Knight Bachelor The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. It refers to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized Chivalric order. Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight, existing during the reign of Henry III of England, but they rank below members in the various orders.
	Knight-errant A knight-errant is a figure of Middle Ages Romance. "Errant" meaning wandering or roving, indicates how the knight-errant would typically wander the land in search of adventures to prove himself as a knight, such as in a pas d'Armes. The first appearance of the term "knight-errant" was in the 14th century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where Sir Gawain arrives at the castle of Sir Bercilak de Haudesert after long journeys, and Sir Bercilak goes to welcome the "knygt erraunt."
	Kniphofia Kniphofia is a genus of plants in the family Asphodelaceae that includes 70 or more species native to Africa. Some species have been commercially used for horticultural use and are commonly known for their bright, rocket-shaped flowers. These plants produce spikes of brightly-colored, hanging, red-to-orange flowers.
	Kniphofia uvaria Kniphofia uvaria is also known as the torch lily. The leaves are reminiscent of a lily, and the flowerhead can reach up to 5 feet in height. There are many varieties of torch lily, and they bloom at different times during the growing season. The flowers are red, orange, and yellow.
	Knish A knish is an Eastern European snack food popular in Jewish communities. A knish consists of a filling covered with dough that is either baked or fried. Knishes can be purchased from street vendors in urban areas with a large Jewish population, sometimes on a hot dog stand.
	Knitting Knitting is one of several ways to turn yarn into cloth . Similar to crochet, knitting consists of loops pulled through other loops; knitting differs from crochet in that multiple loops are "active". The active loops are held on a knitting needle until another loop can be passed through them.
	Knitting machine The knitting machine, sometimes called knitting frame, knitting loom, or hand knitting machine, is used to produce knit fabrics on a fixed bed of hooked needles. Knitting machines can be hand powered or motor assisted. Pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, or with
	Knitting needle A knitting needle or knitting pin is a long stick or rod used as a tool in the manufacture of hand knitting fabric. The needle is used to reach through a knitting stitch in order to snag a knot of yarn and pull a length back through the stitch to form a new loop at the top of the current wale of stitches.
	Knob A knob is a round handle you twist or pull. A "doorknob" is a round handle you turn to open a door. A "cabinet knob" is a small handle you pull to open a cabinet door or drawer. A "control knob" controls a device and may turn a lamp on and off or make the loudness on a radio go up or down.
	Knock Off Knock Off is an 1998 action movie directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lela Rochon and Rob Schneider. This time, "The Muscles from Brussels" must save the west from a rash of shoddy Hong Kong counterfeit merchandise masking as brand-name apparel.
	Knockout Knockout , is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai and others sports involving strike . A knockout is usually awarded when one participant is unable to rise from the canvas within a specified period of time, typically because of fatigue, injury, loss of balance, or unconsciousness.
	Knossos Knossos Knossos, also known by its Romantic name of the Palace of Minos, was discovered in 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos, a Cretan merchant and antiquarian. Kolokairinos himself conducted the first excavations which brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing of the palace and a section of the west facade.
	Knot A knot is a method for fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or more segments of rope, string, webbing, twine, strap or even chain interwoven so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other object - the "load".
	Knout A knout is a heavy scourge-like whip, usually made of a bunch of rawhide thongs attached to a long handle, sometimes with metal wire or hooks incorporated. The English word stems from the French transliteration of a Russian word.
	KNOW KNOW is the flagship radio station of Minnesota Public Radio's "news and information" network, primarily broadcasting a talk radio format to the Minneapolis-St. Paul market. The frequency had previously gone under the call sign KSJN, but the purchase of a commercial station at 99.5 megahertz in 1991 allowed MPR to broadcast distinct talk radio and european classical music services.
	Know-it-all A know-it-all is a person who believes that he or she is extremely knowledgeable, and is determined to demonstrate his or her perceived intelligence at every opportunity. A know-it-all boasts about being an expert on a given subject, although his or her actual knowledge is often limited or non-existent.
	Knowledge Knowledge is what is known. Like the related concepts truth, belief and wisdom. there is no single definition of knowledge on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of knowledge. Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes as perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning.
