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Karrani annexation of Bengal
The Karrani annexation of Bengal (কররানী বংশের বাংলা দখল) was the seizure of the Bengal Sultanate by the Afghan Karrani brothers Taj Khan and Sulaiman Karrani in 1563 or 1564.
Karrar (UCAV)
Karrar is an Iranian jet-powered drone built by HESA and unveiled in 2010, used mainly as a target drone and later adapted for bombing and attack roles.
Karrar (كرار) (tank)
The Karrar (کرار), or Karrar MBT, is an Iranian main battle tank unveiled in 2017, assessed by analysts as an extensively upgraded T-72 with a new turret.
Karratha Gas Plant
The Karratha Gas Plant is an onshore gas processing facility on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia, operated by Woodside Energy and producing LNG since 1989.
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords
Karrebæk, Dybso and Avno Fjords (Karrebæk, Dybsø og Avnø Fjorde) are shallow coastal lagoons and fjords on southwestern Zealand, Denmark, a Ramsar site since 1977, important for wintering waterbirds and breeding gray seals.
Karren
Karren, also known as lapies, are small-scale dissolution landforms, usually under 10 m, carved into limestone and other soluble rocks, and common across karst terrains.
Karren Brady
Karren Brady, Baroness Brady, is an English business executive who ran Birmingham City at 23, served as West Ham United's vice-chairman until 2026, and appears on The Apprentice.
Karren Karagulian (Կարեն Карагулян)
Karren Karagulian (Կարեն Կարագուլյան), born 1969 in Yerevan, is an Armenian-American actor, writer, and producer who has appeared in every Sean Baker film from Four Letter Words (2000) to Anora (2024), playing Razmik in Tangerine and Toros in Anora.
Karrine Steffans
Karrine Steffans, pen name of Elisabeth Ovesen (born 1978, St. Thomas), is a former hip-hop video dancer nicknamed Superhead whose 2005 New York Times bestselling memoir Confessions of a Video Vixen named celebrity lovers; she retired the pen name in 2015.
Karrion Kross
Karrion Kross (real name Kevin Kesar; also Killer Kross) is an American professional wrestler, two-time NXT Champion, former Raw/SmackDown star whose WWE contracts with Scarlett expired August 10, 2025, now MLW World Heavyweight Champion.
Karrueche Tran
Karrueche Tran, American actress and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, played Virginia on Claws and Vivian Johnson on The Bay; three Daytime Emmys, first AAPI lead-actress winner, jewelry line Kae by Karrueche.
Kars
Kars is a city and province in northeastern Turkey on a 2,000 m volcanic plateau near the Armenian and Georgian borders. Ruled by the Seljuks, Ottomans, and Russia (1878-1918), it joined Turkey in 1920 under Kazım Karabekir.
Kars Oblast
Kars Oblast (Карсская область) was a province of the Russian Empire in the South Caucasus, created in 1878 from Ottoman territory and held until 1918, with its capital at Kars.
Kars Province
Kars Province (Kars ili), a province of Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, bordering Armenia; capital Kars. Population 268,991 (2025), GDP per capita 42% of EU average, ranked 67th of 81 Turkish provinces in development.
KARS1
KARS1 (also KARS, KRS) is the human gene at 16q23.1 encoding lysyl-tRNA synthetase, a class II homodimeric enzyme charging tRNA-Lys; one bifunctional gene yields both cytosolic and mitochondrial isoforms, with variants causing DFNB89 hearing loss, CMT, and leukodystrophy.
Kars4Kids
Kars4Kids (Kars 4 Kids Inc., formerly Joy for Our Youth) is a Lakewood, New Jersey 501(c)(3) Jewish charity funding Oorah via car donations and its famous jingle; it drew fines, a D CharityWatch rating, and a 2026 California false-advertising injunction, stayed on appeal.
Karsan
Karsan is a Turkish commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in 1966 in Bursa, Turkey, today known for its electric minibuses and buses, including the e-JEST and e-ATAK.
Karsanbhai Patel
Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel is an Indian first-generation founder who started Nirma detergent in 1969 in Ahmedabad, sparking a price war with Unilever, and received the Padma Shri in 2010.
Kārśandās Mūljī
Kārśandās Mūljī (Karsandas Mulji) was a Gujarati journalist and social reformer of Bombay, born in 1832, who edited Satya Prakash and won the 1862 Maharaj Libel Case.
Karsch-Neugebauer syndrome
Karsch-Neugebauer syndrome, also called split hand/split foot-nystagmus syndrome (OMIM 183800), is a rare autosomal dominant congenital disorder combining ectrodactyly with congenital nystagmus; its gene is unknown.
Karsen Barnhart
Karsen Barnhart (born 2001) is an American football offensive guard from Paw Paw, Michigan; a Michigan Wolverines lineman on the 2023 national championship team, later an undrafted free agent with the Chargers, Broncos, Buccaneers, and Packers practice squads.
Karshapana
Karshapana (कार्षापण) was the punch-marked silver coinage of early India, first issued by janapadas and later by Magadha and the Mauryans from about the 6th century BC.
Karson Sharar
Karson Sharar (born 2003) is an NFL inside linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals, drafted 183rd overall in 2026 out of Iowa, a 2025 honorable mention All-Big Ten linebacker and special teams standout.
Karst
Karst is a landscape and topography formed when water dissolves soluble rocks such as limestone and dolomite, producing sinkholes, caves, springs, and underground drainage; it covers about 10 percent of Earth's land surface.
Karst flow system
A karst flow system, also called a springshed, is the drainage area that feeds water through dissolved conduits in soluble rock and discharges it at springs.
Karst hydrology
Karst hydrology is the study of water movement through karst, landscapes formed in soluble limestone and dolomite, which supply drinking water to a quarter of the world.
Karst Plateau
Karst plateau: elevated soluble-rock terrain (Kras/Carso between Slovenia and Trieste, the type locality) shaped by dissolution, with sinkholes, caves, sinking streams, large springs, scarce surface water, and distinctive land-use constraints.
Karst regions of the world
Karst regions of the world: landscapes and aquifers dissolved from limestone and dolomite, covering about 15% of land, concentrated in South China, the Dinaric Karst, and the Caribbean, supplying water to nearly 20% of people.
Karst spring
Karst spring: a concentrated groundwater discharge point in soluble rock (limestone, dolomite, gypsum), also called vauclusian spring or resurgence. Conduits carry 75-96% of flow; springs supply water across karst regions covering ~15% of land.
Karst Underwater Research
Karst Underwater Research is an American volunteer nonprofit that explores, maps, and documents Florida's underwater caves and springs, begun in 1993 as the Sulphur Springs diving project in Tampa.