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Chee-yeun Chung
Chee-yeun Chung is a pharmacist-turned-neuroscientist who co-founded Yumanity Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014, developing drugs for protein-misfolding diseases like Parkinson's before joining Arbor Biotechnologies.
Cheek kissing
Cheek kissing, or la bise, is a greeting of touching cheeks with an air kiss, common in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East; kiss counts range from one to four and vary by region, gender norms, and city-level laterality.
Cheerleader effect
Cheerleader effect, or group attractiveness effect: the finding that a face looks more attractive in a group than alone, named from How I Met Your Mother and confirmed by Walker and Vul in 2014.
Chefoo Convention
The Chefoo Convention, also known as the Yantai Convention, was an agreement between Great Britain and Qing China signed at Chefoo in 1876 by Thomas Wade and Li Hongzhang.
Chega (political party)
Chega (CH), founded April 2019 by André Ventura, is Portugal's populist radical right party: nationalist, conservative, liberal in its manifesto; anti-immigration, soft-Eurosceptic; grew from 1.3% in 2019 to 60 seats and leading the opposition by 2025.
Chegaiting poem case
The Chegaiting poem case (蔡确车盖亭诗案) was a 1089 Song dynasty literary inquisition in which former chancellor Cai Que was exiled to Lingnan for poems read as slandering Empress Dowager Xuanren.
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986), Senegalese historian, physicist, and politician, author of Nations nègres et culture and The African Origin of Civilization, argued ancient Egypt was a Black African civilization, wrote for UNESCO's General History of Africa, and gives his name to Dakar's university.
Cheikh Bouamama
Cheikh Bouamama (الشيخ بوعمامة) was a Sufi marabout of the Ouled Sidi Cheikh who led resistance against French colonial rule in southwestern Algeria from 1881 until his death in 1908.
Cheikh Mokrani
Cheikh Mokrani, in full Mohamed ben el Hadj Ahmed El Mokrani (محمد المقراني), was an Algerian noble and bachagha of the Medjana who led the great Kabyle uprising of 1871 against French rule.
Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké
Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké, cited as Cheikh Mbacké, is a Senegalese demographer known for fertility research and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Cheitharol Kumbaba
Cheitharol Kumbaba (ꯆꯩꯊꯥꯔꯣꯜ ꯀꯨꯝꯕꯥ) is the court chronicle of the kings of Manipur, probably the region's oldest, recording 76 kings from 33 CE until the monarchy's abolition in 1949.
Chejing
Chejing (체징, 804–880) was a Seon monk of Unified Silla who became the third patriarch of the Gajisan school and founded Borimsa Temple on Gajisan in Jangheung.
Cheka (ВЧК)
Cheka (ВЧК, VChK), the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, was the first Soviet secret police, founded 20 December 1917 under Feliks Dzerzhinsky, carried out the Red Terror, and was dissolved in February 1922 into the GPU, later OGPU, NKVD, and KGB.
Chel Diokno
Jose Manuel "Chel" Icasiano Diokno, Filipino human rights lawyer and Akbayan Party-list representative, son of Senator Jose W. Diokno; FLAG chair since 2003, founding dean of the De La Salle College of Law, House prosecutor in Sara Duterte's impeachment trial.
Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree, born 1955, is an American Democratic politician serving as U.S. Representative for Maine's 1st congressional district since January 2009, and previously a Maine state senator, Senate Majority Leader, and president of Common Cause.
Chełmno extermination camp
Chełmno (Kulmhof) was the first Nazi killing center, operating December 1941–April 1943 and June 1944–January 1945 near Łódź in the Warthegau, murdering at least 152,000 Jews and 4,300 Roma with carbon monoxide gas vans.
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton (Chelsea Victoria Clinton, born 1980, Little Rock) is the only child of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, Columbia Mailman School professor, and author of books for young readers.
Chelsea Finn
Chelsea Finn is an American computer scientist and Stanford assistant professor who co-founded Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco startup building general-purpose AI models for robots.
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning (born 1987), formerly Bradley Manning, is an American former Army intelligence analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was sentenced to 35 years in 2013, and was released in 2017 after Obama commuted her sentence.
Chelsea Pensioner
Chelsea Pensioners: about 300 retired British Army veterans residing at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, founded by Charles II in 1681, first admitted 1692; In-Pensioners surrender Army pensions, wear scarlet uniforms, women admitted since 2009.
Chelsea Stoner
Chelsea Stoner is an American venture capitalist who joined Battery Ventures in 2006 and is a General Partner in San Francisco, known for investments in Avalara, Glassdoor, Groupon, and Marketo.
Chelsey Hockett
Chelsey Hockett is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the US House in Texas's 5th congressional district, a union-family mom from East Texas running on cost-of-living issues.
Chelsi Smith
Chelsi Smith (Chelsi Mariam Pearl Smith, 1973-2018), American actress, singer, and beauty queen; Miss Texas 1994, Miss USA 1995, and Miss Universe 1995 crowned in Windhoek, Namibia; died of liver cancer at 45; Miss USA's Congeniality Award now honors her.
Chelsy Davy
Chelsy Davy, full name Chelsy Yvonne Davy, is a Zimbabwean-born businesswoman and former solicitor who founded the fine jewelry brand Aya in 2016, known for ethically sourced African gemstones.
Chemical Weapons Convention
The Chemical Weapons Convention is a multilateral arms control treaty that bans chemical weapons. It was the first treaty to require the abolition of a whole class of weapons of mass destruction by a deadline.
Chemify
Chemify, Ltd. is a Glasgow-based digital-chemistry startup founded in 2022 by Lee Cronin, combining AI, robotics, and chemistry to design and synthesize small molecules for medicines and materials.
Chemistry Ventures
Chemistry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm in San Francisco founded in 2024 by Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, leading seed and Series A software deals.
Chemosh-yat
Chemosh-yat, also known as Kemosh-yatti, was a king of Moab in the ninth century BC, the father and predecessor of Mesha, who names him on the Mesha Stele.
Chempakaraman Pillai
Chempakaraman Pillai (ചെമ്പകരാമൻ പിള്ള) was an Indian revolutionary from Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore, who worked from Germany for India's independence, serving as foreign minister of the 1915 provisional government at Kabul.
ChemTrak
ChemTrak Inc. was a Sunnyvale, California, in-vitro diagnostics company founded by Prithipal Singh and known for CholesTrak, the first commercially available home cholesterol test, FDA-cleared for over-the-counter use in 1993.