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Kapuas (landform)
Kapuas (Sungai Kapuas), Indonesia's longest river at 1,143 km, flows west across West Kalimantan, Borneo, to the South China Sea; monsoon-driven, undammed, with Kapuas Kecil and Kapuas Besar distributaries and Pontianak at its mouth.
Kapuas (protected area)
Kapuas protected areas: Betung Kerihun (816,693 ha) and Danau Sentarum (1,320 km²) national parks and protected lakes in the 1,143 km Kapuas River basin, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, conserving a freshwater ecoregion with 68 endemic fish species.
Kapudan Pasha
Kapudan Pasha (قپودان پاشا), also written Kaptan-i Derya, was the commander of the Ottoman imperial fleet, an office elevated under Suleyman the Magnificent in 1534 and abolished in 1867.
Kapuni Oil and Gas Field
Kapuni is an onshore natural gas-condensate field in South Taranaki, New Zealand, and the country's oldest producing gas field, surpassed in original size only by the offshore Maui field.
Kapur-Toriello syndrome
Kapur-Toriello syndrome (OMIM 244300, ORPHA2328), also called cleft lip/palate-facial, eye, heart and intestinal anomalies syndrome, is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive congenital anomaly disorder with severe intellectual disability, cleft lip/palate, eye, heart, and intestinal defects; about four cases reported, gene unknown.
Kapurthala State
Kapurthala State (ਕਪੂਰਥਲਾ ਰਿਆਸਤ) was a princely state in the Punjab ruled by the Ahluwalia dynasty, founded by the Sikh leader Jassa Singh Ahluwalia in the later eighteenth century.
Kapustin Yar
Kapustin Yar (Капустин Яр) is a Russian military rocket test range in the Astrakhan region, near Volgograd, established in 1946 as the Soviet Union's first missile test range.
Kapustin Yar (Капустин Яр)
Kapustin Yar (Капустин Яр) is a Russian military rocket test range in Astrakhan Oblast, founded in 1946 as the Soviet Union's first missile test range and a spaceport from 1962.
Kaqchikel Kingdom
The Kaqchikel Kingdom (Reino kaqchikel de Iximché) was a highland Maya polity centered on the fortified city of Iximche' in present-day Tecpán, Guatemala, founded in 1470.
Kaqchikel oral literature
Kaqchikel oral literature is the narratives, ritual speech, and song of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala, including the Annals of the Cakchiquels written from 1571 to 1604.
Kaqchikel rebellion
The Kaqchikel rebellion was the war fought from 1524 to 1530 between the Kaqchikel Maya of highland Guatemala and Spanish conquistadors under Pedro de Alvarado, after the Kaqchikel abandoned their capital, Iximche'.
Kār-Kaššî
Kār-Kaššî, also written Karkashshi, was a Median city in the Central Zagros of western Iran, home of Kaštaritu, who led a revolt against Assyria around 672 BCE.
Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta
Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Kār-Tukultī-Ninurta; modern Tulul al-Aqar) is a Middle Assyrian royal city on the Tigris in Iraq, founded by Tukulti-Ninurta I in the 13th century BC as the first Assyrian royal city foundation documented in cuneiform.
Kara (district)
Kara is one of Togo's five administrative regions, in the north around the city of Kara. Created 18 September 1965; 7 prefectures, 22 communes, 985,512 people (2022); home of Togo's pilot agropole.
Kara (film)
Kara (காரா), also D54, is a 2026 Tamil heist action thriller directed by Vignesh Raja, starring Dhanush as Karasaami, set in 1991 Ramanathapuram during the Gulf War; released 30 April 2026, streamed on Netflix from 28 May 2026.
Kara (game)
Kara (Kâra) is a traditional mancala sowing game of the Bagara people of Kordofan, Sudan, played during Ramadan; first described by R. Davies in 1925, playable by any number of players, each with three houses and one makkâla store.
Kara (South Korean group)
Kara (카라, カラ), South Korean girl group debuted March 29, 2007 by DSP Media; broke through with 'Mister' hip-dance (2009), topped Oricon in Japan, disbanded at DSP in 2016, and reunited in 2022 with 'MOVE AGAIN' under RBW.
Kara (ਕੜਾ) (Sikhism)
Kara (ਕੜਾ), the steel or iron bracelet of Sikhism, one of the Five Ks instituted by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699, worn on the wrist as a reminder of God's eternity and right action.
Kara Del
Kara Del was the Mongol name for the kingdom of Hami, an oasis state east of the Tian Shan ruled by Chinggisid princes from the mid-1300s until the 1500s.
Kara Denby
Kara Denby (Kara Janelle Denby, born 1986), American swimmer from Simi Valley, California; Auburn All-American; 2008 world record gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay; later a physician.
Kara DioGuardi
Kara DioGuardi (born 1970) is an American songwriter, publisher, and TV personality, judge on American Idol seasons 8-9, Arthouse Entertainment co-founder, writer of hits for Minogue, Clarkson, and Aguilera.
Kara Eberle
Kara Eberle, born 1989 in San Marcos, Texas, is an American voice actress known for voicing Weiss Schnee in Rooster Teeth's RWBY since 2013. A former Rooster Teeth receptionist cast by creator Monty Oum, she also works at Powerhouse Animation Studios.
Kara F. Stoll
Kara F. Stoll, born in 1968, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2015, after seventeen years practicing patent litigation.
Kara Halil Efendi
Kara Halil Efendi was an Ottoman religious scholar who served as şeyhülislam, head of the religious hierarchy, from 1877 to 1878 under Sultan Abdülhamid II.
Kara Hultgreen
Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994) was a United States Navy lieutenant and the first woman to carrier-qualify in the F-14 Tomcat, killed in a 1994 crash while landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Kara Kabita
Kara Kabita (କାରା କବିତା), meaning "Prison Poems," is a collection of thirteen Odia poems that the poet and freedom activist Gopabandhu Das wrote in Hazaribagh Jail between 1923 and 1924.
Kara Karayev
Kara Karayev, also written Qara Qarayev (1918–1982), was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer and Shostakovich student, known for the ballets Seven Beauties and The Path of Thunder.
Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy (Kara Anne Kennedy, 1960-2011), American filmmaker and TV producer, oldest child of Senator Edward M. Kennedy; Tufts graduate, Very Special Arts producer, lung cancer survivor who accepted her father's 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Kara Killmer
Kara Killmer (born 1988, Crowley, Texas) is an American actress who played paramedic Sylvie Brett on NBC's Chicago Fire 2014–2024 and its One Chicago spinoffs, after debuting in Hulu's If I Can Dream; films include Beyond the Mask and the upcoming Jimmy.
Kara Lavender Law
Kara Lavender Law is an oceanographer and Research Professor at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, whose studies quantified global plastic production and plastic entering the ocean.