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Cannabis smoking
Cannabis smoking, also called marijuana or pot smoking, is the inhalation of smoke from burning cannabis, the most common route of cannabis use, delivering THC rapidly to the bloodstream.
Canned Heat
Canned Heat (also Canned Heat Blues Band) is an American blues-rock/boogie band formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, named for Tommy Johnson's 1928 song; known for Woodstock 1969 and the hits On the Road Again, Going Up the Country, and Let's Work Together.
Cannery Row (novel)
Cannery Row is John Steinbeck's 1945 Viking Press novel of vignettes about Doc, Mack and the boys, Lee Chong, and Dora on a sardine-canning street in Monterey, California, built on a tide-pool metaphor and modeled on Ed Ricketts.
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), founded 31 May 1939 and first held in 1946, is the annual May film festival in Cannes, France, awarding the Palme d'or and hosting the Marché du Film, the world's largest film market.
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, French Prix d'interprétation féminine: the Cannes Film Festival's main-competition acting prize for women. Recent winner Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto (2026, Soudain); notable past winners include Maggie Cheung and Isabelle Huppert.
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse: American death metal band formed December 1988 in Buffalo, New York, based in Tampa, Florida, on Metal Blade Records. Sixteen studio albums, over two million records sold, first death metal band past one million albums; "Hammer Smashed Face" and the Ace Ventura appearance distinguish them from any other band of the same name.
Cannibal Ferox
Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly) is a 1981 Italian cannibal horror film directed and written by Umberto Lenzi, starring Giovanni Lombardo Radice as drug dealer Mike Logan and Lorraine De Selle as anthropology student Gloria Davis; notorious for real animal killings, the 'banned in 31 countries' tagline, and the UK video nasties list.
Cannibal film
Cannibal film: Italian exploitation horror subgenre, 1972 to late 1980s, launched by Man from Deep River and defined by Cannibal Holocaust, known for jungle settings, real animal killings, censorship, and pioneering found footage.
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust, also known as Holocausto caníbal, is Ruggero Deodato's 1980 Italian found-footage horror film about a documentary crew killed in the Amazon, notorious for unsimulated animal killings and its UK video nasty censorship history.
Cannibal Ox
Cannibal Ox, Harlem underground hip-hop duo of Vast Aire and Vordul Mega formed in 1998, best known for the El-P-produced 2001 debut The Cold Vein on Definitive Jux and the 2015 follow-up Blade of the Ronin.
Cannibal! The Musical
Cannibal! The Musical, originally Alferd Packer: The Musical, is a 1993 comedy-horror musical by Trey Parker and Matt Stone about Alferd Packer, who was never convicted of cannibalism.
Cannibalism in Africa
Cannibalism in Africa covers documented ritual and wartime cases (Zande, Leopard society, Mambasa 2003, Sahel videos) and the European colonial discourse of the savage African cannibal, largely refuted by modern anthropology since Arens' 1979 Man-Eating Myth.
Cannibalism!
CANNIBALISM! is a 2025 single by American pop singer Slayyyter (Catherine Grace Garner), released September 12 on RECORDS/Columbia, produced by Austin Corona and Wyatt Bernard, second single from WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, with a self-directed burlesque-club music video.
Canning
Canning preserves food by heat processing in sealed airtight containers, developed by Nicolas Appert in Napoleonic France. Key facts: pH 4.6 divides water-bath from pressure canning; 12D botulinum standard at 121.1 °C.
Cannonball (Marvel Comics)
Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero, a founding New Mutant created by Claremont and McLeod in 1982, who propels himself through the air with thermo-chemical energy behind a protective blast field, later joining X-Force, the X-Men, and the Avengers.
Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley (Julian Edwin Adderley, 1928–1975), American jazz alto saxophonist of hard bop and soul jazz; played on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, led his own quintet with brother Nat, and scored hits "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and "Country Preacher."
Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II is a 1984 American action comedy centering on an illegal cross-country dash between the Pacific and Atlantic, featuring con men and mobsters.
Cannons (band)
Cannons (キャノンズ) is a Los Angeles indie electro-pop trio formed in 2013: Michelle Joy, Ryan Clapham, Paul Davis. Known for "Fire for You" (RIAA Gold, Billboard Alternative Airplay No. 1) and albums Night Drive through Everything Glows (2026) on Columbia; distinct from the Canadian band of the same name.
Cano Estremera
Cano Estremera, born Carlos Estremera Colón, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer and sonero known as "El Dueño del Soneo", who rose with Bobby Valentín's orchestra.
Canon (fiction)
Canon (fiction): the officially true events and works of a fictional world, as with Star Trek films-only canon and Star Wars' Holocron tiers and 2014 Legends reclassification, distinct from fan fiction and apocrypha.
Canon (music)
Canon (卡农), from Greek kanon (rule), is the strictest contrapuntal form: voices imitate a leader melody exactly after fixed delays. Distinguished from the round (infinite canon) and fugue; best known from Pachelbel's Canon in D.
Canon of Sherlock Holmes
The Canon of Sherlock Holmes is the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, four novels and fifty-six short stories published between 1887 and 1927.
Canon of Ten Attic Orators
The Canon of Ten Attic Orators is the ancient list of ten Classical Athenian orators, from Antiphon to Demosthenes and Hyperides, whose works were selected for preservation and study.
Canserbero
Canserbero (Tirone José González Orama), Venezuelan rapper born 1988, died 19 January 2015 in Maracay; albums Vida (2010) and Muerte (2012); named best Spanish-language rapper by Rolling Stone; 2023 investigation proved murder by his ex-manager.
Canso
The canso is the principal lyric genre of the troubadours, a strophic courtly love song in Occitan on the theme of fin'amor, flourishing from the early twelfth century.
Cansu Dere
Cansu Dere, Turkish actress, presenter, and former model born 1980 in Ankara. Third in Miss Turkey 2000; known for Sıla, Ezel (Eyşan), Anne, Şahsiyet, and Sadakatsiz (Asya Yılmaz); reported return with Mavi Orkide.
Cantar de gesta
A cantar de gesta, Spanish for "song of deeds", is a medieval Spanish epic poem about a hero, sung publicly by minstrels; the Cantar de Mío Cid is the chief example.
Cantares de Dzitbalché
The Songs of Dzitbalché (Cantares de Dzitbalché) is an 18th-century manuscript of 15 lyric and ritual songs in Yucatec Maya, holding most surviving ancient Maya lyric poetry.
Cantares gallegos
Cantares gallegos (Galician Songs) is an 1863 poetry collection by Rosalía de Castro, published in Vigo and regarded as pivotal in reviving Galician literature, starting the Rexurdimento.
Cantares Mexicanos
The Cantares Mexicanos is a sixteenth-century manuscript of 91 songs in Nahuatl, preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional de México and recognized as the chief source of Aztec poetry.