	Knuckleball A knuckleball is a baseball pitch thrown so as to minimize the spin of the ball in flight. The lack of spin causes alternating vortices over the stitched seams of the baseball and produces an erratic, unpredictable motion. This makes the pitch difficult for batter_(baseball) to hit, but also difficult for pitcher to control.
	Knucklebones Knucklebones also known as hucklebones, dibs, jackstones, chuckstones or five-stones, is a game of very ancient origin, played with five small objects, originally the knucklebones of a sheep, which are thrown up and caught in various ways. Modern knucklebones consist of six points, or knobs, proceeding from a common base, and are usually made of metal or plastic.
	Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun was a leading Norway author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920.
	Koala The Koala is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. The Koala is found all along the eastern coast of Australia from near Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula, and as far into the hinterland as there is enough rainfall to support suitable forests.
	Kob The Kob is an antelope found across Sub-Saharan Africa West Africa. Kob stand 70 to 100 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh from 80 to 100 kilograms. Their backs are an orange-red colour, which lightens to white on the undersides and legs. There are white rings around the eyes and a black stripe down the legs.
	Kobe is a city in Japan located on the island of Honshu. Kobe is the capital of Hyogo Prefecture and is one of Japan's major seaport. It is in the Kansai region of Japan, in Hyogo Prefecture to the west of Osaka. It was one of the first cities to open for trade with the Western world, as of 1868.
	Kobuk Valley National Park Kobuk Valley National Park is in northwestern Alaska 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It was designated a United States national park in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. It is noted for the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes and caribou migration routes.
	Kodagu Kodagu ????? is a districts of Karnataka of Karnataka states and territories of India in southern India. It is often called by the anglicised name of Coorg. It occupies about 4,100 km. in the Western Ghats of southwestern Karnataka. It had a population of 548,561 as of 2001, 13.74% of which is urbanised.
	Kodiak Bear The Kodiak Bear, or Alaskan Brown Bear, is a subspecies of the Brown Bear. The Kodiak Bear lives in southern Alaska, and is endangered species. Kodiak Bears can grow to be 10.5 feet long and can weigh up to 900 lbs, and can eat just about anything in Alaska. When Kodiak Bears reproduce, the litters average about 3-6 cubs.
	Kodiak Island Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. It is the largest island in Alaska and the second largest island in the United States, after the Hawaii, with 8,975 square kilometres of area.
	Kohleria Kohleria is a New World genus of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. The plants are generally tropical herbs or subshrubs with velvety stems and foliage and brightly colored flowers with spots or markings in contrasting colors. They are rhizomatous and commonly include a period of dormancy in their growth cycle.
	Kohlrabi Kohlrabi is a low, stout cultivar of the cabbage which has been selected for its swollen, nearly spherical, Sputnik program-like shape. The name comes from the German language kohl plus rabi , because the swollen stem resembles the latter. Kohlrabi has been created by artificial selection for lateral meristem growth, its origin in nature is the wild mustard plant.
	Kola nut Kola nut is a genus of about 125 species of trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa, classified in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Sterculioideae. It is related to the South American genus Theobroma. They are evergreen trees, growing to 20 m tall, with glossy ovoid leaf up to 30 cm long.
	Kola Peninsula The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far north of Russia, part of the Murmansk Oblast. It borders upon the Barents Sea on the North and the White Sea on the East and South. The west border of the Kola Peninsula stretches along a meridian from the Kola Gulf through the Imandra Lake, Kola Lake, and the Niva River to the Kandalaksha Gulf.
	Kolam Kolam is a decorative design drawn using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home, especially near the threshold. A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer -- a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. They are generally symmetric.
	Kolkata Kolkata is the capital of the Indian States and territories of India of West Bengal. It is located in East India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. The city has a population of almost 5 million, with an extended metropolitan population of over 14 million, making it the List of most populous metropolitan areas in India urban agglomeration and the List of most populous cities in India in India.
	KOLN KOLN, channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on channel 11 in Grand Island, Nebraska. Combined, the two stations serve one of the largest coverage areas in the nation, stretching across 35 counties in central and western Nebraska.
