All articles starting with K

Kura–Araxes culture

Kura-Araxes culture: Early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the South Caucasus, also called Shengavit, Early Trans-Caucasian, or Karaz, flourishing c. 3500-2500 BC and known for red-black burnished pottery and wide expansion into Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant.

Kuraki Mai

Kuraki Mai, also known as Mai Kuraki, is a Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter whose debut single sold 1.39 million copies and whose album delicious way exceeded 4 million.

Kuralin

Kuralin (クラリン) is a Nikoli logic puzzle: draw one non-crossing loop through cell centers, blacken the rest, and satisfy black, white, and gray circle majority or equality constraints; studied for NP-completeness in 2026.

Kuraloi A North Coal Mine

Kuraloi A North Coal Mine is a proposed 8 MTPA opencast coal mine in the IB Valley coalfield of Jharsuguda district, Odisha, India, allocated to Vedanta Limited in 2021.

Kuramochi

Kuramochi (KURAMOCHI, CVCL_1345, JCRB0098) is a human ovarian cancer cell line established in 1981 from ascites of a Japanese patient, used as a high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma model with TP53 D281Y and BRCA2 mutations.

Sep 29, 2026

Kuramoto model

The Kuramoto model, introduced by Yoshiki Kuramoto in 1975, is a mathematical model of synchronization in which coupled phase oscillators entrain into collective oscillation above a critical coupling strength.

Kuranakh

Kuranakh (Куранах) is a gold mining district in the Aldan District of Yakutia, Russia, comprising eleven gold deposits and a large buried placer worked since the 1920s.

Sep 23, 2026

Kuranganayani

Kuranganayani (কুৰাংগনায়ণী) was an 18th-century Manipuri princess who married Ahom king Rajeswar Singha and organized the 1770 palace coup that freed King Lakshmi Singha and ended the Moamaria occupation.

Kurangu Bommai

Kurangu Bommai (குரங்கு பொம்மை), also known as Monkey Bag, is a 2017 Tamil crime thriller directed by Nithilan Swaminathan, starring Vidharth, Bharathiraja, and Delna Davis, about a stolen Rs 5 crore idol in a monkey-pictured bag.

Kurangun

Kurangun is an Elamite rock-cut sanctuary in Fars, Iran, whose main relief of a god on a serpent throne dates to the 17th to 16th centuries BCE.

Kurapaty

Kurapaty (Belarusian: Курапаты, Russian: Куропаты) is a wooded tract on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, where mass executions and secret burials took place in 1937–1941.

Kurapika (クラピカ)

Kurapika (クラピカ) is the last Kurta clan survivor in Hunter × Hunter, a Conjurer who fights the Phantom Troupe with five conjured chains; Chain Jail kills him if used on anyone but the Troupe.

Kuraray

Kuraray (クラレ) is a Japanese specialty chemicals company headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1926, that produces PVOH resins, EVAL barrier resins, PVB interlayers, and activated carbon.

Kurash of Parsumash

Kurash of Parsumash, also rendered Cyrus of Parsumash, was a Persian ruler who sent his son Arukku with tribute to the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal about 639 BC.

Kurashiki

Kurashiki (倉敷) is a city in southern Okayama Prefecture, Japan, population about 474,000, home to the Bikan Historical Quarter canal district, the Ohara Museum of Art, and the Mizushima industrial complex.

Kurata Hyakuzō

Kurata Hyakuzō (倉田百三, 1891–1943) was a Japanese playwright and critic from Hiroshima Prefecture whose 1917 religious drama The Priest and His Disciples became a Taishō-era bestseller.

Kuratowski's theorem

Kuratowski's theorem, or Kuratowski reduction theorem, characterizes planar graphs: a graph is planar if and only if it contains no subdivision of K5 or K3,3.

Sep 24, 2026

Kuratsukuri no Tori

Kuratsukuri no Tori (鞍作鳥) was a Japanese Buddhist sculptor of the Asuka period, active in the early 7th century, who cast the Shaka Triad of Hōryū-ji in 623.

Kuravanji

Kuravanji (குறவஞ்சி), also called Kuram or Kurathippattu, is a Tamil dance-drama genre popular from the 17th to the 19th century, in which a fortune-teller predicts a heroine's happy future.

Kurayashiki

Kurayashiki (蔵屋敷) were combined warehouses and residences that feudal domains used in Edo-period Japan (1603–1867) to store and sell tax rice, concentrated in Osaka, whose rice bills fed the Dojima Rice Exchange.

Kurbaan (2009 film)

Kurbaan (क़ुरबान), also known as Sacrifice, is a 2009 Hindi-language Bollywood terrorism thriller directed by Rensil D'Silva, starring Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor; released 20 November 2009, it flopped at the box office despite mixed-positive reviews.

Oct 3, 2026

Kurbaan (कुर्बान) (1991 film)

Kurbaan (कुर्बान), also spelled Qurban, is a 1991 Hindi drama directed by Deepak Bahry, released 31 May 1991, starring Sunil Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Salman Khan, and Ayesha Jhulka; distinct from the 2009 terrorism thriller of the same name.

Kurchatov (lunar crater)

Kurchatov is a 110.96 km IAU-named impact crater on the Moon's far side at 38.30°N, 141.74°E, approved in 1961 for Soviet nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov, with satellite craters T, W, X, Z and the related Catena Kurchatov chain.

Kurchatov Institute

The Kurchatov Institute is Russia's leading nuclear research institution, founded in Moscow in 1943 under Igor Kurchatov, where the first Soviet atomic bomb and the first tokamak were developed.

Kurchi Madathapetti

Kurchi Madathapetti is a 2024 Telugu song from the film Guntur Kaaram, composed by Thaman S, that became a viral dance phenomenon and one of the most-viewed Telugu songs.

Kurd Laßwitz Award

The Kurd Laßwitz Award (Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis) is an annual literary award for German-language science fiction, created in 1980 and named after Kurd Laßwitz, the father of German science fiction.

Kurd Qaburstan

Kurd Qaburstan is a 95-hectare archaeological site on the Erbil plain in Iraq, occupied mainly in the second millennium BC and tentatively identified with the ancient city-state of Qabra.

Kurda

Kurda was a small kingdom of northern Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BC, known almost entirely from cuneiform letters; its king Aṣḥtamar-Adad allied with Apum.

Kurdalagon Patera

Kurdalagon Patera is a 28-km-wide volcanic patera on Jupiter's moon Io at 49.6°S, 218°W, named for the Ossetian celestial smith. It was a Galileo-era hot spot and produced two mini-outburst eruptions in 2015 that brightened Jupiter's plasma torus.