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Kirby's Adventure

Kirby's Adventure is HAL Laboratory and Nintendo's 1993 NES platformer, the first home-console Kirby game and the debut of the series' copy ability system. Directed by Masahiro Sakurai, produced by Miyamoto and Iwata; remade as Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.

Kirby's Avalanche

Kirby's Avalanche, also called Kirby's Ghost Trap in Europe, is a 1995 SNES falling-blob puzzle game by Compile and Nintendo, the Western re-skin of Super Puyo Puyo with Kirby characters, never released in Japan, later on Virtual Console and Switch Online.

Kirby's Dream Land

Kirby's Dream Land (星のカービィ, Hoshi no Kābī) is HAL Laboratory's 1992 Game Boy platformer, the first Kirby game, directed by 19-year-old Masahiro Sakurai; Kirby inhales and spits enemies but has no Copy Ability, and it sold over five million units.

Kirby's Pinball Land

Kirby's Pinball Land (カービィのピンボール) is a 1993 Game Boy pinball game by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo, the third Kirby game and first spin-off, in which Kirby is the ball across three tables ending in a King Dedede boss fight; 1.12 million shipped.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Kirby's Return to Dream Land (Kirby's Adventure Wii in PAL regions) is HAL Laboratory's 2011 Wii Kirby platformer with Copy Abilities, Super Abilities, and 4-player co-op; remastered as Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe for Switch in 2023.

Kirchenlied

A Kirchenlied is a metrical, strophic Christian hymn suited to group singing in worship, processions, and pilgrimages; the oldest known German example, "Christ ist erstanden", dates to the 9th century.

Oct 21, 2026

Kircher (lunar crater)

Kircher, a 71.20-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon's southern hemisphere at about 67 degrees south, 45 degrees west, with satellite crater Kircher A (30.83 km), named per IAU nomenclature.

Kirchhoff rod model

The Kirchhoff rod model is an elastic rod theory, presented by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1859, in which a slender rod bends and twists but cannot stretch or shear.

Kirchhoff's circuit laws

Kirchhoff's circuit laws, also known as Kirchhoff's rules, are two rules formulated by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1845 stating that current is conserved at junctions and potential changes sum to zero around any closed loop.

Kirchhoff's diffraction formula

Kirchhoff's diffraction formula, also called the Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction formula, is a scalar integral giving the wave amplitude beyond an aperture, derived by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1887.

Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation

Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation states that a body in thermal equilibrium emits and absorbs equally at every wavelength, published by Gustav Kirchhoff in 1860.

Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry

Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry, named after the German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff, states that a reaction enthalpy changes with temperature by the difference in heat capacities of products and reactants.

Kirchhoff's theorem (graph theory)

Kirchhoff's theorem, also called the matrix-tree theorem, states that the number of spanning trees of a finite graph equals any cofactor of its Laplacian matrix.

Kirchnerism

Kirchnerism, also called kirchnerismo, is an Argentine political movement within peronism that shaped the country's politics through the presidencies of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2003 to 2015.

Kireedam (2007 film)

Kireedam (கிரீடம், Crown) is a 2007 Tamil action drama directed by A. L. Vijay, starring Ajith Kumar, Trisha, and Raj Kiran; a remake of the 1989 Malayalam classic whose tragic climax was changed after release to satisfy Ajith's fans.

Kireedam (കിരീടം) (1989 film)

Kireedam (കിരീടം) is a 1989 Malayalam action drama directed by Sibi Malayil, written by A.K. Lohithadas, starring Mohanlal as Sethumadhavan and Thilakan; it won Mohanlal a National Film Award Special Mention, was remade in six languages, and returned in 4K in 2026.

Kirei Kotomine (言峰綺礼)

Kirei Kotomine (言峰綺礼) is a fictional priest in TYPE-MOON's Fate/stay night and its prequel Fate/Zero, serving as overseer of the Holy Grail War and, in some routes, its principal antagonist.

Kireji

Kireji (切れ字, "cutting word") is a class of Japanese particles used in haiku and hokku that marks a strong break in the verse's flow, setting two images side by side.

Kiren Rijiju (किरेन रिजिजू)

Kiren Rijiju (किरेन रिजिजू), BJP MP from Arunachal West since 2004 and Union minister: MoS Home, Sports, Law and Justice (2021-23), Earth Sciences, and since June 2024 Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs.

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic

The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the Kirghiz SSR or Soviet Kyrgyzstan, was a republic of the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1991 and predecessor of independent Kyrgyzstan.

Kiri Te Kanawa

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (born 1944, Gisborne, New Zealand) is a lyric soprano famous as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden (1971), the 1981 royal wedding soloist, a 1984 Grammy winner, and a performer who retired from public singing in 2017.

Sep 19, 2026

Kiriath-Jearim

Kiriath-Jearim, also known as Kiryat-Yearim, is an ancient hill town in the Levant where the Ark of the Covenant rested before David brought it to Jerusalem.

Sep 19, 2026

Kiriath-Sepher

Kiriath-Sepher, also called Kiriath-sannah, is the earlier name of the Canaanite royal town Debir, known from Joshua and Judges and generally identified with Khirbet Rabud southwest of Hebron.

Kiribati

Kiribati, a Pacific republic of 32 atolls plus Banaba, independent from the UK on 12 July 1979, capital Tarawa, funded mainly by fishing license fees and the RERF sovereign wealth fund.

Kiribati oral literature

Kiribati oral literature is the body of myths, legends, genealogical lists, spells, and chants by which the people of Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, transmitted their past.

Kirigami (engineering)

Kirigami in engineering is a fabrication approach that uses planned cuts, adapted from Japanese paper cutting, to give stiff sheets programmable stretchability and shape morphing for soft robots and electronics.

Kirigami metamaterials

Kirigami metamaterials are mechanical metamaterials created by cutting, sometimes folding, flat sheets, so geometry rather than material sets their stretchable, auxetic, shape-morphing behavior, from graphene devices to deployable structures.

Sep 24, 2026

Kiriji War

The Kiriji War (Ogun Kiriji), also called the Ekitiparapo War, was the longest civil war in Yoruba history, fought in south-western Nigeria from 1877 to 1893.

Sep 24, 2026

Kirik of Novgorod

Kirik of Novgorod (Кирик Новгородец), born 1110, was a Novgorodian monk and deacon at the Antoniev Monastery, sometimes called the first Russian mathematician known by name.