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Cassandra (Κασσάνδρα)
Cassandra (Κασσάνδρα), also Alexandra, Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba; Apollo's prophetess cursed to utter true prophecies never believed; warned of the wooden horse; killed with Agamemnon.
Cassava Technologies (technology group)
Cassava Technologies is a pan-African digital infrastructure and technology holding group founded by Strive Masiyiwa in 2021 and led by CEO Hardy Pemhiwa, operating fiber networks, data centers, and AI services across some 30 markets.
Cassidy Hubbarth
Cassidy Hubbarth, Evanston, Illinois native and Northwestern Medill graduate, was an ESPN NBA sideline reporter and Hoop Streams host from 2010 to 2025, then joined Amazon Prime Video's NBA on Prime as lead sideline reporter.
Cassidy Hutchinson
Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, gave the June 28, 2022 Jan. 6 committee testimony about Trump on January 6; parts corroborated, parts disputed.
Cassie Armstrong
Cassie Armstrong, also known as Cassie Chambers Armstrong, is an American Democratic politician representing Louisville's 19th district in the Kentucky Senate since 2023, after serving on the Louisville Metro Council.
Cassie Bernall
Cassie Bernall (1981-1999) was a Columbine High School student killed April 20, 1999, famous for reportedly answering "yes" when asked if she believed in God. The story, told in her mother's best-seller She Said Yes, was later disputed; investigators attributed the exchange to survivor Valeen Schnurr.
Cassiel (קצפיאל)
Cassiel (Hebrew Qaftsi'el, קצפיאל), also Kafziel or Qafsiel, is an angel of medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mysticism, not named in the Bible, known as the planetary angel of Saturn and Saturday, associated with time, patience, and solitude.
Cassiel Ato Forson
Cassiel Ato Forson is a Ghanaian politician, economist, and chartered accountant serving as Minister for Finance since 2025, after representing Ajumako Enyan Essiam in Parliament since 2009.
Cassinga raid
The Battle of Cassinga was a South African airborne attack on a SWAPO camp in southern Angola on 4 May 1978, killing more than 600 people.
Cassiphone (Κασσιφόνη)
Cassiphone (Κασσιφόνη), minor Greek mythological figure, daughter of Odysseus and Circe, sister of Telegonus; married her half-brother Telemachus and killed him to avenge her mother Circe, whom he had slain; known from Lycophron's Alexandra and Tzetzes' commentary.
Cassius Dio (Κάσσιος Δίων)
Cassius Dio (Δίων ὁ Κάσσιος, Dio Cassius), c. 160/165–after 229 CE, Greek senator from Nicaea and historian; his 80-book Attic Greek Roman History spans Aeneas to 229 CE, one third surviving.
Cassivellaunus
Cassivellaunus (Caswallawn in Welsh tradition) was the British chieftain who led resistance to Julius Caesar's second invasion of Britain in 54 BCE, defending a staked Thames ford before surrendering on terms of tribute and hostages.
Casstime (开思汽配)
Casstime (开思汽配) is a Shenzhen-based digital supply-chain platform for China's automotive aftermarket, founded in 2015, which filed for a Hong Kong IPO in April 2026.
Cast AI
Cast AI, legally CAST AI Group, Inc., is a Miami software company founded in 2019 whose platform automates Kubernetes clusters to cut cloud costs and improve speed.
Casta
Casta (Spanish/Portuguese for lineage) was the ancestry-based classification of colonial Latin America's sociedad de castas, ranking Spaniards, mestizos, and mixed groups, documented in casta paintings and softened by gracias al sacar exemptions.
Caste
Caste is birth-ascribed, endogamous social stratification, paradigmatic in South Asia through varna and jati, ranked by purity and pollution, with Dalits at the bottom, colonial-era rigidification, and continuing legal and diaspora debates.
Caste census
Caste census: India's count of population by caste, beyond SCs and STs. Last full enumeration was 1931; SECC 2011 caste data went unreleased; Cabinet approved caste enumeration for Census 2027 on 30 April 2025.
Caste Disabilities Removal Act 1850
The Caste Disabilities Removal Act 1850 (جاتی معذوری ایکٹ 1850) was a British Indian law, assented to on 11 April 1850, letting people keep inheritance rights after changing religion or losing caste.
Caste politics
Caste politics: mobilization of caste identity in Indian electoral politics, reservation policy, and the census. Covers colonial enumeration (1871-1931), the Mandal-era OBC politics, the 50% quota cap, and the 2025 caste census decision.
Caste system among South Asian Muslims
Caste system among South Asian Muslims: hierarchical, endogamous biradari stratification ranked as Ashraf (noble, foreign-origin), Ajlaf (convert commoners), and Arzal; shaped by kaf'aa marriage rules, regional variation, OBC reservation politics, and the Pasmanda movement.
Caste system in India
Caste system in India (jati, varna): hereditary social hierarchy with Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, and Dalits outside; hardened under British census rule, banned in the 1950 constitution, addressed by reservations capped at 50%, and counted fully in the 2027 census.
Caste system in Kerala
Caste system in Kerala: the regional caste hierarchy of Malabar, Cochin and Travancore, marked by extreme distance pollution (300-foot rule), agrestic slavery, reformers like Ayyankali and Sree Narayana Guru, the 1924-25 Vaikom Satyagraha, and persisting Dalit land and education inequality.
Caste system in Nepal
Caste system in Nepal: hereditary caste hierarchy codified by the Muluki Ain of 1854 under Jang Bahadur Rana, with five categories including untouchable Dalits; discrimination now illegal but persistent.
Caste War of Yucatán
Caste War of Yucatán (Guerra de Castas, also Guerra Social Maya): 1847-1901 Maya uprising in the Yucatán Peninsula against criollos and mestizos, begun at Tepich by Cecilio Chi, centered on the Talking Cross cult at Chan Santa Cruz, ending with the 1901 federal occupation and creation of Quintana Roo.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 Random House bestseller arguing that US racism is a caste system, compared with India and Nazi Germany; adapted into Ava DuVernay's film Origin.
Castelion
Castelion Corp, formerly Pallas Industries, is a Torrance, California defense startup founded in 2022 by three former SpaceX employees, known for its low-cost, mass-producible Blackbeard hypersonic missile.
Castellammarese War
Castellammarese War: 1930–1931 New York Mafia gang war between Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano's Castellammare del Golfo faction; about 60 killed; ended with both bosses dead, Luciano's Commission, and the Five Families.
Castellan
Castellan: governor or commander of a medieval castle (French châtelain, German Kastellan, Catalan castlà), ruling its castellany with military, judicial and economic powers; distinct from hereditary lords and from the Polish senatorial castellan dignity.
Castilian conquest of Cordoba and Seville
The Castilian conquest of Cordoba and Seville was the capture of the two leading Andalusi cities by Ferdinand III of Castile, in 1236 and 1248.
Castilian Spanish
Castilian Spanish (castellano) is the Romance language of Castilla that became standard Spanish, codified by Alfonso X, Nebrija (1492), and the RAE (1713); marked by /s/-/θ/ distinción, yeísmo, and 520 million native speakers.