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Kurunta

Kurunta, rendered Kuruntas and Kuruntiya, was a son of the Hittite great king Muwatalli II who ruled the vassal kingdom of Tarhuntassa in southern Anatolia in the late 13th century BC.

Sep 20, 2026

Kurunthachalam Kannan

Kurunthachalam Kannan is an environmental toxicologist and analytical chemist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, known for 2001 surveys showing perfluorinated chemicals had spread worldwide.

Kuruntokai

Kuruntokai (குறுந்தொகை) is a classical Tamil anthology of 401 short love poems, second of the Eight Anthologies of Sangam literature and dated between about 200 BC and AD 200.

Kurup (കുറുപ്പ്) is a 2021 Indian Malayalam-language biographical crime drama directed by Srinath Rajendran, starring Dulquer Salmaan as the fugitive Sukumara Kurup, based on the 1984 Charlie murder case.

Kurupt

Kurupt (Ricardo Emmanuel Brown, Young Gotti), born 1972 in Philadelphia, is a West Coast rapper, half of Tha Dogg Pound with Daz Dillinger; Dogg Food (1995) hit No. 1, and he later returned to Death Row Records. Not the UK garage group Kurupt FM.

Kuruthi (കുരുതി)

Kuruthi (കുരുതി) is a 2021 Malayalam home-invasion thriller that features Prithviraj Sukumaran. The film examines religious hatred and prejudice in a secluded house.

Kuruthi Punal

Kuruthi Punal (குருதிப்புனல்) is a Tamil political novel by Indira Parthasarathy, written in response to the 1968 Kilvenmani massacre and winner of the 1977 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Kuruthipunal (குருதிப்புனல்) (film)

Kuruthipunal (குருதிப்புனல்), also Kurudhippunal, is a 1995 Tamil action thriller directed by P. C. Sreeram, produced by and starring Kamal Haasan, remaking Drohkaal; first Indian film with Dolby Stereo SR, India's 68th Oscars entry.

Kuruvi (குருவி)

Kuruvi (குருவி) is a 2008 Tamil action comedy drama directed by Dharani, starring Vijay and Trisha, produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin's Red Giant Movies with Vidyasagar's music; a Malaysia-set story about a son searching for his missing father.

Kurya

Kurya (Куря) was a Pecheneg khan whom the Primary Chronicle names as the killer of Grand Prince Sviatoslav Igorevich of Kyiv at the Dnieper rapids in 972.

Kurzgesagt

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (kurzgesagt, German for 'in a nutshell') is a Munich-based animation studio and science YouTube channel founded by Philipp Dettmer in 2013, known for animated explainers, deliberate simplification, and the 2021 TRESCA 'We lied to you' transparency video.

Kurzgeschichte

Kurzgeschichte, German for short story, is a brief, compressed prose form in German-language literature that flourished from 1945 to 1965 with authors like Wolfgang Borchert and Heinrich Böll.

Kuş Uçuşu

Kuş Uçuşu (As the Crow Flies) is a Turkish Netflix drama created by Meriç Acemi, starring Birce Akalay and Miray Daner as rival journalists Lale Kıran and Aslı Tuna; three seasons of eight episodes aired from June 2022.

KUSA (TV)

KUSA, branded 9NEWS, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado, owned by Tegna. It signed on in 1952 as KBTV and has been Denver's NBC station since 1995.

Kusadikika

Kusadikika is a Swahili-language allegorical novel by Shaaban Robert, first published in 1951, satirizing greed, abuse of power, and the expectation that people believe without questioning.

Kusah

Kusah is the stage name of Salmin Ismail Hoza, a Tanzanian singer and songwriter of melodic new-generation Bongo Flava, based in Dar es Salaam and signed to Winning Music.

Sep 24, 2026

Kusaka Genzui

Kusaka Genzui (久坂玄瑞, 1840–1864) was a Chōshū domain retainer and leader of the sonnō jōi movement, a student of Yoshida Shōin who died in the 1864 Kinmon Incident.

Sep 24, 2026

Kusakabe

Kusakabe (草壁皇子), also read Prince Kusakabe, was a Japanese crown prince, son of Emperor Tenmu and Empress Jitō, who died in 689 before reigning; he received a posthumous imperial title in 758.

Kusakabe Kimbei

Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部金兵衛, 1841–1934) was a Japanese commercial photographer who ran a celebrated studio in Yokohama from 1881, producing hand-colored souvenir photographs for foreign tourists.

Kusal Mendis

Kusal Mendis (Balapuwaduge Kusal Gimhan Mendis), Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batter born 1995; appointed Test captain 8 October 2026 after Dhananjaya de Silva stepped down, already white-ball captain; 75 Tests, 4,836 runs at 36.36.

Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa

Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa is an Indonesian literary prize for novels, short story collections, and poetry, founded in 2001 as the Khatulistiwa Literary Award and renamed in 2014.

Kusanagi no Tsurugi

Kusanagi no Tsurugi (草薙剣), also called Ame-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi, is the sacred sword of Japan's Three Sacred Treasures, drawn from Yamata no Orochi's tail by Susanoo, carried by Yamato Takeru, and enshrined at Atsuta Shrine, Nagoya.

Kusarigama

Kusarigama (鎖鎌), the Japanese chain sickle: a kama blade with a weighted chain (kusari-fundō weight), used in kusarigamajutsu to entangle and strike. Not a ninja-exclusive weapon; linked to Edo-period schools like Isshin-ryū.

Oct 21, 2026

Kusatsu-Shiranesan

Kusatsu-Shiranesan (草津白根山), also called Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, is a 2,165 m active stratovolcano in Gunma, Japan, with three pyroclastic cones and acidic crater lakes; its phreatic eruptions include the deadly 23 January 2018 Motoshirane explosion.

Sep 23, 2026

Kusayla

Kusayla (كسيلة), also written Kusaila, was a 7th-century Berber leader of the Awraba tribe who destroyed an Umayyad army and killed Uqba ibn Nafi in 683.

Kusazōshi

Kusazōshi (草双紙) is the term for woodblock-printed illustrated popular fiction published in Edo from the mid-17th century to the late 19th century, including akahon and kibyōshi.

Kuselan (குசேலன்)

Kuselan (குசேலன்), aka Kuselan 2008 Tamil film, is P. Vasu's remake of Malayalam hit Katha Parayumbol, with Rajinikanth as superstar Ashok Kumar and Pasupathy as a poor barber; it flopped despite ₹15 crore budget and spawned Telugu and Hindi remakes.

Kush (drug)

Kush: cheap, addictive synthetic drug in West Africa, first seen in Sierra Leone (2016 or ~2022), containing nitazene opioids or synthetic cannabinoids like MDMB-4en-PINACA; declared a public health emergency by Sierra Leone in April 2024.

Kush (New Kingdom province)

Kush, also called Kasu, was the Nubian imperial province of New Kingdom Egypt, ruled by a viceroy titled King's Son of Kush from about 1550 BC.