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Kyr
kyr is occasionally used in geology and astronomy as a unit of one thousand years or millennium. The "k" is the SI prefix for kilo or thousand, with "yr" simply an abbreviation for "year". Occasionally, the "k" is shown in upper case, as in "100 Kyr"; this is an incorrect usage. "kyr" itself is ..
Kyran Bracken
Kyran Paul Patrick Bracken MBE (born 22 November, 1971 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is rugby union footballer who plays at scrum-half for Saracens and formerly Bristol and Waterloo R.F.C. He won a total of 51 England caps and captained the team on three occasions, retiring from international ru..
Kyra Gracie
Kyra Gracie (born 1985) (also spelled Kira), daughter of Flavia Gracie, is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, one of the few women to hold that rank and is the first Gracie female to actively compete in the sport. Her competition titles include: 5 Time Brazilian Champion (98,99,00,01,04); 5 Time Stat..
Kyra Panagia
Kyra Panagia is a Greek island in the Sporades. ..
Kyra Phillips
Phillips on CNN. Kyra Phillips (born 8 August 1968) is a news anchor for CNN, where she has been reporting since October 1999. She anchors Live From..., a live news show based in Atlanta that airs weekdays from 1:00-4:00 p.m. ET. Contents 1 Life and career2 Controversy3 Refe..
Kyra Schon
Kyra Schon (born in 1957) is an American actress best known for her role in the George A. Romero film Night of the Living Dead (1968) as Karen Cooper, the trowel-wielding zombie girl in the movie. She is currently an art teacher in Pittsburg, PA and is a regular contributor to Dread Central, an onli..
Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an American actress. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Career1.3 Personal life2 Selected filmography3 External links Biography Early life Sedgwick was born in New York City, New York to Henry Dwight Sedgwick V and Patric..
Kyrenia
Kyrenia Harbour on a summer night Kyrenia Castle at Night Kyrenia (Greek: Keryneia (Κερύνεια),Turkish: Girne) is a town in the break-awayTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The town is known for its historic harbour. In its heyday the town harbour was lined with warehouses i..
Kyrenia District
Kyrenia District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is Kyrenia. It is the smallest of Cyprus' districts, and has been occupied by the Turkish army since 1974. A district administration in "exile" exists on the Republic of Cyprus controlled part of the island. Districts of Cypr..
Kyrenia mountain range
Kyrenia Mountain Range Beşparmaklar (Pentadactylos) The Kyrenia mountain range is a long, narrow chain of mountains that runs approximately 160 km (100 mi) along the north coast of Cyprus. The mountains are primarily limestone, with some marble. The highest mountain, Kyparissovouno..
Kyrenia ship
The Kyrenia ship is the wreck of a 4th century Greek merchant ship. The ship was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diver Andreas Kariolou in 1967 and salvaged close to Kyrenia in Cyprus in the early 1970s. The ship was excavated by Michael Katzev of the U.S. Institute of Nautical Archaeology and is the ol..
Kyresoo Plants
Kyresoo Plants are a form of artificial life, a digital organism in which a single seed cell repeatedly divides to produce a plant like object. Each cell is controlled by a simulated genome, which controls protein expression. The level of protein expression determines the behavior of the cell. The ..
Kyrgyz
Kyrgyz (also spelled Kirghiz) are a Turkic ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. There are several etymological theories on the name "Kyrgyz." First, the name Kyrgyz may mean "forty girls" (кырк + кыз), a reference to the Manas epic unifying forty small tribes against the Chinese on..
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан, Russian: Киргизия (also known as Kirgizia), variously transliterated), formally the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. Contents 1 History2..
Kyrgyzstani som
The Kyrgyzstani som (sometimes transliterated "sum" or "soum") is the currency of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. The ISO 4217 currency code is KGS. The som was introduced in May 10, 1993, replacing the Soviet/Russian ruble at a rate of 1 som = 200 rubles. Contents 1 Etymology..
Kyrgyzstan Airlines
Kyrgyzstan Airlines is the national airline and is based in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. It was originally formed as Aeroflot's Kyrgyzstan Directorate. Contents 1 Code Data2 Services3 Fleet4 External links Code Data IATA Code: R8ICAO Code: KGACallsign: Kyrgyz Services Scheduled s..
Kyrgyzstan at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Kyrgyzstan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the first time that the nation had competed in the Summer Olympics independently of the other republics of the Soviet Union. Kyrgyzstan had been a member of the Unified Team at the previous Summer Olympiad. Kyrgyzstan c..
