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Kallistos I
Kallistos I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1350 to 1353 and again from 1355 until his death in 1363 or 1364, and a hesychast monk of Mount Athos.
Kallistos II Xanthopoulos
Kallistos II Xanthopoulos (Κάλλιστος Ξανθόπουλος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1397, a monk co-author with Ignatios Xanthopoulos of the Century, a hesychast prayer manual in the Philokalia.
Kallistos Vallis
Kallistos Vallis is a >1200 km long volcanic channel system on Venus in Lada Terra, IAU-named in 1994 from an Ancient Greek name for Venus, formed by turbulent low-viscosity mafic lava flows from Derceto Corona.
Kallmann syndrome
Kallmann syndrome, also called hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with anosmia (olfacto-genital dysplasia), is a genetic disorder in which GnRH neurons fail to migrate from the olfactory placode, causing absent puberty, infertility, and impaired smell; over 20 genes including ANOS1 and FGFR1 are implicated.
Kallol
Kallol (কল্লোল, "sound of waves") was a Bengali literary magazine published in Calcutta from 1923 to 1929 that introduced modernism to Bengali literature, giving its name to the Kallol era.
Kallol movement
The Kallol movement (কল্লোল আন্দোলন) was a literary movement in Bengali literature centered on the Calcutta magazine Kallol, published from 1923 to 1929, which broke from Tagore's dominance.
Kalloni
Kalloni (Καλλονή): a village in Troezenia, Argolid, with an excavated Middle–Late Helladic artisan settlement on Ayios Yeoryios hill, and a town on the Gulf of Kalloni, Lesbos, site of ancient Arisbe.
Kallstadt
Kallstadt is a wine village of about 1,200 people in the Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, on the German Wine Route. Known for the Saumagen vineyard, its 1902 cooperative, the Bismarck Tower, and as ancestral home of the Trump and Heinz families.
Kalm Dorsa
Kalm Dorsa is a 300-km ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 18°N, 309°E in the Guinevere Planitia quadrangle, named in 1997 by the IAU after a Mansi winged messenger deity.
Kalma Airport
Kalma Airport, formally Wonsan Kalma International Airport, is a dual-use civilian and military airport east of Wonsan, North Korea, which opened in 2015 and mainly hosts air force drills and air shows.
Kalmah
Kalmah is a Finnish melodic death metal band from Pudasjärvi, formed in 1998. The group is known for its high-velocity style, twin guitars, and nine studio albums.
Kalmakareh Cave
Kalmakareh Cave, also written Kalmakarra, is a cave in the Zagros Mountains of Luristan Province, western Iran, near Pol-e Dokhtar, that yielded a Neo-Elamite hoard of gold and silver.
Kalman Ber
Kalman Ber (קלמן בר, Kalman Meir Ber), born 1957 in Tel Aviv, is the ninth Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, elected in 2024 after an unprecedented 40-40 deadlock, succeeding David Lau; formerly chief rabbi of Netanya.
Kalman filter
The Kalman filter is a recursive algorithm that estimates a system's hidden state by combining a motion model with noisy measurements, introduced by Rudolf E. Kalman in 1960.
Kalman Hazai
Kalman Hazai (Kálmán Hazai, born Henszelman Kálmán, 1913–1996) was a Hungarian water polo player who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, played 40 internationals, and later coached swimming in Sweden and Denmark.
Kalman Ihasz
Kalman Ihasz (Ihász Kálmán, 1941–2019), Hungarian footballer nicknamed Mamut; lifelong Vasas SC defender, 27 caps, Olympic gold in football at Tokyo 1964, four Hungarian titles, Euro 1964 bronze.
Kálmán J. Szabó
Kálmán J. Szabó is a Swedish-based organic chemist, professor, and Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University, working in catalysis for organoboron and organofluorine compounds.
Kalman Markovits
Kálmán Markovits (Markovits Kálmán, 1931–2009), Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic gold 1952 and 1956, bronze 1960, three European titles, later coached Hungary, Mexico, and CN Barcelona.
Kálmán Széll
Kálmán Széll (Széll Kálmán) was a Hungarian politician who served as finance minister from 1875 and as prime minister from 1899 to 1903, negotiating the economic compromise with Austria.
Kálmán Tisza
Kálmán Tisza, also known as Tisza Kálmán, was a Hungarian statesman who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary and governed for three decades.
Kalmar
Kalmar FF, Swedish football club from Kalmar (founded 1910 as IF Göta, renamed 1927), Allsvenskan side; Swedish champions 2008, Svenska Cupen winners 1981, 1987, 2007; home Guldfågeln Arena since 2011.
Kalmar County
Kalmar County (Kalmar län), Sweden county code 08, NUTS SE213: southeast-coast county of eastern Småland plus Öland, 12 municipalities, 246,352 inhabitants (2024), capital Kalmar, predominantly rural, GDP index 74.
Kalmar Nyckel
Kalmar Nyckel ("Key of Kalmar"; Dutch: Kalmar Sleutel) was a Dutch-built Swedish ship that in 1638 carried settlers founding New Sweden at Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware.
Kalmar Union
Kalmar Union (Kalmarunionen, Latin Unio Calmariensis): personal union of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under one monarch, established at Kalmar in 1397 by Margrete I and Erik of Pomerania, lasting until Gustav Vasa's Swedish secession of 1523.
Kalmasoba
Kalmasoba (კალმასობა), also titled Khumarsstsavla, is an encyclopedic work in dialogue form by the Georgian prince Ioane Bagrationi, written in exile from 1813 to 1828 and regarded as his most important work.
Kalmia
Kalmia (mountain laurel, laurier des montagnes) is a genus of Ericaceae shrubs named for Peter Kalm, published 1753; nine accepted species including Kalmia latifolia, toxic grayanotoxin-bearing plants of acidic soils.
Kalmia angustifolia
Kalmia angustifolia (sheep laurel, lambkill), Ericaceae shrub native to eastern North America; evergreen, pink-flowered, rhizomatous, toxic to livestock via grayanotoxin, and able to form persistent Kalmia barrens after disturbance.
Kalmia latifolia
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel, calico bush) is a toxic evergreen Ericaceae shrub of the eastern United States, state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with spring-loaded anther pollination; IUCN Least Concern.
Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR for the Kalmyk people, created in 1935, abolished in 1943, and restored in 1957.
Kalmyk Khanate
The Kalmyk Khanate (Хальмг хана улс) was a Buddhist Oirat-Mongol khanate on the lower Volga, founded by the Torghuts in 1630 and abolished by Catherine II in 1771.