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Colony of Santiago
The Colony of Santiago was Spain's colonial possession on the island of Jamaica, ruled from 1509 until its conquest by England in 1655 under Cromwell's Western Design.
Colony of Virginia
Colony of Virginia, founded at Jamestown 1607 under the 1606 charter to the Virginia Company of London; royal colony from 1625; headrights, tobacco, and slavery defined it until the 1776 commonwealth constitution.
Colophon (publishing)
Colophon (publishing): a statement of a book's production details, from Greek kolophon, finishing touch; originated in manuscript endings, first printed in the 1457 Mainz Psalter, later displaced by the title page; also a publisher's logo.
Coloplast
Coloplast is a Danish global medical device company founded in 1957 by Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen, a world leader in ostomy and continence care, wound care, and interventional urology.
Color commentator
Color commentator (also color analyst; expert summarizer outside North America): the analyst in a sports broadcast booth who provides insight, strategy, and context alongside a play-by-play announcer, often a former player or coach, from NFL booths to esports.
Color Health
Color Health, formerly Color Genomics, is an American clinical genomics and cancer-care company in Burlingame, California, launched in 2015 with a $249 hereditary cancer test.
Color psychology
Color psychology studies how color perception relates to human emotion, cognition, and behavior. Also called colour psychology; rooted in Goethe's 1810 Farbenlehre; key findings include systematic color-emotion correspondences and contested red-achievement effects.
Color term
Color terms are the words languages use for colors; basic color terms, defined by Berlin and Kay (1969), are monolexemic, salient terms acquired in a fixed cross-linguistic sequence from black and white to gray, studied via the World Color Survey.
Color terminology for race
Color terminology for race covers labels like white, black, colored, mulatto, and people of color. It traces skin color as the West's primary racial classifier, shifting US census and legal usages, and current debate over people of color.
Colorado City, Arizona
Colorado City, Arizona, twin of Hildale, Utah, forms the Short Creek community, an FLDS polygamist stronghold raided in 1953, sued by the Justice Department, and transformed after court supervision ended in 2025.
Colorado College
Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, founded in 1874. It is known for its Block Plan, where students take intensive three-and-a-half-week courses.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Colorado Court of Appeals: the state's intermediate appellate court, 22 judges sitting in three-member divisions, initial jurisdiction over most trial-court and agency appeals, with discretionary Colorado Supreme Court review beyond.
Colorado Democratic Party
The Colorado Democratic Party is the state-level branch of the Democratic Party in Colorado, governed by a State Central Committee and chaired by Shad Murib since 2023.
Colorado Party (Uruguay)
The Colorado Party (Partido Colorado) is one of Uruguay's two traditional political parties, founded in 1836 by Fructuoso Rivera in rivalry with the Partido Nacional.
Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (COPERA)
The Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (Colorado PERA) is Colorado's public pension system, created by statute in 1931, providing retirement benefits to employees of more than 600 government agencies.
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines is a public R1 research university in Golden, Colorado, founded in 1874 as a territorial mining school. Known for Orediggers, Blaster the Burro, and QS's #1 mineral and mining ranking.
Colorado Senate
Colorado Senate: the 35-member upper chamber of the Colorado General Assembly, with four-year terms, two-consecutive-term limits, roughly 165,000 residents per district, and Democratic control 23-12.
Colorado Springs nightclub shooting
Colorado Springs nightclub shooting: mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQIA+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, on November 19, 2022. Shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five and wounded many before patrons subdued him; later sentenced to life plus 190 years.
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting: Robert Lewis Dear Jr.'s November 27, 2015 attack on a Colorado Springs abortion clinic killed three and wounded nine; he was never tried and died in federal custody in 2025.
Colorado State Capitol portrait of Donald Trump
Colorado State Capitol portrait of Donald Trump: an oil painting by Sarah A. Boardman unveiled August 1, 2019, funded by about $10,000 in GOP fundraising; Trump called it 'purposefully distorted' in March 2025, it was removed, and a White House-donated Vanessa Horabuena replacement hung July 1, 2025.
Colorado State University
Colorado State University (CSU) is the public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, founded in 1870 as Colorado Agricultural College; flagship of the CSU System, record 34,412 enrollment, $613M research, 16 NCAA Division I Pac-12 programs.
Colorado War
The Colorado War (1863–1865) was a conflict on the central Great Plains between the US Army and Colorado militia and the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, and Kiowa.
Colorado's 3rd congressional district
Colorado's 3rd congressional district is a United States House district covering much of western and southern Colorado, including the Western Slope; Republican Jeff Hurd has represented it since January 2025.
Colorado's congressional delegations
Colorado's congressional delegations are the US senators and representatives Colorado has sent to Congress since statehood in 1876; the current delegation of ten includes two Democratic senators.
Colorado's congressional districts
Colorado's congressional districts: eight U.S. House districts drawn by the state's independent redistricting commission under 2018's Amendment Y, approved November 1, 2021, each with about 721,714 people, producing a 4-4 delegation.
Colored
Colored is a historical U.S. racial term for non-white people, especially Black Americans; used in census categories from 1820 and in the NAACP name, replaced by Black, Negro, and African American.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is Noam Chomsky's 1957 example sentence from Syntactic Structures, also in his 1955 thesis and 1956 paper: grammatically well formed but semantically nonsensical, used to separate syntax from meaning and probability.
Colors TV
Colors TV, launched 21 July 2008 by Viacom18 (now JioStar), is a leading Hindi general entertainment channel known for Balika Vadhu, Bigg Boss, and Khatron Ke Khiladi, and for dethroning Star Plus within a year of launch.
ColorTokens Inc.
ColorTokens Inc. is an enterprise cybersecurity company founded in 2015 in San Jose, California, whose Xshield platform uses zero-trust microsegmentation to stop malware spreading laterally across networks.
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two 18-meter quartzite statues of Amenhotep III at his mortuary temple in Luxor, Egypt, famed for the singing northern statue after the 27 BC earthquake and for ongoing restoration.