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Byzantine–Venetian treaties and chrysobulls
The Byzantine–Venetian treaties and chrysobulls were golden-sealed imperial acts granting Venice commercial privileges, beginning in 992, before Pisa and Genoa, and continuing through renewals and crises until 1453.
Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil
Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil, also known as Flint Sky God K, was a Maya prince of Tikal who founded and ruled the city of Dos Pilas, Guatemala, in the 7th century.
C
Letter C, third letter of the Latin alphabet, Unicode U+0043 (lowercase U+0063). Descends from Phoenician gimel via Greek gamma and Etruscan; in English it has hard /k/ and soft /s/ values, with diacritic variants Ć, Č, and others.
Ç
Ç (c with cedilla, Unicode U+00C7/U+00E7) is a Latin letter marking soft c in French, Portuguese, and Catalan and the ch sound in Turkish; dropped from the Spanish alphabet in 1775.
C corporation
A C corporation is the default US federal tax classification of a corporation under Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code, taxed at a flat 21 percent with double taxation of dividends, unlimited shareholders, and Form 1120 filing, contrasted with the S corporation election.
C data types
C data types: the ISO C (ISO/IEC 9899) type system, including char, signed and unsigned integers, floating and C23 BitInt and decimal types, sizes, ranges, and semantics.
C syntax
C syntax: the grammar, lexical rules, and constraints of the C programming language defined by ISO/IEC 9899 (C23, 2024), including the typedef ambiguity that makes C not context-free and the phase-ordered translation model.
C-Bridge Healthcare
C-Bridge Healthcare is a family of healthcare-dedicated private equity funds managed by C-Bridge Capital LLC within CBC Group, a Singapore firm founded by Wei Fu in 2014.
C-Cube Microsystems
C-Cube Microsystems was a Milpitas, California semiconductor company founded in 1988 that pioneered MPEG video compression chips, powering Video CD, satellite, and DVD players before LSI Logic acquired it in 2001 for about $878 million.
C-Cube, Wanyan
Wanyan (万燕) was a consumer-electronics company in Hefei, Anhui province, co-founded in 1993 by Jiang Wanmeng and Sun Yansheng, which built the world's first commercial VCD player.
C-Group culture
The C-Group culture was an agro-pastoralist archaeological culture of cattle herders in Lower Nubia, between the First and Second Cataracts of the Nile, from roughly 2500 to 1500 BC.
C-Quest
C-Quest, legally CQC Impact Investors LLC, was a Washington, DC carbon credit developer founded in 2008 by Kenneth Newcombe, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025 after a $250 million offering fraud.
C-SPAN
C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is a nonprofit network created by the cable industry in 1979 by Brian Lamb, airing unedited gavel-to-gavel House and Senate coverage funded by affiliate fees, with no government money.
C-test
A C-test is a gap-filling language test deleting the second half of every second word in short texts, introduced in 1981 and widely used for placement at German universities.
C. A. Rosetti
C. A. Rosetti, born Constantin A. Rosetti, was a Romanian politician and journalist who led the 1848 revolution in Wallachia, founded the newspaper Românul, and co-founded the National Liberal Party.
C. A. Royal
C. Ashley Royal is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
C. Arden Pope
C. Arden Pope is an American economist at Brigham Young University whose landmark cohort studies linked fine particulate air pollution to mortality and shaped federal air-quality standards.
C. D. Jones II
C. D. Jones II, also known as C. Darnell Jones, II, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, confirmed in 2008.
C. F. Tietgen
Carl Frederik Tietgen (1829–1901) was a Danish banker and industrial financier, managing director of Privatbanken from 1857 and co-founder of the Tuborg brewery, who founded DFDS and the Great Northern Telegraph Company.
C. I. Lewis
C. I. Lewis, born Clarence Irving Lewis, was an American philosopher and logician at Harvard known as the father of modern modal logic and founder of conceptual pragmatism.
C. J. Rapp
C. J. Rapp is an American soft-drink entrepreneur from Rochester, New York, who founded Jolt Cola in 1985, marketed as "All the sugar and twice the caffeine."
C. J. Roy
C. J. Roy, born Roy Chiriankandath Joseph, was an Indian entrepreneur who founded the Bengaluru-based Confident Group and built 43 million square feet of property.
C. Joseph Vijay ministry
C. Joseph Vijay ministry: Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers under TVK chief minister Vijay, sworn in 10 May 2026 after TVK won 108 of 234 seats; first coalition government since 1952 with Congress, VCK, and IUML, expanded to 33 ministers on 22 May 2026.
C. K. Gunsalus
C. K. Gunsalus, or C. Kristina Gunsalus, is an American research-ethics scholar and attorney who directs NCPRE and is a professor emerita of business at the University of Illinois.
C. L. Franklin
C. L. Franklin, born Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, was an American Baptist preacher who led Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church from 1946 and was the father of singer Aretha Franklin.
C. L. John
C. L. John is an Indian politician from Nagaland, a Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party minister in the state government holding the Forest, Environment and Climate Change, and Village Guard portfolios.
C. L. R. James
C. L. R. James (Cyril Lionel Robert James, 1901–1989), Trinidadian Marxist historian and cultural critic, author of The Black Jacobins (1938) on the Haitian Revolution and Beyond a Boundary (1963) on cricket; expelled from the US in 1953.
C. Lalsawivunga
C. Lalsawivunga is an Indian politician from Mizoram, a Zoram People's Movement member of the legislative assembly from Aizawl South-I who holds several ministerial portfolios, including horticulture.
C. Lloyd Morgan
C. Lloyd Morgan, born Conwy Lloyd Morgan, was a British psychologist and zoologist, a pioneer of comparative psychology best known for Morgan's canon, his 1894 principle of animal behavior interpretation.
C. M. Ramesh
C. M. Ramesh, born 1965, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving in the Lok Sabha from Anakapalle, Andhra Pradesh, after a term in the Rajya Sabha.