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Churchill Partners
Churchill Partners is a New York fund family managed by Churchill Asset Management, a Nuveen affiliate, focused on US middle-market private credit and equity co-investments.
Churchill war ministry
Churchill war ministry: British coalition government under Winston Churchill as Prime Minister and first Minister of Defence, 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945; five-member War Cabinet, Labour coalition, three no-confidence votes, dissolved for the July 1945 election.
Churchome
Churchome is a nondenominational Christian megachurch headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, founded in 1992 as City Church, renamed in 2017, and led by pastors Judah and Chelsea Smith.
Churel (चुड़ैल)
Churel (चुड़ैल, chudail) is the vengeful female ghost of South Asian folklore, spirit of a woman who died in pregnancy, childbirth, or ritual impurity, marked by backward-turned feet, with regional variants and a Caribbean churile form.
Churn rate
Churn rate, also called attrition rate, is the percentage of customers, subscribers, or recurring revenue a business loses over a period, calculated by dividing what was lost by the starting base.
Chutia kingdom
The Chutia kingdom (চুতীয়া), also known as Sadiya, was a medieval state centered on Sadiya in the eastern Brahmaputra Valley of Assam, annexed by the Ahom kingdom in 1523.
Chutti TV (சுட்டி டிவி)
Chutti TV (சுட்டி டிவி) is a 24-hour Tamil-language children's channel owned by Sun TV Network, launched in 2007 as the first Indian cartoon channel entirely in Tamil.
Chutzpah
Chutzpah (חוצפּה, Yiddish khutspe) is an English loanword for utter nerve, effrontery, or shameless audacity, borrowed in 1892 from Yiddish and ultimately from Aramaic and Hebrew; negative in origin, often approving in English.
Chuvash language
Chuvash (Чӑваш чӗлхи, Chăvash chĕlhi), also called Chuwash or Chovash, is the only living Oghur (Bulgar) Turkic language, spoken by about 1 million people in Chuvashia, Russia; Cyrillic script, vulnerable status, highly divergent from Common Turkic.
Chuvash people
Chuvash (чăваш): Turkic people of the middle Volga, Russia, about 1.5 million in 2010, half in Chuvashia. Their language is the only surviving Bulgharic (Oghuric) Turkic language; mostly Orthodox Christian, descended from Volga Bulgar groups.
Chuy García
Jesús G. "Chuy" García is an American Democratic politician serving in the US House for Illinois's 4th district since 2019, after earlier Chicago and Illinois offices.
Chuyuan
Chuyuan, also known as Shishuang Chuyuan (楚圆, 986–1039), was a Song dynasty Chan Buddhist monk whose students Yangqi Fanghui and Huanglong Huinan founded the two Linji houses.
Chuyuan New Materials
Chuyuan New Materials, formally Hunan Chuyuan New Materials Co., Ltd., is a Chinese maker of photosensitive dry film for printed circuit boards, ranking third globally with a 13.2% share in 2024.
Chūzan Seikan
Chūzan Seikan (中山世鑑) is the first official history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, completed in 1650 by the statesman Shō Shōken at King Shō Shitsu's command.
Chwezi
Chwezi (Cwezi, Bacwezi): legendary dynasty of kings of Kitara in western Uganda, remembered before the Bito dynasty; founders include Ndahura, last king Wamara. Focus of the Cwezi-kubandwa spirit cult; archaeologists reject the earthworks at Bigo as Cwezi capitals.
Chyhyryn conspiracy
The Chyhyryn conspiracy (Чигиринська змова), also called the Chigirin conspiracy, was a failed 1877 attempt by Russian populists to organize Kyiv Governorate peasants into secret squads for armed uprising.
CIA activities by country
CIA activities by country: foreign intelligence collection, counterintelligence, and presidentially authorized covert action by the Central Intelligence Agency in individual states, documented through declassified records such as Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1964-1973.
CIA black sites
CIA black sites were secret overseas detention facilities of the post-9/11 CIA rendition, detention, and interrogation program, confirmed in Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Thailand, ended by Executive Order 13491 in January 2009 and documented in the 6,700-page Senate torture study.
CIA fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan
The CIA fake vaccination campaign was a 2011 covert hepatitis B vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, run via doctor Shakil Afridi to collect DNA from Osama bin Laden's family; it damaged vaccine trust and led to a 2013 US policy ban.
CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking
Allegations and investigations of CIA knowledge or tolerance of cocaine trafficking by the Nicaraguan Contras, sparked by Gary Webb's 1996 Dark Alliance series and examined in DOJ and CIA inspector general reports.
CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory
The CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory alleges CIA involvement in or cover-up of JFK's 1963 killing. Official findings: Warren Commission found lone gunman; HSCA found probable conspiracy but no CIA involvement, only withheld Castro-plot information.
CIA Memorial Wall
The CIA Memorial Wall is a marble wall in CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia, also called the Wall of Stars, bearing 140 carved stars for officers who died in the line of duty; 108 names are public, 32 secret.
Ciaculli massacre
Ciaculli massacre (Strage di Ciaculli), car-bomb attack of 30 June 1963 near Palermo killing seven carabinieri and soldiers during the First Mafia War, prompting Italy's first antimafia law and about 2,000 arrests.
Ciao
Ciao: Italian informal greeting for both hello and goodbye, from Venetian s-ciao vostro 'I am your slave', via Medieval Latin sclavus 'slave'; first in print in Verga's Eros (1874), in English by 1929.
Ciarán of Saigir
Ciarán of Saigir, also known as Ciaran Saighir, is the patron saint and first bishop of Ossory, credited with founding the monastery of Saigir in County Offaly.
Cibaeño Revolution
The Cibaeño Revolution (Revolución Cibaeña) was an armed uprising in the Dominican Republic from 1857 to 1858, led by the Cibao region against President Buenaventura Báez.
Ciboney
The Ciboney (Siboney) were a Western Taíno people of 15th-16th century Cuba with a distinct dialect, once confused with the Guanahatabey and with aceramic Caribbean sites; the mislabeling was corrected in the 1980s.
Cibus
Cibus is a San Diego agricultural biotechnology company that uses its RTDS gene-editing platform to develop plant traits, such as herbicide tolerance, licensed to seed companies for royalties.
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, consul in 63 BCE, orator, and philosopher; author of De re publica, De legibus, and the Philippics, and the first surviving republican political theorist.
Cidara Therapeutics, Inc.
Cidara Therapeutics, also known as K2 Therapeutics, was a San Diego biopharmaceutical company whose influenza drug CD388 led to its acquisition by Merck in 2026.