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Kennedy Center Honors
Kennedy Center Honors: annual American awards since 1978 honoring five performing artists for lifetime contributions to American culture; CBS-broadcast gala, 2013 selection reform, renamed and relocated amid the 2026 Kennedy Center dispute.
Kennedy Channel
Kennedy Channel, a section of Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, named for U.S. Navy Secretary John Pendleton Kennedy; sighted ice-free by Morton in 1854 during Kane's expedition.
Kennedy Compound
The Kennedy Compound is a six-acre, three-house family estate on Irving and Marchant Avenues in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, begun by Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in 1926-1928, listed on the National Register in 1972, and now partly owned by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
Kennedy curse
Kennedy curse: popular label for the deaths and scandals of the Kennedy political family, coined by media after Ted Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick accident; covers Joe Jr.'s 1944 death, the JFK and RFK assassinations, and later tragedies, though skeptics call it a media myth.
Kennedy disease
Kennedy disease, or spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), is an X-linked recessive adult-onset motor neuron disorder caused by CAG repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (AR) gene, causing male limb and bulbar weakness, gynecomastia, and slow progression.
Kennedy Expressway
The Kennedy Expressway, also known as the John F. Kennedy Expressway, is a 16-mile segment of Interstates 90 and 94 in Chicago running from the Loop toward O'Hare International Airport.
Kennedy family
Kennedy family: American political dynasty of Irish Catholic descent founded by Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald; produced President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, and the Special Olympics.
Kennedy half dollar
Kennedy half dollar: US 50-cent coin honoring John F. Kennedy, first struck 1964 after his assassination; 90% silver 1964, 40% silver 1965-1970, clad since 1971; collector-only since 2002.
Kennedy R. Lees
Kennedy R. Lees is a professor of cerebrovascular medicine at the University of Glasgow whose trials shaped thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke, including the 2010 Lancet pooled analysis.
Kennedy Round
The Kennedy Round was a round of GATT trade negotiations conducted from 1964 to 1967, which cut industrial tariffs by about a third on some $40 billion of trade.
Kennedy Ryan
Kennedy Ryan, pen name of an American romance novelist, author of When You Are Mine (2014), the Skyland trilogy, and Reel; first Black writer to win the RITA Award (2019) and the romance Audie (2022).
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, formerly the Launch Operations Center, is NASA's primary launch site on Merritt Island, Florida, known for the 1969 Moon launch and Space Shuttle flights.
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a NASA Kennedy Space Center launch complex in Florida, built in the 1960s for Apollo Saturn V Moon rockets and later all 135 space shuttle missions.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the official visitor center of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, offering exhibits, bus tours, and launch viewing.
Kennedy Urlacher
Kennedy Urlacher, son of Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, is a safety from Chandler, Arizona who played freshman year at Notre Dame (2024), transferred to USC in 2025, and started three games for the Trojans as a sophomore.
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, also known as Kennedy v Bremerton, is a 2022 Supreme Court ruling protecting a football coach's postgame prayer and abandoning the Lemon test.
Kennedy–Thorndike experiment
The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment was a 1932 interferometry test by Roy J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike that found no effect of velocity on time, supporting special relativity.
Kennel club
Kennel club: national dog registry organization (e.g., The Kennel Club UK, 1873; American Kennel Club, 1884; FCI federation) that maintains pedigree stud books, publishes breed standards, governs dog shows, and manages breeding health rules.
Kennel cough
Kennel cough is the common name for canine infectious respiratory disease complex (CIRDC), a highly contagious dog syndrome marked by a harsh, dry cough, caused by various mostly viral pathogens.
Kenner Products
Kenner Products, also known as Kenner Toys, was an American toy company founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1947, best known for the Easy-Bake Oven and Star Wars figures.
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University (KSU), public university in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia, founded 1963 as Kennesaw Junior College; third-largest in Georgia with 51,375 Fall 2025 students, Carnegie R2, 11 colleges, consolidated with Southern Polytechnic in 2015.
Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw, Georgia (formerly Big Shanty), a Cobb County city of about 33,000-38,000 in metro Atlanta, founded in the 1830s on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, site of the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase and home of the General locomotive at the Southern Museum.
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is an 87-mile waterway in southern England linking the Thames at Reading with the Avon at Bath, completed in 1810 and restored by 2003.
Kennet Eichhorn
Kennet Eichhorn (born 2009, Bernau bei Berlin) is a German defensive midfielder who set Bundesliga 2 age records at Hertha BSC, joined Bayer Leverkusen in 2026, and was sidelined by a metabolic disorder.
Kennet Linea
Kennet Linea is an IAU-approved linea on Jupiter's moon Europa, 3,200 km across, centered at -41.00°, 312.00°, named in 2003 after a Celtic stone row in England.
Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson
Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson is an American businessman who co-founded Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon, in 2003 with Tres Shannon, supplying the voodoo theme and running the back-of-house operations.
Kenneth A. Arndt
Kenneth A. Arndt is an American dermatologist who was Dermatologist-in-Chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for over two decades, edited Archives of Dermatology, and helped establish cutaneous laser surgery.
Kenneth A. Bauer
Kenneth A. Bauer is an American hematologist and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, based at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, known for research on hypercoagulable states.
Kenneth A. Blenkarn
Kenneth A. Blenkarn is an American petroleum and offshore engineer who worked at Amoco Production Company and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson is an Irish-based physical chemist and Full Professor at University College Dublin, known for founding the biomolecular corona concept in a 2012 Nature Nanotechnology review.