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Cara Dillon

Cara Dillon (born 1975, Dungiven, County Derry) is a Northern Irish folk singer; All Ireland Singing Trophy winner at 14, ex-Equation, known for "Black Is the Colour" and albums Cara Dillon, Hill of Thieves, and Coming Home.

Cara Dune

Cara Dune (Carasynthia Dune), Star Wars character in The Mandalorian: Alderaanian Rebel shock trooper turned mercenary and Marshal of Nevarro, played by Gina Carano; written out after Carano's 2021 firing and settled lawsuit.

Cara Gee

Cara Gee is a Canadian Ojibwe actress from Calgary, Alberta, known for Camina Drummer in The Expanse, her TIFF-premiering lead debut Empire of Dirt (2014 Canadian Screen Award nomination), Strange Empire, The Call of the Wild, and The Expanse: A Telltale Series.

Cara Theobold

Cara Theobold (Cara Louise Theobold, born 1990) is an English actress from Wakefield known as Ivy Stuart in Downton Abbey and the English voice of Tracer in Overwatch and Overwatch 2.

Cara Williams

Cara Williams (Bernice Kamiat, 1925-2021), American actress, Oscar and Golden Globe nominee for The Defiant Ones (1958), star of CBS sitcoms Pete and Gladys and The Cara Williams Show.

Carabao Energy Drink

Carabao Energy Drink (คาราบาวแดง, Carabao Dang) is a Thai energy drink launched in 2002 by Carabao Tawandang, co-founded by band singer Aed Carabao; Thailand's second largest energy drink brand and title sponsor of the English Carabao Cup since 2017.

Carajillo

Carajillo: Spanish coffee drink mixing coffee with a spirit; in Spain hot with brandy, rum, anís, orujo, or whisky; in Mexico cold espresso with Licor 43 over ice; compared with caffè corretto and espresso martini.

Caramel

Caramel (焦糖, caramelo) is sugar heated until browned, covering both the chewy dairy-sugar confection and caramel color (E150a–d, four JECFA classes) used as a food colorant and flavoring.

Caramel (Sleep Token song)

Caramel (Sleep Token song): April 2025 single by the masked English band Sleep Token, second single from Even In Arcadia after Emergence. First UK Top 10 hit (No. 10), Billboard Hot 100 No. 34, Grammy-nominated, about fame and toxic fandom.

Caramel (سكر بنات) (2007 film)

Caramel (سكر بنات, Sukkar banat) is Nadine Labaki's 2007 French-Lebanese debut feature about five women around a Beirut beauty salon; it premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won three San Sebastian awards, and became Lebanon's Oscar candidate.

Caramel color

Caramel color (E150a-d, INS 150a-d, Class I-IV) is a dark brown colorant made by heating carbohydrates with acids, alkalis, or salts; four classes differ by reactants, with JECFA and EFSA ADIs and 4-MEI limits.

Caramelization

Caramelization is the heat-driven, non-enzymatic browning of sugars alone, distinct from the Maillard reaction, producing brown pigments and caramel aromas; thresholds vary by sugar, e.g. fructose about 150 °C.

Caramelldansen

Caramelldansen, Swedish for "The Caramel dance," is a 2001 song by Swedish pop group Caramell that became a durable internet meme when a sped-up remix was paired with a Popotan animation loop.

Caramelo (film)

Caramelo is a 2025 Brazilian Netflix comedy-drama directed by Diego Freitas, starring Rafael Vitti as chef Pedro and the dog Amendoim; it became Netflix's most globally successful Brazilian title with over 50 million views.

Caramuru

Caramuru is an epic poem by Frei José de Santa Rita Durão, published in Lisbon in 1781, about the shipwrecked Portuguese Diogo Álvares among the Tupinambá.

Carancho

Carancho is a 2010 Argentine noir thriller by Pablo Trapero, starring Ricardo Darín and Martina Gusmán, about an ambulance-chasing lawyer; Cannes Un Certain Regard film and Argentina's 83rd Academy Awards submission.

Carandiru

Carandiru (2003) is a Brazilian drama film by Hector Babenco, adapted from Drauzio Varella's book Estacao Carandiru, about a doctor in Sao Paulo's largest prison, culminating in the 1992 massacre of 111 inmates; it competed at Cannes.

Caravaggio

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, was an Italian Baroque painter who trained in Milan and worked in Rome. He is known for painting from posed models and his intense use of light.

Caravaggio (1986 film)

Caravaggio is Derek Jarman's 1986 British biographical drama about the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, starring Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, and Tilda Swinton; it won a Silver Bear for visual composition at the 1986 Berlinale.

Caravaggisti

Caravaggisti (caravaggisti, tenebrosi) were 17th-century European painters imitating Caravaggio's naturalism, tenebrism, and close-up compositions; term coined early 20th century, peaked after 1610, waned by mid-century.

Caravan (band)

Caravan, English progressive rock band formed in Canterbury in 1968 by ex-Wilde Flowers members Pye Hastings, the Sinclair cousins, and Richard Coughlan; key Canterbury scene band behind In the Land of Grey and Pink.

Caravan (कारवाँ) (1971 film)

Caravan (कारवाँ), 1971 Nasir Hussain Hindi film starring Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Aruna Irani, and Helen; R.D. Burman score with "Piya Tu Ab To Aaja"; hit in India and China.

Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (The Ewok Adventure) is a 1984 ABC made-for-TV Star Wars film directed by John Korty, starring Warwick Davis as Wicket, with 65 million viewers and an Emmy for visual effects.

Caravan Palace

Caravan Palace is a French electro-swing band from Paris, formed around 2006, blending Gypsy jazz and swing with electronic music. Albums: Caravan Palace (2008), Panic, Robot Face, Chronologic, Gangbusters Melody Club (2024).

Carbon print

A carbon print is a photographic print made from pigment suspended in gelatin rather than silver salts, introduced by Alphonse-Louis Poitevin in 1855 and perfected by Joseph Wilson Swan in 1864.

Carbonara

Carbonara (spaghetti alla carbonara) is Rome's egg-and-cheese pasta with guanciale and black pepper, no cream. A young dish: first mentioned 1950, first recipes 1952 (Chicago) and 1954 (La Cucina Italiana).

Carbonated water

Carbonated water, also called sparkling water, soda water, or seltzer, is water infused with CO2 under pressure. Artificially invented by Joseph Priestley in 1767 and commercialized by Jacob Schweppe around 1793; pH 4-5, hydrates like still water, minimal enamel effect when plain.

Carcass (band)

Carcass, Liverpool extreme metal band formed 1985 by Bill Steer and Ken Owen, pioneered goregrind on Reek of Putrefaction and melodic death metal on Heartwork; split 1996, reformed 2007, seven albums through Torn Arteries (2021).

Carcosa

Carcosa is a fictional ancient city invented by Ambrose Bierce in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886), borrowed by Robert W. Chambers in The King in Yellow (1895), then absorbed into the Lovecraft mythos, roleplaying games, and True Detective.

Card Sharks

Card Sharks is an American Goodson-Todman game show, also called Acey-Deucey, where contestants answer 100-person survey questions then call playing cards higher or lower; runs on NBC 1978-81 (Jim Perry), CBS 1986-89 (Bob Eubanks), syndication 2001, and ABC 2019-21 (Joel McHale).