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Knights of Guinevere
Knights of Guinevere (KOG) is an indie 2D animated sci-fi psychological thriller web series by Dana Terrace, Zach Marcus, and John Bailey Owen for Glitch Productions, set on the theme-park planet Park Planet; its 2025 pilot drew 11.9 million debut-week YouTube views and a 2026 full-series greenlight.
Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869 as a secret society, was an American labor organization that united skilled and unskilled workers under Terence V. Powderly.
Knights of Liberty (vigilante group)
The Knights of Liberty, also called the Liberty Knights, was an American vigilante group that whipped and tarred and feathered people it judged disloyal during World War I.
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias, fraternal order founded by Justus H. Rathbone in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864; first US fraternal order chartered by Act of Congress; ritual based on Damon and Pythias; principles Friendship, Charity, Benevolence.
Knights of Sidonia (シドニアの騎士)
Knights of Sidonia (シドニアの騎士, Sidonia no Kishi) is Tsutomu Nihei's 2009–2015 Kodansha Afternoon manga, 15 volumes, about humanity's seed ship Sidonia fighting the Gauna; adapted as Polygon Pictures' 2014 Netflix anime, 2015 sequel season, and 2021 film.
Knights of the Golden Circle
Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC), a pro-slavery American secret society founded in the mid-1850s by George W. L. Bickley, sought a slaveholding empire centered on Havana covering the southern United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and later aided secession.
Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur's legendary fellowship at Camelot, first recorded in Wace's Roman de Brut (1155); symbol of knightly equality, tied to the Grail quest, Galahad, Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, and Edward III's Windsor Round Table.
Knights of the Zodiac (film)
Knights of the Zodiac is a 2023 live-action action fantasy film based on Masami Kurumada's manga Saint Seiya, directed by Tomasz Bagiński and starring Mackenyu as the street fighter Seiya.
Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢: Knights of the Zodiac)
Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢: Knights of the Zodiac) is Toei Animation's 2019 CGI Netflix remake of the 1986 Saint Seiya anime, directed by Yoshiharu Ashino, running three seasons to 2024 and continuing as Battle for Sanctuary on Crunchyroll.
Knights Templar
Knights Templar (Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon), Catholic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1119 to protect pilgrims; became major European bankers and crusader defenders; suppressed by Pope Clement V's bull Vox in excelso in 1312 after Philip IV's 1307 arrests.
Knights Templar (Freemasonry)
Knights Templar (Freemasonry): Christian chivalric appendant order, top York Rite body in the US, meeting in Commanderies under Grand Commanderies and the Grand Encampment; not descended from the medieval Templars.
Knights Templar Cartel
Knights Templar Cartel (Los Caballeros Templarios), Mexican drug cartel formed in early 2011 from a La Familia Michoacana split, based in Michoacán; issued a Templar code of conduct, ran meth, extortion, and iron ore, and was dismantled by autodefensas and federal forces by 2015.
Knights Who Say "Ni!"
The Knights Who Say "Ni!", or the Knights of Ni, are fictional forest guardians from Monty Python and the Holy Grail who block King Arthur until he is appeased with a shrubbery.
Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge, a west-central London district straddling Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, named for a bridge over the Westbourne; famous for Harrods, Brompton Road shopping, and its 1906 Piccadilly line station.
Knightscope
Knightscope, Inc. is an American security technology company in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2013 by William Santana Li and Stacy Dean Stephens, known for the K5 Autonomous Security Robot.
Knightthrough
Knightthrough: a Breakthrough variant from Stanford's GGP competition, played on 8x8 with 16 forward-only chess knights per side; win by reaching the far rank or capturing all enemy knights; an AI research benchmark in Ludii and MCTS studies.
Knill error correction
Knill error correction is a fault-tolerant quantum error correction method proposed by Emanuel Knill, which corrects an encoded quantum state by teleporting it through a verified Bell state.
KNIME
KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner) is a free, open-source analytics platform, developed at the University of Konstanz, where users build data science work as visual workflows of nodes.
Knin
Knin, a town in inland northern Dalmatia, Croatia, near the Krka River source; medieval seat of Croatian kings under Zvonimir, Ottoman from 1522, capital of the Republic of Serbian Krajina until its recapture in Operation Storm on 5 August 1995; 11,755 residents in 2021.
Kniphofia
Kniphofia (red hot poker, torch lily, tritoma) is an African genus of about 70 rhizomatous Asphodelaceae perennials with torch-like red-to-yellow flower spikes, named by Moench in 1794 for Johann Hieronymus Kniphof and widely grown as garden cultivars.
Knipovich Ridge
The Knipovich Ridge is an ultraslow-spreading, highly oblique section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge system in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, extending about 500 km between Svalbard and northeast Greenland.
Knish
Knish (Yiddish קניש), Ashkenazi Jewish baked or fried dough pastry filled with mashed potato, kasha, or onion; New York street food since about 1900, first knish bakery 1910.
Knit cap
Knit cap, also called beanie, watch cap, tuque, or stocking cap: a close-fitting brimless knitted cap for warmth. Known from 16th-century London survivals, the 1571 Cappers Act, and the US Navy watch cap.
Knitro
Knitro, also sold as Artelys Knitro, is a commercial library for nonlinear optimization that originated at Northwestern University in the 1990s under Jorge Nocedal and is now developed by Artelys.
Knitted fabric
Knitted fabric is a textile of intermeshed yarn loops, in weft and warp families, giving stretch, porosity, and comfort versus wovens; used from T-shirts to medical implants, with machine knitting dating to William Lee's 1589 stocking frame.
Knitting
Knitting: fabric made by intermeshing yarn loops, in weft and warp families; knit and purl stitches, courses and wales, gauge, stretch up to 200% elongation, from William Lee's 1589 stocking frame to six-minute machine sweaters.
Knitting Factory
Knitting Factory: music venue brand founded 1987 by Michael Dorf at 47 East Houston Street, New York, hub of the downtown avant-garde jazz scene; later Knitting Factory Entertainment with clubs in Brooklyn, Boise, Spokane, and Reno.
Knitting machine
Knitting machine: mechanical device forming knitted fabric via needles, from William Lee's 1589 bearded-needle frame and Brunel's 1816 circular machine to Lamb's 1863 flat-bed and modern computerized flat and circular machines.
Knitting needle
Knitting needles, also called knitting pins, are long, slender, pointed tools used to form interlocking loops of yarn into knitted fabric, sold in straight, double-pointed, and circular types.
Knitting pattern notation
Knitting pattern notation: the abbreviations (K, P, k2tog, ssk) and chart symbols used in written knitting instructions, standardized by Craft Yarn Council lists, Weldon's 1906 abbreviations, and read via charts bottom-up with US/UK vocabulary differences.