Society and history

Choi Sang-mok (최상목)

Choi Sang-mok (최상목) is a South Korean economic bureaucrat who served as finance minister from 2023 and acting president from December 2024 to March 2025.

Choi Soon-sil (최순실, later Choi Seo-won) is the South Korean confidante of President Park Geun-hye whose 2016 influence-peddling scandal, Mir and K-Sports foundation donations, and 20-year sentence triggered Park's impeachment and removal in 2017.

Choice

Choice is the act of selecting one option from a set of alternatives, a central object of study in decision theory, economics, and the psychology of decision making.

Choice Hotels

Choice Hotels International is an American hotel franchisor that licenses its 22 brands, including Comfort and Quality Inn, to independent hotel owners across about 50 countries.

Choice of law

Choice of law in US contract disputes: which jurisdiction's substantive law governs, via clauses enforced under UCC 1-105(6) and Restatement (Second) § 187, the most-significant-relationship test, public-policy limits, and comparison with the Rome Convention.

Choice of law clause

Choice of law clause: also called governing law clause; contract provision selecting which jurisdiction's substantive law governs disputes; distinct from forum selection clauses; limited by mandatory rules, public policy, and weaker-party protections under Rome I, Restatement §187, and the 2015 Hague Principles.

Choice of law in contracts (United States)

Choice of law in contracts is the body of rules US courts use to decide which state's law governs a dispute when states differ, since US contracts are governed by state law.

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Chōjirō

Chōjirō (長次郎) was a Japanese potter of Kyoto who, working with tea master Sen no Rikyū, created the hand-molded tea bowls that founded Raku ware.

Chokan Valikhanov

Chokan Valikhanov (Shoqan Shynggysuly Ualikhanov, 1835–1865) was the first Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, orientalist and Russian Imperial officer, famed for his disguised 1858–1859 Kashgar expedition and his pioneering record of the Manas epic.

Chokepoints

A chokepoint is a narrow strait, canal, or passage through which a disproportionate share of global seaborne trade flows, such as Hormuz, Malacca, Suez, and Panama, where disruptions raise freight costs and prices.

Chokha

Chokha (चोखा) was an Indian painter of the Mewar school of Rajput miniature painting, active 1799 to about 1826 at Udaipur and Devgarh, known for his Battle of Haldighati paintings.

Chokhamela

Chokhamela (चोखामेळा) was a Maharashtrian saint-poet of the Bhakti movement who wrote over 400 abhangas praising Vithoba, the god his caste barred him from seeing, and died in 1338.

Choking game

The choking game (self-asphyxial behaviour, pass-out game) is youth self-strangulation or strangulation by another to induce euphoria from cerebral hypoxia; CDC counted 82 US deaths aged 6–19 in 1995–2007, mostly boys playing alone.

Chokkanatha Nayak

Chokkanatha Nayak (சொக்கநாத நாயக்கர்) was a ruler of the Madurai Nayak dynasty from 1659 to 1682 who conquered Thanjavur in 1673, ending its old Nayak line.

Chokwe expansion

The Chokwe expansion was the 19th-century military and commercial growth of the Chokwe people, who rose from tributary hunters to conquer the Lunda states in Angola, DR Congo, and Zambia.

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Chokwe invasion of the Lunda Empire

The Chokwe invasion of the Lunda Empire was the overthrow of the Lunda Empire in Katanga and eastern Angola by its former tributaries, the Chokwe, by 1887.

Chokwe Lumumba

Chokwe Lumumba, born Edwin Finley Taliaferro, was an American civil rights attorney who served as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, from 2013 until his death in 2014.

Chokwe people

The Chokwe, also spelled Tshokwe or Cokwe, are a matrilineal Bantu-speaking people of northeastern Angola, the DR Congo, and northwestern Zambia who overthrew the Lunda Empire in the late 1800s.

Chōkyō no Ran

Chōkyō no Ran (長享の乱) was an eighteen-year civil war in Japan's Kantō region from 1487 to 1505, fought between the Yamauchi and Ōgigayatsu branches of the Uesugi clan.

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Chol-khan

Chol-khan (Чол-хан), known in Russian sources as Shchelkan or Shevkal, was a cousin of khan Uzbek sent as ambassador to Tver in 1327, where an uprising killed him.

Chola administrative divisions

Chola administrative divisions (மண்டலம், வளநாடு) were the territorial hierarchy of the Chola empire of South India, organized by Rajaraja I into provinces, revenue districts, and village assemblies.

Chola army

The Chola army (சேனை) was the military organization of the Chola state of South India, maintaining infantry, cavalry, elephants, and a navy that reached Sri Lanka and Srivijaya.

Chola bronzes

Chola bronzes (சோழ வெண்கலச் சிலைகள்) are cast-metal images of Hindu deities made in south India under the Chola dynasty, chiefly in Tamil Nadu, from the 8th to 16th century.

Chola coinage

Chola coinage (चोल मुद्रा) is the money issued by the Chola dynasty of South India from 850 to 1250 CE, best known for the gold kahavanu of Rajaraja I.

Chola conquest of Anuradhapura

The Chola conquest of Anuradhapura was the 993 invasion of Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura Kingdom by the Chola Empire under Rajaraja I, who sacked Anuradhapura and annexed Rajarata.

Chola conquest of Northern Sri Lanka

The Chola conquest of Northern Sri Lanka (இலங்கை மீது சோழப் படையெடுப்பு) was Rajaraja I's 993 CE invasion that annexed the Anuradhapura kingdom's heartland to the Chola Empire.

Chola conquest of Rajarata

The Chola conquest of Rajarata was the invasion and annexation of the Sinhalese kingdom's northern Sri Lankan heartland by Rajaraja I, who sacked Anuradhapura in 993.

Chola conquest of the Pandya country

The Chola conquest of the Pandya country was a series of wars in which the Chola kings overran the Pandya kingdom, first reducing it to tribute and later to direct rule.

Chola conquest of the Pandyas under Rajendra I

The Chola conquest of the Pandyas under Rajendra I (இரண்டாம் பாண்டியக் கிளர்ச்சி) was the early 11th-century suppression of Pandya resistance to Chola rule in southern India.