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Kesi
Kesi (缂丝), meaning "cut silk," is a Chinese silk tapestry technique whose discontinuous wefts leave fine slits; it flourished in the Song dynasty and remains centered in Suzhou.
Kesineni Chinni
Kesineni Chinni, also known as Kesineni Sivanath, is an Indian politician of the Telugu Desam Party who has represented Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Kesiraja
Kesiraja (ಕೇಶಿರಾಜ), also called Keshava, was a 13th-century Jain Kannada poet and grammarian at the Hoysala court in Karnataka who wrote the Shabdamanidarpanam in 1260.
Keskese
Keskese, also spelled Kaskasé or Keskesse, is a pre-Aksumite archaeological site in Eritrea's Akele Guzay region, near Senafe, known for monolithic stelae and Sabaean royal inscriptions.
Kesko
Kesko is a publicly listed Finnish retail group operating grocery, building and technical, and car trade across eight countries, with about 1,700 stores and 2025 net sales of €12,475 million.
Kesla
Şamaxı FK, formerly Keşlə, Khazar University, and Inter Baku, is an Azerbaijani football club founded in Baku in 1997, winner of the Azerbaijan Cup in 2018 and 2021.
Kesmeşeker
Kesmeşeker is a Turkish alternative rock band formed in 1990 in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, led by singer and guitarist Cenk Taner, who writes all their songs.
Kesopur Menoharpur Mound
Kesopur Menoharpur Mound, locally Hathi Tila, a centrally protected ancient habitation mound near Kishori Raman College, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; Mauryan pottery found in 1973-77 excavations; site of a 2026 land dispute.
Kesridevsinh Jhala
Kesridevsinh Jhala, born 1982, is an Indian BJP politician and member of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, elected in 2023; he is patriarch of the former royal family of Wankaner.
Kessab offensive
The Kessab offensive was a March 2014 attack in which Syrian opposition forces, including Jabhat al-Nusra, seized the Armenian-majority border town of Kessab in Latakia province.
Kessel Medical
Kessel Medical, also rendered Kossel Medtech, is a Chinese pan-vascular interventional medical device company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Suzhou, best known for the Octoparms vena cava filter.
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale
The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10, with a six-item short form, the K6) is a free questionnaire measuring nonspecific psychological distress, developed by Ronald C. Kessler in 2002.
Kessler syndrome
The Kessler syndrome, also called the Kessler effect, is a theoretical runaway cascade of orbital debris collisions proposed by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais in 1978.
Keston
Keston is a village on the southern edge of Greater London in the London Borough of Bromley, formerly part of Kent until 1965, known for its Iron Age hillfort and Roman villa.
Keston Bledman
Keston Bledman, "Blazing Bledman", Trinidad and Tobago sprinter (born 1988, San Fernando), 100 m specialist; Olympic 4x100 m relay gold 2008 and silver 2012, 100 m personal best 9.86 seconds; later a national relay coach.
Keston Roman Mausoleum
Keston Roman Mausoleum (Warbank, Keston, Bromley): a 3rd-century AD group of three Romano-British tombs, the main one a circular, buttressed, red-painted tomb about 9 m across serving a nearby Roman villa; scheduled monument 1002024, rarely open to the public.
Kestra (software)
Kestra is an open-source, Apache 2.0 orchestration platform in Java for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows, defined in YAML. First released February 2022; version 2.0 (September 2026) rebuilt the engine around gRPC workers and AI features.
Kestra Medical Technologies
Kestra Medical Technologies is a Kirkland, Washington wearable medical device company founded in 2014, known for its FDA-approved ASSURE wearable defibrillator; it went public on Nasdaq in 2025.
Kestrel
Kestrel: small hovering falcons of the genus Falco, at least 13 species including the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and American kestrel (Falco sparverius). Cavity-nesting open-country hunters; several populations declining, Mauritius kestrel Endangered.
Kestrel (Marvel Comics)
Kestrel (John Wraith) is a Marvel Comics mutant teleporter of Team X and Weapon X, first appearing in Wolverine #48 (1991), played by will.i.am in X-Men Origins: Wolverine; distinct from DC's Hawk and Dove Kestrel.
Kestrel Coal Mine
Kestrel Coal Mine is an underground metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, about 40 km north-east of Emerald, Australia, producing hard coking coal for export steelmaking since 1992.
Kestrine/Kammania
Kestrine/Kammania (Kestrinia, Kestria), ancient district of Epirus in southern Chaonia bounded by the river Thyamis against Thesprotia; famed for Cestrinic oxen, named after Cestrinus son of Helenus, principal town Ilium/Troja near Filiates.
Kęstutis
Kęstutis (c. 1300–1382) was a son of Gediminas, Duke of Trakai, and co-ruler of Lithuania with his brother Algirdas; he was the father of Vytautas the Great.
Kęstutis Budrys
Kęstutis Budrys, born 1980, is a non-partisan Lithuanian politician and former national security adviser serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since December 2024.
Kesusasteraan Melayu Baru
Kesusasteraan Melayu Baru is modern Malay literature in new forms such as the novel, short story, drama, and sajak, which emerged from the 1920s and replaced traditional forms.
Keta
Keta is a coastal town in Ghana's Volta Region, capital of Keta Municipal District, on the sand barrier enclosing Keta Lagoon, a large brackish Ramsar wetland; known for fishing, salt mining, erosion, flooding, and the planned Keta Port.
Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site
Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site (KLCRS), Ghana's largest coastal wetland, designated a Ramsar site in 1992 in the Volta Region; brackish lagoon with Ghana's most contiguous mangrove cover, rich waterbird and fish biodiversity, and major mangrove restoration projects.
Ketab-e Hafte
Ketab-e Hafte (کتاب هفته, "The Week's Book") was a Persian-language weekly magazine of literature and culture published in Tehran from 1961 to 1963, supervised early on by the poet Ahmad Shamlou.
Ketab-e Jom'e
Ketab-e Jom'e (کتاب جمعه, "Friday Book") was a weekly political, cultural, and artistic journal edited by the poet Ahmad Shamlou in Tehran, producing 36 issues from 1979 to 1980.
Ketama
Ketama is a Spanish Gitano flamenco-fusion group from Madrid, formed in 1984 from the Habichuela and Sordera families, best known for De akí a Ketama and 'Vente pa Madrid'.