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Caraka Samhita
The Caraka Samhita (चरक संहिता) is a Sanskrit compendium of Ayurvedic medicine and the earliest extant Sanskrit medical manual, likely redacted in the second century CE.
Carandiru massacre
The Carandiru massacre (Massacre do Carandiru): killing of 111 inmates by São Paulo military police during a riot suppression at the Casa de Detenção on October 2, 1992; condemned by the IACHR in 2000; convictions later annulled and sentences extinguished.
Caranqui
Caranqui was a pre-Columbian people of the northern highlands of Ecuador, centered on the Imbabura Volcano basin, whose society flourished from about 1250 to 1525 and built earthen mound pyramids called tolas.
Carapintadas
The Carapintadas, named for their black face paint, were Argentine military officers led by Aldo Rico and Mohamed Alí Seineldín who staged four armed uprisings between 1987 and 1990 to stop trials for dictatorship-era crimes.
Carapintadas uprisings
The Carapintadas uprisings were four Argentine Army mutinies between 1987 and 1990, against the governments of Raúl Alfonsín and Carlos Menem during the return to democracy.
Caras y Caretas
Caras y Caretas was an Argentine illustrated weekly magazine published in Buenos Aires from 1898 to 1939, the first illustrated publication in the country to reach a mass audience.
CARAT CASINO
Carat Casino is the name of several unrelated gambling businesses: a 24-hour land-based casino in Minsk, Belarus, and a defunct offshore online casino brand launched in 2012.
Caratacus
Caratacus (Caractacus, Caradawg), Catuvellauni war leader and son of Cunobelin, resisted the Roman conquest of Britain 43–51 AD alongside brother Togodumnus, was betrayed by Queen Cartimandua, and was spared by Claudius in Rome.
Caravan of Death
Caravana de la Muerte (Caravan of Death): Pinochet-ordered Chilean Army helicopter delegation led by Sergio Arellano Stark, September-October 1973, executing about 75 political prisoners across provincial Chile; basis of the first prosecution of Pinochet.
Carbon Autonomous Robotic Systems Inc.
Carbon Robotics is a Seattle agricultural robotics company founded by Paul Mikesell in 2018 that builds the LaserWeeder, a tractor-pulled machine killing weeds with lasers.
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a European Union levy on carbon emissions embedded in imported cement, steel, aluminum, and fertilizers, adopted in 2023.
Carbon Clean
Carbon Clean (Carbon Clean Solutions Ltd.) is a London-based carbon capture company founded in India by Aniruddha Sharma and Prateek Bumb, serving steel, cement, and power industries.
Carbon tax
A carbon tax is an excise tax on the carbon content of coal, oil, and natural gas, charged per tonne of CO2 to make emitters pay for climate damage.
Carbonari
The Carbonari, known in Italy as the Carboneria, were secret societies of liberal and revolutionary tendency, most active in Italy in the early nineteenth century.
Carborundum Universal
Carborundum Universal is an Indian materials sciences engineering company headquartered in Chennai, incorporated in 1954 as a joint venture, that makes abrasives, electrominerals, and ceramics.
Carceral feminism
Carceral feminism, a term coined by Elizabeth Bernstein, criticizes feminist reliance on police, courts, and prisons against sexual and gendered violence; opposed by abolition feminism associated with Angela Davis and Mimi Kim.
Carchemish inscriptions
The Carchemish inscriptions, also called the Carchemish hieroglyphic Luwian corpus, are Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian texts from Karkemish, the largest corpus from any single Neo-Hittite site.
Card security code
The card security code (CVV) is a three-digit number on the back of a payment card, or four digits on the front for American Express, checked for online orders.
Card sort
A card sort is a research task where participants group labeled cards by their own criteria, used in UX research for information architecture and in psychology as clinical tests like the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.
CarDekho
CarDekho, legally Girnar Software Private Limited, is an Indian autotech group founded in Jaipur in 2008 by brothers Amit and Anurag Jain, combining car classifieds with used-car retail, lending, and insurance.
CarDekho SEA
CarDekho SEA is a Singapore-headquartered digital automotive and auto-financing company founded in 2020 as the Southeast Asia unit of India's CarDekho Group, operating OTO Indonesia and Carmudi.
Carden Summers
Carden Summers is an American Republican politician representing Georgia's 13th Senate district and chairing the Senate Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions since January 2023.
Cárdenas Land Reform
The Cárdenas Land Reform (Reparto agrario de Lázaro Cárdenas) was the massive redistribution of land in Mexico under President Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940, granting about 18 million hectares.
Cardiff Giant
The Cardiff Giant (American Goliath) is a 10-foot gypsum statue carved by George Hull in 1868, buried on William Newell's New York farm, and unearthed in 1869 as a fake petrified giant; exposed by O. C. Marsh and now at the Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown.
Cardiff University
Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd), formerly University College Cardiff, is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, founded in 1883 and the only Welsh member of the Russell Group.
Cardinal
Cardinal (Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis; French Cardinal rouge): a crested North American songbird of family Cardinalidae; brilliant red male, brown female, non-migratory, state bird of seven US states.
Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal of the Catholic Church, also called a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, is a senior dignitary appointed by the pope who exclusively elects his successor.
Cardinal electors in the 2025 conclave
The cardinal electors in the 2025 conclave were the 133 cardinals under 80 who elected Pope Leo XIV on 8 May 2025 after Francis's death; 108 were Francis appointees, from 71 countries, the most diverse conclave ever.
Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Mazarin (Giulio Mazzarino, 1602-1661), Italian-born French cardinal and first minister 1643-1661 under Anne of Austria; negotiated Westphalia (1648) and the Pyrenees (1659), survived the Fronde, and prepared Louis XIV's personal rule.
Cardinal Operations (杉数科技)
Cardinal Operations (杉数科技) is a Chinese intelligent decision-making and optimization software company founded in Beijing in 2016 by four Stanford PhDs, best known for its COPT mathematical optimization solver.