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Kōdan
Kōdan (講談), formerly called kōshaku, is a traditional Japanese narrative art in which a seated performer reads war tales and biographies aloud, striking a desk with a paper fan.
Kōdanbon
Kōdanbon (講談本), also called kōshakubon (講釈本), are Japanese books of kōdan stories, typically shorthand transcriptions of live performances, read widely from the 1880s through the early Shōwa period and influencing popular literature.
Kodansha (講談社)
Kodansha (講談社), founded 1909 in Tokyo by Seiji Noma as Dai Nippon Yuben Kai, is a major Japanese family-owned publisher of manga, books, and magazines, behind Attack on Titan and AKIRA, with ¥169.2 billion FY2025 revenue.
Kodansha USA
Kodansha USA Publishing, also known as Kodansha USA, is the American publishing arm of Japan's Kodansha, founded in 2008 and publishing English-language manga and books since 2009.
Kodava people
Kodavas (Coorgs), an ethnolinguistic agricultural-martial community of Kodagu district, Karnataka, India; speakers of the endangered Dravidian language Kodava takk; known for ancestor worship, Kaveriamma veneration, oral patt poetry, and genetic similarity to neighboring South Indians.
Koderma Thermal Power Station
Koderma Thermal Power Station is a 1,000 MW coal-fired power station of the Damodar Valley Corporation at Benjhidih, Jharkhand, India, with two 500 MW units commissioned in 2013 and 2014.
Kodi (software)
Kodi is a free, open source media player developed by the Kodi Foundation, which began as XBMC on the Xbox in 2002 and was renamed Kodi in 2014.
Kodi (கோடி) (film)
Kodi (கொடி), 2016 Tamil political thriller directed by R.S. Durai Senthilkumar; Dhanush's first dual role as twins Kodi and Anbu, with Trisha Krishnan as Rudhra; released 28 October 2016, music by Santhosh Narayanan, screened at IFFR 2018.
Kodi Lee
Kodi Lee (Kodi Taehyun Lee, born 1996) is a blind, autistic American singer-pianist and prodigious savant who won America's Got Talent season 14 in 2019 after a Golden Buzzer audition of "A Song for You," and released the debut album Exactly As I Am in 2026.
Kodi Ramakrishna
Kodi Ramakrishna (1949–2019) was an Indian director in Telugu cinema who directed more than 100 films over 30 years, best known for the visual-effects fantasies Ammoru and Arundhati.
Kodi S. Ravichandran
Kodi S. Ravichandran is an immunologist who studies efferocytosis, the removal of dying cells, and leads the Division of Immunobiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 1996, Adelaide) is an Australian actor known for The Road, Let Me In, Nightcrawler in the X-Men films, and his Oscar-nominated role in The Power of the Dog.
Kodiak Archipelago
Kodiak Archipelago: island group in the Gulf of Alaska 30 miles from mainland Alaska across Shelikof Strait; main islands Kodiak, Afognak, Shuyak; home of Kodiak brown bear, Alutiiq Sugpiaq people, and Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
Kodiak bear
Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), Kodiak brown bear, a large brown bear subspecies found only on Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago; about 3,500 bears, salmon-heavy diet, isolated roughly 12,000 years, managed through the 1941 Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
Kodiak Gas Services
Kodiak Gas Services is an American natural gas compression company headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, founded in 2010 and listed on the NYSE in 2023.
Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island, largest island in Alaska and second largest in the U.S., part of the Kodiak Archipelago; home of the Alutiiq people for 7,800+ years, first capital of Russian America, and center of a fishing economy with Kodiak brown bears.
Kodiak, Alaska
Kodiak, Alaska: home rule city on northeastern Kodiak Island, founded 1793 as Pavlovsk, first capital of Russian America; incorporated 1940; population 5,281 (2025); fishing and Coast Guard economy.
Kodikunnil Suresh
Kodikunnil Suresh, born 1962, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Mavelikkara in the Lok Sabha since 2024 and has won eight elections.
Kodiyil Oruvan (கொடியில் ஒருவன்)
Kodiyil Oruvan (கொடியில் ஒருவன்; Tamil: கோடியில் ஒருவன்) is a 2021 Tamil action drama directed by Ananda Krishnan, starring Vijay Antony and Aathmika, released 17 September 2021, rated 6.7/10 on IMDb, streaming on Prime Video and Zee5.
Kodkod
Kodkod (Leopardus guigna), also guiña or güiña, is the smallest wild cat of the Americas, a Vulnerable spotted felid confined to temperate forests of southern Chile and adjacent Argentina, threatened by habitat loss, persecution, dogs, and roads.
Kodocha
Kodocha, short for Kodomo no Omocha (こどものおもちゃ, Child's Toy), is Miho Obana's shōjo manga serialized in Ribon 1994–1998 in 10 volumes, winning the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award (shōjo), with a 102-episode 1996–1998 anime.
Kodoha–Toseiha conflict
The Kodoha–Toseiha conflict was a factional struggle in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1931 to 1936, culminating in the failed February 26, 1936 coup in Tokyo.
Kōdōkan (Mito)
The Kōdōkan (弘道館) was the domain school of the Mito Domain in Japan, founded by Tokugawa Nariaki and opened in 1841 as the largest domain school in the country.
Kodomo no Jikan (こどものじかん)
Kodomo no Jikan (こどものじかん), also romanized Kodomo no Jikan, is a romance comedy manga by Kaworu Watashiya serialized in Futabasha's Comic High! from 2004 to 2013 in 13 volumes, about teacher Aoki and pupil Rin Kokonoe; its 2007 anime saw broadcast cancellations and censorship.
Kodomonokuni
Kodomonokuni (こどもの国, Children's Land) is a 100-hectare children's park in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, opened May 5, 1965 to commemorate the 1959 Akihito-Michiko wedding, on a former army ammunition depot site.
Kodungallur (കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂർ)
Kodungallur (കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂർ), also Cranganore, is a municipality in Thrissur district, Kerala, traditionally identified with the ancient port of Muziris, home of the Cheraman Juma Masjid and Mar Thoma Church, and center of the Muziris Heritage Project.
Kody Nielson
Kody Nielson (Carl Kody Nielson, born 1982) is a New Zealand multi-instrumentalist: Mint Chicks frontman, Unknown Mortal Orchestra drummer, Opossom and Silicon leader, and Taite Music Prize winner for Personal Computer.
Kodyma Raion
Kodyma Raion (Кодимський район) was a district in northwestern Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Kodyma; population 34,523 (2001). Abolished in the 2020 reform, its territory now lies in Podilsk Raion.
Koeberg nuclear power plant
The Koeberg nuclear power plant is South Africa's twin-unit pressurized water reactor station near Cape Town, supplying about 1,800 MW, roughly 5% of the country's electricity.
Koebner phenomenon
Koebner phenomenon (isomorphic response): appearance of lesions identical to a patient's existing skin disease, chiefly psoriasis, vitiligo, or lichen planus, at sites of skin trauma.