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Kisurra
Kisurra, identified with Tell Abu Hatab in present-day Iraq, was a small Babylonian city-state about 19 kilometers from Isin, contested by Isin, Larsa, and Babylon until 1802 BCE.
Kiswa
The Kiswa (كسوة الكعبة) is the ceremonial silk covering of the Kaaba at Mecca, embroidered with Quranic verses in gold and silver and replaced annually.
Kiswahili (journal)
Kiswahili is an interdisciplinary international journal on Kiswahili language, linguistics, and literature, published by the Institute of Kiswahili Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Kiswahili children's literature
Kiswahili children's literature (fasihi ya watoto ya Kiswahili) is the body of books, stories, and poems written in Kiswahili for child readers, centered on Kenya and Tanzania.
Kiswahili literary criticism
Kiswahili literary criticism, in Kiswahili uhakiki wa fasihi ya Kiswahili, is the scholarly analysis and evaluation of Kiswahili-language literature, taught as a compulsory course at the University of Dar es Salaam.
Kiswahili Modernist Poetry
Kiswahili Modernist Poetry, known in Swahili as ushairi wa kisasa, is a movement in Swahili poetry that broke from strict classical meter, beginning in Tanzania and Kenya around 1969.
Kiswahili popular fiction
Kiswahili popular fiction, known in Kiswahili as fasihi pendwa, is mass-market fiction written in Kiswahili for entertainment, concentrated in East Africa and dominated by crime, detective, spy, and romance stories.
Kiswahili radio drama
Kiswahili radio drama is scripted fictional drama broadcast in Kiswahili across East Africa, especially Tanzania and Kenya, used for entertainment and edutainment, with radio plays recorded there since 1954.
Kiswahili short story
The Kiswahili short story (Swahili: hadithi fupi) is a short prose fiction work in Swahili treating a single idea with few characters, dominant in East Africa since the 1970s.
Kiswahili translation tradition
The Kiswahili translation tradition is the centuries-old practice of translating texts into and out of Swahili, from 1728 verse poems through Bible, Quran, and Shakespeare translations.
Kit (association football)
Kit (association football): the regulated player outfit of shirt, shorts, socks, shinguards, and footwear under IFAB Law 4, with home/away/third colour sets, jewellery rules, and colour-visibility research.
KIT (gene)
KIT (c-Kit, CD117) is a human gene on chromosome 4 encoding the stem cell factor receptor tyrosine kinase, essential for hematopoiesis, melanogenesis, and fertility; activating mutations drive GIST and systemic mastocytosis, while loss-of-function mutations cause piebaldism.
Kit car
A kit car is an automobile sold as a set of parts for the buyer to assemble, ranging from complete packages to body-and-chassis sets needing a donor vehicle.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson (Christopher Carson, 1809–1868) was an American frontiersman, trapper, Frémont's guide, Ute Indian agent, and Union brevet brigadier general who led the Navajo campaign and Long Walk, and is buried in Taos, New Mexico.
Kit Connor
Kit Connor (Kit Sebastian Connor) is a British actor born 2004 in London, known as Nick Nelson in Netflix's Heartstopper and Heartstopper Forever, a Children's & Family Emmy winner, Broadway Romeo, and Marvel's cast Cyclops.
Kit Culkin
Kit Culkin (Christopher Cornelius Culkin, born 1944) is an American former Broadway stage actor, in Becket and Hamlet, best known as the father and manager of Macaulay Culkin; estranged from his seven children with Patricia Brentrup.
Kit D Longden
Kit D Longden (Kit Christopher Longden) is a computational and systems neuroscientist who studies how fruit flies see color, now a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.
Kit fox
Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis), also called desert fox, a small Canidae fox of western North American deserts, from southern California to Texas and into Mexico; Least Concern overall, but the San Joaquin kit fox subspecies is endangered.
Kit H. Bowen
Kit H. Bowen, also known as Kit Bowen, is an American chemist at Johns Hopkins University known for negative-ion photoelectron spectroscopy of clusters, including uranium-containing anions.
Kit Harington
Kit Harington (Christopher Catesby Harington, born 1986, Acton, London) is an English actor famous as Jon Snow in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–19), with Emmy nominations in 2016 and 2019, films including Pompeii and Eternals, and the role of Henry Muck in Industry.
Kit Hoover
Kit Hoover (Catherine Hoover, born 1970, Atlanta) is an American TV host and sportscaster, co-host of Access Hollywood and Access Daily with Mario & Kit since about 2010, after Road Rules, Fox News, and ESPN's Cold Pizza.
Kit Kat
Kit Kat, chocolate-covered wafer bar created 1935 by Rowntree's as Chocolate Crisp, renamed 1937; owned by Nestlé since 1988, made in the US by Hershey under license; sold in 80+ countries.
Kit Kats in Japan
Kit Kats in Japan (キットカット): Nestlé's chocolate-wafer bar launched there in 1973 via Fujiya, renamed 'kitto katsu' good-luck exam gift, with 450+ flavors, regional souvenir editions since 2002, and the first KitKat Chocolatory.
KIT Motion-Language Dataset
The KIT Motion-Language Dataset (KIT-ML) is a public collection of 3,911 human motion capture recordings with crowdsourced language descriptions, created at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2016.
Kit Wilson
Kit Wilson, English WWE wrestler (formerly Sam Stoker/Sammy Smooth), half of Pretty Deadly with Elton Prince; two-time NXT Tag Team and former NXT UK Tag Team Champion, now a solo SmackDown 'toxic' gimmick.
Kit Young
Kit Young (born 1994) is a British RADA-trained actor known for Jesper Fahey in Netflix's Shadow and Bone, Rafal in The School for Good and Evil, Tootles in Alien: Earth, and classical stage roles at the Globe and Bridge Theatre.
Kit-Cat Club
The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s–c.1720) was an early London Whig dining club founded by publisher Jacob Tonson, named after pie-maker Christopher Cat, whose members included Addison, Steele, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Walpole.
Kita Ikki
Kita Ikki (北一輝, 1883–1937) was a Japanese nationalist thinker and social activist whose Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan became the guiding text of radical young army officers in the early Shōwa period.
Kita-dake
Kita-dake (北岳), 3,193 m, Japan's second-highest mountain after Fuji, in Yamanashi's Southern Alps; highest non-volcanic peak, home of the endemic Kitadakesō buttercup.
Kita-ku
Kita-ku (北区, "North Ward") is the name of several Japanese wards: Tokyo's special ward (pop. ~332,140, founded 1947), Osaka's Umeda central business ward, and Okayama's largest ward (451.03 km2).