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Culture of the United Arab Emirates
Culture of the United Arab Emirates: Emirati culture rooted in Arabian Islamic traditions, hospitality, Al-Ayyala, falconry, and pearl-diving heritage, within a 200-nationality multicultural society; Al Ain World Heritage site and 21 UNESCO intangible heritage elements.
Culture of the United Kingdom
Culture of the United Kingdom: arts, languages, religion, sport and everyday customs of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; also called British culture, shaped by Roman, Norman and industrial-era history.
Culture of the United States
Culture of the United States: Western, English-based national culture shaped by European, African, Native American, and immigrant influences; marked by individualism, religiosity, regional diversity, and globally exported entertainment and technology.
Culture of Ukraine
Culture of Ukraine: the language, literature, folk arts, cuisine, and heritage of Ukraine. Key facts: independence 1991, Soviet suppression and Ukrainization 1923–33, derussification, UNESCO heritage, wartime cultural damage.
Culture of Uttar Pradesh
Culture of Uttar Pradesh, the cultural heritage of India's most populous state, spanning the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, languages such as Awadhi, Bhojpuri, and Braj, crafts like Lucknow chikankari and Banarasi silk, the Taj Mahal and Agra's three UNESCO sites, and festivals including Taj Mahotsav and Ayodhya's Deepotsav.
Culture of Vietnam
Culture of Vietnam (văn hóa Việt Nam): the beliefs, customs, language, and arts of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, layered from Đông Sơn wet-rice origins through Chinese and Western influence, with UNESCO-listed intangible heritage such as Ca trù and gong culture.
Culture series
The Culture series: nine science fiction novels by Scottish author Iain M. Banks (1987–2012) plus The State of the Art, set in a post-scarcity interstellar utopia run by AI Minds, begun with Consider Phlebas; books are standalone and unrelated to other works named Culture.
Cultured corn starch (Corynebacterium fermentate)
Cultured corn starch (Corynebacterium fermentate), also called corn sauce, is corn starch hydrolyzed by food-grade enzymes and fermented by Corynebacterium glutamicum or C. stationis; Nestlé notified FDA as GRAS in GRN 792 and 793, closed April 26, 2019, for savory foods at 0.76% or 0.25%.
Culver's
Culver's is an American fast-casual chain founded July 18, 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin by Craig and Lea Culver, known for ButterBurgers and Fresh Frozen Custard, with 1,041 restaurants in 26 states.
Cum On Feel the Noize
Cum On Feel the Noize: 1973 Slade glam rock single written by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea, produced by Chas Chandler; entered UK chart at number 1 for four weeks, later a US number 5 hit for Quiet Riot in 1983.
Cum shot
Cum shot, also called the "money shot": a filmed depiction of male ejaculation that ends a hardcore sex scene. Emerged as a required porn genre convention in the early 1970s via Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, distinct from earlier stag films and meat shots.
Cum Town
Cum Town is an American comedy podcast hosted by Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias, and Adam Friedland from 2016 to 2022, known for lewd, deliberately offensive improvisational humor.
Cumberland sausage
Cumberland sausage: English pork sausage from Cumbria, sold as an unlinked spiral coil, coarse-cut, heavily peppered. Protected as Traditional Cumberland Sausage (PGI) since EU registration in March 2011.
Cumbi
Cumbi, also spelled qompi or gompi, was the finest cloth of the Inca Empire, a double-faced tapestry weave of camelid fiber and cotton reserved for the ruler and nobility.
Cumbia
Cumbia: Colombian Caribbean music genre, dance, and social practice from the Bajo Magdalena, blending African drums, Indigenous gaita flutes, and European elements; spread across Latin America with variants like cumbia villera, sonidera, and chicha.
Cumbia colombiana
Cumbia colombiana is a Colombian music and dance genre born on the Caribbean coast around the Magdalena River valley, played on flutes and drums and declared national intangible heritage in 2024.
Cumbia pop
Cumbia pop, also known as cumbia cheta, is a pop style built on the cumbia rhythm that arose in the Río de la Plata region around 2010 and peaked in 2015.
Cumbia villera
Cumbia villera is an Argentine cumbia subgenre born in the late 1990s in the shantytowns of Buenos Aires, with lyrics about marginal life, police, and drugs.
Cümbüş
The cümbüş, a Turkish fretless metal-bodied plucked lute blending oud tuning and banjo-like construction, invented by Zeynel Abidin Bey and named by Atatürk on 14 January 1930; six double courses, oud-style tuning, family of interchangeable-neck variants.
Cumhuriyet edebiyatı
Cumhuriyet edebiyatı (literature of the Republican era) is the Turkish literature produced since the Republic was proclaimed on 29 October 1923, treated as the final phase of the modernization movement begun with the Tanzimat.
Čumil (statue)
Čumil is a 1997 bronze statue by Viktor Hulík in Bratislava's Old Town, showing a man peeking out of a manhole; also called Man at Work or the sewage worker, it is among the city's most photographed landmarks.
Cummerbund
Cummerbund (kamarband, کمربند): broad pleated waist sash of South Asian origin, adopted by 19th-century British officers in India, now black-tie formalwear worn pleats-up; since 2026 also a fashion trend.
Cung oán ngâm khúc
Cung oán ngâm khúc, written in 18th-century chữ Nôm script by the poet Nguyễn Gia Thiều, is an extended lament from the perspective of a discarded palace concubine.
Cunk on Earth
Cunk on Earth is a five-part British mockumentary created by Charlie Brooker, starring Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, first airing on BBC Two in September 2022.
Cunning Single Lady (앙큼한 돌싱녀)
Cunning Single Lady (앙큼한 돌싱녀, Sly and Single Again) is a 2014 MBC Korean romantic comedy drama, 16 episodes, starring Lee Min-jung and Joo Sang-wook as divorced exes; ratings 5.4% to 9.2%, remade in Turkey in 2021.
Cuno (Disco Elysium)
Cuno (Kuuno de Ruyter) is a foul-mouthed, speed-addicted 12-year-old in Disco Elysium (ZA/UM, 2019), first met throwing rocks at the hanged man in Martinaise; conditionally recruitable, voiced by Dot Major then Oliver Dabiri, written mainly by Argo Tuulik.
Cup
Cup: a small open drinking vessel, from Old English cuppe via Late Latin cuppa. Covers skull-cup and skaal roots, wassail and loving cup customs, Inka queros, and the Dixie and SOLO disposable cups born of germ campaigns.
Cup (film)
Cup (കപ്പ്), also Cup: Love All Play, is a 2024 Malayalam sports drama directed by Sanju V Samuel, starring Mathew Thomas as a badminton-dreaming Idukki teenager; released 27 September 2024, streaming on Manorama Max and Prime Video.
Cup and ring mark
Cup and ring marks are Neolithic and early Bronze Age abstract rock carvings, a shallow cup surrounded by concentric grooves, found across Atlantic Europe, especially northern Britain, Ireland and Galicia; their meaning remains unknown.
Cup Noodles
Cup Noodles (カップヌードル) is Nissin's instant ramen in a foam cup, launched September 18, 1971 by Momofuku Ando as the world's first cup-type noodles; over 50 billion servings sold in 100 countries.