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Kitu Super Brands (Super Coffee)
Kitu Super Brands, also known as Kitu Life Inc., is an Austin, Texas beverage company whose zero-sugar Super Coffee was launched by the DeCicco brothers in 2015.
Kituba language
Kituba (Kikongo ya Leta, Munukutuba) is a Bantu-based contact language of the two Congos and northern Angola, lexified by Kimanyanga, with 6–8 million speakers, colonial-era origins, and reduced Bantu agreement morphology.
Kitui
Kitui is a county in eastern Kenya, one of 47, sixth largest, capital Kitui town, home of the Akamba people; arid-semiarid, Mui Basin coal, agriculture 35% of GCP, Governor Julius Malombe.
Kitum Cave
Kitum Cave is a large salt-rich cave on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Mount Elgon National Park, western Kenya, where elephants nightly excavate salt from its walls.
KITV
KITV (virtual channel 4, Honolulu) is the ABC affiliate for Hawaii, founded in 1954 as KULA-TV, later KHVH-TV, owned by Allen Media Group since 2020, with satellites KMAU and KHVO.
Kitwe
Kitwe (from Lamba "Ichitwe", big head) is Zambia's second-largest city, founded 1936 in the Copperbelt mining region; 661,901 residents in 2022, economy built on copper mining, with 19 informal settlements and a 2025 mine-spill water crisis.
Kitwe District
Kitwe District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia; main city Kitwe, Zambia's second-largest city. 661,901 residents (2022 census), 777 km², mining-based economy, five constituencies, 78% urban.
Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria: alpine ski resort (KitzSki, 233 km pistes, 57 lifts, 800–2,000 m) and home of the Hahnenkamm Races on the Streif downhill, held since 1931; first downhill race 1906.
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (M.D. Pa. 2005) was the first federal ruling on intelligent design, holding it is not science and that Dover's ninth-grade biology policy violated the Establishment Clause.
Kiunga Biosphere Reserve
Kiunga Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 1980 on Kenya's northern Lamu coast, spans 1,205,261 ha around Kiunga Marine National Reserve and Dodori, protecting turtles, dugongs, seabirds and coastal forests.
Kiviuq
Kiviuq (Kivioq, Keeveeok) is the wandering hero-shaman of Inuit epic tradition, told from Alaska (Qajaq) to Greenland (Qooqa); child of a Tuutalik, he survives supernatural adventures and returns home, documented by Rasmussen and retold in art, film, and scholarship.
Kivu conflict
Kivu conflict: armed conflict in eastern DRC's North and South Kivu provinces since the mid-1990s, rooted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, spanning the two Congo Wars and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion, with roughly six million deaths and millions displaced.
Kivu Lacus
Kivu Lacus is a 77.5-km-wide hydrocarbon lake at 87°N on Titan, named after Lake Kivu in Rwanda and the DRC, adopted by the IAU in 2008 and imaged in sunglint by Cassini VIMS during the 2012 T85 flyby.
Kiwa (crustacean)
Kiwa is a genus of deep-sea decapod crustaceans known as yeti crabs, the only member of the family Kiwaidae, whose hairy limbs host bacteria at Pacific hydrothermal vents.
Kiwa hirsuta
Kiwa hirsuta, the yeti crab, is a squat lobster described in 2005 from Pacific-Antarctic Ridge hydrothermal vents at 2228 m, whose hairy setae host chemosynthetic bacteria; type species of Kiwaidae.
Kiwanis
Kiwanis is a global volunteer service organization founded in Detroit in 1915, focused on serving children, with clubs in about 85 countries, 49 districts, and youth programs including Key Club, Circle K, Builders Club, K-Kids, and Aktion Club.
Kiwanja massacre
The Kiwanja massacre was the killing of civilians by CNDP fighters under Laurent Nkunda in Kiwanja, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 5 November 2008.
Kiwi (bird)
Kiwi (Apteryx): five flightless ratite species endemic to New Zealand, closest relatives of Madagascar's extinct elephant birds. About 70,000 remain; stoats kill chicks, dogs kill adults; DOC sanctuaries, Operation Nest Egg, and community predator control sustain them.
Kiwi Farms
Kiwi Farms is an American harassment forum founded by Joshua Moon, descended from the CWCki wiki, known for lolcow threads and the September 2022 #DropKiwiFarms deplatforming by Cloudflare and other infrastructure firms.
Kiwibot (company)
Kiwibot, legally Kiwi Campus, Inc., is a delivery robotics company founded in 2017 in Berkeley that operates semi-autonomous sidewalk robots for food delivery on US college campuses.
Kiwifruit (猕猴桃)
Kiwifruit (猕猴桃, yangtao/mihoutao), the Chinese gooseberry berry of Actinidia vines, taken to New Zealand in 1904 and renamed kiwifruit in 1959; green 'Hayward' and gold 'Hort16A' cultivars, world production, nutrition, and allergy.
Kiwoom Securities
Kiwoom Securities (키움증권) is a South Korean online brokerage and the financial flagship of DaouKiwoom Group, holding the No. 1 share in retail stock trading since 2005.
Kix (band)
Kix (also styled KIX) was an American hard rock band from Hagerstown, Maryland, formed in 1978, formerly The Shooze and The Generators. Known for "Don't Close Your Eyes" (1988) and the albums Midnite Dynamite and Blow My Fuse; retired after a final show September 17, 2023.
Kix Brooks
Kix Brooks (Leon Eric Brooks III, born 1955, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American country singer-songwriter and radio host who, with Ronnie Dunn, formed Brooks & Dunn in 1990, the best-selling country duo with 20 #1 hits and over 30 million records sold.
Kiya
Kiya was a secondary wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during Egypt's Amarna Period, known for her unique title "Greatly Beloved Wife" and monuments later erased from record.
Kiyan Michael
Kiyan Michael is an American politician who serves as a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 16th district, representing Jacksonville Beach and nearby communities since her 2022 election.
Kiyo A. Matsumoto
Kiyo A. Matsumoto, born 1955, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008.
Kiyohara clan
The Kiyohara clan (清原氏) was a local ruling house of Dewa and Mutsu in northern Japan during the Heian period, rising by helping destroy the Abe clan.
Kiyohara no Masahira
Kiyohara no Masahira (真衡, also read Sanehira) was a late Heian Japanese clan leader in northern Honshu whose succession quarrel from 1083 grew into the Later Three Years' War.
Kiyohara no Motosuke
Kiyohara no Motosuke (908–990) was a Japanese waka poet counted among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and the father of Sei Shōnagon, author of The Pillow Book.