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Ketamalla
Ketamalla (ಕೇತಮಲ್ಲ) was a dignitary of the Hoysala kingdom in Karnataka, described variously as an officer or merchant, who commissioned the Hoysalesvara temple at Halebidu, built in 1121 in honor of his patron, King Vishnuvardhana.
Ketamine
Ketamine is an arylcyclohexylamine compound synthesized in 1962 by Calvin Stevens at Parke-Davis, sold as the hydrochloride salt and controlled as a Schedule III substance in the United States.
Ketamine
Ketamine, a phencyclidine-derived dissociative anesthetic and NMDA receptor antagonist (Ketalar; esketamine as Spravato), synthesized 1962, FDA-approved 1970, and repurposed since 2000 as a rapid-acting antidepressant for treatment-resistant depression and acute suicidality.
Ketan J. Patel
Ketan J. Patel is a molecular biologist and physician who directs the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford and discovered that aldehydes are a major source of DNA damage.
Ketan Malkan
Ketan Malkan is an Indian business executive who co-founded Medikabazaar, the Mumbai-based B2B marketplace for medical devices and hospital supplies, in 2015, serving as chief financial officer until 2023.
Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta (केतन मेहता, born 1952), Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter of parallel cinema; FTII graduate; directed Bhavni Bhavai, Mirch Masala, Sardar, Mangal Pandey: The Rising, and Manjhi; co-founded Maya Digital Studios with Deepa Sahi.
Ketan Parekh (કેતન પરેખ)
Ketan Parekh (કેતન પરેખ) is a Mumbai stockbroker and chartered accountant who ran the brokerage NH Securities, was the central figure in the 2001 Indian stock market scam, and was convicted in 2014.
Ketana
Ketana (కేతన), also known as Mulaghatika Ketana, was a 13th-century Telugu poet and disciple of Tikkana who rendered Dandin's Dashakumara-charitra in Telugu and wrote the earliest grammar of Telugu in Telugu.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson, born 1970, is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, confirmed 53-47 on April 7, 2022, as the first Black woman justice and first former public defender, succeeding Stephen Breyer.
Ketanserin
Ketanserin is a selective antagonist of the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor, developed by Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1980, studied clinically as an antihypertensive and antiplatelet agent and widely used in laboratory research.
Ketazolam
Ketazolam (U-28,774; brands Anxon, Marcen, Sedotime, Solatran, Unakalm) is an Upjohn benzodiazepine anxiolytic that converts to diazepam in blood, was trialed as once-daily bedtime anxiety treatment, is UN Schedule IV, and has no FDA-approved product.
KETBOI69
KETBOI69, also written Ketboi69, is the back-to-back DJ project of Irish DJ KETTAMA (Evan Campbell of Galway) and Australian DJ Partiboi69, billing as a duo from August 2024 and known for high-BPM techno and rave sets.
Ketch
A ketch is a two-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with the mizzenmast forward of the rudderpost; it served for centuries as cargo craft and cruising yacht.
Ketchikan, Alaska
Ketchikan, Alaska (Kichx̱áan), the Salmon Capital of the World and Alaska's First City, is a home rule city on Revillagigedo Island in the Tongass National Forest, incorporated 1900, accessible only by air or boat, with a 2020 census population of 8,192.
Ketchum, Idaho
Ketchum, Idaho: Wood River Valley city next to Sun Valley Resort, founded 1880 as a mining supply town named for David Ketchum; now a resort economy with Idaho's highest home prices and a severe workforce housing shortage.
Ketchup
Ketchup (also historically spelled catsup) is a sweet-and-tangy tomato condiment of tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices, derived from the Hokkien fish sauce kê-tsiap, defined by US FDA standard 21 CFR 155.194 and graded by USDA total-solids standards.
Ketchup as a vegetable
Ketchup as a vegetable: 1981 USDA proposal under Reagan to credit ketchup and pickle relish toward school lunch vegetable requirements after budget cuts; ridiculed, cancelled September 25, 1981, never enacted.
Ketchup chips
Ketchup chips are ketchup-flavoured potato chips, an iconic Canadian snack probably invented in the 1970s by Hostess (merged with Lay's in 1988), though Herr's of Pennsylvania claims an early-1980s origin; 46% of Canadians call ketchup the signature chip flavour.
Ketchup Entertainment
Ketchup Entertainment, stylized ketchup.entertainment, is an American independent film financing and distribution company founded in 2011 by Gareth West, Vahan Yepremyan, and Artur Galstian, known for releasing shelved Warner Bros. films Coyote vs. Acme and The Day the Earth Blew Up.
Ketef Hinnom
Ketef Hinnom is an Iron Age rock-cut burial site overlooking the Hinnom Valley southwest of Jerusalem, known for two silver amulets inscribed with the Priestly Blessing, found in 1979.
Ketef Hinnom scrolls
The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also called the Ketef Hinnom silver amulets, are two silver amulets found in a Jerusalem burial cave in 1979, bearing the Priestly Blessing and dating to about 600 BCE.
Ketel One
Ketel One (KETEL 1) is a premium Dutch vodka created in 1983 by Carolus Nolet Sr., tenth generation of the Nolet family, at their 1691 Schiedam distillery; named after the Distilleerketel No. 1 copper pot still, made from winter wheat, and sold worldwide through a 2008 Diageo joint venture.
Keteleeria
Keteleeria (油杉属) is a relict conifer genus of Pinaceae, sister to Abies in the abietoid clade, native mainly to China. It has axial resin canals, disputed species limits, a Cretaceous fossil record, and endangered, climate-threatened species.
Keteleeria fortunei (油杉)
Keteleeria fortunei (油杉, Fortune's keteleeria) is a Near Threatened Pinaceae tree to 30 m from southern China and northern Vietnam, with erect cylindrical cones, timber and afforestation uses, and varieties fortunei, cyclolepis, and oblonga.
Ketema Yifru
Ketema Yifru (ከተማ ይፍሩ) was an Ethiopian diplomat who served as Foreign Minister from 1961 to 1971 and chaired the drafting of the OAU Charter in 1963.
Ketene
Ketene, also known as ethenone (CH₂=C=O), is the simplest ketene, a colorless, flammable, highly reactive gas made from acetic acid and used to produce acetic anhydride.
Ketene cycloaddition
Ketene cycloaddition is the reaction in which a ketene combines with an alkene, imine, or carbonyl compound to form a ring, giving cyclobutanones and β-lactams.
Keter (כֶּתֶר)
Keter (כתר, "crown") is the highest of the ten sefirot in Kabbalah, the interface between the infinite God, Ein Sof, and the sefirotic tree, formalized in thirteenth-century Spain.
Keter Malchut
Keter Malchut, also rendered Keter Malkhut or The Kingly Crown, is a Hebrew liturgical-philosophical poem of about 40 stanzas by Solomon ibn Gabirol, recited on Yom Kippur.
Ketevan Losaberidze
Ketevan Losaberidze (Keto, ქეთევან ლოსაბერიძე), Georgian archer for the USSR, 1949–2022; Moscow 1980 Olympic individual recurve champion, the only Soviet Olympic archery gold medalist.