All articles starting with K
16,083 articles
Kondapalli Srinivas (కొండపల్లి శ్రీనివాస్)
Kondapalli Srinivas (కొండపల్లి శ్రీనివాస్), TDP MLA from Gajapathinagaram, Andhra Pradesh, is minister for MSME, SERP, and NRI Empowerment & Relations; won 2024 with 54.99% and launched MSME Policy 4.0. Distinct from the ACB case attender Kondapalli Srinivasa Rao.
Kondapur Mound
Kondapur Mound (Kotagadda, Fort Mound): early historic Satavahana-era fortified town mound at Kondapur, Sangareddy district, Telangana, c. 200 BCE-200 CE; excavated by Cousens, Yazdani (1940-41), and ASI (2009-2011); finds in the ASI site museum.
Kondei
Kondei (健児), also read kenji, were soldiers of ancient Japan's provincial military system, established in 792 and recruited from local elites; they guarded provincial headquarters and are seen as a prototype of the samurai.
Konden
Konden (墾田) means newly reclaimed rice fields in ancient Japan, which the imperial edict of 743 allowed developers to hold permanently as private property, opening the way for shōen estates.
Kondinskoye Oil Field
The Kondinskoye oil field (Кондинское) is an oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1997 and operated by Rosneft subsidiary Kondaneft.
Kondo cloud
The Kondo cloud (近藤雲) is the spatial region of conduction electrons that quantum-coherently forms a spin-singlet state screening a magnetic impurity over the Kondo length ξK.
Kondo effect
The Kondo effect is the anomalous rise of resistivity as a metal containing dilute magnetic impurities cools, first observed in 1934 and explained by Jun Kondo in 1964.
Kondo insulator
A Kondo insulator, also known as a Kondo semiconductor or heavy-fermion semiconductor, is a strongly correlated material in which the Kondo effect opens a narrow band gap at low temperature.
Kondō Isami
Kondō Isami (近藤勇, 1834 to 1868) was a Japanese swordsman who commanded the Shinsengumi, which kept order in Kyoto for the Tokugawa shogunate; he led the Ikedaya raid of 1864.
Kondō Jūzō
Kondō Jūzō (近藤重蔵), 1771 to 1829, was a Tokugawa shogunate bannerman who surveyed Ezo (Hokkaido) and its northern islands, erecting a possession marker on Etorofu in 1798.
Kondo lattice
The Kondo lattice is a condensed matter physics model, introduced in 1977, in which localized magnetic moments couple to conduction electrons and the standard description of heavy-fermion metals.
Kondoa Rock-Art Sites
Kondoa Rock-Art Sites, Tanzania, UNESCO World Heritage Site (2006, criteria iii and vi): 150-450 painted rock shelters over 2,336 km2 on the Masai escarpment, painted for at least two millennia, with three art traditions and living ritual use.
Kondratiev wave
The Kondratiev wave, also spelled Kondratieff wave or K-wave, is a hypothesized 40-to-60-year economic cycle of alternating upswings and downswings, named for Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev.
Kondraty Bulavin
Kondraty Bulavin, also Kondraty Afanasyevich Bulavin (Кондратий Афанасьевич Булавин), was a Don Cossack ataman, c. 1660 to 1708, who led the Bulavin Rebellion against Peter I on the Don.
Kondraty Ryleev
Kondraty Ryleev (Кондратий Фёдорович Рылеев, 1795–1826) was a Russian poet and publisher who led the failed Decembrist uprising of December 1825 and was hanged in St Petersburg the following year.
Kondratyuk (lunar crater)
Kondratyuk is a 97.97 km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 15.33°S, 115.80°E, named by the IAU in 1970 for Soviet rocketry pioneer Yury Kondratyuk (born Aleksandr Shargei), with satellite craters A and Q.
KondZilla
KondZilla is a Brazilian media and entertainment holding company headquartered in São Paulo, founded by Konrad Dantas and built on funk music video channels on YouTube.
Kone
KONE Corporation, also known as KONE Oyj, is a Finnish engineering company founded in 1910 and headquartered in Helsinki, specializing in elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors.
KONE MonoSpace
The KONE MonoSpace is a machine-room-less elevator introduced by Finnish company KONE in 1996, the first of its type, with its EcoDisc machinery placed inside the shaft.
Konecranes
Konecranes is a Finnish material handling company that manufactures cranes, hoists, and port equipment and provides maintenance worldwide. Born from KONE's crane business in 1994, it trades on Nasdaq Helsinki.
Koneru Humpy (కోనేరు హంపి)
Koneru Humpy (కోనేరు హంపి), born 1987, is an Indian chess grandmaster, youngest woman GM at 15 in 2002, two-time women's world rapid champion (2019, 2024), and 2025 Women's World Cup runner-up.
Konex Award
The Konex Award (Premios Konex) is an annual Argentine cultural prize founded in 1980 by the Konex Foundation, honoring leading figures across the country's cultural life.
Konfío
Konfío, also known as Konfio, is a Mexican financial technology company founded in 2013 that lends digitally to small businesses, becoming a $1.3 billion unicorn in 2021.
Kong (Monsterverse)
Kong (キングコング, Kingu Kongu), also Titanus Kong, is Legendary Pictures' giant great ape Titan in the MonsterVerse, debuting in Kong: Skull Island (2017) at 104 feet and reaching 337 feet in Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), the largest Kong incarnation to date.
Kong Bunchhoeun
Kong Bunchhoeun (គង្គ ប៊ុនឈឿន), 1939-2016, Khmer novelist, poet, and songwriter, wrote 200+ songs for the golden-age Cambodian pop scene and Sinn Sisamouth, was imprisoned in 1963, survived the Khmer Rouge, won the 2000 ASEAN literary award, and died in exile in Norway.
Kong Christian IX Land
Kong Christian IX Land, region of southeastern East Greenland between Ammassalik and Scoresby Sund (65°30′N–70°N), named for King Christian IX of Denmark; coast trends about 450 miles northeast fronting the Denmark Strait.
Kong Dehai
Kong Dehai (孔德海) is a Chinese chip designer who co-founded and co-leads the Shanghai GPU company Lisuan Tech, after more than 20 years in Silicon Valley chip development.
Kong Empire
The Kong Empire, also called the Ouattara or Wattara Empire, was a precolonial Muslim merchant state centered on Kong in northeastern Côte d'Ivoire, lasting from 1710 to 1898.
Kong Fu
Kong Fu (孔鲋) was a Chinese scholar and Qin dynasty Erudite from Lu, an eighth-generation descendant of Confucius credited with hiding the classics in a wall to preserve them.
Kong Le
Kong Le (1934–2014) was a Lao paratroop captain who seized Vientiane in a nearly bloodless coup on 9 August 1960, becoming the neutralist faction's military leader.