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Chichele Professorship
The Chichele Professorship is a series of statutory chairs at the University of Oxford, named after Henry Chichele. The oldest chairs were established in 1859 and 1862.
Chichibu Incident
The Chichibu Incident, also called the Chichibu Peasant Uprising, was an 1884 armed uprising by farmers in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, demanding debt relief and tax reductions.
Chichijima incident (父島事件)
Chichijima incident (父島事件), also Ogasawara incident: 1944-45 killing and partial cannibalism of American POW airmen by Japanese troops on Chichijima, Bonin Islands; prosecuted at Guam war crimes trials under 'prevention of honorable burial'; Tachibana and others sentenced to death.
Chichimec entry into the Basin of Mexico
The Chichimec entry into the Basin of Mexico was the twelfth- and thirteenth-century migration of semi-nomadic northern hunters into central Mexico after the fall of Tollan.
Chichimeca War
The Chichimeca War (Guerra Chichimeca) was a guerrilla conflict between semi-nomadic Chichimeca peoples and Spanish colonizers in north-central Mexico, fought from about 1550 to 1590.
Chick Donohue
John "Chick" (Chickie) Donohue, American Marine veteran and merchant mariner from Inwood, Manhattan, known for the 1967 "Greatest Beer Run Ever," delivering Pabst Blue Ribbon to friends serving in Vietnam, later memoir and 2022 Farrelly film.
Chick Hearn
Chick Hearn (Francis Dayle Hearn, 1916-2002) was the Los Angeles Lakers' play-by-play announcer for 42 years, broadcast 3,338 consecutive games (1965-2001), pioneered the radio-TV simulcast, and coined basketball terms like slam dunk and air ball.
Chick tract
A Chick tract is a 24-page evangelical pocket comic published by Chick Publications since 1961, created by cartoonist Jack Chick and known for its wide circulation.
Chickamauga Cherokee
The Chickamauga Cherokee, named for Chickamauga Creek near Chattanooga, were a faction led by Dragging Canoe that resisted American settlement in the Tennessee Valley from 1776 until 1794.
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw are a Muskogean-speaking Native American people of the Southeast, historically of northern Mississippi and adjacent states, now the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma; smallest of the Five Civilized Tribes, removed in 1837.
Chickasaw Removal
Chickasaw Removal was the forced relocation of the Chickasaw Nation from Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky homelands to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma between 1837 and 1851.
Chickasaw Wars
The Chickasaw Wars were conflicts between the Chickasaw and French Louisiana with Choctaw allies from the early 1720s to 1753, fought in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi.
Chicken (game)
Chicken (game), also called hawk-dove or snowdrift, is a two-player game-theory model of brinkmanship with payoff order T > R > S > P, two pure and one mixed Nash equilibria, used for crisis bargaining and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Chicken Ranch (Texas)
The Chicken Ranch was a brothel near La Grange, Texas, run from 1905 by madams Jessie Williams and Edna Milton until its 1973 closure after Marvin Zindler's KTRK-TV exposé and Governor Briscoe's order, inspiring The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's La Grange.
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment was an American media company spun off from the book publisher in 2017 that operated Redbox kiosks and Crackle streaming before collapsing into bankruptcy in 2024.
Chicken tax
The chicken tax is a 25 percent US tariff on imported light trucks, imposed in 1964 as retaliation for European poultry duties and still in force.
Chico Xavier
Chico Xavier, born Francisco Cândido Xavier (1910–2002), was a Brazilian Spiritist medium who psychographed over 400 books, donated all royalties to charity, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chidananda Ashrama
Chidananda Ashrama is a name put forward as the 65th Shankaracharya of the Dwarka Sharada Peetham from 1773 to 1780, which no source corroborates; a compiled record instead names Keshavananda for those years.
Chidao and Zhidao
The chidao and zhidao were Qin dynasty road programs ordered by the First Emperor: imperial highways radiating from Xianyang, and a military road against the Xiongnu.
Chief
Chief is a title for the top authority in a domain: chief executive (president, prime minister, governor), commander in chief of armed forces, traditional chiefs in hybrid governance, and officers such as chief justice.
Chief Clerk of the Western Regions
The Chief Clerk of the Western Regions (西域长史府) was the senior Han military and administrative office in the Western Regions, re-established in 123 under Ban Yong.
Chief constable
The Chief Constable is the highest-ranking operational head of a territorial police force in England and Wales. They hold "direction and control" of the force under the Police Act 1996.
Chief Election Commissioner of India
The Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) heads the Election Commission of India, appointed by the President under Article 324 and removable only like a Supreme Court judge.
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Chief Executive of Hong Kong: head of the HKSAR under the Basic Law, elected by a 1,500-member Election Committee and appointed by Beijing; five-year term, two consecutive terms maximum; current officeholder John Lee, sixth term since 2022.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer, or CEO, is the highest-ranking executive in a company, appointed by and accountable to the board of directors; in the UK the same job is often titled managing director.
Chief financial officer
A chief financial officer (CFO) is the senior executive responsible for a company's financial strategy, reporting, and capital allocation, a role that has widened toward strategy and operations.
Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it, ca. 1840–1904) led the non-treaty Nez Perce Wallowa band; his 1877 surrender message "I will fight no more forever" at Bear Paw is the best-known but textually contested Native American speech.
Chief judge (United States federal courts)
A chief judge in the United States federal courts is the administrative head of a district court or court of appeals, serving a seven-year term under statute.
Chief judges of the United States district courts
Each US district court's chief judge is an active district judge who leads court administration, selected by statute under 28 U.S.C. § 136 for a seven-year term.
Chief Justice of Bangladesh
The Chief Justice of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশের প্রধান বিচারপতি) is the head of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, appointed by the President, holding office until age 67.