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Kālīnātha Rāya
Kālīnātha Rāya, recorded as Kalinath Munshi (कालीनाथ मुंशी), was a 19th-century collaborator of Rammohan Roy who helped decide that Roy's religious association should take permanent form.
Kalinda
Kalinda, also spelled Calinda or Kalenda, is a ritualized stick-fighting martial art and dance from Trinidad and Tobago, performed by two armed fighters to drumming and call-and-response singing.
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991) was an Indian poet, novelist, and dramatist who wrote in Odia, led the Sabuja literary movement, and wrote the classic novel Matira Manisha.
Kalindoia
Kalindoia (Καλίνδοια), ancient Macedonian city near Kalamoto, Chalkidike, 55 km east of Thessaloniki. Known for Alexander the Great's land-grant inscription and its Roman-period Sebasteion with imperial cult from 27 BC.
Kaling Moyong
Kaling Moyong is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who is the party's Arunachal Pradesh president, elected in 2025, and a two-time MLA from Pasighat East.
Kalinga
Kalinga (कलिंग) was an independent coastal kingdom in eastern India, corresponding to modern Odisha, known as a maritime trading power until Ashoka conquered it in 261 BC.
Kalinga War (କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଯୁଦ୍ଧ)
The Kalinga War (କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଯୁଦ୍ଧ), or Battle of Kalinga, was the Mauryan emperor Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga in present-day Odisha around 261 BCE, traditionally seen as turning him toward Buddhism.
Kalinga war of Kulottunga I
The Kalinga war of Kulottunga I (கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி போர்) was a Chola campaign against Kalinga around 1110 to 1111, in which Karunakara Tondaiman defeated King Anantavarman.
Kalingapatnam Mound
Kalingapatnam Mound: ancient settlement and stupa mound at the Vamsadhara river mouth, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh; ASI excavation (1977-79) dated settlement to 300 BCE, with Roman coins and rouletted ware from the old port.
Kalingattupparani
Kalingattupparani (கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி) is a medieval Tamil war poem composed by the court poet Jayamkondar, celebrating Emperor Kulottunga Chola I's invasion of Kalinga and the earliest surviving parani.
Kalingga Kingdom
Kalingga, also called Ho-ling, was a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom on the north coast of Central Java, active from the 6th to the early 9th century and known from Chinese records and the legend of Queen Shima.
Kalinin K-7
The Kalinin K-7 (Калинин К-7) was a giant Soviet experimental flying-wing bomber with seven engines, built at Kharkiv in 1933 and destroyed in a crash that November.
Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant
Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (Калининская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear power station in Udomelsky District, Tver region, with four VVER-1000 reactors totaling 3,800 MW, about 330 km from Moscow.
Kaliningrad (Калининград)
Kaliningrad (Калининград), formerly Königsberg, is a Russian Baltic port city and capital of a 15,000 km² exclave between Poland and Lithuania, renamed in 1946 after Mikhail Kalinin, with about 500,000 residents and the Baltic Fleet headquarters.
Kaliningrad CHP-2 power station
Kaliningrad CHP-2 power station (Калининградская ТЭЦ-2) is a 900 MW natural-gas-fired combined heat and power station in Kaliningrad, Russia, with two combined-cycle units commissioned in 2005 and 2010.
Kaliningrad Oblast (Калининградская область)
Kaliningrad Oblast (Калининградская область), also historically Königsberg Oblast, is a Russian Baltic exclave between Poland and Lithuania, created 7 April 1946, hosting the Baltic Fleet and relying on Lithuania transit and its own power generation.
Kaliningrad question
The Kaliningrad question covers legal and political disputes over Kaliningrad Oblast (former German Königsberg, East Prussia), a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania, including its 1945 transfer to the USSR, the 1990 German settlement, EU transit disputes, and NATO security tensions.
Kaliningrad Zoo
Kaliningrad Zoo (Калининградский зоопарк), municipal zoo at Mira Ave 26, Kaliningrad, on the site of the 1896 Königsberg Zoo, restored 1947; 16.7 ha, about 2,000 animals, 11 protected historic structures, hippo Hans its founding legend.
Kalinov Most
Kalinov Most (Калинов Мост) is a Russian folk-rock band founded in 1986 in Novosibirsk by Dmitry Revyakin, whose breakthrough came at the 1987 Podolsk rock festival.
Kalione Nasoko
Kalione Nasoko, born 1990 in Waya Levu, Fiji, is a rugby sevens player who captained Fiji in the World Rugby Sevens Series, won gold at Tokyo 2020, and later joined the Fijian Drua.
Kalipada Pahan
Kalipada Pahan, published as K. Pahan, is a neuroscientist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago known for research on statins in the brain and on alpha-synuclein spreading in Parkinson's disease.
Kalipada Soren
Kalipada Soren is an Indian politician from West Bengal, elected in 2024 to the Lok Sabha from the Jhargram constituency as a Trinamool Congress candidate.
Kalippa
Kalippa (கலிப்பா) is one of the four classical verse forms of Tamil prosody, defined by its leaping, dancing rhythm. The Tolkappiyam treats it alongside akaval, venpa, and vanchippa.
Kaliprasanna Singha
Kaliprasanna Singha (কালীপ্রসন্ন সিংহ) was a Bengali writer, satirist, and philanthropist of Calcutta who wrote Hutom Pyanchar Naksha and translated the Mahabharata into Bengali prose.
Kalisindh Thermal Power Station
Kalisindh Thermal Power Station is a state-owned coal-fired power station in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan, India, with two 600 MW units totaling 1,200 MW, operated by RRVUNL.
Kalispell, Montana
Kalispell, Montana: county seat of Flathead County and largest city in northwest Montana, founded 1891 as a Great Northern Railway division point, incorporated 1892, gateway to Glacier National Park, population 31,851 (2025 estimate).
Kalisto (wrestler)
Kalisto (Emanuel Alejandro Rodriguez), also Samuray del Sol, is an American luchador, born in Chicago and raised in Mexico City; WWE NXT Tag Team Champion with Sin Cara, United States and Cruiserweight Champion.
Kalita Maji
Kalita Maji (Kalita Majhi, কলিতা মাঝি), BJP Minister of State for Housing in West Bengal and MLA for Ausgram (SC), Purba Bardhaman; former domestic helper who won the 2026 Assembly election and was sworn in on 1 June 2026.
Kalitta Air
Kalitta Air, also known as American International Airways, is an American all-cargo airline based at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, owned by Conrad "Connie" Kalitta.
Kalittokai
Kalittokai (கலித்தொகை) is a classical Tamil poetic anthology of 150 love poems in the kali meter, the sixth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature.