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Knox (American musician)
Knox, full name Knox Morris, is an American pop singer-songwriter from Ohio known for the viral 2022 single "Sneakers" and the 2023 hit "Not The 1975".
Knox Coast
Knox Coast, part of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, between Cape Hordern (100.52°E) and the Hatch Islands (109.28°E); discovered February 1840 by Charles Wilkes's US Exploring Expedition and named for Lieutenant S.R. Knox of the tender Flying Fish.
Knox College (Illinois)
Knox College (Illinois): private liberal arts college in Galesburg, founded 1837 by George Washington Gale; site of the fifth 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate at Old Main and Lincoln's first honorary doctorate (1860).
Knox County, Tennessee
Knox County, Tennessee: East Tennessee county founded June 11, 1792 by Governor William Blount from Greene and Hawkins counties, named for Henry Knox, county seat Knoxville, 2020 population 478,971.
Knox Grammar School
Knox Grammar School (Knox) is an independent Uniting Church boys' day and boarding school in Wahroonga on Sydney's North Shore, founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1924; about 3,000 students, motto Virile Agitur, subject of Royal Commission Case Study 23.
Knox Mine disaster
The Knox Mine disaster was the 1959 flooding of a coal mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania, which killed 12 miners and ended deep anthracite mining in the Wyoming Valley.
Knox-class frigate
Knox-class frigate (FF-1052): US Navy class of 46 antisubmarine destroyer escorts built 1965-1974, reclassified frigates in 1975, with SQS-26 sonar, ASROC, and LAMPS helicopter; exported widely and retired from US service by 1994.
Knoxville College
Knoxville College, founded 1875 in Knoxville, Tennessee by the United Presbyterian Church, is a private HBCU in Mechanicsville. It lost SACS accreditation in 1997, suspended classes in 2016, and is pursuing TRACS accreditation under interim president Dasha Lundy.
Knoxville Smokies
Knoxville Smokies, Chicago Cubs Double-A Southern League team in Knoxville, Tennessee, at Covenant Health Park since 2025; also Tennessee Smokies 2000-2024, nickname used since 1925.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee: East Tennessee's largest city, founded 1791 as capital of the Southwest Territory and named for Henry Knox. 2020 population 190,740; home of the University of Tennessee and site of the 1863 Fort Sanders battle.
Knuckle curve
Knuckle curve (KC), also called spike curve: a curveball gripped with the index-finger knuckle or nail on the ball. Curveball movement with added flutter; about 2% of MLB pitches; used by Kimbrel, Darvish, Brash.
Knuckle pads
Knuckle pads, also called Garrod pads or holoderma, are benign fibrous thickenings over finger joints, mostly the PIP joints; idiopathic, hereditary, or trauma-related, diagnosed clinically and by ultrasound, usually needing no treatment.
Knuckle pads-leukonychia-sensorineural deafness-palmoplantar hyperkeratosis syndrome
Knuckle pads-leukonychia-sensorineural deafness-palmoplantar hyperkeratosis syndrome, or Bart-Pumphrey syndrome (OMIM 149200), is a rare autosomal dominant GJB2 (connexin 26) disorder with knuckle pads, white nails, palmoplantar keratoderma, and congenital hearing loss.
Knuckleball
Knuckleball, a nearly spinless baseball pitch that flutters unpredictably; thrown with fingernails gripping the ball at 50-85 mph; used almost exclusively by rare specialists like Dickey, Niekro, and Wilhelm.
Knucklebones
Knucklebones (astragali, astragaloi, tali) are sheep or goat ankle bones used since the Neolithic as dice, jacks-style dexterity game pieces, divination lots, and ritual objects, from Egyptian senet to Mongolian knuckle-bone shooting.
Knuckles (TV series)
Knuckles is a 2024 six-episode live-action Paramount+ miniseries, the first TV series in the Sonic the Hedgehog cinematic universe, set between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3, starring Idris Elba and Adam Pally.
Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles the Echidna (ナックルズ・ザ・エキドゥナ) is Sega's red echidna from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994), guardian of the Master Emerald on Angel Island, Sonic's gliding, climbing rival, later voiced by Idris Elba in films and a 2024 Paramount+ series.
Knud H. Nierhaus
Knud H. Nierhaus (1941–2016) was a German biochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, known for reconstituting the 50S ribosomal subunit and discovering the E site.
Knud Knudsen
Knud Knudsen (Knud Leonard Knudsen, 1879-1954), Norwegian gymnast from Ålesund with Bergens TF, won 1912 Stockholm Olympic gold in the men's team all-around, free system; distinct from cyclist Knut Knudsen, born 1950.
Knud Rahbek
Knud Rahbek (1891–1971) was a Danish electrical engineer who discovered the Johnsen–Rahbek electrostatic adhesion effect with Alfred Johnsen in 1917, and later helped build Denmark's first radio stations.
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), Danish-Greenlandic polar explorer and ethnologist, led the seven Thule expeditions from his Thule trading station; his Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–24) crossed Arctic North America by dog sled, collecting about 20,000 Inuit artifacts.
Knud Vermehren
Knud Vermehren (Knud Frederik Rasmus Vermehren, 1890–1985), Danish artistic gymnast with Gymnastik- og Svømmeforeningen Hermes; won team free system gold for Denmark at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, 51.35 points against Norway's 48.55.
Knudsen (Martian crater)
Knudsen is an 80 km diameter impact crater on Mars at 40.67S, 34.50E in quadrangle MC-27, named for Danish astrophysicist Jens Martin Knudsen and IAU-approved February 3, 2025; distinct from informal Knudsen Ridge on Endeavour Crater.
Knudsen flow
Knudsen flow is gas transport through pores so narrow, or at such low pressure, that molecules collide with the walls far more often than with each other.
Knudsen number
The Knudsen number (Kn) is a dimensionless number in gas dynamics, the ratio of molecular mean free path to a characteristic flow length, measuring how rarefied the gas is.
Knurling
Knurling is a manufacturing process, typically done on a lathe, in which hardened toothed wheels press straight, diagonal, or diamond ridges into a rotating cylinder for grip.
Knut Agathon Wallenberg
Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853–1938) was a Swedish banker, politician, and diplomat who ran Stockholms Enskilda Bank from 1886 to 1911 and served as Sweden's foreign minister during most of World War I.
Knut Ångström
Knut Ångström (1857–1910) was a Swedish physicist at Uppsala University who built the standard instruments for measuring solar radiation, and whose 1900 carbon dioxide experiment set back greenhouse climate theory for decades.
Knut Eriksson
Knut Eriksson (Canute I), king of Sweden 1167–1195/96 of the Erik dynasty, son of Erik the Holy; killed Karl Sverkersson on Visingsö in 1167, issued Sweden's first royal coins, and concluded the oldest Swedish trade treaty.
Knut Faldbakken
Knut Faldbakken, born 1941 in Oslo, is a Norwegian novelist of psychological fiction known for Sin mors hus (1969), the dystopian Uår, and Adams dagbok (1978), with books translated into 18 languages.