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Khary Payton
Khary Payton (born 1972, Augusta, Georgia) is an American actor and voice actor, the longtime voice of DC's Cyborg and King Ezekiel on The Walking Dead, also Aqualad, Black Lightning, Drebin, and Grimlock.
Kharyaga oil field
Discovered in 1970, the Kharyaga oil field is a northern Russian onshore site on the Nenets/Komi border. It was operated by Zarubezhneft after Western interests exited in 2022.
Kharyaga-Usa Oil Pipeline
The Kharyaga-Usa oil pipeline (нефтепровод Харьяга – Уса) is a 150-kilometer Arctic pipeline carrying crude from the Kharyaga field to Usinsk, known for a major 1994 oil spill.
Khas-Magomed Kadyrov
Khas-Magomed Kadyrov is a Russian politician, a distant relative of Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov, who has served as Mayor of Grozny since 2021 and ranked first among Russian mayors in 2025.
Khasakkinte Itihasam
Khasakkinte Itihasam (ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം) is the 1969 debut Malayalam novel of O.V. Vijayan, following Ravi, a young astrophysics student who becomes a teacher in the village of Khasak.
Khasan Baroyev
Khasan Baroyev (Хасан Махарбекович Бароев), Russian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1982 in Dushanbe; 2004 Olympic super-heavyweight champion, 2008 silver stripped for turinabol, two-time world champion.
Khasan Khalmurzayev
Khasan Khalmurzayev (Хасан Магометович Халмурзаев), Russian judoka born 1993 in Nazran, 2016 Olympic champion at -81 kg, 2010 Youth Olympic silver medalist, European champion, retired 2025.
Khasekhemwy
Khasekhemwy, also known as Khasekhem, was the last king of Egypt's Second Dynasty, reigning around 2700 BCE. His monuments include his Abydos tomb and the Shunet el-Zebib enclosure.
Khasekhemwy's campaign against Nubia
Khasekhemwy's campaign against Nubia was a military action in Nubia by Khasekhemwy, last king of Egypt's Second Dynasty, after he reunified Egypt in the Early Dynastic period.
Khasekhemwy's suppression of the northern revolt
Khasekhemwy's suppression of the northern revolt was a late Second Dynasty campaign ending Egypt's civil conflict, recorded on statue bases with tallies of 47,209 and 48,205 slain.
Khaset (nome)
Khaset was the sixth nome, or province, of Lower Egypt in ancient Egypt, bearing the Mountain bull emblem and centered on its capital Khasu, the Greek Xois.
Khashm el-Eish
Khashm el-Eish (Khashm al ‘Aysh), "Beginning of Plenty", is a 60 m oolitic limestone hill in Matruh, Egypt, about 23 km east-southeast of el-Alamein, crowned by a Graeco-Roman fortress with a 33 m square keep, ancient cisterns, and a proposed role as a signal tower on the road to Cyrene.
Khasi Hills
Khasi Hills: central hill range of the Meghalaya Plateau, northeast India, between Garo and Jaintia Hills; highest point Shillong Peak (~1,960 m), home of Shillong, Sohra and Mawsynram rainfall records.
Khasi people
Khasi people (Hynniewtrep, Children of Seven Huts): Austroasiatic-speaking indigenous people of Meghalaya, India, known for their matrilineal clan system, Ka Khadduh inheritance, sacred groves, and resistance leader U Tirot Sing.
Khassakiya
The Khassakiya (الخاصكية) was the corps of the sultan's personal Mamluks in the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, serving as his retinue and bodyguards and a step to high office.
Khassaraporn Suta
Khassaraporn Suta (เกษราภรณ์ สุตา), Thai weightlifter born 1971 in Lampang; Royal Thai Navy lieutenant commander; won bronze, women's 58 kg, Sydney 2000, first Thai female Olympic medallist and first Thai medal outside boxing.
Khasso
Khasso, also written Xaaso, was a group of kingdoms on both banks of the upper Senegal River in present-day Mali, unified from 1681 to 1800.
Khat
Khat (Catha edulis, qat, miraa) is an evergreen Celastraceae shrub of East Africa and Yemen whose fresh leaves, containing the amphetamine-like alkaloid cathinone, are chewed as a stimulant by about 20 million people.
Khatabook
Khatabook is a Bengaluru-based fintech startup, founded in 2018, whose free Android digital ledger app lets small merchants record credit extended to customers, with lending services attached.
Khatanbaatar Magsarjav
Khatanbaatar Magsarjav (Хатанбаатар Магсаржав), born in 1877 or 1878, was a Mongolian general who captured Khovd in 1912, won the hereditary title Khatanbaatar, and never lost a battle.
Khatanga Gulf
Khatanga Gulf (Khatanga Bay, Хатангский залив) is a large tidal estuary of the Khatanga River in the southwestern Laptev Sea off the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia, known for intense tidal mixing, an unusually large river plume, ice cover October to July, and Rosneft's Khatangsky oil license area.
Khatia Buniatishvili (ხატია ბუნიათიშვილი)
Khatia Buniatishvili (ხატია ბუნიათიშვილი), Georgian-French pianist born 1987, Sony Classical recording artist since 2011 with ten albums including Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and a 2024 conductorless Mozart concertos recording.
Khatib Tabrizi
Khatib Tabrizi (الخطيب التبريزي), full name Wali al-Din al-Khatib al-Tabrizi, was a 14th-century Sunni hadith scholar of Tabriz, compiler of Mishkat al-Masabih, completed in 1337.
Khatlon Region (Вилояти Хатлон)
Khatlon Region (Вилояти Хатлон) is Tajikistan's southernmost province, established 1992, centered on Bokhtar. Predominantly rural and agricultural (cotton, horticulture), it recorded poverty of 31 percent in 2024, down from 75 percent in 2010.
Khatmiyya
The Khatmiyya (also known as Mirghani), is a Sufi order originating in the early 19th century, led by Sayyid 'al-Osman al-Mirghani and influential in Eastern Sudan.
Khatra Khatra Khatra
Khatra Khatra Khatra (The Khatra Show), Indian Hindi comedy game show on Colors TV from March 11, 2019, hosted by Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa, produced by BBC Worldwide Productions India, celebrities prank each other with tasks and punishments.
Khatri (ਖੱਤਰੀ)
The Khatri (ਖੱਤਰੀ) are a Punjabi community of northern India historically associated with trade, accounting, and civil administration; all ten Sikh Gurus were born into Khatri families.
Khatri-Rao product
The Khatri-Rao product, or column-wise Kronecker product, is a matrix product that applies the Kronecker product column by column, introduced by Khatri and Rao in 1968.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 14
Khatron Ke Khiladi 14, also titled Fear Factor: Darr Ki Nayi Kahaaniyaan In Romania, was the 14th season of the Indian stunt reality series, filmed in Bucharest, aired on Colors TV from July 27 to September 29, 2024, hosted by Rohit Shetty, and won by Karan Veer Mehra.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 15
Khatron Ke Khiladi 15 (खतरों के खिलाड़ी 15, Darr Ka Naya Daur) is the 2026 fifteenth season of India's stunt reality show, hosted by Rohit Shetty, filmed in Cape Town, aired on Colors TV and JioHotstar, won by Avinash Mishra.