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Kōzen Gokokuron
The Kōzen Gokokuron (興禅護国論) is a treatise on Zen Buddhism written by the Japanese monk Eisai and completed in 1198, arguing that Zen protects the state.
Kozhikode (city)
Kozhikode (കോഴിക്കോട്), historically Calicut, is a Malabar Coast city in Kerala, India, former capital of the Zamorin kingdom and medieval pepper-trade hub where Vasco da Gama landed in 1498; today a Kerala commerce and education center.
Kozhikode (district)
Kozhikode district (കോഴിക്കോട്, Calicut), Kerala, India; headquarters Kozhikode city. Created 1 January 1957 from Malabar district; 2,344 sq km; population 3,249,761 (2011); four taluks; former Zamorin capital where Vasco da Gama landed in 1498.
Kozhipannai Chelladurai
Kozhipannai Chelladurai (கோழிப்பண்ணை செல்லதுரை), aka Poultry Farm Chelladurai, is a 2024 Tamil drama by Seenu Ramasamy starring Aegan, Yogi Babu, Brigida Saga, and Sathya Devi, released 20 September 2024 and streaming on Prime Video.
Kozhla-Ava Chasma
Kozhla-Ava Chasma is a 581-km-wide chasma (trough) on Venus at 56.2°N, 50.6°E, IAU-named in 1985 for a Marian (Volga Finn) forest goddess, in quadrangle V-02.
Kozienice power station
Kozienice power station (Polish: Elektrownia Kozienice) is a hard-coal-fired power plant near Kozienice in central Poland, owned by Enea Wytwarzanie and the second largest power plant in Poland.
Kozjansko & Obsotelje Biosphere Reserve
Kozjansko & Obsotelje Biosphere Reserve (Biosferno območje Kozjansko in Obsotelje), UNESCO MAB site in eastern Slovenia designated 2 June 2010, third in the country; core 140 km², buffer 360 km², transition 447 km², managed by Kozjanski Park.
Kozloduy nuclear power plant
The Kozloduy nuclear power plant (АЕЦ "Козлодуй") is Bulgaria's only nuclear power station, on the Danube river in northwest Bulgaria. Its two operating reactors supply more than a third of the country's electricity.
Kozo Kaibuchi
Kozo Kaibuchi (貝淵 弘三) is a Japanese molecular biologist and biochemist known for discovering Rho-kinase (ROCK) and for work on small GTPase signaling and neuronal polarity.
Kozo Murashita
Kozo Murashita (村下孝蔵) was a Japanese singer-songwriter from Minamata, Kumamoto, best known for the 1983 hit "Hatsukoi" (First Love); he died in 1999 at 46.
Kozo Tomita
Kozo Tomita (富田 耕造) is a Japanese structural biologist and molecular biologist who studies RNA, and has been professor of RNA biology at the University of Tokyo since 2016, known for work on the CCA-adding enzyme.
Kozova Raion
Kozova Raion (Козівський район) was a district in western Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, created 1940, area 694 km², center Kozova; abolished 2020 and merged into Ternopil Raion.
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu (Қозы Көрпеш – Баян сұлу) is a Kazakh lyric-epic love poem, sung from the 13th–14th centuries and compared to Romeo and Juliet.
Kpa Mende Confederacy
The Kpa Mende Confederacy was a nineteenth-century grouping of war-town chiefdoms of the Kpa Mende, the westernmost Mende subgroup of Sierra Leone, best known under Madam Yoko.
KPCB Digital Growth Fund
KPCB Digital Growth Fund was the growth-stage fund family of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, begun in 2010 and led by Mary Meeker until the team spun out in 2018.
KPConv
KPConv, short for Kernel Point Convolution, is a convolution operator for 3D point clouds introduced in 2019 that places its weights at kernel points, in rigid and deformable variants.
Kpengla
Kpengla, born Prince Yansunu around 1735 and son of King Tegbessou, was king of Dahomey in present-day Benin from 1774 to 1789, conquering coastal cities and expanding the Atlantic slave trade.
KPFA
KPFA (94.1 FM), Berkeley, California: the United States' first listener-supported, noncommercial radio station, went on air April 15, 1949; flagship of the Pacifica Radio Network founded by Lewis Hill.
KPIT Technologies
KPIT Technologies Limited, formerly KPIT Cummins Infosystems, is a Pune-headquartered Indian technology company focused on automotive and mobility software, with over 20 million vehicles running its software worldwide.
Kpler
Kpler is a Brussels-based provider of data and analytics on global physical commodity trade, founded in 2014, which began with LNG cargo tracking and operates MarineTraffic.
KPLO (Danuri)
KPLO, also known as Danuri (다누리) and formally the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, is South Korea's first robotic lunar probe, launched in 2022 with NASA as a partner.
KPLR-TV
KPLR-TV, branded STL 11 and The CW St. Louis, is a CW-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1959 as the city's first VHF independent station, it is now owned by Nexstar Media Group.
KPMG
KPMG, also known as KPMG International Limited, is a global network of professional-services firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services, headquartered in Amsterdam, and the smallest of the Big Four accounting networks.
KPN
KPN, formally Royal KPN N.V. (Koninklijke KPN N.V.), is the largest telecom and IT provider in the Netherlands, headquartered in The Hague and serving consumers, businesses, and other operators.
KPNA2
KPNA2 (karyopherin subunit alpha 2, importin α-1) is a 58 kDa nuclear transport protein on chromosome 17q24.2 that imports cargo such as c-Myc and E2F1; it is overexpressed in many cancers and serves as a poor-prognosis biomarker and therapeutic target.
KPNQwest
KPNQwest was a pan-European data communications carrier and Internet service provider, formed in 1998 as a joint venture of KPN and Qwest, bankrupt in 2002.
KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 Netflix animated musical from Sony Pictures Animation, directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, about idol trio HUNTR/X secretly hunting demons. Its song "Golden" won an Oscar and Grammy, and it became Netflix's most-watched film ever.
KPop Demon Hunters (케이팝 데몬 헌터스) (soundtrack)
Soundtrack album (케이팝 데몬 헌터스 OST) to Netflix's 2025 animated film KPop Demon Hunters; HUNTR/X and Saja Boys songs incl. "Golden," first soundtrack with four simultaneous Hot 100 Top 10s, 2026 Grammy winner.
KPOPPED
KPOPPED (Apple TV+ K-pop song battle series, 2025) hosted by PSY and Megan Thee Stallion: Western artists like Patti LaBelle and Boyz II Men team with K-pop idols in Seoul-audience-judged reinventions of hits.
KPV heavy machine gun
The KPV heavy machine gun (КПВ) is a Soviet 14.5×114 mm weapon designed by Semyon Vladimirov, adopted in 1949 and still serving as the KPVT.