All articles starting with K

Koriukivka massacre

The Koriukivka massacre (Корюківська трагедія, the Koriukivka tragedy) was the mass murder of about 6,700 civilians by Nazi forces in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, on 1–2 and 9 March 1943.

Kōriyama

Kōriyama (郡山市) is a core city in central Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, about 80 minutes from Tokyo by the Tōhoku Shinkansen and second in Tōhoku behind Sendai.

Korkeasaari Zoo (Korkeasaaren eläintarha), Helsinki's zoo on the island of Korkeasaari, founded 1889; over 150 species, EAZA founding member (1992), non-profit foundation since 2018, new entrance building opened December 2025.

Oct 20, 2026

Korla

Korla (库尔勒), the 'Pear City', is a Han-majority city in Xinjiang, China, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture and administrative center of Tarim Basin oil and gas exploitation, on the ancient middle Silk Road.

Oct 15, 2026

Korlantas

Korlantas (Korps Lalu Lintas, Traffic Corps) is the Indonesian National Police unit handling traffic law enforcement, driver and vehicle registration, and highway patrol, converted from a directorate in 2010.

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra, Ghana's oldest and largest public teaching hospital, founded October 9, 1923 as the Gold Coast Hospital; 2,000 beds, national referral centre, University of Ghana Medical School training site, four Centres of Excellence.

Korma (قورمہ)

Korma (قورمہ, qorma, kurma) is a South Asian braising technique and dish family from Mughal cuisine: meat or vegetables slow-cooked in yogurt, cream, or nut paste, with northern creamy, southern coconut, and mild British restaurant variants.

Kormáks saga

Kormáks saga is one of the oldest Sagas of Icelanders, thought written around 1200. It tells of the tenth-century Icelandic skald Kormákr Ögmundarson and his frustrated love for Steingerðr.

Korn

Korn (KoЯn), American nu metal band formed 1993 in Bakersfield, California, by Jonathan Davis, Munky, Head, Fieldy, and David Silveria; debut Korn (1994) and Follow the Leader (1998) defined nu metal with seven-string guitars tuned to A D G C F A D.

Korn (album)

Korn (1994) is the debut album by Bakersfield nu metal band Korn, on Immortal/Epic. Recorded at Indigo Ranch for $14,000 with Ross Robinson, its downtuned seven-string riffs and track "Daddy" defined nu metal.

Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry International is a Los Angeles-based organizational consulting and executive search firm founded by Lester B. Korn and Richard M. Ferry, operating five lines of business.

Korn Ferry Tour

The Korn Ferry Tour, formerly the Ben Hogan, Nike, and Nationwide Tours, is the PGA Tour's developmental circuit; its top 20 players earn PGA Tour cards.

Sep 21, 2026

Korneel Rabaey

Korneel Rabaey, born in 1977, is a Belgian environmental biotechnologist and professor at Ghent University known for bioelectrochemical systems, his 2012 Science review, and founding CAPTURE and HYDROHM.

Kornel Filipowicz

Kornel Filipowicz (1913–1990) was a Polish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter based in Kraków, the longtime partner of the Nobel laureate poet Wisława Szymborska.

Oct 10, 2026

Kornel Krieg

Kornel Krieg, also known as Cornelius Krieg (1838–1911), was a German Catholic theologian and professor of pastoral theology at Freiburg whose four-book Wissenschaft der Seelenleitung ranked among the discipline's principal manuals.

Kornel Morawiecki

Kornel Morawiecki (1941–2019) was a Polish physicist and anti-communist opposition activist, founder and chairman of the underground Fighting Solidarity, later a Sejm deputy and Senior Speaker.

Kornel Pajor

Kornél Pajor (1923–2016), Hungarian speed skater, first and only Hungarian world champion in the sport, 1949 allround world title, 5000 m world record 8:13.5 at Davos, later defected to Sweden.

Korneli Kekelidze

Korneli Kekelidze (კორნელი კეკელიძე, 1879–1962) was a Georgian philologist and theologian who founded the scholarly study of old Georgian literature, helped found Tbilisi State University, and became an academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Kornelia Ender

Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer (born 1958, Plauen), won 8 Olympic medals including 4 golds at Montreal 1976, all in world-record time, and set 23 individual world records; later admitted state doping.