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Kauffman Stadium
Kauffman Stadium (The K), formerly Royals Stadium, is the Kansas City Royals' MLB ballpark in the Truman Sports Complex, opened April 10, 1973, renamed for Ewing Kauffman in 1993, famed for its 322-foot fountains.
Kaufland
Kaufland, a German hypermarket chain of Schwarz Group (which also owns Lidl), headquartered in Neckarsulm; over 1,600 stores in 8 countries, 36.7 billion euros revenue in fiscal 2025, kaufland.de marketplace in 9 countries.
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC) is a standardized test of cognitive ability for children ages 3 to 18, first published in 1983 and revised in 2004.
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test
The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT) is a brief intelligence test measuring verbal and nonverbal ability in about 20 minutes, used for screening rather than diagnosis.
Kaufman County
Kaufman County, Texas: county established 1848 from Henderson County, named for David Spangler Kaufman; seat at Kaufman since 1851. Fastest-growing Texas county, population 209,235 (2025), up 44% since 2020, east of Dallas on I-20.
Kaufmann–Bucherer–Neumann experiments
The Kaufmann–Bucherer–Neumann experiments, performed between 1901 and 1916 by Walter Kaufmann, Alfred Bucherer, and Günther Neumann, were electron-deflection measurements testing how an electron's mass depends on velocity.
Kaukabán Fossae
Kaukabán Fossae (Kaukaban Fossae) is an 83.4-km IAU-named fossa system on Saturn's moon Enceladus, centered at 33°N 266°W, named after a place in the Arabian Nights tale "How Abu Hasan Brake Wind."
Kaukana
Kaukana (Caucana) is a late Roman and early Byzantine village of about 25 structures near Punta Secca, Ragusa, Sicily, occupied from the mid-4th to mid-7th century AD, excavated by Pelagatti and the UBC Kaukana project.
Kauli Vaast
Kauli Vaast, Tahitian surfer born 2002 in Papeete competing for France; 2024 Paris Olympic men's surfing gold at Teahupo'o (17.67 over Jack Robinson), first Polynesian Olympic champion, 2025-26 Challenger Series winner now on the WSL Championship Tour.
Kaumana Cave
Kaumana Cave is a lava tube on the Island of Hawaii, formed during the 1880–81 Mauna Loa eruption, with its entrance in Kaumana County Park near Hilo.
Kaumualiʻi
Kaumualiʻi (c. 1778–1824) was the last independent king of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau, who repelled Kamehameha I's invasions of 1796 and 1803, then ceded his kingdom in 1810, completing Hawaiian unification.
Kaun Banega Crorepati (कौन बनेगा करोड़पति)
Kaun Banega Crorepati (कौन बनेगा करोड़पति, KBC) is India's Hindi adaptation of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, launched on Star Plus on 3 July 2000, hosted mainly by Amitabh Bachchan except season 3 (Shah Rukh Khan), now on Sony with a top prize of ₹7.5 crore.
Kaun Banegi Shikharwati
Kaun Banegi Shikharwati (कौन बनेगी शिखरवती) is a 2022 ZEE5 Hindi comedy-drama web series, 10 episodes, starring Naseeruddin Shah as a broke king staging navrasa-based games among his four estranged daughters.
Kaun?
Kaun? (कौन?), 1999 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Ram Gopal Varma, written by Anurag Kashyap, starring Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee, and Sushant Singh; a single-house, three-actor, songless suspense film with a twist ending.
Kaunas
Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city (about 300,000 people) at the Nemunas-Neris confluence; interwar provisional capital of Lithuania (1919-1940) and home of UNESCO-listed Modernist Kaunas architecture, inscribed 2023.
Kaunas County
Kaunas County (Kauno apskritis) is a territorial unit and NUTS-3 statistical region (LT022) in central Lithuania, centered on Kaunas, with 569,571 inhabitants in 2021 across 8 municipalities.
Kaunas District Municipality
Kaunas District Municipality (Kauno rajono savivaldybė) is a Lithuanian municipality of about 96,000 people forming a ring around Kaunas city, with 25 elderships, 1,495 km², strong suburban growth, and a top-three national quality-of-life ranking.
Kaundinya I
Kaundinya I, in Cambodian tradition Preah Thong, is the Indian brahmin said to have married Queen Soma and founded Funan's first dynasty in the 1st century CE.
Kaunos
Kaunos (Carian Kbid, Lycian Ksibde) was an ancient Carian city on the Dalyan stream in southwest Anatolia, known for its temple-façade rock-cut tombs, theater, and excavations ongoing since 1966.
KAUR (satellite bus)
KAUR (КАУР, short for "Spacecraft of the Unified Series") is a family of standardized Soviet and Russian satellite buses developed by NPO PM in Zheleznogorsk from the 1960s onward.
Kaurane
Kaurane is a tetracyclic diterpene hydrocarbon (C20H34) whose skeleton underlies more than 1,300 plant natural products, including the sweeteners stevioside and the anticancer compound oridonin.
Kaurava (कौरव)
Kaurava (कौरव), descendants of king Kuru, denotes chiefly Dhritarashtra's hundred sons led by Duryodhana, who fought the five Pandava cousins at Kurukshetra and were annihilated, ushering in kaliyuga.
Kauravi dialect
Kauravi (कौरवी), also called Khari Boli (खड़ी बोली), is the Delhi–Meerut dialect of Western Hindi, developed from northern Shauraseni Apabhramsha; it is the grammatical base of both standard Hindi and standard Urdu, with early literary use by Amir Khusro in the 14th century.
Kauri
Kauri is a 2023 asymmetric area-control board game by Charlec Couronnaud (Débâcle Jeux/Koalla Spiele) in which two to four players lead Kiwis, Possums, English colonists, and Māori in 200 years of New Zealand's ecological history; recommended for the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2025.
Kauri dieback
Kauri dieback, also called kauri disease, is a fatal root-rot disease of New Zealand kauri caused by the soil-borne oomycete Phytophthora agathidicida, first reported 1972, formally named 2015, spread only via soil, incurable, managed by the 2022 National Pest Management Plan and phosphite injection.
Kauri gum
Kauri gum (kāpia) is resin from New Zealand kauri trees (Agathis australis), dug from Northland swamps; a major Auckland export for varnish and linoleum from the 1840s until the 1940s.
Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani
Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani (ديوان ڪوڙو مل چندن مل کلناڻي, 1844–1916), known as Diwan Kauromal, was a Sindhi writer, educationist, and administrator called the father of Sindhi prose.
Kausalya (actress)
Kausalya (Kavitha Shivashankar, born 1979, Bangalore), credited as Nandini in Malayalam, is an Indian actress in Tamil and Malayalam films; debut April 19 (1996), Filmfare Best Actress Tamil for Pooveli (1998), later supporting roles and TV serials.
Kauśāmbī
Kauśāmbī, also spelled Kaushambi or Kausambi, was an ancient Indian city on the Yamuna river near Prayagraj, the capital of the Vatsa janapada in the Buddha's time.
Kausani (कौसानी)
Kausani (कौसानी), also called the Switzerland of India, is a 1,890 m hill station in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand, known for Himalayan panoramas, Gandhi's 1929 Anasakti Yoga stay at Anasakti Ashram, and as poet Sumitranandan Pant's birthplace.