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Kastell Op de Hoge Woerd
Castellum Hoge Woerd (Kastell Op de Hoge Woerd) is a 2015 full-scale reconstruction of a Roman fort at De Meern, Utrecht, on the Lower German Limes, housing Museum Hoge Woerd and the Roman ship De Meern 1.
Kasthaneia
Kasthaneia (Κασθαναία, Casthanaea), ancient Magnesian polis in Thessaly at modern Keramidi, mentioned by Herodotus 7.188 for the storm on Xerxes' fleet; fortified 4th-century BC acropolis, temple of Aphrodite Casthanitis.
Kasthooriman (കസ്തൂരിമാൻ) (TV series)
Kasthooriman (കസ്തൂരിമാൻ, Musk Deer) is an Asianet Malayalam TV serial that ran December 11, 2017 to April 2021, over 900 episodes, starring Sreeram Ramachandran as Jeeva and Rebecca Santhosh as Kavya; not the 2003 Lohithadas film of the same name.
Kastiatsi Dorsa
Kastiatsi Dorsa is a 1,200-km-wide dorsum (ridge) on Venus at 53 S, 245 E, named from the Acoma word for rainbow, IAU-approved 1997, forming an arch with Tsovinar Dorsa over northern Helen Planitia.
Kästner (lunar crater)
Kästner is a 116.07-km-wide complex impact crater on the Moon's eastern nearside at 6.90°S, 78.94°E, IAU-approved in 1961 and named for German mathematician Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719-1800).
Kastoria Aquarium
Kastoria Aquarium (Greek: Ενυδρείο Καστοριάς), named for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, is a freshwater aquarium in Kastoria, Greece, opened in 2012 and billed as the Balkans' first.
Kastri (Syros)
Kastri (Καστρί), Syros: fortified Early Cycladic IIIA hilltop settlement (2300–2000 BC), type site of the Kastri group pottery, with three fortification walls, metallurgy, and the nearby Chalandriani cemetery of about 700 graves.
Kastri 2
Kastri 2 (Καστρί) is the Pleiades gazetteer designation for a Late Minoan settlement west of Apodoulou, Rethymno, Crete, with Protopalatial buildings, Late Minoan tholos tombs, and a nearby Early Christian basilica.
Kastrioti
Kastrioti (KS Kastrioti Krujë), Albanian football club from Krujë founded 1926, named for Skanderbeg's family. Plays in Kategoria e Parë at Stadiumi Redi Maloku; Superliga 2008–2013, 4th in 2012.
Kasturba Gandhi (કસ્તૂરબા મોહનદાસ ગાંધી)
Kasturba Gandhi (કસ્તૂરબા મોહનદાસ ગાંધી), born Kastur Kapadia, called Ba, was an Indian activist, wife of Mahatma Gandhi, jailed in South Africa 1913 and India 1932–1944, who led women's satyagraha and died at Aga Khan Palace in 1944.
Kasturi (Kannada journal)
Kasturi (ಕಸ್ತೂರಿ) is a Kannada-language monthly family magazine from Karnataka, India, published by the Loka Shikshana Trust since 1956, known for editor Pavem's etymology column Padaartha Chintamani.
Kasturi bhairava rasa
Kasturi bhairava rasa (Brihat kastūrībhairava rasa) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral, mortar-ground (kharaliya) formulation with musk as main ingredient, made in Swalpa, Madhyama, and Brihat variants, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India at 125 mg and used chiefly for fever.
Kasturi Haldar
Kasturi Haldar is an American malaria and rare-disease researcher at the University of Notre Dame who showed how the malaria parasite develops resistance to artemisinin drugs.
Kasturyadi gutika (afi afi-kasturyadigutikavayugutika)
Kasturyadi gutika (कस्तूर्यादि गुटिका), AFI000402, is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pill from Sahasrayoga Gutikaprakarana 8, dose 125 mg, 32 ingredients including musk and purified mercury, used for vata disorders, fever, and dyspnoea.
