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Kafa
Kafa is a rope made out of yarn or coconut fibers that is used as a belt to secure a ta'ovala in traditional Tongan dress. Kafa is also a region of south-west Ethiopia also known as Kaffa. redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..

Kafana
Kafana (plural kafane, cyrillic: кафана, кафане) is a term for bistro in South Slavic languages that focuses on serving alcoholic beverages (and coffee) and sometimes has a live band. The word itself comes from kafa (coffee) and its basic coffee & alcohol concept probably has Turkish o..

Kafarakab
Kafarakab (prounounced "Kfara-ab" in Arabic) is the francophone spelling of the name of a scenic village in the mountains of Lebanon. The village is of particular significance because it is one of the various historic points of origin of of the well known Maalouf family. This family history is trac..

KAFE
KAFE 104.3 is a 60 kW radio station located and licensed in Bellingham, Washington, transmitting from an antenna on Mount Constitution on Orcas Island with broadcasts originating from their Bellingham studios on Yew Street Road. KAFE is owned by Saga Communications, LLC. KAFE serves Northwestern..

Kafeel Bhai Ghotki walay
Kafeel Bhai Ghotki walay or Kafeel Bhai Ghotkiwala (meaning Kafeel Bhai from Ghotki) is a former Pakistani artist who gained fame, when he moved to Karachi and started painting colorful designs on Pakistani busses, trucks and rikshaws as a hobby. He signed off every work of his as "Kafeel bhai ghotk..

Kafes
Kafes, literally "the cage", was the part of the Harem of the Ottoman Palace where possible successors to the throne were kept under constant surveillance by the palace guards. Early history of the Ottoman Empire is littered with succession wars between rivaling sons of the deceased sultan. Theref..

Kaffa
Kaffa is the name of several geographical entities: Crimean city of Kaffa or Caffa is currently known as Theodosia (Feodosiya);The Kingdom of Kaffa in Ethiopia;hence former Ethiopian province of Kaffa This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the sa..

Kaffa Province, Ethiopia
Kaffa was a province on the southwestern side of Ethiopia; its capital city was Jimma. This province was created in 1942, following the liberation of Ethiopia from Italian occupation, by combining the following provinces created from conquered states into one administrative subdivision: the kingdoms..

Kaffe
Kaffe is a clean room design of a Java Virtual Machine. It comes with a subset of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition Java API and tools needed to provide a Java runtime environment. Like most other Free Java virtual machines, Kaffe uses GNU Classpath as its class library. Kaffe is a lean, fast a..

Kaffeeklatsch
Kaffeeklatsch is literally "coffee chat" (in German). This is the type of casual conversation, small talk and especially gossip enjoyed by housewives who meet in the afternoon for a cup of coffee. Kaffeeklatsch is also used to describe such a gathering itself. Several student newspapers, journals ..

Kaffee Alt Wien
Kaffee Alt Wien is a classic Viennese coffee house at Bäckerstraße 9 in the First District. It was established in 1936 by Leopold Hawelka and his wife Josefine on the day after their wedding. They ran the café until 1939 at which time they moved to Dorotheergasse, where they opened a new coff..

Kaffeine
Kaffeine is a full featured media player for UNIX(-like) machines running the KDE (K Desktop Environment). By default it uses xine-lib as the backend. It can also use KPlayer if installed. With the release of version .7 the developers made a GStreamer KPart, therefore it now supports the 3 most u..

KaffeineNet
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Kaffeklubben Island
Kaffeklubben Island or (Coffee Club Island) is a small island lying off the north eastern tip of Greenland, and is considered to be the most northerly point of land on earth. Discovered by Robert Peary in 1900, the island is around 1 km in length, and found at [83°40′N 29°50′W], 37..

Kaffe (artist)
Kaffe is a Bulgarian jazz band who represented their home country in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest. The group, who sung the song "Lorraine", finished 19th in the semi final. |- style="text-align: center;" ..

Kaffe Fassett
Kaffe Fassett (b 1937 in San Francisco, California) is an American artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts -- needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, and ceramics. He has resided in England since 1964. Fassett received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Ar..

Kaffe punch
Kaffe punch is a Danish drink, consisting of coffee and snaps. The drink is often made by eyeballing snaps into a coffee cup, already filled with hot coffee. ..

Kaffibarinn
Kaffibarinn is a bar in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavík, partly owned by Damon Albarn of ‘Britpop’ band, Blur. It was much favoured by artists and popular musicians in the early 21st century. Above the entrance in Bergstaðarstræti, the name is displayed on a roundel unmistakably based on tho..

Kaffir
The words kaffir, kafir, and variations thereof may have different meanings depending on geographic context: Middle East kafir (Islam) (also spelled kaffir, kafr, kufr), an Islamic religious term usually rendered in English as "infidel" South Africa Kaffir (ethnic slur) (also spelled Kafir, Kapha..

