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Kushki
Kushki is a Latin American payments technology company founded in 2017 by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastián Castro and headquartered in Quito, Ecuador. In 2022 it became Ecuador's first unicorn.
Kushner Companies
Kushner Companies, also known as Kushner Cos, is a family-owned American real estate firm founded in 1985 by Charles Kushner with his father Joseph that owns and develops multifamily, office, retail, and hotel properties.
Kushtaka
Kushtaka (Kooshdakhaa, Tlingit for land-otter man) is a shapeshifting otter-human being in the folklore of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida peoples of southeastern Alaska, both feared and helpful.
Kushtashpi
Kushtashpi (Kuštašpi), recorded as Kuštašpili in Urartian annals, was a ruler of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh on the upper Euphrates in the 740s and 730s BC.
Kushtia District
Kushtia District (কুষ্টিয়া জেলা), Khulna Division, Bangladesh: 1,608.80 km² district on the Padma and Gorai rivers, home of Baul mystic Lalon Shah and Tagore's Shilaidaha Kuthibari, made a district in 1947.
Kushwaha
Kushwaha is an agrarian caste community of northern India, concentrated in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand; Bihar's 2022 caste census recorded over 5.5 million members.
Kushyar ibn Labban
Kushyar ibn Labban (كوشيار بن لبان) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer from Gilan in northern Iran who flourished around 1000, wrote the Jami Zij, and pioneered Hindu-Arabic arithmetic.
Kusile power station
Kusile power station is a 4,800 MW coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, whose six 800 MW units make it one of the world's largest.
Kuskokwim River
The Kuskokwim River, 724 miles long, is Alaska's second-largest river, draining about 130,000 km2 into the Bering Sea. It hosts chinook, chum, sockeye, pink, and coho runs, one of Alaska's largest subsistence fisheries, and co-management by the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission amid salmon declines.
Kuskokwim syndrome
Kuskokwim syndrome (Kuskokwim disease, Bruck syndrome 1) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive contracture disorder caused by an FKBP10 deletion, found only in Yup'ik Eskimos of Alaska's Kuskokwim River delta.
Kusmunda Coal Mine
The Kusmunda Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India, operated by South Eastern Coalfields; in 2023-24 it produced over 50 million tons, second in India only to Gevra.
Kussara
Kussara (Kuššara, also written Kushara) was a city and small kingdom in central Anatolia around 1800–1750 BC, ruled by Pithana and Anitta, forerunners of the Hittite kingdom; its site remains unidentified.
Kust
Kust, literally "direction, side," was a territorial quarter of the late Sasanian Empire, one of four cardinal-point divisions created under Khusrow I and each commanded by a spahbed.
Kustaa Pihlajamäki
Kustaa Pihlajamäki (1902–1944), Finnish freestyle wrestler from Nurmo; Olympic gold 1924 and 1936, silver 1928, record 28 Finnish titles, first Finnish wrestler in the FILA Hall of Fame.
Kustendorf
Kustendorf, also Drvengrad (Дрвенград) or Mećavnik, is a wooden ethno village built by Emir Kusturica on Mećavnik hill above Mokra Gora, Serbia, during filming of Life Is a Miracle; it hosts the January Kustendorf film festival and operates as a hotel village.
Kustharaksasa taila
Kuṣṭharākṣasa taila (कुष्ठराक्षस तैल) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral medicated oil, AFI000754, for external application; contains lead oxide, purified mercury, sulphur, orpiment, realgar, and seven plant ingredients.
Kūstī
Kūstī (Kosti, كوستي) is a city on the west bank of the White Nile in White Nile State, Sudan, 270 km south of Khartoum; founded about 1902, it holds Sudan's largest river port, a railway junction, and a major sugar industry.
Kustomize
Kustomize is a template-free tool for customizing Kubernetes YAML configurations, announced by Google in 2018 and built into kubectl since Kubernetes 1.14 via the -k flag.
Kusuko Incident
The Kusuko Incident (薬子の変) was a September 810 power struggle in Japan in which retired Emperor Heizei tried to reclaim the throne from Emperor Saga.
Kusum Dola
Kusum Dola (কুসুম দোলা) is a Bengali television melodrama broadcast on Star Jalsha from 2016 to 2018, built around a love triangle between an IPS officer, a village girl, and his former lover.
Kusumagraj (कुसुमाग्रज)
Kusumagraj (कुसुमाग्रज), pen name of Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (1912–1999), was a leading Marathi poet, playwright, and novelist; author of Vishakha and Natasamrat; winner of the 1974 Sahitya Akademi, 1988 Jnanpith, and 1991 Padma Bhushan awards.
Kusumah Atmaja
Kusumah Atmaja (Raden Soelaiman Effendi Koesoemah Atmadja, 1898–1952), Indonesian jurist and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung), appointed by Soekarno 19 August 1945; defended judicial independence in the 1946 Sudarsono case; National Hero.
Kusunoki Masashige
Kusunoki Masashige (楠木正成) was a Japanese warrior who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo against the Kamakura shogunate and died at the Battle of Minatogawa in 1336.
Kusunoki's Flunking Her High School Glow-Up
Kusunoki's Flunking Her High School Glow-Up (楠木さんは高校デビューに失敗している), also Kusunoki-san Failed Her High School Debut, is a romantic-comedy manga by Mitsuki Mii serialized on Pixiv Comic (Ichijinsha's Comic Pool) since October 21, 2022, published in English by Kodansha USA since August 2024, with a Passione × Hayabusa Film TV anime announced in July 2026.
Kusunoki's Garden of Gods
Kusunoki's Garden of Gods (神の庭付き楠木邸, Kami no Niwatsuki Kusunoki-tei) is a Japanese light novel series by Enju and ox about Minato Kusunoki, whose spiritual power purifies a haunted country house that then attracts deities. Published by Dengeki no Shin Bungei from 2021, adapted into a manga and a 2026 Juvenage TV anime.
Kusuo Saiki (斉木楠雄)
Kusuo Saiki (斉木楠雄) is a high school student and protagonist of Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan. He possesses nearly every psychic power but uses them to avoid attention and live quietly.
Kususa
Kususa is a South African afro tech and afro house duo from Durban, formed in 2016, who released their debut album A Life Worth Living in 2024.
Kūṭadanta
Kūṭadanta (कूटदन्त, "Sharp-tooth") is a learned brahmin of the Pali Canon who prepared a great animal sacrifice in Magadha, then became a lay follower of the Buddha.
Kutadgu Bilig
Kutadgu Bilig (قوتادغو بلیگ, "the knowledge of happiness") is a didactic mirror-for-princes poem by Yusuf Khass Hajib, completed in Kashgar in 1069–1070 and presented to the Kara-Khanid prince Tavghach Bughra Khan.
Kütahya (city)
Kütahya, ancient Cotyaeum, is the capital of Kütahya Province in west-central Turkey; former Germiyanid capital, ceramics center since the 16th century, home of Dumlupınar University, province population 570,478.