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Kirk S. Schanze
Kirk S. Schanze is an American chemist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, known for conjugated polyelectrolytes and for founding ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Kirk Sink
Kirk Sink Roman villa, Gargrave, North Yorkshire: scheduled monument (1012616) beside the River Aire, occupied from the Brigantian Iron Age to the late 4th century AD, excavated 1968-1975, with unique wooden-pipe water supply.
Kirk Talbot
Kirk Talbot is an American Republican politician who has represented Louisiana's 10th Senate district, covering Kenner, Harahan, and parts of Metairie, since 2019, and chairs the Senate insurance committee.
Kirk Watson
Kirk Watson is an American Democratic politician who has served as Mayor of Austin, Texas, since 2023, and earlier from 1997, and spent 13 years in the Texas Senate.
Kirk Windstein
Kirk Windstein is an American guitarist and vocalist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known as the founding frontman of Crowbar and a guitarist in Down.
Kirkbi
Kirkbi, formally KIRKBI A/S, is the private holding and investment company of the Kirk Kristiansen family, which owns 75% of the LEGO Group and manages a financial portfolio of DKK 81 billion.
Kirkbride
Kirkbride, Cumbria: village and site of a late first/early second century AD Roman fort, western terminus of the Stanegate frontier, abandoned when Hadrian's Wall opened in 122; scheduled monument 1018653.
Kirkby
Kirkby, a town in Knowsley, Merseyside, England, also recorded as Cherchebi in Domesday; a rural village turned post-war overspill New Town for Liverpool, population 52,207 by 1961, now undergoing council-led town centre regeneration.
Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy, known as the Lang Toun, is a town on the Firth of Forth in Fife, Scotland, and the birthplace of Adam Smith, with about 50,000 residents.
Kirkebakkegård
Kirkebakkegård is the name of several Danish farms, the best known a site near Uggeløse with rich Roman Iron Age graves, including a princely burial excavated in 1966.
Kirkendall effect
The Kirkendall effect is the motion of the interface between two contacting solids when their atoms diffuse at different rates, first shown in copper-zinc diffusion couples by Ernest Kirkendall in 1947.
Kirkhill Roman signal station
Kirkhill Roman signal station (SM90332) is a scheduled Gask Ridge watchtower site in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, built in AD 79–80 and abandoned about AD 87–88, one of a chain of timber towers beside the Roman road from Strageath to Perth.
Kirkintilloch
Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire's administrative centre on the Kelvin Valley northeast of Glasgow; Scotland's first inland port after the 1790 Forth and Clyde Canal, with Antonine Wall Roman fort at Peel Park and 19,900 residents in 2008.
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Kirkjubæjarklaustur (Klaustur) is a village in Skaftárhreppur, South Iceland, on the Ring Road at the Skaftá river crossing, site of a medieval Benedictine convent (1186 to the Reformation) and base for Lakagígar, Eldhraun, and Fjaðrárgljúfur.
Kirkland
Kirkland Roman Fortlet, a Flavian-period Roman fortlet in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, at grid NX804901; discovered aerially in 1989, excavated by Lawrence Keppie, deliberately demolished before Roman withdrawal.
Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, founded 1909 in Chicago, is an international law firm and Am Law 100 #1 by revenue; in fiscal 2025 it became the first law firm above $10 billion ($10.556B, 4,145 lawyers), with about 4,000 attorneys in 24 cities and a nearly 1,200-lawyer litigation practice.
Kirkland, Quebec
Kirkland, Quebec: a West Island suburb of Montreal between Beaconsfield and Pierrefonds, incorporated as a town in 1961, named for Dr. Charles-Aimé Kirkland, merged into Montreal in 2002 and reconstituted in 2006; 19,413 residents in 2021, served by a REM station.
Kirkland, Washington
Kirkland, Washington: Eastside King County city on Lake Washington's northeast shore, founded 1888, incorporated 1905, named for steel entrepreneur Peter Kirk. Population 92,175 (2020); annexed Houghton, Totem Lake, Juanita, Finn Hill, and Kingsgate.
Kirklees
Kirklees, a West Yorkshire metropolitan borough governed by Kirklees Council since 1974, centered on Huddersfield and Dewsbury; population about 433,300 (2021), no overall control with Reform UK largest after May 2026, adult social care rated requires improvement.
Kirko Bangz
Kirko Bangz, stage name of Kirk Jerel Randle (born 1989), is a Houston rapper and singer whose melodic 2011 single "Drank in My Cup" topped the Billboard rap chart and went platinum.
Kirkpatrick model
The Kirkpatrick model is a four-level framework for evaluating training programs, assessing participant reaction, learning, on-the-job behavior, and organizational results, first published as four articles in 1959.
Kirkstall Abbey
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, Leeds, founded in 1152 by monks from Fountains Abbey, with its church still standing almost to roof height.
Kirkuk (كركوك)
Kirkuk (كركوك, also Kerkuk) is a city in northern Iraq atop one of its largest oil fields, claimed by both Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
Kirkuk Citadel
Kirkuk Citadel is a fortified settlement mound in central Kirkuk, Iraq, built on the ancient city of Arrapha, capital of a small kingdom that fell about 1340 BC.
Kirkuk Governorate
Kirkuk Governorate (محافظة كركوك), a disputed oil-rich governorate in northern Iraq with mixed Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen population; formerly At-Ta'mim (1976–2006), governed under Article 140, with PUK's Rebwar Taha elected governor in 2024.
Kirkuk Oil Field
The Kirkuk Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field near Kirkuk in northeastern Iraq, discovered in 1927 and producing since 1934 from shallow limestone.
Kirkuk-Baniyas Oil Pipelines
The Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline is a crude oil pipeline running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil field to the Syrian Mediterranean port of Baniyas, completed by the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1952.
Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus that publishes pre-publication reviews for booksellers and librarians, and awards the Kirkus Prize.
Kirkwall
Kirkwall (Kirkjuvagr, "church-bay") is the capital of Orkney, Scotland, population about 7,390. Norse-founded, seat of St Magnus Cathedral (begun 1137), royal burgh chartered 1486, and the UK's most visited cruise port per council documents.
Kirkwood gap
A Kirkwood gap, such as the Hecuba gap, is a depleted band of main-belt asteroids at a mean-motion resonance with Jupiter, named for astronomer Daniel Kirkwood, who announced the gaps in 1866.