Kyrgyzstan at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney under the IOC country code KGZ. Contents 1 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 1 Results by event ..
Kyrgyzstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Kyrgyzstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics Contents 1 Results by medals2 Results by event2.1 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 0 0 Results by event ..
Kyrgyzstan at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Kyrgyzstan sent one athlete to compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, Italy. Contents 1 Events1.1 ..
Kyrgyzstan Federation of Trade Unions
KFTU The Kyrgyzstan Federation of Trade Unions (KFTU), also known as the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan (FTUK) is the national trade union center of Kyrgyzstan. Most trade unions in the country are affiliated to the KFTU. The KFTU is affiliated with the General Confederation of Trade ..
Kyrgyzstan national football team
The Kyrgyzstan national football team is the national team of Kyrgyzstan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic. After the split of Soviet Union, they played their first match against Kazakhstan on September 26, 1992. Contents 1 World Cup record2 Asian Nations ..
Kyrgyz Air
Kyrgyz Air was a privately owned airline based in Kyrgyzstan. The president of the company was a British citizen (in 2003). The airline was started in 2002 and ceased operations in 2003. Code Data IATA Code: KTICAO Code: KAF Services Scheduled services operated included: Bishkek to Beijing, Delh..
Kyrgyz International Airlines
Kyrgyz International Airlines is an airline based in Kyrgyzstan. Code Data IATA Code: N5ICAO Code: KYLCallsign: Kyrmal Fleet Kyrgyz International Airlines does not appear to be operating any jet aircraft (as of August 2005). Previously it operated an Airbus A300B4, delivered in 2002, but disposed..
Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. It is most closely related to Altay. Kyrgyz is spoken by about 3 million people in Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Uz..
Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, 2005
The 2005 Kyrgyz parliamentary elections were held in February and March 2005. Over 400 candidates ran for the new 75-member unicameral legislative assembly. There were two rounds of voting, on 27 February and 13 March. According to media reports, only six seats were won by the opposition, although ..
Kyrgyz presidential election, 2005
Kyrgyzstan held a presidential election on 10 July 2005. It saw a landslide victory for acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev, marking the end of his interim government formed after the previous President, Askar Akayev, was overthrown in the revolution in March, 2005. Contents 1 Post revolution..
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou is an American chemist. K. C. Nicolaou was born on July 5, 1946, in Karavas,Cyprus where he grew up and went to school until the age of 18. In 1964, he went to England where he spent two years learning English and preparing to enter the University. He studied chemistry at th..
Kyriacos Triantaphyllides
Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (born on 3 September 1944, Palaihori) is a Cypriot politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Progressive Party of Working People, sitting with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group, on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Developm..
Kyriakos
Saint Kyriakos was born in Corinth in the year 448. His father was a priest named John and his mother was his wife Eudoxia. Further Kyriakos had Bishop Peter of Corinth for a relative. This bishop made Kyriakos a reader in church. Kyriakos's studies of the Scriptures encouraged him to want what th..
Kyriakos Charalambides
Kyriakos Charalambides is a Cypriot writer. He was born on January 31, 1940 in Achna, in the Famagusta District of Cyprus. He studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens, 1958-64, drama at the Drama School of the Greek National Theater, 1962-63 and radio in Munich, 1972-73. After fo..
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
--> Kyriakos Mitsotakis (b. March 1968 in Athens, Greece, Greek: Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης) is the son of the former Greek prime minister and honorary president of New Democracy Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Marika Giannoukou. Kyriakos has three children, Sofia, Konstantinos and Dafni. I..
Kyriakos of Makuria
Kyriakos or Cyriacus (c.750) was a ruler of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria. While some authorities place his reign between Merkurios and Zacharias I, according to Severus of Al'Ashmunein, Kyriakos succeeded Markos.1 In 722, Kyriakos marched north into Egypt at the head of an army said to number 100,..
Kyriakos Sfetsas
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Kyriakos Sfetsas is a Greek ..
Kyriakos Velopoulos
Kyriakos Velopoulos was born in 24/10/1965 in Germany. His parents were refugee peasants. After his graduation from high school of Dentropotamos he signed up in Journalist school, where he got a scholarship. He is a Greek Army officer and has served his military time on the islands of North-Easte..
Kyriale
The Kyriale is a publication containing the Gregorian chants for the Ordinary of the Mass. There are eighteen masses in it and six Credos, and also some ad lib chants for the Kyrie and the Gloria. The Kyriale is published by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes. Some of the more notable inclusions ar..
