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Klabin
Klabin is a Brazilian pulp, paper, and packaging company founded in 1899, the country's largest producer and exporter of packaging paper and sustainable paper packaging.
Klabund
Klabund was the pen name of Alfred Georg Hermann Henschke (1890–1928), a German poet, dramatist, and translator who adapted Asian literature; his play Der Kreidekreis (1925) later inspired Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Klack!
Klack! (renamed Clack! in 2019) is a 2012 AMIGO children's reaction game by Haim Shafir for 2-6 players aged 4+, in which players race to grab color-and-symbol magnetic discs matching two dice and stack them; Kinderspiel des Jahres 2012 recommended.
Kladderadatsch
Kladderadatsch was a German-language political and satirical weekly magazine published in Berlin from 7 May 1848 until 1944, the only Berlin humor magazine of the 1848 revolution to survive into the twentieth century.
Klæbu
Klæbu (Old Norse Kleppabú), former Norwegian municipality in Trøndelag, 1838–2019, merged into Trondheim 1 January 2020; 6,076 inhabitants, 175 km², home of Klæbu seminar and the 1790 octagonal Klæbu church.
Klaes Karppinen
Klaes Karppinen (Klaus, 1907-1992), Finnish cross-country skier, Iisalmen Visa club member; Olympic 4x10 km relay gold at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 and five-time world champion (four relay titles, 18 km 1935) between 1934 and 1939.
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital of the Austrian state of Carinthia and its largest city, with about 106,000 residents, on Lake Wörthersee, the state's largest lake.
Klaipėda
Klaipėda (Memel) is Lithuania's principal Baltic seaport city, founded in 1252 by the Teutonic Knights, ruled by Prussia and Germany until 1923, annexed by Lithuania, seized by Nazi Germany 1939–1945, now about 161,000 residents.
Klaipėda County
Klaipėda County (Klaipėdos apskritis), one of Lithuania's ten counties in the west on the Baltic Sea, centered on Klaipėda city; seven municipalities, 5,222 km², about 322,000 residents, and the country's principal seaport economy.
Klaipėda LNG terminal
The Klaipėda LNG terminal is Lithuania's liquefied natural gas import facility in the port of Klaipėda, built around the floating FSRU Independence and operating since December 2014 to end dependence on Russian gas.
Klaipėda Region
Klaipėda Region (Klaipėdos kraštas, Memelland/Memelgebiet): northernmost East Prussia north of the Nemunas, detached 1920, annexed by Lithuania 1923, autonomous to 1939, ceded to Germany, Soviet from 1944.
Klaipėda Revolt
The Klaipėda Revolt (Klaipėdos krašto sukilimas) was the January 1923 action by which Lithuania seized the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) from French administration, with the Conference of Ambassadors assigning it to Lithuania that February.
Klais
Klais is a monotypic genus of hummingbirds (family Trochilidae) erected by Reichenbach in 1854, holding only the Violet-headed Hummingbird, Klais guimeti, a violet-crowned forest-edge species from Honduras to Bolivia, IUCN Least Concern.
Klamath Falls, Oregon
Klamath Falls, known locally as Oregon's City of Sunshine, is the county seat of Klamath County in south central Oregon, a city of about 22,000 on Upper Klamath Lake.
Klamath Mountains
Klamath Mountains: mountain range of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon, largest subrange the Siskiyous; accreted-terrane geology, serpentine soils, over 3,500 plant taxa, richest temperate conifer flora, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Klamath people
Klamath people of southern Oregon; the Klamath Tribes (Klamath, Modoc, Yahooskin-Paiute), Treaty of 1864, 1954 termination, 1986 restoration, and Klamath River dam removal.
Klamath Project
The Klamath Project is a Bureau of Reclamation irrigation project serving about 240,000 acres of cropland in southern Oregon and northern California, marked by endangered-species water conflicts since 2001.
Klamath Reservation
The Klamath Reservation was an Indian reservation in southern Oregon established by the 1864 treaty with the Klamath and Modoc tribes, terminated by Congress in 1954.
Klang
Klang (Kelang) is a royal city and district in Selangor, Malaysia, on the Klang River; former state capital 1875-1880, home of Port Klang, the twelfth busiest container port, proclaimed Malaysia's first Malay Royal City in November 2023.
Klang Valley
Klang Valley is Malaysia's main metropolitan region, centered on Kuala Lumpur and Selangor districts from Rawang to Sepang, named for the Klang River, with 4,500-year settlement history, Port Klang, and a large rail transit network.
Klang War
The Klang War (Perang Saudara Klang) was a civil war in Selangor from 1866 to 1874, fought by rival Malay chiefs over the Klang River and its tin trade.
Klangkarussell
Klangkarussell is an Austrian electronic music duo formed in Salzburg by Tobias Rieser and Adrian Held, best known for "Sonnentanz", an early tropical house hit that reached number 3 in the UK in 2013.
Klangkuenstler
Klangkuenstler, German DJ Michael Korb (born 1990, Füssen), hard techno and schranz producer and DJ based in Berlin; founded Zuckerton Records, OUTWORLD, Tote Sonne; tracks Weltschmerz, Die Welt Brennt.
Klapa s Mora
Klapa s Mora ('Klapa from the Sea') was a six-member Croatian klapa ensemble assembled in 2013 for Eurovision in Malmö, finishing 13th in the semi-final.
Klaproth (lunar crater)
Klaproth is a large, heavily degraded impact crater in the southern highlands of the Moon's near side, about 121 km across and among the oldest on the lunar surface.
Klar Partners
KLAR Partners is a European private equity firm launched in March 2020 by former Triton professionals, making control investments in mid-market services and industrial technology businesses.
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel, his first after the 2017 Nobel Prize, narrated by a solar-powered Artificial Friend devoted to sickly Josie in a dystopian future of 'lifted' children; Taika Waititi's 2026 Sony film adaptation with Jenna Ortega opened to negative reviews.
Klara Bühl
Klara Gabriele Bühl (born 2000, Haßfurt) is a German left winger for FC Bayern München and the Germany national team since 2019; five-time Bundesliga champion, Euro 2022 runner-up, 2024 Olympic bronze medalist.
Klara Dostalova
Klara Dostalova (Klára Dostálová), born 1971 in Prague, is a Czech ANO 2011 politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2024, serving as Vice-Chair of the Patriots for Europe Group.
Klara Guseva Nesterova
Klara Guseva-Nesterova (Клара Ивановна Гусева-Нестерова), Soviet speed skater, 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic 1,000 m champion in Olympic-record 1:34.1; also 1960 world champion; died 2019.