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Kubb
Kubb (kubbspel), nicknamed Viking chess, is a Swedish lawn game from Gotland: teams throw wooden batons to topple 10 opponent kubbs on a 5x8 m pitch, then the king, under World Championship and AKA rules.
Kubban
Kubban, also written Quban, was a Middle Kingdom Egyptian fortress in Lower Nubia, one of fifteen mud-brick forts Egypt built along the Nile, named in the papyrus P. Ramesseum 18.
Kubebe Corona
Kubebe Corona, a 125 km wide corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 15.5°N, 132.5°E, V-24 quadrangle; IAU-named 1994 for a Hittite mother earth goddess.
KubeEdge
KubeEdge is an open source edge computing platform built on Kubernetes that extends container orchestration and device management to edge nodes. Open sourced by Huawei Cloud in 2018, it graduated from the CNCF in 2024.
Kubeflow
Kubeflow is an open source, Kubernetes-native platform of modular projects (Pipelines, Trainer, Katib, KServe) for data and AI workloads, started by Google in 2017 from TensorFlow Extended and graduated from CNCF in 2026.
Kuber Nath Rai
Kuber Nath Rai, also written Kubernath Ray, was an Indian Hindi writer and scholar best known as a master of the lalit nibandh, winning the Moortidevi Award for Kamdhenu.
Kubera (कुबेर)
Kubera (कुबेर), also Kuvera or Vaiśravaṇa, is the Hindu god of wealth, king of the yakshas, and guardian of the north; half-brother of Ravana, enthroned at Alaka in the Himalayas, and worshipped across Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.
Kuberaa
Kuberaa (కుబేర), also called Kubera, is a 2025 Indian Telugu-Tamil bilingual crime drama directed by Sekhar Kammula, starring Dhanush as beggar Deva, with Nagarjuna, Rashmika Mandanna, and Jim Sarbh; released 20 June 2025, streaming on Prime Video from 18 July 2025.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source container-orchestration platform released by Google in 2014 that automates deploying, scaling, and healing containerized applications across machine clusters.
Kubinka Tank Museum (Центральный музей бронетанкового вооружения и техники)
Kubinka Tank Museum (Central Museum of Armored Weapons and Equipment), a Russian tank museum at Kubinka near Moscow; founded 1 August 1938, opened to the public 10 September 1972, over 350 vehicles from 14 countries, now a Patriot Park branch.
Kubjaprasarini taila
Kubjaprasarini taila (कुब्जप्रसारणीतैल), a classical Ayurvedic medicated oil built on Paederia foetida, used for sciatica, kyphosis, neck and back stiffness; AFI Part II monograph; studied in nasya and knee osteoarthritis trials.
Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream, is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, composed around 1797, published in 1816, and imagining the pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan at Xanadu.
Kublai Khan (忽必烈)
Kublai Khan (忽必烈), grandson of Genghis Khan, ruled the Mongol Empire 1260-1294, founded the Yuan dynasty in China in 1271, unified China by defeating the Song in 1279, created fiat paper money in 1260, and died in 1294 succeeded by grandson Temur.
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 stop-motion/CG animated fantasy from LAIKA, directed by Travis Knight, with voices by Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, and Art Parkinson; it won the BAFTA for Best Animated Film and earned two Oscar nominations.
Kubo formula
The Kubo formula, formulated by Ryogo Kubo in 1957, is a linear response result expressing transport coefficients like electrical conductivity as equilibrium time-correlation functions of currents.
Kubota
Kubota Corporation (株式会社クボタ) is a Japanese manufacturer headquartered in Osaka. Founded in 1890, it makes agricultural machinery, engines, and water treatment systems, earning about 80 percent of its 3.20 trillion yen revenue overseas.
Kubotan
The Kubotan, also known as a pocket stick, is a short rod-shaped self-defense keychain weapon developed by martial artist Takayuki Kubota in the late 1960s.
Kübra (TV series)
Kübra is a Turkish Netflix drama series (2024) adapted from Afşin Kum's 2020 novel, directed by the Taylan brothers, starring Çağatay Ulusoy as Gökhan, who receives future-predicting messages from a mysterious user; two seasons, 16 episodes.
Kubra Khan (رابعہ اقبال خان)
Kubra Khan (کبریٰ خان), born Rabia Iqbal Khan in 1993, is a British-Pakistani actress known for Sang-e-Mar Mar, Alif, Sang-e-Mah, and films Na Maloom Afraad and London Nahi Jaunga.
Kubrat
Kubrat (Bulgarian: Кубрат), also known as Kurt, was a 7th-century ruler of the Onogur Bulgars who united the Bulgar tribes into Old Great Bulgaria, reigning from about 632 to 665.
Kubrat Pulev (Кубрат Венков Пулев)
Kubrat Pulev (Кубрат Пулев), Bulgarian heavyweight boxer born 1981 in Sofia, "The Cobra". European amateur gold 2008; lost IBF title to Klitschko 2014 and to Joshua 2020; later WBA heavyweight champion, losing it to Gassiev in 2025.
Kubrawiyya
Kubrawiyya (کبرویه) is a Sufi order founded in Khwarazm in the early thirteenth century. It was the most influential Sufi order of the Mongol period in Central Asia and Persia.
Kubrawiyya order
The Kubrawiyya order (کبرویہ) is a Sufi order founded by Najm al-Din Kubra in 13th-century Khwarazm, taking lasting root in Kashmir through Sayyid Ali Hamadani in the late 14th century.
Kubrick stare
Kubrick stare: a film shot in which an actor tilts the head down and glares up into the camera from beneath the eyebrows, named for Stanley Kubrick; originated with Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971), term coined by cinematographer Douglas Milsome, widely imitated since.
Kubuna
Kubuna is one of the three traditional chiefly confederacies of Fiji, centered on the island kingdom of Bau, whose paramount chief is the Vunivalu of Bau.
kubunden
Kubunden (口分田) were rice fields allotted to free men, women, and slaves every six years under Japan's ritsuryō handen shūju system, held for life and returned to the state.
Kubuntu
Kubuntu, a Linux distribution, is an officially recognized Ubuntu flavor that combines the Ubuntu base with the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE applications, releasing every six months.
Kucch To Hai (कुछ तो है)
Kucch To Hai (कुछ तो है) is a 2003 Hindi slasher horror film directed by Anurag Basu and Anil V. Kumar, starring Tusshar Kapoor, Esha Deol, and Rishi Kapoor; inspired by I Know What You Did Last Summer, it flopped at the box office.
Kuch Khattaa Ho Jaay
Kuch Khattaa Ho Jaay (कुछ खट्टा हो जाए) is a 2024 Hindi comedy-drama directed by G. Ashok, marking singer Guru Randhawa's Bollywood acting debut opposite Saiee Manjrekar. Released 16 February 2024, it earned about ₹1.5 crore net and was panned by critics.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (कुछ कुछ होता है)
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (कुछ कुछ होता है) is Karan Johar's 1998 Hindi romantic drama debut starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, and Salman Khan; an All Time Blockbuster that won eight Filmfare Awards and the National Award for Best Popular Film.