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Kouros
Kouros (kouroi), Archaic Greek marble statue type of a nude standing youth, left foot forward, fists clenched; used as grave markers and votives, influenced by Egyptian statuary, with debated proportional canons and the contested Getty kouros.
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is an Australian materials scientist and professor at the University of Sydney whose laboratory invented a swallowable capsule that senses gases in the gut.
Kourosh Yaghmaei
Kourosh Yaghmaei (کوروش یغمایی) is an Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in 1946, known as the godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock and for the 1973 ballad "Gole Yakh".
Kourtney and Kim Take Miami
Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, originally Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami, is an E! reality series (2009-2013), a Keeping Up with the Kardashians spin-off about the sisters running their D-A-SH boutique in Miami Beach, with Kim replacing Khloé in season 3.
Kourtney Kardashian
Kourtney Kardashian Barker, eldest Kardashian sister, starred in Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) and its spin-offs, founded Poosh (2019) and Lemme (2022), and married Travis Barker in Portofino in 2022.
Kousalya Krishnamurthy
Kousalya Krishnamurthy (కౌసల్య కృష్ణమూర్తి), also announced as Kowsalya Krishnamurthy… Cricketer, is a 2019 Telugu sports drama, a remake of Tamil film Kanaa, directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao, starring Aishwarya Rajesh as a village girl aspiring to play cricket for India.
Kousseff syndrome
Kousseff syndrome, also called sacral meningocele-conotruncal heart defects syndrome, is an extremely rare malformation syndrome combining conotruncal heart defects, myelomeningocele, and facial features resembling 22q11 deletion.
Koussi, Emi
Emi Koussi (Emi Koussou) is a 3,415 m pyroclastic shield volcano at the SE end of Chad's Tibesti Range, the highest summit of the Sahara, with nested 12 x 15 km summit calderas, the Era Kohor salt pan, no historical eruptions, and Holocene-credible status.
Koustilya
Koustilya (Koustiliya), an archaeological site in Tozeur Governorate, southwest Tunisia, where 2017-2020 excavations uncovered a late rural Christian church with three aisles, an apse, and two fixed masonry ambons rare in the ancient Maghreb.
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba: transboundary UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape (Togo, inscribed 2004; Benin added 2023) in the Atacora Mountains, home of the Batammariba and their takienta mud tower-houses.
Koutiala
Koutiala is a city and urban commune in southeastern Mali, capital of the Koutiala Cercle and, since 2023, of the Koutiala Region in the Sikasso area. Known as Mali's cotton capital, it is the country's third most populous city with roughly 211,000-214,000 residents.
Koutiala Cercle
Koutiala Cercle, an administrative cercle of Mali (chef-lieu Koutiala city), created 1901 in Sikasso region, now seat of Mali's 16th region; 8,740 km², 580,453 people (2022), cotton economy.
Koutougou attack
The Koutougou attack was a jihadist assault on a Burkinabé military detachment at Koutougou, northern Burkina Faso, on 19 August 2019 that killed 24 soldiers.
Kouvola
Kouvola, a city in Kymenlaakso, South-Eastern Finland; formed 2009 by merging six municipalities; about 77,600 residents, Finland's 12th largest city; major rail freight hub with Kouvola RRT terminal, Verla UNESCO site, and Repovesi National Park.
Kov-Ava Chasma
Kov-Ava Chasma is a 470 km chasma (rift trough) on Venus at 58.8S, 21.8E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Mordovian forest mistress, mapped in the Lada Terra quadrangle.
Kovačevica
Kovačevica (Pleiades 501480) is an ancient road or coastal station in Bulgaria, cited as Barrington Atlas 51 B1, located near 41.709 N, 23.785 E, dated 30 BC to AD 640, distinct from Serbian and Albanian namesakes.
Kovači Memorial Cemetery
Kovači Memorial Cemetery (Šehidsko spomen mezarje Kovači) is Sarajevo's principal martyrs' cemetery, on a hillside near the city center, holding more than 1,000 graves of those killed defending the city in the 1992–95 siege.
Kovai
Kovai (கோவை) is a minor genre of Tamil poetry in which 400 verses narrate the love of one hero and heroine through the five tinai in order.
Kovai Sarala (கோவை சரளா)
Kovai Sarala (கோவை சரளா), born Sarala Kumari in 1962 in Coimbatore, is an Indian Tamil and Telugu film comedian actress with over 750 films, Tamil Nadu State and Nandi comedy awards, and a 1983 debut in Muthaanaa Mudhaanchi.
Koval'sky (Martian crater)
Koval'sky is a large impact crater on Mars, about 309 km in diameter, in the southern Memnonia quadrangle and filled with lava flows and ash deposits.
Kovalam (കോവളം)
Kovalam (കോവളം) is a Kerala coastal town near Thiruvananthapuram with three crescent beaches, Lighthouse, Hawa, and Samudra, a historic beach resort facing erosion and stalled tourism development.
Kovalevskaya (lunar crater)
Kovalevskaya is a 113.71-km-diameter complex impact crater on the Moon's western farside at 30.86°N, 129.44°W, IAU-named in 1970 for Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya, with terraced walls, twin central peaks, and anorthosite-rich uplift.
Kovar
Kovar is an iron-nickel-cobalt controlled-expansion alloy, about 29% nickel and 17% cobalt, invented in 1936 and used for hermetic glass-to-metal seals in vacuum tubes, transistors, and semiconductor packages.
Kovel’s’ka Mis’krada
Kovel's'ka Mis'krada (Ковельська міська рада), Kovel City Council, governs Kovel and its 15-settlement hromada (311.7 km², 72,773 people) in Volhynia Oblast; mayor Ihor Chaika since 2020.
Kovilan
Kovilan (കോവിലൻ) is the pen name of Kandanisseri Vattamparambil Velappan Ayyappan (1923–2010), an Indian Malayalam novelist and freedom fighter who served two decades in the navy and army before writing.
Kovrov
Kovrov (Ковров), city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, on the Klyazma River; second city of the oblast, uyezd city since 1778, City of Military Glory (2011), defense-industry center with the Degtyarev Plant, population about 128,000.
Kovrovo
Kovrovo (Коврово, former Dollkeim), Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia: village with the eponymous flat biritual cemetery of the Dollkeim-Kovrovo (Sambian-Natangian) culture, excavated 1879 and 1992–2002, distinct from Kovrov and Kovrevo.
Kovykta Gas and Condensate Field
Kovykta Gas and Condensate Field (Ковыктинское месторождение) is a giant gas field in the Irkutsk Region of East Siberia, feeding Gazprom's Power of Siberia pipeline to China.
Kōwakamai
Kōwakamai (幸若舞) is a Japanese medieval narrative performing art in which performers chant stories from military chronicles while dancing, favored by Sengoku warlords like Oda Nobunaga.
Kowalski ester homologation
The Kowalski ester homologation, also called the Kowalski reaction, is an organic reaction that lengthens an ester by one carbon, first reported by Conrad Kowalski in 1985.