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Cambridge University Press journals programme

The Cambridge University Press journals program is the journal publishing arm of Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534, publishing 422 journals and converting most of them to open access.

Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc

Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1994] 2 AC 264, House of Lords, 9 December 1993: PCE spillages at a Sawston tannery contaminated a borehole 1.3 miles away; foreseeability of damage of the relevant type was held a prerequisite of liability in nuisance and under Rylands v Fletcher, so ECL was not liable.

Cambyses II

Cambyses II (Old Persian Kambujiya), son of Cyrus the Great, Achaemenid king 530–522 BCE; conquered Egypt at Pelusium in 525 BCE, ruled as pharaoh, and died in 522 during Bardiya's revolt.

Cambyses II's conquest of Egypt

Cambyses II's conquest of Egypt (کمبوجیه) was the Achaemenid Persian campaign of 525 BC in which Cambyses II defeated pharaoh Psamtik III at Pelusium and was crowned pharaoh.

Camden Market

Camden Market, also called Camden Lock Market, is a group of markets by Regent's Canal in Camden Town, London, founded 1974 with 16 stalls, now London's largest market with about 28 million annual visitors, owned since 2014 by Teddy Sagi's Market Tech.

Camden Partners

Camden Partners, operating as Camden Partners Holdings LLC, is a Baltimore private equity firm founded in 1995 by David Warnock, a former T. Rowe Price executive.

Camden Partners Strategic

Camden Partners Strategic is the growth-equity fund series of Camden Partners, a Baltimore-based private equity firm founded in 1995 by David Warnock after he left T. Rowe Price.

Camel (cigarette)

Camel is an American cigarette brand introduced by R.J. Reynolds in 1913, the first packaged and blended cigarette, now owned by Reynolds American under British American Tobacco.

Camel case

Camel case (camelCase) is a naming convention joining words without spaces by capitalizing each word after the first, in lower camelCase or Pascal case variants. Standard in JavaScript, Java, and web APIs; contrasted with snake_case and kebab-case; known for acronym ambiguity and mixed readability findings.

Camela C. Theeler

Camela Catherine Theeler, born in 1975 in Sioux Falls, is a United States district judge in South Dakota since 2024, after serving on the state circuit court.

Camelot

Camelot, the legendary court and capital of King Arthur, first named in Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot, principal city in the Vulgate Cycle, equated with Winchester by Malory and tentatively with Cadbury Castle by antiquarians and excavators.

Camelot Group (South African company)

Camelot Group is a Johannesburg-based South African consumer group founded and led by Debbie Merdjan, best known for the Camelot Spa chain and Camelot International spa therapy training.

Camera Bartolotta

Camera Bartolotta is an American politician and Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate, representing the 46th Senatorial District, which spans parts of Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties.

Cameralism

Cameralism (German Kameralwissenschaften, the sciences of the chamber) was the German body of teaching on state administration, economic policy, and finance, taught in universities from the 1720s until its decline in the 1790s.

CameraMatics

CameraMatics is an Irish AI-powered video telematics and fleet-safety company founded in Dublin in 2016 by Mervyn O'Callaghan and Simon Murray, which raised up to €49 million in 2026.

Cameras in the Supreme Court of the United States

Cameras in the Supreme Court of the United States: the Court prohibits all photography and video in its courtroom, offers same-day audio and livestreams since May 2020, and faces recurring Cameras in the Courtroom Act proposals.

Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

The Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (Camerlengo di Santa Romana Chiesa) is the cardinal chamberlain who certifies a pope's death and runs Vatican affairs during the interregnum.

Cameron Adams

Cameron Adams is an Australian technology designer who joined Canva as its third co-founder in June 2012 and leads its technical development as Chief Product Officer.

Cameron Borrett

Cameron Borrett is a German-based product manager and startup co-founder, credited as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of the Berlin climate fintech Cloover from 2022 to 2023, after senior product roles at Klarna.

Cameron Brewer

Cameron Brewer is a New Zealand National Party politician, MP for Upper Harbour in Auckland, sworn in as Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing in April 2026.

Cameron Hamilton

Cameron Hamilton, former Navy SEAL, is FEMA Administrator confirmed August 7, 2026 (51-47), after serving as acting head January-May 2025 and being fired for opposing FEMA's elimination.

Cameron Henry

Cameron Henry is an American Republican politician from Metairie, Louisiana, serving as President of the Louisiana State Senate and representing District 9, after 12 years in the state House.

Cameron Kasky

Cameron Kasky is an American gun violence prevention activist, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School survivor, and co-founder of March for Our Lives and #NeverAgain, later a Bulwark podcast co-host and 2025 candidate for New York's 12th Congressional District.

Cameron M. Currie

Cameron McGowan Currie, born 1948, is an American jurist serving as a senior federal district judge in South Carolina, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.

Cameron Todd Willingham

Cameron Todd Willingham: Texas man executed February 17, 2004 for the 1991 Corsicana house fire that killed his three daughters; independent arson experts later found the arson evidence scientifically invalid, making his case a leading wrongful-execution example.

Cameron University

Cameron University is a public regional university in Lawton, Oklahoma, founded in 1908 as the Cameron State School of Agriculture and named for Rev. E. D. Cameron; university status since 1974, president Shane Hunt, HLC accredited, Division II athletics.

Cameron Winklevoss

Cameron Winklevoss is an American investor and former Olympic rower who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, where he is president alongside his identical twin Tyler; he first became known for a Facebook lawsuit.

Cameron–Clegg coalition

The Cameron–Clegg coalition (2010–2015) was the UK's Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government, the first since the Second World War, formed after the hung parliament of 6 May 2010 and governed under a written coalition agreement until the 2015 election.

CamGraPhic

CamGraPhIC (Cambridge Graphene Photonic Integrated Circuits) is a graphene-photonics company founded in 2018 as a Cambridge Graphene Centre spinout, developing energy-efficient graphene optical interconnects for AI and data centers.

Ćamil Duraković

Ćamil Duraković (born 1979, Luka near Srebrenica) is a Bosniak independent politician, survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, former Mayor of Srebrenica (2012-2016), and Bosniak Vice President of Republika Srpska since November 2022.