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Kong Linghui
Kong Linghui (孔令辉), born 1975 in Harbin, China, is a former table tennis player who won Olympic singles gold at Sydney 2000 and completed a career Grand Slam.
Kong Qiu
Kong Qiu (孔丘), known to later tradition as Confucius, was a teacher, ritual specialist, and political advisor of the Spring and Autumn period who served Lu.
Kong Rong
Kong Rong (孔融, 153–208, Wen Ju), Eastern Han scholar-official, Beihai chancellor, and one of the Seven Scholars of Jian'an, famous for the pear-yielding anecdote and executed with his family by Cao Cao in 208 on pretextual treason and impiety charges.
Kong Shangren
Kong Shangren (孔尚任; 1648–1718) was a Qing dynasty playwright and poet from Qufu, Shandong, a 64th-generation descendant of Confucius best known for the 1699 drama The Peach Blossom Fan.
Kong Wenzhong
Kong Wenzhong (孔文仲) was a Northern Song Confucian scholar-official of Linjiang, Jiangxi, who died in 1088; with his brothers he formed the literary trio called the Three Kongs.
Kong Xiangxi
Kong Xiangxi (孔祥熙), courtesy name Yongzhi, was a Republic of China financier and official who served as minister of finance and premier of the Executive Yuan.
Kong Yiji
Kong Yiji (孔乙己) is a short story in vernacular Chinese by Lu Xun, first published in New Youth in April 1919 and collected in Call to Arms in 1923.
Kong Yingda
Kong Yingda (孔颖达, 574–648) was a Confucian classicist of the Sui and Tang who led compilation of the official Orthodox Meaning of the Five Classics.
Kong Youde
Kong Youde (孔有德) was a Liaodong-born Ming artillery commander who mutinied on the Shandong peninsula, surrendered to Hong Taiji in 1633, and died defending Guilin in 1652.
KONG-FREEDOM-I trial
KONG-FREEDOM-I (NCT07587099) is a Chinese multicenter randomized non-inferiority trial testing P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy versus dual antiplatelet therapy after stent-free rapamycin drug-coated balloon PCI, 2,170 patients, primary endpoint net adverse clinical events at 12 months.
Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 monster film set in 1973 on Skull Island. It features a 100-foot tall giant ape and was filmed using Vietnamese karst formations.
Kongamato
Kongamato, "breaker of boats" in Kaonde, is a flying cryptid of Zambian swamps first documented in Frank Melland's 1923 In Witch-Bound Africa; informants identified pterodactyl pictures, but shoebills, storks, and hammer-headed bats are the accepted explanations.
Konganivarman
Konganivarman (कोंगणिवर्मन्) was the founder and first ruler of the Western Ganga dynasty of southern Karnataka, who made Kolar his capital in the fourth century.
Kongcang
Kongcang (空藏) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Sui and early Tang dynasties who lived at Huichang Temple in the capital and recited over 300 juan of scripture.
Kongcongzi
The Kongcongzi (孔叢子) is a Chinese collection of anecdotes and dialogues presenting the words and deeds of Confucius and his descendants, traditionally attributed to Kong Fu, an eighth-generation descendant of Confucius.
Konghe Jian (Bureau of Crane Control)
The Konghe Jian (控鹤监), or Bureau of Crane Control, was a palace bureau created by Empress Wu Zetian, headed by Zhang Yizhi and abolished in 705.
Konghui Technology
Konghui Technology is a Chinese automotive supplier specializing in passenger-car air suspension. It achieved a 41.3% market share in 2024 and is currently pursuing an A-share IPO.
Konghui Technology (孔辉汽车)
Konghui Technology (孔辉汽车) is a Chinese automotive supplier in Huzhou, Zhejiang, co-founded in 2018 by academician Guo Konghui, and the first Chinese company to supply OEM passenger-car air suspension in 2021.
Kongi's Harvest
Kongi's Harvest is a satirical play by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, written in 1965, that portrays a civilian dictator's consolidation of power in a fictional post-independence African state.
Kongkham Robindro Singh
Kongkham Robindro Singh is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who was Deputy Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly from 2018 to 2022 and represents Mayang Imphal.
Kongo Civil War
The Kongo Civil War (Guerra civil do Congo) was a struggle for the throne of the Kingdom of Kongo after King Antonio I died at Mbwila in 1665.
Kongo crucifixes
Kongo crucifixes, known as Nkangi Kiditu, are brass crosses made in the Kingdom of Kongo from the 16th to 19th centuries, blending Christian and Kongo imagery.
Kongo embassy to Portugal
The Kongo embassy to Portugal was a diplomatic mission by the Kingdom of Kongo, beginning in the late 1480s, that led to Kongo adopting Christianity in 1491 under King João.
Kongō Gumi (金剛組)
Kongō Gumi (金剛組) is an Osaka construction company founded in 578, widely regarded as the world's oldest company, which built temples for over 1,400 years before joining the Takamatsu Construction Group in 2006.
Kongo people
The Kongo people (Bakongo) are a Bantu people speaking Kikongo across Angola, the DRC, and the Republic of the Congo, heirs of the Kingdom of Kongo founded around 1400, known for minkisi power figures and a large Atlantic diaspora.
Kongō Rikishi of Tōdai-ji
The Kongō Rikishi of Tōdai-ji, also called the Nio statues, are a pair of monumental wooden guardians carved in 1203 for the temple's Great South Gate in Nara.
Kongo royal council
The Kongo royal council (Kimpangu kia Mwene Kongo) was the electoral and advisory body of the kingdom of Kongo, headed by the Mani Vunda, who governed between reigns.
Kongo textiles
Kongo textiles are woven and embroidered raffia palm cloths made by the Kingdom of Kongo in west-central Africa from the first millennium until about 1900.
Kongō-class battlecruiser
Kongō-class battlecruiser (金剛): four Imperial Japanese Navy fast capital ships, Kongō, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna, designed by George Thurston, lead ship built by Vickers 1913, rebuilt as 30-knot fast battleships, all lost 1942-1945.
Kongō-class destroyer
Kongō-class (Kongou, Kirishima, Myoukou, Choukai) are four JMSDF Aegis guided-missile destroyers based on the Arleigh Burke Flight I, commissioned from 1993, with SM-3 ballistic missile defense and, since 2026, Tomahawk capability.