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Carrier battle group
Carrier battle group (CVBG), now carrier strike group (CSG) in US usage: a carrier-centered naval formation with air wing, escorts, submarines, and support ships, commanded by a one or two star admiral for deterrence and power projection.
Carro
Carro is a Singapore-based online car marketplace and auto fintech company founded in 2015 by Aaron Tan, which buys, sells, finances, insures, and services vehicles across eight Asia-Pacific markets.
Carroll Cole
Carroll Edward Cole (1938–1985), American serial killer also called Eddie Cole, strangled women met in bars across California, Nevada, and Texas; convicted of five murders, confessed to at least 13, and became Nevada's first lethal-injection execution after waiving all appeals.
Carroll College
Carroll College (Helena, Montana), a private Catholic diocesan liberal arts college founded in 1909 by Bishop John Patrick Carroll; NAIA Fighting Saints; distinct from Carroll University, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Carroll L. Estes
Carroll L. Estes is an American sociologist, Professor Emerita at UCSF, and a founding scholar of the political economy of aging, best known for The Aging Enterprise (1979).
Carroll Quigley
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), American historian at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, author of The Evolution of Civilizations and Tragedy and Hope, teacher of Bill Clinton, later claimed by conspiracy theorists against his denials.
Carroll University
Carroll University, formerly Carroll College, is a private Presbyterian-affiliated university in Waukesha, Wisconsin, chartered January 31, 1846 as Wisconsin's first four-year institution of higher learning, known for liberal arts and health sciences programs.
Carrollton bus collision
The Carrollton bus collision was a 1988 head-on crash and fire on I-71 in Kentucky in which a drunk wrong-way driver killed 27 people on a church bus.
Carrot and stick
Carrot and stick: a metaphor for combining reward and punishment to induce behavior. In diplomacy it names coercive diplomacy, Alexander George's strategy pairing threats with incentives and assurances, studied formally in Zagare's Carrot and Stick Game.
CARS24
CARS24 is an Indian used-car transaction platform founded in 2015 by Vikram Chopra and three co-founders, valued at $3.3 billion and operating in India, the UAE, and Australia.
CARsgen Therapeutics
CARsgen Therapeutics (科济药业) is a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2014 and listed in Hong Kong, that develops CAR T-cell therapies for blood cancers and solid tumors.
Carsten Breitfeld
Carsten Breitfeld (毕福康) is a German automotive engineer who led the BMW i8 program, co-founded the Chinese electric vehicle startup Byton in 2016, and later led Faraday Future.
Carsten Breuer
Carsten Breuer (born 1964) is a German general, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr since March 2023, former head of the Corona crisis staff and first commander of the Territoriales Führungskommando, elected 2026 as next NATO Military Committee chair.
Carsten Linnemann
Carsten Linnemann is a Dutch-based immunologist and biotech executive who co-founded Neogene Therapeutics in 2018 with Ton Schumacher; AstraZeneca acquired the TCR therapy company in January 2023.
Carsten Linnemann (German politician)
Carsten Linnemann is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has served as Federal Minister of Health since July 2026, after being CDU Secretary General from 2023.
Carsten Schneider
Carsten Schneider, born 1976 in Erfurt, is a German SPD politician who has been Federal Minister for the Environment, Climate Action, and Nuclear Safety since 2025.
Carta de Jamaica
The Carta de Jamaica, or Letter from Jamaica, is a political essay Simón Bolívar wrote in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1815, analyzing Spanish America's independence struggle and its future organization.
Cartas de relación
The Cartas de relación are five letters Hernán Cortés sent Emperor Charles V from New Spain between 1519 and 1526, narrating the conquest of Mexico.
Carte Goodwin
Carte Patrick Goodwin (born 1974, Mount Alto, West Virginia) is a Charleston attorney, former general counsel to Governor Joe Manchin, and Democratic U.S. senator briefly in 2010, appointed to fill Robert C. Byrd's seat until Manchin won the special election.
Cartel
A cartel is a group of firms or countries that agrees to fix prices, restrict output, or divide markets; such agreements are illegal in most jurisdictions.
Cártel del Noreste
Cártel del Noreste (CDN, Northeast Cartel), a Mexican criminal organization formed 2014 from Los Zetas by the Treviño Morales brothers, based in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; US FTO and SDGT since February 2025, OFAC-listed since 2021, over 1,000 members.
Carter Center
The Carter Center is a nonprofit NGO founded in 1982 by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. It is best known for its international election observation and Guinea worm eradication programs.
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) was an American historian known as the Father of Black History; he founded Negro History Week, now Black History Month, in 1926.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (1858–1946), Virginia Democrat and newspaper publisher; co-author of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, Wilson's treasury secretary 1918–1920, and Senate co-sponsor of the Glass-Steagall banking legislation.
Carter Page
Carter Page, former Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy adviser and energy consultant, was surveilled under four FISA warrants in the Russia probe; flawed applications led to a $1.25 million settlement and a dismissed lawsuit against James Comey and other FBI officials.
Carter Reum
Carter Reum is an American venture capital investor, co-founder of the Los Angeles firm M13, which he started in 2016 with his brother Courtney after selling VEEV Spirits.
Carter v Canada (AG)
Carter v Canada (AG) is a unanimous 2015 Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down Canada's ban on physician-assisted death, overruling its 1993 Rodriguez decision.
Cartesian doubt
Cartesian doubt is René Descartes's method of radical doubt in the Meditations, using the dream argument and evil demon to suspend assent until reaching the cogito and certainty.
Cartesian Therapeutics
Cartesian Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Frederick, Maryland, developing mRNA-engineered CAR-T therapies for autoimmune diseases; its lead candidate, Descartes-08, is in Phase 3 for myasthenia gravis.
Cartesianism
Cartesianism, or Cartesian philosophy, is the philosophy built on René Descartes' foundations and carried forward by seventeenth-century followers, marked by methodic doubt, the cogito, rationalism, and mind-body dualism.