Kaffir (ethnic slur)
Kaffir, or kafir, which once was a blanket term for black southern Africans (see South Africa Kaffir people), is now used exclusively as an ethnic or racial slur. The original meaning of the word was 'heathen'. The term is mostly used in South Africa (where it is also spelled kaffer) and in the Car..

Kaffir (Historical usage in southern Africa)
''This article refers to the use of the word Kaffir in its historical sense as a term to describe black South African languages and cultures. For its use as a derogatory term of abuse, see Kaffir (ethnic slur). For other uses of the term, see Kaffir (disambiguation). The word Kaffir was used in Eng..

Kaffir Boy
Kaffir Boy is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime. It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township of Alexandra, to become a well-known tennis player. He also depicted how the young black child..

Kaffir Folk-lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales
Kaffir Folk-lore: A Selection from the Traditional Tales is a book by Georg McCall Theal published in 1886. It is sometimes called Kaffir (Xhosa) Folk-lore or even Xhosa Folk-lore to avoid the word kaffir, which has since become a derogatory term (in the time the book was written, however, it was f..

Kaffir lime
The Kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix DC., Rutaceae), also known as Kieffer lime, Makrut, or Magrood, is a Southeast Asian citrus plant with very aromatic leaves. The green lime fruits are distinguished by their bumpy exterior and their small size (approx. 4 cm wide), and the hourglass-shaped leave..

Kaffraria
Kaffraria was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of the Cape Province of South Africa. Kaffraria, i.e. the land of the Kaffirs, is no longer an official designation. It used to comprise the districts now known as King Williams Town and East London, which formed British Kaffraria, annex..

Kaffrarian Rifles
The Kaffrarian Rifles (now the Buffalo Volunteer Rifles (BVR)) is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Territorial Army or United States Army National Guard unit. It is headquartered in the city of East London. Hi..

Kaffrine
Kaffrine is a town located in the Kaolack Region of Senegal. ..

Kaffrinha
The Kaffrinha were Kaffir Slaves brought to the colonies by the Portuguese. Kaffirs slaves were sent to Ceylon as indentured servants and worked in the maritime provinces of the island. The Kaffrinha brought with them their baila music now very much a vibrant part of music in the island of Sri La..

Kafi
Kafi (Urdu: کافی ) is a classical form of Sufi poetry originating from the Punjab, Pakistan. One of the more well-known poets of this style was Bulleh Shah. In musical terms, kafi refers to the genre of Urdu light classical music which utilizes the verses of kafi poets such as Bulleh Shah and S..

Kafir
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. [Defining the Kafirs (Infidels)], islamonline.net[People unaware of Islam][Ahl al-Fatrah][Takfir - Anathematizing][Universal Validity of Religions and the Issue of Takfir][Polyt..

Kafiristan
Kafiristan or Kafirstan ("Land of the Kafir" in Persian) was an historic name of Nurestan (Nuristan), a province in the Hindukush region of Afghanistan. This historic region lies on, and mainly comprises, basins of the rivers Alingar, Pech (Kamah), Landai Sin, and Kunar, and the intervening mounta..

Kafir harp
The Kafir harp is a harp used by the Kafirs of Afghanistan. ..

Kafit
Fan-Art From the Animorphs series. A type of bird from the Andalite homeworld. There are only three species of bird, and the kafit is considered the best, with six powerful wings and a razor bill for a beak. In the early days of the Yeerk-Andalite war, training arisths acquired the kafit and..

Kafka's Dick
Kafka's Dick (1986) is a comedy play by Alan Bennett. ..

Kafkaesque
Kafkaesque is an adjective which is used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novel The Trial and his novella The Metamorphosis. The term, which is quite fluid in definition, has also been described as..

Kafkania pebble
Both sides of the pebble. The Kafkania pebble was found in Kafkania, some 7 km north of Olympia, in 1994. It bears a short inscription of eight syllabic signs in Linear B, possibly reading a-so-na / qo-ro-qa / qa-jo. On the reverse side, there is a double axe symbol. The inscription is not un..

Kafka (disambiguation)
Kafka or Kaffka is the last name of Franz Kafka (1883–1924), a German-language writer from PragueGustav Kafka (1883–1953), a philosopher and psychologistGustav Eduard Kafka/Gustav E. Kafka (1907–1974), a sociologistHelene Kafka (Maria Restituta) (1894–1943), a Bohemian-Austr..

Kafka (film)
Kafka is a 1991 film based on the life and work of writer Franz Kafka. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars Jeremy Irons in the title role. External links [Fan page] Films by Steven Soderbergh sex, lies, and videotape (1989) | Kafka (1991) | King of the Hill (1993) | Un..

