All articles starting with K

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk (German for 'power station') is a German electronic band founded 1970 in Düsseldorf by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider; Autobahn (1974) and the 1974–1981 canon pioneered synth-pop, techno, house, and hip-hop influence.

Kragujevac

Kragujevac (Крагујевац), central Serbian city, fourth largest (171,186, 2022 census), seat of Šumadija District; first capital of modern Serbia 1818–1841, industrial center with Stellantis car plant and October 1941 massacre memorial.

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories (KBLB), also known as Kraig Labs, is an Ann Arbor, Michigan biotechnology company producing recombinant spider silk from genetically engineered silkworms, with Monster Silk and Dragon Silk lines, Vietnam-based Prodigy Silk production, and 2026 output near 2.5 metric tons per cycle.

Oct 3, 2026

Kraina Grzybów TV

Kraina Grzybów TV (KGTV, Mushroomland TV) is a Polish YouTube art project by Wiktor Stribog, started anonymously December 23, 2013, whose surreal children's-TV-style series Poradnik Uśmiechu (Smile Guide) predated analog horror.

Krais of Russia

Krais of Russia: nine federal subjects (край, territory), legally equal to oblasts, governed by charters under Article 5; historically frontier territories that contained autonomous okrugs; Perm, Kamchatka, and Zabaykalsky krais created by 2004–2008 mergers.

Kraishte

Kraishte (Краище, Krajište) is a historical-geographical region at the southwestern end of Bulgaria extending into eastern Serbia and a small part of North Macedonia, a mosaic of mountains, basins and valleys with Erma gorge, mineral springs and a borderland history.

Kraithong

Kraithong (ไกรทอง) is a Thai folktale in which the young hero Kraithong of Nonthaburi defeats Chalawan, the man-eating crocodile king of Phichit, and rescues the merchant's daughter Tapao Thong.

Kraj Vysočina

Kraj Vysočina (Vysočina Region, formerly Jihlavský kraj) is a Czech NUTS 3 region created 1 January 2000, seat Jihlava, area 6,796 km², five districts, 704 municipalities, about 516,000 inhabitants, strong agriculture and three UNESCO sites.

Krak des Chevaliers (قلعة الحصن)

Krak des Chevaliers, also known as Qalʿat al-Hoṣn, is a Crusader castle in Syria held by the Hospitallers from 1142 to 1271 and regarded as the best-preserved Crusader castle.

Krakatit

Krakatit is a utopian science-fiction novel by the Czech writer Karel Čapek, first published in 1924, about engineer Prokop, who invents a terribly powerful explosive named after Krakatoa.

Krakatoa

Krakatoa, more properly Krakatau (Indonesian: Krakatau), is a volcanic island group in Indonesia's Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, famous for its catastrophic 1883 eruption.

Kraken

Kraken: legendary sea monster of Norwegian folklore, first detailed by Bishop Erik Pontoppidan (1752-53) as an island-like creature; identified in the 1850s with the giant squid Architeuthis dux and popularized as a tentacled ship-sinker by Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Kraken (2025 film)

Kraken (Кракен), 2025 Russian monster sci-fi action film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, starring Alexander Petrov; a giant octopus attacks a Russian submarine in the Greenland Sea; grossed over 1 billion rubles; distinct from the 2026 Norwegian film Kraken.

Kraken (2026 film)

Kraken (2026) is a Norwegian monster action film directed by Pål Øie, starring Sara Khorami as marine biologist Johanne Berge investigating a mythical sea creature in Sognefjorden; distinct from the 2026 French and Spanish films of the same name.

Kraken (cryptocurrency exchange)

Kraken, also known as Kraken Bitcoin Exchange, is a US cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell after helping Mt. Gox recover from a hack.

Kraken Mare

Kraken Mare is Titan's largest hydrocarbon sea, about 490,000 km² in the moon's north polar region, filled with liquid methane and ethane, connected to Ligeia Mare by channels, with measured depths of at least 85 m at Moray Sinus.

Kraken merger

The Kraken merger is a hypothesized early accretion event in which the Milky Way absorbed its most massive satellite galaxy, proposed in 2019 from globular cluster ages.

Oct 15, 2026

Kraken Oil and Gas Field

Kraken is a heavy oil field in the UK sector of the North Sea, discovered in 1985 and operated by EnQuest, which began producing oil in June 2017.

Kraken Rum

Kraken Rum (The Kraken Black Spiced Rum) is a Caribbean black spiced rum launched in 2009 by Becle and distributed by Proximo Spirits, distilled in Trinidad and Tobago, bottled at 47% ABV in the US, colored with caramel, and known for its Victorian flagon bottle.

Kraken Technologies

Kraken Technologies is a British software company founded in 2016 inside Octopus Energy, licensing its cloud-based utility operating system to energy companies worldwide, including E.ON Next, EDF, and Origin Energy.

Krakoan Age

The Krakoan Age (2019-2024) is Marvel's X-Men publishing era begun by Jonathan Hickman's House of X/Powers of X, in which mutants founded the sovereign island nation Krakoa, resurrected their dead via the Five, and traded miracle medicines before Orchis destroyed the nation.

Krakolye (Краколье)

Krakolye (Краколье, Joenperä) was a Votic and Izhorian village on the Luga River in Kingiseppsky District, Leningrad Oblast, recorded from 1654, merged into Ust-Luga in 2008.

Kraków

Kraków (Cracow), city with powiat rights on the Vistula in southern Poland; former Polish capital, capital of Lesser Poland Voivodeship, second city of Poland by population and area, chartered 1257, UNESCO-listed historic center.

Kraków for Residents

Kraków dla Mieszkańców (Kraków for Residents), association and council club founded 2014 by Łukasz Gibała; its candidate won Kraków's 2026 early mayoral election with 62.12% after the May recall referendum removed Mayor Miszalski.

Kraków Ghetto

Kraków Ghetto (getto krakowskie): German-established Jewish residential district in Podgórze, Kraków, March 1941 to liquidation March 13–14, 1943; deportations to Bełżec and Auschwitz, Płaszów camp, Schindler factory, ŻOB resistance.

Kraków Uprising

The Kraków Uprising, also called the Kraków Revolution of 1846, was an armed insurrection that broke out in February 1846 in the Free City of Kraków against Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

Kraków-Płaszów (KL Plaszow, Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau) was a German Nazi forced-labor and concentration camp near Kraków, 1942–1945; over 35,000 prisoners, about 6,000 killed, commandant Amon Göth, linked to Schindler's factory, now a memorial museum.