	Komodo dragon The Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard in the world, growing to an average length of 2-3 meters . In the wild large adults tend to weigh around 70kg . Captive specimens often weigh more. The largest verified wild specimen was 3.13 metres long and weighed 166kg , including undigested food.
	Komondor akcgroup = Working | akcstd = altname = Hungarian KomondorHungarian Sheepdog | ankcgroup = Group 5 | ankcstd = ckcgroup = Group 3 - Working Dogs | ckcstd = country = Hungary | fcigroup = 1 | fcinum = 53 | fcisection = 1 | fcistd = image = Komondor.jpg | image_caption = Komondor | kcukgroup = Pastoral
	Konqueror Konqueror is a file manager, web browser and file viewer, which was developed as part of the KDE by volunteers and runs on most Unix-like operating systems. Like the rest of the "kdebase" package, Konqueror is licensed under the GNU General Public License .
	Konrad Adenauer Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer [IPA: k?nrat h??man j?s?f ad?na???] was a conservative Germany statesman. Although his political career spanned 60 years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as Chancellor of Germany of West Germany from 19491963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966.
	Konrad Lorenz Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austria zoology, animal psychology, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
	Kookaburra Kookaburras are very large terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. Some were introduced into New Zealand between 1866 and 1880, but only those liberated on Kawau Island by Sir George Grey survived. Descendants are still found there today.
	Korea Korea One of the world's oldest civilizations, Korea began with the founding of Gojoseon in 2333 BC, according to the Dangun legend. Limited linguistic evidence suggests possible Altaic-Tungusic origins of these people, whose northern Mongolian Steppe culture absorbed refugees and invaders from northern China.
	Korea Bay The Korea Bay, also called the West Korea Bay, is located at the north of the Yellow Sea, between Liaoning Province of China and North Pyongan Province of North Korea. It is separated from the Bohai Sea by the Liaodong Peninsula, with Dalian at its southernmost point.
	Korea Strait The Korea Strait is a sea passage between South Korea and Japan, connecting the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan in northwest Pacific Ocean. The strait is split by the Tsushima Island into the Western Channel and the Tsushima Strait.
	Korean Korean may refer to: * A person from or something related to Korea. See Korean people and List of Koreans. * A person from or something related to the countries of North Korea or South Korea * The Korean language * The Korean script, hangul * Korean cuisine es:Coreano
	Korean Peninsula ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" | Korean Peninsula |- | colspan="2" align="center" | |- | colspan="2" align="center" | |} The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 1,100 kilometres from the continental Asian mainland into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.
	Korean War The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 and ended with a truce on July 27, 1953 . It started as a civil war between North Korea and South Korea , both existing as provisional governments competing for control after the division of Korea, but escalated into a multinational conflict once North Korea launched a massive invasion of the South.
	Kores KORES is an Austrian stationery producer company, founded in 1887 by Wilhelm Koreska. KORES was the first carbon paper producer and distributor in Europe. From 1912 KORES started to produce various office products and earned a good name as a quality stationery producer. In 1939 KORES had a number of factories on 3 continents including Europe, Africa and Asia.
	Kos Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the Dodecanese islands group of islands, in the Aegean Sea, which it separates from the Gulf of Gkova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum in Turkey. The island has both fertile plains and infertile highlands.
	Kosovo Kosovo is a province in southern Serbia which has been under United Nations administration since 1999. While it is legally a part of Serbia, in practice Serbian governance in the province is virtually non-existent. The province is governed by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and the local Provisional Institutions of Self-Government, with security provided by the NATO-led Kosovo Force .
	KOTOKO KOTOKO is a female J-Pop singer who has released 5 albums, 5 maxi singles and 1 DVD, as well as singing, composing and writing lyrics for numerous other song collections. She frequently works with producers I've Sound, and has contributed songs to numerous anime and games including Onegai Teacher, Onegai Twins, Ren'ai CHU!, Kannazuki no Miko, Starship Operators and Shakugan no SHANA.
	Kowhai Kowhai is a small woody legume tree native to New Zealand. There are eight species. Sophora microphylla is the most common, and has smaller leaves and flowers than Sophora teraptera. Kowhai trees grow throughout the country and are a common feature in New Zealand gardens.
