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Châtelperronian
The Châtelperronian, also called the Châtelperronian industry, is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture known for its backed-blade Châtelperron point and generally attributed to the last Neanderthals in western Europe.
Chatham House
Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is a London-based independent international affairs think tank founded in 1920, based in St James's Square since 1923, chartered in 1926, and origin of the Chatham House Rule.
Chatham House Rule
Chatham House Rule: a meeting protocol from the 1927 London think tank allowing free use of information while barring attribution of speakers or participants; distinct from the Vegas Rule.
Chatichai Choonhavan
Chatichai Choonhavan (ชาติชาย ชุณหะวัณ) was a Thai army general and politician who served as prime minister from 1988 until he was overthrown in a 1991 military coup.
Chatrang-namak
Chatrang-namak (چترنگنامه) is a short Middle Persian text, set in the sixth century, telling how chess came from India to Khosrow I's court and backgammon was invented in reply.
Chatrie v. United States
Chatrie v. United States, 609 U.S. _ (2026), a 6-3 Supreme Court decision by Justice Kagan holding that obtaining Google Location History via a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search, limiting the third-party doctrine; decided from a 2019 Virginia credit-union robbery.
Chatsworth Charter High School
Chatsworth Charter High School, also called Chatsworth Charter High and home of the Chancellors, is an LAUSD affiliated charter high school in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, founded 1963, serving grades 9-12 with Affiliated Charter, SAS, and G+STEAM Magnet programs.
Chattampi Swamikal (ചട്ടമ്പി സ്വാമികൾ)
Chattampi Swamikal (ചട്ടമ്പി സ്വാമികൾ), born Kunjan Pillai, was a Kerala Hindu sage and social reformer who argued that Vedic study was open to all castes and sexes.
Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe
Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe (born 1997) is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur and the youngest son of former president Robert Mugabe and former first lady Grace Mugabe.
Chatusadom
Chatusadom (จตุสดมภ์), literally the Four Columns, was the group of four great ministries that administered the civil government of the Ayutthaya Kingdom: the city, palace, treasury, and agriculture departments.
Chau-Ing Hsu
Chau-Ing Hsu (Hsu Chao-ying) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Kinpo Electronics in 1973 and established Compal Electronics, a major notebook maker, in 1984.
Chaudappa Nayaka
Chaudappa Nayaka (ಚೌಡಪ್ಪ ನಾಯಕ) was the founder and first ruler of the Keladi (Ikkeri) Nayaka dynasty of Malenadu, Karnataka, reigning from 1499 to 1530 as a Vijayanagara feudatory.
Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh
Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh is an Indian BJP politician from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, who served as Panchayati Raj minister from 2017 and led the party's state unit.
Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan
Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan Singh is an Indian BJP politician and prominent Jat leader from Chhata in Mathura district, a six-time cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh government.
Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh
Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh (1910–2000) was a Punjab civil servant who resigned in 1946 to found Delhi Land and Finance, today's DLF, building Delhi housing colonies.
Chaudhary Tejveer Singh
Chaudhary Tejveer Singh is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, serving as a Rajya Sabha member for the 2024 to 2030 term.
Chauhan conquest of Delhi
The Chauhan conquest of Delhi (विग्रहराज चतुर्थ की दिल्ली विजय) was the capture of Delhi and Hansi from the Tomaras by the Chauhan king Vigraharaja IV around 1163–1164.
Chaulukya dynasty
The Chaulukya dynasty (चौलुक्य) was a royal house that ruled Gujarat from Anahilavada for about three centuries, founded by Mularaja and ended by the Vaghelas in the 1240s.
Chauncey Shey
Chauncey Shey, known in Chinese as Xue Cunhe, is a Chinese-American venture capitalist who co-founded UTStarcom and founded SoftBank China Venture Capital, an early Alibaba investor.
Chauri Chaura incident (चौरी चौरा कांड)
Chauri Chaura incident (चौरी चौरा कांड), 4 February 1922, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh: Non-Cooperation Movement crowd burned a police station, killing 22–23 policemen; Gandhi suspended the movement; 19 protesters were hanged in 1923.
Chautauqua
Chautauqua: summer educational community founded 1874 on Chautauqua Lake, New York, by Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent; gave rise to the Chautauqua Movement of assemblies and tent circuits, and survives as the 750-acre Chautauqua Institution.
Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua Institution, founded 1874 by Lewis Miller and John Heyl Vincent on Chautauqua Lake, New York, is a 750-acre not-for-profit adult education and arts center whose nine-week summer season spawned the nationwide Chautauqua Movement.
Chauth
Chauth (चौथ) was a Maratha levy of one-fourth of a district's revenues, paid to spare it from raiding; the Mughals granted the Marathas the right to it in 1719.
Chauth and sardeshmukhi
Chauth and sardeshmukhi (चौथाई आणि सरदेशमुखी) were two Maratha revenue levies, chauth at one-fourth of an area's revenue and sardeshmukhi an added one-tenth, secured from the Mughal Deccan provinces in 1719.
Chauvinism
Chauvinism is exaggerated, blind devotion to a group one belongs to, usually one's nation, involving perceived superiority and xenophobia; it is named for a French soldier.
Chav
Chav: British pejorative for a young person stereotyped as low-class, brash, and flashily dressed in branded sportswear. Entered the OED mid-2000s, OUP's first Word of the Year; disputed Romani or charver etymology; regional equivalents include ned, scally, charver.
Chavacano
Chavacano, also spelled Chabacano, is the only creole language spoken in the Philippines, formally Philippine Creole Spanish, with Spanish vocabulary, Philippine grammar, and about 400,000 speakers concentrated in Zamboanga.
Chavada dynasty
The Chavada dynasty, founded by Vanaraja Chavda around 746, ruled what is now northern Gujarat until the Chaulukya king Mularaja seized its kingdom in 942.
Chavit Singson
Luis "Chavit" Crisologo Singson, Filipino businessman and longtime governor of Ilocos Sur (1972-1986, 1992-2001, 2004-2007, 2010-2013), whose October 2000 jueteng and tobacco-tax accusations against President Joseph Estrada led to Estrada's impeachment and removal.
Chavundaraya
Chavundaraya (ಚಾವುಂಡರಾಯ), also written Chamundaraya, was a Jain general and minister of the Western Ganga dynasty in Karnataka who commissioned the Bahubali statue at Shravanabelagola.