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Kaili

Kaili (凯里; Hmu: Kad Linx) is a county-level city in eastern Guizhou and the seat of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, established as a city in 1983-84, about 160 km from Guiyang, known for Miao festivals, sour soup, and silverwork.

Oct 3, 2026

Kaili Blues (路边野餐)

Kaili Blues (路边野餐, Lu bian ye can) is Bi Gan's 2015 debut feature, a dreamlike Chinese road film about a Guizhou doctor searching for his nephew, famous for its roughly 40-minute long take and Locarno awards.

Kaillie Humphries

Kaillie Humphries (Kaillie Simundson Armbruster, born 1985) is a Canadian-American bobsled pilot, the only three-time Olympic gold medalist in women's bobsled: two-woman golds 2010/2014 for Canada, inaugural monobob gold 2022 for the USA.

Kailuan Group

Kailuan Group (开滦集团) is a Chinese state-owned coal mining and coal-chemical company in Tangshan, Hebei, tracing its origins to the Kaiping Mining Bureau of 1878.

Kaima Taira

Kaima Taira (平良海馬), born 1999, is a Saitama Seibu Lions pitcher in NPB and Tokyo 2020 Olympic baseball gold medalist; 2020 Rookie of the Year, 2025 saves leader, 2026 ERA title winner at 1.36, expected MLB posting candidate.

Sep 24, 2026

Kaime

The kaime (قاييمه) was paper scrip issued by the Ottoman government under Sultan Abdulmecid in 1840 during a fiscal crisis, circulating around Istanbul until its withdrawal in 1862.

Kaimei

Kaimei (海明) was a Japanese floating oscillating water column wave energy converter, described as the first large-scale device deployed at sea, tested off Yamagata in 1978–1980 and 1985–1986.

Kaiming He (何恺明)

Kaiming He (何恺明) is a Chinese computer scientist at MIT known for ResNet, Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, and He initialization; his ResNet paper is the 21st century's most cited.

Kaims Castle

Kaims Castle is the site of a small Roman fortlet on the Gask Ridge in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, with earthworks of three banks and a ditch, protected as a scheduled monument.

Kain (Legacy of Kain)

Kain is the vampire protagonist of the Legacy of Kain series, debuting in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996), refusing Nosgoth's salvation, creating Raziel, and voiced by Simon Templeman.

Kain Medrano

Kain Medrano (born 2001) is a Washington Commanders linebacker, drafted 205th overall in 2025 from UCLA, where he was a captain and All-Big Ten pick; ran a 4.46-second 40-yard dash.

Oct 20, 2026

Kainan Rupēs

Kainan Rupes (Kainan Rupēs) is a 325 km lobate scarp on Mercury, centered at 29.8°S, 330.8°E, IAU-approved October 19, 2018 and named for the Kainan Maru, Nobu Shirase's Antarctic expedition ship of 1910-1912.

Kainchi Dham (कैंची धाम)

Kainchi Dham, also known as the Neem Karori Ashram, is a Hanuman temple and ashram in Nainital district, Uttarakhand, India, founded by Neem Karoli Baba in 1964.

Kaine Parker

Kaine Parker is a Marvel Comics character, the Jackal's original flawed clone of Spider-Man and brother-clone of Ben Reilly. Known for the Mark of Kaine, cellular degeneration, and his 2011-2012 Scarlet Spider series as Houston's hero.

Kainic acid

Kainic acid (カイニン酸) is a natural amino acid from red seaweed that activates kainate receptors; isolated in 1953, it is widely used to model temporal lobe epilepsy.

Kainji Dam

Kainji Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Niger River in Kainji, Niger State, Nigeria, commissioned in 1968 as the country's first large dam on the Niger, with a capacity of 760 MW.

Kaio Almeida

Kaio Almeida (Kaio Márcio Ferreira da Costa Almeida), Brazilian butterfly swimmer born 1984 in João Pessoa; four Olympian, short-course world record holder in 50 m and 200 m butterfly, 2006 world short-course 100 m butterfly champion; distinct from the jiu-jitsu athlete Caio Almeida.

Oct 22, 2026

Kaioraora

Kaioraora is a Māori term for a cursing song or abusive chant of hatred; as a category of haka, it is used expressly for venting hatred, and as a verb it means threatening or menacing.

KaiOS

KaiOS is a web-based mobile operating system for smart feature phones, developed by KaiOS Technologies from Mozilla's Firefox OS and running apps as HTML5 web applications.

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages (开平碉楼与村落) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kaiping, Guangdong, China, inscribed in 2007 for its fortified multi-storey village towers, built largely by returning émigrés and fusing Chinese and Western architectural forms.

Kaipo Dudoit

Kaipo Dudoit is a Native Hawaiian actor, hula dancer, and model from Oʻahu, born 1994, known for playing David Kawena in Disney's 2025 live-action Lilo & Stitch, My Partner (2023), Magnum P.I., and Rescue: HI-Surf.

Kaipuleohone

Kaipuleohone, the University of Hawaiʻi's digital ethnographic language archive founded in 2008, stores audio, video, photos and documents of small and endangered languages in ScholarSpace under OLAC, OAI, and Dublin Core metadata standards.

Kaique Kenji

Kaique Kenji (Kaique Kenji Takamura Correa), Brazilian left winger born 2006 in São Paulo, plays for Cruzeiro; son of ex-Brazil left-back Kléber, Brazil U20 player, contract to 2028.

Oct 22, 2026

Kairakuen

Kairakuen (偕楽園) is a Japanese garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, built in 1842 by Tokugawa Nariaki and counted among the Three Great Gardens of Japan.

Sep 21, 2026

Kairbaan Hodivala‐Dilke

Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke (Kairbaan M. Hodivala-Dilke) is a cell biologist studying tumor angiogenesis who is Professor of the Tumour Microenvironment at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

Kairi (gamer)

Kairi (Kairi Ygnacio Rayosdelsol, born 2005), Filipino MLBB jungler for ONIC Esports Indonesia; first Filipino import, MPL ID S10-S13 four-peat, MSC 2023 champion, M3/M5 runner-up; distinct from CS coach David de Miguel and LoL player Võ Văn Phi.

Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)

Kairi (カイリ) is the main heroine of Square Enix and Disney's Kingdom Hearts RPG series: Sora and Riku's childhood friend from Destiny Islands, a Princess of Heart, wielder of the Destiny's Embrace Keyblade, narrator of Melody of Memory, and confirmed for Kingdom Hearts IV (late 2027).