All articles starting with K

Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki

Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki (吉備大臣入唐絵巻, "Minister Kibi's Journey to Tang China") is a late twelfth-century Japanese narrative handscroll held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Sep 24, 2026

Kibi no Makibi

Kibi no Makibi (吉備真備) was a Japanese scholar-official and diplomat of the Nara period who studied in Tang China and rose to Minister of the Right by 766.

Oct 15, 2026

Kibō (ISS module)

Kibō (きぼう, "hope") is the Japanese Experiment Module on the International Space Station, Japan's first crewed space laboratory and the largest experiment module on the station.

Sep 19, 2026

Kibri-Dagan

Kibri-Dagan (Kibrī-Dagan) was governor of Terqa on the Middle Euphrates under King Zimri-Lim of Mari in the 18th century BC, known almost entirely through his 139 letters in the Mari palace archives.

Kibrit Air Base

Kibrit Air Base (قاعدة كبريت الجوية) is an Egyptian Air Force helicopter base on the Suez Canal's western bank; in World War II it was RAF Station Kabrit.

Sep 21, 2026

Kibum Kang (강기범) is a South Korean materials scientist and associate professor at KAIST who works on two-dimensional materials and is known for wafer-scale growth of atomically thin semiconducting films.

Oct 20, 2026

Kibungo Province

Kibungo Province, a former province of eastern Rwanda abolished in January 2006 and merged into the Eastern Province; capital the town of Kibungo; population 702,248 in 2002; major banana-producing area.

Kibyōshi

Kibyōshi is a Japanese genre of illustrated satirical fiction for adults, published in Edo (Tokyo) from 1775 to about 1806 as part of the kusazōshi picture books.

KIC 10001893

KIC 10001893 (Kepler-429) is a V1093 Her pulsating hot subdwarf B star in the Kepler field. Three Earth-size planet candidates with 5.3, 7.8, and 19.5 hour orbits were proposed in 2014 but flagged controversial in 2019.

KIC 5437945

KIC 5437945 (Kepler-460 host) is an F-type star ~1274 pc away in the Kepler field with two confirmed transiting Neptune-like planets: KIC 5437945 b (440.8-day period, 33.6 Earth masses) and Kepler-460 c (220.1-day period).

KIC 9663113

KIC 9663113 (KOI-179, Kepler-458) is a distant Kepler-field star with two confirmed transiting planets: hot Neptune Kepler-458 c (20.74 d) and long-period KIC 9663113 b (572.38 d, 19.2 Earth masses), found via Planet Hunters.

Oct 15, 2026

KiCad

KiCad is a free and open-source electronics design automation suite for schematic capture, circuit simulation, and printed circuit board layout, first released in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Charras.

Kịch nói

Kịch nói, meaning spoken drama, is the form of modern Vietnamese theater that uses spoken dialogue rather than song, created in the early twentieth century under French colonial rule.

Kịch thơ

Kịch thơ is a form of Vietnamese verse drama in which dialogue is written in verse, which took shape in the 1930s and flourished from about 1935 to 1945.

Kichaka Badha

Kichaka Badha, also written Kichaka Vadha, is the name of several Indian literary and theatrical works dramatizing the Mahabharata episode in which Bhima kills the courtier Kichaka.

Kichakavadha

Kichakavadha (कीचकवध, "The Slaying of Kichaka") is a 1907 Marathi prose play by Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar retelling a Mahabharata episode as coded political commentary; the British banned it in 1910.

Kicheda Chasma

Kicheda Chasma is a large chasma, or trough and fracture system, on Venus, 1,500 km across, named in 2003 for a Nganasan lunar goddess of the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

Kichijōji (吉祥寺)

Kichijoji (吉祥寺) is a district of Musashino, western Tokyo, named after a temple whose town relocated after the 1657 fire; station opened 1899, Inokashira Line 1934, long a top-ranked desirable neighborhood.

Kichijōten of Tōdai-ji Hokke-dō

The Kichijōten of Tōdai-ji Hokke-dō (吉祥天, also read Kisshōten) is an 8th-century Japanese clay sculpture of the goddess of fortune, made around 746 and now kept in the Tōdai-ji Museum in Nara.

Kichisaburō Nomura (野村吉三郎)

Kichisaburō Nomura (野村吉三郎, 1877–1964), Imperial Japanese Navy admiral, foreign minister 1939–40, and Japan's ambassador to the United States from February 1941, negotiated with Cordell Hull until delivering Japan's memorandum breaking off talks on 7 December 1941; later a Japan Victor president and House of Councillors member.

Kichwamaji

Kichwamaji, meaning "Empty-head," is a 1974 Swahili novel by the Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi, his second, following the university student Kazimoto, torn between modern education, Christianity, and cultural tradition.

Kick

Kick: a strike delivered with the leg or foot in combat sports like Taekwondo, Muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, and MMA. Measured foot velocities reach 18.3 m/s (roundhouse) and impact forces up to 9015 N (side kick).

Kick (2009 film)

Kick (కిక్) is a 2009 Telugu action-comedy directed by Surender Reddy, starring Ravi Teja as thrill-seeking thief Kalyan opposite Ileana D'Cruz and Shaam; a box-office hit remade in Hindi (2014) with a 2015 sequel Kick 2.

Kick (INXS album)

Kick is the sixth studio album by the Australian rock band INXS, released in October 1987 and featuring the hit singles "Need You Tonight" and "New Sensation".

Kick (service)

Kick, also known as Kick.com, is a live video streaming platform launched in December 2022 by Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, the cofounders of the gambling site Stake.com.

Kick (किक) (2014 film)

Kick (किक), 2014 Hindi action comedy directed by Sajid Nadiadwala in his debut, a remake of the 2009 Telugu film, starring Salman Khan as thief Devil; released 25 July 2014, grossed over Rs 300 crore worldwide.

Kick 2

Kick 2 (2015) is a Telugu action comedy directed by Surender Reddy, produced by Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, written by Vakkantham Vamsi, starring Ravi Teja as Kalyan and his comfort-seeking son Robin Hood. Not a direct sequel to Kick (2009); it opened big, then flopped with about Rs 20.25 crore worldwide share against Rs 27.5 crore of pre-release business.