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KV58
KV58, the Chariot Tomb, is a small undecorated cache in the Valley of the Kings, found in 1909 with gold foil naming Tutankhamen and Ay.
KV59
KV59 is a small, uninscribed pit tomb of unknown owner in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, Egypt, cleared by the University of Basel in 2011.
KV6
KV6 is the Valley of the Kings tomb of pharaoh Ramesses IX at Thebes, Egypt, cut late in the Twentieth Dynasty and open since antiquity.
KV60
KV60 is a small, undecorated tomb in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, found in 1903, holding the mummy of Hatshepsut's nurse and a second woman.
KV61
KV61 is a small, unfinished, and unused shaft-and-chamber tomb in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, Egypt, discovered and excavated by Ernest Harold Jones in 1910.
KV63
KV63 is a non-royal shaft tomb in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, found in 2005 and holding coffins and embalming materials but no mummies.
KV64
KV 64 is an undecorated tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, found in 2011 and reused as the intact burial of the chantress Nehemes-Bastet.
KV65
KV65 is an unfinished rock-cut tomb in the Western Valley of the Kings at Luxor, Egypt, announced in 2008; its owner is unknown and construction tools were found inside.
KV7
KV7 is the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, the second largest royal tomb in area after KV5, though ruined by repeated flooding.
KV8
KV8 is the Valley of the Kings tomb of pharaoh Merenptah, son and successor of Ramesses II, second largest in the valley and open since antiquity.
Kvachi Kvachantiradze
Kvachi Kvachantiradze (კვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძე) is a 1925 picaresque novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili, following a con man through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Georgia's Soviet incorporation.
Kværner
Kværner (Kvaerner) was a Norwegian industrial and engineering company, an EPC contractor founded as an Oslo iron foundry in 1853 and merged into Aker Solutions in 2020.
Kvali
Kvali (Georgian: კვალი, "Trace") was a weekly illustrated Georgian newspaper published in Tbilisi from 1893 to 1904, covering politics, science, and literature, and later serving the Georgian Mensheviks.
Kvaløya
Kvaløya (Sállir, old name Salarøy), island in Tromsø municipality, Norway; 737 km², fifth largest mainland island, 13,030 inhabitants (2018), highest point Store Blåmann 1,044 m; distinct from the smaller Kvaløya in Finnmark.
Kvant-1
Kvant-1 (Квант-1) was the first research module of the Soviet Mir space station, an astrophysics laboratory docked to Mir's aft port in April 1987 that carried the Roentgen X-ray observatory.
Kvanted Ventures
Kvanted Ventures is a Helsinki-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2023, focused on industrial technology in Northern Europe, with a first fund of €71.3 million.
Kvass
Kvass (квас), a lightly sour fermented Slavic beverage from rye bread or malt, defined by alcohol of at most 1.2%, mixed yeast and lactic acid fermentation, and use as okroshka's base.
Kveim Test
Kveim test, or Kveim-Siltzbach test, an intradermal skin test for sarcoidosis using heat-treated sarcoid tissue suspension; a granulomatous nodule at the injection site, read histologically after 4 to 6 weeks, indicates active sarcoidosis.
Kvelertak
Kvelertak is a Norwegian heavy rock band formed in Stavanger in 2007 whose "black 'n' roll" fusion of black metal, punk, and rock and roll made them one of Norway's biggest metal exports.
Kvenland
Kvenland: Old Norse name for the land of the Kvens, a Finnish-speaking people around the upper Gulf of Bothnia, first recorded in Ohthere's account c. 890 and later sagas; also called Kainuu.
Kvens
Kvens (kvener, Norwegian Finns) are a Finnish-descended national minority of Norway, long settled in Troms and Finnmark; recognized as a national minority in 1998, with the closely Finnish-related Kven language recognized as its own minority language in 2005 and today severely endangered.
Kvilldal hydroelectric plant
Kvilldal hydroelectric plant (Kvilldal kraftverk) is a Norwegian power station carved into the mountain beside Lake Suldalsvatn in Suldal, and the largest in Norway by capacity, at 1,240 MW.
Kvitebjørn Oil and Gas Field
Kvitebjørn is a gas and condensate field in the Tampen area of the northern Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 1994 and producing since 2004 through a fixed steel platform.
Kvitøya
Kvitøya (Vidön), the easternmost island of Svalbard at 80°N, 682 km², nearly all ice-covered, part of Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve; site of the 1897 Andrée balloon expedition's fatal last camp, found in 1930.
KVLY-TV mast
KVLY-TV mast: guyed TV transmitting mast near Blanchard, North Dakota, 2,063 ft (628.8 m) when completed in 1963; tallest structure in the world 1963–1974 and again 1991–2010; cut to 1,987 ft in 2019.
KVM switch
A KVM switch (Keyboard Video Mouse switch) is a hardware device that lets one keyboard, monitor, and mouse control multiple computers, switched one at a time.
Kwabena Bediako
Kwabena Bediako is a Ghanaian-born chemist who studies electrocatalysis and two-dimensional materials as an associate professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Kwabena Boahen
Kwabena Boahen is a Ghanaian-born professor of bioengineering and electrical engineering at Stanford who built Neurogrid, a neuromorphic computer simulating a million neurons in real time.
Kwadwo Asamoah
Kwadwo Asamoah (Kojo Kwadwo Asamoah), Ghanaian footballer born 1988 in Accra; Udinese, Juventus, Inter, Cagliari midfielder-wing-back; record 279 Serie A appearances for an African player, 13 Juventus trophies, retired 2022.
Kwagalana Group
The Kwagalana Group is a Kampala-based association of Uganda's wealthiest businesspeople, set up in 2002 and chaired by tycoon Godfrey Kirumira; members include Sudhir Ruparelia.