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Kincade Fire
The Kincade Fire was a 2019 wildfire near Geyserville in Sonoma County, California, California's largest that year at 77,758 acres, traced to a broken PG&E jumper cable.
Kincaid Generating Station
Kincaid Generating Station is a two-unit, coal-fired power plant about 20 miles southeast of Springfield, Illinois, owned by Vistra and slated for retirement by 2027 for solar redevelopment.
Kinchega National Park
Kinchega National Park, a 44,182-hectare NSW park on the Darling River near Menindee, established 1967 from Kinchega Station, with the historic 1875 Kinchega Woolshed, Paakantji heritage, and Menindee Lakes wetlands.
Kincsem
Kincsem (1874–1887), Hungarian Thoroughbred mare by Cambuscan out of Waternymph, unbeaten in all 54 starts 1876–79 for owner-breeder Ernő Blaskovich; trained by Robert Hesp, won Goodwood Cup and three Grosser Preis von Baden; not the Kincsem Park track itself.
kind (Kubernetes)
kind, or Kubernetes IN Docker, is a tool that runs local Kubernetes clusters where each node is a Docker container, built mainly for testing Kubernetes.
Kind Butler III
Kind Butler III (born 1988 or 1989) is an American sprinter, Indiana University alum, and 2014 World Indoor 4x400m relay gold medalist; the US team's 3:02.13 in Sopot set a world indoor record, with Butler running 45.41 on the third leg.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy directed by Robert Hamer at Ealing Studios, starring Dennis Price, with Alec Guinness playing eight relatives.
Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue: Miles Davis's 1959 Columbia Records album, recorded March 2 and April 22, 1959 with Coltrane, Evans, and Adderley; the definitive modal jazz record and the best-selling jazz album of all time.
Kinda (tribe)
The Kinda (Kindah) were a tribe of central Arabia, attested from the 2nd century CE, whose princes built a large kingdom in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Kinda Hard
Kinda Hard is the 2026 Columbia Records album by Bilmuri, Johnny Franck's post-hardcore project, released April 10, 2026: 13 tracks, 35 minutes, guests A Day to Remember and Novelists, follow-up to American Motor Sports.
Kinda Pregnant
Kinda Pregnant (2025) is a Netflix romantic comedy directed by Tyler Spindel, written by Amy Schumer and Julie Paiva, starring Schumer as Lainy, who fakes a pregnancy; a Happy Madison production, R-rated, 97 minutes.
Kindai haiku
Kindai haiku, or modern haiku (近代俳句), is the haiku produced in Japan from Masaoka Shiki's Meiji-era reforms onward, treating the old hokku as an independent 17-syllable poem.
Kindattu
Kindattu was a king of the Shimashki dynasty in western Iran, best known as the captor of Ibbi-Sin, the last king of the Third Dynasty of Ur, in 2004 BC.
Kinder Bueno
Kinder Bueno is a Ferrero chocolate snack bar launched in 1990 (some Ferrero documents say 1992): crispy wafer, hazelnut cream filling, milk chocolate coating with dark chocolate drizzle; variants include White, Dark, and ice cream lines.
Kinder Joy
Kinder Joy is a Ferrero candy sold in a plastic egg with one half holding a treat and the other a surprise toy, launched in Italy in 2001.
Kinder Morgan
Kinder Morgan is a Houston-based midstream energy company founded by Richard Kinder and William Morgan in 1997, operating about 78,000 miles of pipelines across North America.
Kinder Surprise
Kinder Surprise (Kinder Sorpresa, kinder Überraschung) is Ferrero's 1974 chocolate egg with a toy in a plastic capsule inside, sold in over 70 countries but banned in the US, where Kinder Joy is the compliant alternative.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten, from German for "children's garden", is an early childhood school stage founded by Friedrich Froebel in Bad Blankenburg in 1837, using play, gifts, and occupations; banned in Prussia 1851, it spread worldwide and now denotes pre-school or first-grade education in different countries.
Kindergarten Cop
Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Los Angeles detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in Astoria, Oregon.
Kindergarten Cop 2
Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016) is a direct-to-video action comedy starring Dolph Lundgren as FBI agent Reed, undercover as a kindergarten teacher to recover stolen data; directed by Don Michael Paul, co-starring Bill Bellamy.
Kindergarten: The Musical
Kindergarten: The Musical is a 2024 Disney Jr./Disney+ animated preschool musical series following 5-year-old Berti, Ms. Moreno (Gina Torres), and classmates at Porter Elementary, created by Michelle Lewis and Charlton Pettus, with Broadway-style songs and a Children's & Family Emmy nomination.
Kinderhook Capital Fund 7-B, L.P.
Kinderhook Capital Fund 7-B, L.P. is a limited partnership investing alongside Kinderhook Capital Fund 7, the $1.85 billion seventh buyout fund of New York firm Kinderhook Industries.
Kinderhook Industries
Kinderhook Industries, sometimes called Kinderhook Capital, is a New York private equity firm founded in 2003 that makes control investments in lower-middle-market healthcare services, environmental and industrial services, and manufacturing companies.
Kindertransport
Kindertransport (German, "children's transport"): 1938–1940 British rescue effort that brought about 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to Britain after Kristallnacht.
Kindia, Guinea
Kindia, Guinea: city in western Guinea, capital of Kindia Region and Kindia Prefecture, on the Conakry corridor. Agricultural market town (citrus, bananas), CBK bauxite mining, 270,265 urban population (2021).
Kindle Direct Publishing
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is Amazon's free self-publishing service, launched November 2007 as Digital Text Platform. It publishes Kindle eBooks, paperbacks, and hardcovers with 35% or 70% royalties, optional 90-day KDP Select exclusivity, and distribution across 175 countries.
Kindle File Format
The Kindle File Format, also known as the AZW file format or Azw3, is the family of proprietary e-book formats Amazon uses on Kindle devices and apps.
Kindler epidermolysis bullosa
Kindler epidermolysis bullosa (Kindler syndrome, OMIM 173650) is a rare autosomal recessive EB subtype from FERMT1 loss-of-function mutations, causing neonatal blistering, photosensitivity, poikiloderma, mucosal strictures, and squamous cell carcinoma risk.
Kindling (neuroscience)
Kindling is an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy in which repeated daily electrical stimulation of the amygdala or hippocampus progressively intensifies seizures until generalized convulsions occur, producing lasting seizure susceptibility.
KindlyMD
KindlyMD is a Salt Lake City healthcare and healthcare-data company founded by Tim Pickett in 2019 that focuses on value-based pain management and reducing opioid use.