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Kairos (καιρός)
Kairos (καιρός), an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment, contrasted with chronos (measured time); personified as youngest child of Zeus, central to classical rhetoric, medicine, and modern rhetorical theory.
Kairos Venture Partners
Kairos Venture Partners is the family of venture capital funds managed by Kairos Ventures, a Beverly Hills firm founded in 2015 by Jim Demetriades that invests in early-stage healthcare and technology companies.
Kais Saied (قيس سعيد)
Kais Saied (قيس سعيد), born 1958, is Tunisia's president since 2019; a constitutional law professor who seized emergency powers in July 2021, rewrote the constitution, and was reelected in 2024 with 90.7%.
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Kaisa Mäkäräinen (born 1983, Ristijärvi) is a retired Finnish biathlete, the most successful in Finnish history: three overall World Cup titles (2011, 2014, 2018), 2011 pursuit world champion, 27 World Cup wins, retired March 2020.
Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai (कैसा ये प्यार है)
Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai (कैसा ये प्यार है), also Kaisa Yeh Pyaar Hai, is a 2005-2006 Balaji Telefilms Hindi romantic drama on Sony TV starring Iqbal Khan as Angad Khanna and Neha Bamb as Kripa Sharma, airing Mon-Thu 8 pm.
Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden
Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden (Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha), University of Helsinki botanic garden in central Helsinki since 1829, founded in Turku 1678, with 10 greenhouses, the 1889 Palm House, and Finland's national living plant collection.
Kaiseki
Kaiseki (懐石料理/会席料理) is Japan's traditional multi-course haute cuisine, originating in tea-ceremony meals perfected by Sen no Rikyu and codified in the Edo period; served at ryotei and ryokan with seasonal courses, it differs from omakase service.
Kaiser
Kaiser is the German title for emperor, derived from Old High German keisar, an early borrowing of Latin Caesar; English used it from 1858 for the Austrian and German emperors. Related uses include the Kaiserchronik and the surname.
Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs: English indie rock band from Leeds, formed 2000 as Parva, renamed after a South African football club in 2003. Debut Employment (2005) hit UK No. 2; two number-one albums; three Brit Awards.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), also called the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is a nonpartisan American health policy nonprofit founded in 1948, rebuilt by Drew Altman in 1991, known for policy research, polling, and KFF Health News.
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente, also called KP, is an Oakland, California-based integrated managed care consortium founded in 1945 by Sidney Garfield and Henry J. Kaiser, serving about 12.4 million members through nonprofit health plan, hospitals, and Permanente Medical Groups.
Kaiser roll
Kaiser roll (Kaisersemmel, Vienna roll, hard roll, kajzerka): a crusty round Austrian white bread roll with a five-part star top, minimum 46 g baked weight, codex-defined, most-eaten in Austria; in the US the default NY/NJ breakfast-sandwich roll.
Kaiser towers
Kaiser towers (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Türme) are German memorial towers honoring Kaiser Wilhelm I, built after his 1888 death. Key examples include the 55 m Grunewaldturm in Berlin (1897-1898, Franz Schwechten) and the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower on Wiesbaden's Schläferskopf.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, or Gedächtniskirche) is a Protestant church ensemble on the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg, combining an 1891–1895 church ruin with modern buildings by Egon Eiermann.
Kaiser Wilhelm Society
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft, KWG) was a German basic-research organization founded in Berlin in 1911 under Adolf von Harnack, succeeded by the Max Planck Society.
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy
The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy is a statistic, proposed by Henry Kaiser in 1970, that indicates how suitable a set of variables is for factor analysis.
Kaiserchronik
The Kaiserchronik, or Chronicle of the Emperors, is an early Middle High German verse chronicle of over 17,000 verses written around 1150, probably in Regensburg.
Kaiserjass
Kaiserjass (Kaiserspiel, Kaisern, Cheisärä) is a Swiss partnership trick-taking card game for 4 or 6 players, descended from medieval Karnöffel, played with 40 or 48 Swiss cards in Nidwalden, with legal partner signaling and Kaiser betting.
Kaiserreich (video game mod)
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is the largest alternate history mod for Hearts of Iron II, Darkest Hour, and Hearts of Iron IV, asking what if Germany had won WW1; founded by Sarmatia in 2005, it offers 1936 syndicalist-Europe gameplay with nearly 200 focus trees and over a million Steam subscribers.
Kaiserschmarrn
Kaiserschmarrn (Kaiserschmarren, császármorzsa) is Austria's torn, caramelized shredded pancake dusted with powdered sugar and served with plum compote; a 16th-century rural dish later tied to Emperor Franz Joseph I by legend.
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern, a city of about 100,000 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, named after the Lauter river; imperial palace under Barbarossa, Speyer town rights 1276, former Palatinate industrial center, university city since 1970.
Kaisersteinbruch
Kaisersteinbruch (Császárkőbánya), Burgenland, Austria: quarrying village in Bruckneudorf at the Leithagebirge, site of a 2.25 ha Roman villa at Königshof, a Lombard cemetery, a Carolingian royal court, and a 1203 Cistercian monastery.
Kaishakunin (介錯人)
Kaishakunin (介錯人), the kaishaku or second at seppuku: the attendant who beheaded a samurai disemboweling himself to end his agony. Defined by dakinubi etiquette, Edo penal procedure, Hagakure records, and abolition of seppuku in 1873.
Kaisi Chang
Kaisi Chang is a partner at Source Code Capital, a China-focused venture firm, where he invests in new consumption and brands and sponsored the Bytedance investment.
Kaisi Kaidi (凯思凯迪（上海）医药科技股份有限公司) (Casi KC)
Kaisi Kaidi (凯思凯迪, Casi KC) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Shanghai, founded by Dr. Xu Huaqiang in 2017, developing small-molecule drugs for bile-acid-metabolism diseases.
Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan
Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan (कैसी ये यारियां), also spelled Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan, is an Indian MTV India teen romance drama (2014–2015) loosely based on Boys Over Flowers, starring Parth Samthaan and Niti Taylor as the MaNan pairing, later continued on Voot, JioCinema, and JioHotstar.
Kaisora Guggulu
Kaisora Guggulu (Kaiśora guggulu), a classical Ayurvedic tablet of purified Commiphora wightii resin, triphala, Tinospora, and spices; AFI dose 3 g; used mainly for gout (Vatarakta), constipation, and skin diseases.
KAIST (한국과학기술원)
KAIST (한국과학기술원) is South Korea's first research-centered science and technology university, opened in Seoul in 1971 to educate engineers for industrialization and based in Daejeon since 1989.
Kaitai shinsho
Kaitai shinsho (解体新書) is a Japanese translation of a Dutch anatomy book published in 1774 by Edo physicians led by Sugita Genpaku, the first of its kind.
Kaitaia
Kaitaia (Kaitāia) is the main town of the Far North district, Northland, New Zealand, in the Awanui River valley. Founded around an 1830s CMS mission, it is the gateway to Cape Rēinga, with high deprivation and the region's cheapest housing.