Turkish-born architect John Gidding has certainly led an intriguing life. After moving to the United States from Europe, he majored in architecture at one Ivy League school (Yale University) and received his master's degree in the same field at another (Harvard University).
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking.
The French term Boxe pieds-poings (literally feet-fists-boxing) is also used in the sense of kickboxing in the general meaning, including French boxing as well as American, Dutch and Japanese kickboxing, Burmese and Thai boxing, any style of full contact karate, etc. Arts labeled as kickboxing in the general sense include: