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Cathy Seibel
Cathy Seibel, born 1960, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008 after serving as a federal prosecutor.
Cathy Smith
Cathy Smith (Catherine Evelyn Smith, 1947-2020), Canadian backup singer linked to Gordon Lightfoot, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in John Belushi's 1982 speedball death and served fifteen months.
Catiline
Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina), Roman aristocrat who led the Catilinarian conspiracy of 63 BC against the Republic, defeated by Cicero; crushed at Pistoria in 62 BC. Known through Cicero's speeches and Sallust's Bellum Catilinae.
Catlin Gabel School
Catlin Gabel School is a coeducational independent K–12 day school in Beaverton, Oregon, formed in 1957 by the merger of two progressive schools founded by women educators.
Catlin Group
Catlin Group was a Bermuda-domiciled, London-listed specialty insurance and reinsurance group founded by Stephen Catlin in 1984, which grew to own the largest underwriting syndicate at Lloyd's before its 2015 sale to XL Group.
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by Ed Crane and Charles Koch in San Francisco, now headquartered in Washington, D.C., known for the Human Freedom Index, no government funding, and the 2012 Koch settlement.
Cato Networks
Cato Networks is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz that delivers SASE, combining network security and networking in one cloud platform.
Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234–149 BC), the Roman Censor, opposed Greek culture, attacked Scipio Africanus, demanded Carthage's destruction, and founded Latin prose with De Agri Cultura and Origines.
Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato, 95-46 BCE), also Cato of Utica, was a Stoic Roman Republican senator, great-grandson of Cato the Elder, who opposed Caesar from the Catiline debate of 63 BCE through the civil war and died by suicide at Utica in 46 BCE.
Cats in ancient Egypt
Cats in ancient Egypt: tamed Felis silvestris kept for pest control and as pets from Predynastic Hierakonpolis onward, associated with the goddess Bastet, and mummified by the millions as votive offerings at Bubastis and Saqqara.
Cattle in religion and mythology
Cattle in religion and mythology, also called cattle worship, covers sacred cows and bulls, from Egyptian bull cults like Apis to the Hindu doctrine of the cow's inviolability.
Cattle mutilation
Cattle mutilation, or animal mutilation, refers to livestock found dead with soft tissue removed and apparent blood drainage, peaking in the 1970s US; official and forensic investigations attribute the reports to scavenging and decomposition.
Cattle raiding in Karamoja
Cattle raiding in Karamoja is the practice among pastoralist peoples of northeastern Uganda of taking livestock by force, turning from a regulated tradition into large-scale armed violence after 1979.
Caturvargacintamani
The Caturvargacintamani (चतुर्वर्गचिंतामणि) is a 13th-century Sanskrit dharmashastra digest by Hemadri, minister of the Yadava kings at Devagiri, planned in five parts on vratas, gifts, sacred places, and liberation.
Caucasian Imamate
The Caucasian Imamate was a theocratic state founded in 1828 across Dagestan and Chechnya, led by three imams and conquered by the Russian Empire in 1859.
Caucasian race
The Caucasian race, also known as Europid, is an obsolete racial classification of humans introduced by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the 1790s and rejected by modern genetics and biological anthropology.
Caucasian War (Кавказская война)
The Caucasian War (Кавказская война, 1817–1864) was Russia's conquest of the North Caucasus, resisted by Imam Shamil's Caucasian Imamate and the Circassians; it ended with the 1864 Circassian expulsion and mass exile to the Ottoman Empire.
Caucasus campaign
Caucasus campaign (1914–1917): Russo-Ottoman campaign of WWI in the Caucasus and eastern Anatolia, opened by the Black Sea Raid; marked by the Ottoman disaster at Sarikamish, Russian capture of Erzurum and Trebizond, and collapse after the Russian Revolution.
Caucasus Emirate (Имарат Кавказ)
Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz), jihadist polity proclaimed by Dokka Umarov in October 2007 replacing Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; six vilayats, Salafist ideology, attacks including Volgograd 2013; declined after 2014-2015 defections to Islamic State.
Caucasus Viceroyalty
The Caucasus Viceroyalty was the administrative and political authority of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus from 1801 to 1917, seated at Tiflis and covering present-day Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the North Caucasus.
Caucones
The Caucones (Kaukones) were a shadowy ancient people whom Homer lists among Troy's allies, placed by later Greek tradition in Paphlagonia and the western Peloponnese.
Caucus
A caucus is a party-run meeting for selecting candidates or delegates, one of the two US presidential nomination methods alongside primaries. Key facts: first recorded in Boston in 1760, lower turnout than primaries, declining among Democrats but retained by 10 Republican states in 2024.
Caudillo
Caudillo: Spanish term for a personalist military-political strongman, from Latin caput (head); caudillismo names the charismatic, patronage-based rule of figures like Rosas, Santa Anna, and Franco.
Caupolicán
Caupolicán, also rendered Queupulicán, was a Mapuche war leader of southern Chile who resisted the Spanish conquest and was captured and executed by impalement in 1558.
Cauridor
Cauridor is an African B2B cross-border payments company founded in 2022 by Guinean entrepreneurs Oumar Rafiou Barry and Abdoulaye Bah as a spin-out of BNB Transfer Corp.
Causaly
Causaly is a London-based artificial intelligence company, founded in 2018, whose software platform structures causal evidence from biomedical literature to help pharmaceutical and biotech researchers run drug discovery.
Causation (law)
Causation (law): the two-tier doctrine of factual (but-for) and legal/proximate causation in tort and criminal law, covering superseding causes, novus actus interveniens, R v Hughes, and civil-law condition and adequacy theories.
Cause célèbre
Cause célèbre (plural causes célèbres, French for "famous case"): a legal case or controversy attracting great public attention, from the Dreyfus Affair to modern celebrity and trial-by-media cases.
Causes of democratic backsliding
The causes of democratic backsliding are the conditions that make erosion likely: economic inequality, polarization, populist leadership, weak executive constraints, and security shocks, with scholars disputing which are genuine causes.
Causes of Jane Austen's death
Causes of Jane Austen's death: the novelist died 18 July 1817 in Winchester aged 41; proposed causes include Addison's disease, bovine tuberculosis, Hodgkin's lymphoma, lupus, cancer, and arsenic poisoning, none confirmed.