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Kints
Kints (kints kut) is a race board game of the Akimel O'odham (Pima) of Arizona, played with four marked stick dice valued 4, 6, 14, and 15; its name derives from Spanish quince, linking it to the quince/patol game family possibly related to Patolli.
Kintsugi (金継ぎ)
Kintsugi (金継ぎ, kintsukuroi, golden joinery) is the Japanese craft of repairing broken ceramics with urushi lacquer finished in gold or silver powder, arising in Muromachi-era tea ceremony culture; variants include gintsugi, urushitsugi, and yobitsugi.
Kinuko Tanida
Kinuko Tanida (谷田絹子, later Idogawa), 1939-2020, Japanese volleyball outside hitter with Nichibo Kaizuka; 1962 world champion and 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist with the Oriental Witches.
Kinvara
Kinvara (Cinn Mhara) is a harbour village of about 721 people on south Galway Bay, gateway to the Burren, known for Dunguaire Castle, Galway Hooker boat heritage, and the Cruinniú na mBad festival.
Kinvaston Fort
Kinvaston Fort: two superimposed Roman forts near Penkridge, Staffordshire, discovered by aerial survey in 1946; the larger, mid first century enclosure is a possible vexillation fortress near Watling Street and Pennocrucium.
Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung
Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung (1822–1908) was chief minister of Burma's Konbaung kingdom under Kings Mindon and Thibaw, and the first Burmese ambassador sent to Europe.
Kinya Seto
Kinya Seto (瀬戸欣哉) is a Japanese entrepreneur, born in 1960 in Tokyo, who founded the MRO e-commerce company MonotaRO in 2000 and led LIXIL as president and CEO from 2016.
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda (also Ikinyarwanda), a Great Lakes Bantu language, is the national language of Rwanda and mutually intelligible with Kirundi; spoken by over 12 million people, it has five vowels with length contrast, two tone levels, and a noun class system with locative classes 16 to 19.
Kinyeti
Mount Kinyeti, also called Kinyeti or Mt. Kinyetti, is a 3,187 m peak in the Imatong Mountains of Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan, near the Uganda border; it is the country's highest point and was formerly Sudan's highest peak.
Kinzers Formation
The Kinzers Formation is a Cambrian rock unit in southeastern Pennsylvania, known as a Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte preserving soft-bodied fossils, including the most diverse known Cambrian Stage 4 radiodont assemblage.
Kinzua Bridge
Kinzua Bridge, also called the Kinzua Viaduct, was a 300-foot-tall railroad trestle in Pennsylvania, built in 1882 and partially destroyed by a tornado in 2003.
KION Group
KION Group is a German intralogistics company that makes Linde, STILL, and OM industrial trucks and supplies warehouse automation through its Dematic brand, majority-owned by Weichai Power.
KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence
The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, established in 2008, is the largest ICT research center in Cyprus, part of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia.
Kiosk
A kiosk is a small, often free-standing structure in a public place, used as a staffed point of sale for newspapers and refreshments or as an unstaffed touch-screen terminal.
Kiosk (group)
Kiosk (کیوسک) is an Iranian rock band formed in Tehran in 2003 by Arash Sobhani, whose censored music led it to relocate to the United States in 2006.
Kiosk of Qertassi
The Kiosk of Qertassi is a small Roman-era sandstone kiosk with two Hathor-headed entrance columns, moved from Lower Nubia to New Kalabsha, Egypt, during the 1960s UNESCO salvage campaign.
Kiowa
Kiowa, a Southern Plains Native American tribe of Oklahoma and Texas, speaking a Tanoan-related language; allied with the Comanche around 1790, signed the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty, held its last Sun Dance in 1887.
Kiowa Gordon
Kiowa Gordon (born 1990, Berlin) is a Hualapai American actor known as Embry Call in The Twilight Saga and Jim Chee in AMC's Dark Winds; also The Red Road, Blood Quantum, The Lesser Blessed.
Kiowa oral literature
Kiowa oral literature is the body of stories transmitted among the Kiowa people of the southern Plains, centered on the trickster Saynday, told in the Kiowa language.
Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation
The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation was a joint reservation of more than two million acres in southwestern Indian Territory, created in 1867 and allotted and opened to settlement in 1901.
Kioxia (キオクシア)
Kioxia, also known as Toshiba Memory, is a Japanese manufacturer of NAND flash memory and solid-state drives headquartered in Tokyo that invented NAND flash in 1987.
Kioz
Kioz (Kiôz, Djôz) is a seventeenth-century Levantine capturing race board game related to Tab, described by Thomas Hyde in 1694: a 4x22 board, 22 pieces per side including four undistinguished kings, and four two-sided throwing sticks as dice.
Kip Moore
Kip Moore (born 1980, Tifton, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter whose 2012 debut Up All Night produced three No. 1 singles; later albums include Slowheart, Damn Love, and Solitary Tracks on Virgin Music Group.
Kip Sabian
Kip Sabian (Simon James Kippen, born 1992, Great Yarmouth, England) is a British professional wrestler signed to AEW since 2019; won AEW's first-ever singles match over Sammy Guevara, ran the box-head 'Underrated, Over It' gimmick, and joined The Patriarchy.
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who co-founded the LIGO project and shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
Kip Winger
Kip Winger (Charles Frederick Kip Winger, born 1961, Denver) is an American singer-bassist who fronted the platinum hard rock band Winger and became a Grammy-nominated classical composer with Ghosts, Conversations with Nijinsky, and Nashville Symphony works.
Kipawa
Kipawa: lake (~300 km²), river, municipality (~545 people), dam, and ZEC in Témiscamingue, Quebec. Algonquin for 'it is closed'; dam built early 1910s, transferred to Quebec 2007, safety rebuild planned.
Kipchaks
Kipchaks (Qïpčaq), also called Cumans, Polovtsy, or Kun, were a Turkic nomadic confederation dominating the Dašt-e Qepčāq steppe from ca. 1030 to the Mongol conquest of 1237, ancestors of many modern Turkic peoples.
Kipchoge Keino
Kipchoge (Kip) Keino, Kenyan distance runner born 1940, won 1968 Olympic 1500m gold and 1972 steeplechase gold, set 1965 world records at 3000m and 5000m, and later led Kenya's Olympic committee.
Kipchumba Murkomen
Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen is a Kenyan politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration since December 2024, after serving as Senate Majority Leader.