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Kudumbavilakku (കുടുംബവിളക്ക്)
Kudumbavilakku (കുടുംബവിളക്ക്), "Lamp of the Family," is a Malayalam Asianet serial premiering 27 January 2020, a remake of Bengali Sreemoyee, starring Meera Vasudevan as Sumithra and Saranya Anand as Vedhika, and a top Malayalam TRP performer.
Kudur-Enlil
Kudur-Enlil, also written Kudur-Elil, was a Kassite king of Babylon, the dynasty's 26th ruler, reigning from 1252 to 1244 BC and building at the temple of Enlil in Nippur.
Kudur-Mabuk
Kudur-Mabuk, also written Kudur-mabug, was a 19th-century BCE ruler of the land of Emutbal in southern Mesopotamia and father of the Larsa kings Warad-Sin and Rim-Sin I, though never counted a king himself.
Kudur-Nahhunte (Neo-Elamite king)
Kudur-Nahhunte (Kudur-Naḫḫunte), also recorded as Kudur-Nahundu, was a king of Elam of the early Neo-Elamite period, son and successor of Hallušu-Inshushinak, who reigned only months around 693–692 BC before dying violently.
Kudurru (artefact)
A kudurru is an inscribed stone stela of Babylonia, produced mainly between the 14th and 7th centuries BC, that records and protects land grants, temple prebends, or tax exemptions.
Kudurru (governor of Uruk)
Kudurru was a southern Babylonian official who served as governor, or former governor, of Uruk under the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC.
Kudurru of Kaštiliašu
The Kudurru of Kaštiliašu, also known as the Kudurru of Kashtiliashu, is a Babylonian stone entitlement monument named after a Kassite king of the late Kassite period.
Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II
The Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II is a Babylonian black-stone stele recording a royal land grant to Bel-ahhe-eriba in the king's seventh year, around 715 BC, held in Berlin.
Kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi I
The Kudurru of Marduk-zakir-shumi I is a limestone stele-shaped kudurru recording a donation by the Babylonian king to a scribe of Uruk, dated to about 849 BC.
Kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash
The Kudurru of Nazi-Maruttash is a black limestone stele in the Louvre recording a Kassite king's grant of over 4000 hectares of land to the god Marduk.
Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I
A kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I is an inscribed stone monument recording grants of perpetual income by Nebuchadnezzar I, king of Babylon ca. 1125–1104 BC, after his defeat of Elam.
Kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe
The kudurrus of Marduk-nadin-ahhe are inscribed stone entitlement monuments issued during the reign of Marduk-nadin-ahhe, king of Babylon, 1099–1082 BC, including the Caillou Michaux in Paris.
Kuduzulush I
Kuduzulush (also written Kudu-zulush or Kuduzuluš) is the name of one or two rulers of Elam's Sukkalmah dynasty, attested in the Mari letters as sukkal of Susa.
Kudzanai Chiurai
Kudzanai Chiurai is a Zimbabwean multidisciplinary artist born in Harare in 1981 whose photography, film, painting, and archival projects examine postcolonial Southern Africa; criticism of the Zimbabwean government led to his exile in South Africa.
Kudzu (葛)
Kudzu (葛, Pueraria montana var. lobata), also called Japanese arrowroot, is an Asian Fabaceae vine introduced to the US in 1876, promoted for erosion control, and now an invasive southeastern weed growing up to 100 feet with 400-pound tubers.
Kudzu in the United States
Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata), an Asian legume vine introduced at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, covers about 7 million acres of the southeastern US after New Deal erosion-control planting; it grows up to a foot per day and is a Federal Noxious Weed.
Kue Na
Kue Na (พญากือนา) was the sixth king of the Mangrai dynasty of the Lanna kingdom, ruling from Chiang Mai, remembered for establishing the Lankavamsa school of Theravada Buddhism in Lanna.
Kuehne + Nagel
Kuehne + Nagel, also known as Kuehne and Nagel, is a Swiss logistics company founded in Bremen in 1890 that leads global sea and air freight.
Kuei-mei, a Woman (我这样过了一生)
Kuei-mei, a Woman (我这样过了一生, 我這樣過了一生) is a 1985 Taiwanese drama by Chang Yi, adapted from Xiao Sa's novella Xiafei zhi Jia, starring Yang Hui-shan; it won four 1985 Golden Horse Awards and spans 25 years of a mainlander woman's life in Taipei.
Kuélap
Kuélap is a monumental walled settlement of the Chachapoya culture in the Andes of northern Peru, built around 600 CE atop a limestone ridge at 3,000 m in the Amazonas region.
Kufa (الكوفة)
Kufa (الكوفة) is a city in Iraq about 105 km south of Baghdad, founded in 638 CE as a Muslim garrison city by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas.
Kufi
The kufi (Arabic: ṭāqīya), also called topi or prayer cap, is a brimless cap worn by some Muslim men and boys, often during the five daily prayers.
Kufic
Kufic is a family of angular styles of Arabic script, named after Kufa in Iraq, that served as the standard script for Qur'an production from the mid-eighth to the tenth century.
Kufic brick inscriptions
Kufic brick inscriptions are architectural inscriptions in angular Kufic script formed from brick units, which flourished especially in Seljuk-era Iran and adorned mosques and minarets with often turquoise-glazed lettering.
Kufikirika
Kufikirika is a short allegorical novel in Kiswahili by the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, set in an imaginary kingdom and published by Oxford University Press in 1967.
Kufor-Rakeb syndrome
Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (PARK9, MxMD-ATP13A2) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive juvenile-onset atypical parkinsonism caused by ATP13A2 lysosomal ATPase mutations, with supranuclear gaze palsy, spasticity, dementia, and partial levodopa response.
Kuge
Kuge (公家) were Japan's hereditary court nobility, opposed to the buke warrior class. Key facts: hereditary offices and family status (kakaku), Tokugawa control, Meiji conversion to kazoku peerage in 1869, abolition in 1947.
Kuge hō
Kuge hō (公家法, court noble law) is the medieval Japanese legal order governing the imperial court and nobility, alongside estate law and warrior law, and formed from the ritsuryō codes.
Kuge shohatto
The Kuge shohatto (公家諸法度), formally Kinchū narabini kuge shohatto, is a 17-article code issued in 1615 regulating the emperor and court nobility under Tokugawa rule.
Kugel
Kugel (Yiddish kugel, "ball") is an Ashkenazi Jewish baked pudding of noodles or potatoes with eggs and fat, served on Shabbat and holidays; it began as bread dumplings in cholent about eight centuries ago in Germany.