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Kerchief
Kerchief, from Old French couvrechief (cover head), a square cloth worn on the head, neck, or shoulders; ancestor of the handkerchief and neckerchief, related to the printed bandana, documented from ancient Egypt to 2026 fashion.
Kerckhoffs's principle
Kerckhoffs's principle, also known as Shannon's maxim, is a cryptography rule set out by Auguste Kerckhoffs in 1883: security should rest on the secret key alone.
Kerege Hara
Kerege Hara (ಕೆರೆಗೆ ಹಾರ) is a Kannada folk ballad, popular in north Karnataka, telling how a young wife is drowned in a village tank as a human sacrifice.
Kerei Khan
Kerei Khan, also written Giray or Girey, was a Chinggisid sultan who founded the Kazakh Khanate with Janibek Khan around 1465 and ruled as its first khan.
Kerem Bürsin
Kerem Bürsin (born 1987, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor and producer, Emerson College graduate, star of Güneşi Beklerken and Sen Çal Kapımı, films Unutursam Fısılda and Can Feda, Montblanc global face.
Kerem Demirbay
Kerem Demirbay, born 1993 in Herten, Germany, is a Turkish-descent central midfielder for Kasimpasa; ex-Hoffenheim, Bayer Leverkusen (€32M, 2019), Galatasaray, Eyupspor; 2017 Germany Confederations Cup squad member.
Kerem Gibi
Kerem Gibi is a free-verse poem by Nâzım Hikmet, published unsigned under the pseudonym "Adam" in Resimli Ay in June 1930, transforming the folk hero Kerem into an image of self-sacrifice.
Kerem Hemed
Kerem Hemed (כרם חמד, "vineyard of delight") was a Hebrew scholarly annual of the Galician Haskalah, published in nine volumes in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin between 1833 and 1856.
Kerem ile Aslı
Kerem ile Aslı is a Turkish folk tale telling of the doomed love between Kerem, a Muslim prince, and Aslı, a Christian priest's daughter, united only in death.
Keren
Keren (外連, also read geren) is the Japanese term for the spectacular, visually startling staging effects of kabuki theater, including flying actors (chūnori), instant costume changes, and trick stage machinery.
Keren Woodward
Keren Woodward is an English singer from Bristol, founding member of Bananarama with childhood friend Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey; hits include Venus and Cruel Summer, and she has led the duo version since the early 1990s.
Kerensky–Krasnov attack on Petrograd
The Kerensky–Krasnov attack on Petrograd (Поход Керенского на Петроград) was a failed attempt by supporters of the overthrown Provisional Government to recapture Petrograd from the Bolsheviks in 1917.
Kereopa Te Rau
Kereopa Te Rau (died 1872) was a Ngāti Rangiwewehi warrior and Pai Mārire disciple hanged in 1872 for the 1865 murder of missionary Carl Völkner at Ōpōtiki.
Kererū
Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae), the New Zealand pigeon, also kūkū or kūkupa: a 51 cm, 650 g endemic fruit pigeon, Not Threatened but conservation dependent, and the only surviving disperser of large-seeded native trees.
Keresa Richardson
Keresa Richardson is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 61, first elected in 2024 to represent parts of Collin County.
Keresan oral literature
Keresan oral literature is the body of traditional narratives, songs, and ritual texts of the Keresan-speaking Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, including Acoma, Laguna, and Cochiti.
Keressos
Keressos (Κερησσός, Ceressus) was a Boeotian fortress in the territory of Thespiae, refuge of the Thespians against the Thessalians and after Leuctra (371 BC), captured by Epaminondas; site unlocated, possibly Pyrgaki hill near Askri.
Kereszyély Corrádi
Kereszyély Corrádi, also known as Corrádi Keresztély, is a Hungarian mathematician at Eötvös Loránd University known for the 1963 Corrádi–Hajnal theorem on disjoint cycles in graphs.
Kereta Api Indonesia
Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) is Indonesia's state-owned railway company providing passenger and freight services; in 2025 KAI Group carried 442 million passengers and nearly 70 million tons of freight.
Kereta Cepat Indonesia China
Kereta Cepat Indonesia China (KCIC) is an Indonesian-Chinese joint venture company formed in 2015 that built and operates the Whoosh high-speed railway between Jakarta and Bandung, opened in 2023.
Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Keretapi Tanah Melayu, also known as Malayan Railways, is the national railway of Peninsular Malaysia, tracing its first tin-hauling line to 1885 and corporatized as KTMB in 1992.
Kerguelen Facula
Kerguelen Facula is a 135-km-wide bright spot (facula) on Titan in eastern Shangri-La, centered at 5.4°S, 151°W; IAU-named in 2006 for the French subantarctic Kerguelen island, imaged by Cassini.
Kerguelen Islands
Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen), French sub-Antarctic archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, TAAF district; ~7,215 km², Mont Ross 1,850 m, discovered 1772, annexed 1893, station Port-aux-Français (1950), no permanent population.
Kerguelen Plateau
The Kerguelen Plateau is a large, mainly volcanic submarine plateau in the southern Indian Ocean, formed by the Kerguelen mantle plume and carrying the Kerguelen Archipelago and Heard and McDonald Islands.
Keri
Keri, born Gavafian, was an Armenian fedayi commander from Erzurum who led defense during the 1895 massacres and commanded an Armenian volunteer battalion in World War I before dying in 1916.
Keri Hilson
Keri Hilson (Keri Lynn Hilson, born 1982, Decatur, Georgia) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and vocal arranger who co-wrote hits for Britney Spears and others, peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 with 'The Way I Are' and 'Knock You Down,' released In a Perfect World... (2009) and No Boys Allowed (2010), and returned in 2025 with WE NEED TO TALK: LOVE.
Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme (1947-2021), New Zealand novelist and poet of Ngāi Tahu and Orkney descent; her debut novel The Bone People (1984, Spiral Collective) won the 1985 Booker Prize, first for New Zealand and for a debut novel.
Keri Russell
Keri Russell (born 1976, Fountain Valley, California) is an American actress known as Felicity Porter in Felicity, KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings in The Americans, and Ambassador Kate Wyler in Netflix's The Diplomat; Golden Globe winner, six-time Emmy nominee, and 2026 SAG Award winner.
Keria (류민석) (gamer)
Keria (류민석), Ryu Min-seok, born 2002, is a South Korean League of Legends support for T1 in the LCK; three-time consecutive Worlds champion (2023-2025), first support LCK regular-season MVP, contracted to T1 until 2029.
Kericho
Kericho County, Kenya (county 035), South Rift tea-growing county, HQ Kericho town; 901,777 people (2019), 2,436 km2, six sub-counties; agriculture 43.5% of GCP, led by tea.