edgepedia

Arts and culture

124,020 articles

Cædmon

Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman, poet, and monk at Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, active from about 657 to 680, remembered for Cædmon's Hymn, the oldest surviving poem in English.

Caedmon's Call

Caedmon's Call is a Houston, Texas contemporary Christian folk-rock band formed in the early 1990s at Texas Christian University, known for its 1997 number-one Billboard Christian chart debut, Dove Award, Share the Well missions album, and 2022 reunion.

Cædmon's Hymn

Cædmon's Hymn, a nine-line Old English praise poem by the seventh-century Whitby herdsman Cædmon, is the oldest surviving English poem with a known author, preserved via Bede's Latin paraphrase and later manuscripts, including a ninth-century copy rediscovered in Rome in 2026.

Caesar (cocktail)

Caesar, or Bloody Caesar: Canada's national cocktail, invented in 1969 by Walter Chell at the Calgary Inn. Vodka with Clamato (tomato-clam juice), Worcestershire, hot sauce, celery salt rim, celery and lime garnish; 350 to 400 million drunk yearly.

Caesar (Planet of the Apes)

Caesar is the genetically enhanced chimpanzee protagonist of the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy (Rise 2011, Dawn 2014, War 2017), performed via motion capture by Andy Serkis and rendered by Weta Digital; he dies in War and is mythologized in Kingdom (2024).

Caesar's Legion

Caesar's Legion is the Roman-styled slave army faction of Fallout: New Vegas, founded by Edward Sallow (Caesar), spanning 86 tribes from Colorado to Nevada; it can annex New Vegas in one game ending and appears in Fallout TV season 2.

Caesura

Caesura (Zäsur, césure, cesura): a pause or break within a verse line, classically a word-end inside a metrical foot; masculine vs feminine types, hexameter and alexandrine rules, and musical and figurative senses.

Caetano da Costa Alegre

Caetano da Costa Alegre (1864–1890) was a São Toméan poet and naval physician based in Lisbon, among the first African poets writing in Portuguese to center racial discrimination in his verse.

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso, born 1942 in Santo Amaro, Bahia, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter who co-led Tropicália with Gilberto Gil, was arrested and exiled by the 1968 military regime, and has recorded about fifty albums.

Café Coffee Day

Café Coffee Day (CCD), India's pioneering coffee café chain founded by V.G. Siddhartha, opened its first Bengaluru café in 1996, peaked at 1,752 cafés in 2019, and ran 424 cafés with 55,802 vending machines by FY26 under Coffee Day Global Limited.

Café del Mar

Café del Mar, also known as Cafe Del Mar, is a bar in San Antonio, Ibiza, opened in 1980 and known for its sunset chillout sessions and the compilation series they spawned.

Cafe Hon

Cafe Hon was a Hampden, Baltimore restaurant opened by Denise Whiting in 1992, famous for its pink flamingo, HONfest, and the 2010 'hon' trademark controversy, closed 2022.

Café Lumière (珈琲時光)

Café Lumière (珈琲時光, Kōhī jikō) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2003 Japanese-language tribute to Ozu Yasujiro, commissioned by Shochiku for Ozu's centenary, starring Yo Hitoto and Tadanobu Asano, following a pregnant writer researching composer Jiang Wen-ye in Tokyo.

Café Minamdang (미남당)

Café Minamdang (미남당) is a 2022 KBS2 comedy-mystery series, 18 episodes, starring Seo In-guk as a profiler-turned-shaman, adapted from Jung Jae-han's novel, later charting on Netflix in 10 countries.

Café Quijano

Café Quijano is a Spanish pop trio formed in León by the brothers Manuel, Óscar, and Raúl Quijano, known for the 1999 hit "La Lola".

Café Society (2016 film)

Café Society (2016), Woody Allen's 47th film, a romantic comedy-drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Steve Carell set in 1930s Hollywood and New York; opened Cannes 2016, shot digitally by Vittorio Storaro, grossed $43.8M.

Café Terrace at Night

Café Terrace at Night (Terrace of a Café at Night, Place du Forum) is Vincent van Gogh's September 1888 oil painting of a gas-lit Arles café terrace under a starry sky, painted on site at night without black, held at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

Café Tortoni

Café Tortoni is a historic café at Avenida de Mayo 825 in Buenos Aires, founded in 1858 and regarded as Argentina's oldest café still operating.

Café Waiting Love

Café Waiting Love (等一個人咖啡) is a 2014 Taiwanese romantic comedy directed by Chiang Chin-lin, adapted from Giddens Ko's 2004 novel, starring Vivian Sung and Bruce; it earned over NT$260 million in Taiwan.

Cafeteria

Cafeteria (cafetería): a self-service restaurant where customers carry a tray along a line of premade food, pay per item, and seat themselves. Originated 1890s Chicago and Los Angeles, peaked 1930s–1990s, now mainly institutional.

Caffè mocha

Caffè mocha, also called mochaccino or mocha latte, is an espresso drink combining espresso, chocolate, and steamed milk. Named after Yemen's port of Mocha, it descends from Turin's bicerin and runs latte-style ratios versus the 1:1:1 mochaccino.

Caffè Nero

Caffè Nero is a British coffeehouse chain founded by the American businessman Gerry Ford in London in 1997, with over 1,100 outlets across Europe and the Middle East.

Çağatay Ulusoy

Çağatay Ulusoy (born 1990, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor and model, Best Model of Turkey 2010, known for Adını Feriha Koydum, Medcezir, İçerde, Netflix's first Turkish original The Protector, Terzi, and Eşref Rüya.

Cage (rapper)

Cage, born Christian Palko, also known as Cage Kennylz, is an American underground rapper who came up through the New York underground in the 1990s.

Cage the Elephant

Cage the Elephant, American alternative rock band formed 2006 in Bowling Green, Kentucky; formerly Perfect Confusion members, known for "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked," six studio albums, and two Best Rock Album Grammys.

Caged Bird

"Caged Bird" is a 1983 poem by Maya Angelou contrasting a free bird with a caged bird that sings of freedom, as a metaphor for racial inequity.

Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey, the CBS female buddy cop drama (1982–1988) starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as NYPD detectives, twice Emmy winner for Best Drama Series, revived in 1984 after a viewer letter campaign.

Caguana Ceremonial Center

The Caguana Ceremonial Center (Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana) is a Taíno ball court and plaza site in Utuado, Puerto Rico, built around AD 1200–1500.

Cahiers d'Haïti

Cahiers d'Haïti was a Haitian literary review of the 1940s, part of a tradition dating to 1817 and shaped by indigenism and the surrealism carried to Haiti by André Breton and Aimé Césaire.

Cahill U.S. Marshal

Cahill U.S. Marshal, also listed as Cahill: United States Marshal, is a 1973 John Wayne Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, in which a widowed U.S. marshal's neglected sons become involved in a bank robbery he investigates.