	Kowtow Kowtow, from the Chinese language term ku tu , is the act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground. While the phrase k tu is often used in lieu of the former in vernacular Chinese, the meaning is somewhat altered: ku originally meant "knock with reverence", whereas k has the general meaning of "touch upon ".
	Krakatoa Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island , and the volcano as a whole. It has erupted repeatedly, massively and with disastrous consequences throughout recorded history.
	Kraków Krakw see also Names of European cities in different languages) is one of the oldest and largest cities of Poland, with a 2004 population of 780,000 . This historic city is situated on the Vistula River at the foot of Wawel in the south of Lesser Poland .
	Kremlin Kremlin is the Russian language word for "fortress", "citadel", or "castle" and refers to any major fortified central complex found in historical Russian cities. This word is often used to refer to the best known one, the Moscow Kremlin, or the government that is based there.
	Krill Krill are shrimp-like marine invertebrate animals. These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Manta rays, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other pinnipeds, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.
	Kris The kris or keris is a distinctive, asymmetrical dagger indigenous to Malaysia, Indonesia and the southern Philippines. Both a weapon and spiritual object, krises are often considered to have an essence or presence, with some blades possessing good luck, while others possessing bad.
	Krishna Krishna , according to various Hindu traditions, is the eighth avatar of Vishnu. In the Bhagavad Gita , he is seen as the Supreme Person and the highest God. Thus, according to traditions such as Gaudiya Vaishnavism, he is the origin of all other incarnations. Krishna and the stories associated with him appear across the spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions.
	Kronecker delta In mathematics, the Kronecker delta or Kronecker's delta, named after Leopold Kronecker, is a function of two variables, usually integers, which is 1 if they are equal, and 0 otherwise. So, for example, , but . It is written as the symbol δij, and treated as a notational shorthand rather than as a function.
	Krupp The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old Germany dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp in modern times, merged with Thyssen in 1999 to form ThyssenKrupp, a large industrial conglomerate .
	Krypton Krypton is a chemical element with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. A colorless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere, is isolated by fractionating liquefied air, and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps. Krypton is inert for most practical purposes but it is known to form compounds with fluorine.
	Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles Three Colors and The Decalogue.
	Kshatriya Kshatriya is the title of the princely military order in the Vedic society. They are the warrior and ruling caste, in the varna system. The word means the protector of land. They are supposed to uphold the code of honour, bravery and loyalty. Everyone in the military and governing hierarchy from king to village chief and from general to foot-soldier is a kshatriya.
	Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan is the name of a number of past and present Fraternal and service organizationss in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, eugenics, and Political nativism.
	Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital city, legislative capital of Malaysia and the largest city in the country. Kuala Lumpur is one of the three Malaysian Federal Territories. It is an enclave within the state of Selangor, on the central west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Within Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur is commonly referred to as KL.
	Kuan Yin Kuan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion as veneration by East Asian Buddhisms, usually as a female. She is also known as the Chinese Goddess of Compassion by many. Kuan Yin originated as the Sanskrit Avalokitesvara, which is her male form.
	Kublai Khan Kublai Khan, Khubilai Khan or "the last of the Great Khans", was a Mongol military leadership. He was the fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire as well as the founder and the first Emperor of China of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty. Born the second son of Tolui and Sorghaghtani Beki and the grandson of Genghis Khan, he succeeded his brother Mngke Khan in 1260.
	Kubrick =Appearance Kubricks resemble LEGO Minifigures and Playmobil figures. Sought by collectors, Kubricks come in hundreds of different themes, such as the Marvel Comics series, Neon Genesis Evangelion series, Berserk or the Star Wars series of films, and often unique lines, such as Back to the Future series of films, The Great Escape film and the Blythe dolls.
	Kudu The Kudu are two species of antelope: *Lesser Kudu, Tragelaphus imberbis *Greater Kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros "Kudu": has a symbolic role in Hindu and Buddhist architecture. A decorative motif often carved with a bust-length figure in it as if at a window. A Kudu horn is a musical instrument made from the horn of the Kudu antelope.
	Kudzu , Pueraria lobata , is one of about 20 species in the genus Pueraria in the pea family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is native to southern Japan and southeast China in eastern Asia. The name comes from the Japanese language word meaning vine.