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Kōfuku-ji octagonal lantern
The Kōfuku-ji octagonal lantern (Kondō tōrō, gilt-bronze lantern) is a National Treasure bronze lantern cast in 816 for the Nanendō hall of Kōfuku-ji in Nara, Japan.
Kofun period
Kofun period (古墳時代, Kofun jidai), Japanese protohistoric era c. 250–538 CE defined by giant mounded tombs and the rise of the Yamato polity; ~160,000 kofun built, Mozu-Furuichi group inscribed as World Heritage.
Kogal (コギャル)
Kogal (コギャル), also romanized kogyaru, was a Japanese youth fashion subculture of the mid-1990s to early 2000s, centered in Tokyo's Shibuya district, whose high-school girls wore shortened uniforms, baggy loose socks, dyed hair, and dark tans.
Kogan Creek power station
Kogan Creek power station is a 750 megawatt supercritical black-coal-fired power station near Chinchilla in Queensland, Australia, commissioned in 2007, with the largest single generating unit in Australia and distinctive air cooling.
Koganei
Koganei Corporation (株式会社コガネイ) is a Japanese manufacturer of pneumatic actuators, valves, electric actuators, and static electricity removal units, founded in 1934 and headquartered in Koganei City, Tokyo.
Kōgei
Kōgei (工芸) is the contemporary Japanese word for craft, referring to everyday objects like cloth, bowls, and kettles made with local materials and techniques passed down through generations; Japan designates 244 traditional crafts.
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa's first UNESCO biosphere reserve (designated December 1998), Western Cape near Cape Town; 103,629 ha of fynbos mountains and sea at the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom.
Kogi Korean BBQ
Kogi Korean BBQ (Kogi BBQ) is a Los Angeles food-truck business founded November 2008 by Mark Manguera, Caroline Shin-Manguera, and chef Roy Choi, known for Korean-Mexican short rib tacos and Twitter-based location broadcasts that helped launch the gourmet food truck movement.
Kogi oral literature
Kogi oral literature is the body of myths, sacred histories, and songs passed down orally by the Kogi, an Indigenous people of Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Kogi State
Kogi State, the Confluence State of north-central Nigeria, was created 27 August 1991 from Kwara and Benue States. Its capital Lokoja sits where the Niger and Benue rivers meet.
Kogia
Kogia is a genus of Kogiidae sperm whales with two species, the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima), small deep-diving cephalopod eaters of tropical and temperate seas, known mostly from strandings and IUCN Data Deficient.
Kogia breviceps
Kogia breviceps, the pygmy sperm whale, a small deep-water toothed whale of family Kogiidae, sister to Kogia sima; reaches 3.8 m, 450 kg, eats deep-water squid, releases reddish intestinal slurry when disturbed.
Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎)
Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎) is Edogawa Ranpo's famous fictional detective, first appearing in "D坂の殺人事件" (1925) as a shabby amateur and later the star of the Boy Detective Club series against the Fiend with Twenty Faces.
Koh Ker style
The Koh Ker style is a Khmer art and architectural style of the second quarter of the 10th century, defined by large-scale, dynamic sculpture under King Jayavarman IV.
Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar
Koh Ker (Chok Gargyar, Lingapura) is a 10th-century Khmer Empire capital founded by Jayavarman IV, sole capital 928–944 CE, 80 km northeast of Angkor, with 76 temples including the Prasat Prang pyramid; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023.
Koh Masaki (正器 光)
Koh Masaki (正器 光) was a Japanese gay pornographic film actor who appeared in roughly 200 films between 2009 and 2013, and died in 2013 at age 29.
Koh Ming Joo
Koh Ming Joo is a Singapore-born organic chemist at the National University of Singapore known for sustainable catalysis with base metals such as iron and nickel.
Koh Mound
Koh Mound: archaeological mound at Koh, Chitrakut district, Uttar Pradesh, with ruins of the old Jain Haihati Mandir and statue fragments near a hill fort; a centrally protected ASI monument (Jhansi circle), distinct from Koh Inam near Allahabad.
KOH test
KOH test (potassium hydroxide preparation): bedside microscopy test using 10-20% KOH to dissolve keratin in skin, hair, and nail specimens, revealing fungal hyphae; about 88% sensitive, 95% specific for superficial fungal infection.
Koh-i-Noor
Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light), a 106-carat diamond in the British Crown Jewels at the Tower of London; looted by Nader Shah in 1739, surrendered by Duleep Singh under the 1849 Treaty of Lahore, claimed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Koh-i-Noor surrender
The Koh-i-Noor surrender (کوہ نور کی حوالگی) was the 1849 transfer of the Koh-i-Noor diamond from Maharaja Duleep Singh of the Sikh Empire to the British Crown.
Kohala, Hawaii
Kohala is the oldest, extinct shield volcano of Hawaiʻi Island, forming the island's northwest peninsula and the North and South Kohala districts, with 5,480-ft summit, 0.7 Ma shield age, Pololū landslide, extreme rainfall gradient, Kohala Ditch, and Kamehameha I's birthplace.
Koharu Kusumi
Koharu Kusumi (久住小春), born 1992, in Niigata Prefecture, is a Japanese singer and actress who was the sole seventh-generation member of Morning Musume from 2005 to 2009.
Kohat
Kohat (Urdu: کوہاٹ), town and district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, south of Peshawar; 1,234,661 people (2023 census), first mentioned in Babar's memoirs (1505), annexed by Britain in 1849, known for salt, limestone, and hydrocarbons.
Kohei Miyazono
Kohei Miyazono (宮園浩平, born 1956) is a Japanese cancer biologist known for work on TGF-β signaling, the tumor microenvironment, and metastasis, and is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Tokyo.
Kohei Nishiwada
Kohei Nishiwada (西和田浩平) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Asuene, a Tokyo climate tech company measuring corporate CO2 emissions, which he founded in 2019 after about eleven years at Mitsui & Co.
Kohei Shitara
Kohei Shitara (設樂 紘平) is a Japanese medical oncologist who directs gastrointestinal oncology at the National Cancer Center Hospital East and led the DESTINY-Gastric01 and SPOTLIGHT trials.
Kohei Tamao
Kohei Tamao (玉尾 皓平), born 1942, is a Japanese organosilicon and organoboron chemist, professor at Kyoto University, known for the Tamao oxidation, the Kumada–Tamao coupling, and silole electron-transport materials.
Kōhei Uchimura (内村航平)
Kōhei Uchimura (内村航平), Japanese artistic gymnast, Olympic all-around champion 2012 and 2016, record six consecutive world all-around titles 2009–2015, 21 world medals, retired January 2022.
Kohen (כֹּהֵן)
A kohen (plural kohanim) is, in Jewish law, a hereditary priest descended from Aaron through the male line, a status that cannot be conferred or removed.