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Cadoc
Cadoc, in Welsh Cattwg Ddoeth, is a Welsh saint traditionally credited with founding the monastery of Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan, with a traditional death date of about 570.
Caduceus
Caduceus: the winged staff of the Greek god Hermes (Mercury) entwined by two snakes, originally a herald's and peace emblem, distinct from the single-snaked Rod of Asclepius; wrongly adopted as a medical symbol, notably by the US Army Medical Corps in 1902.
Cadwallader Washburn (American businessman)
Cadwallader Washburn (1818–1882) was an American lawyer and governor of Wisconsin who built the Minneapolis flour-milling firm Washburn Crosby, which became General Mills in 1928.
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius, "Kill them, for the Lord knows His own": Latin phrase attributed to papal legate Arnaud Amaury before the 1209 massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, recorded only by Caesarius of Heisterbach and adapted from 2 Timothy 2:19.
Caelus
Caelus (Coelus), Roman personification of the sky, Latin counterpart of Greek Uranus; father of Saturn per Varro and Cicero, largely without cult, prominent in imperial art and a suggested alternate name for the planet Uranus.
Caeneus (Καινεύς)
Caeneus (Καινεύς, Kaineus), Greek mythological Lapith hero born as the woman Caenis, transformed by Poseidon into an invulnerable man, killed by Centaurs with fir trees; sources include Apollodorus, Ovid, and Acusilaus.
Caer y Twr
Caer y Twr (Caer y Tŵr), also called Holyhead Mountain hillfort, is an Iron Age hillfort on Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales, enclosing 6.9 hectares with a dry-stone rampart, later reused for a 4th-century Roman watchtower linked to Caer Gybi.
Caernarfon Barracks
Caernarfon Barracks, Cadw-listed as The Barracks, is an 1855 Grade II listed former Royal Welch Fusiliers urban barracks in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, a rare surviving mid-19th-century building fusing Georgian and military traditions, later a TA centre.
Caesar (title)
Caesar (title): originally the cognomen of Rome's Julian gens, borne by Julius Caesar and inherited by Octavian; became an imperial title, later the heir's title under Hadrian and Diocletian's tetrarchy, and the root of Kaiser and tsar.
Caesar Cardini
Caesar Cardini, born in Italy in 1896, was a restaurateur credited with inventing the Caesar salad in Tijuana, Mexico, on July 4, 1924, during Prohibition.
Caesar's Camp, Bracknell Forest
Caesar's Camp, Bracknell Forest: an Iron Age contour hillfort on a spur in Swinley Forest, Berkshire, scheduled monument 1016334, with a Napoleonic 1792 practice redoubt inside; name is a mistaken Roman attribution.
Caesar's civil war
Caesar's civil war (49–45 BCE), fought between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great for the Roman Republic, from the Rubicon crossing to Pharsalus, Pompey's murder in Egypt, and Caesar's final victory.
Caesarion
Caesarion (Ptolemy XV Caesar, Καισαρίων), son of Cleopatra VII and nominally Julius Caesar, last Ptolemaic king of Egypt 44–30 BC; co-regent, 'King of Kings' at the Donations, executed by Octavian in August 30 BC.
Caesarius of Arles
Caesarius of Arles (Césaire d'Arles) was bishop of Arles from 502 to 543, a preacher and theologian who led the Second Council of Orange in 529.
Caetano Pinto de Miranda Montenegro
Caetano Pinto de Miranda Montenegro (1748–1827) was a Portuguese-born magistrate who governed Mato Grosso and Pernambuco, fled the Pernambucan Revolution of 1817, and became Brazil's first Minister of Justice.
cafe abo pes
cafe abo pes (Arabic: ابوبيس كافي; Kurdish: abo pes cafe) is a casino in Duhok District, Dohuk Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, at 36.89367°N, 42.98249°E, OpenStreetMap node 4740577825, near Dahuk city.
Cafe Bazaar
Cafe Bazaar (کافه بازار) is Iran's largest Android app store, founded in January 2011 by Iranian university students and serving tens of millions of Persian-speaking users.
Café du Monde
Café du Monde is an open-air coffee stand established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market, known for dark-roasted chicory coffee served au lait and for beignets.
Café Filho
João Fernandes Campos Café Filho (1899–1970), Brazilian lawyer and journalist from Natal, vice president under Vargas and president of Brazil from August 1954 to November 1955, removed after a heart crisis when Congress blocked his return.
Cafe Niloufer
Cafe Niloufer is a Hyderabad tea-cafe chain known for Irani chai and Osmania biscuits, which grew from a Lakdikapul tea shop into a nine-outlet business with about Rs 206 crore in FY25 revenue.
Caffeinated Capital
Caffeinated Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Raymond Tonsing in 2008 that invests in early-stage technology companies from seed through growth, with recent filings from Aspen, Colorado.
Caffey family murders
Caffey family murders: 2008 triple homicide near Alba, Rains County, Texas, planned by 16-year-old Erin Caffey with Charlie Wilkinson, Charles Waid, and Bobbi Johnson; Penny Caffey and sons Matthew and Tyler were killed, father Terry survived, and all four defendants pleaded guilty.
Caganer
Caganer (Catalan, "the pooping one"): a defecating figurine placed half-hidden in Catalan nativity scenes since at least the 18th century, traditionally a peasant in a barretina, symbolizing fertility and now also sold as celebrity figures.
Cagot
The Cagots, also known as Agotes, were a hereditary outcast group of south-west France and the Navarrese Pyrenees, shunned as reputed lepers despite being healthy.
Cahiers du Cinéma
Cahiers du Cinéma, French film magazine founded April 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca; birthplace of the politique des auteurs and cradle of the French New Wave critics-turned-directors; still publishing after its 2020 mass staff resignation.
Cahuilla
The Cahuilla (Iviatim) are an inland southern California Indigenous people speaking a Takic (Uto-Aztecan) language, organized into Wildcat and Coyote patrimoieties, today on reservations including Agua Caliente, Morongo, and Torres-Martinez.
Cai Bian
Cai Bian (蔡卞, 1058–1117) was a Song dynasty statesman, brother of chief councillor Cai Jing and son-in-law of Wang Anshi, who headed the Bureau of Military Affairs and persecuted the Yuanyou faction.
Cai E
Cai E (蔡锷, 1882–1916) was a Chinese general and Yunnan leader who overthrew Qing rule there in 1911 and led the National Protection War against Yuan Shikai.
Cai Haoyu
Cai Haoyu (蔡浩宇, born 1987) is a Chinese game developer who co-founded miHoYo, creator of Genshin Impact, in 2012 and led it until stepping back in 2023.
Cai Jianliang
Cai Jianliang (蔡建良) is the registered actual controller of Ningbo Lingjun Investment, a quantitative private fund manager founded in 2014 that was censured by Chinese exchanges in 2024.