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Kheti (vizier)
Kheti, also rendered Khety, was a vizier of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Amenemhat III, second only to the king in the state hierarchy, with an office at Lahun near the king's pyramid at Hawara.
Khety (Herakleopolitan king)
Khety, in Greek Achthoes, is the family name of the royal house that ruled Egypt from Herakleopolis during Dynasties 9 and 10 of the First Intermediate Period.
Khety (nomarch of Asyut)
Khety I was a nomarch, or provincial governor, of Asyut during the First Intermediate Period, serving the Herakleopolitan Tenth Dynasty and owning rock-cut Tomb V at Asyut.
Khety (nomarch of the Oryx nome)
Khety was a nomarch of the 16th (Oryx) Upper Egyptian nome in the late 11th Dynasty of Egypt, buried in tomb BH17 at Beni Hassan, known for its 122 pairs of wrestlers.
Khevisberi Gocha
Khevisberi Gocha (Georgian: ხევისბერი გოჩა) is an 1884 Georgian historical novella by Aleksandre Qazbegi about a mountain village chief who kills his son for betraying the community.
Khewra Salt Mine
The Khewra Salt Mine, also known as the Mayo Salt Mine, is a large rock salt mine in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan, regarded as the world's second largest.
Kheya
Kheya (খেয়া), Bengali for a ferry boat, is a 1906 book of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, whose symbolic title stands for the crossing of life; it was dedicated to Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Khia
Khia (Khia Finch, Khia Shamone Chambers), Tampa rapper and producer behind the 2002 hit "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" and the independently sold gold album Thug Misses; her name also spawned the slang "Khia Asylum."
Khiangte Laltluangkima
Khiangte Laltluangkima is an Indian politician from Mizoram and a Zoram People's Movement member, elected to the Rajya Sabha in June 2026 as the party's first Upper House MP.
Khidr (الخضر)
Khidr (al-Khiḍr, الخضر, "the Green One") is the unnamed servant of God whom Moses accompanies in Quran 18:60–82; named only in hadith, disputed as prophet or saint, with debated origins in Gilgamesh, Alexander, and Melchizedek traditions.
Khien Yimsiri
Khien Yimsiri (เขียน ยิ้มศิริ, 1922–1971) was a pioneering Thai sculptor and influential teacher at Silpakorn University, known for works like Musical Rhythm that blended Sukhothai tradition with Western modernist form.
Khieu Samphan
Khieu Samphan (ខៀវ សំផន), born 1931, head of state of Democratic Kampuchea 1976–1979 and last surviving Khmer Rouge leader judged, convicted at Cambodia's ECCC of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; life sentence affirmed in 2022.
Khiladi (खिलाड़ी) (1992 film)
Khiladi (खिलाड़ी), 1992 Hindi suspense thriller by Abbas-Mustan starring Akshay Kumar, Ayesha Jhulka, Deepak Tijori; a fake-kidnapping prank turns to murder; superhit that spawned the Khiladi film series.
Khiladi (ఖిలాడీ) (2022 film)
Khiladi (ఖిలాడీ), 2022 Telugu action thriller directed by Ramesh Varma, starring Ravi Teja in a dual role; released 11 February 2022 with a Hindi dub, flopped at the box office.
Khiladi 420 (खिलाड़ी 420)
Khiladi 420 (खिलाड़ी 420) is a 2000 Hindi action thriller, Neeraj Vora's directorial debut, the seventh Khiladi film, starring Akshay Kumar in a double role as conman Dev and twin Anand with Mahima Chaudhry; released 29 December 2000, a box-office flop.
Khiladi 786 (खिलाड़ी 786)
Khiladi 786 (खिलाड़ी 786) is a 2012 Hindi action comedy, the eighth Khiladi-title film, directed by Ashish R Mohan, starring Akshay Kumar as Bahattar Singh with Asin, Himesh Reshammiya, and Mithun Chakraborty, released 7 December 2012.
Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (खिलाड़ियों का खिलाड़ी)
Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (खिलाड़ियों का खिलाड़ी), Player of Players, is a 1996 Hindi action thriller by Umesh Mehra starring Akshay Kumar, Rekha, and Raveena Tandon; a Super Hit whose Undertaker was actually wrestler Brian Lee.
Khilafat Movement
The Khilafat Movement (1919–1924) was a pan-Islamic campaign by British Indian Muslims, led by the Ali brothers and joined by Gandhi, to preserve the Ottoman caliphate after World War I; it merged with Non-Cooperation and collapsed after Turkey abolished the caliphate in 1924.
Khimki
Khimki (Химки), city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, northwest of Moscow on the Moscow Canal; former closed aerospace satellite (NPO Lavochkin, Energomash, Fakel), city since 1939, about 240,000 residents, Sheremetyevo airport on its territory.
Khingila
Khingila (खिंगिल) was a king of the Alkhan (Alchon) Huns who reigned from about 430/40 to 490 CE and heads the 492/93 Schøyen copper scroll's list of rulers.
Khirbat al-Mudayna
Khirbat al-Mudayna, also called Mudayna Thamad, is a fortified Iron Age II town in central Jordan on the northern frontier of ancient Moab, occupied from about 800 to 580 BC.
Khirbat an-Nawafla
Khirbat an-Nawafla, also printed Khirbat al-Nawafla, is a small archaeological site in the Southern Highlands of Jordan near Wadi Musa, occupied in the Nabataean/Early Roman and Late Byzantine periods.
Khirbat Ataruz
Khirbat Ataruz (خربة عتاروز) is an Iron Age archaeological site in central Jordan, usually identified with the Moabite town of Ataroth and known for its 9th-century BCE temple and inscribed altar.
Khirbat en-Nahas
Khirbat en-Nahas, also spelled Khirbet en-Nahas, is an Iron Age copper-smelting site in southern Jordan's Wadi Faynan district, the largest Iron Age copper-production center in the southern Levant.
Khirbat Iskandar
Khirbat Iskandar, also printed Khirbet Iskander, is a fortified Early Bronze Age tell on the Wadi al-Wala in central Jordan, occupied from about 3800 to 1950 BCE and known for its Early Bronze IV fortifications.
Khirbet al-Batrawi
Khirbet al-Batrawy, an Early Bronze Age fortified city (3000-2300 BC) in the upper Wadi az-Zarqa, north-central Jordan, discovered in 2004 and excavated by Sapienza University of Rome; known for its quadruple fortification lines and the Palace of the Copper Axes.
Khirbet Badd 'Isa
Khirbet Badd 'Isa is an excavated Second Temple-period Jewish rural settlement buried beneath Qiryat Sefer in the central West Bank, excavated in 1995–1997 with two coin hoards from the Second Jewish Revolt.
Khirbet Beit Lei
Khirbet Beit Lei, also known as Horvat Bet Loya or Beit Lehi, is an archaeological site in Israel's Judean Shephelah, known for Iron Age Hebrew inscriptions.
Khirbet Beit Lei graffiti
The Khirbet Beit Lei graffiti are Hebrew inscriptions carved in a burial cave at Khirbet Beit Lei in the southern Shephelah of Judah, first published in 1963.
Khirbet ed Deir
Khirbet ed-Deir (Khirbet ed-Deir in the Judean Desert) is an early Byzantine monastery in the Nahal Arugot gorge, 30 km south of Jerusalem, founded late 5th-early 6th century CE, excavated 1981-1987 by Yizhar Hirschfeld, identified with the cœnobium of Severianus, abandoned about 650 CE.