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Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is a large lift irrigation project on the Godavari River in Telangana, India, described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation project.

Oct 15, 2026

Kaleta Dam

Kaleta Dam, also written Kaléta, is a 240 MW hydroelectric dam on the Konkouré River in Guinea, about 110 km north of Conakry, commissioned in 2015.

Kalevala: Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folk poetry; Old Kalevala 1835, New Kalevala 1849 in fifty runos, in Kalevala meter, translated into over forty-seven languages.

Kalevala Day

Kalevala Day (Kalevalan päivä), also called the Day of Finnish Culture, is an official flag day of Finland held on 28 February to honor the Kalevala.

Kalevala meter

Kalevala meter, or kalevalamitta, is the traditional trochaic tetrameter of Finnic oral poetry, with eight-syllable lines marked by alliteration and parallelism, named after Elias Lönnrot's epic Kalevala of 1835.

Kalevala Society

The Kalevala Society (Kalevalaseura) is a Finnish foundation, founded in 1911, that promotes research and art connected with the Kalevala and publishes the annual Yearbook of the Kalevala Society.

Kalevala: The Story of Kullervo

Kalevala: Kullervon tarina (Kalevala: The Story of Kullervo), also Son of Revenge, is Antti J. Jokinen's 2026 Finnish epic film adapting the Kullervo story from the Kalevala, starring Elias Salonen, released 16 January 2026.

Kalevi Hamalainen

Kalevi Nikolai Hämäläinen (1932–2005), Finnish cross-country skier; Olympic 50 km gold at Squaw Valley 1960 in 2:59:06.3 and world 30 km gold at Lahti 1958; later dropped by Finnish selectors.

Kalevi Laitinen

Kalevi Laitinen names two unrelated Finnish Olympians of 1948–1952: gymnast Kalevi Johannes Laitinen (1918–1997, Kotka), team gold London 1948 and bronze Helsinki 1952, and speed skater Veikko Kalevi Laitinen (1919–1995), who raced four distances at St. Moritz 1948 and Oslo 1952.

Kalevipoeg

Kalevipoeg is the Estonian national epic, compiled by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald from folk legends and published in 1862; it became a symbol of the national awakening.

Kaley Cuoco

Kaley Cuoco, American actress (born 1985, Camarillo, California), played Penny on The Big Bang Theory (2007-19) and produced and starred in The Flight Attendant; also 8 Simple Rules, Charmed, Based on a True Story.

Kaley Ronayne

Kaley Ronayne (born 1990, Detroit) is an American actress and writer known as Dr. Kincaid Sullivan in The Resident, Dee O'Hara in The Right Stuff (2020), Sasha Van Dahl in Gotham, and the horror film White Sands.

Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie, Western Australian gold mining city 595 km east of Perth, founded after the June 1893 Hannan's Find gold discovery; with Boulder forms Kalgoorlie-Boulder, home of the Super Pit on the Golden Mile.

Sep 23, 2026

Kalhana

Kalhana (कल्हण) was a 12th-century Kashmiri Brahman historian, son of the minister Chanpaka, who wrote the Rajatarangini, the earliest surviving chronicle of Kashmir's kings, completed around 1149.

Oct 20, 2026

Kalhaur Mound

Kalhaur Mound (also Killo) is an ASI centrally protected ancient mound at Kalhaur, Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, traditionally the Thāthēras' chief stronghold, with a masonry well and tank Rāmsar; never excavated.

Kalhu ziggurat

Kalhu ziggurat: stepped temple tower at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Iraq, attached to the Ninurta temple, built or completed under Shalmaneser III, ~60 x 60 m mudbrick core, decapitated by ISIS in 2015-2016.

Kali (2016 film)

Kali (കളി), also released as Hey Pillagada, is a 2016 Malayalam romantic thriller directed by Sameer Thahir, starring Dulquer Salmaan and Sai Pallavi as a couple whose marriage is tested by the husband's anger and a highway incident.

KALI (electron accelerator)

KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a family of single-shot pulsed electron accelerators developed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India, used for flash X-ray radiography, plasma research, and high-power microwaves.

Sep 19, 2026

Kali (music)

Kali, stage name of Jean-Marc Monnerville, is a Martinican singer and banjo player who has led French Antillean roots music since the mid-1970s and represented France at Eurovision 1992.

Kali (कलि) (asura)

Kali (कलि), also known as Kalipurush, is the asura who personifies the Kali Yuga, the present age of the Hindu world-cycle, and the prophesied archenemy of the avatar Kalki.

Kali (काली)

Kali (काली), also known as Kali Ma, is a major Hindu goddess of time, doomsday, and death, also worshipped as a compassionate Divine Mother, especially in West Bengal.

Kali Aandhi

Kali Aandhi (काली आँधी, "Black Storm") is a 1974 Hindi political novel by Kamleshwar about corruption in post-independence Indian politics and the basis of Gulzar's 1975 film Aandhi.

Kali ahargana

Kali ahargana is the count of civil days since the Kali Yuga epoch of 18 February 3102 BCE, used in Indian astronomy to compute planetary positions.

Sep 27, 2026

Kali Charan Munda

Kali Charan Munda, born 1961, is an Indian National Congress politician who represents Khunti, Jharkhand, in the Lok Sabha and served in the Tamar assembly from 1995 to 2000.

Kali Flanagan

Kali Flanagan (Kali Dora Flanagan, born 1995) is an American ice hockey defender, 2018 Olympic gold medalist and 2017 World champion, now a Toronto Sceptres defender in the PWHL after PHF Boston Pride years.

Kali Linux

Kali Linux, formerly known as BackTrack Linux, is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution for penetration testing and security auditing, first released by OffSec in March 2013.

Kali Mons

Kali Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus at 9.4N, 29.2E in eastern Eistla, 325 km across, IAU-named in 1997 for the Hindu goddess Kali; Magellan gravity data indicate a 20 km elastic lithosphere and old, dormant flanks.

Kali Muscle

Kali Muscle (Chuck Kirkendall, born 1975) is an Oakland-born bodybuilder, YouTuber, and actor known for prison-workout videos, Geico commercials, an admitted steroid past, and a 2021 heart attack.

Kali Puja (কালীপূজা)

Kali Puja (কালীপূজা) is the Bengali Hindu festival in which the goddess Kali is worshipped on the new-moon night of Kartik, coinciding with Diwali, with a central midnight puja.