Kafka on the Shore
is a novel by Haruki Murakami (2002). Noted author John Updike described it as a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender." Since its 2005 English language release (translation by Philip Gabriel), the novel has received consistently positive reviews and critical acclai..

KAFM Community Radio
KAFM is a Community Radio station located in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States. KAFM broadcasts at 88.1 MHz in FM mode. History of KAFM Community Radio 1992 - 2001 1992 - Local KPRN Board of Directors votes to give station license to KCFR (Colorado Public Radio - CPR)1992 - All KPRN volun..

KAFOS (cable system)
KAFOS (Karadeniz Fiber Optik Sistemi - Black Sea Fibre Optic System) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Black Sea linking Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. It has landing points in: Mangalia, RomaniaVarna, BulgariaIstanbul, Turkey it has a transmission capacity of 622 Mbit/s, and a ..

Kafroun
Kafroun or Al-Kafroun is a Syrian town in the Tartous Governorate, it is known to be the birthplace of the famous Syrian singer George Wassouf. The town itself is located in the Jabal an Nusayriyah range at 550 metres above sea level, making it a summer resort for locals who want to escape the hot ..

Kafr 'Inan
Kafr 'Inan was a Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Kafr 'Inan DistrictDistrict of Acre Location33 km east of Acre Israeli occupation dateOctober 30, 1948 Israeli military operationOperation Hiram Israeli attacking brigadeGolani Brigade ..

Kafr ash Shaykh
Kafr ash Shaykk (Arabic: ‎) is the capital of Kafr ash Shaykh Governorate, Egypt. It is a relatively small town. ..

Kafr ash Shaykh Governorate
Kafr ash Shaykh (Arabic: كفر الشيخ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It lies in the north of the country along the western branch of the Nile. Its capital is Kafr ash Shaykh. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Economy4 Education5 External links5.1 Governme..

Kafr Dawar
Kafr Dawar (Arabic: كفر الدوار ) is a town on the Nile Delta in Egypt. Population numbers about 1,000,000. Mainly they work in Textiles companies. ..

Kafr Qasim
Kafr Qasim (Arabic: كفر قاسم, also known as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem and Kafar Kassem), is a hill-top Israeli Arab town located about 20 km east of Tel Aviv, on the Green Line separating Israel and the West Bank, on the southern part of the "Little Triangle" of Arab-Israeli villages. The tow..

Kafr Qasim massacre
Memorial at Kafr Qasim The Kafr Qasim massacre took place in the Israeli Arab village of Kafr Qasim situated on the Green Line, at that time, the de facto border between Israel and Jordan (Arabic: كفر قاسم, also known as Kafr Qassem, Kufur Kassem and Kafar Kassem) on October 29, 1956. It..

Kaftan
This kaftan was a gift from Venetians to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century. There was the signature of King Solomon on it. The kaftan (sometimes spelled caftan) is a man's cotton or silk cloak buttoned down the front, with full sleeves, reaching to the ankles and worn with a..

Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Kaftanzoglio Facility statistics Full Name Kaftanzoglio Stadium Location Aghiou Dimitriou Street, Thessaloniki Built Opened 27 October 1960 Renovated Closed N/A Demolished N/A Owner Operator Surface Construction cost Architect Former na..

Kaftoun
The Village of [Kaftoun] (Arabic: كفتون ) is a small Lebanese village located along the north bank of the Nahr el Jaouz (Walnut River), in the Koura District, North Lebanon. The houses of Kaftoun number seventy-four. Its inhabitants number about three hundred. They are mostly Anti..

Kafue
Kafue is a town in central Zambia, lying on the main road 30 miles south from Lusaka, the Lusaka-Livingstone railway. It also lies on, and is name for, the Kafue River, while a hydroelectric plant stands nearby. Contents 1 Population2 Religion3 Industry4 Reference and Extern..

Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park ..

Kafue River
Kafue River, Chamufumbu, near Lubungu Pontoon, Zambia The Kafue River, a major tributary of the Zambezi, rises on the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and flows south westerly through the Lukanga Swamp which it drains. The resulting clear water then flows through ..

KAFX
KAFX is known as KFOX 95.5, a radio station in Lufkin, Texas with a Hot AC format. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications. Though it is Hot AC, it only plays currents in Hot AC, with no music from the 80's and little from the 90's. It is in the same Clear Channel cluster with KYKS - "Kicks 105..

Kaf hachaim
Kaf Hachaim is the title of two widely cited codes of Jewish law. It may refer to the 'Kaf Hachaim' by Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer or an earlier work by Rabbi Chaim Palagi. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you ..

Ka Fuk Estate
Ka Fuk Estate (嘉福邨) is a public housing estate in Fanling new town of New Territories of Hong Kong. Blocks Transport External links [Ka Fuk Estate (Hong Kong Housing Authority)] ..

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