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Kelmentsi Raion
Kelmentsi Raion (Кельменецький район), a district in northeastern Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, created 1940, centered on Kelmentsi; abolished 18 July 2020 and merged into Dnistrovskyi Raion.
Kelmscott Press
The Kelmscott Press was a private printing press founded by William Morris at Hammersmith, London, in 1891, producing 53 titles and the celebrated 1896 Kelmscott Chaucer.
Kelo v. City of New London
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005): Supreme Court case, 5-4, holding economic development takings for private developers are a Fifth Amendment public use; sparked state eminent domain reforms.
Keloid
Keloid: a benign, raised fibroproliferative scar that grows beyond the original wound, common in darker skin tones and ages 10-30; treated with steroid injections, surgery plus adjuvant therapy, silicone, pressure, or radiation.
Keloid or hypertrophic scars
Keloid and hypertrophic scars are raised pathological scars from excess dermal collagen. Keloids grow beyond the wound and recur after excision; hypertrophic scars stay confined and regress in 12–24 months.
Kelong Fan
Kelong Fan (范克龙) is a Chinese nanobiology professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, known for nanozymes and the 2012 magnetoferritin tumor-targeting nanoparticles.
Kelowna
Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, the province's sixth largest, incorporated in 1905, with about 145,000 residents, a wine- and tourism-based economy, and rapid growth under its 2040 Official Community Plan.
Kelp
Kelp (Laminariales): large brown algae of cool coastal waters, forming kelp forests on about 25% of the world's coastline. Includes giant kelp Macrocystis, bull kelp, kombu, alginate, blue carbon, urchin barrens, and global decline.
Kelp forest
Kelp forest: underwater ecosystems of large brown algae (Macrocystis, Nereocystis, Laminaria) on temperate rocky coasts, along 25% of world coastlines, threatened by urchin barrens and warming, valued at $684 billion yearly.
Kelp gull
Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus), also called Dominican gull, a large black-backed Southern Hemisphere gull; IUCN Least Concern, 3.3–4.3 million birds, increasing, expanding on fishery discards and refuse.
Kelpie
Kelpie: shape-shifting water horse spirit of Scottish folklore, related to the Gaelic each-uisge, that drowns riders in lochs and rivers; tamed by bridle, commemorated by the Falkirk Kelpies sculptures.
Kelpo Gröndahl
Kelpo Olavi Gröndahl (1920–1994), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler: Olympic silver London 1948 and gold in the 87 kg light-heavyweight class at Helsinki 1952, later SKDL member of the Finnish Parliament 1962–1970 and harbormaster of Pori.
Kelsang Gyatso
Kelsang Gyatso, also known as Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, was a Tibetan Gelug monk who settled in Britain and founded the New Kadampa Tradition in 1991, leading it until his death in 2022.
Kelsborrow Castle
Kelsborrow Castle: Iron Age univallate promontory fort on Castle Hill, Kelsall, Cheshire; scheduled monument 1013294; 400 m bank, timber-revetted rampart, radiocarbon dated 1000-840 BC.
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Ballerini (born 1993, Mascot, Tennessee) is an American country pop singer on Black River Entertainment; first three debut singles hit No. 1, six Grammy nominations, Patterns (2024) topped the Country Albums chart.
Kelsey Asbille
Kelsey Asbille (Kelsey Asbille Chow), American actress from Columbia, South Carolina; played Monica Dutton on Yellowstone (2018–2024) and Natalie in Wind River; formerly credited as Kelsey Chow; Cherokee ancestry claims unverified.
Kelsey Barnard Clark
Kelsey Barnard Clark is an American chef from Dothan, Alabama, winner of Top Chef season 16 (Kentucky, 2019), the fifth woman and first southerner to win, owner of KBC restaurant, and author of Southern Grit.
Kelsey C. Martin
Kelsey C. Martin, also known as Kelsey Martin, is an American neuroscientist who studies how experience alters connections between neurons, and dean of UCLA's medical school from 2015 to 2021.
Kelsey Cook
Kelsey Cook (born 1989), American stand-up comedian from Spokane, Washington; specials The Hustler, Mark Your Territory, and Netflix's Happy Hour; co-host of Self-Helpless and Pretend Problems podcasts; World Champion foosball player.
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer (born 1955, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) is an Emmy-winning American actor known as Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier, the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, and Beast in X-Men and Avengers: Doomsday.
Kelsey Hatzell
Kelsey B. Hatzell is an American materials scientist and associate professor at Princeton University, there since 2021, known for using synchrotron X-ray techniques to watch solid-state battery interfaces operate in real time.
Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Kelsey Houston-Edwards is an American mathematician and science communicator who wrote and hosted PBS's Infinite Series, earned a 2018 Cornell PhD in probability, and writes for Quanta Magazine.
Kelsey Johnson
Kelsey Johnson is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, known for research on star formation and founding Dark Skies, Bright Kids.
Kelsey Mitchell
Kelsey Mitchell (born 1993, Brandon, Manitoba), Canadian track cyclist and bobsledder; RBC Training Ground recruit 2017; Olympic sprint gold Tokyo 2020, flying 200m world record 10.154; 13th in two-woman bobsleigh, Milano Cortina 2026.
Kelsey Plum
Kelsey Plum, born 1994, American WNBA guard, 2017 first overall pick, two-time champion with Las Vegas Aces, former NCAA Division I women's scoring record holder (3,527 points), two-time Olympic gold medalist, now with Los Angeles Sparks.
Kelsey Robinson
Kelsey Robinson (Kelsey Marie Robinson-Cook, born 1992), American volleyball outside hitter, three-time Olympic medalist (bronze 2016, gold 2020, silver 2024), 2014 world champion, 2018 USAV co-player of the year after switching to libero.
Kelsey Serwa
Kelsey Serwa (born 1989, Kelowna, BC), Canadian ski cross racer; Olympic gold PyeongChang 2018, silver Sochi 2014, 2011 world champion, retired 2019 with eight World Cup wins.
Kelsi Dahlia
Kelsi Worrell (Kelsi Dahlia), American butterfly swimmer born 1994 in New Jersey; 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay, first woman under 50 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly, and short-course 100 fly world record holder (54.59, 2021).
Kelso & Company
Kelso & Company is a partner-owned, New York-based middle-market private equity firm founded in 1971 by Louis Kelso, the inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
KELT-11
KELT-11 (HD 93396) is a V=8 evolved subgiant star hosting KELT-11 b, a highly inflated sub-Saturn exoplanet in a 4.74-day transit orbit, discovered in 2017 by the KELT survey and a leading atmosphere-characterization target.