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King You's deposition of Crown Prince Yijiu
King You's deposition of Crown Prince Yijiu (幽王废嫡立庶) removed Queen Shen and her son in favor of Bao Si, triggering King You's death in 771 BC.
King You's Deposition of Queen Shen
King You's deposition of Queen Shen (幽王废申后与太子宜臼) removed Queen Shen and crown prince Yijiu in favor of Bao Si, triggering the war that ended the Western Zhou dynasty.
King Zhao of Yan
King Zhao of Yan (燕昭王) was a ruler of the northern state of Yan who rebuilt his weakened kingdom by recruiting talent, then conquered most of Qi.
King Zhao of Zhou's southern expedition and failure to return
King Zhao of Zhou's southern expedition and failure to return (昭王南征不复) were Western Zhou military campaigns in which King Zhao campaigned south and never returned, likely against Chu.
King Zhao's southern campaigns and death on the Han River
King Zhao's southern campaigns (昭王南征) were Zhou expeditions against Chu or the Chu Man, ending with King Zhao's death on the Han River around his nineteenth year.
King Zhaoxiang of Qin
King Zhaoxiang of Qin (秦昭襄王) was a king of Qin during the Warring States period, whose reign laid the foundation for Qin's later unification of China.
King Zheng's coming-of-age at Yong
King Zheng's coming-of-age at Yong (秦王政親政) was the capping ceremony at Yong by which the young king of Qin assumed personal rule, met by Lao Ai's failed revolt.
King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu (楚庄王), personal name Xiong Lü, was a Spring and Autumn period ruler of Chu counted among the Five Hegemons, defeating Jin at Bi in 597 BC.
King Zhuangxiang of Qin
King Zhuangxiang of Qin (秦庄襄王), personal name Yiren, was a Qin ruler of the Warring States period, father of Qin Shi Huang, who destroyed the remnant Zhou royal house.
King-Denborough syndrome
King-Denborough syndrome (Koussef-Nichols syndrome), OMIM 619542, is a rare autosomal congenital myopathy with dysmorphic features and malignant hyperthermia susceptibility, linked to RYR1 and, in recessive African cases, STAC3.
King-Sun Fu
King-Sun Fu (1930–1985) was a Chinese-American electrical engineer at Purdue University, called the father of automatic pattern recognition, first president of the IAPR, and founding editor of IEEE TPAMI.
KING-TV
KING-TV, also known as KING 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Seattle, Washington, owned by Tegna. It began broadcasting in 1948 as KRSC-TV, the region's first television station.
King‐Wai Yau
King-Wai Yau is a Chinese-born neuroscientist, professor at Johns Hopkins since 1986, known for solving phototransduction in rods and cones and for studying photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
King–Byng affair
The King–Byng affair, a 1926 Canadian constitutional crisis: Governor General Lord Byng refused Mackenzie King's dissolution request, appointed Arthur Meighen, and reshaped the governor general's reserve powers.
King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave (Король, дама, валет) is Vladimir Nabokov's second novel, a satire of adultery among Berlin merchants published in Russian in 1928, translated by the author into English in 1968.
King's African Rifles
The King's African Rifles was a multi-battalion British colonial infantry regiment of East and Central Africa, formed in 1902, whose African askaris served under British officers until the 1960s.
King's Casino Prague
King's Casino Prague, formerly Casino Atrium, is a casino and poker room in the Hilton Hotel Prague, host of EPT Prague and WSOP Europe 2026, owned via King's Entertainment by Scott Hanna and Richard Kucik since 2024.
King's Chapel
King's Chapel is a historic church in Boston, founded in 1686 as the first Anglican congregation in Puritan Boston and housed since 1754 in a granite building designed by Peter Harrison.
King's College Chapel
King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, built between 1446 and 1515 in the Perpendicular Gothic style and renowned for the world's largest fan vault.
King's College Hospital
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London: NHS teaching hospital founded 1840 by Robert Bentley Todd, moved to Camberwell 1913, Foundation Trust since 2006, major trauma centre and leading liver transplant unit.
King's College London
King's College London, also King's College, University of London, is a public research university in London founded in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington.
King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge, founded by Henry VI in 1441 as The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, is a Cambridge college famed for its Chapel, its Choir, its former Eton-only admission (ended 1873), and governance by a Provost and Governing Body.
King's Counsel
King's Counsel (KC; formerly Queen's Counsel, QC) is the senior rank for barristers and solicitor advocates in England and Wales, awarded for excellence in advocacy since the first QC in 1597, appointed on the Lord Chancellor's advice after independent panel review, colloquially 'taking silk'.
King's Cross fire
The King's Cross fire, also known as the Kings Cross Underground fire, was a fatal 1987 blaze at King's Cross station in London that killed 31 people.
King's Daughters
King's Daughters names two unrelated subjects: the Filles du roi, about 800 women sent by Louis XIV to New France 1663-1673, and the International Order of King's Daughters and Sons, a Christian service order founded in New York in 1886 whose circles founded hospitals including CHKD.
King's Disease
King's Disease is a 2020 Nas album produced by Hit-Boy and released on Mass Appeal; it won the 2021 Grammy for Best Rap Album and launched a Hit-Boy-produced album series including King's Disease II and III.
King's Eye
The King's Eye (ὀφθαλμός τοῦ βασιλέως) was a royal inspector of the Achaemenid Persian empire who watched the satraps and reported directly to the king.
King's Field (キングスフィールド)
King's Field (キングスフィールド) is FromSoftware's 1994 PlayStation first-person dark fantasy dungeon crawler RPG, its first video game. Its slow combat, vague storytelling, and difficulty seeded Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and indie games like Lunacid.
King's Gambit
King's Gambit, chess opening after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 (ECO C30–C39), where White sacrifices the f-pawn for development and an open f-file; a 16th-century Romantic-era opening, main line 3.Nf3, risky but popular below elite level.
King's Game The Animation
King's Game The Animation (Ōsama Game: The Animation) is a 2017 12-episode horror anime by studio Seven, adapted from Nobuaki Kanazawa and Hitori Renda's cell phone novels; classmates obey the King's text orders within 24 hours or die.