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Canek dynasty
The Canek dynasty (Kan Ek') was the ruling lineage of the Itza Maya kingdom centered on Nojpetén in Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, conquered by Spain in 1697.
Canek rebellion
The Canek rebellion was a Maya uprising at Cisteil, Yucatán, in November 1761, led by Jacinto Canek, who was crowned king, abolished tribute, and was executed that December.
Cangaço
Cangaço was a form of rural banditry in the backlands of Northeastern Brazil from roughly 1870 to 1940, whose most famous leader was Lampião, the "King of the Cangaço".
Canggal inscription
The Canggal inscription (Prasasti Canggal) is a Sanskrit stone inscription dated 732 CE, issued by King Sanjaya of the Medang kingdom in Central Java, recording his erection of a linga on Sthirangga hill.
Cangjie pian
The Cangjie pian (仓颉篇, Book of Cangjie) is a lost Qin dynasty character primer and dictionary compiled by chancellor Li Si as part of the empire's writing standardization.
Canh Phuc Nguyen
Canh Phuc Nguyen (Cảnh Nguyễn) is a Vietnamese economist at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, known for research in energy and environmental economics.
Caning
Caning is corporal punishment using a rattan cane on the hands, back, or buttocks in school and judicial settings. Derived from British colonial practice, it persists in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Aceh, Indonesia, while WHO evidence links corporal punishment to child harm.
Caning in Singapore
Judicial corporal punishment with a rattan cane for male offenders in Singapore, governed by the Criminal Procedure Code 2010; mandatory for about 30 offenses, capped at 24 strokes, exempting women and men over 50, expanded to scams in 2025.
Caning of Charles Sumner
The Caning of Charles Sumner (May 22, 1856): Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the Senate Chamber after Sumner's 'Crime Against Kansas' speech, leaving him absent until December 1859.
Caning of Michael Fay
Caning of Michael Fay: 1994 judicial caning in Singapore of 18-year-old American Michael Peter Fay for spray-painting cars, sentenced to six strokes under the Vandalism Act 1966, reduced to four after Clinton's clemency appeal, causing a US-Singapore diplomatic rift.
Canki
Canki (चङ्की) was a wealthy and learned brahmin of the Buddha's time who lived at Opasāda in Kosala, known through the Caṅkī Sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya.
Cannabis dispensaries in the United States
A cannabis dispensary is a state-licensed US retail store selling medical or adult-use marijuana, with 14,932 stores nationwide as of February 2024 despite continuing federal prohibition.
Cannabis in Australia
Cannabis in Australia: the most consumed illicit drug, illegal to sell everywhere, medically legal since 2016, decriminalised in South Australia in 1987, and personal possession of up to 50 g permitted in the ACT.
Cannabis in California
Cannabis in California: legal for medical use since Proposition 215 (1996) and adult recreational use since Proposition 64 (2016), regulated by the Department of Cannabis Control, with local bans, a 15% excise tax, and a persistent illicit market.
Cannabis in Canada
Marijuana in Canada is legal for adult non-medical use under the Cannabis Act, which took effect on 17 October 2018, making Canada the first major industrialized nation to legalize cannabis.
Cannabis in India
Cannabis in India (ganja, charas, bhang): a plant long used ritually and medicinally, banned for cultivation, production, and consumption under the NDPS Act 1985, with bhang excluded and licensed industrial cultivation permitted under Section 14.
Cannabis in Italy
Cannabis in Italy is governed by narcotics law d.P.R. 309/1990: personal possession is an administrative offense, sale and cultivation are criminal, and Law 242/2016 permits industrial hemp.
Cannabis in Massachusetts
Cannabis in Massachusetts: medical marijuana legalized by the 2012 ballot initiative, adult use by 2016 Question 4; regulated by the Cannabis Control Commission, over $8 billion in adult-use sales, reformed by 2026 Chapter 65 with a repeal question on the November 2026 ballot.
Cannabis in Mexico
Cannabis in Mexico: introduced by the Spanish in the 16th century, outlawed in 1920, briefly regulated in 1940 under Cárdenas; medical use legalized 2017; Supreme Court struck the recreational ban in 2021, yet no legal sales market exists.
Cannabis in Spain
Cannabis in Spain: personal use decriminalized by Supreme Court rulings since 1974; cannabis social clubs (2001 onward); major EU seizure and cultivation hub; medical cannabis framework Real Decreto 903/2025.
Cannabis in Thailand
Cannabis in Thailand (กัญชา): decriminalized 9 June 2022 under Anutin Charnvirakul's Bhumjaithai policy, first in Asia; 18,433 dispensaries followed; from June 2025 sales are prescription-only medical use.
Cannabis in the United Kingdom
Cannabis in the United Kingdom: a Class B controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, illegal recreationally, but prescribable as cannabis-based medicinal products by specialist doctors since November 2018.
Cannabis in the United States
Cannabis (marijuana) in the United States: federally a Schedule I controlled substance under the 1970 CSA, but medical use legal in 40 states and recreational use in 24; medical cannabis moved to Schedule III in April 2026.
Cannex Capital Holdings Inc.
Cannex Capital Holdings Inc., formerly Arco Resources Corp., was a Vancouver company providing real estate, financial, and branding support to licensed US cannabis operators, trading as CNNX from 2018.
Cannibal Hymn
The Cannibal Hymn is a pair of Old Kingdom spells in Unas's pyramid at Saqqara, in which the dead king eats the gods to absorb their powers.
Cannibalism in Asia
Cannibalism in Asia covers both actual human anthropophagy in Asian history, from Tang-dynasty Arabic accounts to famine-era records, and the colonial and imperial discourses that attributed cannibalism to Asian peoples.
Cannibalism in Europe
Cannibalism in Europe is the consumption of human flesh, documented from the Early Pleistocene to the modern era, including historical cases of famine and medicine.
Cannibalism in Oceania
Cannibalism in Oceania: endo- and exocannibalism in New Guinea, Fiji, and Polynesia; archaeological evidence from Rossel Island; kuru among the Fore; and the colonial man-eating myth debate.
Cannon (TV series)
Cannon is a CBS crime drama (1971–1976) starring William Conrad as Frank Cannon, a Los Angeles ex-cop turned private investigator; a Quinn Martin production of 120 episodes that spawned Barnaby Jones and a 1980 revival film.
Cannon fodder
Cannon fodder (French chair à canon, German Kanonenfutter) is a derogatory term for expendable soldiers. Coined in English by 1847 after the German, it now labels massed assaults and Russia-Ukraine casualty practices.