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Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry: claim that Ashkenazi Jews descend largely from the Khazars, Turkic converts to Judaism; popularized by Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, contested by genome-wide and ancient DNA studies.
Khazar–Arab Wars
The Khazar–Arab Wars were conflicts between the Khazar Khaganate and the Rashidun, Umayyad, and later Abbasid caliphates over the Caucasus, fought mainly from the 640s to 737.
Khazarian Mafia
Khazarian Mafia, or Khazar Mafia, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming Ashkenazi Jews descend from Khazar converts and secretly control global finance and politics; historians and geneticists reject it, and it was used to justify Russia's Ukraine invasion.
Khazars
The Khazars, or Khazaria, was a multiethnic nomadic state in Eastern Europe from the mid-7th to the late 10th century, known for its Arab-Khazar wars and royal conversion to Judaism.
Khazna Tech
Khazna Tech is an Egyptian financial technology company founded in Cairo in 2019 that provides payroll, lending, payments, and insurance services to unbanked Egyptians through a mobile super app.
Khazzan Gas Field
Khazzan is a giant tight gas field in central Oman, operated by BP, producing 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day with its neighbor Ghazeer.
KHB study
KHB (KIDSHEART AND BRAIN, NCT05658965) is a recruiting single-center observational cohort at University Hospital, Lille, enrolling 50 infants under 1 year undergoing congenital heart surgery on extracorporeal circulation, testing whether pre- and postoperative EEG predicts neurodevelopmental disorders at 24 months.
KHD Humboldt Wedag
KHD Humboldt Wedag is a publicly listed German supplier of equipment, complete plants, and automation for the cement industry, headquartered in Cologne, where the business was founded in 1856.
KHDRBS, Qua1 domain
Qua1 domain of KHDRBS/STAR proteins (Sam68, SLM1, T-STAR, Quaking): N-terminal helix-turn-helix motif flanking the maxi-KH domain, necessary and sufficient for homodimerization, which increases RNA affinity; absent in SF1.
KHDRBS1
KHDRBS1, also called Sam68 (Src-associated in mitosis 68 kDa), is a human STAR-family KH-domain RNA-binding protein linking signaling to splicing, translation, and export; upregulated and cytoplasmic in many cancers, with knockout mice showing fertility, bone, and adiposity defects.
Kheda Satyagraha of 1918
Kheda Satyagraha (खेड़ा सत्याग्रह), 1918: a land-revenue non-payment campaign by Kanbi-Patidar peasants of Kheda district, Gujarat, led by Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel after the failed 1917-18 harvest; ended with a compromise exempting poor peasants.
Khedebneithirbinet
Khedebneithirbinet, also written Khedebe-Neith-Ir-Binet, is an ancient Egyptian royal woman usually identified as a wife of the pharaoh Nectanebo II, though her dynasty is disputed.
Khedivate of Egypt (الخديوية المصرية)
Khedivate of Egypt (الخديوية المصرية), autonomous Ottoman vassal state created by the 1867 firman granting Ismail the title khedive; lasted until the 1914 British protectorate, marked by debt, the Suez Canal share sale, and British occupation from 1882.
Khedivial Opera House (دار الأوبرا الخديوية)
Khedivial Opera House (دار الأوبرا الخديوية), Cairo's first opera house, built 1869 by Khedive Ismail for the Suez Canal opening, modeled on La Scala; opened with Rigoletto, hosted Aida's 1871 premiere, burned down 28 October 1971.
Kheerat Panesar
Kheerat Panesar, fictional EastEnders character played by Jaz Singh Deol 2019-2022; eldest Panesar brother in the soap's first Punjabi Sikh family; exited serving a life sentence for a murder confession protecting Suki.
Khel Khel Mein (1977 film)
Khel Khel Mein (खेल खेल में) is a 1975-released Hindi comedy-mystery-thriller directed by Ravi Tandon, starring Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, and Rakesh Roshan, with R.D. Burman music; three collegians' Black Cobra ransom prank on a jeweller turns into a murder frame-up. IMDb dates it 1977.
Khel Khel Mein (खेल खेल में) (2024 film)
Khel Khel Mein (खेल खेल में), 2024 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Mudassar Aziz, official remake of Perfect Strangers; stars Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Vaani Kapoor, Fardeen Khan; released 15 August 2024, earned ₹40.36 crore net in India, streams on Netflix.
Khel Ratna Award
Khel Ratna Award (Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, formerly Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna) is India's highest sporting honor, instituted 1991-92, renamed 2021, ₹25 lakh cash, 61 recipients including first awardees Viswanathan Anand and Geet Sethi.
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (खेलें हम जी जान से)
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (खेलें हम जी जान से) is a 2010 Hindi historical film by Ashutosh Gowariker, based on Manini Chatterjee's Do and Die, starring Abhishek Bachchan as Surjya Sen in the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid; a box-office flop.
Khelo India Youth Games
Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), formerly Khelo India School Games, is India's annual national multi-sport competition for U-17 and U-21 athletes, first held in New Delhi in 2018, renamed in 2019 after the Indian Olympic Association joined, with Rs 5 lakh annual scholarships for 1,000 selected athletes.
Khelones
Khelones (Chelones) was a small coastal settlement on the Karpas Peninsula in northeastern Cyprus, occupied from the Archaic period and abandoned in the seventh century AD.
Khem Birch
Khem Birch, Canadian center born 1992 in Montreal, played six NBA seasons with Orlando and Toronto, won the 2025 EuroLeague with Fenerbahce, and represented Canada at Paris 2024.
Khema
Khema (खेमा), also called Khema Theri, was a queen of King Bimbisara who became a Buddhist nun, ranked foremost of the Buddha's women disciples in great wisdom.
Khemisset
Khemisset (الخميسات), city and province in Morocco's Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region; provincial capital 65 km east of Rabat, 563,036 inhabitants (2024), Zemmour plateau, potash mining project.
Khemjira (เขมจิราต้องรอด)
Khemjira The Series (เขมจิราต้องรอด), also Khemjira Must Survive, is a 2025 Thai BL romantic-horror series on One31, adapted from Kali's novel, following a cursed young man who must survive past age 21.
Khen dynasty of Kamata
The Khen dynasty of Kamata (খেন বংশ) was a line of three kings, founded by Niladhwaj, who ruled the Kamata kingdom from Kamatapur from about 1440 to 1498.
Khendjer
Userkare Khendjer was a king of Egypt's 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1764–1759 BC and buried in the only completed 13th Dynasty pyramid, at South Saqqara.
Khenemet
Khenemet (Khnumet or Khnumit) was an Egyptian princess of the 12th Dynasty, probably a daughter of Amenemhat II, buried in an undisturbed tomb at Dahshur.
Khenemetneferhedjet I
Khenemetneferhedjet I, also called Weret, was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian queen, wife of pharaoh Senusret II and probably the mother of Senusret III, buried with a pyramid at Dahshur.
Khenemetneferhedjet II
Khenemetneferhedjet II, also called Khnemetneferhedjet II or Weret II, was an Egyptian queen consort, probably the principal wife of King Senwosret III of the 12th Dynasty.