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Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus

Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus is a 1949 poetry collection by Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, published by Pustaka Rakyat in Jakarta in two parts, including "Aku" and "Krawang-Bekasi".

Kerim Alajbegović

Kerim-Sam Alajbegović (born 2007, Cologne) is a Bosnian winger for Juventus and Bosnia and Herzegovina; ex-Köln and Leverkusen youth, Salzburg breakout, 2026 World Cup scorer vs Qatar.

Kering: French, family-controlled luxury group (formerly PPR, renamed 2013), owner of Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Boucheron; CEO Luca de Meo since September 2025; ReconKering turnaround plan 2026.

Kerintha

Kerintha (కేరింత), 2015 Telugu campus romance directed by Sai Kiran Adivi, produced by Dil Raju, starring Sumanth Ashwin, Sri Divya, Tejaswi Madivada; released 12 June 2015, music by Mickey J Meyer.

Kerion celsi

Kerion celsi is the severe inflammatory form of tinea capitis, a suppurative fungal scalp infection caused mainly by Trichophyton tonsurans and Microsporum canis, treated with systemic antifungals and prone to scarring alopecia.

Keris Mas

Keris Mas, pen name of Kamaludin Mohamad (1922–1992), was a Malaysian writer, a leading figure of the ASAS 50 movement, and the first Sasterawan Negara in 1981.

Kerivoula

Kerivoula, the woolly bats (also painted and trumpet-eared bats), a genus of small vespertilionid bats of subfamily Kerivoulinae across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia; 22-28 species, cryptic hardwickii complex, four Philippine species arriving about 10 MYA.

Kerkenes Dağ

Kerkenes Dağ is an Iron Age mountain-top city in Yozgat Province, central Anatolia, probably the Pteria of Herodotus, founded about 600 BC and destroyed by fire in the mid-sixth century BC.

Kerker effect

The Kerker effect is a directional light-scattering phenomenon in which a small particle radiates no light backward, predicted in 1983 and now a design principle for nanoantennas and metasurfaces.

Kerkouane

Kerkouane (Kerkuane) is a ruined Punic town on a cliff at the tip of the Cap Bon peninsula in Tunisia, destroyed around 255 BC and never rebuilt, the only Phoenicio-Punic city to survive intact.

Kerlescan alignments

Kerlescan alignments (Alignements de Kerlescan), easternmost and best-preserved of the Carnac stone fields in Morbihan, Brittany: 13 rows, 594 original menhirs, east-west oriented, Neolithic, mid 4th millennium BC, classified 1889.

Kerlescan Fossae

Kerlescan Fossae, a 410-km fossa (tectonic trough) system on Europa at 3.34°N, 238.24°W, IAU-approved 2019, named after the Carnac stone rows in Brittany; linked to true polar wandering.

Kerma

Kerma is an ancient city in Sudan near the Third Cataract of the Nile, capital of the first Kingdom of Kush from about 2500 to 1500 BC.

Kerma Necropolis

The Kerma Necropolis is the vast burial field of the Nubian kingdom of Kerma in Sudan, used from about 2550 to 1500 BC and holding up to 40,000 tombs.

Kerma royal tumuli

The Kerma royal tumuli are the great mud-brick burial mounds of the kings of Kerma, capital of Kush, in Upper Nubia near the Third Cataract of the Nile.

Kermadec Islands

Kermadec Islands (Rangitāhua): subtropical volcanic New Zealand island group 800–1,000 km northeast of the North Island. Largest island Raoul (29 km²); 1990 no-take marine reserve of 748,000 ha; annexed 1887; research-only access.

Oct 20, 2026

Kermadec Ridge

The Kermadec Ridge is the active submarine volcanic arc east of New Zealand, part of the 2,500 km Tonga-Kermadec system formed by subduction of the Pacific plate.

Kermadec Trench

Kermadec Trench: oceanic trench north of New Zealand where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Australian Plate; deepest point Scholl Deep, about 10,106 m; explored by Galathea (1952), NIWA (2017), and Fendouzhe crewed dives (2022).

Kerman (کرمان)

Kerman (کرمان) is the capital of Kerman province in southeastern Iran, at 1,762 m elevation with 142 mm annual rainfall. Known for its four historic bazaars, Ganj-Ali Khan's Safavid square, the 1794 Qajar destruction, and UNESCO Tentative List status.

Kerman carpet

A Kerman carpet is a hand-knotted pile carpet woven in the city of Kerman and nearby villages in southeastern Iran, regarded among the finest Persian carpets.

Oct 15, 2026

Kerman power station

Kerman power station (نیروگاه برق کرمان) is a 1,912-megawatt combined-cycle gas-fired power station in Kerman, Iran, ranked among the country's largest plants and operating since 2009.

Kerman, Iran

Kerman is a province in southeastern Iran, the country's largest at 182,000 km², with the city of Kerman as its capital and earthquakes recurring every five to ten years.

Kermanshah (city)

Kermanshah (Kermānšāh, Kurdish Kermāšān), capital of Kermanshah province and principal city of western Iran at 1,391 m elevation; historic Qermisin on the Khorasan Highway, oil-refinery center, UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy since 2021.

Oct 20, 2026

Kermānshāh (district)

Kermanshah County (Shahrestān-e Kermanshah, شهرستان کرمانشاه) is a second-order administrative district in Kermanshah province, western Iran; capital Kermanshah city; population 1,083,833; 4 districts, 13 rural districts, 5,000 km2.

Kermanshah Province

Kermanshah Province (Persian: کرمانشاه), also called Bāḵtarān in 1980s official usage, is a province in western Iran on the Zagros transit route to Mesopotamia, capital Kermanshah, area about 24,434 km², population 1,952,434 (2016 census).

Kermario alignments

Kermario alignments (Alignements de Kermario), central and longest stone-row group of the Carnac alignments in Morbihan, Brittany: over 1,100 m, about 1,000 menhirs in 10 rows, Neolithic mid-4th millennium BC, classified monument historique 1889.

Kermario Fossae

Kermario Fossae is a 191-km-long system of narrow tectonic fissures on Europa, IAU-approved in 2019 and named after the Carnac stone rows in Brittany. Its en echelon, V-shaped fissures, up to 200 m deep, record recent true polar wander of Europa's ice shell.

Kermesse (festival)

Kermesse (Dutch kermis), from kerkmisse 'church mass', is the annual parish festival and fair of the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France; also a charity fête, a painting genre, and UNESCO-listed kermis culture.

Kermit Gosnell

Kermit Barron Gosnell was an American former abortion provider sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for murdering three babies delivered alive at his West Philadelphia clinic.