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Kalaka curna
Kalaka curna, also written Kalaka churna, is an Ayurvedic powder mixed with honey and held in the mouth to treat diseases of the teeth, mouth, and throat.
Kalaka curna lepa
Kālaka cūrṇa (lepa), also kālaka lepa, is a classical Ayurvedic powder-paste formulation for external use, described in Charaka Samhita for diseases of teeth, mouth, and throat, with 13 ingredients including purified iron, and listed in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.
Kalakalappu (கலகலப்பு)
Kalakalappu (கலகலப்பு), also Kalakalappu @ Masala Cafe, is a 2012 Sundar C. Tamil comedy with Vimal, Shiva, Anjali, Oviya, Santhanam; brothers save a Kumbakonam cafe; hit that spawned Kalakalappu 2 (2018).
Kalakalappu 2
Kalakalappu 2 (கலகலப்பு 2) is a 2018 Tamil comedy by Sundar C, a spiritual successor to Kalakalappu, starring Jiiva, Jai, Shiva, Nikki Galrani, and Catherine Tresa, with Hiphop Tamizha's music, released 9 February 2018.
Kalākaua
Kalākaua (David Kalakaua) was king of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891, nicknamed the Merrie Monarch for reviving hula and other Hawaiian cultural practices.
Kalakuta Rasa
Kalakuta Rasa is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rasa formulation referenced in Basavarajeeyam (AFI Vol. 2 16:10), combining purified aconite, mercury, sulfur, realgar, copper bhasma, and borax for sannipata conditions.
Kalala Ilunga
Kalala Ilunga is the mythic hunter-king of Luba oral history who overthrew the tyrant Nkongolo and founded the Luba empire in the northern Shaba region of the Congo.
Kalalat 1
Kalalat 1 (Wadi Kalalat large fort) is a Roman fort and hydreuma about 8.5 km southwest of Berenike, Egypt; dated 109-111 AD by a Trajanic dedication, occupied into the later 2nd century, with Greek and Latin inscription fragments from 1997-1998 excavations.
Kalale family
The Kalale family (ಕಲಲೆ), based at Kalale village near Nanjangud, supplied the Dalavai commanders of Mysore and, through marriage to the Wodeyar kings, dominated the court in the early 1700s.
Kalam
Kalam, also known as Ilm al-Kalam (Arabic: كلام, "speech"), is the rational, dialectical theology of Islam, defending Muslim doctrine through argument rather than simple transmission of scripture.
Kalam cosmological argument
Kalam cosmological argument: a deductive argument for God, from al-Ghazali and the mutakallimun, revived by William Lane Craig in 1979: everything that begins to exist has a cause, the universe began to exist, so the universe has a (personal) cause; premises are heavily disputed.
Kalamaion/Kallias
Kalamaion/Kallias (also Calamaeo) is an ancient submerged harbour site between Marsa Bagoush and Ras Alam El-Rum on Egypt's northwest coast, recorded in Pleiades from Barrington Atlas map 80 inset.
Kalamata (Καλαμάτα)
Kalamata (Καλαμάτα), capital of Messenia in the southwestern Peloponnese and the region's largest city, ancient Pharai, liberated 23 March 1821, rebuilt after the 1986 M6.2 earthquake, famed for olives and its airport KLX.
Kalamata olive
Kalamata olive (Kalamon/Καλαμών cultivar): Greek dual-purpose table olive from the Kalamata region, PDO-protected as Elia Kalamatas, typically brine-cured black and slit for marinades.
Kalamazoo College Hornets
The Kalamazoo College Hornets are the varsity athletic teams of Kalamazoo College, an NCAA Division III member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association since 1894.
Kalamazoo County
Kalamazoo County, Michigan: southwestern Michigan county organized July 30, 1830, county seat City of Kalamazoo; ninth-most populous Michigan county, 576 square miles, 261,670 people (2020), 15 townships, five villages, four cities.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Kalamazoo, Michigan: county-seat city in southwestern Michigan, founded 1831 as Bronson, population about 73,000; home of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College, the Kalamazoo Promise tuition program, and the Foundation for Excellence.
Kalambo Falls
Kalambo Falls is a waterfall and archaeological site in Northern Province, Zambia, near Lake Tanganyika, where excavations since 1953 uncovered the oldest known wooden structure, at least 476,000 years old.
Kalamdi, Rasulia and Kishanpur Mound
Kalamdi, Rasulia and Kishanpur Mound is the ASI-listed ancient site and Adamgarh rock shelters in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh: Acheulian tools, Mesolithic animal-domestication evidence, painted shelters, and reported visitor footfall and revenue.
Kalamianos
Kalamianos (Korphos-Kalamianos), a Late Bronze Age Mycenaean harbor town on the Saronic Gulf in the southeastern Corinthia, Greece; 50 buildings of LH IIIB date, possibly Mycenae's principal harbor and the candidate site of Homeric Eiones.
Kalamkari (కలంకారి)
Kalamkari (కలంకారి), pen-work, is Andhra Pradesh's natural-dye textile art in two GI styles: freehand Srikalahasti temple painting and block-printed Machilipatnam chintz, using mordants like alum and kasim.
Kalamkas-Karazhanbas-Aktau Oil Pipeline
The Kalamkas-Karazhanbas-Aktau Oil Pipeline is a trunk oil pipeline in Kazakhstan carrying crude from the Kalamkas and Karazhanbas fields to the Caspian port of Aktau.
Kalamkaval
Kalamkaval (കളങ്കാവൽ) is a 2025 Malayalam crime thriller directed by debutant Jithin K Jose, produced by Mammootty Kampany, starring Mammootty as serial killer Stanley Das and Vinayakan as SI Jayakrishnan; released December 5, 2025, streaming on SonyLIV from January 15, 2026.
Kalamukha order
The Kalamukha order (ಕಾಳಾಮುಖ) was a South Indian order of celibate Shaiva ascetics, an offshoot of the Pashupata tradition, that ran temples and monasteries across the Deccan.
Kalamukha sect
The Kalamukha sect (कालामुख) was a South Indian order of celibate Shaiva ascetics, the principal Pasupata branch in Karnataka, flourishing from the 9th to 13th centuries.
Kalan Müzik
Kalan Müzik, also listed as Kalan Ses, is an Istanbul record label founded by Hasan Saltık in 1991 or 1992 to document Anatolian folk, Alevi, and minority-language music.
Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe (mother of thousands, flaming katy) is a genus of about 167–176 succulent Crassulaceae species, mostly Malagasy, with CAM photosynthesis, bufadienolide toxicity to pets, major horticultural use, and invasive escapes worldwide.
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, Flaming Katy or Florist's kalanchoe, is a succulent Crassulaceae subshrub from NE Madagascar, a short-day winter-flowering houseplant named for nurseryman Robert Blossfeld, sold in millions since the 1930s.
Kalanchoe pinnata
Kalanchoe pinnata, also known as life plant or Bryophyllum pinnatum, is a succulent herb in the stonecrop family native to Madagascar that grows new plantlets along its leaf margins.
Kalani Hilliker
Kalani Brooke Hilliker, American dancer and influencer born 2000 in Mesa, Arizona; Dance Moms and Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition alumna, Kare by Kalani founder, married Nathan Goldman in 2025.