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Kandu
Kandu (カンドゥー) is a Japanese indoor job-experience theme park chain for ages 3–15, first opened 2013 at Aeon Mall Makuhari New City, Chiba; children earn the Katchin currency, with parks also in Osaka (Dainichi, 2025) and Miyagi.
Kandukondain Kandukondain
Kandukondain Kandukondain (கண்டுகொண்டேன் கண்டுகொண்டேன்), also I Have Found It, is a 2000 Tamil romantic musical directed by Rajiv Menon, adapting Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, starring Mammootty, Ajith Kumar, Tabu, and Aishwarya Rai with A. R. Rahman's music.
Kandukuri Veeresalingam (కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం)
Kandukuri Veeresalingam (కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం, 1848–1919), Telugu social reformer and writer of Rajahmundry; pioneer of women's education, widow remarriage, the first Telugu novel Rajasekhara Charitra, and the Hitakarini Samajam.
Kandula Durgesh
Kandula Durgesh, born in 1962 in Rajahmundry, is an Indian Janasena Party politician who has been Andhra Pradesh's Minister for Tourism, Culture, and Cinematography since 2024.
Kandy (මහනුවර)
Kandy (Mahanuwara, මහනුවර), Sri Lanka's Central Province capital and last Sinhala royal capital, home of the Temple of the Tooth, UNESCO-listed in 1988, annexed by Britain in 1815.
Kandy District
Kandy District is an administrative district of Central Province, Sri Lanka, named after the former royal capital Kandy. Also called Maha Nuwara historically; 1,461,895 people (2024 census), 20 divisional secretariats, highland terrain of tea and paddy farming.
Kandyse McClure
Kandyse McClure, born Candice McClure in 1980 in Durban, South Africa, is a Canadian actress known for Anastasia Dualla in Battlestar Galactica, Clementine Chasseur in Hemlock Grove, and Kaia Bryant in Netflix's Virgin River since season 5.
Kane (wrestler)
Kane (Glenn Thomas Jacobs, born 1967) is an American wrestler and politician; WWE's masked Big Red Machine, Undertaker's storyline half-brother from 1997, a Triple Crown and Grand Slam champion, 2021 Hall of Famer, and Knox County, Tennessee mayor since 2018.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a 2007 third-person tactical shooter by IO Interactive for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, starring death-row convicts Kane and Lynch, with Fragile Alliance heist multiplayer and the GameSpot Jeff Gerstmann review scandal.
Kane and Abel (novel)
Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer's 1979 historical novel, follows William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, born the same day, whose rivalry over a bank and hotel empire spans sixty years.
Kane Basin
Kane Basin is the wide, shallow central basin of Nares Strait between Ellesmere Island and northwestern Greenland, about 27,000 km² in area, named for explorer Elisha Kent Kane.
Kane Brown
Kane Brown (Kane Allen Brown), American country singer born 1993 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who broke out via Facebook cover videos, signed with RCA/Sony Music Nashville in 2016, and became the first artist to top all five Billboard country charts simultaneously.
Kane County, Illinois, United States
Kane County, Illinois: a Chicago collar county established January 16, 1836, named for Elias Kent Kane, county seat Geneva, 524 square miles, fifth-largest Illinois county, population about 524,780 (2026 estimate), largest cities Aurora and Elgin on the Fox River.
Kane Fracture Zone
Kane Fracture Zone, a major Atlantic oceanic fracture zone crossing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 24°N; ~2,800 km long, offsets the ridge over 150 km, and carries anomalously thin 2–3 km crust with exposed mantle rocks.
Kane Gamble
Kane Gamble, British founder of Crackas With Attitude, used social engineering from Coalville to access US officials' accounts including CIA chief John Brennan; sentenced in 2018 to a 24-month detention order.
Kane Hodder
Kane Hodder, born 1955 in Auburn, California, is an American stuntman and actor, the only performer to play Jason Voorhees more than once (Friday the 13th Parts VII, VIII, Jason Goes to Hell, Jason X) and the Victor Crowley of the Hatchet films.
Kane Kwei
Kane Kwei, born Seth Kane Kwei, was a Ga carpenter of Teshie, Accra, credited with beginning the 20th-century tradition of "fantasy coffins" shaped like objects tied to the deceased's life.
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop is a carpentry studio in Teshie, Ghana, founded in the early 1950s by Seth Kane Kwei, inventor of figurative fantasy coffins.
Kane Parsons
Kane Parsons, also known as Kane Pixels (born 2005), is an American filmmaker from Petaluma, California, creator of the Backrooms analog horror YouTube series and director of A24's record-breaking 2026 film Backrooms.
Kane Patera
Kane Patera, named for the Hawaiian sun god Kāne, is a roughly 132-136 km wide volcanic depression (patera) in Io's south polar region at 48.4S, 11.8W, IAU-approved in 1979 and namesake of map quadrangle Ji2B.
Kane quantum computer
The Kane quantum computer is a proposed design storing quantum information in the nuclear spins of phosphorus atoms in silicon, proposed by Bruce Kane in 1998.
Kane Tanaka (田中カ子)
Kane Tanaka (田中カ子), née Ota, Japanese supercentenarian (1903–2022) who died at 119 years 107 days, the second-oldest validated person ever after Jeanne Calment; Guinness oldest living person from March 2019 and oldest validated Japanese person ever.
Kane Waselenchuk
Kane Waselenchuk, "King Kane" (born 1980, Edmonton), Canadian left-handed racquetball player; record 133 IRT titles, 16 year-end No. 1 rankings, 15 US Open singles titles, 2006 two-year doping ban, 2008-09 comeback.
Kane Williamson
Kane Williamson (Kane Stuart Williamson), New Zealand batsman and former captain in all formats; retired June 2026 as NZ's leading run-scorer with 19,346 runs, 48 centuries, 2021 World Test Championship title, and Fab Four membership.
Kane's method
Kane's method, introduced by Thomas R. Kane of Stanford University in 1961, derives equations of motion for multibody systems without constraint forces or Lagrange multipliers.
Kanefer (overseer of commissions)
Kanefer was a Fourth Dynasty official of Egypt's Old Kingdom who held the title overseer of commissions and was buried in mastaba G 1203 at Giza.
Kanehekili Fluctus
Kanehekili Fluctus, a 258.69-km lava flow field on Io at 17.18S 33.37W named for a Hawaiian thunder god, IAU-approved 1997; active from Galileo through JWST, with effusion falling from 95 to 4 m3/s and a 2.7 TW eruption in 2023.
Kanem Region
Kanem, a region of Chad (French: Région du Kanem) between Lake Chad and the Sahara, bordering Niger; a sparsely populated Sahelian province whose pastoral economy, medieval kingdom heritage, deep poverty, and lowest-in-Africa schooling set it apart.
Kanem–Bornu Empire
The Kanem–Bornu (Sayfawa) Empire was Africa's longest-lasting empire, based around Lake Chad from the 8th to 19th century, ruled by the Sefuwa mai, tied to trans-Saharan trade and Islam, and ending after the 1893 Rabih invasion.
Kanephoros of Arsinoe
The kanephoros of Arsinoe, the "basket-bearer," was the eponymous priestess of Arsinoe II Philadelphos's cult in Alexandria from 269/268 BC, naming each year in dated documents.