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Khosla Ventures Excelsior
Khosla Ventures Excelsior is a $1 billion pooled venture capital fund sponsored by Khosla Ventures, based in Menlo Park, California, whose Form D was filed in May 2023.
Khosla Ventures Oai
Khosla Ventures OAI, LLC is a Delaware pooled venture capital fund created by Khosla Ventures in 2024 to hold exposure to OpenAI, reporting $405 million sold to 18 investors.
Khosla Ventures Seed F
Khosla Ventures Seed F is a seed-stage venture capital fund vehicle of Khosla Ventures, the Menlo Park firm founded by Vinod Khosla, reporting $428 million sold in 2023.
Khosr River
The Khosr River, also written Al-Khoser, is a tributary of the Tigris in northern Iraq that flows through Nineveh and was canalized under King Sennacherib around 700 BC.
Khosrov I of Armenia
Khosrov I (Խոսրով Ա) was an Arsacid king of Armenia, reigning from about 195 to 216 CE, who kept peace with Rome by paying Septimius Severus.
Khosrov III Kotak
Khosrov III Kotak (Խոսրով Կոտակ, "the Little"), son of Tiridates III, was a fourth-century Arsacid king of Armenia known for founding the capital at Dvin and a royal forest.
Khosrow and Shirin
Khosrow and Shirin (خسرو و شیرین) is a narrative poem by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, recounting the love of King Khosrow II Parviz for Princess Shirin.
Khosrow I (خسرو)
Khosrow I (خسرو; r. 531–579), called Anōširavān ("of immortal soul"), Sasanian king of kings; reformed taxation and the army, fought four campaigns against Rome, and was remembered as the ideal just king.
Khosrow II (خسرو دوم)
Khosrow II (خسرو دوم), Khosrow Parviz, last great Sasanian king of Iran (r. 590–628), grandson of Khosrow I; restored by Byzantine help in 591, conquered Rome's eastern provinces including Egypt, then fell to Heraclius and was executed in 628.
Khosrow V
Khosrow V (خسرو پنجم) was a short-reigning Sasanian claimant of the early 630s, generally identified as Farrukhzad Khosrow, a son of Khosrow II, enthroned at Ctesiphon.
Khotanese art
Khotanese art is the pre-Islamic Buddhist painting and sculpture from the Khotan oasis in present-day Xinjiang, China, a southern Silk Road kingdom known for Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Khotun Corona
Khotun Corona is a 200 km wide corona, a ring-fractured volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 46.5°S, 81.5°E; IAU-named in 1994 for a Yakut goddess of plenty.
Khotyn Raion
Khotyn Raion (Хотинський район) was an administrative district in Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine, established in 1940 and centered in the city of Khotyn.
Khouèng Savannakhét
Khouèng Savannakhét (ສະຫວນນະເຂດ), or Savannakhet Province, is Laos's largest and most populous province, on the East–West Economic Corridor, home to the Savan-Seno SEZ and Sepon mine.
Khouribga
Khouribga (خريبكة), Morocco: phosphate-mining city in Beni Mellal-Khenifra, founded 1921-1923 around OCP's Ouled Abdoun mines; city population about 214,000, province 518,610 (2024 census), elevation about 804 m.
Khouribga Province
Khouribga Province (إقليم خريبكة), Morocco, Béni Mellal-Khénifra region; world phosphate capital, OCP mine opened 1921, about 43% of OCP reserves, 70% of output, 518,610 inhabitants in 2024.
Khovanov homology
Khovanov homology is a bigraded homology theory for knots and links, introduced by Mikhail Khovanov in 1999. Its Euler characteristic is the Jones polynomial, and it detects the unknot.
Khövsgöl Nuur
Khövsgöl Nuur (Khuvsgul, Hovsgol), Mongolia's deepest lake, a 383 km³ alpine lake in the Baikal Rift Zone holding ~70% of Mongolia's freshwater, draining via the Eg River to Lake Baikal.
KHR-1
KHR-1 is a bipedal humanoid robot kit released in June 2004 by the Japanese manufacturer Kondo Kagaku, credited with breaking the price barrier for consumer humanoid robots.
Khreshchatyi Yar
Khreshchatyi Yar (Хрещатий Яр), the Cross Valley, was a wooded marshy Kyiv valley with a stream, known by name since the 17th century, on which the main street Khreshchatyk was built from 1797 onward.
Khrew Mound
Khrew Mound refers to protected archaeological remains at Khrew, in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, where the Archaeological Survey of India maintains a monolithic shrine and ancient temple remains.
Khris Middleton
Khris Middleton (born 1991, Charleston, SC) is an NBA forward, 2012 39th-overall pick, 2021 champion and three-time All-Star with the Bucks, now with the Wizards on a three-year, $17.6 million deal.
Khronos Group
The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium creating royalty-free standards for 3D graphics, XR, and computing, including Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, and glTF.
Khrua In Khong
Khrua In Khong (ขรัวอินโข่ง) was a Siamese monk-painter, active from about 1830 to 1860, who introduced Western perspective and shading into Thai Buddhist mural painting.
Khruangbin (เครื่องบิน)
Khruangbin (เครื่องบิน), Thai for airplane, is a Houston, Texas instrumental funk trio formed in 2010: Laura Lee Ochoa, Mark Speer, DJ Johnson. Known for Thai-funk-inspired global groove albums and a 2025 Grammy Best New Artist nomination.
Khrushchev Thaw (оттепель)
The Khrushchev Thaw (оттепель) was the 1953–1964 Soviet era of relaxed repression and censorship after Stalin's death, marked by the 1956 Secret Speech, prisoner rehabilitations, cultural liberalization, and peaceful coexistence, but also the Hungarian invasion and Novocherkassk massacre.
KHS (company)
KHS GmbH is a German manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and liquid food industries, formed in 1993 by the merger of Holstein & Kappert and SEN, and owned by Salzgitter AG.
KHSRP
KHSRP (KSRP, FUBP2, p75) is a human gene on chromosome 19p13.3 encoding a 75 kDa RNA-binding protein with four KH domains that promotes ARE-mediated mRNA decay, miRNA maturation, splicing, and c-myc transcription, affecting immunity, metabolism, and cancer.
Khu du lịch Suối Tiên
Khu du lịch Suối Tiên (Suoi Tien Theme Park), Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City: culture-themed amusement park opened 2 September 1995 by founder Đinh Văn Vui, with a 400 m dragon, Vietnam's first themed water park, and 150+ attractions.
Khubau
Khubau was a high official of late Old Kingdom Egypt, great overlord of the 8th Upper Egyptian nome around 2300 BCE, buried near King Pepy II's pyramid.