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Kanawha County Schools
Kanawha County Schools is the public school district serving Kanawha County, West Virginia. Headquartered in Charleston, it is the state's largest school system, serving about 23,000 students.
Kanayannur
Kanayannur (Kanayannoor) is a taluk in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India, part of the former Kingdom of Cochin. It holds 44.32% of the district's urban population within the Kochi agglomeration; population 851,406.
Kanayi Kunhiraman
Kanayi Kunhiraman (Malayalam: കാനായി കുഞ്ഞിരാമൻ; born 1937) is an Indian sculptor known for large public works in Kerala, including the Yakshi at Malampuzha Dam Gardens.
Kanayo Awani
Kanayo Awani is a banker serving as Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade and Export Development, at Afreximbank, the first woman to reach vice-president level there.
Kanazawa (金沢市)
Kanazawa, Japan, is the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture on Honshu's Sea of Japan coast, a former Maeda clan castle town producing 99% of Japan's gold leaf.
Kanazawa Bunko
Kanazawa Bunko (金沢文庫) was a private library founded around 1275 by the Kamakura-period warrior-official Hōjō Sanetoki in present-day Yokohama, Japan's oldest surviving samurai-family library, now a medieval history museum.
Kanazawa Phonograph Museum
The Kanazawa Phonograph Museum (金沢蓄音器館) is a city-run museum in Kanazawa, Japan, opened in 2001, holding one of Japan's leading collections of antique phonographs and SP records.
Kanazōshi
Kanazōshi (仮名草子), meaning "books in kana," is the collective name for popular Japanese novels, tales, and essays written in the kana syllabary from about 1600 to 1682.
Kanban (カンバン)
Kanban (カンバン) is a card-based production control system developed at Toyota in which a card on each container of parts authorizes its production or transport, limiting work-in-process inventory.
Kanban (看板) (development)
Kanban (看板) is a software development method that manages work flow on visual boards with work-in-progress limits, adapted from lean manufacturing and defined by David J. Anderson's 2010 book.
Kanban board
A kanban board is a visual work-management tool that displays work items as cards moving left to right through columns representing workflow states, with limits on work in progress.
Kanbula UNESCO Global Geopark
Kanbula UNESCO Global Geopark (坎布拉), in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China; designated 2025, area 314,934 ha; Maixiu volcanoes, Longwu River Triassic section, Paleo-Tethys records, Yellow River landslides.
Kanbun literature
Kanbun literature (漢文学) is the body of Chinese-style poetry and prose composed in Japan, and the scholarly study of Chinese classics, written in Classical Chinese and read through kundoku.
Kancanabhra rasa (afi afi-kancanabrarasa)
Kāñcanābhra rasa (काञ्चनाभ्र रस), also romanized Kancanabhra rasa, is an Ayurvedic rasa yoga herbo-mineral formulation in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000562, 62.5 mg) with calcined gold, mica, mercury, and pearl, indicated for emaciation, kapha-pitta fever, prameha, and vātaroga.
Kanchana (2011 film)
Kanchana (Muni 2: Kanchana), 2011 Tamil horror-comedy by Raghava Lawrence, sequel to Muni; Sarathkumar plays the transgender ghost Kanchana; earned about ₹70 crore and spawned a franchise and the Hindi remake Laxmii.
Kanchana (actress)
Kanchana is the screen name of Vasundhara Devi (వసుంధరా దేవి), an Indian actress, born in 1939, who was a leading heroine of Tamil cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
Kanchana 2 (காஞ்சனா 2)
Kanchana 2 (காஞ்சனா 2), also Muni 3, is a 2015 Tamil horror comedy written, produced and directed by Raghava Lawrence in a dual role, starring Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen and Kovai Sarala; released 17 April 2015, third Muni film, remade as Kalpana 2.
Kanchana 3
Kanchana 3 (காஞ்சனா 3), also Muni 4, is a 2019 Tamil horror comedy written, directed, and co-produced by Raghava Lawrence, starring him in a dual role with Oviya, Vedhika, and Nikki Tamboli; released 19 April 2019 by Sun Pictures, it grossed about ₹130 crore worldwide despite negative reviews.
Kanchana Sita
Kanchana Sita is a Malayalam play by C. N. Sreekantan Nair and a 1978 film directed by G. Aravindan, retelling the Ramayana from Sita's banishment onward.
Kanche
Kanche (కంచె) is a 2015 Telugu period war drama directed by Krish, starring Varun Tej and Pragya Jaiswal, about a cross-caste love story set against World War II; it won the National Film Award for Best Telugu Film.
Kanchenjungha (কাঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা)
Kanchenjungha (কাঞ্চনজঙ্ঘা) is a 1962 Indian Bengali-language drama directed and scored by Satyajit Ray, his first color film and first original screenplay, following a wealthy Calcutta family in Darjeeling.
Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham
Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, also called the Kanchi Mutt or Sarvajina Peetam, is a Hindu Advaita Vedanta matha at Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, whose heads bear the title Shankaracharya and Jagadguru.
Kanchipuram (காஞ்சிபுரம்)
Kanchipuram (காஞ்சிபுரம்), or Kanchi, is a Tamil Nadu temple town, one of India's seven holy cities, former Pallava capital, home to the Kailasanatha temple and the GI-tagged Kanchipuram silk sari industry.
Kanchipuram silk
Kanchipuram silk (காஞ்சிபுரம் பட்டு), also called Kanjivaram or Kanjeevaram silk, is a handwoven mulberry silk sari from Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, distinguished by gold and silver zari and the korvai technique.
Kanda (KEPCO) power station
Kanda power station (苅田バイオマス発電所), also called Kanda Biomass Power Plant, is a 75 MW biomass-fired power station in Kanda-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, developed by the Kansai Electric Power group.
Kanda Naal Mudhal (கண்ட நாள் முதல்)
Kanda Naal Mudhal (கண்ட நாள் முதல்) is a 2005 Tamil romantic comedy directed by V. Priya, produced by Prakash Raj, starring Prasanna, Laila, and Karthik Kumar, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; distinct from the 2022 Colors Tamil serial of the same name.
Kanda padya
Kanda padya (ಕಂದಪದ್ಯ) is a four-line meter, among the most popular forms of ancient and medieval Kannada poetry; Janna's Yashodhara Charite of about 1209 is composed almost entirely in it.
Kanda Puranam
Kanda Puranam (கந்த புராணம்) is a Tamil devotional epic retelling the life of the god Murugan, composed around the 14th century by the Kanchipuram priest Kachiyappa Sivachariyar.
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Kanda Shasti Kavasam (கந்த சஷ்டி கவசம்) is a 19th-century Tamil devotional hymn of protection to the god Murugan, composed by Devaraya Swamigal and most widely sung during the festival Skanda Sashti.
Kanda-Jinbōchō (神田神保町)
Kanda-Jinbōchō (神田神保町), or Jimbocho, is Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward book district, home to roughly 150-200 used bookstores, publishers like Iwanami Shoten and Shueisha, universities, kissaten cafés, and the annual Kanda Used Book Festival.