All articles starting with K
16,083 articles
Kohey Takashima
Kohey Takashima (髙島 宏平), born in 1973, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the organic food home-delivery company Oisix in 2000 and has led it since.
Kohima
Kohima, capital of Nagaland, India, at 1,444 m in the Naga hills; named after Kewhira village, home of the Angami Nagas. District population 267,988 (2011); municipal council of 19 wards; state capital since 1 December 1963.
Kohima War Cemetery
Kohima War Cemetery, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on Garrison Hill in Kohima, Nagaland, commemorates the 1944 Battle of Kohima with 1,420 Commonwealth graves, the Kohima Epitaph, and a cremation memorial to 917 Hindu and Sikh soldiers.
Kohinoor
"Kohinoor" is a 2019 single by Mumbai rapper DIVINE, released as the lead single and title track of his debut album Kohinoor, the first release from Nas's label Mass Appeal India.
Kohistan, Pakistan
Kohistan (کوہستان) is a mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan, along the Indus River, now divided into Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan, and Kolai Palas districts.
Kohji Matsumoto
Kohji Matsumoto (松本耕二) is a Japanese analytic number theorist, long a professor at Nagoya University, known for zeta-function value-distribution theory and for the Matsumoto zeta-function, a class of polynomial Euler products.
Kohl (cosmetics)
Kohl (kajal, surma, al-kahl, tiro) is a traditional powdered eye cosmetic from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, often based on galena lead sulfide or soot and frequently containing high lead levels, which has led to bans and import alerts in the US, Canada, and Britain.
Kohl's
Kohl's Corporation is an American department store retailer with more than 1,100 stores, known for off-mall locations, Kohl's Cash, and in-store Sephora shops and Amazon return counters.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, known as KKR, is an American investment firm founded in 1976 that pioneered the leveraged buyout and manages $744 billion in assets.
Kohler Co.
Kohler Co., also called Kohler Company, is an American privately held manufacturer of kitchen and bath fixtures, founded in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1873 and still led by the Kohler family.
Köhler illumination
Köhler illumination is a microscope illumination method, introduced by August Köhler in 1893, that images the light source into the aperture planes, giving a bright, evenly lit field of view.
Köhler theory
Köhler theory, formulated by Swedish meteorologist Hilding Köhler in 1936, combines the Kelvin and Raoult effects to predict when an aerosol particle activates into a cloud droplet.
Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes), German turnip, is a cabbage-family vegetable grown for its swollen above-ground stem; harvested at 2-3 inches, stores 2-3 months at 0 °C, rich in vitamin C.
Kohn–Sham equations
The Kohn–Sham equations are self-consistent single-particle equations in density functional theory, introduced by Walter Kohn and Lu J. Sham in 1965 to make DFT practical.
Kohram (कोहराम)
Kohram (कोहराम), also known as Uproar, is a 1999 Hindi action film directed by Mehul Kumar, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Nana Patekar, Tabu, and Danny Denzongpa, released 13 August 1999.
Kohrra
Kohrra is a Punjabi-language Netflix investigative crime drama set in Punjab, created by Gunjit Chopra, Diggi Sisodia, and Sudip Sharma. Season 1 (2023) follows cops probing an NRI bridegroom's murder; Season 2 (2026) stars Mona Singh alongside Barun Sobti.
Kohunlich
Kohunlich is a major ancient Maya archaeological site in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, occupied about 500 BC to 1100 AD, peaking in the Late Classic and known for the Temple of the Masks with six large stucco solar masks.
Koi (鯉)
Koi (鯉), known in Japan as nishikigoi, are colorful ornamental carp first bred by rice farmers in Niigata Prefecture in the early 19th century, with over 150 varieties today.
Koi herpesvirus disease
Koi herpesvirus disease (KHVD), caused by Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3, KHV), is a notifiable, highly contagious carp disease with 70-100% mortality, temperature-dependent latency, and global spread via the koi trade.
Koi Jaane Na
Koi Jaane Na (कोई जाने ना), 2021 Hindi psychological thriller, Amin Hajee's directorial debut, starring Kunal Kapoor and Amyra Dastur; released 2 April 2021, panned by critics, IMDb 3.6/10, streaming on Prime Video.
Koi Kaze (恋風)
Koi Kaze (恋風) is a Japanese romance manga by Motoi Yoshida about siblings who fall in love, serialized in Evening from 2001 and adapted into a 2004 anime.
Koi Krylgan Kala
Koi Krylgan Kala (Кой-Крылган-кала, "Fortress of the Perished Rams") is a circular 4th–3rd century BC Khorezmian temple-mausoleum fortress in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, excavated 1939 and 1951–57, with a 44.4 m round central building, nine-towered ring wall, moat, ossuaries, and Khorezmian inscriptions.
Koi Laut Ke Aaya Hai (कोई लौट के आया है)
Koi Laut Ke Aaya Hai (कोई लौट के आया है) is a 2017 Hindi Star Plus psychological thriller, 33 episodes, starring Surbhi Jyoti, Shoaib Ibrahim, and Sharad Kelkar, about a royal widow whose presumed-dead army-officer husband returns.
Koi No Yokan
Koi No Yokan (恋の予感), a Japanese phrase for the sense of falling in love at first meeting, is the seventh studio album by Deftones, released in 2012 to critical acclaim.
Koi Perich
Koi Perich is an American football safety from Esko, Minnesota, a consensus four-star recruit who earned Freshman All-American honors at Minnesota with five interceptions in 2024, then transferred to Oregon in January 2026.
KOI-12
KOI-12 (Kepler-448) is an F-type star ~399 pc away with two confirmed planets: KOI-12 b, a 17.9-day transiting warm Jupiter with low obliquity, and Kepler-448 c, a 22-Jupiter-mass eccentric outer planet found via TTVs (Masuda 2017).
KOI-134
KOI-134 is an F-type star about 1,159 parsecs away with two gas giants announced in 2025: transiting warm Jupiter KOI-134 b and non-transiting KOI-134 c, on orbits tilted 15.4 degrees apart.
KOI-142
KOI-142 (Kepler-88) is a G6 V star 376.9 pc away with three planets: transiting Kepler-88 b with ~12-hour TTVs, non-transiting Kepler-88 c found by TTVs, and eccentric giant Kepler-88 d.
KOI-1599
KOI-1599 (KIC 5474613, Kepler-1659) is a G-type star ~1,132 pc away with two confirmed super-Earth planets, KOI-1599.02 and .01, in a 3:2 mean motion resonance, validated by anti-correlated transit timing variations in 2019.
KOI-1783
KOI-1783 (Kepler-1662, KIC 10005758) is a G-type star 865.73 pc away with two confirmed transiting giant planets: Kepler-1662 b, a 0.79-Jupiter-radius gas giant on a 134.5-day orbit, and Kepler-1662 c, a 5.4-Earth-radius planet on a 284-day orbit, confirmed in 2020 via transit timing variations.