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KIF5B
KIF5B (kinesin family member 5B, HGNC 6324, Gene ID 3799) is a human gene on 10p11.22 encoding the ubiquitous kinesin-1 heavy chain, a 963-aa microtubule motor; known for KIF5B-RET fusions in 1-2% of lung adenocarcinomas and dominant variants causing kyphomelic dysplasia and osteogenesis imperfecta.
Kifayatullah
Kifayatullah (کفایت اللہ) was a Delhi-based architect of Iranian origin who designed the Bara Imambara at Lucknow, built in 1784 as famine relief for Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula.
Kiftzuba
Kiftzuba (קיפצובה) is a family amusement park at Kibbutz Tzuba in the Judean Hills near Jerusalem, opened Passover 1997 for children aged 1-14, with outdoor rides, indoor play areas, Friday-Saturday public hours, and Shabbat operation.
Kifunji of Ndongo
Kifunji, also known as Funji or baptized Graca, was a sister of Queen Njinga of Ndongo in present-day Angola, drowned by the Portuguese for espionage in 1646.
Kigali
Kigali, capital and largest city of Rwanda, seat of government and main economic center. Three districts, 1,745,555 residents (2022 census), 41% of national GDP, formal capital since 1962.
Kigali Amendment
The Kigali Amendment, adopted in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2016, is a binding agreement to phase down HFCs and avoid 0.2 to 0.4 °C of warming by 2100.
Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village
Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village (KCEV), or Camp Kigali, is Rwanda's multi-pavilion conference and exhibition complex in central Kigali, with 12 halls, 10,000-guest capacity, opened as a temporary MICE venue during the Kigali Convention Centre's delay.
Kigali Genocide Memorial
Kigali Genocide Memorial, at Gisozi in Kigali, Rwanda: memorial and mass grave for 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, opened 7 April 2004, built and managed by the Aegis Trust, UNESCO-listed in 2023.
Kigeli III Ndabarasa
Kigeli III Ndabarasa was a Mwami (king) of the Kingdom of Rwanda, remembered as a warrior king who extended the Nyiginya kingdom through conquests against Ndorwa, Mubari, and Bugesera.
Kigeli IV Rwabugiri
Kigeli IV Rwabugiri was mwami (king) of Rwanda from 1853 until his death in 1895, the last mwami before colonists arrived, who led 16 military campaigns and centralized royal power.
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, also known as Kigeri V or Jean-Baptiste Ndahindurwa, was the last reigning king of Rwanda, from 1959 until the monarchy's abolition in 1961.
Kigelia
Kigelia (sausage tree, Kigelia africana, worsboom, muratina) is a monotypic African Bignoniaceae genus with large toxic sausage fruits up to 90 cm, bat-pollinated night flowers, and about 150 characterized phytochemicals used in African traditional medicine and skin products.
Kigeri IV Rwabugiri
Kigeri IV Rwabugiri was Mwami, or king, of Rwanda in the second half of the nineteenth century, known for his military campaigns and for receiving the German explorer Count von Gotzen in 1894.
Kigo
Kigo (季語) are words fixed by poetic convention as representing one of the seasons in haiku, renga, and haikai, with reference lists called saijiki collecting them by season.
Kigoma
Kigoma is a port town and regional capital on Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, terminus of the 1,248 km Central Railway from Dar es Salaam (completed 1914), gateway to Burundi and DRC, near Ujiji and Gombe.
Kigoma Region
Kigoma Region (Mkoa wa Kigoma), a Tanzanian region on Lake Tanganyika bordering Burundi and DRC; capital Kigoma; 2,470,967 people (2022 census), six districts, major refugee-hosting region with Nyarugusu and Nduta camps, agriculture-dominated economy, among Tanzania's lowest HDI regions.
Kigumi
Kigumi (木組み) is the Japanese craft of assembling the wooden frame of a building, its beams and columns interlocking through shaped joints instead of glue or nails.
KiHa 100 series
The KiHa 100 series (キハ100系) is a diesel multiple unit built for JR East, introduced in 1990 to replace aging Japanese National Railways cars on rural non-electrified lines.
KiHa 181 series
The KiHa 181 series (キハ181系) was a limited express diesel multiple unit built by Japanese National Railways from 1968 to 1972, with 158 cars serving steep non-electrified lines until 2010.
KiHa 183 series (キハ183系)
The KiHa 183 series (キハ183系) is a Japanese limited-express diesel multiple unit designed for Hokkaido's snow and cold, the island's diesel express backbone from 1981 to 2023.
KiHa 40 series
The KiHa 40 series, also known as KiHa 40 (国鉄キハ40系), is a Japanese diesel multiple unit introduced by Japanese National Railways in 1977 for unelectrified local lines.
Kiheitai
The Kiheitai (奇兵隊) was a mixed-class military unit founded in 1863 at Shimonoseki in Japan's Chōshū domain by the samurai Takasugi Shinsaku, admitting samurai, peasants, and townsmen alike.
Kihikihi
Kihikihi, Waikato township 4 km southeast of Te Awamutu, Waipa District, New Zealand; former Ngāti Maniapoto settlement, name means cicada; home of Kihikihi Polo Club, founded 1892, Savile Cup winners.
Kihikihi Polo Club
The Kihikihi Polo Club is a New Zealand polo club based at Kihikihi Domain in the Waikato, founded in 1892 and one of the oldest polo clubs in the Waikato.
Kii Peninsula
The Kii Peninsula (紀伊半島) is Honshu's largest peninsula, spanning Wakayama, Nara, and Mie prefectures, home to the UNESCO-listed Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes and the Kii Mountains, above the Nankai subduction zone.
Kiiara
Kiiara (Kiara Saulters, born 1995, Wilmington, Illinois) is an American pop singer signed to Atlantic, best known for the 2015 single "Gold" (Hot 100 No. 13), the EP Low Kii Savage, Linkin Park's "Heavy", and the 2020 debut album lil kiiwi.
Kiichi Kubota
Kiichi Kubota (窪田 規一, born 1953) is a Japanese business executive who co-founded the peptide drug-discovery company PeptiDream in Tokyo in 2006 with Hiroaki Suga, serving as president until 2017.
Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田喜一郎)
Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田喜一郎; 1894–1952) was a Japanese engineer, son of inventor Sakichi Toyoda, who founded Toyota Motor Corporation in 1937 and conceived the just-in-time production system.
Kiidk'yaas
Kiidk'yaas, the Golden Spruce (Picea sitchensis 'Aurea'), was a sacred 300-year-old golden-needled Sitka spruce on the Yakoun River, Haida Gwaii, felled in January 1997 by Grant Hadwin as logging-industry protest; cuttings survive in Port Clements.
KiiiKiii (키키)
KiiiKiii (키키) is a five-member South Korean girl group under Starship Entertainment that debuted March 24, 2025 with UNCUT GEM; its hit "404 (New Era)" topped Melon in 2026.