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Coat of arms of Germany
The coat of arms of Germany (Bundeswappen), also called the Bundesadler, is the black federal eagle on a gold field, defined by the 1950 federal announcement reviving the Weimar Reichsadler design.
Coat of arms of Romania
Coat of arms of Romania (stema României): golden crowned eagle on blue with a quartered shield of Wallachia, Moldavia, Banat-Oltenia, Transylvania and dolphins; adopted 1992, crowned 2016, ninth official version since 1859.
Coat of arms of Russia
Coat of arms of Russia (Государственный герб Российской Федерации): golden double-headed eagle on a red shield with three crowns, scepter, orb, and St. George horseman; first used on Ivan III's 1497 seal, restored by 1993 decree, codified by the 2000 federal constitutional law.
Coat of arms of Slovenia
Coat of arms of Slovenia (državni grb Republike Slovenije): shield with white Mount Triglav on blue, two wavy lines for sea and rivers, three golden six-pointed stars of the Counts of Celje, red border; designed by Marko Pogačnik, 1991.
Coat of arms of South Africa
Coat of arms of South Africa: the state's highest visual symbol, adopted 27 April 2000 (design by Iaan Bekker), motto !ke e: /xarra //ke in /Xam Khoisan, replacing the 1910 arms, protected by the Heraldry Act.
Coat of arms of the Russian Empire
Coat of arms of the Russian Empire: black double-headed eagle with three crowns, sceptre, orb, and St George on a gold field. Approved by Alexander II on 11 (23) April 1857 after Bernhard von Koehne's 1856 reform; used until 1917.
Coat of arms of Ukraine
The coat of arms of Ukraine, or tryzub, is the national emblem: a gold trident on an azure shield, first adopted in 1918 and readopted in 1992.
Coat of many colors (כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים)
The coat of many colors, known in Hebrew as the ketonet passim, is the garment Jacob gave Joseph in Genesis 37; most scholars translate it as a long robe with sleeves, not a multicolored one.
Coatlicue
Coatlicue, "Snakes-Her-Skirt," is an Aztec earth and mother goddess who gave birth to the sun, the stars, and the war god Huitzilopochtli; her name also designates a monumental statue found in Mexico City in 1790.
Coatue Management
Coatue Management is a New York investment firm founded by Philippe Laffont in 1999 that invests in technology companies from venture capital through public long/short positions.
Cobalt Capital Partners
Cobalt Capital Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2019, whose principals include Rick Hess, Dan Abrams, and James Moore.
Cobalt Strategic Partners
Cobalt Strategic Partners I, LP is a pooled investment fund recorded at 100 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, reporting about $298 million sold in its 2021 SEC filing.
Cobb County School District
Cobb County School District (CCSD), Marietta, Georgia: second-largest district in Georgia and 23rd in the US, 105,738 students in 112 schools, $1.87 billion FY2026 budget, superintendent Chris Ragsdale since 2015.
Cobb–Douglas production function
The Cobb–Douglas production function, introduced by Charles Cobb and Paul Douglas in 1928, models output from capital and labor, with each input's output elasticity equal to its exponent.
Cobbold Commission
The Cobbold Commission was a joint British–Malayan commission of enquiry, chaired by Lord Cobbold, which reported in 1962 that a majority in North Borneo and Sarawak favored joining Malaysia.
Cobden–Chevalier Treaty
The Cobden–Chevalier Treaty was a commercial treaty signed in Paris in 1860 between France and Britain, cutting tariffs and launching a network of European free-trade agreements.
Cobilt
Cobilt was a California maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, founded in 1970, known for automated contact mask aligners and the 1974 Autofab resist processing system.
Cobweb model
The cobweb model is an economic model in which producers base output on the previous period's price, so prices oscillate around equilibrium, as in hog cycles.
Coca eradication in Bolivia
Coca eradication in Bolivia refers to US-financed campaigns against Chapare coca from 1988 to 2005, then the cato accord and cooperative control model adopted under Evo Morales after 2006.
Coca trade
The coca trade is the commerce in leaves of the coca plant, begun within the Andes before the Spanish conquest and centered on supplying coca to laborers in the Potosí silver mines.
Cocar
Cocar was a Shanghai-based peer-to-peer car-rental startup founded in 2014, the first in China to shut down, closing in July 2015 after failed Series A funding.
COCC
COCC, legally Connecticut On-Line Computer Center Inc., is a client-owned financial technology company in Southington, Connecticut, founded in 1967 to provide core data processing to community banks and credit unions, which own its shares.
Cochin Jews
Cochin Jews (Cochini, Kerala Jews): ancient Jewish community of the Malabar coast, India, documented from 974-1020 CE copper plates, divided into White (Paradesi), Black (Malabari), and Meshuchrarim groups, which emigrated almost entirely to Israel in the 1950s.
Cochin royal family
The Cochin royal family, or Perumpadappu Swaroopam, was the matrilineal royal house that ruled Cochin in central Kerala, with its capital at Tripunithura from about 1755.
Cochinchina campaign
The Cochinchina campaign (Vietnamese: Chien dich Nam Ky) was a joint Franco-Spanish invasion of Nguyen dynasty Vietnam from 1858 to 1862 that opened the French conquest and led to the colony of Cochinchina.
Cochise
Cochise (c. 1812–1874) was chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache in southeastern Arizona. Known for the Bascom Affair of 1861, the Battle of Apache Pass, and the 1872 Cochise-Howard Agreement creating the Chiricahua Reservation; not the penetration-testing tool or the county alone.
Cochise County Cowboys
The Cochise County Cowboys were loosely organized outlaws active in Pima and Cochise County, Arizona Territory, in the 1880s, known for cattle theft and their feud with the Earp brothers.
Cock
Cock: English word from Old English cocc, originally the male chicken, later a valve, a firearm hammer, a friendly address term, and vulgar slang for the penis; taboo avoidance produced rooster.
Cockade
Cockade (French cocarde): a rosette or knot of ribbon worn on a hat as a badge of military service or political allegiance; famous as the French Revolution's tricolor emblem and later national military insignia.
Cockaigne
Cockaigne (Cockayne, pays de cocagne) is the medieval European mythical land of plenty and idleness, first written down in the Old French Fabliau de Cocagne around 1250, known in German as Schlaraffenland and depicted in Bruegel's 1567 painting.