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A similar weakness of the kappa involves its arms, which can easily be pulled from its body. If an arm is detached, the kappa will perform favors or share knowledge in exchange for its return. [24] Another method of defeat involves shogi or sumo wrestling: a kappa sometimes challenges a human being to wrestle or engage in other tests of skill. [25]
Kappa (/ ˈ k æ p ə /; [1] uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ϰ; Greek: κάππα, káppa) is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive IPA: sound in Ancient and Modern Greek.
Kappa is an Italian sportswear brand founded in Turin, Piedmont, Italy [2] in 1978 by Marco Boglione, as a sportswear branch of the already existing "Robe di Kappa". [3]
Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ), commonly referred to simply as Theta, is an international women’s fraternity (the term "sorority" had not yet been invented) founded on January 27, 1870, at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). [14] The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian sakaŋ ...
"Showing up as your authentic self" is a buzzy phrase. It rose in popularity during the pandemic, when the constant drumbeat of hardships made it challenging to hide behind a proverbial mask, even ...
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. [3] The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C. , by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle .
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