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Kanlaon
Kanlaon, also spelled Canlaon, is an active andesitic stratovolcano on Negros Island in the central Philippines, the island's highest point at 2,422 m, in eruption since 2024.
Kanlaon Patera
Kanlaon Patera is a 94-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at −31.06°, 337.96°W, named for the Visayan supreme god of Kanlaon Volcano; IAU-approved April 10, 2023.
Kanmani Anbudan
Kanmani Anbudan (கண்மணி அன்புடன்) is a Tamil serial on Star Vijay since 16 September 2024, airing Monday–Saturday at 2 PM about friends Anbu and Kanmani; distinct from the 2018–2020 Sun TV serial Kanmani.
Kanmer
Kanmer, known locally as Bakar Kot, is a fortified Harappan settlement in Kachchh district, Gujarat, India, occupied from about 2600 to 1900 BCE and excavated between 2005 and 2010.
Kanmu reforms
The Kanmu reforms were political, fiscal, and military changes by Emperor Kanmu of Japan, who reigned 781 to 806 and moved the capital to Heian-kyō.
Kanna Hashimoto (橋本環奈)
Kanna Hashimoto (橋本環奈, born 1999, Fukuoka) is a Japanese actress and former idol of Rev. from DVL, famed as the "once-in-a-thousand-years beauty," Japan Academy Newcomer winner, Kingdom and Spirited Away stage lead, and 111th morning drama Omusubi heroine.
Kanna hy kô hystoe
Kanna hy kô hystoe is a 1965 Afrikaans verse play by South African writer Adam Small, written in Kaaps and regarded as a classic of Afrikaans literature.
Kannact
Kannact Inc. is a Portland, Oregon digital-health startup founded in 2012 by Krishna Rao that provides at-home management of diabetes and other chronic conditions through connected glucose monitoring, health coaching, and supply delivery.
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ, Kanarese/Canarese) is a Southern Dravidian language, official language of Karnataka, India; ~43–57 million speakers, 5th-century inscriptions, Kavirajamarga (c. 840), 2008 classical-language report, not endangered.
Kannada autobiography
A Kannada autobiography (ಆತ್ಮಕಥೆ, atmakathe) is a first-person narrative of the author's own life in the Kannada language, including landmark Dalit works like Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri (1981).
Kannada Bhagavata
The Kannada Bhagavata (ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಗವತ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada verse rendering of the complete Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana, written by Cāṭuvithalanātha in Bhamini shatpadi meter during the Vijayanagara period around 1530 to 1542.
Kannada biographical literature
Kannada biographical literature is the body of biography and autobiography in the Kannada language, running from medieval devotional verse lives of saints to modern prose biography and Dalit autobiography.
Kannada children's literature
Kannada children's literature (ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of stories, poems, plays, and picture books written for children in Kannada, the Dravidian language of Karnataka in southern India.
Kannada cinema
Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood, is the Indian film industry producing Kannada-language films, based mainly in Bengaluru, Karnataka, with a history of roughly nine decades.
Kannada Dalit literature
Kannada Dalit literature is the Kannada-language body of writing by Dalit writers in Karnataka that emerged alongside the Dalit movement, with writers like Siddalingaiah and Devanur Mahadeva.
Kannada detective fiction
Kannada detective fiction is the tradition of detective and mystery writing in Kannada, the language of Karnataka, beginning with Choragrahana Tantra in 1895 and continuing today.
Kannada epic poetry
Kannada epic poetry is the tradition of long narrative poems in Kannada, spanning Jain and Lingayat court epics from the ninth century onward and oral folk epics.
Kannada epigraphy
Kannada epigraphy is the study of stone and copper-plate inscriptions in the Kannada language, the primary documentary evidence for Karnataka's history over roughly 1,500 years.
Kannada essay
A Kannada essay, called prabandha (ಪ್ರಬಂಧ) or nibandha, is a prose composition in Kannada treating one subject in detail; the modern form was shaped by the English essay.
Kannada film songs
Kannada film songs are the songs of Karnataka's Kannada film industry, Sandalwood, serving both as part of the film and as the region's leading popular music.
Kannada flag
The Kannada flag, or Karnataka flag, is an unofficial red and yellow bicolor symbol of Karnataka and Kannada identity, flown on the state's foundation day, November 1.
Kannada folk epic
Kannada folk epics (ಜನಪದ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯಗಳು) are long oral narrative poems of Karnataka sung by community singers, with the Manteswamy Kavya and Madeshvara Kavya the principal works.
Kannada folk tale
A Kannada folk tale (ಜನಪದ ಕಥೆಗಳು) is a traditional oral narrative of Karnataka passed down by word of mouth as part of Kannada folk literature.
Kannada free verse
Kannada free verse (svacchaṃda chaṃda) is Kannada poetry exempt from traditional prosody's rules of alliteration, meter, and pause, first used by V. K. Gokak in 1940.
Kannada grammar (ಕನ್ನಡ ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ)
Kannada grammar (ಕನ್ನಡ ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ) is the structural rule system of Kannada, a Dravidian language of Karnataka. Covers the Kavirajamarga, Karnataka Bhashabhushana, Shabdamanidarpana tradition, phonology, agglutinative morphology, and modern descriptive grammars.
Kannada Hip Hop
Kannada Hip Hop, also called Kannada rap, is the Kannada-language rap scene of Karnataka, centered on Bengaluru, with first releases by Urban Lads in 2006–07.
Kannada historical novel
The Kannada historical novel (ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ) is Kannada-language prose fiction taking plot or setting from recorded history, chiefly Karnataka's; it grew from Marathi and Bengali translations, beginning with Suryakanta in 1895.
Kannada Jain literature
Kannada Jain literature is Kannada writing by Jain monks and scholars of Karnataka, forming the earliest surviving stratum of Kannada literature from the ninth century.
Kannada Jainapurana
Kannada Jainapurana (ಕನ್ನಡ ಜೈನ ಪುರಾಣ) is a genre of Jain narrative religious poems in Kannada, retelling Tirthankara lives and Jaina recastings of the Hindu epics.
Kannada literary criticism
Kannada literary criticism (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ, sāhitya vimarśe) is the tradition of evaluating and interpreting Kannada literature, reaching back to the ninth-century Kavirajamarga and continuing through modern movements like Navya and Dalita.