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Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Gas Pipeline
The Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangalore Gas Pipeline is a 1,104 km natural gas pipeline in southern India, built by GAIL to carry LNG from Kochi, Kerala, to Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
Kochi, Kochi
Kochi, Kochi: Kōchi City (高知市), capital of Kōchi Prefecture on southern Shikoku, Japan; about 244,000 people in its urban center, home of Kochi Castle and the Port of Kochi; distinct from Kochi, Kerala, India.
Kōchikai (宏池会)
Kōchikai (宏池会) was the oldest major LDP faction, founded in 1957 by Ikeda Hayato, known for liberal, pragmatic politics and five prime ministers including Kishida Fumio; it was dissolved in January 2024 amid the LDP slush-fund scandal.
Kochu Sita
Kochu Sita (കൊച്ചുസീത, "Little Sita") is a Malayalam narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon, first published in the late 1920s, that criticizes the caste customs of Kerala's matrilineal Nair families.
Koçi Bey Risalesi
Koçi Bey Risalesi is a pair of 17th-century Ottoman reform treatises by palace official Koçi Bey, presented to Sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim in 1631 and 1640.
Kockroach (film)
Kockroach is an upcoming Matt Ross crime drama adapting William Lashner's 2007 novel (as Tyler Knox), starring Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, and Zazie Beetz; a cockroach becomes human in 1950s New York and rises to crime boss. Filmed in Sydney; in post-production as of October 2026.
Kočo Racin
Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), born Kosta Solev Apostolov, was a Macedonian poet and communist revolutionary whose 1939 collection Beli mugri is considered the cornerstone of modern Macedonian poetry.
KOD (album)
KOD is J. Cole's fifth studio album, released April 20, 2018 on Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope; a 12-track addiction-themed concept album whose acronym means Kids on Drugs, King Overdosed, and Kill Our Demons, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.
Kōda Rohan
Kōda Rohan (幸田露伴) was a Japanese novelist of the Meiji era who dominated mid-Meiji literature with rival Ozaki Kōyō and received the first Order of Culture in 1937.
Kodachi OS
Kodachi OS, formerly published as Linux Kodachi, is a Debian-based Linux distribution for privacy and security that routes all traffic through a VPN and Tor by default.
Kodachrome
Kodachrome is a color photographic film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935, first as 16mm movie film and later as 35mm slide film; production ended in 2009.
Kodachrome (film)
Kodachrome is Kodak's color reversal film, introduced 1935 in 16mm and 1936 in 35mm, invented by Mannes and Godowsky, with dyes added during processing; discontinued 2010, last processed at Dwayne's Photo, Kansas, and the subject of a 2017 Netflix film.
Kodagu district (ಕೊಡಗು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ)
Kodagu district (ಕೊಡಗು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ), also called Coorg, is a hilly Karnataka district in the Western Ghats with headquarters Madikeri; least populous in the state, producing about half of Karnataka's coffee, with the Cauvery rising at Talakavery.
Kōdai-in
Kōdai-in, also known as Nene, was the principal wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After his death in 1598 she became a Buddhist nun and founded Kyoto's Kōdai-ji temple.
Kodaikanal (கொடைக்கானல்)
Kodaikanal (கொடைக்கானல்), the Princess of Hill Stations, is a Tamil Nadu hill resort in the Palani Hills, Dindigul district, founded 1845 at 7,375 ft, with an 1863 lake, 1899 solar observatory, 12-year Kurinji bloom, and a documented mercury contamination legacy.
Kodaira
Kodaira (小平市, Kodaira-shi) is a city in Tokyo's Tama area, 26 km west of central Tokyo; population about 197,000, city status 1962, settled after the 1653 Tamagawa Aqueduct brought water to the Musashino Plateau.
Kodaira dimension
Kodaira dimension, also called the Iitaka–Kodaira dimension and written κ, is a birational invariant of algebraic varieties that measures the growth of pluricanonical sections and is the main invariant in the Enriques classification of surfaces.
Kodaira vanishing theorem
The Kodaira vanishing theorem, proved by Kunihiko Kodaira in 1953, states that for a positive line bundle on a compact complex manifold, higher cohomology vanishes.
Kodak
Kodak, formally the Eastman Kodak Company, is an American technology company founded by George Eastman in Rochester, New York, in 1881, that dominated consumer photography for most of the 20th century.
Kodak Black
Kodak Black, also known as Bill Kahan Kapri or Bill K, born 1997 in Pompano Beach, Florida, is an American rapper behind 'No Flockin', 'Super Gremlin', and the Billboard 200 number-one album Dying to Live.
Kodak Brownie
The Kodak Brownie was a line of low-priced roll-film cameras introduced by Eastman Kodak in February 1900, whose one-dollar original made photography a mass hobby.
Kodak DCS 100
The Kodak DCS 100, originally the Kodak Professional Digital Camera System, was the first commercially available digital SLR camera, launched by Eastman Kodak in May 1991.
Kodak Instamatic
The Kodak Instamatic was a line of inexpensive, easy-to-use snapshot cameras introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1963 around the drop-in Kodapak 126 film cartridge, selling roughly 70 million units.
Kodak No. 1
The Kodak No. 1 was a box camera made by Eastman Kodak from 1889 to 1895, loaded with film for 100 exposures and returned to the factory for processing.
Kodaline
Kodaline, Irish rock band from Swords, Dublin (formerly 21 Demands), members Steve Garrigan, Mark Prendergast, Vinny May, Jason Boland; debut In a Perfect World (2013) went platinum in Ireland; final album We Were Only Young (2026).
Kodály method
Kodály method (Kodály-módszer), or Kodály Concept: Hungarian music education approach built on singing, folk song, movable-do solfège, rhythm syllables, and hand signs, developed by Zoltán Kodály with students and spread internationally.
Kodama (spirit)
Kodama (木霊) is a Japanese tree spirit inhabiting old trees, also meaning echo, first attested in the Engishiki of 927; distinct from the small white Princess Mononoke figures created by Miyazaki in 1997.
Kodama Gentarō
Kodama Gentarō (児玉源太郎, 1852–1906) was a Japanese Meiji-era army general and statesman, the fourth Governor-General of Taiwan and chief of staff in the Russo-Japanese War.
Kodambakkam (film)
Kodambakkam is a 2006 Tamil drama film directed by K. P. Jagan, starring Nandaa and Diya, about a newcomer trying to direct a film in Chennai.
Kodambakkam (கொடம்பாக்கம்)
Kodambakkam (கொடம்பாக்கம்) is a central Chennai neighborhood, home of the Tamil film industry (Kollywood). Known for AVM and other studios from the 1940s, disputed horse-stable name origin, metro expansion, and monsoon flooding.