Kismet

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Kismet (Turkish, Urdu as well as Hindi and Arabic, "fate"--derived from the Arabic term qisma; modified in Persian as qismat and then from Turkish it came to English usage) can refer to several things:

[edit] Locations

• Kismet, Kansas
• Kismet, New York, a town on Fire Island

[edit] Other uses

• Kismet (program), a computer program used to analyze wireless network traffic
• Kismet (robot), a robot intended to demonstrate simulated emotion
• Kismet (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superheroine
• Kismet (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
• Kismet (chocolate bar)
• Kismet (dice game)
• Kismet (gameplay scripting), gameplay scripting tool for the Unreal Engine from Epic Games
• Akismet, short for Automattic Kismet, an effective server based spam filter.

[edit] Arts

• Kismet (musical), a 1953 Broadway musical built around the music of Alexander Borodin, and adapted from a 1911 play by Edward Knoblock.
• Kismet is the name of more than 15 films; among the best known is the lavish production of Kismet (1930) produced by Warner Brothers starring Loretta Young and Otis Skinner which was shot in an early widescreen process known as the Vitascope, the 1943 Hindi film Kismet which stars Ashok Kumar, 1944 (starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich), and based on Knoblock's play, 1955 (directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the 1953 musical). Th2 1944 film is sometimes shown on television as Oriental Dream.
• Kismet was a band formed by ethnic Macedonians in Australia (1993-1999), lead by Gorazd Chapovski from the band Mizar.
• Kismet is an album from the Hungarian folk vocalist Márta Sebestyén.
• Kismet Magic: The Gathering card.