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Kirkwood Islands
Kirkwood Islands (Kirkwood, Islotes), a scattered group of reefs and rocks with one larger islet in central Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, at 68°22'S 69°00'W; sighted 1949 and surveyed 1950 from the FIDS ship John Biscoe, named for Cdr. Henry Kirkwood, RN.
Kirlian photography
Kirlian photography is a technique that records the glow of a corona discharge around an object on a high-voltage plate, developed by the Kirlians in the Soviet Union.
Kirloskar (magazine)
Kirloskar (किर्लोस्कर) is a Marathi-language monthly magazine founded in 1920 by the Kirloskar industrial family and devoted to progressive thought and fine literature; with sister magazines Stree and Manohar, it shaped Marathi literary life.
Kirloskar Group
The Kirloskar Group is an Indian engineering conglomerate founded by Laxmanrao Kirloskar in 1888 as a bicycle repair shop in Belgaum, Karnataka, that manufactures pumps, diesel engines, and compressors.
Kirmond-le-Mire
Kirmond-le-Mire, a small parish in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire (Domesday Cheuremont), known for its scheduled Roman villa with a 4th-century geometric mosaic uncovered in 1975, plus a bowl barrow and 1868 model farm.
Kirnis (crater on Ceres)
Kirnis is a 115-km-wide, old, eroded impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 4.90N, 264.30E, named for a Lithuanian guardian spirit of cherry trees; IAU-approved July 3, 2015, polygonal shape shaped by the Samhain Catenae fractures near Occator.
Kiro (AWS)
Kiro is an agentic integrated development environment from Amazon Web Services that turns prompts into structured specifications before generating code, launched in preview in July 2025.
KIRO-TV
KIRO-TV, also known as Kiro 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station in Seattle, Washington, broadcasting on channel 7 since February 1958 and owned by Cox Media Group since 1997.
Kirodi Lal Meena
Kirodi Lal Meena, born 1951 in Dausa district, Rajasthan, is a Bharatiya Janata Party minister in the Rajasthan government who earlier served in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Kirokujo
The Kirokujo (記録所) was a judicial and land-administration office of the Japanese imperial court, first created in 1069 by Emperor Go-Sanjō to investigate estate title documents.
Kirori Mal College (किरोड़ी मल कॉलेज)
Kirori Mal College (किरोड़ी मल कॉलेज), KMC, is a University of Delhi constituent college founded 1951 as Nirmala College, renamed 1954, NIRF 2025 college rank 4, known for The Players theater society and alumni like Amitabh Bachchan.
Kirov Murder Decrees of 1 December 1934
The Kirov Murder Decrees of 1 December 1934, later the Law of 1 December 1934, stripped Soviet defendants accused of terrorism of normal trial protections.
Kirov-class battlecruiser
The Kirov class, Project 1144 Orlan, is a class of four nuclear-powered Soviet heavy missile cruisers built in Leningrad, the largest warships after aircraft carriers since World War II.
Kirov-class cruiser
The Kirov class, Soviet designation Project 1144 Orlan, is a class of four nuclear-powered guided-missile cruisers built for the Soviet Navy from 1973 to 1996.
Kirov, Kirov Oblast
Kirov (Киров; formerly Vyatka, then Khlynov) is the administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia, on the Vyatka River 791 km east of Moscow; 475,871 residents in 2025, renamed in 1934 after S.M. Kirov.
Kirov's murder
Kirov's murder (Убийство Кирова) was the shooting of Sergei Kirov, head of the Leningrad party organization, by Leonid Nikolaev in Leningrad on 1 December 1934, a starting point for Stalin's Great Terror.
Kirova Coal Mine
The Kirova Coal Mine, formally the S. M. Kirov Mine, is an underground coal mine in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Russia, opened in 1935 and owned by SUEK-Kuzbass.
Kirovohrad Oblast
Kirovohrad Oblast (Кіровоградська область), a central Ukrainian oblast between the Dnipro and Southern Buh rivers, capital Kropyvnytskyi; formed 1939, area 24,600 km², population about 902,000, major uranium reserves and black-soil agriculture.
Kirovske Raion
Kirovske Raion (Кіровський район; briefly Islam-Terek Raion) was a district in eastern Crimea, centered on Kirovske settlement, formed 1935, area 1,200 km², population 57,686 (2001), abolished by Ukraine's 2020 raion reform.
Kirovske, Crimea
Kirovske (Кіровське), formerly Islam-Terek, is an urban-type settlement and district center in Crimea, population 7,465 (2001), renamed in 1945; its district was renamed Islyamteretskyi by Ukraine in 2016.
Kirpal Singh (ਕਿਰਪਾਲ ਸਿੰਘ)
Sant Kirpal Singh (1894–1974) was an Indian Sant Mat teacher of inner light-and-sound meditation who founded Ruhani Satsang in Delhi and convened the 1974 World Conference on Unity of Man.
Kirpan (ਕਿਰਪਾਨ)
Kirpan (ਕਿਰਪਾਨ), the mandatory Sikh article of faith worn by initiated Amritdhari Sikhs since 1699, one of the Five Ks, from kirpa (grace) and aan (honor); distinguished from a dagger by its religious meaning and legal protections in India, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Kirrak Party
Kirrak Party is a 2018 Telugu campus comedy-drama, an official remake of the Kannada hit Kirik Party, directed by Sharan Koppisetty, starring Nikhil Siddharth, Simran Pareenja, and Samyuktha Hegde, released March 16, 2018.
Kirri
Kirri of Que was a king of the Cilician kingdom of Que, placed on its throne by Shalmaneser III of Assyria in 833 BC in place of his father Kate.
Kirron Kher (ਕਿਰਰਨ ਖੇਰ)
Kirron Kher (ਕਿਰਰਨ ਖੇਰ), Indian film, theatre and television actress and BJP Lok Sabha member for Chandigarh 2014–2024; wife of Anupam Kher, National Award winner for Sardari Begum and Khamosh Pani, known for mother roles.
Kirsan Namdeo
Kirsan Namdeo, also known as Namdeo Kirsan, is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress serving in the 18th Lok Sabha since 2024 as the member for Gadchiroli-Chimur, Maharashtra.
Kirschner wire
A Kirschner wire, also called a K-wire or Kirschner pin, is a thin surgical steel pin drilled into bone to fix fractures, introduced by Martin Kirschner in 1909.
Kirsha Danilov's collection
Kirsha Danilov's collection (Сборник Кирши Данилова) is an eighteenth-century Russian manuscript compiled in Siberia by the singer Kirsha Danilov, the earliest substantial collection of Russian byliny.
Kirsi K. Tikka
Kirsi K. Tikka is a Finnish-born naval architect and maritime-safety engineer who retired in 2019 as a senior ABS executive and was elected a US National Academy of Engineering Foreign Member.
Kirsten Barnes
Kirsten Barnes (Jennifer-Kirsten Barnes), Canadian rower born 1968 in London, England; double 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist in women's coxless fours and eights, 1991 world champion, later a sport psychologist.