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Kachina doll
A kachina doll, properly a Hopi katsintihu, is a carved cottonwood-root figure of a Katsina spirit, traditionally given to Hopi women and children during ceremonies.
Kachō fūei
Kachō fūei is a modern haiku ideal, proposed by Takahama Kyoshi in 1927, holding that haiku should objectively chant the seasons' natural phenomena and accompanying human affairs.
Kachō-ga
Kachō-ga (花鳥画, "bird-and-flower painting") is a Japanese painting genre depicting birds and flowers, transmitted from China around the fourteenth century and common from Zen ink painting to ukiyo-e prints.
Kackar Dagi
Kackar Dagi (Kaçkar Dağı), 3,932–3,937 m, is the highest peak of Turkey's Eastern Pontic (Kaçkar) Mountains and the Black Sea region, fourth-highest in Turkey, first climbed in 1846, within Kaçkar Dağları Milli Park (1994).
Kacper Potulski
Kacper Potulski (born 2007, Gdańsk) is a Polish centre-back for 1. FSV Mainz 05, a former Legia Warsaw academy player who debuted in the Bundesliga in November 2025 and scored on his second Poland senior cap in 2026.
Kacy Catanzaro
Kacy Catanzaro, aka Katana Chance, American wrestler and former gymnast; first woman to complete an American Ninja Warrior City Finals course (2014); WWE 2017-2025, NXT and WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Kayden Carter; released May 2025.
Kaczmarz method
The Kaczmarz method, also called the Kaczmarz algorithm, is an iterative method for solving systems of linear equations by projecting onto one equation's hyperplane at a time, widely used in computed tomography as ART.
Kada no Azumamaro
Kada no Azumamaro (1669–1736) was an early Edo-period Japanese scholar of National Learning, poet, and Shinto priest of the Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto, counted first among the four great men of kokugaku.
Kadaikutty Singam (கடைக்குட்டி சிங்கம்)
Kadaikutty Singam (கடைக்குட்டி சிங்கம்), also known as Kadai Kutty Singam, is a 2018 Tamil action comedy-drama directed by Pandiraj, produced by Suriya (2D Entertainment), starring Karthi as farmer Gunasingam; released 13 July 2018, Telugu version Chinna Babu, distinct from the 2019 TV series of the same name.
Kadaisi Ulaga Por (கடைசி உலகப் போர்)
Released in 2024, Kadaisi Ulaga Por (கடைசி உலகப் போர்), titled "The Last World War," is an Indian science fiction action thriller produced and helmed by Hiphop Tamizha Adhi.
Kadaisi Vivasayi (கடைசி விவசாயி)
Kadaisi Vivasayi (கடைசி விவசாயி, The Last Farmer) is a 2022 Tamil comedy-drama directed by M. Manikandan, starring real farmer Nallandi with Vijay Sethupathi and Yogi Babu; it won the 69th National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.
Kadak Singh
Kadak Singh is a 2023 Hindi thriller-drama, a ZEE5 Original directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, starring Pankaj Tripathi as financial-crimes officer AK Shrivastav, who has retrograde amnesia and solves a chit fund scam; released 8 December 2023.
Kadal (கடல்) (2013 film)
Kadal (கடல், "Sea") is Mani Ratnam's 2013 Tamil drama set in a Christian fishing village, starring debutants Gautham Karthik and Thulasi Nair with Arjun Sarja and Arvind Swamy, music by A. R. Rahman. Released 1 February 2013, it flopped commercially (₹25 crore India nett) despite winning Filmfare and SIIMA awards.
Kadal Pookkal
Kadal Pookkal (கடல் பூக்கள்) is a 2002 Tamil-language film directed by Bharatiraja, set in the fishing village of Muttam and released more than a year behind schedule.
Kadal Pura
Kadal Pura (கடல் புறா, "The Sea Pigeon") is a 1967 Tamil historical novel by Sandilyan, set in the reign of Veera Rajendra Chola and centered on Chola naval power.
