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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64, 2001) is Rare's M-rated action-platformer starring a hungover squirrel, retooled from the cutesy Twelve Tales: Conker 64; Metacritic 92, poor sales, cult classic, Xbox remake Live & Reloaded (2005).
Conker's Pocket Tales
Conker's Pocket Tales is a 1999 Game Boy Color action-puzzle game by Rare, starring Conker the squirrel rescuing Berri and his presents from the Evil Acorn; his first solo game, with two cartridge versions for Game Boy and Game Boy Color.
Conkers
Conkers, a traditional British and Irish children's game also called conquerors, in which two players swing horse chestnut seeds on strings to smash each other's conker; first recorded 1848, World Championships since 1965.
Conleth Hill
Conleth Hill (Conleth Seamus Eoin Croiston Hill, born 1964, Ballycastle, County Antrim) is a Northern Irish stage and screen actor, Olivier Award winner and two-time Tony nominee, best known as Lord Varys in Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and for Stones in His Pockets.
CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol), South American football confederation founded 1916 in Buenos Aires, headquartered in Luque, Paraguay; ten members, president Alejandro Domínguez, runs Copa América, Libertadores, Sudamericana, and round robin World Cup qualifying.
CONMEBOL qualification for the FIFA Women's World Cup
CONMEBOL qualification for the FIFA Women's World Cup is how South American teams earn places, via the Copa América Femenina and, from 2027, the Women's Nations League.
Conn Findlay
Conn Findlay (Francis Conn Findlay, 1930–2021), American rower and sailor from Stockton, California: two Olympic golds and a bronze in coxed pairs (1956, 1960, 1964), a 1976 Tempest sailing bronze, and America's Cup wins on Courageous.
Conn Iggulden
Conn Iggulden (born 1971) is a British historical novelist, author of the Emperor series on Julius Caesar, the Conqueror series on Genghis Khan, the Wars of the Roses and Nero trilogies, and The Dangerous Book for Boys with brother Hal.
Conn Smythe
Conn Smythe (Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe, 1895-1980), Canadian hockey builder; bought Toronto St. Pats 1927, renamed them Maple Leafs, built Maple Leaf Gardens 1931, won 7 Cups; Conn Smythe Trophy namesake.
Conn Smythe Trophy
The Conn Smythe Trophy, also known as the Conn Smythe Memorial Trophy and Stanley Cup MVP, is awarded annually to the most valuable player of the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Connacht
Connacht (Connaught), the smallest and most westerly Irish province, comprises Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo; named for the ancient Connachta, destination of Cromwell's transplantation.
Connacht Rugby
Connacht Rugby: Irish provincial rugby union branch founded 1885, based in Galway; professional team in the United Rugby Championship; 2016 Pro12 champions; home ground Dexcom Stadium (formerly the Sportsground).
Connaught Place, New Delhi
Connaught Place (Rajiv Chowk), New Delhi: a 1930s colonnaded circular marketplace by Robert Tor Russell, Grade I listed, with Central Park, Rajiv Chowk metro, 2016-2018 renovation, and ongoing NDMC smart roads and facade projects.
Connect (커넥트)
Connect (커넥트, Keonekteu) is a 2022 Disney+ Korean sci-fi horror series directed by Takashi Miike, adapted from Shin Dae-sung's webtoon, starring Jung Hae-in as an immortal whose stolen eye links him to a serial killer.
Connect Biopharma (康乃德)
Connect Biopharma Holdings Limited (康乃德) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in China in 2012, headquartered in San Diego and developing the asthma and COPD antibody rademikibart.
Connect Europe
Connect Europe, known until September 2024 as ETNO, is a Brussels-based trade association for Europe's telecom operators, advocating investment-friendly policy for networks such as fiber and 5G.
Connect Four
Connect Four (Connect 4, Four in a Row) is a 1974 Milton Bradley disc-dropping game on a 7x6 grid. Solved in 1988 by Allen and Allis: first player wins via the center column; Tromp strongly solved it in 1995.
CONNECT trial (NCT00636675)
CONNECT trial (NCT00636675), or CONNECT for Quality, a Duke University cluster-randomized trial in 24 US nursing homes testing whether CONNECT staff-interaction training improved the FALLS quality improvement program; it modestly improved communication but did not reduce fall rates.
Connect6
Connect6 (六子棋, liùzǐqí) is a 2003 two-stone-per-turn k-in-a-row game by I-Chen Wu, played on a 19×19 board where six in a row wins; unsolved, PSPACE-complete.
Connected (保持通话)
Connected (保持通话) is a 2008 Hong Kong action thriller by Benny Chan, the first officially Hollywood-licensed Chinese-language remake, adapting Cellular; Louis Koo and Barbie Hsu star, with Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Award editing wins.
Connected Earth
Connected Earth is a UK telecommunications heritage initiative created by BT in 2002, a virtual museum plus eight partner museums caring for BT's collection of about 40,000 objects.
Connected Energy
Connected Energy is a British company headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne that builds battery energy storage systems from second-life electric vehicle batteries, including its modular E-STOR product.
Connected space
A connected space, also called a connected set or connected topological space, is a topological space that cannot be split into two non-empty disjoint open sets, formalizing a space in one piece.
Connected sum
The connected sum is a topology operation that combines two n-dimensional manifolds into one by removing n-balls and gluing the boundary spheres, written M # N.
Connected Vehicle Pilot
The Connected Vehicle Pilot was a US Department of Transportation program begun in 2015 that funded connected vehicle deployments in Wyoming, New York City, and Tampa, Florida.
Connecticut
Connecticut, the Constitution State, is New England's second smallest and southernmost state, the 5th state (January 9, 1788), capital Hartford, with the 1639 Fundamental Orders, 36 senators, 151 representatives, and no county government.
Connecticut College
Connecticut College, originally Connecticut College for Women, is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut, chartered in 1911 and coeducational since 1969, with about 1,990 students.
Connecticut Colony
Connecticut Colony: English Puritan colony on the Connecticut River founded 1635–1636, governed by the 1639 Fundamental Orders and the 1662 royal charter, absorbing New Haven in 1665, a US state from 4 July 1776.
Connecticut Compromise
Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise), proposed by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, adopted July 16, 1787 by one vote; created proportional House representation and equal state representation in the Senate.
Connecticut Democratic Party
Connecticut Democratic Party, organized as the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee (FEC C00167320), the state Democratic affiliate governing via conventions, town committees, closed primaries, and a 15% endorsement threshold.