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Kali Rocha
Kali Rocha (Kali Michele Rocha), American actress and writer known as Karen Rooney on Liv and Maddie, Dr. Sydney Heron on Grey's Anatomy, and Halfrek on Buffy; also Broadway (In the Summer House, Noises Off) and screenwriter of Space Station 76.
Kali Shalwar
Kali Shalwar (کالی شلوار, "The Black Shalwar") is an Urdu short story by Saadat Hasan Manto, written in the early 1940s and known for the obscenity controversy it provoked.
Kali Uchis
Kali Uchis (Karly-Marina Loaiza), Colombian-American R&B and Latin singer from Alexandria, Virginia and Pereira, Colombia; albums Isolation, Sin Miedo, Red Moon in Venus, Orquídeas, Sincerely; Grammy for "10%"; hit "Telepatía."
Kali Yuga (कलियुग)
Kali Yuga (कलियुग), also called the Kali Age, is the fourth and present world age in Hindu cosmology, an age of moral decline traditionally begun in 3102 BCE.
Kalibangan (कालीबंगा)
Kalibanga Mound (Kalibangan), Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan: a protected Harappan site on the dry Ghaggar, excavated 1961-69 by Lal and Thapar, known for the earliest ploughed field and fire altars.
KALIBAPI
KALIBAPI (Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas, Association for Service to the New Philippines) was the sole legal political organization in the Japanese-occupied Philippines from 1942 to 1945.
Kalibo
Kalibo is the capital municipality of Aklan province, Panay Island, Philippines, home of the Ati-Atihan Festival honoring the Santo Niño; 93,218 residents in 2024, gateway to Boracay via Kalibo International Airport.
Kalibr
Kalibr (Калибр), exported as the Club missile, is a Russian family of ship-, submarine-, and ground-launched cruise missiles developed by Novator and first used in combat over Syria in 2015.
Kalibum
Kalibum is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish, known only from the Sumerian King List, a later compilation that assigns him a symbolic 960-year reign.
Kalicharan Singh
Kalicharan Singh (born 1962) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, elected to the Lok Sabha from the Chatra constituency of Jharkhand in 2024.
Kalidas Jayaram
Kalidas Jayaram (കാളിദാസ് ജയറാം), born 1993, son of actors Jayaram and Parvathy, is a Malayalam and Tamil film actor, National Award child artist for Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum (2003), known for Poomaram, Thangam, Vikram, and Raayan.
Kalidas Samman
The Kalidas Samman (कालिदास सम्मान) is an arts award presented by Madhya Pradesh, India, instituted in 1980 to honor classical music, classical dance, theater, and the plastic arts.
Kālidāsā (Mercurian crater)
Kālidāsā (Kalidasa) is a 107-km impact crater on Mercury at 18.1°S, 179.2°, named for the classical Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa; MESSENGER images show a breached central peak and volcanic smooth-plain floor.
Kalidasa (कालिदास)
Kalidasa (कालिदास), classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist of the 1st century BCE to 6th century CE, author of Abhijnanashakuntalam, Meghaduta, Raghuvamsha, Kumarasambhava, Vikramorvashiyam, Malavikagnimitram, and Ritusamhara.
Kalidou Koulibaly
Kalidou Koulibaly, Senegalese centre-back and national team captain, born 1991 in France; AFCON 2021 winner, Napoli star (317 games), brief Chelsea spell, now Al-Hilal until 2027.
Kalief Browder
Kalief Browder (1993–2015) was a Bronx teenager held at Rikers Island for three years without trial over a backpack theft; he died by suicide in 2015.
Kalifornia
Kalifornia is a 1993 American crime thriller directed by Dominic Sena, starring Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, and Michelle Forbes on a road trip with a serial killer.
Kaligandaki A Hydroelectric Power Station
The Kaligandaki A Hydroelectric Power Station, also known as Kaligandaki A, is a 144 MW run-of-river plant on the Kaligandaki River in Syangja District, Nepal, opened in 2002.
Kalighat painting
Kalighat painting, or Kalighat pat, is a Bengali watercolor style developed around 1830 near Kolkata's Kali temple, moving from Hindu deities to satirical city scenes.
Kāḷīgodhā
Kāḷīgodhā (काळीगोधा) was a Sakyan lady of Kapilavatthu whom the Buddha confirmed as a stream-enterer in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, and the mother of Bhaddiya Thera.
Kalilag ud Dimnag
Kalilag ud Dimnag is the Syriac title of Kalila wa Dimna, an animal-fable collection translated from Sanskrit into Middle Persian at the court of Khosrow I around 570.
Kalim Kashani
Kalim Kashani (کلیم کاشani), in full Abu Talib Kalim Kashani, was a Persian poet who served as poet laureate to Mughal emperor Shah Jahan from 1632.
Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of Borneo, about 544,150 km² with five provinces and 16.6 million people (2020). Known for vast peatlands, mining and palm oil, and the new capital Nusantara in East Kalimantan.
Kalimbha Thera
Kalimbha Thera (कलिम्भ थेर), also recorded as Kalimma, was a Buddhist monk of the Kūtāgārasālā at Vesālī who left with five fellow monks for the Gosiṅgasālavana when Licchavī visits disturbed their solitude.
KALIMER
KALIMER, short for Korea Advanced LIquid MEtal Reactor, is a family of sodium-cooled fast reactors developed by KAERI since 1992, in 150 MWe and 600 MWe versions.
Kalimpong
Kalimpong: hill town and district in the Darjeeling Himalayas, West Bengal, India; formed 14 February 2017 as the state's 21st district. Formerly Sikkim, then Bhutanese, ceded by the 1865 Treaty of Sinchula; population 251,642 (2011).
Kalimullah
Kalimullah (Kalimullah Khan), Pakistani field hockey player born 1958 in Bahawalpur; won Olympic gold in men's hockey at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and Asian Games gold 1982, silver 1986. Distinct from footballer Kalamullah Al Hafiz and Omani cricketer Kaleemullah.
Kalina cycle
The Kalina cycle is a modified Rankine power cycle that uses an ammonia–water working fluid, invented by engineer Alexander Kalina to convert low-grade waste heat and geothermal heat into electricity.
Kalinago
The Kalinago, historically the Caribs, are the Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles, surviving chiefly in Dominica's 15 km2 Kalinago Territory, about 3,000 people under the Carib Reserve Act of 1978 with a Chief and Council elected every five years and communally owned land.
Kalinago massacre of 1626
The Kalinago massacre of 1626 was a joint attack by English and French settlers on St Kitts's Indigenous Kalinago at Bloody Point, killing hundreds or more.