Kyrie
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Kyrie is the vocative case of the Greek word κύριος (kyrios - lord) and means O Lord; it is the name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy. The Kyrie prayer, offered during the Roman Catholic Mass and in some other denominations (such as many ..
Kyrielle
The kyrielle is a poetic form that originated in troubadour poetry. Name and form The name kyrielle derives from the Kyrie, which is part of many Christian liturgies. A kyrielle is written in rhyming couplets orquatrains. It uses the phrase "Lord have mercy", or a variant on it, as a refrain as th..
Kyrie (disambiguation)
Kyrie can mean several different things: Kyrie is the vocative case of the Greek word κύριος (kyrios - lord). It is the name for the section of the Catholic mass beginning "Kyrie eleison.""Kyrie" (song) was the title of a hit song by the 1980s pop group Mr. Mister, featuring the phrase "Kyrie..
Kyrie (song)
"Kyrie" was a hit pop song by the 1980s pop band Mr. Mister, from of the band's 1985 album Welcome to the Real World. It features the phrase "Kyrie eleison" from Roman Catholic prayer. The words "Kyrie eleison" translates from the Greek as "Lord have mercy" (or "O Lord, have mercy"). John LaBarber..
Kyrie Maezumi
Kyrie Maezumi (born September 24) is an American actress and musician of Russian, British and Japanese decent. She is most recognizable for her role on the small screen as Maya Chinn on the NBC daytime drama series, Passions, which she played from January 2006, until the character died in June 2006...
Kyrill, Prince of Preslav
Titular Bulgarian Royal Family HM The TsarHM The Tsaritsa*HRH The Prince of Turnovo*HRH The Princess of Turnovo**HRH Prince Boris**HRH Prince Beltran*HRH The Prince of Preslav*HRH The Princess of Preslav**HRH Princess Mafalda**HRH Princess Olimpia**HRH Prince Tassilo*HRH The Prince of Panagiu..
Kyrillos II
Kyrillos Papadopoulos (greek Κύριλλος Παπαδόπουλος) nicknamed Kyrillatsos (big Kyrillos) was bishop of Larnaca and between 1909-1916 Archbishop of Cyprus. He was born under the Ottoman Empire, at Kyt..
Kyrillos III
Kyrillos, nicknamed Kyrilloudin (small Kyrillos to differentiate from Kyrillos II) was the bishop of Kyrenia and later became the archbishop of the Cypriot Orthodox Church. He was more moderate than his opponent Kyrillos II and was accused of being too sympathetic to the British colonial rulers of C..
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Kyril Bonfiglioli (1929-1985) was an art dealer in Oxford, UK, who was for a short time also an editor. He later became a writer. After his divorce he lived in Lancashire, Jersey and Ireland. He died in Jersey in 1985. He edited Science Fantasy magazine for a period from 1964 to 1966, appointed ..
Kyritz
Kyritz is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 28 km west of Neuruppin and 28 km southeast of Pritzwalk. ..
Kyrkjebygda
Kyrkjebygda is the administrative centre of Åseral municipality, Norway. ..
Kyrkjebø
Kyrkjebø is a village in Høyanger municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Its population is 245. The surrounding area used to constitute a separate municipality. The municipality, which was known as Klævold at that time, was created by separation from Lavik formannskapsdistrikt in 1858, at whi..
Kyrksæterøra
Kyrksæterøra is the main center of the municipality of Hemne in Norway. It was known as the "white town of the Hemnefjord" at one time, because there were only white houses. At one time, there was a shoe factory, a shipyard, a lumber mill, and fish refineries in the area. Kyrksæterøra was bombe..
Kyrre
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Kyrre Grepp
Kyrre Grepp (1879 - 1922) Norwegian politician, leader of the Norwegian Labour Party. Grepp became a Communist by the end of his life and was active in the Comintern. ..
Kyrstal Point
Kyrstal Point is a shopping mall in, Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia. ..
Kyrvas
Kyrvas was a hero whose the main achievement was the foundation of the Ierapetra in Crete. Kyrvas (Achilleas) is also the pen-name of a modern Greek author. ..
Kyrylo Stetsenko
Kyrylo Stetsenko (1882-1922) was a prolific Ukrainian composer. Kyrylo Stetsenko was born in Kvitkiv, in the land of Cherkashchyna, in Ukraine. He moved around a lot but usually came back to Ukraine's capital Kyiv. Kyrylo was also an Orthodox priest, and in 1921 he was one of the founders of the Uk..
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