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Corinne Marchand
Corinne Marchand, stage name of Denise Marchand, is a French singer and actress best known as Cléo in Agnès Varda's Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962).
Corinthian (comics)
The Corinthian is a nightmare character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comics, created by Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg, debuting in Sandman #10 (October 1989). A tooth-eyed serial killer created by Morpheus as a dark mirror of humanity, he starred in Vertigo and Sandman Universe spin-offs and the Netflix adaptation.
Corinthian helmet
Corinthian helmet: the full-face bronze helmet of the Greek hoplite, named from Herodotus, hammered from a single bronze sheet, used from about 700 BC through the 4th century BC and widely copied in Italy.
Coriolanus
Coriolanus is Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, written around 1607-8 and first published in the 1623 First Folio. It follows Caius Martius Coriolanus, banished from Rome, who allies with Aufidius against the city before his mother Volumnia persuades him to spare it.
Coriolanus (film)
Coriolanus (2011) is Ralph Fiennes's directorial debut, a modern-dress film adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, scripted by John Logan, shot in Belgrade with Balkan-war imagery, starring Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brian Cox.
Coriolanus Snow
Coriolanus Snow, president of Panem in The Hunger Games, is traced from 18-year-old Capitol Academy mentor of Lucy Gray Baird in the 10th Hunger Games prequel to tyrant, portrayed by Tom Blyth, Donald Sutherland, and Ralph Fiennes.
Cork taint
Cork taint is a wine fault causing musty, wet-cardboard odors, mainly from 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), first identified in 1982. It affects an estimated 2-5% of bottled wines, costs over a billion dollars yearly, and is largely prevented by screw caps and technical corks.
Corky Ballas
Corky Ballas (Mark Alexander Ballas Sr.), American retired competitive ballroom dancer, World Professional Latin Champion 1995-1996 and Blackpool British Open winner; ex-husband of Shirley Ballas, father of Mark Ballas, and a Dancing with the Stars pro.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., American novelist of Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road; National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur Fellow.
Cormoran Strike
Cormoran Strike is the private detective protagonist of J.K. Rowling's crime series written as Robert Galbraith, starting with The Cuckoo's Calling (2013). An ex-RMP veteran with a prosthetic leg, he runs a London agency with Robin Ellacott; eight novels exist plus a BBC adaptation.
Corn flakes
Corn flakes are toasted corn breakfast flakes invented at the Battle Creek Sanitarium by John Harvey and Will Kellogg in the 1890s; Will Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 to mass-produce Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Corn Laws
Corn Laws: British protectionist grain tariffs and import restrictions enacted in 1815 under Lord Liverpool (wheat threshold 80 shillings per quarter), repealed in June 1846 by Sir Robert Peel, splitting the Conservative Party and beginning Britain's free trade era.
Cornbread
Cornbread is a quick bread of cornmeal, chemically leavened in the U.S., learned from Native American cooking and named pone; Southern versions are unsweetened skillet breads, Northern ones sweet, and it remains central to Southern and Appalachian foodways.
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), also released as Hit the Open Man, is a Joe Manduke drama adapted from Ronald Fair's novel Hog Butcher, in which police mistakenly shoot a star basketball player; it marked Laurence Fishburne's film debut.
Corned beef
Corned beef: salt-brined (or historically dry-salted, "corns" of salt) beef, usually brisket flat, boiled or slow-cooked; Irish export history via Cork, Irish-American St. Patrick's Day dish, distinct from smoked pastrami; USDA 145°F cooking guidance.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde (Kornél Lajos Weisz, 1912–1989), Hungarian-American actor, producer, and director; Oscar-nominated as Chopin in A Song to Remember (1945), fencer, founder of Theodora Productions, and director of The Naked Prey (1965).
Cornelia Sharpe
Cornelia Sharpe (Cornelia Lynn Sharpe, born 1943, Selma, Alabama) is an American former actress and model known for Leslie Lane in Serpico (1973) and the assassin Nicole Scott opposite Sean Connery in The Next Man (1976); married producer Martin Bregman in 1981.
Cornelis Vreeswijk
Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937-1987), Dutch-born Swedish troubadour, poet, and actor; breakthrough with Ballader och oförskämdheter (1964); blended blues, jazz, and chanson with the Swedish visa tradition; never took Swedish citizenship; died of liver cancer in Stockholm.
Cornelius (Planet of the Apes)
Cornelius is a chimpanzee character name in Planet of the Apes: the scientist played by Roddy McDowall in the 1968 film (from Boulle's Cornélius) and Caesar's reboot son (born 2026, San Francisco Ape Colony).
Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos (c. 99–24 BC), Cisalpine Gaul-born Roman biographer, friend of Cicero, Catullus, and Atticus; wrote De viris illustribus, of which the foreign generals book and lives of Cato and Atticus survive.
Corner Gas
Corner Gas is a Canadian sitcom created by Brent Butt, set in fictional Dog River, Saskatchewan, airing on CTV 2004-2009 for six seasons and 107 episodes; Canada's top-rated primetime sitcom, later spawning a 2014 movie and an animated series.
Cornershop
Cornershop is an English indie rock band formed in Leicester in 1993, led by Tjinder Singh, known for fusing British indie with Punjabi and Indian styles; its 1997 album When I Was Born for the 7th Time and single Brimful of Asha brought international acclaim. Distinct from the Cornershop grocery delivery app.
Cornerstone Festival
Cornerstone Festival was an annual Christian music and arts festival in Illinois run by Jesus People USA, 1984-2012, first drawing 5,000 and peaking over 25,000; the final Bushnell edition ended July 2012.
Cornet
Cornet: B-flat brass instrument with three piston valves and a conical bore, developed from the post horn in the 1820s; warmer than the trumpet, home of the brass band cornet section.
Cornetto (frozen dessert)
Cornetto is a chocolate-lined wafer cone ice cream brand invented in 1959 by Spica of Naples, acquired by Unilever in 1976, and now a power brand of The Magnum Ice Cream Company, sold as Algida, Wall's, or Kibon by market.
Corning Opera House (Iowa)
The Corning Opera House is a restored 1902 performance hall in Corning, Iowa, built by Frederick Charles Reese and reopened as a community venue in 2012.
CorningWare
CorningWare is a Corning-introduced (1958) cookware brand originally made of Pyroceram glass-ceramic, stovetop-safe with near-zero thermal expansion; since 2000 mostly stoneware, now under Corelle Brands.
Cornrows
Cornrows are scalp-flat African braids worked in rows with an underhand technique. Also called canerows in the Caribbean, they are protective styles, carry traction alopecia risk, and feature in CROWN Act and braiding-licensing debates.
Cornucopia (film)
Cornucopia (film) most commonly refers to Björk's 2025 concert film directed by Ísold Uggadóttir, shot at Lisbon's Altice Arena, released theatrically May 7, 2025; also a 2025 Mark H. Rapaport cult drama and a 2023 short.
Coromandel screen
A Coromandel screen is a large Chinese folding screen made with kuancai lacquer, carved and filled with colored pigments, exported to Europe via India's Coromandel coast.