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Cabinet of the Philippines
Cabinet of the Philippines: body of advisers to the President, composed of heads of executive departments per the 1987 Constitution; appointed by the President with Commission on Appointments consent, reshuffled through the May 2025 courtesy resignations.
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
Cabinet of the United Kingdom: the senior ministerial committee heading HM Government. Known for collective responsibility, Lloyd George's 1916-1922 modernization, the Cabinet Office, and the 2011 Cabinet Manual.
Cabinet of the United States
Cabinet of the United States: advisory body under Article II, Section 2, made up of the Vice President and heads of the 15 executive departments; began with Hamilton's 1789 confirmation and Washington's first meeting on November 26, 1791.
Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: UK government department created in 1916 that supports the Prime Minister and Cabinet, coordinates policy and national security, and serves as corporate headquarters alongside HM Treasury.
Cabinet Secretary (India)
Cabinet Secretary of India (मंत्रिमंडल सचिवालय head): senior-most civil servant, administrative head of the Cabinet Secretariat under the Prime Minister, ex-officio Civil Services Board chairman; office created 5 September 1946; current incumbent T.V. Somanathan since 30 August 2024.
Cabinet System Ordinance
The Cabinet System Ordinance (内閣制度) is the 1885 Meiji rule that replaced Japan's Grand Council of State with a cabinet headed by a prime minister.
Cable television in the United States
Cable television in the United States is a subscription system delivering multichannel TV and broadband over coaxial cable, begun in 1948 as community antenna television.
Cabo Gilberto Silva
Cabo Gilberto Silva (Gilberto Gomes da Silva) is a Brazilian politician and former military police officer who has led the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies since 2025.
Cabot Microelectronics
Cabot Microelectronics was an American specialty chemicals company, incorporated in 1999 and headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, that led the market in CMP polishing slurries for chipmaking.
CAC 40
The CAC 40, also known as the CAC index, tracks the 40 largest and most actively traded shares on Euronext Paris since its launch in 1988.
Cacamatzin
Cacamatzin, son of Nezahualpilli and grandson of Nezahualcóyotl, was ruler of Texcoco who gained the throne through his uncle Motecuhzoma and died in 1520 during the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan.
Cacau Show
Cacau Show is a Brazilian fine-chocolate franchise retailer founded by Alê Costa in 1988, headquartered in Itapevi, São Paulo, and Brazil's largest franchise network by store count since 2022.
Cacique
Cacique: a Taíno-origin term the Spanish applied to indigenous town and village leaders across the Americas; cacicazgo is the office. Distinct from pre-Hispanic titles like curaca and psihipqua, it became a Crown-validated colonial institution and, as caciquismo, later meant rural boss rule.
Cacos revolt
The Cacos revolts were armed uprisings by Haitian peasant fighters known as Cacos, who waged two wars against the American occupation of Haiti between 1915 and 1920.
Cactus Partners
Cactus Partners, formerly Cactus Venture Partners, is a Mumbai-based early-growth venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Anurag Goel, Amit Sharma, and Rajeev Kalambi, investing at Series A.
Cadastral survey edict (1587)
The cadastral survey edict (検地令, kenchi-rei) was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's directive fixing uniform land measurement and assessed rice yields, underpinning the kokudaka tax system of his 1582 to 1598 surveys.
Cadaver Synod
The Cadaver Synod, also called the Cadaver Trial, was a posthumous ecclesiastical trial held in Rome in January 897, in which Pope Stephen VI put his dead predecessor Formosus on trial.
Cadbury Hill hill fort
Cadbury Hill hill fort: two Iron Age hillforts on hills called Cadbury Hill in North Somerset, the large univallate Cadbury-Congresbury fort and the small multivallate Cadbury Camp at Tickenham, both scheduled monuments.
CADDi
CADDi is a Tokyo-based manufacturing technology startup founded in 2017 by Yushiro Kato and Aki Kobashi, which sells AI software for organizing engineering and production data.
Caddo
Caddo (from Kadohadachho, "real chief"): a Caddoan-speaking Native American people of the Red River and East Texas, organized into Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and Natchitoches groups; removed to Indian Territory in 1859; today the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, headquartered near Binger.
Caddoan languages
Caddoan languages: a five-language Indigenous American family (Caddo, Wichita, Pawnee, Arikara, Kitsai) of the Great Plains, polysynthetic with small consonant inventories; nearly all members are extinct or critically endangered.
Cadet
Cadet: a trainee rank or status in armed forces (officer cadet at academies such as West Point, Sandhurst) or a youth member of military-style cadet organizations like the Canadian and Australian cadet programs, with limited or no command authority.
Cadet branch
Cadet branch: a line of a royal or noble family descended from a younger son, as opposed to the senior line under primogeniture; also called branche cadette. Known through appanages, heraldic cadency marks, and dynasties like Valois, Bourbon, Lancaster, and York.
Cadet Corps
The Cadet Corps (Кадетские корпуса) were the Russian Empire's military boarding schools that prepared noble and officers' sons for commissioned rank, founded by decree in 1731 and closed in 1918.
Cadet Corps Statute
The Cadet Corps Statute (Устав Шляхетского кадетского корпуса) is the founding regulation of the Noble Land Cadet Corps of Saint Petersburg, issued under Empress Anna Ioannovna in 1731.
Cadila Laboratories
Cadila Laboratories was a pharmaceutical company founded in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in the early 1950s by Ramanbhai Patel and Indravadan A. Modi; it split in 1994-95 into Cadila Healthcare and Cadila Pharmaceuticals.
Cadila Pharmaceuticals
Cadila Pharmaceuticals is a private, family-owned pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, founded by Indravadan Modi in the early 1950s, making more than 850 products.
Cádiz Constitution of 1812
The Cádiz Constitution of 1812 (Constitución de Cádiz), nicknamed La Pepa, transferred sovereignty from the King to the Nation and was abolished by Ferdinand VII in 1814.
Cádiz Consulate
The Cádiz Consulate (Consulado de Cádiz) was the merchant guild of Spanish trade with the Americas, founded in Seville in 1543 and moved to Cádiz in 1717.
Cadmus (Κάδμος)
Cadmus (Κάδμος), mythological founder and first king of Thebes, brother of Europa, slayer of the serpent of Mars, sower of the Spartoi, husband of Harmonia, and legendary bringer of the Phoenician alphabet to Greece.