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Khan
Khan may refer to: * Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name * Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by various ethnicities Art and entertainment * Khan (band), an English progressive rock band in the 1970s * ''Khan!'' (TV series), a 1975 American police detective television series * ''Khan'' (serial), a 2017 Pakistani television drama serial * Khan Noonien Singh, a prominent ''Star Trek'' villain in an original series episode and the principal antagonist in ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'' (1982), then later ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013) * The title character of ''Citizen Khan'', a British sitcom produced by the BBC * Khan Doorman, Uzi Doorman's father from the web series '' Murder Drones'' (2021-2024) Radio * KHAN (FM), a defunct radio station (99.5 FM) formerly licensed to serve Chugwater, Wyoming, United States * KBGB, a radio station (105.7 FM) licensed to serve Kensett, Arkansas, United States, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan (surname)
Khan () is an ancient Indo-European languages, Indo-European surname and in the variant of 'Khan' of Turkic and Mongolian origin, used as a title in various global regions, and today most commonly found in parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Eastern Europe, Uzbekistan and Russia. There is a large population of bearer of this name on the north and west Pakistan and across Afghanistan. In the Caribbean the surname is largely carried by Muslims of Indo-Caribbeans, Indo-Caribbean descent. It is derived from the historic title ''khan (title), khan'', referring to military chief or royalty. It originated as a hereditary title among nomadic tribes in the Eurasian Steppe#Divisions, Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe during antiquity and was popularized by Afghan peoples, Afghan dynasties in the rest of Asia as well as in Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages, medieval period. The name's earliest discovered usage as a title for chiefs and for monarchs dates back, respectively, to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Noonien Singh
Khan Noonien Singh is a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' science fiction franchise who first appeared as the main antagonist in the '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode " Space Seed" (1967), and was portrayed by Ricardo Montalbán, who reprised his role in the 1982 film '' Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. In the 2013 film '' Star Trek Into Darkness'', he is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. Khan controlled more than a quarter of the Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. After being revived from suspended animation in 2267 by the crew of the Starship ''Enterprise'', he attempts to capture the starship but is thwarted by James T. Kirk and exiled to Ceti Alpha V, where he has the chance to create a new society with his people. In ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'', set 15 years after "Space Seed", Khan escapes his exile and sets out to exact revenge on Kirk. In ''Star Trek Into Darkness'', set in the alternate continuity established in ''Star Trek'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen Khan
''Citizen Khan'' is a British sitcom produced by the BBC and created by Adil Ray. It ran for five series, from 2012 to 2016. It is set in Sparkhill, South Birmingham, described by its lead character, a British Pakistani man named Mr Khan (Ray), as "the capital of British Pakistan". ''Citizen Khan'' follows the trials and tribulations of Mr Khan, a loud-mouthed, patriarchal, cricket-loving, self-appointed community leader, and his long suffering wife Razia (played by Shobu Kapoor) and daughters Shazia ( Maya Sondhi 2012–2014, Krupa Pattani 2015–2016) and Alia (Bhavna Limbachia). In Series One, Kris Marshall starred as Dave, the manager of Mr Khan's local mosque. The title of the show is a play on the title of the Orson Welles film ''Citizen Kane''. The character Mr Khan had already featured in the BBC Two comedy series '' Bellamy's People'', on BBC Radio 4's '' Down the Line'' and on his own online series on the BBC Comedy website. On 27 September 2012, the BBC announced tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan (title)
Khan (, , ) is a historic Turkic peoples, Turkic and Proto-Mongols, Mongolic title originating among nomadic tribes in the Eurasian Steppe#Divisions, Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe to refer to a king. It first appears among the Rouran and then the Göktürks as a variant of khagan (sovereign, emperor) and implied a subordinate ruler. In the Seljuk Empire, Seljük Empire, it was the highest noble title, ranking above malik (king) and emir (prince). In the Mongol Empire it signified the ruler of a Orda (organization), horde (''ulus''), while the ruler of all the Mongols was the khagan or great khan. It is a title commonly used to signify the head of a Pashtun Pashtun tribes, tribe or clan. The title subsequently declined in importance. During the Safavid Iran, Safavid and Qajar Iran, Qajar dynasty it was the title of an army general high noble rank who was ruling a province, and in Mughal Empire, Mughal India it was a high noble rank restricted to courtiers. After the downfal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short video lessons. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. It has produced over 10,000 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, including mathematics, sciences, literature, history, and computer science. All resources are available free to users of the website and application. History Starting in 2004, Salman "Sal" Khan began tutoring one of his cousins in mathematics on the Internet using a service called Yahoo! Doodle Images. After a while, Khan's other cousins began to use his tutoring service. Due to the demand, Khan decided to make his videos watchable on the Internet, so he published his content on YouTube. Later, he used a drawing application called SmoothDraw, and now uses a Wacom tablet to draw using ArtRa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan (title), khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongols, Mongol tribes, he launched Mongol invasions and conquests, a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of Mongol conquest of China, China and Mongol invasion of Central Asia, Central Asia. Born between 1155 and 1167 and given the name Temüjin, he was the eldest child of Yesugei, a Mongol chieftain of the Borjigin, Borjigin clan, and his wife Hö'elün. When Temüjin was eight, his father died and his family was abandoned by its tribe. Reduced to near-poverty, Temüjin killed Behter, his older half-brother to secure his familial position. His charismatic personality helped to attract his first followers and to form alliances with two prominent Eurasian Steppe, steppe leaders named Jamukha and Toghrul; they worked together to retrieve Temüjin's newlywed wife Börte, who had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
