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Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis, 1585-1642), chief minister of Louis XIII from 1624, subdued the Huguenots at La Rochelle, curbed the nobility, fought the Habsburgs, founded the French navy and Académie, and shaped royal absolutism.
Cardinal virtues
Cardinal virtues: the four principal moral virtues of Western ethics, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, from Latin cardo (hinge). Systematized by Plato in the Republic, transmitted by Aristotle, Cicero, and the Stoics, and adopted into Christian theology by Ambrose, Augustine, and Aquinas.
Cardinal voting
Cardinal voting: rated electoral systems where voters assign independent numerical scores to candidates, unlike ranked systems. Covers approval, score, STAR, majority judgment, cumulative voting, criteria, strategy, and adoptions in Fargo and St. Louis.
Cardinal vowels
Cardinal vowels: language-independent reference vowels devised by Daniel Jones by 1917. Eight primary cardinals [i e ɛ a ɑ ɔ o u] plus secondary sets with reversed lip rounding underpin the IPA vowel quadrilateral.
Cardinals created by Francis
The cardinals created by Francis are the 163 cardinals Pope Francis elevated in ten consistories from 2014 to 2024, drawn from 76 countries and reshaping the conclave.
Carding (fraud)
Carding is payment card fraud: stealing or buying card data and using it for unauthorized purchases, via card-testing bots, carding forums, and dark web marketplaces; covers US federal offenses from access device fraud to wire fraud.
CardioDx
CardioDx, Inc. was a molecular diagnostics company in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2003, known for the Corus CAD gene expression blood test for coronary artery disease.
CardioFocus, Inc.
CardioFocus, Inc. is a medical device company headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, that develops cardiac ablation technologies for atrial fibrillation, including the HeartLight laser balloon and Centauri pulsed field ablation systems.
CardioMed (上海卡地美得医疗科技有限公司) (卡地美得)
CardioMed (上海卡地美得医疗科技有限公司) was a Shanghai-based cardiac surgery device company founded by Decheng Capital in 2015, maker of the Puhui heart valve; it was renamed Shanghai Puhui Medos in 2023.
CardioMEMS
CardioMEMS was an Atlanta medical device company, founded in 2001, that made battery-less wireless sensors for monitoring heart failure, acquired by St. Jude Medical in 2014.
Cardiva Medical
Cardiva Medical was a Santa Clara, California medical device company, founded in 2002, that made VASCADE collagen-plug systems sealing catheter access sites; Haemonetics acquired it in 2021 for about $490 million.
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Burlington, Massachusetts, founded in 2017, developing small-molecule drugs for heart failure and arrhythmia, including the PDE9 inhibitor CRD-750.
CareCore National
CareCore National was a specialty benefits management company based in Bluffton, South Carolina, founded in 1994, providing prior authorization services for imaging, cardiology, and oncology.
Careem (كريم)
Careem (كريم) is a Middle East technology company whose Everything App combines ride-hailing, delivery, and payments; Uber acquired it in 2020 for about $3.1 billion.
Career
A career is the evolving sequence of a person's work experiences over time, a definition that shifted study from the organization's ladder to the individual's path.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, also known as CareFirst, is a not-for-profit health insurer serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and parts of northern Virginia, covering about 3.5 million members.
Caren Turner
Caren Z. Turner (born 1957), Democratic lobbyist and Port Authority of NY & NJ commissioner (2017-2018), resigned April 2018 after dashcam video showed her berating Tenafly, N.J. police at her daughter's traffic stop; unanimously censured by the Board.
CARES Act
The CARES Act, formally the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, is a $2.2 trillion US relief law enacted in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CareSave Technologies, Inc.
CareSave Technologies, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated healthcare company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, led by President E. Todd Walrath, which has raised roughly $174.6 million in private placements.
Caresse Crosby
Caresse Crosby, born Mary Phelps "Polly" Jacob, was an American poet and publisher who received a 1914 patent for the backless brassiere and ran Paris's Black Sun Press.
Caresyntax
Caresyntax is a San Francisco and Berlin surgical intelligence company, founded in 2013, whose platform captures and analyzes operating room data for surgical teams, hospitals, and insurers.
Caret
Caret: wedge-shaped insertion mark from Latin carere (to lack), first used in the 1680s; also the flashing text cursor in editors and the keyboard ^ (U+005E) used for exponentiation, Control notation, and logic.
Caretaker government of Burma
The caretaker government of Burma was an interim military administration led by General Ne Win, Chief of Staff of the Burma Defense Forces, that governed from November 1958 to April 1960.
Carey Coleman
Carey Coleman is an American politician and former WNIR radio talk show host, and the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Ohio's 13th District in 2026.
Carey Smith
Carey Smith is an American entrepreneur who founded Big Ass Fans, a Lexington, Kentucky fan manufacturer, in 1999 and sold it in 2017 for $500 million.
Cargo cult
A cargo cult is a Melanesian religious movement, labeled by outsiders in 1945, whose followers expected material wealth, or "cargo", through ritual practices like marching and building airfields.
Cari Champion
Cari Champion is an American broadcast journalist from Pasadena, California, known for hosting ESPN's First Take (2012), anchoring SportsCenter Coast to Coast, co-hosting SportsNation, and later CNN, Amazon Prime Video, and the Naked Sports podcast.
Cari Lodge
Cari Lodge is an American private equity secondaries investor and founder of Aqualis Partners, launched in 2025 in Darien, Connecticut, after 12 years leading secondaries at CF Private Equity.
Carian inscriptions
The Carian inscriptions record Carian, an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language of southwest Anatolia, written from the 7th to 4th centuries BC, mostly by mercenaries in Egypt.
Carians
The Carians were the ancient people of Caria in south-west Anatolia, south of the Maeander River, speaking Carian, an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language, attested from about 1800 BC.