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Kaoke fa (Performance-evaluation statutes)
Kaoke fa (考课法) was a proposed Cao Wei statute for grading officials' performance, drafted by Liu Shao as the Duguan kaoke fa in seventy-two articles and debated at court but never adopted.
Kaokoland
Kaokoland, former Himba ethnic homeland in northwestern Namibia between the Kunene and Hoanib rivers, created 1970, abolished 1989/1992, now part of Kunene Region around Opuwo.
Kaolin
Kaolin, also called china clay, is a soft white clay consisting mainly of kaolinite, named after Gaoling in China and consumed chiefly by the paper and ceramics industries.
Kaolinite
Kaolinite, the principal mineral of kaolin or china clay, is a white layered clay mineral named after Gaoling, China, and used in porcelain, paper, and ceramics.
Kaon
The kaon, also called the K meson, is a meson containing a strange quark or antiquark, produced strongly but decaying weakly; neutral kaons revealed CP violation in 1964.
Kaone Boko
Kaone Boko, born Kaone Mokganedi, is the First Lady of Botswana, wife of President Duma Boko since 2015, and founder of the Mpepu child welfare programme launched in 2025.
Kaonic nuclei
Kaonic nuclei are hypothetical bound systems in which a negatively charged kaon is bound to nucleons by the strong interaction, with K⁻pp the simplest candidate.
Kaori Icho
Kaori Icho (伊調 馨), born 1984, Japanese freestyle wrestler; won Olympic gold at four straight Games (2004–2016) and 10 world titles, first wrestler with four consecutive Olympic golds.
Kaori Iida
Kaori Iida (飯田圭織, Iida Kaori), born in 1981 in Hokkaido, is a Japanese singer and television personality, a first-generation member and second leader of Morning Musume.
Kaori Matsumoto
Kaori Matsumoto (松本 薫, born 1987, Kanazawa) is a Japanese judoka, women's -57 kg: Olympic gold London 2012, bronze Rio 2016, world champion 2010 and 2015; nicknamed The Beast; retired 2019, now an ice-cream developer.
Kaoru Inokuchi
Kaoru Inokuchi (井ノ口 馨) is a Japanese neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toyama known for work on memory engrams and synapse-specific memory storage.
Kaoru Ishikawa
Kaoru Ishikawa (石川馨, 1915–1989) was a Japanese quality control expert and University of Tokyo professor who created the fishbone diagram, led Japan's quality circle movement, and shaped company-wide quality control.
Kaoru Kobayashi (小林薫) (murderer)
Kaoru Kobayashi (小林薫), 1968-2013, Japanese newspaper delivery worker who kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered 7-year-old Kaede Ariyama in Nara on 17 November 2004; death sentence 2006, executed 2013.
Kaoru Kuroki
Kaoru Kuroki is a Japanese adult video performer whose 1986 debut, directed by Toru Muranishi, was a hit; she later became a daytime talk show panelist.
Kaoru Mitoma (三笘薫)
Kaoru Mitoma (三笘薫), born 1997, Japanese left winger for Brighton & Hove Albion and Japan; Tsukuba University dribbling thesis, J-League assists-title rookie, 2022 World Cup last 16, hamstring surgery ruled him out of the 2026 World Cup.
Kaoru Saigo
Kaoru Saigo (西郷 薫) is a Japanese molecular biologist who showed in 1984 that a Drosophila transposable element resembles retroviruses, and later worked on siRNA design.
Kaos (TV series)
Kaos is a 2024 Netflix fantasy comedy-drama, 8 episodes, created by Charlie Covell, reimagining Greek mythology with Jeff Goldblum as a paranoid Zeus. Premiered August 29, 2024; Metacritic 70; canceled after one season in October 2024.
Kaoxiaotu Ancient City Site
考肖图古城遗址 (Kaoxiaotu Ancient City Site), a Tang-dynasty, Tibetan-period stupa-monastery site in Dulan County, Qinghai, about 30,000 m², excavated 1996, eighth-batch national key cultural relics protection unit (8-0154-1-154, 2019).
kap CrB
kap CrB (Kappa Coronae Borealis, HD 142091) is a K1 subgiant ~30 pc away with one confirmed exoplanet, kap CrB b (2.1 Jupiter masses, 1253.68-day orbit), and a broad 20-220 au debris disc.
Kap G
Kap G (George Ramirez, born 1994) is a Mexican-American rapper from College Park, Georgia, signed to Atlantic with Pharrell's i am OTHER, known for "Girlfriend" (2016, platinum), SupaJefe, No Kap, and the 2017 XXL Freshman Class.
Kap He Ruea
Kap He Ruea (กาพย์เห่เรือ) is a Thai verse form composed for singing in boat processions, with melodies matching the rowers' strokes; Prince Thammathibet's work is the classic model.
Kap yani
Kap yani (กาพย์ยานี), usually called kap yani 11, is a Thai verse form in the kap family, with 11 words per bat and vowel rhyme instead of heavy-light rules.
Kapa haka
Kapa haka: Māori performing art of group dances in rows with chanted songs, including haka, waiata ā-ringa and poi; biennial national competition Te Matatini; strong language-revitalisation role.
Kapaga
Kapaga (Kapaka) is a Greenlandic shedding card game of the Crazy Eights family, played with 52 cards plus a Joker; players score penalty points for cards left in hand and are eliminated above 2,000 points.
Kapala
A kapala (Tibetan: thod pa) is a ritual cup made from the upper part of a human skull, used in tantric Hindu and Buddhist ceremonies as an offering vessel.
Kapaleeshwarar Temple (கபாலீஸ்வரர் கோவில்)
Kapaleeshwarar Temple (கபாலீஸ்வரர் கோவில்), Mylapore, Chennai: a Dravidian Shiva temple with a 37-m gopuram, Pallava origins, 16th-century Portuguese destruction, Vijayanagar restoration, and a 4-acre rain-fed temple tank.
Kapalkundala
Kapalkundala (কপালকুণ্ডলা) is an 1866 Bengali romantic novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, his second, about a girl raised by a Kapalik ascetic in a coastal forest.
Kapamilya Channel
Kapamilya Channel is ABS-CBN's 24-hour pay TV and online channel, launched June 13, 2020 after the network's free-TV shutdown, carrying TV Patrol, It's Showtime, and other ABS-CBN programs via cable, satellite, and livestream.
Kapampangan language
Kapampangan (Pampango, Pampangueño) is an Austronesian Central Luzon language of the Philippines spoken in Pampanga, southern Tarlac, and northern Bulacan, closely related to the Sambalic languages, not mutually intelligible with Tagalog, EGIDS 3, written in Kulitan.
Kapar
Kapar (Malay Pekan Kapar; Chinese 加埔; Tamil காப்பார்) is a town in Klang District, Selangor, Malaysia, 17 km from Klang; also the P.109 constituency of 314,033 people and site of the 2,420 MW Kapar Energy Ventures plant.