The show, co-hosted by Big Al Mack, Kellie Rasberry, JC, and Taylor is broadcast from 5-10am CST on weekday mornings and nationally syndicated in 49 markets.
Kidd Kraddick in the Morning Kidd Kraddick in the Morning is a syndicated radio morning show, airing 5am-10am CST, and primarily serving CHR/Top 40 formatted stations. Based in Las Colinas, Texas, the show has 51 affiliates, including flagship station KHKS in Dallas, Texas.
Kidd Video Kidd Video was a Saturday morning cartoon airing on NBC from 1984 to 1986. The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (played by live-action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called The Flipside.
Kidder Massacre The Kidder Massacre of 29 June, 1867 refers to the killing of a Lyman Kidder along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men. They were ordered to take dispatches from General William Sherman to General George A.
Kidderminster Rural District Kidderminster Rural District was a Rural District in Worcestershire, England until 1974 when it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the new Wyre Forest District, together with the boroughs of Kidderminster and Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn urban district.
Kidderminster Shuttle The Kidderminster Shuttle is a free weekly newspaper distributed to households in the Wyre Forest area of Worcestershire, England on a Thursday. In the Stourport area it is known as the Stourport News, and there is also a paid-for edition, the Kidderminster Times; all three papers have had identical editorial content since 2005, however the Stourport News had until April 2006 its own mast head front page.
Kidderpore Khidirpur or Kidderpore (Bengali: খিদিরপŕ§ŕ¦° khidirpur) is a major locality of the city of Kolkata. It is located in the central-west part of the city and is surrounded by the localities of Alipore in the east, Ekbalpore in the south, Hastings in the north, Garden Reach in the south-west and the Hooghly River in the west.
Kiddie rides Kiddie rides are coin-operated rides that appear in amusement parks, malls as well as outside supermarkets and large stores such as K-mart and Sav-On. Once the ride is activated with a coin, it moves, motion determined by ride type (miniature ferris wheel, miniature carousel, track ride or stationary platform ride).
Kiddieland Amusement Park Kiddieland Amusement Park is an amusement park in Chicagoland, located just west of Chicago at the corner of North Avenue and First Avenue in Melrose Park, Illinois. It is home to several classic rides including the Little Dipper roller coaster, which opened in 1950.
Kidding Aside Kidding Aside (The British Childfree Association) was founded in 2000 and exists in order to campaign for the rights of British childfree people. It is thought to be the first politically active childfree movement in the world and strives to introduce the childfree voice into relevant British political debate.
Kidding on the square To "kid on the square" is to be joking, but at the same time really mean it. In this context, the square means "genuine" or "true" in the same sense as fair and square and square deal and three square meals, with an origin in carpentry, where a square is a tool used to ensure that objects are perpendicular to one another.
Kiddush Kiddush (Hebrew: קידוש, literally, "sanctification") is the act of sanctifying Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) or a Jewish holiday through the act of reciting a blessing over a cup of kosher wine or kosher grape juice. Because the Torah speaks of Shabbat using the language Shamor v'Zakhor, keep it and remember it, Jews believe that Shabbat law consists both of what one may not do and what one must do in order to make the day special.
Kiddush club "Kiddush Club" is a slang term applied wherever an informal group of people leave a synagogue's sanctuary during Jewish services on Shabbat (Saturday) morning to congregate, make kiddush (frequently over liquor) and socialize. Participants often leave services during the Haftorah reading or the sermon.
Kiddush Hashem Kiddush hashem (Hebrew: קידוש השם; "sanctification of the name of God") is a precept of Judaism as expressed in the Torah for any Jew to: "To sanctify His Name" , and conversely not to bring dishonor or shame to God's name which is known as Chillul Hashem: "Not to profane His Name" . Thus any action by a Jew that brings honor, respect, and glory to God is considered to be a Kiddush Hashem, whereas any behavior or action that disgraces, harms or shames God and his Torah is regarded as a Chillul Hashem which means a "desecration of God".
