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Kabuto
Kabuto (兜, 冑) is the traditional Japanese warrior helmet, with a bowl (hachi) and neck guard (shikoro), worn from the Kofun period to 1868; it evolved from battlefield protection into an Edo status symbol and Golden Week talisman.
Kabwe
Kabwe (formerly Broken Hill), capital of Zambia's Central Province, grew around a lead-zinc mine (1906–1994) and is now among the world's most lead-polluted towns, with severe child lead poisoning and remediation efforts.
Kaby Lake
Kaby Lake is the code name for Intel's seventh-generation Core processors, reusing the Skylake architecture at higher clock speeds with new 4K media hardware, launched in January 2017.
Kabyle immigration to France
Kabyle immigration to France is the century-long movement of workers from Kabylia, a Berber-speaking region of northern Algeria, to France, beginning in the late 1800s.
Kabyle language
Kabyle (Taqbaylit, Tazwawt, ISO kab) is the largest Berber language of Algeria, spoken by roughly 5.5 million people in Kabylia, Algiers, and France; written mainly in Latin script since about 1945-1950 and taught in Algerian schools under the Tamazight policy.
Kabyle nationalism
Kabyle nationalism is the political and cultural movement asserting the distinct identity, language, and self-determination of the Kabyle people, an Amazigh population of Kabylia in northeastern Algeria.
Kabyle people
Kabyle people (Iqbayliyen), Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group of Kabylia in northeastern Algeria, speaking the Kabyle variety of Tamazight; largest Algerian Berber group, marked by 1857 French conquest, 1980 Berber Spring, and 2001 Black Spring.
Kabyle resistance
Kabyle resistance is the armed and cultural opposition of the Kabyle people of northern Algeria to French conquest and rule, from 1844 through the 1871 insurrection.
Kabyle smile
The Kabyle smile (French sourire kabyle) is Algerian War slang coined by French soldiers for a FLN throat-cutting method; attested in dictionaries and fiction, it resurfaced in a February 2026 French political controversy.
Kabylie
Kabylie (Kabylia, Tamurt n Leqbayel), Berber-speaking mountainous region of north-central Algeria east of Algiers around the Djurdjura massif; occupied by France only in 1857, center of Berber identity claims, Berber Spring 1980, and MAK autonomism.
Kabzaa (ಕಬ್ಜಾ) (2023 film)
Kabzaa (ಕಬ್ಜಾ), 2023 Kannada period gangster action film by R. Chandru, starring Upendra, Kiccha Sudeep, Shivarajkumar, Shriya Saran; set 1942–1986, released 17 March 2023, streamed on Prime Video, sequel Kabzaa 2 announced.
Kac–Moody algebra
A Kac–Moody algebra is a usually infinite-dimensional Lie algebra defined by generators and relations from a generalized Cartan matrix, studied independently by Victor Kac and Robert Moody.
Kac–Moody flag variety
A Kac–Moody flag variety is the homogeneous space of flags attached to a Kac–Moody group, built from a generalized Cartan matrix; in finite type it is the familiar projective variety G/P.
Kaccayana Thera
Kaccayana Thera (कच्चायन) is the traditionally named, unknown author or compiler of the Kaccāyanavyākaraṇa, the oldest and most influential Pāli grammar, composed around the sixth or seventh century CE.
Kacciradi cirna
Kacciradi cirna (Kachuradi churna) is a classical Ayurvedic herbal powder for external application to the head, from the Sahasrayoga, with 18 equal-part ingredients led by Curcuma zedoaria, used for migraine, scalp burning, insomnia, and giddiness.
Kaccuradi Curna (kacciradi curna)
Kaccuradi Curna (Kaccūrādi cūrṇa, Kachuradi churna, Karcūrādi cūrṇa) is an Ayurvedic herbal powder led by Curcuma zedoaria rhizome, applied on the head with breast milk, castor oil, or butter for headache, fever, rhinitis, and eye or ear disorders; distinct AFI entries AFI000295 and AFI000734 exist.
Kaccuradi curna (kaccuradi cura)
Kaccūrādi cūrṇa (Kaccuradi Curna), Ayurvedic Formulary of India Part I 11:2, AFI000295; a ~30-ingredient herbal-mineral powder led by zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), applied on the head with breast milk, castor oil, or butter for headache, rhinitis, fever, hiccup, and eye and ear disorders.
Kacey Bellamy
Kacey Bellamy (born 1987) is an American ice hockey defenseman who won Olympic silver in 2010 and 2014 and gold in 2018, plus eight world titles.
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves (Kacey Lee Musgraves, born 1988) is an American country singer-songwriter from Golden, Texas, with 8 Grammy wins from 17 nominations, including Album of the Year for Golden Hour (2019); her sixth album, Middle of Nowhere (2026), is on Lost Highway.
Kacey Rohl
Kacey Rohl (born 1991, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress and writer known for Abigail Hobbs on Hannibal, Katie Arneson in White Lie, Marina on The Magicians, and Rachel Garrett in Star Trek: Section 31 (2025).
Kacha
Kacha (काच) is a Gupta ruler known only from gold coins closely resembling Samudragupta's, one dated 375 CE; most historians identify Kacha with Samudragupta himself, though his identity remains disputed.
Kachak movement
The Kachak movement (Albanian: Lëvizja Kaçake) was an Albanian armed resistance against Serbian and Yugoslav rule in Kosovo and Metohija, active from World War I until 1927.
Kachari capital shift to Khaspur
The Kachari capital shift to Khaspur (খাসপুর) relocated the Dimasa Kachari kingdom's court from Maibong in the Assam hills to Khaspur in the Cachar plains, begun by the Ahom invasion of 1706.
Kachari kingdom
The Kachari kingdom (ডিমাসা কাছাড়ি রাজ্য) was the state of the Dimasa-Kachari people, who ruled Cachar in Northeast India from capitals at Dimapur and Maibong until the British annexed it in 1832.
Kachche Dhaage (कच्चे धागे)
Kachche Dhaage (कच्चे धागे) is a 1999 Hindi action film directed by Milan Luthria, starring Ajay Devgn and Saif Ali Khan as feuding stepbrothers framed for terrorism, with music by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Kachhwaha dynasty
The Kachhwaha dynasty (कच्छवाहा) was a Suryavanshi Rajput clan ruling Dhundhar, Rajasthan, first from Amber and later Jaipur, rising through its alliance with the Mughal Empire under Raja Bharmal.
Kachin Independence Organisation
The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), founded in 1960, is a political organization and armed movement of the Kachin people of northern Myanmar, headquartered at Laiza.
Kachin State (ကချင်ပြည်နယ်)
Kachin State (ကချင်ပြည်နယ်), also called Jinghpaw land, is Myanmar's northernmost state, capital Myitkyina, bordering China's Yunnan and India; source of 90% of world jade, scene of the KIA insurgency since 1961.
Kachina
A kachina, in Hopi katsina (plural katsinam), is a spirit being of Pueblo religion who appears as a masked dancer and is represented in carved cottonwood figures.
Kachina Chasmata
Kachina Chasmata is the largest canyon system on Ariel, Uranus's moon: a 622 km IAU-named (1988) graben at 33.7 S, 246 E, the younger Kachina Group of Ariel's chasmata, imaged only by Voyager 2.