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Karting center
Картинг центр (karting center, kartodrom) is a rental go-kart venue with indoor or outdoor tracks, kart classes from 4.5 to 13 hp, 10-minute sessions, safety briefings, and age/height limits, common across Russia, Ukraine, and neighboring countries.
Karting World Championship
Karting World Championship: FIA world title for kart racing, first held 1964 in Rome (Guido Sala). Now three single-event FIA Karting world championships per year in OK, OK-Junior and KZ classes; distinct from the separate KWC series since 2005.
Kartini
Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904), Javanese noblewoman of Jepara in the Dutch East Indies, feminist and national hero of Indonesia whose Dutch-language letters, published as Door Duisternis tot Licht (1911), championed women's education and emancipation; commemorated annually on 21 April as Kartini Day.
Kartir
Kartir (کرتیر) was the Zoroastrian high priest of the early Sasanian empire, active from about 260 to 293 CE, whose own rock inscriptions are the main record of his career.
Kartlis Tskhovreba
Kartlis Tskhovreba (ქართლის ცხოვრება, "Life of Kartli"), also known as The Georgian Chronicles, is a collection of Old Georgian historical writings and the principal source for feudal Georgia's history.
Kartvelian languages
Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages: an independent Caucasus family of Georgian, Svan, Megrelian, and Laz, with a Georgian literary tradition from the 5th century AD and a Colchis-area homeland per 2023 Bayesian phylogenetics.
Karuba
Karuba is a 2015 HABA tile-laying race game by Rüdiger Dorn for 2-4 players, ages 8+, about 40 minutes; Spiel des Jahres 2016 nominee, distinct from Knizia's Kariba card game.
Karuê Sell
Karuê Sell (born 1993, Jaraguá do Sul) is a Brazilian ATP tennis player, career-high No. 258 (2024), six ITF/Challenger titles, UCLA alum, and creator of the My Tennis HQ YouTube coaching channel.
Karum
A kārum, originally meaning quay or harbor, was the merchant district and trading colony that Assyrian traders from Assur kept in Anatolian cities from about 2000 to 1750 BCE.
Karun
Karun, stage name of Karungari Mungai, is a Kenyan singer-songwriter in Nairobi known for alternative R&B, who broke out with Camp Mulla and later released the EP Eternal in 2026.
Karun Chandhok
Karun Chandhok (கருண் சந்தோக்), born 1984 in Madras, is an Indian former racing driver, the second Indian in Formula 1 after Narain Karthikeyan, racing for HRT in 2010 and Team Lotus in 2011, now a Sky Sports F1 analyst and Williams heritage driver.
Karun III hydroelectric plant
Karun III hydroelectric plant (نیروگاه برق آبی کارون ۳), also known as Karun 3 Dam, is a 2,000 MW hydroelectric plant on the Karun River in Khuzestan Province, Iran.
Karun Kuh
Karun Kuh, also known as Karun Koh, is the culminating summit of the Karun Kuh group of the Ghujerab Mountains in Pakistan's northern Karakoram, first ascended in 1984 by an Austrian expedition.
Karun Nair
Karun Kaladharan Nair (born 1991, Jodhpur) is an Indian right-handed batsman, the second Indian to score a Test triple-century (303 vs England, 2016); Vidarbha's 2024-25 Ranji-winning captain, recalled to India's Test team in 2025.
Karuna
Karuna (കരുണ) is a khandakavya, or short narrative epic, in Malayalam by the poet N. Kumaran Asan, published in 1923 and retelling a Buddhist story.
Karunakara Tondaiman
Karunakara Tondaiman was a Pallava chief who served Kulottunga Chola I as commander and minister, leading the Chola army to victory over Kalinga in the campaign praised in Jayamkondar's Kalingattupparani.
Karunanidhi family
The Karunanidhi family, Tamil Nadu's DMK first family (கருணாநிதி குடும்பம்): patriarch M. Karunanidhi, five-term Chief Minister; son M.K. Stalin now CM; Maran branch owns Sun Network; marked by succession disputes and media empire.
Karunaratne Abeysekera
Karunaratne Abeysekera (කරුණාරත්න අබේසේකර), known to listeners as Karu Aiya, was a Sri Lankan Sinhala broadcaster and lyricist who joined Radio Ceylon in 1950, became the first Sinhala cricket commentator, and wrote over 2,000 songs.
Karunas
Karunas (Karunanidhi Sethu, born 1970) is a Tamil film actor, comedian, gaana singer, music composer, and politician; founder of Mukkulathor Pulipadai, MLA for Tiruvadanai 2016 on the AIADMK ticket, and father of director Ken Karunas.
Karunesh Ganguly
Karunesh Ganguly is an American physician-scientist and neurologist, Professor of Neurology at UCSF and a San Francisco VA researcher, known for brain-machine interfaces that restore speech to paralyzed patients.
Karuppan (கருப்பன்)
Karuppan (கருப்பன்) is a 2017 Tamil action drama directed by R. Panneerselvam, starring Vijay Sethupathi, Tanya Ravichandran, and Bobby Simha, built around a jallikattu bull-taming marriage contest; distinct from the 2026 Suriya film Karuppu.
Karuppu (கருப்பு) (film)
Karuppu (கருப்பு), also known as Suriya 45, is a 2026 Tamil action film directed by RJ Balaji, in which the deity Karuppasamy possesses a lawyer to fight judicial corruption; it became the highest-grossing Tamil film of 2026.
Karuppu (கருப்பு) (soundtrack)
Karuppu (கருப்பு) soundtrack: 2026 Tamil film album by Sai Abhyankkar for RJ Balaji's Suriya film, 9 tracks, 29 minutes, Think Music, released May 25, 2026.
Karuppu Pulsar
Karuppu Pulsar (கருப்பு பல்சர்), 2026 Tamil supernatural action thriller, Murali Krish's debut, starring V R Dinesh in dual roles, jallikattu and a haunted black Pulsar bike; distinct from Suriya's Karuppu.
Karur
Karur (Karuvoor, Vanji) is an ancient town on the Amaravathi river in Tamil Nadu, capital of the early Sangam-age Chera kings, now the headquarters of Karur district (formed 1995) and a major home-textile export cluster.
Karuri, Kiambu County
Karuri is a town and municipality in Kiambu County, Kenya, about 20 km northwest of Nairobi, serving as the headquarters of Kiambaa Sub-County and named after Chief Karuri wa Gakure.
Karuri, Murang'A
Karuri, Murang'A is a populated place in Murang'a County, Kenya, recorded with 21,476 residents (2013). Distinct from the larger Karuri municipality in Kiambu County; both named for Chief Karuri wa Gakure.
Karus Kahaniec
Karus Kahaniec (Belarusian: Карусь Каганец), pen name of Kazimir Kastravitski (1868–1918), was a Belarusian poet, dramatist, and author of the first Belarusian primer, and a relative of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, or KKT conditions, are first-order necessary conditions for a local optimum of a nonlinear program with equality and inequality constraints, published by Kuhn and Tucker in 1951.
Karuta
Karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta) is the Japanese family of card-matching games; competitive karuta is a one-on-one sport using the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu's 100 poem cards, with 25-card territories, kimari-ji memorization, A–E kyū ranks, and Meijin and Queen titles at Omi Jingu.