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Kitâb-ı Cihannümâ
Kitâb-ı Cihannümâ, or Neşrî Tarihi, is an Ottoman Turkish universal history by the historian Neşrî, presented to Sultan Bayezid II around 1493 and covering the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
Kitabatake Akiie
Kitabatake Akiie (北畠顕家, 1318–1338) was a Japanese court noble and military commander of the Nanboku-chō period, son of Kitabatake Chikafusa, who died in battle at 21.
Kitabatake Chikafusa
Kitabatake Chikafusa (北畠親房, 1293–1354) was a Japanese court noble, statesman, and historian who organized the Southern Court and wrote the Jinnō Shōtōki, a chronicle of imperial succession, in 1339.
Kitaev chain
The Kitaev chain is a one-dimensional lattice model of spinless fermions introduced by Alexei Kitaev in 2000, the simplest system hosting Majorana zero modes at its ends.
Kitaev honeycomb model
The Kitaev honeycomb model is an exactly solvable spin model on a honeycomb lattice, introduced by Alexei Kitaev in 2006, whose ground state is a topological quantum spin liquid of emergent Majorana fermions.
Kitaev quantum spin liquid
The Kitaev quantum spin liquid, or Kitaev spin liquid, is the quantum spin liquid ground state of the exactly solvable Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, proposed by Alexei Kitaev in 2006.
Kitaev quantum spin liquid in α-RuCl3
The Kitaev quantum spin liquid in α-RuCl3 is a candidate fractionalized magnetic state sought in the honeycomb magnet α-RuCl3 just above its ~6.9 T critical field.
Kitahara Hakushū
Kitahara Hakushū (北原白秋), real name Kitahara Ryukichi, was a renowned Japanese poet and tanka poet who wrote roughly 1,200 children's songs and helped define modern Japanese poetry before his death in 1942.
Kitakitsune Fox Farm
Kitakitsune Fox Farm (北きつね牧場), opened 1983 in Kitami, Hokkaido, keeps about 50 free-range Ezo red foxes and 5 raccoon dogs on 60,000 square meters; 500 yen admission, open daily, compared with Zao Fox Village.
Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu (北九州市), a designated city in northern Kyushu, Japan, formed in 1963 by merging five cities; a steel and industrial hub, pollution-overcoming green city, population about 900,000 with recent net in-migration.
Kitamura Kigin
Kitamura Kigin (北村季吟; 1624–1705) was a Japanese poet and classical scholar of the early Edo period, remembered as the teacher who granted Matsuo Bashō his haikai initiation.
Kitamura Tōkoku
Kitamura Tōkoku (北村透谷), real name Kitamura Monotarō, was a Japanese romantic poet and critic who co-founded Bungakukai in 1893 and died by suicide in 1894.
Kitana
Kitana, also known as Princess Kitana, is an Edenian princess and assassin in the Mortal Kombat fighting games, wielding steel fans since her 1993 debut.
Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii
Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii (きたない君がいちばんかわいい) is a five-volume, 31-chapter yuri manga by Manio, serialized in Comic Yuri Hime 2019–2022 about classmates Airi Sezaki and Hinako Hanamura's secret affair, ranked 6th in AnimeJapan 2024's manga-to-animate poll.
Kitani Mohabbat Hai (कितनी मोहब्बत है)
Kitani Mohabbat Hai (कितनी मोहब्बत है), an Indian Hindi romantic drama by Balaji Telefilms aired on NDTV Imagine from 2009 to 2011 in two seasons and 323 episodes, starring Karan Kundrra as Arjun and Kritika Kamra as Arohi.
Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki
Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki (北野天神縁起絵巻) is a set of Japanese narrative handscrolls recounting the life, exile, and vengeful spirit of the poet Sugawara no Michizane.
Kitano Tenmangū
Kitano Tenmangū is a Shinto shrine in Kyoto founded in 947 to enshrine the scholar Sugawara no Michizane, head shrine of about 12,000 Tenjin shrines.
Kitanotatsujin Corporation
Kitanotatsujin Corporation (株式会社北の達人コーポレーション) is a Japanese direct-to-consumer seller of health foods and cosmetics, founded by Katsuhisa Kinoshita in 2000 and known for its Kitano Kaitei Kobo brand.
Kitaōji Rosanjin
Kitaōji Rosanjin (北大路魯山人, born Fusajirō, 1883–1959) was a Japanese ceramicist, calligrapher, and restaurateur, chef of Hoshigaoka Saryō in Tokyo, who turned to pottery, holding that tableware is the kimono of cuisine.
Kitap-lık
Kitap-lık is a Turkish literary magazine published by Yapı Kredi Yayınları (YKY) in Istanbul since 1993, appearing today as a quarterly built around theme-based dossiers alongside poetry, short stories, essays, criticism, and interviews.
Kitarō (喜多郎)
Kitarō (喜多郎), real name Masanori Takahashi, is a Japanese new age composer and synthesizer artist born 1953 in Toyohashi; famous for NHK's Silk Road score, Golden Globe for Heaven & Earth, and 2001 Grammy for Thinking of You.
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里柴三郎) was a Japanese bacteriologist who first isolated the tetanus bacillus in pure culture, co-authored the 1890 antitoxin paper founding serum therapy, and built Japan's medical research institutions.
Kitawala
Kitawala is a Central African religious and healing movement that grew from the Watch Tower tradition in the Belgian Congo in the early 1920s, combining millenarian Christianity with anti-colonial politics.
Kitbashing
Kitbashing (model bashing) is building new scale models or 3D assets by combining parts from existing kits or libraries; used by ILM on Star Wars, in model railroading since at least 1972, and now standard in digital 3D workflows.
Kitboga (streamer)
Kitboga: American former software engineer turned Twitch/YouTube scambaiter, active since 2017 after his grandmother was scammed; known for personas like Edna, an AI bot army, Seraph Secure, and millions of subscribers.
Kitbugha al-Mansuri
Kitbugha al-Mansuri (زين الدين كتبغا المنصوري) was a Mamluk officer of Mongol origin who served as vicegerent of Egypt before reigning as the tenth Mamluk sultan, 1294 to 1296.
Kitbuqa
Kitbuqa (كتبغا) was a Naiman Mongol general serving Hulagu Khan who led the conquest of Damascus and Aleppo, then governed Syria until his defeat at Ain Jalut in 1260.
Kitchee SC
Kitchee SC, also known as Kitchee Sports Club, is a Hong Kong football club founded in 1931 and based at Mong Kok Stadium, with 11 league titles.
Kitchen
Kitchen: the room or area for preparing, cooking, and storing food; also called fitted kitchen, commercial kitchen. Covers history from ancient Egypt to the 1926 Frankfurt Kitchen, layouts, work triangle, and ventilation.
Kitchen (Кухня) (TV series)
Кухня (Kitchen) is a Russian sitcom that aired on СТС from 22 October 2012 to 2016, six seasons and 120 episodes about chefs at the Moscow restaurant Claude Monet, starring Dmitry Nazarov, Mark Bogatyrev, and Dmitry Nagiev, produced by Yellow, Black and White.