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Katakana
Katakana (カタカナ, 片仮名) is one of Japanese's two kana syllabaries, created in the 9th century from kanji fragments by Buddhist scholars. 46 basic characters; used for loanwords, foreign names, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and Ainu.
Katakekaumene
Katakekaumene, also known as Catacecaumene, is the volcanic district of northeastern Lydia in western Anatolia, around modern Kula, named by Strabo for its black, ash-covered terrain.
Kataklysm
Kataklysm, a Canadian death metal band from Montreal formed in 1991, known as Northern Hyperblast pioneers, led by Maurizio Iacono and J-F Dagenais, with fifteen albums from Sorcery (1995) to Goliath (2023) on Nuclear Blast.
Katalin Juhasz Nagy
Katalin Juhasz Nagy (Etelka Katalin Juhász-Nagy, born 24 November 1932) is a Hungarian foil fencer, Olympic team gold medalist at Tokyo 1964 and silver medalist at Rome 1960, and three-time world team champion (1959, 1962, 1967).
Katalin Karikó
Katalin Karikó (Karikó Katalin), Hungarian-American biochemist born 1955 in Szolnok; with Drew Weissman showed nucleoside-modified mRNA evades immune detection, enabling BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Katalin Kovacs
Katalin Kovács (Kovács Katalin), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1976 in Budapest; three Olympic golds and five silvers (2000-2012) and a record 31 World Championship titles, later heading her namesake Sukoró canoe academy.
Katalin Novák
Katalin Novák (Katalin Éva Veresné Novák), Hungarian Fidesz politician, President of Hungary 2022-2024, the first woman and youngest holder of the office; resigned in February 2024 over the pardoning of a child abuse cover-up convict.
Katalin Suszták
Katalin Suszták, also written Katalin Susztak, is a Hungarian-born American physician-scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for kidney disease genetics, the first kidney cell atlas, and APOL1 research.
Katalin Szoke
Katalin Szőke (Kató Szőke, Katherine Domyan, 1935–2017), Hungarian swimmer; double 1952 Helsinki Olympic champion (100 m freestyle, 4×100 m relay), 1954 European champion, four relay world records; defected to the USA after 1956.
Katamarayudu
Katamarayudu (కాటమరాయుడు), 2017 Telugu action film, official remake of Tamil Veeram, directed by Dolly, starring Pawan Kalyan and Shruti Haasan, released 24 March 2017 by Northstar Entertainment.
Katamari
Katamari (Katamari Damacy, 塊魂) is Bandai Namco's ball-rolling game series created by Keita Takahashi, debuting on PS2 in 2004; players roll sticky balls that grow by collecting smaller objects. Once Upon A KATAMARI (2025) is the first new entry in 14 years.
Katamari Damacy
Katamari Damacy (塊魂) is a 2004 Namco PlayStation 2 puzzle-action game by Keita Takahashi in which the Prince of All Cosmos rolls a sticky katamari ball, growing from thumbtacks to stars; remastered as REROLL in 2018.
Katana
The katana (刀), also called uchi-gatana, is a Japanese sword with a curved, single-edged blade worn edge-up, the samurai's standard long sword from the late 15th century.
Katana (DC Comics)
Katana (DC Comics): Tatsu Yamashiro, a DC Comics swordswoman created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in 1983, wielding the Soultaker Sword that traps souls, including her husband Maseo's; member of the Outsiders, Suicide Squad, and Birds of Prey.
Katana Engine
Katana Engine is a proprietary game engine developed in-house by Koei Tecmo, used in most of the company's titles, including Dynasty Warriors 9 and Rise of the Ronin.
Katana MRP
Katana MRP, legally Katana Technologies OÜ, is a cloud inventory and production management software company founded in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2017 by Kristjan Vilosius and Priit Kaasik for small and medium-sized manufacturers.
Katanagari
Katanagari (刀狩, "sword hunt") was a three-article 1588 edict by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordering Japanese peasants to surrender swords and other weapons, which were melted down for the Great Buddha in Kyoto.
Katanagatari (刀語)
Katanagatari (刀語, Sword Tale) is Nisio Isin's 12-volume 2007 Kodansha Box light novel series, one volume monthly, following swordless swordsman Shichika and strategist Togame hunting twelve Deviant Blades in Edo-era Japan; adapted as a 2010 White Fox monthly anime and Vertical omnibus edition.
Katanga Plateau
Katanga Plateau, high plateau (914–1,829 m) in southeastern DR Congo bounding the Congo Basin; underlain by the Katanga Supergroup and hosting the copper-cobalt Central African Copperbelt.
Katanga Province
Katanga Province, former southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and heart of the Central African Copperbelt; divided on 16 July 2015 into Haut-Katanga, Lualaba, Haut-Lomami, and Tanganyika.
Katanin
Katanin (p60/p80, KATNA1/KATNB1) is an ATP-dependent microtubule-severing AAA+ ATPase heterodimer purified from sea urchin eggs in 1993, named after the Japanese word for sword, acting in spindle assembly, neurodevelopment, and plant phototropism.
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Katara is the Southern Water Tribe waterbender in Avatar: The Last Airbender who frees Aang from the iceberg, trains under Master Pakku, learns bloodbending from Hama, and later leads its outlawing; played by Kiawentiio in Netflix's live-action series.
Katara Prize for Arabic Novel
The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel (جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية) is an annual literary prize for Arabic novels, launched by the Cultural Village Foundation in Doha, Qatar, in 2014.
Katarina Barley
Katarina Barley, born 1968 in Köln, is a German Social Democratic politician serving in the European Parliament since 2019 and as one of its Vice-Presidents since July 2024.
Katarina Frostenson
Katarina Frostenson (Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault, born 1953) is a Swedish poet and playwright, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019, who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2016.
Katarina Grujić
Katarina Grujić (Катарина Грујић) is a Serbian pop-folk singer born in Belgrade in 1992, an eighth-place Zvezde Granda finalist in 2013 whose debut album Jača doza mene came in 2018.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Katarina Johnson-Thompson (KJT), born 1993 in Liverpool, is a British heptathlete, two-time world champion (2019 Doha, 2023 Budapest), British record holder at 6,981 points, and Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist.
Katarina Waters
Katarina Leigh Waters, also known as Katie Lea Burchill (WWE), Winter (TNA/Impact), and Nikita (FWA), is a German-born English retired professional wrestler, two-time OVW Women's Champion, and former TNA Knockouts Champion turned actress and filmmaker.
Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt, born 1965 in Staaken, East Germany, is a German figure skater with Olympic golds 1984 and 1988, four World and six European titles, 1994 comeback, Emmy winner, Hall of Famer.
Katarismo
Katarismo is a Bolivian political movement of the late twentieth century, active from about 1960 to 1995, that paid homage to the eighteenth-century Aymara rebel leader Túpac Katari.