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Kara Lawson
Kara Lawson (born 1981, Alexandria, Virginia) is a basketball coach, former WNBA champion guard, and 2008 Olympic gold medalist; Duke women's head coach since 2020 and USA Basketball Women's National Team head coach through 2028.
Kara Leona
Kara Leona (born name Kara Bass) is an American bachata singer from Virginia and a 90 Day Fiancé reality star (Season 9, 2022). Debut single "Lento" (2025); 13 releases; currently on 90 Day: Hunt for Love season 2.
Kara Lynn Joyce
Kara Lynn Joyce, American sprint freestyle swimmer born 1985 in Brooklyn, three-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012) with four Olympic silver relay medals, 18-time NCAA champion for Georgia, later founder of the LEAD Sports Summit.
Kara Mürsel Alp
Kara Mürsel Alp (قره مرسل) was the first admiral of the early Ottoman state under Orhan Gazi, and founded its first shipyard at Karamürsel in the 14th century.
Kara Mustafa Pasha
Kara Mustafa Pasha (قره مصطفى پاشا) was an Ottoman grand vizier serving Mehmed IV from 1676 to 1683, executed after commanding the failed Siege of Vienna.
Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1
Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1, Fukan Fuukei (Overlooking View), is a 2007 48-minute ufotable anime film directed by Ei Aoki, adapting Kinoko Nasu's novel; Shiki Ryougi investigates schoolgirl suicides with her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
Kara olen
Kara olen (қара өлең) is a traditional Kazakh folk verse genre, a short lyric quatrain of eleven-syllable lines rhymed a-a-b-a, built from memorized words and sung at feasts, games, and gatherings.
Kara Para Aşk
Kara Para Aşk (Black Money Love), Turkish ATV crime-romance drama 2014–2015 by Ay Yapım, directed by Ahmet Katıksız, starring Engin Akyürek and Tuba Büyüküstün; 54 episodes, 2016 record international sale.
Kara Royster
Kara Royster (born 1993, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) is an American actress known for Yvonne Phillips on Pretty Little Liars, Abby Martin on K.C. Undercover, and films Unpregnant and Don't Log Off.
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea is a shallow marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean between Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya, receiving about 45% of all river runoff to the Arctic.
Kara Strait
Kara Strait, also called Kara Gates, connects the Kara and Barents Seas at southern Novaya Zemlya, Russia. It is the western gateway of the Northern Sea Route, 45 km wide and up to 119 m deep, with strong internal tides and polar bear migration.
Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher, American tech journalist and podcaster; host of On with Kara Swisher, co-host of Pivot with Scott Galloway; Recode co-founder, Code Conference co-producer, author of Burn Book (2024).
Kara Thrace
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, fictional Viper pilot in Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009), played by Katee Sackhoff; gender-swapped from Dirk Benedict's original, dies in "Maelstrom", returns, vanishes in "Daybreak, Part II".
Kara Tointon
Kara Tointon (Kara Louise Tointon) is an English actress, born 1983 in Southend-on-Sea, known as Dawn Swann in EastEnders, 2010 Strictly Come Dancing winner, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Willamae Abernathy in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026).
Kara Walker
Kara Walker (born 1969, Stockton, California) is an American artist known for cut-paper silhouette installations on race, gender, slavery; MacArthur Fellow 1997; works include A Subtlety (2014) and Fons Americanus (2019).
Kara Westercamp
Kara Marie Westercamp (born 1982, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a U.S. Court of International Trade judge, confirmed 50-48 in July 2026 after DOJ trade litigation and White House tariff counsel service.
Kara Wolters
Kara Wolters is an American retired basketball center who won the 1995 NCAA title with UConn, the 1999 WNBA title with Houston, and Olympic gold in 2000.
Kara Young
Kara Young (Kara Young Georgiopoulos), American model born 1969 in San Francisco; 1990s Vogue cover model for Revlon, Maybelline, Victoria's Secret; later Hair Rules co-founder; distinct from the Tony-winning actress of the same name.
Kara-hardash
Kara-hardash (Kara-ḫardaš) was a Kassite king of Babylon, son of Burnaburiaš II and an Assyrian princess, killed by rebel Kassite troops in the 14th century BC.
Kara-Khanid Khanate
Kara-Khanid Khanate (Qarakhanids, Ilak-Khanids): first Muslim Turkic dynasty of Central Asia, mid-10th to early 13th century, ruling from the Tarim basin to the Oxus; converted to Islam under Satoq Bughra Khan, divided Samanid lands with the Ghaznavids in 999, and fell to the Qara Khitay and Khwarazmshahs.
Kara-Kyrgyz Khanate
Kara-Kyrgyz Khanate: older name for the Kyrgyz khanate of the upper Yenisei (Minusinsk, Tuva), which destroyed the Uyghur Khaganate in 840, ruled a vast 9th–10th-century steppe realm of contested extent, and whose Tian Shan branch gives the modern Kyrgyz.
Kara-Tepe
Kara-Tepe (Qara Tepe, Karā Tappe), a Kushan-era Buddhist cave monastery in Old Termez, southern Uzbekistan, near Fayaz-Tepe; about 7 ha, over 150 Indian inscriptions, active 1st-6th centuries CE.
Karaage (唐揚げ)
Karaage (唐揚げ, also 空揚げ) is a Japanese frying technique and fried-chicken dish: bite-sized pieces marinated in soy sauce and mirin, coated in potato starch, and deep fried. First on restaurant menus in 1930s Ginza; Nakatsu, Oita is its specialty-shop capital.
Karabağlar
Karabağlar is a metropolitan district of İzmir Province, Turkey, created in 2008 from the eastern neighborhoods of Konak and the second most populous of İzmir's 30 districts.
Karabakh Beylerbeylik
The Karabakh Beylerbeylik (Qarabağ bəylərbəyliyi) was a first-level administrative and military province of the Safavid Empire, with its capital at Ganja, existing from the early sixteenth century until 1736.
Karabakh Khanate
The Karabakh Khanate (Azerbaijani: Qarabağ Xanlığı) was a khanate in the South Caucasus, centered on present-day Azerbaijan and founded by Panah Ali Khan after Nadir Shah's death in 1747.
Karabastau Formation
The Karabastau Formation is a Jurassic lacustrine rock unit in the Karatau Range of southern Kazakhstan, among the richest Jurassic insect deposits with more than 800 species.
Karabel relief
The Karabel relief, also known as the Karabel monument, is a Late Bronze Age rock relief with a Luwian inscription near Izmir, Turkey, depicting Tarkasnawa, king of Mira.
Karabiner 98k
The Karabiner 98k, also known as the Mauser 98k or Kar98k, is a German bolt-action rifle adopted in 1935 as the standard Wehrmacht rifle of World War II.
Karaburan
The Karaburan, also called the black storm or black buran, is a violent northeast wind of Central Asia that raises dust dense enough to darken the sky.