Abdul Jabbar Khan () (born 1883, Utmanzai, Charsadda – 9 May 1958, Lahore), popularly known as Dr. Khan Sahib (), was a pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and later, a Pakistani politician. He was the elder brother of the Pashtun activist Abdul Ghaffar Khan, both of whom opposed the partition of India. Upon independence, he pledged his allegiance to Pakistan and later served as the First Chief Minister of West Pakistan. As the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Dr Khan Sahib along with his brother Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgars boycotted the July 1947 NWFP referendum about the province joining India or Pakistan after the partition of India, citing that the referendum did not have the options of the NWFP becoming independent or joining Afghanistan. Upon independence and establishment of Pakistan, Khan Sahib joined the national politics and was later elected the first Chief Minister of West Pakistan. Early life He was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Khan
German Borisovich Khan (; born 24 October 1961) is a Ukrainian people, Ukrainian-Israel, Israeli-Russian oligarch, billionaire, and businessman. After graduating from university in 1988 he worked in a wholesale business selling consumer items, before setting up his own cooperative. He was then appointed the head of the wholesale trade business Alfa Group, Alfa Eco as part of the Alfa Group Consortium, by his college friend Mikhail Fridman. Alfa Group, which he also shares with another fellow billionaire and college peer, Alexei Kuzmichev, is the biggest financial and industrial investment group in Russia. He became president of Alfa Eco in 1996 and was instrumental in directing the company to focus on export and the oil trade. When Alfa bought Tyumen Oil (TNK) in 1997, he joined the board of directors. He was deputy chairman of Orenburg, TNK Oil Company from 1997 until 2003. In 2003, Khan worked with the other TNK owners to form a 50–50 joint venture with BP, in what was the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan Market
Khan Market is a shopping district and retail market in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1951 by the newly constituted Republic of India's Rehabilitation Ministry to give economic opportunities to refugees of the Partition of India, especially those from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan. Many such refugees had arrived in the Delhi region. It is named after Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan, also known as Dr. Khan Sahib, who was the Chief Minister of NWFP from 1945 to 1947, and who had helped many refugees to escape without harm. Khan was the elder brother of the Pashtun- and Indian-freedom activist Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan ("Frontier Gandhi"). In 2019, Khan Market was rated as the world's 20th most expensive commercial street by Cushman & Wakefield. History Established in 1951, the U-shaped, double-storey market complex originally had 154 shops and 74 flats on the first floor for shopkeepers. Many of these shops were al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanpur (other)
Khanpur may refer to: Places in India * Khanpur, Chanditala-II, a village in Hooghly district, West Bengal * Khanpur, Delhi, a neighbourhood in Delhi * Khanpur, Ghazipur, a village in Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh * Khanpur, Gujarat, a town in Gujarat * Khanpur, Hoshiarpur, a village in Punjab * Khanpur J. Aurangabad, a village in Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh * Khanpur, Jhalawar, a town in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan ** Khanpur (Rajasthan Assembly constituency) * Khanpur, Kapurthala, a village in Kapurthala district, Punjab * Khanpur Khusti, a village in Uttar Pradesh * Khanpur, Ludhiana West, a village in Ludhiana district, Punjab * Khanpur, Murshidabad, a census town in West Bengal * Khanpur, Phillaur, a village in Jalandhar district, Punjab * Khanpur Urf Birbhanpur, a village in Uttar Pradesh * Khanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a town in Bulandshahr district, in Uttar Pradesh * Khanpur, Uttarakhand, a community development block of Uttarakhand ** Khanpur (Uttar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakhchysarai Palace
The Khan's Palace (; ) or Hansaray is located in the town of Bakhchysarai, Crimea. It was built in the 16th century and became home to a succession of Crimean Khans. The walled enclosure contains a mosque, a harem, a cemetery, living quarters and gardens. The palace interior has been decorated to appear lived in and reflects the traditional 16th-century Crimean Tatar style. It is one of the best known Muslim palaces found in Europe, alongside the Sultan palaces of Istanbul and the Alhambra in Spain. In December 2022, Russian forces dismantled a damaged roof and an ensemble of colored stained glass windows in the palace and replaced it with modern ones in order to prevent possible damage during fighting. The move has been described by the Ukrainian side as part of an "ongoing assault" on cultural heritage. History The city of Bakhchysarai and the palace were commissioned by the Crimean Khan dynasty, who moved their capital here from Salaçıq in the first half of the 16th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khan! (TV Series)
''Khan!'' is an American television Detective fiction, detective series. Set in Chinatown, San Francisco, Chinatown, San Francisco, the titular character is a Chinese-American detective, played by Khigh Dhiegh. Khan's police contact was Lt. Gubbins, played by Vic Tayback. Series regulars were rounded out by his children Kim (played by Evan C. Kim) and Anna (Irene Yah-Ling Sun), who helped him solve crimes. Four episodes were aired in February 1975 on CBS; all seven of the produced episodes were aired during its Australian broadcast run on Seven Network, Channel Seven in 1976. Production and publicity In November 1974, CBS announced the series would replace Planet of the Apes (TV series), ''Planet of the Apes'' starting in February 1975, with Khigh Dhiegh filling the lead role. Khan was billed as a "wily Asian private investigator" who blended modern skills and technology (with help from his daughter and son) with his culture's innate wisdom. Dhiegh insisted on having no onscre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
