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Kūʻē Petitions
The Kūʻē Petitions are petitions gathered in 1897 by Hawaiian patriotic societies Hui Aloha ʻĀina and Hui Kālaiʻāina, with almost 38,000 signatures opposing annexation to the United States.
Kui Yu
Kui Yu (余睽) is a materials chemist who studies how colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and magic-size clusters form, and a professor at Sichuan University since 2014.
Kuibyshev-Lysychansk Oil Pipeline
The Kuibyshev-Lysychansk Oil Pipeline (Нефтепровод Куйбышев - Лисичанск) is a trunk oil pipeline running 1,111 km from Samara, Russia, to Lysychansk, Ukraine, commissioned in 1977 and operated by Transneft-Privolga.
Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk Oil Pipeline
The Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk Oil Pipeline is a trunk oil pipeline in Russia running from Samara to Tikhoretsk in Krasnodar Krai, feeding crude toward Novorossiysk and refineries in southern Russia.
Kuidong Thirteen Families
The Kuidong Thirteen Families (夔东十三家) was a Ming loyalist coalition of rebel remnants, Ming troops, and militias that held eastern Sichuan until its destruction by the Qing in 1664.
Kuiji
Kuiji (窺基, 632–682) was a Tang-dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk, the foremost disciple of Xuanzang and first patriarch of the Faxiang school, known for his commentaries on Yogācāra texts.
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt, also called the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, is a donut-shaped region of icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, from about 30 to 50 AU.
Kuiu Island
Kuiu Island, an island of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest, about 750 square miles (1,900 km2), between Chatham and Sumner Straits, sparsely inhabited, with Tebenkof Bay archaeology and the Kuiu Tlingit.
Kuizhang Pavilion Academy
Kuizhang Pavilion Academy (奎章阁学士院) was a Yuan dynasty scholarly institution founded by Emperor Wenzong to present the classics to the throne, advise on governance, and appraise paintings.
Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap
Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap is a UNESCO World Heritage site (2017, criterion v) in Kujalleq, South Greenland, a five-part serial cultural landscape preserving Norse farming ruins of the 10th-15th centuries alongside Inuit sheep farms established from the 1780s.
Kuji-in (九字印)
Kuji-in (九字印), or Nine Hand Seals, is a Japanese ritual practice, chiefly in Shugendō, reciting nine syllables with nine hand seals to avert disaster and gain victory.
Kujie Wang
Kujie Wang (酷结网) was a Beijing wedding-services O2O startup founded in May 2014, billing itself as China's first one-stop online direct-purchase platform for wedding services; it later ceased operations.
Kujikata Osadamegaki
The Kujikata Osadamegaki (公事方御定書) is the judicial code of the Edo shogunate, completed in 1742 under shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune and kept secret from the public it judged.
Kujō Kanezane
Kujō Kanezane (九条兼実), 1149 to 1207, was a Japanese court noble who founded the Kujō family, one of the five Fujiwara regent houses, and wrote the diary Gyokuyō.
Kujula Kadphises
Kujula Kadphises (丘就卻, Qiujiuque), first king of the Kushan dynasty and great-grandfather of Kanishka I, ruled mid-first-century CE over Bactria, Kabul, and Gandhara, known chiefly from coins and the Rabatak inscription.
Kuk Early Agricultural Site
Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Kuk Swamp), Upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea: 116-ha World Heritage site (2008) documenting independent New Guinea agriculture from mounded cultivation 7000-6400 cal BP and ditch drainage from 4000 BP, based on bananas, taro, and yam.
Kuk-Kirwash
Kuk-Kirwash, also written Kuk-Kirwas, was an early Elamite ruler of the sukkalmah period around the 20th century BC, known chiefly from a brick inscription excavated at Susa.
Kuk-Sanit
Kuk-Sanit, also written Kuku-sanit, was an early member of the Sukkalmah dynasty of Elam, known as the beloved son of the sukkalmah Temti-Agun around the 20th century BC.
Kuk-Shimut
Kuk-Shimut, also written Kuk-Simut, was a scribe of Elam's Shimashki period around the 20th century BC, known from a seal inscription recording that Idadu gave it to him.
KUKA
KUKA, also known as KUKA Robotics or KUKA AG, is a German automation and robotics corporation in Augsburg, founded in 1898 and owned by Midea Group since 2016.
KUKA Home
KUKA Home (顾家家居), legally Jason Furniture (Hangzhou), is a Hangzhou-based Chinese maker of sofas and upholstered furniture and China's largest listed upholstered-furniture company by revenue.
KUKA KMR iiwa
The KUKA KMR iiwa is a mobile manipulator that pairs KUKA's sensitive LBR iiwa seven-axis collaborative arm with an omnidirectional, autonomously navigating mobile platform, introduced in 2015.
KUKA KR C5
The KUKA KR C5 is a family of industrial robot controllers made by German manufacturer KUKA, introduced in 2020 as successor to the KR C4.
KUKA KR Fortec
The KUKA KR Fortec is a family of six-axis heavy-duty industrial robots made by KUKA of Augsburg, Germany, with payloads from 240 to 500 kg.
KUKA LBR iiwa
The KUKA LBR iiwa is a seven-axis collaborative industrial robot arm made by German manufacturer KUKA and introduced in 2013, with torque sensors in every joint that let it work alongside people without safety fencing.
KUKA youBot
The KUKA youBot is a mobile manipulator by KUKA Laboratories with a five-axis arm and two-finger gripper on an omnidirectional Mecanum-wheel platform for research and education.
Kūkaʻilimoku
Kūkaʻilimoku, also written Kūkāʻilimoku, is the Hawaiian god of governance and warfare, a form of Kū and patron deity of the ruling chiefs of Hawaiʻi island.
Kūkai
Kūkai (空海, 774–835) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the early Heian period who founded the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism after studying in Tang China.
Kukak
Kukak Volcano is an almost completely ice-covered stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park, west of Hallo Bay and known for vigorous fumaroles.
Kukatpally
Kukatpally, a northwestern Hyderabad suburb in Medchal-Malkajgiri district, Telangana; former municipality merged into GHMC in 2007, now a GHMC zone headquarters, densest city area at 33,076 per km2, served by KPHB and Red Line metro.