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Chimaji Appa
Chimaji Appa (चिमाजी अप्पा, c. 1706–1740), younger brother of Baji Rao I and son of Balaji Vishwanath, Maratha commander who won Malwa, Gujarat, Konkan and the 1737–39 Vasai campaign against the Portuguese; died 17 December 1740.
Chimalpahin
Chimalpahin, also known as Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, was a Nahua historian born in Amecameca in 1579 who wrote annals and histories in Nahuatl in colonial Mexico City.
Chimalpopoca
Chimalpopoca was the third tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlan, son of Huitzilihuitl and grandson of Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco, whose assassination in 1427 helped precipitate the Tepanec war.
Chime (company)
Chime, also known as Chime Financial, is an American financial technology company founded in 2012 that offers fee-free checking and paycheck advances through partner banks.
Chimera (Χίμαιρα) (mythology)
Chimera (Χίμαιρα, Khimaira, Chimaera): the fire-breathing hybrid monster of Greek mythology, lion in front, goat in the middle, serpent behind, child of Typhon and Echidna, slain by Bellerophon in Lycia, with or without Pegasus depending on the source.
Chimia
Chimia (ISSN 0009-4293 print, 2673-2424 online) is a monthly Swiss chemistry journal founded in 1947 by the Schweizerischer Chemiker-Verband, successor to the Schweizer Chemiker-Zeitung, now published by the Swiss Chemical Society in Bern.
Chimney sweep
Chimney sweep: a trade cleaning flues with brushes and rods to remove creosote and soot. Covers methods, chimney-fire and cancer hazards, child climbing-boy legislation to 1875, and modern regulation and decline.
Chimú
Chimú, also called Chimor, was a pre-Hispanic state on the north coast of Peru, centered on the adobe capital of Chan Chan and conquered by the Inca around 1470.
Chimú adobe architecture
Chimú adobe architecture is the Chimú culture's building tradition of sun-dried mud brick and poured earth, best seen at Chan Chan, the largest earthen city in the pre-Columbian Americas.
Chimú Kingdom (Chimor)
The Chimú Kingdom, also called Chimor, was a coastal Andean state in Peru with its capital at Chan Chan, conquered by the Inca in the fifteenth century.
Chimurenga
Chimurenga, the Ndebele equivalent of which is Umvukela, is a Shona word for liberation war applied to Zimbabwe's successive wars of resistance and to a genre of mbira-based music.
Chin Jong Hwa
Chin Jong Hwa (秦荣华, also written Chin Jung-hua) is a Taiwan-born businessman who founded Minth Group, a Hong Kong-listed auto parts supplier, and remains its largest shareholder.
Chin National Army
The Chin National Army is the armed wing of the Chin National Front, founded in 1988 to seek self-determination for the Chin people of western Myanmar.
Chin National Front
The Chin National Front (CNF, Burmese: ချင်းအမျိုးသားတပ်ဦး) is a Chin ethnic political organization in western Myanmar, founded in 1988 to seek self-determination for the Chin people.
Chin people (ချင်းလူမျိုး)
Chin people (ချင်းလူမျိုး), also called Zo peoples, are Tibeto-Burman ethnic groups of northwestern Myanmar's Chin State, northeastern India, and Bangladesh: about 500,000 in Chin State, largely Christian, divided into six tribes and 63 sub-tribes.
China and the United Nations
China and the United Nations: original 1945 member and permanent Security Council member, represented by the Republic of China until General Assembly resolution 2758 seated the People's Republic of China on 25 October 1971.
China Aviation Oil
China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation Ltd is a Singapore-listed jet fuel supplier and trader, the largest physical jet fuel buyer in Asia-Pacific and a key supplier to China's aviation industry.
China Baowu Steel Group
China Baowu Steel Group (中国宝武钢铁集团) is a state-owned steelmaker headquartered in Shanghai, formed by merging Baosteel and Wuhan Iron and Steel in 2016 and the world's largest crude steel producer since 2020.
China Bohai Bank
China Bohai Bank (渤海银行) is a national joint-stock commercial bank headquartered in Tianjin, established in 2005 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2020.
China Boqi Environmental
China Boqi Environmental (中国博奇环保) is a Beijing-based environmental services company serving coal-fired power plants with flue gas treatment, water treatment, and waste disposal, listed in Hong Kong since 2018.
China brain
The China brain, also known as the Chinese Nation, is a thought experiment by Ned Block in 1978 against functionalism, in which the population of China implements a brain.
China Broadband Capital Partners
China Broadband Capital Partners, also known as CBC Capital, is a Chinese venture capital and private equity firm founded by Edward Suning Tian in 2006.
China Burma India theater
China Burma India theater (CBI): the U.S. Army's World War II command for China, Burma, and India, established 4 March 1942 under Stilwell to supply China via the Hump airlift and Ledo Road; split into China and India-Burma theaters on 24 October 1944.
China Central Television (中国中央电视台)
China Central Television (中国中央电视台, CCTV), China's national TV station, began as Beijing Television in 1958, was renamed CCTV in 1978, runs 16 free-to-air channels, and since 2018 sits within the Central Radio and Television Station (CMG).
China Chengxin Credit Rating Group
China Chengxin Credit Rating Group (中诚信集团) is China's largest credit rating agency, founded in October 1992 with approval of the People's Bank of China as the country's first nationwide credit rating institution.
China Cinda Asset Management
China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd. (中国信达) is a Chinese state-owned distressed-asset manager, the first of the four AMCs created in 1999 to absorb bad loans from China's state banks.
China Citic Bank
China Citic Bank (中信银行) is a state-controlled Chinese commercial bank founded in 1987, listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong in 2007 and controlled by CITIC Group.
China Coal Energy
China Coal Energy Company Limited is a Chinese state-owned coal miner and coal-chemical producer, the listed arm of China National Coal Group, founded in 2006.
China Coast Guard (中国海警局)
China Coast Guard (中国海警局), China's maritime law enforcement agency formed in 2013 from four merged services and placed under the People's Armed Police and Central Military Commission in 2018; the world's largest coast guard fleet (546 vessels), active around Scarborough Shoal and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands.
China Communications Construction
China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC; 中国交通建设股份有限公司) is a Chinese state-owned infrastructure contractor building ports, roads, bridges, and railways in 139 countries, formed in 2005.