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Kimpanzu kanda
The Kimpanzu kanda was one of two royal houses, with the Kinlaza, that fought for the throne of the Kingdom of Kongo after King Antonio I died in 1665.
KIMPRO (김프로)
KIMPRO (김프로, @kimpro828) is a South Korean YouTube shorts comedy channel run by Kim Dong-jun and his cousin Yu Baek-hap. Nonverbal sketches made it the most-viewed Korean channel of 2025 (77.5B views) and reportedly the first Korean personal channel past 100M subscribers (April 2025); about 135M subscribers by late 2026.
Kimron Veterinary Institute
The Kimron Veterinary Institute (KVI) is Israel's national veterinary research and diagnostic institute, located in Bet Dagan and performing about 5,000 necropsies and 660,000 laboratory examinations annually.
Kimtinh Vallis
Kimtinh Vallis, a 550 km valley system (vallis) on Venus at 46.5S, 67.0E, named for the Vietnamese word for the planet Venus; IAU-approved in 2000, quad v46.
Kimura disease
Kimura disease, a rare chronic inflammatory disorder endemic to East Asia, causes painless head and neck masses, lymphadenopathy, eosinophilia, and elevated IgE; treated with surgery, radiotherapy, or anti-IL-5 biologics.
Kimura Kenkadō
Kimura Kenkadō (木村蒹葭堂, 1736–1802) was an Osaka sake brewer, naturalist, literati painter, and collector of the Edo period whose house became one of Japan's principal intellectual salons.
Kimweri ye Nyumbai
Kimweri ye Nyumbai (died 1862) was a king of the Kilindi dynasty of the Shambaa kingdom in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, reigning from about 1815.
Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson (born 1972, Newark, NJ) is an American anti-folk singer-songwriter, co-founder of the Moldy Peaches, solo lo-fi acoustic artist with eight albums, and contributor of eight songs to the chart-topping Juno soundtrack.
Kin (film)
Kin is a 2018 American sci-fi action thriller, also known as an expansion of the short film Bag Man, directed by Australian twins Jonathan and Josh Baker. Eli Solinski finds an alien gun in Detroit; Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, James Franco, Dennis Quaid star; Lionsgate released it August 31, 2018.
Kin (Irish TV series)
Kin (Irish TV series): RTÉ gangland drama by Peter McKenna and Ciaran Donnelly about the Kinsella crime family versus the Cunningham cartel; two eight-part series 2021–2023, 687,000 RTÉ viewers, third series confirmed for 2027.
Kin (novel)
Kin (2026) is Tayari Jones's fifth novel, published by Knopf. It follows motherless cradle friends Vernice and Annie in Jim Crow-era Louisiana, was an Oprah's Book Club pick, a New York Times bestseller, and won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
Kin Fai Mak
Kin Fai Mak is a condensed matter experimental physicist known for studies of atomically thin 2D materials and, since 2024, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.
Kin selection
Kin selection: evolutionary theory from W. D. Hamilton's 1964 papers, named by Maynard Smith, explaining altruism via Hamilton's rule rb−c>0 and inclusive fitness; formally equivalent to multilevel selection but causally distinct.
Kin Shriner
Kin Shriner (born 1953, New York City) is an American actor, son of humorist Herb Shriner and twin of Wil Shriner, best known as Scott Baldwin on General Hospital since August 2, 1977, with roles on Texas, Port Charles, and as the voice of Green Arrow.
Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза!)
Kin-dza-dza! (Кин-дза-дза!) is a 1986 Mosfilm satirical sci-fi comedy by Georgiy Daneliya and Revaz Gabriadze, in which two Muscovites are teleported to the desert planet Pluke, with 15.7 million Soviet viewers and a cult chatlanian vocabulary including "Ku" and pepelats.
Kina Grannis
Kina Grannis (Kina Kasuya Grannis), born 1985 in Mission Viejo, California, is a Japanese-American acoustic folk-pop singer-songwriter who won Doritos' Crash the Super Bowl in 2008 with "Message from Your Heart," self-released Stairwells (2010), and runs the fan-funded label KG Records.
Kinabalu giant earthworm
Kinabalu giant earthworm, Pheretima darnleiensis (Fletcher, 1886), a megascolecid earthworm of Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, reaching about 700 mm; preyed on by the endemic Kinabalu giant red leech.
Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu Park (Taman Kinabalu) is a national park in Sabah, Malaysia, on northern Borneo, dominated by Mount Kinabalu, the island's highest peak, and established in 1964.
Kinabalu UNESCO Global Geopark
Kinabalu UNESCO Global Geopark, Sabah, Malaysia: 4,750 km² geopark around Mount Kinabalu (4,095 m), designated 2023, second in Malaysia after Langkawi, with 46 geosites and Triple Crown UNESCO status.
Kinabatangan Biosphere Reserve
The Kinabatangan Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2025 in Sabah, Malaysia, covering 413,867 hectares along the Kinabatangan River in Borneo.
Kinah
Kinah (קינה; plural kinot) is a Hebrew elegy or dirge, a lament chanted over death or destruction, named already in the Bible and recited in synagogues on Tisha B'Av.
Kinahan Organised Crime Group
Kinahan Organised Crime Group (Kinahan cartel): Irish-led transnational drug trafficking and money laundering organisation founded by Christy Kinahan, based in Spain and Dubai, US-sanctioned in 2022, in feud with the Hutch gang.
KinAhau
KinAhau is the stage name of Sebastián Rodriguez Betanzos, a Mexican house and tech-house DJ and producer from Cancún, based in Barcelona, who broke through on Solid Grooves.
Kīnaʻu
Kīnaʻu, styled Kaʻahumanu II, was a Hawaiian chiefess who served as kuhina nui, co-ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, from 1832 until her death in 1839.
Kinam Kim (김기남)
Kinam Kim (김기남) is a South Korean semiconductor engineer who spent his career at Samsung Electronics, leading its chip division before becoming Chairman of its research institute in 2021.
Kinam Park
Kinam Park is a drug delivery scientist and Showalter Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, known for work on polymers and hydrogels for controlled drug release.
Kinanthropometry
Kinanthropometry is the study of human body size, shape, proportion, composition, and function in relation to movement, exercise, fitness, and sporting performance, first defined by William Ross in 1978.
Kinara (किनारा)
Kinara (किनारा) is a 1977 Hindi drama directed by Gulzar, starring Jeetendra, Hema Malini, and Dharmendra, with R.D. Burman music and the Lata Mangeshkar song "Naam gum jayega"; released 21 March 1977, 139 minutes.
Kinase
Kinase: a phosphotransferase enzyme transferring phosphate from ATP to substrates; protein kinases (518 in humans) modify Ser/Thr/Tyr residues, discovered via glycogen phosphorylase in the 1950s, and are major drug targets with over 70 approved inhibitors since imatinib (2001).
Kinase-Interacting Protein
Kinase-interacting protein usually means RKIP/PEBP1, a 21 kDa cytoplasmic kinase inhibitor regulating Raf/MEK/ERK, NF-κB, and GRK2, acting as a metastasis suppressor; distinct from CIP/KIP, KAPP, and KATNIP.