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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (خواجہ احمد عباس)
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (خواجہ احمد عباس), K.A. Abbas, 1914–1987, Indian journalist, Urdu-Hindi-English writer, screenwriter, and pioneer of social-realist cinema; wrote Neecha Nagar (Cannes Grand Prix 1946), directed Dharti Ke Lal, scripted Raj Kapoor's Awaara and Shree 420, wrote the Last Page column 1935–87, won the Padma Shri in 1969.
Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Khwaja Ghulam Farid (خواجہ غلام فرید) was a Chishti Sufi poet of the middle Indus Valley who wrote in Siraiki, born in 1845 and died in 1901.
Khwaja Mir Dard
Khwaja Mir Dard (خواجہ میر درد) was a Delhi Sufi of the Naqshbandi line and a major 18th-century Urdu ghazal poet who lived his whole life in Delhi.
Khwaja Ni'matullah Harawi
Khwaja Ni'matullah Harawi (خواجه نعمتالله هروی) was a Persian chronicler at the Mughal courts of Akbar and Jahangir, author of the Tarikh-i Khan Jahani wa Makhzan-i Afghani.
Khwaju Kirmani
Khwaju Kirmani (خواجوی کرمانی) was a fourteenth-century Persian poet and mystic, born in Kerman and settled in Shiraz, best known for his mathnawi Homay o Homayun.
Khwandamir
Khwandamir (خواند میر) was a Persian historian and administrator, born in Herat around 1475, who served the Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal dynasties and ended his career under Humayun.
Khwarazm
Khwarazm, also known as Chorasmia or Khorezm, was an ancient and medieval region of Central Asia in the lower Amu Darya basin, now northwestern Uzbekistan and parts of Turkmenistan.
Khwarazmian Empire
Khwarazmian Empire, or Anushteginid Khwarazmshah state, was a Turko-Persian empire (1097-1231) centered on Khwarazm; vassals of the Seljuqs and Qara Khitai, it peaked under Ala al-Din Muhammad and was destroyed by the Mongol invasion of 1219-1231.
Khwarazmshah Muhammad's march on Baghdad
Khwarazmshah Muhammad's march on Baghdad (خصومة خوارزمشاه مع الخليفة) was the 1217–1218 campaign of Khwarazmshah Ala' al-Din Muhammad to overthrow the Abbasid caliphate, ending in disaster.
Khwarazmshah–Abbasid conflict
The Khwarazmshah–Abbasid conflict was Sultan Muhammad II of Khwarazm's 1217 campaign against Caliph al-Nasir, aborted when a snowstorm destroyed his army in the Zagros mountains.
Khyal
Khyal is the principal improvised vocal genre of Hindustani classical music, in vogue since the seventeenth century, in which a fixed composition anchors freely imagined melodic elaboration.
Khyan
Khyan, also rendered Khayan or Khian, was one of the most important Hyksos kings of Egypt's 15th Dynasty, with his reign dated roughly 1681 to 1581 BC.
Khyargas Nuur
Khyargas Nuur (Хяргас нуур), a large brackish endorheic lake in Mongolia's Great Lakes Depression, terminal sink of Altai-Khangai meltwater; second-largest brackish lake, with dated paleoshorelines to +129 m (MIS 5c).
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خیبر پښتونخوا)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خیبر پښتونخوا, KP/KPK), formerly North-West Frontier Province, is a northwestern Pakistani province bordering Afghanistan; capital Peshawar, 40.85 million people (2023 census), PTI-governed since 2013, under federal emergency rule since October 2026.
Khyber Pass (د خیبر درہ)
Khyber Pass (د خیبر درہ, Kōtal-e Ḵaybar): mountain pass on the Afghan-Pakistan border through the Safed Koh, linking Kabul and Peshawar; historic invasion and Silk Road trade route, site of the Torkham crossing and the 1925 Khyber Pass Railway.
Khyber Teaching Hospital
Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) is a public tertiary care teaching hospital in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and the teaching hospital of Khyber Medical College, inaugurated in 1977.
Khyl Powell
Khyl Powell is an American politician and Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 14 in Gilbert and serving as Vice Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Khyree Jackson
Khyree Jackson (1999-2024), American cornerback from Upper Marlboro, Maryland; played at Alabama and first-team all-Pac-12 Oregon, drafted 108th overall 2024 by the Vikings, died in a July 6, 2024 Maryland car crash.
Ki & Ka
Ki & Ka (की एंड का), also written Ki and Ka, is R. Balki's 2016 Hindi romantic comedy-drama starring Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor as Kia and Kabir, a married couple reversing gender roles; released 1 April 2016, 126 minutes.
Ki Corona
Ki Corona is a 300-km-diameter corona on Venus at 43.20°N, 227.80°E, an IAU-named (1997) circular volcano-tectonic feature named for a Sumerian earth goddess, mapped in Magellan quad v15.
Ki Hajar Dewantara
Ki Hajar Dewantara, born Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, was a Javanese educator who founded the Taman Siswa schools in the Dutch East Indies in 1922.
Ki Hong Lee (이기홍)
Ki Hong Lee (이기홍), born 1986 in Seoul, is a Korean-American actor known as Minho in the Maze Runner trilogy (2014–2018), Dong in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Ryan Hui in Wish Upon.
Ki no Tomonori
Ki no Tomonori (紀友則) was an early Heian Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets and a compiler of the Kokin Wakashū, the first imperial poetry anthology.
Ki no Tsurayuki
Ki no Tsurayuki (紀貫之) was an early Heian Japanese poet and courtier who co-compiled the first imperial poetry anthology, the Kokin Wakashū, and wrote the Tosa Diary.
Ki o rahi
Ki o rahi (kī-o-rahi) is a traditional Māori team ball game on a circular field, where kioma touch pou and taniwha hit the central tupu; revived pre-colonial sport with ~50,000 NZ players.
Ki Sung-yueng (기성용)
Ki Sung-yueng (기성용), born 1989 in Gwangju, is a South Korean central midfielder for Pohang Steelers, formerly of Celtic, Swansea, Sunderland, Newcastle, and FC Seoul, with 110 South Korea caps and captaincy 2015–2018.
Ki Tae Nam
Ki Tae Nam (남기태) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for virus-templated lithium-ion battery electrodes and peptide-directed chiral gold nanoparticles.
Ki-67 (protein)
Ki-67 (MKI67 gene) is a large nuclear protein present in dividing cells and absent in G0, discovered in 1983 in Kiel. Its immunohistochemical proliferation index gauges tumor growth and predicts breast cancer prognosis and chemotherapy benefit.
Ki-67 immunostaining
Ki-67 immunostaining is a pathology method that measures the fraction of tumor cells in the active cell cycle, reported as a labeling index for grading and prognosis.
Ki-Jana Carter
Ki-Jana Carter, born 1973, Penn State running back drafted first overall by Cincinnati in 1995; a torn ACL on his third preseason carry limited him to 1,144 career NFL rushing yards.