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Karma massacre

The Karma massacre was the killing of roughly 150 civilians, mostly Mossi villagers, in Karma village in northern Burkina Faso on April 20, 2023, during the jihadist insurgency.

Karma Police

Karma Police is a 1997 Radiohead song from OK Computer, released 25 August 1997 as its second single, reaching UK No. 8; titled after a band tour catchphrase, with a Jonathan Glazer video of a killer 1976 Chrysler.

Karma Revero

The Karma Revero, including the Revero GT variant, is a luxury extended-range electric sports sedan produced by Karma Automotive of Irvine, California from 2016 until 2025.

Karma Sawyer

Karma Sawyer is an engineer in building decarbonization and energy efficiency who has led the Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2021.

Karma Ventures

Karma Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2016 by Tommi Uhari, Margus Uudam, and Kristjan Laanemaa to invest in early-stage European deep-tech startups.

Karma yoga (कर्म योग)

Karma yoga (कर्म योग), the yoga of action, is the Bhagavad Gita's path of selfless, desireless action (nishkama karma) performed without attachment to results, alongside jnana and bhakti yoga.

Karma's World

Karma's World, also known as Мир Кармы in Russian, is a Netflix animated series created by Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, inspired by his daughter Karma; 4 seasons, 40 episodes, aired October 2021 to September 2022.

Karman Holdings

Karman Holdings, doing business as Karman Space & Defense, is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer in Huntington Beach, California, supplying missile, hypersonic, and space launch programs.

Kármán line

The Kármán line, also known as the Von Kármán line or Karman limit, is the conventional boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, set at 100 kilometers altitude.

Kármán vortex street

The Kármán vortex street, or von Kármán vortex street, is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices forming in the wake of a bluff body in fluid flow.

Kármán–Howarth equation

The Kármán–Howarth equation is an exact evolution equation, derived from the Navier–Stokes equations, for two-point velocity correlations in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, published by Theodore von Kármán and Leslie Howarth in 1938.

Karmanasa River

Karmanasa River (कर्मनाशा नदी, Karamnasa), a 192-km Ganga tributary rising in Bihar's Kaimur hills at 350 m, forming the Bihar–Uttar Pradesh boundary and joining the Ganga near Chausa; name means 'destroyer of religious merit.'

Karmann

Karmann, formally Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, was a German coachbuilder and contract vehicle manufacturer in Osnabrück known for the Karmann Ghia and the VW Beetle Cabriolet; it went insolvent in 2009.

Karmanovskaya GRES power plant

Karmanovskaya GRES (Кармановская ГРЭС) is a condensing thermal power plant in Neftekamsk, Bashkortostan, Russia, and the largest power station in the region, with about 1,871 MW capacity.

Karmayogi

Karmayogi (कर्मयोगी) is a Sanskrit-derived term for one who practices karma yoga, the Bhagavad Gita's discipline of dutiful action without attachment to results, later an honorific for figures like Sane Guruji.

Karmen Petrovic

Karmen Petrovic, real name Monika Klisara (born 1995, Zenica, Bosnia), is a Bosnian-Canadian WWE NXT wrestler and former karate champion (3rd Dan) now in AAA's Los Perros del Mal.

Karmin

Karmin: American pop-hip-hop duo of Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan (Berklee, 2010), famed for viral covers like "Look at Me Now," Epic Records releases Hello (2012) and Pulses (2014), and Leo Rising (2016).

Karmma Calling

Karmma Calling (कर्मा कॉलिंग) is a 2024 Hindi Disney+ Hotstar drama, Ruchi Narain's adaptation of the American series Revenge, starring Raveena Tandon as Alibaug socialite Indrani Kothari and Namrata Sheth as avenger Karma Talwar, in seven episodes.

Karmon

Karmon is a Dutch house and techno producer and DJ associated with Solomun's Hamburg label Diynamic since 2012, with early tracks 'Wowshit' and the 'Feel It' EP.

Karmøy (aluminium smelter)

Hydro Karmøy is a primary aluminum smelter on the island of Karmøy in Rogaland, Norway, owned by Hydro, producing about 270,000 tonnes of aluminum a year since 1967.

Karn Sangini (कर्ण संगिनी)

Karn Sangini (कर्ण संगिनी), also written Karnsangini, is a Star Plus Hindi mythological romance serial (2018–2019, 90 episodes) adapted from Kavita Kané's novel Karna's Wife, starring Tejasswi Prakash as Uruvi and Aashim Gulati as Karn.

Karna

Karna, also rendered Karnadeva, was a Chaulukya (Solanki) king of Gujarat who reigned from about 1065 to 1093, remembered as the founder of Karnavati, the settlement that grew into Ahmedabad.

Karna (कर्णः)

Karna (कर्णः, Karṇa) is the Mahabharata's son of Surya and Kunti, raised by the charioteer Adhiratha, loyal to Duryodhana, and Kaurava commander on the war's sixteenth day; his kavaca-kundala, curses, and modern heroic retellings distinguish him from every other epic figure.

Karnabhara

Karnabhara (कर्णभारम्, "Karna's burden") is a Sanskrit one-act play attributed to the early dramatist Bhāsa, showing Karna giving away his divine armor and earrings to a disguised Indra before battle.

Karnak

Karnak (Ipet-Sut), vast ancient Egyptian temple complex at Thebes, modern Luxor, dedicated to Amun-Ra; 134-column hypostyle hall, Opet Festival avenue to Luxor Temple, CFEETK-managed UNESCO site.

Karnak (comics)

Karnak (Karnak Mander-Azur) is a Marvel Comics Inhuman, a Lee-Kirby creation first seen in Fantastic Four #45 (1965); unlike other Inhumans he skipped Terrigenesis and instead finds flaws in anything, as in the Warren Ellis series and Marvel's Inhumans TV show (Ken Leung).

Karnak Cachette

The Karnak Cachette, or Cachette court, is a huge deposit of statues at Karnak found by Georges Legrain in 1903, the largest from a single context.

Karnak Café

Karnak Café (Arabic: الكرنك, al-Karnak) is a novella by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, published in 1974, that exposes torture in the prisons of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt.

Karnak king list

The Karnak king list, or Karnak Tablet, is a list of 61 royal cartouches carved under Thutmose III at Karnak and now kept in the Louvre.

Karnak temple in the Middle Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, Thebes, began around 2150 BC; Senusret I built a large limestone temple, and the White Chapel survives.