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Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 Neal Stephenson techno-thriller alternating WWII codebreaking (Waterhouse, Shaftoe, Bletchley Park, Detachment 2702) with 1990s data-haven entrepreneurs, featuring Bruce Schneier's Solitaire card cipher and themes of cryptography, money, and secrecy.
Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy is a Canadian brutal and technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1988 and best known for its landmark 1996 album None So Vile.
Cryptosis
Cryptosis, formerly the old-school thrash band Distillator, is a Dutch progressive thrash metal trio from Enschede, Netherlands, formed in 2020 and signed to Century Media Records.
Crystal (Fleetwood Mac song)
"Crystal" is a folk-pop ballad written by Stevie Nicks, first recorded by Buckingham Nicks in 1973 and re-recorded by Fleetwood Mac for its self-titled 1975 album, sung by Lindsey Buckingham.
Crystal Bernard
Crystal Bernard (Crystal Lynn Bernard), American actress and country singer-songwriter born in Garland, Texas; played Helen Chappel Hackett on NBC's Wings (1990–97), K.C. on Happy Days, Amy on It's a Living; albums The Girl Next Door (1996) and Don't Touch Me There (1999).
Crystal Boys
Crystal Boys (孽子) is a 1983 novel by Taiwanese writer Pai Hsien-yung, serialized from 1977, following gay youths exiled to Taipei's New Park, and widely known as the first gay novel in Chinese.
Crystal Castles
The Canadian electronic music duo Crystal Castles, formed in 2004 by Ethan Kath and Alice Glass, is known for abrasive, 8-bit-influenced music featuring vintage video-game sound chips.
Crystal Chappell
Crystal Chappell (born 1965, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American soap actress, Emmy winner for Guiding Light's Olivia Spencer, also Carly Manning on Days of Our Lives, and creator of the web series Venice the Series.
Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Webb, born 1951) is an American country-pop singer, Loretta Lynn's youngest sister, known for "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," 17 country number ones, and the first platinum album by a female country artist.
Crystal Head Vodka
Crystal Head Vodka: Canadian ultra-premium vodka founded in 2008 by Dan Aykroyd and John Alexander, sold in a skull-shaped bottle. Additive-free expressions Original (corn), Aurora (wheat), Onyx (agave), made in St. John's, Newfoundland, filtered through Herkimer diamonds.
Crystal Hefner
Crystal Hefner (Crystal M. Harris, born 1986) is an American model and memoirist, third wife of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (married 2012, widowed 2017), author of the 2024 New York Times bestselling memoir Only Say Good Things; later a California and Hawaii real estate agent.
Crystal Lake (TV series)
Crystal Lake is a 2026 Peacock and A24 horror prequel series to Friday the 13th, created by Brad Caleb Kane, starring Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees; eight episodes premiered October 15, 2026 after Bryan Fuller's 2024 exit.
Crystal Lowe
Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe (born 1981, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress and director, a mid-2000s scream queen in Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas, and Rita Haywith on Hallmark's Signed, Sealed, Delivered; distinct from Krystal S. Lowe, the Welsh dancer-choreographer.
Crystal Pepsi
Crystal Pepsi is PepsiCo's clear, caffeine-free cola launched in the US and Canada in 1992, discontinued in 1994 after $470 million in first-year sales, and revived for limited runs in 2015, 2016, and later.
Crystal R. Fox
Crystal R. Fox (born 1965, Tryon, North Carolina) is an American actress, Officer Luann Corbin in In the Heat of the Night and Hanna Young in Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots, also a longtime Atlanta regional theater performer.
Crystal Reed
Crystal Reed (Crystal Marie Reed, born 1985, Detroit) is an American actress known for Allison Argent on Teen Wolf, Sofia Falcone on Gotham, and Abby Arcane on Swamp Thing, returning in Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023).
Crystal the Monkey
Crystal the Monkey, born 1994, is a female tufted capuchin animal actor trained by Tom Gunderson, known as Dexter in Night at the Museum and the drug-dealing monkey in The Hangover Part II, reportedly earning $12,000 per episode on Animal Practice.
Crystal Waters
Crystal Waters (born 1961, New Jersey) is an American house singer-songwriter behind "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" (1991) and "100% Pure Love" (1994), with 12 Billboard Dance #1s, six ASCAP awards, and the I AM HOUSE radio show.
Crystle Stewart
Crystle Danae Stewart (born 1981) is an American actress and Miss USA 2008 from Texas, later first Black woman licensed as national director of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, and star of Netflix's Beauty in Black.
Crywank
Crywank are an English anti-folk band from Manchester, formed in 2009 by James Clayton with drummer Dan Watson. Known for Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday and Everyday Is Stupid (2013), self-managed DIY releases, and a 2019 breakup tour canceled by Covid.
Családi kör
Családi kör ("Family Circle") is an 1851 narrative poem by János Arany, one of the best-known Hungarian folk idylls, adapted from a poem by Robert Burns.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the CBS forensic crime drama created by Anthony E. Zuiker, premiered October 6, 2000, ran 15 seasons and 337 episodes, reached number one in ratings, spawned four spin-offs, and gave rise to the debated CSI effect.
CSI: Cyber
CSI: Cyber is a 2015-2016 CBS police procedural, the fourth CSI spin-off, starring Patricia Arquette as FBI cyber psychologist Avery Ryan; 31 episodes over two seasons before its cancellation ended the franchise run.
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami), the first CSI spin-off, is an American CBS crime drama (2002-2012, 10 seasons, 232 episodes) starring David Caruso as Horatio Caine, created by Zuiker, Donahue, and Mendelsohn, and named the world's most popular TV show in 2005.
CSI: NY
CSI: NY (CSI: New York) is a CBS crime procedural, the third CSI franchise incarnation and a CSI: Miami spin-off, created by Donahue, Zuiker, and Mendelsohn; it ran nine seasons, 197 episodes, 2004-2013, starring Gary Sinise as Mac Taylor.
CSJH The Grace
CSJH The Grace, also known as Cheon Sang Ji Hee The Grace, is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment that debuted in 2005.
CSN (album)
CSN (1977) is Crosby, Stills & Nash's third album, the second trio record and first without Neil Young, released by Atlantic. It peaked at number 2 on Billboard, sold over four million copies, and yielded the top-ten single "Just A Song Before I Go".
Csongor and Tünde
Csongor and Tünde (Csongor és Tünde) is an 1831 five-act verse fairy-tale drama by Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty, following Csongor's search for the fairy Tünde, first staged in 1879.
Cthulhu Mythos
Cthulhu Mythos is the shared cosmic-horror universe from H. P. Lovecraft's stories, named by August Derleth after Lovecraft's death; it features the Great Old Ones, the Necronomicon, and fictional New England, and has no fixed canon.
CTI Records
CTI Records (Creed Taylor Inc.), founded 1967 under A&M and independent from 1970, was a 1970s American jazz label defined by Rudy Van Gelder recordings, Don Sebesky arrangements, and lush gatefold packaging; bankrupt in 1978, it spawned Kudu and predated smooth jazz.