Kiddy Kong Kiddy Kong (known as Dinky Kong in Japan: ă‡ă‚Łăłă‚㼠カăłă‚° DinkÄ« Kangu) was created by Rareware to be partnered up with his cousin Dixie Kong in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! for the game.
Kiddy-Widdy-Winkies "Kiddy-Widdy-Winkies" is an original song from the musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was first performed by actor, Richard O'Brien as "The Child Catcher" while he is in search of children wandering the streets of Vulgaria.
Kidepo Valley National Park Kidepo Valley National Park is a 1436 km2 national park in Karamoja region in northwest Uganda. Kidepo is rugged savannah, dominated by the 2750 m Mount Morungole and transected by the Rivers Kidepo and Narus .
Kidili In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Mandjindja), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth. The Wati-kutjara wounded him in battle, castrating him with a boomerang, and he died of his wounds in a waterhole.
Kidlat Tahimik Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik, is a movie director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated through their critiques of neocolonialism with the Third Cinema movement.
Kidlington Kidlington is a large village and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. It is located 10 km (6 miles) north of Oxford and 27 km (17 miles) south of Banbury, between the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal.
KidĹŤ Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken is an anime about Yuuko Kondo, Toshie Hijikata, and Kaoru Okita (respectively the daughters of Isami Kondo, Toshizo Hijikata, and Souji Okita), who are magical girl variants of Shinsengumi, a police force, and of Sakamoto Ryunosuke and his illegal companion, Nekomaru. Originally an OVA, it was also adapted into a television series.
Kidman Way The Kidman Way is an important highway in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, which is designated as State Highway 87. It is named after Sir Sidney Kidman, Australian cattle king and philantrophist who owned a large number of cattle stations along the path, many still owned by his descendants.
KidMark Kidmark is the name of the company that owns (or owned) the rights to the original 13 Dragon Ball episodes as well as the first movie, Curse of the Blood Rubies. These versions originally aired sometime between 1997 and 1998 because of the success of Dragon Ball Z.
Kidnapped (novel) Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges and Seamus Heaney.
Kidnapping Kidnapping, a word derived from kid = 'child' and nap (nab) = 'snatch', recorded since 1673, was originally used as a term for the practice of stealing children for use as servants or laborers in the American colonies. has come to mean any illegal capture or detention of a person or people against their will, regardless of age, as for ransom]; since 1768 the term abduction was also used in this sense.
Kidney development In humans, the metanephros (adult kidney) begins as an aggregate of mesenchymal cells that are detectable by the fifth gestational week as two small areas in the intermediate mesoderm close to the pelvic aorta. It is approximately at this time that the nephric duct produces a finger-like projection called the ureteric bud that has, or will soon invade, the aggregate of cells known as the metanephric mesenchyme.
Kidney dish A kidney dish is a kidney-shaped bowl used in medical and surgical wards to receive soiled dressings and other medical waste. Reusable dishes are usually made from bright stainless steel, while disposable ones may be made from paper pulp or plastic.
Kidney transplantation Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the recipient organ.
Kidneythieves Kidneythieves is an Industrial rock band led by Free Dominguez (vocals) and Bruce Somers (guitar/engineering). Along the way they picked up other band members such as Chris Schleyer (guitar), Christian Dorris (bass), and Sean Sellers (drum).
Kido Takayoshi ; 11 August 1833 - 26 May 1877), also referred as Kido KĹŤin was a Japanese statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. He used the alias Niibori Matsusuke (ć–°ĺ €ćťľčĽ” Niibori Matsusuke) when he worked against the shogun.
Kidon Kidon (Hebrew: "bayonet") is the name of a department within Israel's Mossad that is responsible for assassination and kidnapping. It was exposed by former Mossad katsa Victor Ostrovsky in his 1990 book By Way of Deception.
Kidou Keiji Jiban , translated into English as Mobile Detective Jiban, is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei, aired by TV Asahi in Japan from January 29, 1989 to January 28, 1990 with 52 episodes and a feature movie. It was also translated as Mobile Sheriff Jiban.
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna (ć¦ĺ ´ă®çµ†)is a Japanese arcade game set in the original Gundam universe (Mobile Suit Gundam). The game was created by Bandai Namco and Banpresto and was released late 2006.
