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Kemono Friends (けものフレンズ)
Kemono Friends (けものフレンズ) is a Japanese media-mix project anthropomorphizing animals as "Friends" characters. Its 2017 CG TV anime became an unexpected social phenomenon; later seasons, the Sega game Kemono Friends 3, VTuber and stage projects, and zoo collaborations followed.
Kemono Jihen
Kemono Jihen (怪物事変) is Sho Aimoto's supernatural detective manga in Shueisha's Jump SQ. since December 2016, about half-ghoul boy Kabane at Inugami's agency; adapted as a 12-episode 2021 anime by Ajia-do, ending at volume 26.
Kemosabe Records
Kemosabe Records, also styled Kemosabe, is an American record label founded in 2011 by Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) as a joint venture with Sony Music, releasing through RCA Records; known for Kesha, Doja Cat, and Becky G.
Kemp elimination
The Kemp elimination is the base-catalyzed ring-opening of a benzisoxazole to a 2-cyanophenolate, first reported in 1973 and used as a benchmark for designed enzymes.
Kemp Land
Kemp Land, also called Kemp Coast in US usage, is a coastal region of East Antarctica between Edward VIII Bay and William Scoresby Bay, named for sealing captain Peter Kemp, who sighted it in 1833.
Kemp Peninsula (landform)
Kemp Peninsula (Poluostrov Kemp) is an ice-covered peninsula, not an undersea feature, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Mason and Mossman Inlets; named for marine biologist Stanley W. Kemp.
Kempananjammanni Devi
Kempananjammanni Devi (ಕೆಂಪಣಂಜಮ್ಮಣ್ಣಿ ದೇವಿ), known as Maharani Vani Vilasa Sannidhana, was Regent of Mysore from 1894 to 1902 during the minority of her son Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV.
Kempe Gowda I (ಕೆಂಪೇಗೌಡ)
Kempe Gowda I, also known as Mummadi Kempe Gowda (ಕೆಂಪೇಗೌಡ), was a chieftain under the Vijayanagara Empire who founded Bangalore in 1537, building a mud fort considered the foundation of the modern city.
Kempe's universality theorem
Kempe's universality theorem, announced by Alfred Bray Kempe in the 1870s, states that any plane algebraic curve can be traced exactly by a planar linkage.
Kempegowda International Airport (ಕೆಂಪೇಗೌಡ ಅಂತರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ)
Kempegowda International Airport, also called BLR Airport, is the international airport serving Bengaluru, India, located at Devanahalli. It opened in 2008 as Bengaluru International Airport.
Kempeitai (憲兵隊)
Kempeitai (憲兵隊), the Imperial Japanese Army's military police, 1881-1945, under the War Ministry with parallel Home Affairs and Justice lines of authority; policed occupied territories, ran thought control and counterespionage, and was prosecuted for war crimes after 1945.
Kemper Project
The Kemper Project was a lignite gasification power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, built by Mississippi Power; cost overruns ended gasification, and it now runs on natural gas as Plant Ratcliffe.
KemPharm
KemPharm, Inc. was a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Celebration, Florida, that developed prodrugs for ADHD and rare diseases; it was renamed Zevra Therapeutics in 2023.
Kempinski
Kempinski Hotels S.A. is a privately held European luxury hotel group founded in 1897 and headquartered in Geneva; in 2024 it operated 82 hotels in 34 countries, making it Europe's oldest luxury hotel brand.
Kempner function
The Kempner function, also called the Smarandache function, gives the smallest positive integer m such that n divides m!; it was introduced by Aubrey J. Kempner in 1918.
Kempō Kōwa
Kempō Kōwa (憲法講話, Lectures on the Constitution) is a 1912 book by the constitutional lawyer Minobe Tatsukichi that expounds the Meiji Constitution from the emperor-organ theory.
Kemps
Kemps (also Kent, Cash, Canes) is a partnership card game for two-player teams: collect four of a kind, signal your partner secretly, and have them call "Kemps"; losing teams spell K-E-M-P-S.
Kemsit
Kemsit was a royal woman of ancient Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, buried in a chapel-tomb at the funerary complex of King Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes.
Kemune
Kemune, probably the ancient city of Zaḫiku, is a Bronze Age Mittani settlement on the Tigris in Iraqi Kurdistan, flooded since the mid-1980s by the Mosul Dam reservoir.
Ken (doll)
Ken, fully Kenneth Sean Carson, is a fashion doll introduced by Mattel in 1961 as Barbie's boyfriend, named after Kenneth Handler, son of Mattel's founders.
Ken A. Dill
Ken A. Dill is an American biophysicist known for the funnel theory of protein folding and the HP lattice model, and a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University.
Ken Allen
Ken Allen (1971-2000), Bornean orangutan at the San Diego Zoo, famed 1980s escape artist nicknamed the Hairy Houdini; repeatedly left his enclosure peacefully, inspired a fan club and ballad, died of lymphoma at 29.
Ken Anderson (quarterback)
Ken Anderson, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback 1971-1986, four-time NFL passing champion, 1981 NFL MVP, and Super Bowl XVI starter; still holds the 70.6% single-season completion record and is not in the Hall of Fame.
Ken Anderson (wrestler)
Ken Anderson (Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Anderson), born 1976, American professional wrestler; WWE United States Champion, 2007 Money in the Bank winner, two-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion; known for self-announcing ring intros; now runs a Minneapolis wrestling school.
Ken Arok
Ken Arok, also written Ken Angrok, was the founder and first king of Singhasari in eastern Java, reigning from 1222 to 1227 and founding the Rajasa dynasty.
Ken Arok dan Ken Dedes
Ken Arok dan Ken Dedes is an East Javanese legend, recorded in the old Javanese Pararaton manuscript, about Ken Arok, founder of the 13th-century Singasari kingdom, and Ken Dedes.
Ken Arok's usurpation and founding of Singhasari
Ken Arok's usurpation and founding of Singhasari (Perebutan kekuasaan oleh Ken Arok) was his seizure of Tumapel and 1222 victory over Kediri's King Kertajaya at Ganter.
Ken Austin (industrial engineer)
Ken Austin (1931–2019) was an American industrial engineer who co-founded dental equipment maker A-dec in Newberg, Oregon, in 1964, holding 40 U.S. patents and joining the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Ken Barlow
Ken Barlow (Kenneth Barlow) is a fictional character in ITV's Coronation Street, created by Tony Warren and played by William Roache since the first episode on 9 December 1960, the longest-serving soap character and TV role in the world.
Ken Berry
Ken Berry (Kenneth Ronald Berry, 1933–2018), American actor, dancer, and singer from Moline, Illinois; starred as Captain Wilton Parmenter in F Troop, Sam Jones in Mayberry R.F.D., and Vinton Harper in Mama's Family.