Kastus Kalinouski
Kastus Kalinouski (Кастусь Каліноўскі, 1838–1864) was a revolutionary who led the 1863 uprising in Belarus and Lithuania, published the first Belarusian-language newspaper, and was hanged in Vilnius.
Kasuga Gongen Genki-e
Kasuga Gongen Genki-e (春日権現験記, also read Kasuga Gongen Reigenki) is a set of twenty illustrated handscrolls of 1309 depicting miracles of the Kasuga deities of Nara.
Kasuga no Tsubone
Kasuga no Tsubone, born Fuku, was a Japanese noblewoman of the early Edo period, wet nurse of the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu and organizer of the Ōoku.
Kasuga-taisha (春日大社)
Kasuga-taisha (春日大社), also called Kasuga shrine, is a major Shinto shrine in Nara, Japan, founded around 768 as the ancestral shrine of the Fujiwara clan.
Kasugai
Kasugai (春日井市, Kasugai-shi) is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, northeast of Nagoya. Founded June 1, 1943; area 92.78 km²; population about 303,000; known for Kōzōji New Town and seed-grown cactus.
Kasugamycin
Kasugamycin (KSM, Kasmin), an aminoglycoside antibiotic from Streptomyces kasugaensis discovered in 1965 by Umezawa in Nara, Japan; a rice-blast fungicide and bactericide binding the 30S ribosome, never used in human medicine.
Kasukabe
Kasukabe (春日部市) is a city in eastern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, formed in 2005 by merging Kasukabe City and Shobu Town; population about 228,600. Known for the Edo-period Nikko Kaido post station Kasukabe-juku, the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, and Crayon Shin-chan.
Kasulu
Kasulu, also spelled Kassulo or Kasulo, is a town and district center in Kigoma Region, western Tanzania; 2022 census population 238,321, the region's largest town, with an agriculture-based economy and a major new water project.
Kasumi (Dead or Alive)
Kasumi (霞) is the lead kunoichi of Team NINJA's Dead or Alive fighting series since 1996; sister of Hayate, half-sister of Ayane; fights with Mugen Tenshin Tenjin-mon ninjutsu and the Hoshinpo teleport stance; voiced by Houko Kuwashima; has a clone, Phase 4, in DOA6.
Kasumi Arimura (有村 架純)
Kasumi Arimura (有村架純), born 1993 in Itami, Hyogo, is a Japanese actress with FLaMme known for Amachan, Hiyokko, Flying Colors, Rurouni Kenshin, Call Me Chihiro, and Netflix's Beyond Goodbye.
Kasumi Yoshizawa
Kasumi Yoshizawa, also known as Sumire Yoshizawa, is a fictional character in Persona 5 Royal: an award-winning gymnast at Shujin Academy who joins the Phantom Thieves as Violet.
Kasumi-1
Kasumi-1 (CVCL_0589, ATCC CRL-2724) is a human acute myeloid leukemia cell line established in 1989 from a 7-year-old boy, the first AML line with t(8;21), carrying RUNX1-RUNX1T1 and KIT N822K mutations.
Kasungu District
Kasungu District, Central Region, Malawi; also Kasungu Municipality and Kasungu National Park. Agricultural district of 842,953 people (2018), 7,878 sq km, Zambia border, tobacco farming, Kamuzu Academy.
Kasur
Kasur (ਕ਼ਸੂਰ) was a fortified Pathan principality in the Punjab, with territory on both sides of the Satluj, that resisted Sikh attacks until Ranjit Singh conquered it in 1807.
Kaszek
Kaszek is a Latin American early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by MercadoLibre veterans Hernán Kazah and Nicolás Szekasy, known for backing Nubank and raising more than $2 billion.
Kaszek Ventures
Kaszek Ventures is a Latin America-focused venture capital firm founded in 2011 by MercadoLibre executives Hernán Kazah and Nicolás Szekásy, headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, with over $2 billion raised across seven funds.