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KTTV

KTTV (FOX 11 Los Angeles), Fox-owned TV station on virtual channel 11, signed on January 1, 1949 under Times Mirror and CBS; based at 1999 South Bundy Drive, transmitting 115 kW from Mount Wilson.

KTU 1.41

KTU 1.41, also cataloged as RS 1.003 and CTA 35, is a Ugaritic ritual tablet from Ugarit prescribing month-long Vintage sacrifices, excavated in 1929 by Claude Schaeffer.

KTVI

KTVI, branded Fox 2 St. Louis, is a Fox-affiliated television station on virtual channel 2 that signed on in 1953 and has been the St. Louis Fox affiliate since 1995.

KTVK

KTVK, also known as KTVK-TV, is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, launched in 1955 by Ernest W. McFarland and now owned by Gray Television.

KTX (tokamak)

KTX (Keda Torus for eXperiment; 科大一环) is a reversed field pinch fusion experiment at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Asia's largest, completed in 2015.

KTX-I

The KTX-I, also called KTX-1, is South Korea's first-generation high-speed train, a twenty-car TGV-derived trainset built by Alstom that entered service on April 1, 2004.

KTX-Sancheon

KTX-Sancheon is a South Korean high-speed train built by Hyundai Rotem with domestic Korean technology, the second high-speed fleet in KORAIL service, entering use in 2010.

Ku band

The Ku band is the 12 to 18 GHz portion of the microwave spectrum used for satellite communications, including direct-to-home television and LEO broadband constellations.

Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or the Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist movement founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865, recurring in waves from the 1860s to the present.

Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics

Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics: Klansmen held governorships, Senate seats, and judgeships during the 1920s second Klan, with 16 senators and 11 governors by one count, before the 1925 Stephenson conviction collapsed its power.

Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary

Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary: the invented ranks and Kl- terms of the KKK, from Grand Wizard and Kloran to Imperial Wizard, Exalted Cyclops, and klavern, across the Reconstruction, 1920s, and modern Klans.

KU Leuven

KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), founded by Pope Martin V in 1425, is a Dutch-speaking Belgian research university, the oldest in the Low Countries, with 68,139 students, 16 faculties on 13 campuses, and rector Severine Vermeire since 2025.

Ku Oil and Gas Field

Ku is an offshore heavy-oil field in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, discovered in 1979 and producing since 1981, operated by Pemex as one of the three main Ku-Maloob-Zaap fields.

Ku-Ku Band (group)

Ku-Ku Band (Ку-ку бенд) is a Bulgarian band founded in 1993 by Slavi Trifonov, best known as the house band of his television programs KU-KU and Slavi's Show.

Ku-Maloob-Zaap Oil Pipeline Network

The Ku-Maloob-Zaap Oil Pipeline Network is a crude oil pipeline network in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, owned by Pemex, with 42 pipelines totaling 189 km.

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, established 1894 near Sydney, is among Australia's oldest national parks (second-oldest per NPWS, third per DCCEEW), a National Heritage-listed 14,882-hectare park with over 350 Aboriginal sites.

Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan

Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan (கு. ப. ரா), known by his pen name Ku. Pa. Ra, was a Tamil writer and pioneer of the modern Tamil short story from 1902 to 1944.

Ku6

Ku6 (酷6网) was a Beijing-based user-generated video website founded in 2006 by former Sohu chief editor Li Shanyou, listed on Nasdaq in 2010 as Ku6 Media.

Ku70

XRCC6 (KU70, G22P1) is a human chromosome 22 gene encoding Ku70, the 70-kDa subunit of the Ku70/Ku80 heterodimer that binds DNA double-strand break ends and initiates classical NHEJ repair, V(D)J recombination, and telomere maintenance.

Ku70/Ku80 C-terminal arm

Ku70/Ku80 C-terminal arm: helical arm of each Ku heterodimer subunit in NHEJ, bearing the Ku70 SAP domain and the Ku80 C-terminal region that recruits and activates DNA-PKcs.

Ku70/Ku80, N-terminal alpha/beta

Ku70/Ku80 N-terminal alpha/beta domain (Ku_N, IPR005161, PF03731): the vWA-fold N-terminal domain of both Ku subunits, exterior to the DNA-binding ring, dispensable for DNA binding but mediating interactions with APLF, WRN, and yeast telomerase RNA.

Ku80

XRCC5 (KU80, Ku86) is the human gene encoding the 80-kDa Ku80 subunit of the Ku heterodimer, the DNA end-binding factor of NHEJ double-strand break repair and V(D)J recombination, linked to cancer prognosis and therapy resistance.

Ku812

Ku812 (KU812, KU-812, CVCL_0379) is a human chronic myeloid leukemia cell line from a 38-year-old man in blast crisis, the first human basophil cell line, Philadelphia chromosome and BCR-ABL1 b3a2 positive, bipotent with spontaneous erythroid differentiation.

Kuafu Zhachuan (夸父炸串)

Kuafu Zhachuan (夸父炸串), or Kuafu Fried Skewers, is a Chinese fried-skewer snack chain founded in Beijing in 2018 by Yuan Zelu, with more than 2,000 franchised stores by 2024.

Kuai Xiang

Kuai Xiang (蒯祥), called Kuai Luban, was a Ming dynasty master builder who led construction of Beijing's Forbidden City and is credited with designing Tiananmen.

Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie

Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie (快雪時晴帖) is a Tang dynasty tracing copy of a short greeting letter attributed to the Eastern Jin calligrapher Wang Xizhi, held in Taipei.

Kuai Yue

Kuai Yue (蒯越), courtesy name Yidu, was a Han dynasty strategist who served Liu Biao in Jingzhou and later became Minister of the Household under Cao Cao.

Kuaidian (快点)

Kuaidian (快点), formerly Kuaidian Yuedu, is a Beijing-based Chinese startup whose mobile app presents stories as on-screen text conversations and short dramas; it raised nearly $100 million in July 2020.

Kuaile Group

Kuaile Group (Kuailu, 快鹿集团), formally Shanghai Kuaile Investment Group, was a Shanghai conglomerate that raised 43.4 billion yuan from the public and collapsed in 2016.

Kuaishou (快手科技)

Kuaishou Technology (快手科技) is a Beijing-based Chinese short-video, live-streaming and e-commerce company whose Kuaishou app rivals ByteDance's Douyin and whose Kling AI video model is a growing business.