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Khmer short story

The Khmer short story (រឿងខ្លី) is a work of short prose fiction in the Khmer language, a genre that took shape in Cambodia in the late 1930s and was later paralyzed under the Khmer Rouge.

Khmer silk ikat

Khmer silk ikat, called hol in Khmer, is a Cambodian technique of tie-dyeing patterns into silk weft threads before weaving, used for skirts and temple hangings.

Khmer stone carving

Khmer stone carving is the sculptural tradition of Cambodia's Khmer civilization, in which images of Hindu and Buddhist deities were carved from sandstone from the sixth to fifteenth centuries.

Khmer verse meter, called បទ (bat), is the set of syllable counts per line and interlocking rhyme schemes governing classical Cambodian poetry, of which nearly all literature before the twentieth century was written.

Khmer–Cham War (1145–1150)

The Khmer–Cham War was the 1145–1150 invasion of Champa by the Khmer Empire under Suryavarman II, who captured the Cham capital Vijaya in 1145 and pillaged the temples at My Son.

Khmer–Cham wars

The Khmer–Cham wars were armed conflicts between the Khmer Empire of Angkor and Champa, on the Vietnamese coast, fought intermittently from the 11th to the 15th centuries.

Khmer–Vietnamese War (1128–1150)

The Khmer–Vietnamese War of 1128–1150 was a series of invasions of Đại Việt under the Lý dynasty by Suryavarman II of the Khmer Empire, all ending in Khmer defeat.

Khmer–Vietnamese wars

The Khmer–Vietnamese wars are armed conflicts between Cambodian (Khmer) and Vietnamese states across roughly four centuries, centered on control of Cambodia and the Mekong Delta.

KHNL

KHNL, virtual channel 13, is the NBC-affiliated TV station in Honolulu, Hawaii, founded 1962, formerly KIKU-TV, now owned by Gray Television and branded Hawaii News Now with KGMB and KFVE.

Khnum

Khnum (Khnemu) was the ram-headed ancient Egyptian creator god who shaped humans on a potter's wheel and guarded the Nile's source, worshipped chiefly at Elephantine with Satet and Anuqet and at the Temple of Esna.

Khnumhotep I

Khnumhotep I was a provincial governor of the Oryx nome in Middle Egypt who served Amenemhat I and was buried in rock-cut tomb BH 14 at Beni Hassan.

Khnumhotep II

Khnumhotep II was a high-ranking Egyptian official of the 12th Dynasty, Administrator of the Eastern Desert, known for his Beni Hassan tomb with its famous procession of 37 Asiatics.

Khnumhotep II's inscription on Asiatics

An inscription in Khnumhotep II's Beni Hasan tomb, dated to year 6 of Senusret II, recording 37 Aamu who came for eye-paint, led by Abisha.

Khnumhotep III

Khnumhotep III was a high steward and later vizier of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Senusret II and Senusret III, buried in a mastaba at Dahshur near the king's pyramid.

Khnumhotep IV

Khnumhotep IV was an ancient Egyptian provincial official of the Twelfth Dynasty, son of Khnumhotep II, whose unfinished tomb BH 4 at Beni Hassan was the last rock tomb cut there.

Kho kho (खो खो)

Kho kho (खो खो) is a traditional Indian tag-and-chase team sport, related to kabaddi; teams of twelve (nine playing) chase and tag defenders in 9-minute turns on a 27×16 m court, governed nationally since 1966 and in Asia since 1987.

Kho Kho World Cup

Kho Kho World Cup, kho kho world championship (khokho). Inaugural edition 13–19 January 2025 at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi; 39 teams from 23 countries; India won both men's and women's titles, beating Nepal in both finals.

Khoa (खोया)

Khoa (खोया), also called khoya or mawa, is the Indian heat-desiccated whole-milk product with 55-65% total solids, made in Pindi, Danedar, and Dhap varieties and used as the base of burfi, peda, and gulab jamun.

Khoa Ngo

Khoa Ngo (Ngô Đăng Khoa, born 2006, Perth) is a Vietnamese-Australian winger, first player of Vietnamese heritage in the A-League; Perth Glory academy product, 26 A-League games, joined Cong An Ho Chi Minh City permanently in 2026.

Khobar (الخبر)

Khobar (الخبر) is a coastal city and category A governorate in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, part of the Dammam Metropolitan Area. First planned city in Saudi Arabia (1947); gateway to Bahrain via the King Fahd Causeway; WHO Healthy City since 2024.

Khobar Towers bombing

Khobar Towers bombing (تفجير أبراج الخبر), also called the Dhahran bombing: 25 June 1996 Saudi Hizballah truck bombing at Khobar Towers, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US airmen; indicted 2001; mastermind Mughassil captured 2015.

Khobe Clarke

Khobe Clarke (born 2000, Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian actor known for Kyle in Yellowjackets, Coop in Firefly Lane, Jimmy Longchamp in V.C. Andrews' Dawn, and Scott Russell in Cruel Intentions.

Khóc Dương Khuê

Khóc Dương Khuê ("Weeping for Dương Khuê") is a 1902 Vietnamese elegy in song thất lục bát verse by Nguyễn Khuyến, mourning his friend and fellow poet Dương Khuê.

Oct 21, 2026

Khodutka

Khodutka (Ходутка), also Golygina, is a 2,039 m stratovolcano in southern Kamchatka, Russia. Its VEI 5 Khodutkinsky maar eruption about 2,800 years ago spread tephra across southern Kamchatka; the last summit lava flow dates to about 2,000–2,500 years ago.

Khodynka Tragedy (Ходынская трагедия)

Khodynka Tragedy (Ходынская трагедия): crowd crush on 18 May 1896 on Moscow's Khodynka Field during Nicholas II's coronation festivities; official toll 1,389 dead, 1,300 injured; triggered by gift-shortage rumors.

Khoe–Kwadi languages

Khoe-Kwadi is a southern African click-language family comprising the extinct Kwadi of Angola and the Khoe branch (Khoekhoe and Kalahari Khoe), established through person-gender-number and lexical evidence and linked to Late Stone Age sheep herders from eastern Africa.

Oct 15, 2026

Khoemacau

Khoemacau is a copper and silver mine in the Kalahari Copper Belt of northwestern Botswana, owned by MMG Limited and CNIC and producing first concentrate in 2021.

Oct 21, 2026

Khoid Naiman Nuur

Khoid Naiman Nuur (Хойд Найман Нуур, "North Eight Lakes") is Mongolia's highest Holocene volcano, a 2,532 m basaltic pyroclastic cone (GVP 303015) near the Eight Lakes area, with undated, uncertain eruptions.

Khoisan

Khoisan (Khoe-San) is the cover term for southern Africa's indigenous non-Bantu click-speaking peoples: San hunter-gatherers and Khoekhoe pastoralists, grouped into the Kx'a, Tuu, and Khoe-Kwadi language families, with deep genetic divergence and a history of colonial dispossession.