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Kanagawa Kenmin Hall
Kanagawa Kenmin Hall (神奈川県民ホール) is a prefectural concert hall in Yokohama, Japan, opened in 1975, hosting opera and pop concerts before closing in 2025 for rebuilding.
Kanagawa Magistracy
The Kanagawa Magistracy (神奈川奉行所) was an Edo shogunate office established in 1859 to administer foreign affairs, trade, and customs at the newly opened treaty port of Yokohama, until the Meiji government took it over in 1868.
Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県)
Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県), south of Tokyo, is Japan's second most populous prefecture with about 9.2 million people, 33 municipalities, and three designated cities: Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Sagamihara.
Kanaiyazhi
Kanaiyazhi (கணையாழி) is a Tamil-language literary monthly magazine founded in June 1965 in New Delhi by journalist Ki. Kasturi Rangan, among the longest-running Tamil little magazines.
Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front
The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste, FLNKS) is a pro-independence party coalition in New Caledonia, founded in 1984.
Kanak people
Kanak people: indigenous Melanesian people of New Caledonia (Kanaky), settled since about 4000 BCE, minority since 1958 (41% in 2019), with about thirty languages, customary civil status, and the FLNKS-led decolonization process under the Matignon and Nouméa accords.
Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo
Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who became Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha in 2024, holding the agriculture and energy portfolios.
Kanaka Dasa (ಕನಕದಾಸ)
Kanaka Dasa (ಕನಕದಾಸ), also called Sri Kanaka Dasa, was a 16th-century Kannada saint-poet of the Haridasa devotional tradition, known for Ramadhanya Charite and the Udupi Kanakana Kindi legend.
Kanaka Durga Temple (కనక దుర్గ)
Kanaka Durga Temple (కనక దుర్గ), administered as Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam, is a Hindu temple on Indrakeeladri hill beside the Krishna river in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Kanaka Taila
Kanaka Taila (Kanaka Thailam) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated sesame oil from Chakradatta and Bhaishajya Ratnavali, used for Vyanga (facial melasma), Nilika, and Mukha Roga via Nasya and Abhyanga, standardized in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.
Kanakasava
Kanakasava (कनकासव), an Ayurvedic fermented asava from Bhaishajyaratnavali, made with Datura metel and nine other herbs; contains 5–10% self-generated alcohol, dosed 12–24 ml for cough and asthma.
Kanakasundara Rasa
Kanakasundara Rasa (कनकसुन्दर रस) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rasa formulation of purified sulphur, borax, aconite, datura, cannabis, and peppers, dosed at 125 mg, indicated for fever with diarrhoea and kushta.
Kanakia
Kanakia (Κανάκια), Salamis: Mycenaean acropolis and harbour town in southwest Salamis, excavated since 2000 by the University of Ioannina; major urban centre of 13th-century BC Salamis, with Building Γ (750 m2), Ramesses II armour plate, identified with Strabo's ancient city.
Kanako Watanabe
Kanako Watanabe (渡部 香生子), Japanese breaststroke and medley swimmer, born 1996 in Tokyo. Three-time Olympian (2012, 2016, 2020); 2015 Kazan world champion in the 200 m breaststroke; retired June 2024.
Kanakuk Kamps
Kanakuk Kamps is a nondenominational Christian sports summer camp network founded in 1926 in Branson and Lampe, Missouri, with overnight Kamps (K-1, K-2, K-West, K-Kountry, K-Seven), K-Kauai family camp, KampOut! day camps, and a documented sexual abuse scandal involving former director Pete Newman.
Kanaky independence movement
The Kanaky independence movement seeks full sovereignty for New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in the southwest Pacific, led politically by the FLNKS coalition founded in 1984.
Kanal
Kanał ("Sewer") is Andrzej Wajda's 1957 Polish war drama, the first feature film about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, following Home Army fighters escaping through Warsaw's sewers; it shared Cannes' 1957 Special Jury Prize with The Seventh Seal.
Kanaloa (crater on Umbriel)
Kanaloa is an 86 km IAU-approved (1988) impact crater on Umbriel, the dark cratered moon of Uranus, centered at 10.8°S, 345.7°E, named for a Polynesian chief evil spirit.
Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り)
Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り), the Festival of the Steel Phallus, is a Shinto festival held each April at Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki, Japan, where phallus-shaped portable shrines are paraded.
Kanami
Kanami (観阿弥) was a Japanese sarugaku actor, playwright, and founder of the Kanze school of nō theater, father of Zeami, who won the patronage of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
Kanamycin
Kanamycin is a bactericidal aminoglycoside antibiotic discovered in 1957 by Hamao Umezawa's group in Tokyo from the bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus, once used mainly against tuberculosis but now seldom used.
Kanan Gill
Kanan Gill (Kanan Singh Gill), Indian stand-up comedian, actor, and author born 1989, known for Pretentious Movie Reviews with Biswa Kalyan Rath, the specials Keep It Real, Yours Sincerely, and Is This It?, and the 2024 novel Acts of God.
Kanan Jarrus
Kanan Jarrus, born Caleb Dume, is the fictional Jedi Knight of Star Wars Rebels (2014), voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. A Padawan of Depa Billaba who survived Order 66, he trained Ezra Bridger, was blinded by Maul, and died in 1 BBY saving the Ghost crew.
Kanana (카나나)
Kanana (카나나) is a Korean-language AI assistant developed by Kakao, launched as a standalone app in 2025 and since embedded as an on-device AI service inside KakaoTalk, Korea's dominant messenger.
Kananga
Kananga, formerly Luluabourg, is the capital of Kasaï-Central province, DR Congo, on the Lulua River. Founded 1884 by Hermann von Wissmann; UN estimate 1,557,073 residents in 2026, fifth-largest Congolese city.
Kanangra-Boyd National Park
Kanangra-Boyd National Park, a NSW park 180 km from Sydney, part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area; established 1969, 74,944 ha, known for Kanangra Walls, Mount Cloudmaker, and the Six Foot Track.
Kanara
Kanara (Canara) was a British Indian coastal district under the Madras Presidency, split in 1859-1862 into North Kanara (Bombay) and South Kanara (Madras), renamed Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada in 1977.
Kanaria (Vocaloid producer)
Kanaria (カナリア) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer known for 'KING', '酔いどれ知らず', and 'エンヴィーベイビー', who debuted in May 2020 at age 17 while still in high school.
Kanassa Patera
Kanassa Patera is a 71-km-wide volcanic patera on Jupiter's moon Io at 25.41°S, 257.38°W, named by the IAU in July 2026 for the Kuikuro creator god of Brazil who obtained fire from the sky.
Kanasugara (ಕನಸುಗಾರ)
Kanasugara (ಕನಸುಗಾರ, "Dreamer") is a 2001 Kannada drama directed by Karan, starring V. Ravichandran and Prema; a remake of Tamil film Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen, released 3 August 2001, music by Rajesh Ramanath.