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Kukersite
Kukersite is a marine oil shale of Ordovician age found in northeastern Estonia and northwestern Russia, mined commercially since 1916 as Estonia's main oil shale.
Kuki navy
The Kuki navy (九鬼水軍) was the naval force of the Kuki clan of Shima, Japan, which won the battle of Kizugawaguchi in 1578 with iron-plated ships.
Kuki people
Kuki people, part of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo (Zo) Tibeto-Burman group of northeast India, Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Myanmar's Chin State; exonym meaning hill people; marked by the 1917-1919 Anglo-Kuki War and the 2023 Manipur conflict.
Kuki Rebellion
The Kuki Rebellion (Zou Gal), also called the Anglo-Kuki War, was a 1917 to 1919 rising by Kuki chiefs of Manipur against British rule, provoked by wartime labor recruitment.
Kuki Yoshitaka
Kuki Yoshitaka (九鬼嘉隆, 1542–1600) was a Japanese naval commander of the Sengoku period who served Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and built iron ships that broke the Mori navy in 1578.
Kuki–Naga conflict in Manipur
Kuki–Naga conflict in Manipur: inter-tribal armed conflict, 1992–1997, over land, territory and competing homeland claims (Nagalim vs Kukiland), killing over 1,000; renewed 2026.
Kukke Subramanya Temple
Kukke Subramanya Temple, also called Kukke Subrahmanya, is a Hindu temple in Subrahmanya village, Karnataka, India, dedicated to Subrahmanya as lord of all serpents and known for the Sarpa Samskara ritual.
Kukkunni
Kukkunni was a king of Wilusa, a Late Bronze Age kingdom in western Anatolia, who kept peaceful relations with the Hittite emperor Suppiluliuma I while neighboring Arzawa was in revolt.
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Kukla, Fran and Ollie (KFO), originally Junior Jamboree, was Burr Tillstrom's ad-libbed American TV puppet show with Fran Allison, running 1947–1957 on NBC and ABC and later on PBS and CBS.
Kukri (खुकुरी)
The kukri, also spelled khukuri, is the traditional heavy, single-edged knife of Nepal, a national symbol best known as the weapon of the Gurkha soldiers who have served Britain since 1816.
Kukrit Pramoj
Kukrit Pramoj (คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช) was a Thai politician, writer, and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Thailand in 1975 and was named a National Artist for Literature in 1985.
Kuksa Office
The Kuksa Office covers the kuksa (국사, state preceptor), the highest monastic rank of Silla and Goryeo, created by Goryeo Taejo alongside the wangsa and abolished after Joseon's founding.
Kuku Kohli (अवतार कोहली)
Kuku Kohli (Avtar Kohli, 1949–2026), Indian Hindi-film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor; launched Ajay Devgn with Phool Aur Kaante (1991); also directed Suhaag, Haqeeqat, Zulmi, Anari No. 1, Yeh Dil Aashiqanaa; husband of Aruna Irani; died in Mumbai aged 77. Not Virat Kohli or Armaan Kohli.
Kukulkan
Kukulkan (K'uk'ulkan, Kukulcan) is the Yucatec Maya feathered serpent deity, equivalent to Aztec Quetzalcoatl and K'iche' Gukumatz, central to Chichen Itza's Temple of Kukulkan (El Castillo) and later Mayapan.
Kul system
The kul system (kul, قول) was an Ottoman institution recruiting captives and Christian boys through the devshirme levy for palace, military, and administrative service, peaking in the 16th century.
Kul Tepe Jolfa
Kul Tepe Jolfa is a settlement mound near Hadishahr in north-western Iran, about 10 km south of the Araxes River, excavated in 2010 and 2013 as a key site for dating the Kura-Araxes culture.
Kul Tigin
Kul Tigin, also spelled Kül Tegin, was a general and prince of the Second Turkic Khaganate, known through the memorial stele his brother Bilge Qaghan erected in 732.
Kul-e Farah
Kul-e Farah, also written Kul-i Farah, is an Elamite rock-relief sanctuary in Khuzestan, southwest Iran, with six reliefs carved from the ninth to sixth centuries BC.
Kula ring
The Kula ring is a ceremonial exchange system in which armshells and necklaces circulate in opposite directions between island communities of the Massim region of Papua New Guinea.
Kula Shaker
Kula Shaker: English psychedelic rock band formed in London in 1995, led by Crispian Mills; debut album K (1996) hit UK No. 1 with sitars and Sanskrit lyrics; split 1999, reformed 2006, eighth album Wormslayer in 2026.
Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark
Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark is a protected geological area covering the Kula and Salihli districts of Manisa Province, western Türkiye, designated a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2015 as the country's first.
Kulachandra Singh
Kulachandra Singh (ꯀꯨꯂꯆꯟꯗ꯭ꯔ ꯁꯤꯡ) was ruler of the princely state of Manipur from 1890 until the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891, after which he was exiled to the Andaman Islands.
Kulak (кулак)
A kulak (кулак, Russian for "fist"; Ukrainian kurkul) was a prosperous peasant in Russia and the USSR, dispossessed and deported under Stalin's campaign to liquidate kulaks as a class.
Kulak Operation
The Kulak Operation (Кулацкая операция) was an NKVD mass repression campaign of the Great Terror under NKVD order No. 00447, condemning about 767,000 people, 387,000 of them shot.
Kulakovsky
Kulakovsky: Yulian Andreyevich Kulakovsky (Юліан Кулаковський, 1855–1919), Kyiv professor of Roman literature and archaeologist of Crimea and Olbia; namesake of the Kulakovsky Barrow, a Scythian warrior kurgan excavated in 1895.
Kulami
Kulami is a two-player abstract strategy board game, designed by Andreas Kuhnekath and published by Steffen Spiele, where players place marbles to hold the majority on wooden tiles.
Kulangsu, a Historic International Settlement
Kulangsu, also romanized Gulangyu, is a 1.88-square-kilometer island facing Xiamen in Fujian, China. Established as an international settlement in 1903, it was inscribed by UNESCO in 2017.
Kulap Vilaysack
Kulap Vilaysack is an American comedy writer, director, actor, and podcaster, creator and showrunner of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ on Seeso, director of the documentary Origin Story, and co-host of the podcast Add to Cart with SuChin Pak.
Kulasekarapatti launch site
The Kulasekarapatti launch site, formally the SSLV Launch Complex, is an ISRO spaceport under construction in Tamil Nadu, India, for polar launches of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Kulasekhara Alvar
Kulasekhara Alvar (குலசேகர ஆழ்வார்) was a Chera king of eighth-century Kerala who renounced his throne for devotion and is credited with the Perumal Tirumozhi, a Tamil poem of 105 verses.