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Caleb (כָּלֵב)
Caleb (כָּלֵב, Kalev), son of Jephunneh, is a biblical figure of the Exodus generation who, with Joshua, alone entered Canaan and received Hebron as his inheritance.
Caleb Brewster
Caleb Brewster (1747-1827), Setauket-born whaleboat captain and Continental Army lieutenant, was Culper Spy Ring courier 725, the only member the British identified, ferrying intelligence across Long Island Sound and raiding Forts Franklin, St. George, and Slongo.
Caleb Everett
Caleb Everett is an American anthropological linguist and professor of anthropology at the University of Miami. Known for linguistic relativity research, work on Pirahã numeric cognition, and books Numbers and the Making of Us and A Myriad of Tongues.
Caleb Kleinpeter
Caleb Kleinpeter is an American Republican politician who won the Louisiana Senate District 17 seat in 2022 after serving as a West Baton Rouge Parish councilman.
Caleb Theodros
Caleb Theodros is an American politician and Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate from District 41 in Charlotte, elected in 2024 as the Senate's youngest member.
Caleb Walker
Caleb Walker is an American politician and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District in the 2026 election, challenging Republican incumbent Clay Higgins.
Caledonians
The Caledonians (Caledonii) were the Iron Age peoples of northern Britain beyond Rome's frontier. Named after one tribe, they resisted Agricola at Mons Graupius (83 CE) under Calgacus and were never conquered, later appearing as Maeatae and Picts.
Calendar Round
The Calendar Round (rueda calendárica) is the 52-year Mesoamerican cycle formed by running a 260-day ritual count and a 365-day solar year side by side, realigning after 18,980 days.
Calendly
Calendly is a scheduling software platform founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona and headquartered in Atlanta, letting people share a booking link instead of emailing to arrange meetings.
Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma (1953–2017) was a Kenyan scholar of science, technology, and innovation policy, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and founder of Africa's first independent science-policy think tank.
Cali Cartel
Cali Cartel (Cartel de Cali), Colombian cocaine trafficking organization founded by Gilberto and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela; less violent and more politically embedded than Medellín, supplied about 80% of US cocaine, collapsed after 1995 arrests and 2006 guilty pleas.
Calibrate Health
Calibrate Health is a New York City telehealth weight-management company founded in 2020 by Isabelle Kenyon, treating obesity with GLP-1 medications combined with coaching and lifestyle change.
Calibrate Ventures
Calibrate Ventures is a Pasadena, California early-stage venture capital firm founded by Jason Schoettler and Kevin Dunlap, investing in deep tech including AI, computer vision, autonomy, and robotics.
Calico Jack
Calico Jack was the nickname of John Rackham, an English pirate captain active in the Bahamas and Caribbean from 1718 to 1720, executed in Jamaica.
Calicuchima
Calicuchima (Kalikuchima), also spelled Chalcuchímac or Challcuchima, was an Inca general serving Atahualpa against his brother Huáscar in the civil war, winning the decisive Battle of Quipaipán in 1532.
Calicut-Cochin wars
The Calicut-Cochin wars were a long rivalry on the Malabar coast between the Zamorin of Calicut and the raja of Cochin, who drew Portuguese and Dutch support.
Calient Technologies
Calient Technologies, formerly Calient Networks, is a privately held Goleta, California company that makes 3D MEMS-based optical circuit switches for data centers, telecom, and government customers.
California ballot proposition
California ballot proposition: a proposed state law, bond, or constitutional amendment voted on by California's electorate. Placed by the Legislature or by citizen initiative (5%/8% signature thresholds, since 1911); numbering restarts every ten years since 1998.
California Burrito (India)
California Burrito is an Indian fast-casual restaurant chain founded in Bengaluru in 2012 by American Bert Mueller, serving Mission-style burritos and tacos at roughly 128 company-owned outlets across five cities.
California Child Actor's Bill
The California Child Actor's Bill, or Coogan Act (1939), named for Jackie Coogan, requires 15% of a child performer's gross earnings be placed in a blocked Coogan Trust Account until 18; extended in 2024 to child influencers, with similar laws in New York, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Mexico.
California Democratic Party
California Democratic Party (CADEM), state Democratic Party affiliate founded 1846, governed by the ~3,000-member DSCC and 58 county committees; adopts a biennial platform, endorses state and federal candidates, and lobbies in the Capitol from Sacramento.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), created July 1, 2005 from the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, runs California's state adult prisons, parole supervision, and rehabilitation programs, under federal court population and health care oversight.
California Digital Age Assurance Act
California Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043, DAAA), Civil Code 1798.500–1798.505: 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to collect age at setup and send real-time age-bracket signals to developers, effective January 1, 2027; amended by AB 1856 to exempt open-source operating systems.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC), cdnc.ucr.edu: free searchable archive of digitized California newspapers 1846-present, run by UC Riverside's CBSR, with 10+ million pages, NEH NDNP grants, and a 2025 funding crisis and recovery.
California English
California English, or Californian English, is the variety of English spoken in California, marked by the California Vowel Shift (GOOSE fronting, cot-caught merger, TRAP nasal split), ethnic variation, and Valley Girl stereotypes.
California genocide
California genocide: systematic violence against California's Indigenous peoples, especially 1846–1873, when the Native population fell from about 150,000 to 30,000; also called the California Indian Catastrophe, acknowledged by the state in 2019.
California Highway Patrol
California Highway Patrol (CHP), the state's traffic-safety law enforcement agency created August 14, 1929; absorbed the California State Police in 1995; patrols over 105,000 miles of roadway from eight divisions.
California Institute of Integral Studies
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), formerly California Institute of Asian Studies, is a private San Francisco university founded in 1968 by Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri, accredited by WSCUC since 1981, known for integral, East-West psychology and psychedelic studies programs.
California Medical Facility
California Medical Facility (CMF) is CDCR's prison hospital in Vacaville, California, activated in 1955 as the nation's first prison hospital, with psychiatric inpatient programs, hospice care, and specialized medical services for male inmates.
California Men's Colony
California Men's Colony (CMC) is a CDCR men's prison northwest of San Luis Obispo, California, on Camp San Luis Obispo grounds, with East (Level III) and West (Level I/II, closed 2023) facilities, intermediate medical care, PIA industries, and inmate firefighting.