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Kokytos Flumina
Kokytos Flumina is an IAU-named river valley network (flumina) on Titan at 72.21N, 255.00E, 305 km across, approved December 14, 2020, named for the Greek underworld river of lamentations; it flows parallel to the shoreline.
Kol Facula
Kol Facula is a 390-km-wide bright spot (facula) on Callisto, Jupiter's outermost large moon, centered at 4.50°N, 282.70°W; IAU-approved in 2006 and named after an Icelandic frost or storm giant.
Kol Mevaser
Kol Mevaser (קול מבֿשׂר, "The Herald") was a Yiddish weekly published in Odessa from 1862 to 1873, the first modern Yiddish-language periodical in the world.
Kol Nidre (כל נדרי)
Kol Nidre, also known as Kol Nidrei, is the Aramaic "All Vows" declaration chanted in synagogues at the opening of the Yom Kippur eve service.
Kol Uprising
The Kol Uprising (कोल विद्रोह) was a tribal rebellion in Chotanagpur, present-day Jharkhand, against the East India Company's land and revenue systems from 1831 to 1832.
Kola Bay (Кольский залив)
Kola Bay, also known as Kola Inlet, is a fjord-shaped inlet of the Barents Sea in northwest Russia whose ice-free water hosts the city of Murmansk.
Kola Bokinni
Kola Bokinni (born 1992) is a British actor from Peckham, London, known as Isaac McAdoo in Ted Lasso seasons 1-3. A former footballer, his credits include Top Boy, Black Mirror, Cursed, Hunter Killer, and Annihilation.
Kola nuclear power plant
The Kola nuclear power plant (Кольская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear power station with four VVER-440 reactors, first supplying electricity in 1973 near Polyarnye Zori in Murmansk Oblast.
Kola nut
Kola nut (Cola acuminata, Cola nitida), the caffeine-rich seed chewed in West Africa and once flavoring Coca-Cola; contains 1.5–3.8% caffeine, GRAS status, 280,000 t produced in 2016.
Kola nut trade
The kola nut trade is the centuries-long commerce in caffeine-bearing kola nuts from the West African forest zone north across the savanna, the Sahara, and into Atlantic markets.
Kola Peninsula (Кольский полуостров)
Kola Peninsula (Кольский полуостров), Russian Arctic peninsula between the Barents and White Seas in Murmansk Oblast; ice-free Murman coast, apatite and nickel mining, Murmansk port, and major naval nuclear bases.
Kola Superdeep Borehole (Кольская сверхглубокая скважина)
The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Кольская сверхглубокая скважина) is a Soviet scientific drill hole on Russia's Kola Peninsula that reached 12,262 m, the deepest ever drilled.
Kolaboration Ventures Corporation
Kolaboration Ventures Corporation is a Wyoming-incorporated, diversified California cannabis company headquartered in Rio Vista, formed in 2021 by Charles Wesley and his sons Martin and Andrew to consolidate family cannabis businesses.
Koladi kvatha cirna
Koladi kvatha cirna (Kolādi kvātha cūrṇa), also Koladi peya, is an Ayurvedic decoction-powder formula beginning with kola (Zizyphus jujuba fruit), cited in Ashtanga Hridaya Chikitsa 1/32 and the 15th-century Yogasarasangraha, indicated for constipation, abdominal pain, and fever with anal burning.
Kolaghat Thermal Power Station
Kolaghat Thermal Power Station (কোলাঘাট তাপবিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র), also known as KTPS, is a coal-fired power station at Kolaghat in West Bengal, India, owned by WBPDCL.
Kolaigaran (கொலைகாரன்)
Kolaigaran (கொலைகாரன்) is a 2019 Tamil crime thriller directed by Andrew Louis, starring Vijay Antony and Arjun Sarja, adapted from Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X; released 7 June 2019, streaming on JioHotstar.
Kolaiseval
Kolaiseval (கொலைச்சேவல்) is a 2026 Tamil psychological thriller directed by debutant VR Thudhivaanan, starring Kalaiyarasan and Deepa Balu, released 13 March 2026, about a pregnant woman's forest-temple ritual turning into an honor-killing survival fight.
Kolaiyuthir Kaalam (கொலையுத்திர் காலம்)
Kolaiyuthir Kaalam (கொலையுத்திர் காலம்), a 2019 Tamil thriller directed by Chakri Toleti, stars Nayanthara as a deaf-mute heiress attacked in a UK mansion; released 9 August 2019, linked to Hush, later on Netflix.
Kolam (கோலம்)
Kolam (கோலம்), also kōlam, is the Tamil threshold floor-drawing tradition of South India: rice-flour designs around pulli dot grids drawn at dawn by women, transmitted mother to daughter, studied mathematically, and nominated to UNESCO in 2011.
Kolamaavu Kokila (கோலமாவு கோகிலா)
Kolamaavu Kokila (கோலமாவு கோகிலா, CoCo) is a 2018 Tamil black comedy crime film, Nelson Dilipkumar's directorial debut, starring Nayanthara as Kokila, who smuggles cocaine to fund her mother's cancer treatment; produced by Lyca Productions with music by Anirudh Ravichander, released 17 August 2018, later remade as Good Luck Jerry.
Kolangal (TV series)
Kolangal is a Tamil family drama serial that aired on Sun TV from 2003 to 2009. It centered on Abinaya, a middle-class woman who built a construction business.
Kolar district
Kolar district (ಕೋಲಾರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ), southeastern Karnataka, India; headquarters Kolar city. 1,536,401 people (2011), 979 sex ratio, 74.39% literacy; former Kolar Gold Fields produced over 800 t of gold before closing in 2001.
Kolar Gold Fields
Kolar Gold Fields (KGF), also known as the Kolar gold mines, is a gold-mining region in Karnataka, India, worked until 2001 to depths of 3.4 km.
Kolarac People's University
Kolarac People's University (Kolarčev narodni univerzitet) is the lecture and educational program of the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, Serbia, begun in 1932 in a purpose-built hall on Studentski trg.
Kolathiri
Kolathiri (കോലത്തിരി), also called Kolaswarupam, was the matrilineal ruling house of Kolathunad, the kingdom of North Malabar in present-day Kerala, with its main headquarters at Chirakkal.
Kolb Firestar
The Kolb Firestar is a family of American high-wing, pusher-propeller ultralight and light experimental aircraft designed by Homer Kolb, introduced in 1984 in single-seat and two-seat versions.
Kolbe electrolysis
Kolbe electrolysis is an organic electrochemical reaction in which carboxylic acids are oxidized at an anode, lose carbon dioxide, and dimerize to form alkanes with doubled carbon chains.
Kolbe nitrile synthesis
The Kolbe nitrile synthesis is an organic reaction that prepares alkyl nitriles by reacting alkyl halides with metal cyanides, extending the carbon chain by one atom.
Kolbe–Schmitt reaction
The Kolbe–Schmitt reaction is an organic carboxylation reaction, reported by Hermann Kolbe in 1860 and improved by Rudolf Schmitt, that converts phenols into salicylic acid, the precursor to aspirin.
Kolbein Falkeid
Kolbein Falkeid (1933–2021) was a Norwegian poet and lyricist from Haugesund, one of the most widely read postwar Norwegian poets, who published more than twenty collections and wrote the lyrics to Vamp's "Tir n'a Noir".