Kadali Ksara
Kadali Ksara (Kadalī kṣāra), an Ayurvedic alkaline preparation from banana plant ash (Musa paradisiaca), AFI formulation AFI000246, dose 125–250 mg, used in Amlapitta, urinary disorders, and Kshara karma procedures.
Kadalora Kavithaigal (கடலோரக் கவிதைகள்)
Kadalora Kavithaigal (கடலோரக் கவிதைகள்), also Kadolara Kavithaigal, is a 1986 Tamil romance-drama directed by Bharathiraja, starring Sathyaraj and Rekha, with Ilaiyaraaja's music; it ran 200 days and was remade as Aradhana and Kaurava.
Kadamba dynasty
Kadamba dynasty (ಕದಂಬ ರಾಜವಂಶ), also Kadambas of Banavasi: first indigenous Karnataka dynasty, founded by Mayurasharma c. 345 CE at Banavasi after rebelling against the Pallavas; known for the Talagunda and Halmidi inscriptions and the Kadamba Shikara temple style.
Kadamba-Pallava wars
The Kadamba-Pallava wars were a series of fourth- and fifth-century conflicts between the Kadamba dynasty of Banavasi and the Pallavas of Kanchi, beginning with Mayurasharma's revolt against Pallava overlordship in the mid-fourth century.
Kadamban
Kadamban (கடம்பன்), 2017 Tamil action adventure film directed by N. Ragavan, starring Arya and Catherine Tresa; tribals of Kadambavanam forest resist a cement businessman seeking limestone; released 14 April 2017, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Kadambari
Kadambari (कादम्बरी) is a Sanskrit prose romance composed in the first half of the 7th century CE by Banabhatta, court poet of Harshavardhana, and completed by his son Bhushanabhatta.
Kadambas of Hangal
The Kadambas of Hangal (ಹಾನಗಲ ಕದಂಬ) were a medieval Karnataka dynasty centered on Hangal and Banavasi, re-established around 980 CE by Chatta Deva as feudatories of the Western Chalukyas.
Kadambini Ganguly (কাদম্বিনী বসু গাঙ্গুলি)
Kadambini Ganguly, née Basu (1861–1923), was an Indian physician and social reformer, the first Indian woman to practice Western medicine and one of British India's first two female graduates in 1883.
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan (കടമ്മനിട്ട രാമകൃഷ്ണൻ; 1935 – 2008) was a Malayalam poet known for bringing the rhythms of Kerala's Padayani folk ritual arts into modern verse.
Kadan
Kadan, also known as Khadan, was a Mongol prince, a son of Ögedei Khan, who commanded an army in the 1241–1242 invasion of Central Europe.
Kadant
Kadant is an American supplier of technologies and engineered systems for process industries, headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts, with about 4,000 employees in 22 countries serving pulp, paper, and wood processing.
Kadapa (కడప)
Kadapa (కడప), formerly Cuddapah, is a city in Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh, headquarters of YSR Kadapa district; a municipality since 1868 and municipal corporation since 2004, population about 344,078 (2011).
Kadaram Kondan (கடாரம் கொண்டான்)
Kadaram Kondan (கடாரம் கொண்டான்), aka KK, is a 2019 Tamil action thriller directed by Rajesh M. Selva, produced by Kamal Haasan, starring Vikram; an official remake of the French film Point Blank, released 19 July 2019 and banned in Malaysia.
Kadarius Toney
Kadarius Toney, NFL wide receiver from Mobile, Alabama and Florida; Giants 2021 first-rounder (20th), traded to Chiefs 2022, set Super Bowl record 65-yard punt return in Super Bowl LVII, later Browns.
Kadashman-Enlil I
Kadašman-Enlil I was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned in the later fourteenth century BC and is known chiefly for his Amarna letters correspondence with pharaoh Amenhotep III.