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Clive Newall
Clive Newall, full name Geoffrey Clive Newall, is a mining geologist who co-founded First Quantum Minerals in 1996, serving as President until 2020 and a Director until 2022.
Clive Palmer
Clive Palmer (born 1954) is an Australian mining magnate who founded the Palmer United Party (2013) and United Australia Party (2018), spending tens of millions per election on advertising that won almost no seats.
Cliven Bundy
Cliven Bundy, Nevada rancher of Bunkerville whose 2014 armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management over more than $1 million in unpaid grazing fees ended the cattle roundup; indicted 2016, case dismissed 2020.
Clock Tower X
Clock Tower X LLC, Brad Parscale's Delaware firm, is a FARA-registered foreign agent for Israel (#7649, 2025, via Havas Media Germany), paid $9M rising to $31.5M to build AI-targeting advocacy sites like Allyvia and Paxpoint that chatbots have cited.
Clock Tower, Herne Bay
Herne Bay Clock Tower (built 1836–37, opened 2 October 1837), a 75-foot Grade II listed Portland stone clock tower on Herne Bay's Central Parade, Kent, funded by Ann Thwaytes' £4,000 gift and designed by Edwin J Dangerfield.
Clocktower Technologies
Clocktower Technologies, also known as Clocktower Technology Ventures, is the fintech venture capital arm of Clocktower Group, founded by Steven Drobny in Santa Monica in 2015.
Cloistered rule (院政)
Cloistered rule, known in Japanese as insei, was the Japanese system in which a retired emperor retained real power after abdicating, begun by Emperor Shirakawa in 1086.
Cloistered rule of Emperor Shirakawa
The cloistered rule of Emperor Shirakawa (白河院政) was the first sustained insei: after abdicating in 1086 to Emperor Horikawa, Shirakawa directed the Japanese state until his death in 1129.
Cloopen Group Holding Ltd
Cloopen Group Holding Ltd is a Chinese cloud-based communications company founded in Beijing in 2013 by Sun Changxun, providing CPaaS, cloud contact centers, and unified communications to enterprise customers.
Cloover
Cloover is a Berlin-based climate fintech founded in 2023 by Jodok Betschart, Peder Broms, and Valentin Gönczy, supplying renewable energy installers with software, financing, and energy products.
Clorinda Matto de Turner
Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852–1909) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, and newspaper editor whose 1889 novel Aves sin nido, protesting abuse of indigenous Peruvians, drew clerical censorship and her excommunication.
Cloris You
Cloris You is a Managing Director at 5Y Capital, an early-stage Chinese venture capital firm rebranded from Morningside Venture Capital in 2020, with $4.8 billion under management in 2021.
Close back rounded vowel
Close back rounded vowel /u/, IPA symbol lower-case u (number 308): a vowel with the tongue back and close, lips rounded, as in English food, French vous, German du; contrasts with lax ʊ.
Close encounter
Close encounter: ufology term and classification scale coined by astronomer J. Allen Hynek in his 1972 book, grading UFO sightings from first kind (sighting) to third kind (contact), later extended to abduction (CE4) and popularized by Spielberg's 1977 film.
Close front rounded vowel
Close front rounded vowel [y], high front rounded vowel, cardinal vowel nine: IPA number 309, U+0079, X-SAMPA y; an [i]-like tongue position with rounded lips, found in French, German, and Turkish, difficult for English learners who confuse it with [u].
Close-in weapon system
A close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a largely autonomous ship defense system that detects and destroys incoming anti-ship missiles, aircraft, and boats in the final seconds before impact.
Close-margin United States House election results
Close-margin United States House election results compile the narrowest certified House victories, including three one-vote races, Indiana's 4-vote race in 1984, and Iowa's 6-vote race in 2020.
Close-out netting
Close-out netting is a contractual mechanism in OTC derivatives markets that, when a counterparty defaults, terminates all covered transactions, values them, and collapses the obligations into one net sum, cutting credit exposure by over 80%.
Closed adoption
Closed adoption: adoption with no contact or identifying information exchanged between birth and adoptive parents, historically paired with sealed records in the US; largely supplanted since the 1990s by open adoption.
Closed Chambers
Closed Chambers, Edward Lazarus's 1998 Times Books account by a former Harry Blackmun clerk of the 1988-89 Rehnquist Court's factional strife over death penalty, race, and abortion cases, and its clerk confidentiality controversy.
Closed Districts Ordinance
The Closed Districts Ordinance, also known as the Passport and Permits Ordinance, was a 1922 British law of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan controlling entry into closed districts through permits.
Closed-end fund
A closed-end fund, also called a closed-end investment company, raises fixed capital in an IPO, then its exchange-traded shares usually trade at a discount to net asset value.
Closed-eye hallucination
Closed-eye hallucination, also called closed-eye visualization (CEV), is visual imagery from phosphenes and visual snow to formed scenes experienced with eyes closed, linked to release phenomena, hypnagogia, vision loss, and stroboscopic stimulation.
Closer Economic Relations
Closer Economic Relations (CER, ANZCERTA): the Australia–New Zealand free trade agreement signed at Canberra on 28 March 1983 and in force since 1 January 1983, creating a WTO-consistent free trade area covering goods, services, and investment, supplemented by over 80 arrangements.
Closeted
Closeted describes concealing one's sexual orientation or gender identity. Covers the metaphor's debutante-ball origins, concealment strategies, mental health findings, and structural stigma effects on coming out.
Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or DJIA milestones, are the index's first daily closes above round numbers, from 100 in 1906 to 50,000 in 2026.
Closing milestones of the S&P 500
Closing milestones of the S&P 500 are the first daily closes of the index above round-number levels, such as 1,000 in 1998 and 5,000 in 2024.
Closings and cancellations following the September 11 attacks
Closings and cancellations after the September 11, 2001 attacks: the first-ever FAA nationwide ground stop, a four-day airport closure, NYSE/Nasdaq shut until September 17, and Treasury settlement fails of $190 billion daily.
Closure and seizure of diplomatic missions
Closure and seizure of diplomatic missions covers ending or constraining embassies under the 1961 Vienna Convention: Article 22 inviolability, Article 45 post-closure duties, the ICJ's 2020 Equatorial Guinea v. France ruling, and the 1979 Tehran embassy seizure.
Clotho (Κλωθώ)
Clotho (Κλωθώ, Klotho), Greek mythological goddess, one of the three Moirai or Fates alongside Lachesis and Atropos; the Spinner who spins the thread of life, Roman Nona, named from the verb klōthein.