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Keeshond
Keeshond (Dutch Barge Dog, Wolfspitz/Keeshond): medium-sized Dutch spitz breed with gray-black-cream coat, eye "spectacles", curled tail; barge watchdog, Dutch Patriot symbol, AKC-recognized 1930, ideal height 17-18 inches.
Keesler Air Force Base
Keesler Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force installation in Biloxi, Mississippi, home of the 81st Training Wing, the Air Force's Electronics Training Center of Excellence, Second Air Force headquarters, and the 403rd Wing; it trains over 28,000 students annually.
Keetch–Byram Drought Index
The Keetch–Byram Drought Index (KBDI) is a drought index for forest fire control, developed by John J. Keetch and George M. Byram in 1968, running from 0 to 800.
Keetmanshoop
Keetmanshoop, also historically Swartmodder, is the main town of the ǁKaras Region in southern Namibia, named for mission donor Johann Keetman. Known for the Quiver Tree Forest, Giant's Playground, and 27,862 residents per the 2023 census.
Kef Kalesi (Adilcevaz)
Kef Kalesi is a Urartian fortress and palace near Adilcevaz on the northern shore of Lake Van, Turkey, built by King Rusa II in the 7th century BC.
Kefalonia-Ithaca UNESCO Global Geopark
Kefalonia-Ithaca UNESCO Global Geopark, a Greek Ionian island geopark designated in 2022, spans 300,600 ha including Kefalonia and Ithaca; known for Mount Aenos (1,628 m), the Argostoli sinkholes to Karavomilos karst system, and Europe's highest seismicity.
Kefar Nahum/Kapharnaoum
Kefar Nahum, known in Greek as Kapharnaoum and in English as Capernaum, was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, now an archaeological site in Israel.
Keffals
Keffals is the online alias of Clara Sorrenti, Canadian trans Twitch streamer and activist, swatted in August 2022 and leader of the #DropKiwiFarms campaign against Kiwi Farms.
Keffer Hartline
Keffer Hartline, full name Haldan Keffer Hartline, was an American physiologist who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the neurophysiology of vision.
Keffiyeh (كوفية)
Keffiyeh (كوفية), also shemagh or hatta: square checkered Arab scarf, once Bedouin and farmer headdress, now the black-and-white symbol of Palestinian identity since the 1936-1939 revolt, popularized by Arafat, woven by the Hirbawi factory in Hebron.
Kefir
Kefir is a fermented milk drink made with kefir grains, symbiotic bacteria and yeasts, originating around Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus. Contains 0.3-1.0% alcohol, dominated by Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens; health trial evidence remains limited.
Keflavík
Keflavík, Icelandic town on the Reykjanes Peninsula, home of Keflavík International Airport and a NATO base 1951-2006; trading post from 1590, merged with Njarðvík and Hafnir into Reykjanesbær in 1994.
Keflavík International Airport
Keflavík International Airport (Keflavíkurflugvöllur) is Iceland's main international airport, 50 km from Reykjavík on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Built by the United States in 1943, it handles over 95 percent of passengers visiting Iceland.
Keg
Keg: a sealed, pressurized cylindrical container for storing, transporting, and dispensing beer and other beverages; also called a corny keg (Cornelius) in homebrew. Distinguished from the unpressurized cask by its single top valve, CO2-driven draft dispense, and longer service window.
Kegel exercise
Kegel exercises, also called Kegels, are voluntary contractions of the pelvic floor muscles, first described by Arnold Kegel in 1948 and used to treat urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
KEGG
KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) is a bioinformatics database resource for interpreting genomes through manually drawn biological pathway maps, started in 1995 by Minoru Kanehisa at the University of Tokyo.
Kegueur Terbi
Kegueur Terbi (also Chegor Tedi, Emi Hessi, Kegueur Tedi) is a mountain in Tibesti Region, Chad, elevation 2,827 m at 21.41667°N, 18.7°E, ranked 5th of 26 Chad peaks by World Measure.
Kegworth air disaster
The Kegworth air disaster, also known as British Midland Flight 92, was a 1989 Boeing 737 crash near Kegworth, Leicestershire, killing 47 of 126 aboard.
Kegychivske Gas Field
Kegychivske Gas Field (Кегичівське родовище) is a gas condensate field in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, discovered in 1953 and producing since 1965, hosting an underground gas storage facility since 1986.
Keh-Chyuan Tsai (蔡克铨)
Keh-Chyuan Tsai (蔡克铨) is a Taiwanese structural engineer and professor at National Taiwan University, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for earthquake engineering research.
Kehai Company
Kehai (科海) was a Chinese technology company in Beijing, founded in 1983 and known as one of the early Zhongguancun firms called "Two Tongs, Two Hais".
Kehar Singh (ਕੇਹਰ ਸਿੰਘ)
Kehar Singh (ਕੇਹਰ ਸਿੰਘ), died 1989, Delhi DGS&D clerk convicted of conspiracy in Indira Gandhi's 1984 assassination; hanged at Tihar with Satwant Singh on 6 January 1989 after circumstantial-evidence trial.
Kehek
Kehek, also Qeheq, was a minor Libyan group of the New Kingdom, named among the Hittite coalition at Kadesh and as soldiers in an Egyptian army in Papyrus Anastasi I.
Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews is a British academic, activist, and author who became the UK's first professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University in 2017, where he built Europe's first Black Studies degree.
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley (born 1977, Los Angeles) is an American portrait painter known for street-cast Black sitters in Old Master poses. First African American artist to paint an official presidential portrait (Obama, 2018); founder of Black Rock Senegal.
Kehlani
Kehlani (Kehlani Ashley Parrish, born 1995, Oakland) is an American R&B singer and songwriter; former PopLyfe vocalist whose albums include SweetSexySavage (2017) and the Grammy-winning "Folded" era.
Kehlani (album)
Kehlani (album): self-titled fifth studio album by American R&B singer Kehlani, released April 24, 2026 on Atlantic; features Brandy, Usher, Missy Elliott, Lil Wayne; led by Grammy-winning "Folded"; debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
Kehlani World Tour
Kehlani World Tour: Kehlani's 2026 concert tour supporting her self-titled fifth album, announced May 26, 2026; 33-date Live Nation North American leg August 6–October 3, plus European and UK dates.
Kehlsteinhaus
Kehlsteinhaus, known in English as the Eagle's Nest, is a chalet built in 1938 at 1,834 meters on the Kehlstein near Berchtesgaden as a tea house for Adolf Hitler.
Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain (कहने को हमसफ़र हैं)
Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain (कहने को हमसफ़र हैं) is an Indian Hindi romantic-drama web series created by Ekta Kapoor for ALTBalaji, starring Ronit Roy, Mona Singh, and Gurdeep Kohli in an extra-marital triangle; three seasons ran 2018–2020, distinct from the Pakistani drama Humsafar.