Kidpower KIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER, International (also known as KIDPOWER) is a non-profit organization that teaches people of all ages and abilities safety, confidence, self-protection and advocacy skills. Educators, mental health professionals, and law enforcement agencies endorse the organization for its ability to provide participants with skills that help to prevent bullying, molestation, assaults and abductions.
Kidričevo Kidričevo is a town and a municipality in Slovenia, near Ptuj. It was formerly named Strnišče and renamed to its current name after World War II for Boris Kidrič, the first president of the Slovene government, while Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.
Kidrobot Kidrobot (intentionally spelled as one word rather than two) is a producer and retailer of designer toys founded in 2002 by Paul Budnitz. Kidrobot has a commercial website, as well as retail stores in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, specializing in artist-created toys and imports from Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe.
Kidron Valley The Kidron Valley (, Naḥal Qidron; also Qidron Valley; , Wadi al-Joz) is valley near Jerusalem which features significantly in the Bible. An ephemeral stream flows through it with occasional flash floods in the rainy winter months.
Kids & Teens TV Kids & Teens Television is a 24/7 children's channel exclusive to the Sky Angel satellite network and provides high-quality, entertaining and educational programming for all young ages, from toddlers to teens. Offering a variety of programming geared to each age group, KTV has cartoons, animated shows, talk shows, Christian music videos, dramas and musicals, as well as shows centered on creation science and social issues, health and fitness.
Kids (1970s magazine) Kids was a children's magazine published in the early 1970s (unrelated to the later Kids magazine of the 2000s). Its aim was to create a magazine which was, as much as possible, created and edited by children themselves, with minimal adult supervision.
Kids (2000s magazine) Kids: Fun Stuff To Do Together was a children's magazine published in the mid-2000s (unrelated to the earlier Kids magazine of the 1970s). Kids, which was originally launched in 2002 as Martha Stewart Kids,Write News (3 July 2006).
Kids Against Combs Kids Against Combs are a Brooklyn-based band who have been described as "indie agit-popsters" whose songs include "Capitalism Is Going To Break Your Heart" and "Fuck This, I'm Moving to Canada". The band is fronted by "Degal", a graduate student in political science at St.
Kids Against Hunger Feeding Children International is a nonprofit organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. This is being achieved through the Kids Against Hunger program.
Kids club A kids club is a kind of fan club, created not around a celebrity, but rather around a commercial entity that caters to children or families, or its mascot. Kids clubs serve as a promotional tool for such entities, trading discount coupons, exclusive items, a newsletter and other offerings in exchange for family goodwill and a measure of marketing and demographic information.
Kids Help Phone Kids Help Phone (in French Jeunesse, j'Ă©coute) is a Canadian organization which provides counselling and education for the benefit of children, which is free to use through it's toll-free phone counselling service for children and youth. The organization is a charity with no government assistance, and relies on donations.
Kids in the Way Kids in the Way is a Christian rock group from Indianapolis, Indiana. Their songs mainly have darker references, and talk about love, death, and political messages (in the song "Burt Rutan"), and often convey undertones of their collective faith as Christians.
Kids News Network Kids News Network, created 1991 in New York City by JoAnna Levenglick, is a TV news magazine show done by children that covers entertainment, pro sports, books, technology, style, and health. Celebrity interviews are one-on-one, and are done by two young reporters who have been doing interviews since 1993, and have traveled all over the United States doing movie junkets and being on the set of movies.
Kids Next Door Organization The Kids Next Door, or KND for short, is a worldwide organization of trained kids under the age of 13 who battle adult tyranny in the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door. The current age of the KND, the seventh age, was founded by Numbuh 0, after he discovered the legendary "Book of KND".
Kids Say the Darndest Things Kids Say the Darndest Things was a TV show hosted by Bill Cosby and co-hosted by Art Linkletter that aired on CBS in the late 1990s. It is based on Art Linkletter's TV show, Art Linkletter's House Party, which aired five days a week on CBS for more than twenty years.
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