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Calais Jungle
The Calais Jungle, also known as Camp de la Lande, was an informal refugee camp near Calais, France, home to about 10,000 migrants until its demolition in October 2016.
California Verbal Learning Test
The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) is a neuropsychological test in which the examinee recalls a semantically structured word list over repeated trials and after delays.
Call girl
A call girl, or escort prostitute, is a female sex worker who arranges meetings with clients by phone or internet rather than working from a fixed location.
Calusa
The Calusa were a non-agricultural Native American people of southwest Florida whose kingdom, ruled from the capital Mound Key, was the most powerful polity in the region at Spanish contact.
Calvine UFO photograph
The Calvine UFO photograph, taken 4 August 1990 near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland, is the sole surviving print of six images of a diamond-shaped object with a jet; MoD examined the negatives inconclusively and analysis remains contested.
Camarioca boatlift
The Camarioca boatlift was an autumn 1965 seaborne migration in which several thousand Cubans left Cuba through the small port of Camarioca for Florida.
Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery
The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) is a computerized touchscreen battery of about 25 tasks measuring memory, attention, and executive function, owned by Cambridge Cognition.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Camila Batmanghelidjh, also known as Kamylā Batmanghelych, was an Iranian-born British psychotherapist and charity leader who founded Kids Company in London in 1996 and led it until its 2015 closure.
Camille Étienne
Camille Étienne (born 1998) is a French climate and social justice activist, Sciences Po and Oxford alumna, spokesperson of On Est Prêt, author of Pour un soulèvement écologique (2023), and PFAS campaigner.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is a British advocacy group founded in 1958 that campaigns for abolishing nuclear weapons, best known for the Aldermaston marches, the slogan Ban the Bomb, and its peace symbol logo.
Campaign for Real Ale
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is a British volunteer-run consumer organization founded in 1971 to campaign for real ale, real cider, and the survival of traditional pubs.
Canada convoy protest
Canada convoy protest (Freedom Convoy): 2022 trucker demonstrations against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that occupied Ottawa and blockaded U.S. border crossings, prompting Canada's first-ever Emergencies Act invocation, later ruled unreasonable by the Federal Court of Appeal.
Canadian ethnicity
Canadian ethnicity is the self-reported ethnic or cultural ancestry recorded in Canada's census; over 450 origins appeared in 2021, led by Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish and French origins.
Canadians
Canadians are the people of Canada, about 41.8 million in 2026, including citizens by birth and naturalization, shaped by bilingualism, multiculturalism, and sustained immigration.
Cañari
The Cañari (Kañari) are an indigenous people of the southern Ecuadorian Andes whose pre-Inca culture flourished from about 500 BC to 1460 AD, known above all for ceramics.
Cancel culture
Cancel culture is the public calling out and ostracism of norm transgressors on social media, involving shaming, boycotts, and deplatforming. Rooted in Black Twitter callout practice, widely discussed after #MeToo and the 2020 Harper's letter.
Candaulism
Candaulism is a sexual practice in which a person exposes their partner, or images of them, to others for voyeuristic pleasure, named after King Candaules of Lydia.
Candy Carson
Candy Carson, born Lacena Rustin, is an American author, musician, and philanthropist; wife of Ben Carson, co-founder of the Carson Scholars Fund (1994), Yale-trained violinist with a Johns Hopkins MBA, and author of the 2016 memoir A Doctor in the House.
Cangaço
Cangaço was a form of rural banditry in the backlands of Northeastern Brazil from roughly 1870 to 1940, whose most famous leader was Lampião, the "King of the Cangaço".
Cannibalism in Asia
Cannibalism in Asia covers both actual human anthropophagy in Asian history, from Tang-dynasty Arabic accounts to famine-era records, and the colonial and imperial discourses that attributed cannibalism to Asian peoples.
Cannibalism in Europe
Cannibalism in Europe is the consumption of human flesh, documented from the Early Pleistocene to the modern era, including historical cases of famine and medicine.
Cannibalism in Oceania
Cannibalism in Oceania: endo- and exocannibalism in New Guinea, Fiji, and Polynesia; archaeological evidence from Rossel Island; kuru among the Fore; and the colonial man-eating myth debate.
Cantonese people (广东人)
Cantonese people (广东人, Guangdong ren) are the people of Guangdong province, narrowly the Yue-speaking Pearl River delta subgroup alongside Hakka and Teochew; about 84.9 million speak Cantonese, with large diasporas in Southeast Asia, North America, and Hong Kong.
Caolan Robertson
Caolan Robertson (born 1994, Kilkenny, Ireland) is an Irish independent war correspondent based in Kyiv, formerly a far-right video maker for Rebel News and Tommy Robinson, now a Patreon-funded Ukraine reporter awarded Ukraine's Order of Merit (third class) in 2026.
Cape Coloureds
Cape Coloureds are a Western Cape South African community of mixed Khoisan, slave (East, Malaysia, Central Africa), and European descent, shaped by colonial classification, apartheid disenfranchisement, District Six removals, and Afrikaans culture.
Cape Dutch
Cape Dutch, also known as Cape Afrikaners, refers to the Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, their spoken dialect, and a regional architectural style.
Cape Malays
Cape Malays: Muslim, largely Afrikaans-speaking community of Cape Town descended from VOC-era slaves and exiles from the Dutch East Indies and Indian Ocean colonies; classified as a Coloured subgroup in 1950.
Cape Verdeans
Cape Verdeans (Cabo-verdianos) are the Creole people of the Cabo Verde archipelago and their diaspora, descending from Portuguese settlers and enslaved Africans after 1462, speaking Kriolu, independent since 5 July 1975, and living today mostly abroad.
Capital punishment for homosexuality
Capital punishment for homosexuality: execution for consensual same-sex conduct, once a capital crime in all thirteen American colonies and now imposed or possible in about 12 jurisdictions including Iran, northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Yemen.
Capitol Crawl
The Capitol Crawl was a disability rights protest on March 12, 1990, when about 60 activists of the ADAPT-led march crawled up the 78 Capitol steps to demand passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed July 26, 1990.