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Keelhauling
Keelhauling (keel-hauling) was a naval punishment, originating in the 17th-century Dutch Navy, in which an offender was dragged by rope under a ship's keel, often fatally; it was never official in the Royal Navy and was abolished in 1853.
Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve, begun by Charles David Keeling, is the continuous record of atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory since 1958, the longest direct CO2 record.
Keelung
Keelung (基隆, formerly Jilong 雞籠) is a port city at Taiwan's northern tip, the largest natural harbor in northern Taiwan reaching into downtown. Seven districts, 132.76 km2; record 2025 port volumes and 436 cruise calls.
Keely A. Muscatell
Keely A. Muscatell is a social neuroscientist and psychoneuroimmunologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies how socioeconomic and racial inequities affect health.
Keely Hodgkinson
Keely Hodgkinson, British 800m runner from Atherton near Manchester; Olympic champion Paris 2024, Tokyo 2020 silver; broke the indoor 800m world record (1:54.87, Lievin 2026) and holds the British outdoor record 1:54.33.
Keely Shaye Smith
Keely Shaye Smith, also Keely Shaye Brosnan, American journalist and documentary filmmaker born 1963 in Vallejo, California; environmental correspondent on ABC's The Home Show, Telecenter co-host of Unsolved Mysteries, wife of Pierce Brosnan since 2001, director of Poisoning Paradise.
Keely Smith
Keely Smith (Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, 1928 or 1932–2017), American jazz and pop singer; with husband Louis Prima defined the Las Vegas lounge act and won the first Grammy for a vocal group for "That Old Black Magic".
Keemstar
Keemstar (Daniel Keem, also DJ Keemstar, Killer Keemstar) is an American YouTuber from Buffalo, New York, creator and host of the drama-news channel DramaAlert (2014), known for Halo 3 trash-talking origins, repeated controversies, and his 2021 retirement announcement.
Keen (footwear)
Keen is an American footwear company founded in 2003 in Alameda, California, by Martin Keen and Rory Fuerst, known for hybrid outdoor shoes built around a protective rubber toe cap.
Keen Ruffalo
Keen Ruffalo is an American actor, eldest son of Mark Ruffalo and Sunrise Coigney, who plays Connor in Prime Video's Sterling Point (2026) and stars in the Green Day comedy Nimrods after 100-plus auditions.
Keena Rothhammer
Keena Rothhammer (b. 1957), American swimmer; 1972 Munich Olympic gold in the 800 m freestyle in world-record 8:53.68, 200 m bronze, 1973 world 200 m champion, ISHOF 1991.
Keenan Allen
Keenan Allen, NFL wide receiver (Chargers 2013-2023, 2025; Bears 2024; Colts 2026). Six-time Pro Bowler, fastest to 1,000 receptions; 1,055 catches, 12,051 yards, 70 touchdowns.
Keenan Cahill
Keenan Cahill (1995-2022), American YouTube lip-sync personality from Elmhurst, Illinois, aka BeenerKeeKee19952; viral for "Teenage Dream" and 50 Cent's "Down On Me"; had Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome; died at 27 after open heart surgery.
Keenan Reynolds (American football)
Keenan Reynolds, Navy Midshipmen quarterback 2012-2015, triple-option star; NCAA FBS career records of 88 rushing touchdowns and 4,559 rushing yards; fifth in 2015 Heisman voting; drafted 182nd overall by the Ravens in 2016; played two 2018 games for the Seahawks.
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn (1916-1986), American character actor, son of Ed Wynn, grandson of Frank Keenan; MGM staple from 1942, Col. Bat Guano in Dr. Strangelove, Disney's Alonzo Hawk, 1978 Emmy nominee.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans (born 1958, New York City) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker, creator of In Living Color, director of Scary Movie and White Chicks, member of the Wayans family, 1990 Emmy winner.
Keening
Keening (Irish caoineadh, "to cry") is the Gaelic vocal lament for the dead, performed at wakes by women keeners (bean chaointe), suppressed by the Catholic Church, and extinct in Ireland by the early twentieth century.
Keenon Robotics (擎朗智能)
Keenon Robotics (擎朗智能) is a Shanghai service robotics company founded in 2010 that makes autonomous delivery, hotel, cleaning, and medical robots for restaurants, hotels, and hospitals.
Keensight Capital
Keensight Capital, formerly R Capital Management, is a Paris-based European private equity firm founded in 1998 within the Rothschild group, specializing in growth buyouts of profitable technology and healthcare companies.
Keep
A keep, also known as a donjon or great tower, is the main stone tower of a medieval castle, built from the 11th century onward as the lord's residence and last refuge.
Keep Android Open
Keep Android Open is an advocacy campaign initiated by F-Droid opposing Google's developer verification mandate, which would require all Android app developers to register centrally with Google.
Keep Breathing (TV series)
Keep Breathing is a 2022 Netflix six-episode limited survival drama created by Martin Gero and Brendan Gall, starring Melissa Barrera as lawyer Liv, lone survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness; mixed reviews (53% RT) but reached No. 1.
Keep Calm and Carry On
Keep Calm and Carry On is a British motivational poster produced in 1939 for wartime morale, never displayed, and rediscovered in 2000, sparking global merchandising.
Keep Cool (有话好好说)
Keep Cool (有话好好说) is Zhang Yimou's 1997 urban black comedy, adapted from Shu Ping's story Evening Paper News, starring Jiang Wen and Li Baotian; pulled from Cannes, screened at Venice, and a 46-million-yuan Chinese hit.
Keep Cool Surfing
Keep Cool Surfing is a French surf school and equipment rental business in Brétignolles-sur-Mer, Vendée, founded in 2010 by certified instructor Christophe Guyon, offering surf, bodyboard, and stand-up paddle courses and rental from April to October.
Keep Driving (video game)
Keep Driving is a turn-based management road-trip RPG by Swedish studio YCJY Games, released on PC February 6, 2025 and consoles September 28, 2026; early-2000s pixel art world, card combat against road events, multiple 1-4 hour endings, Metacritic 84, about 300,000 sales.
Keep Me Fed
Keep Me Fed is the fourth studio album by Mexican rock band The Warning, released June 28, 2024 on Lava/Republic. Produced by Anton DeLost in Monterrey; 12 tracks; UK Rock & Metal number 1, Billboard peak 59.
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is a 2022 Netflix four-episode documentary, directed by Rachel Dretzin, on Warren Jeffs's rise and fall in the FLDS, told through ex-member testimonies and his 2011 life-sentence conviction.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell's third novel (Gollancz, 20 April 1936), satirizes Gordon Comstock's war on the money-god and lower-middle-class aspidistra respectability; it sold about 2,000 copies and was disowned by Orwell as a 'silly potboiler'.
Keep the Faith
Keep the Faith: chiefly Bon Jovi's fifth studio album (Mercury, 3 November 1992), produced by Bob Rock, UK No. 1 and US No. 5, with "Bed of Roses" and "In These Arms"; also albums by Faith Evans, Toni Childs, and Black Oak Arkansas.