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  • Kaapstad ... kacchi ghori
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  • Kahlo de Rivera, Frida ... Kaiparowits Plateau
  • Kaiping coal mines ... KAL 007
  • kāla ... Kalf, Willem
  • Kalff, Willem ... Kalmus, Herbert
  • Kalmyk ... Kamau, Johnstone
  • Kamau, son of Ngengi ... Kaminski, David Daniel
  • Kaminsky, David Daniel ... kanaga
  • kanaga ... Kang Zuyi
  • Kang-ti-ssu Shan ... kannushi
  • Kano ... Kantō-sammyaku
  • Kanton Atoll ... Kapital, Das
  • Kapiti Island ... Karadagh rug
  • Karadenız ... karaoke
  • Karaosmanoğlu, Yakup Kadri ... Karīm Shahīr
  • Karim Shahir culture ... Karma-pa
  • Karmah ... Karshi Steppe
  • Karši ... Kashgar
  • Kashgar Range ... Kasserine Pass, Battle of
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  • kathina ... Katz, Joel David
  • Katz, Phillip ... Kaviani Press
  • Kavieng ... kayagŭm
  • Kayah ... kazoo
  • Kazunaru, Miyake ... Kediri
  • Kediri ... Keihanshin Industrial Zone
  • Keihanshin Kōgyō Chitai ... Keller, Helen Adams
  • Keller, Helen Adams ... Kelsey, Henry
  • Kelso ... kenaf
  • Kenai Fjords National Park ... Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr.
  • Kennedy, Joseph Patrick ... Kenton, Stanley Newcomb
  • Kentridge, William ... Kepos, Ho
  • Keppard, Freddie ... Kern, Hans-Georg
  • Kern, Hendrik ... Keshava Mishra
  • Keshedah ... Kewpie
  • kewra water ... KfW Bankengruppe
  • KFWB ... Khalīj-e Fārs
  • Khalīl al-Raḥmān, Al- ... Khanal, Jhalanath
  • Khānaqīn ... Khaṣībī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-
  • Khasidish ... Khinalug language
  • Khionistra ... Khopri
  • Khor and Kalinych ... Khumbutse
  • khums ... Kibuka, Saint Ambrose
  • Kiburg ... Kiefer, Anselm
  • Kiejstut ... Kildare
  • Kildare family ... Killing, The
  • Killing, Wilhelm ... Kimch’aek
  • Kimch’ŏn ... kinematic metamorphism
  • kinematic relativity ... King James Version
  • King John ... King’s Indian Defense
  • king’s letter boy ... Kingdom of God and Son of Man, The
  • Kingdom of God Is Within You, The ... Kinkade, Thomas
  • kinkajou ... Kipchak Pass
  • Kipchak Turkic languages ... Kirk, Norman Eric
  • Kirk, Russell ... Kiselyovsk
  • Kisfaludy, Károly ... Kita Morio
  • Kitā Rujār ... kitchen sink
  • Kitchen Sink School ... Kızıl Irmak
  • Kızıl River ... Kleene, Stephen Cole
  • Kleiber’s law ... Kling, Florence Mabel
  • Klingberg, Göte ... Knappertsbusch, Hans
  • Knäred, Peace of ... Knight, Merald
  • Knight, Monica Elizabeth ... knot
  • knot ... Knuth, Donald Ervin
  • Knutsford ... Koch brothers
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  • Koenig, Friedrich ... Koil
  • koine ... Kolar Gold Fields
  • Kolar, Slavko ... Kólpos Mirabéllou
  • Kölreuter, Josef Gottlieb ... Komorn
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  • Kongreya Azadi u Demokrasiya Kurdistan ... Konstanz
  • Konstanz, Lake ... Köppen, Wladimir
  • Köppen-Geiger-Pohl climate classification ... Korean War
  • Korean War Veterans Memorial ... Kortrijk
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  • Krkonoše ... Kruczkowski, Leon
  • Krüdener, Barbara Juliane, Freifrau von ... ksour
  • Ktesibios of Alexandria ... Kuchma, Leonid
  • Kuchma, Leonid Danylovych ... Kujawsko-Pomorskie
  • Kujawy ... Kulundinskaya Ravnina
  • Kulyab ... Kundakunda
  • kuṇḍalinī ... Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin, Der
  • Kununurra ... Kuribayashi Tadamichi
  • Kuricali Koƈu Mustafa Bey ... Kurys, Sophie
  • Kurz, Hermann ... Kutik, Ilya
  • Kutim ... Kwakiutl
  • Kwaku Dua ... Kynaston, Edward
  • Kynaston, Ned ... Kzyl-Orda
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