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Kisangani massacres

The Kisangani massacres were the May 2002 mass killings of civilians, soldiers, and police in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by RCD-Goma forces after a mutiny.

Oct 3, 2026

Kisapmata (In the Blink of an Eye) is Mike de Leon's 1981 Filipino psychological horror film based on Nick Joaquin's true-crime report "The House on Zapote Street," starring Vic Silayan and Charo Santos, read as a Marcos dictatorship allegory.

Oct 10, 2026

Kisavaccha

Kisavaccha (किसवच्छ) is a hermit of Pali Buddhist literature, chief disciple of the ascetic Sārabhaṅga, whose outrage at Kumbhavatī destroyed Kāliṅga; the Jātaka identifies him with Mahā-Moggallāna.

Kiseki (キセキ) (horse)

Kiseki (キセキ), Japanese racehorse foaled 2014 by Rulership out of Blitz Finale; won the 2017 Kikuka Sho (G1) and was second in four other G1 races including two Takarazuka Kinens; retired to stud in 2022. Distinct from Fuji Kiseki and Kinshasa no Kiseki.

Oct 3, 2026

Kiseki: Dear to Me (奇迹 (2023年电视剧))

Kiseki: Dear to Me (奇蹟, The Miracle) is a 2023 Taiwanese BL crime-romance series, 13 episodes of 25 minutes, aired August 22 to November 7, 2023 on GTV and GagaOOLala. Adapted from Lin Pei-yu's web novel Dear to Me, directed by Hope Wu, a Taiwan-Japan co-production with Rakuten TV, starring Kai Hsu, Taro Lin, Nat Chen, and Louis Chiang.

Kisen Hōshi

Kisen Hōshi (喜撰法師), Monk Kisen, was an early Heian Japanese poet named among the Six Poetic Immortals, remembered for a single surviving poem in the Hyakunin Isshu.

Kisenosato Yutaka

Kisenosato Yutaka (稀勢の里豊), born Yutaka Hagiwara in 1986, is a retired Japanese sumo wrestler, the 72nd yokozuna (2017-2019), first Japan-born grand champion since Wakanohana, now Nishonoseki stablemaster who trained yokozuna Onosato.

Kisfaludy Society

The Kisfaludy Society (Kisfaludy Társaság) was a Hungarian literary society founded in Pest in 1836 to honor the writer Kisfaludy Károly, becoming the leading institution of Hungarian belles-lettres until its dissolution in 1952.

Sep 19, 2026

Kish

Kish, also known as Tall al-Uhaymir, was a Sumerian city-state in northern Babylonia near Babylon, regarded as the first city to hold kingship after the flood.

Kish Island

Kish Island (کیش, Arabic Qays) is a 90.5 km² resort and free-trade island 19 km off southern Iran in the Persian Gulf, a medieval Indian Ocean trading power later made Iran's first free trade zone in 1989.

Oct 15, 2026

Kish Oil and Gas Field

The Kish Oil and Gas Field is a giant offshore gas field beneath Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, discovered by Iran's national oil company in 2006.

Sep 19, 2026

Kish tablet

The Kish tablet is a small limestone tablet excavated at Kish in southern Iraq, inscribed with proto-cuneiform signs around 3200-3000 BC recording commodities and brewing.

Sep 21, 2026

Kishan Dholakia

Kishan Dholakia is an optical physicist and biophotonics researcher at the University of Adelaide known for using shaped light beams to trap and image microscopic particles.

Kishan Lal

Kishan Lal (किशन लाल, 1917–1980) was an Indian field hockey player who captained India to Olympic gold in London in 1948, the first for independent India.

Kishangarh painting

Kishangarh painting is a school of Rajput miniature painting from the court of Kishangarh in Rajasthan, best known for elongated eighteenth-century portraits of Radha and Krishna.

Kishangarh, Rajasthan

Kishangarh (किशनगढ) is a city in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan, India, known as the "Marble City of India" for its large marble processing and trading industry.

Kishar (crater on Ganymede)

Kishar is an IAU-approved (1979) impact crater on Ganymede, 78 km wide, centered at 72.70°N, 349.46°W, named for an Assyro-Babylonian terrestrial progenitor goddess; a separate Kishar Sulcus also exists on the moon.

Kishar Sulcus

Kishar Sulcus is a 1,187 km grooved-terrain system (sulcus) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-approved in 1979, centered at 6.4° S, 216.6° W, named from Assyro-Babylonian myth and noted for its strike-slip intersection with Tiamat Sulcus.

Sep 23, 2026

Kishen Pershad

Kishen Pershad (کشن پرشاد) was a Hyderabadi noble of the Peshkar family who served twice as prime minister of Hyderabad State, 1901 to 1912 and 1926 to 1937.

Kishi Bashi

Kishi Bashi is the stage name of Kaoru Ishibashi (born 1975), American violinist, singer, and Berklee-trained film-scoring composer known for loop-based indie pop albums 151a, Lighght, Sonderlust, Omoiyari, and Kantos, plus the Omoiyari documentary on Japanese American incarceration.

Kishida Kunio

Kishida Kunio (岸田國士, 1890–1954) was a Japanese playwright, novelist, and theater critic known for his theory of "pure theater" and for founding the theater company Bungakuza.

Kishida Ryūsei

Kishida Ryūsei (岸田劉生) was a Japanese Western-style painter, 1891 to 1929, who repeatedly rebuilt his own style and is best known for his portraits of his daughter Reiko.

Kishinev pogrom

Kishinev pogrom (Chișinău, 1903 and 1905): anti-Jewish massacres in tsarist Russia's Bessarabia; 49 killed in 1903 after a blood-libel press campaign, sparking worldwide protest, Bialik's poem, the Haganah, NAACP links, and the Protocols forgery.

Kishiwada

Kishiwada (岸和田市) is a city in southern Osaka Prefecture, Japan, a former 60,000-koku castle town of the Okabe clan, incorporated in 1922. Known for Kishiwada Castle rebuilt in 1954 as a library and the Danjiri Festival held since 1703.

Kishkindha (किष्किन्धा)

Kishkindha (किष्किन्धा, Kiṣkindhā) is the Vanara monkey kingdom of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, ruled by Vali and Sugriva, traditionally identified with Anegundi-Hampi on the Tungabhadra in Karnataka, with competing Rajasthan and Oḍra claims.

Kishkindha Kaandam

Kishkindha Kaandam (കിഷ്കിന്ധാ കാണ്ഡം), A Tale of Three Wise Monkeys, is a 2024 Malayalam mystery thriller directed by Dinjith Ayyathan, written and shot by Bahul Ramesh, starring Asif Ali, Aparna Balamurali, and Vijayaraghavan; released 12 September 2024, streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.