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Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) is the military component of the Global Coalition against ISIS, established by the US Department of Defense in October 2014 to command operations in Iraq and Syria.
Come and take it
Come and take it is a slogan of defiance, first used by Colonel John McIntosh in 1778, which became a vital symbol during the Texas Revolution's Battle of Gonzales.
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a Christian hymn written in 1758 by Robert Robinson, an English Baptist minister, and usually sung to the tune NETTLETON.
Comecon
Comecon, formally the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was the Soviet-led economic organization coordinating the planned economies of the socialist bloc from 1949 until its dissolution in 1991.
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American comedy cable network formed April 1, 1991 from the merger of HBO's The Comedy Channel and Viacom's HA!, known for The Daily Show and South Park; now owned by Paramount under Skydance.
Comentarios reales de los incas
Comentarios reales de los incas (Royal Commentaries of the Incas) is a two-part history of Inca Peru by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, first printed in Lisbon in 1609.
Comercio libre of 1778
The Comercio libre of 1778, or Reglamento de comercio libre, was a Spanish royal regulation ending the requirement that all trade with America pass through Cádiz.
Comet (TV network)
Comet (TV network), also called Comet TV, is a free over-the-air American multicast network launched October 31, 2015 by Sinclair and MGM as the first 24/7 science-fiction channel, airing The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Buffy, and Grimm on digital subchannels.
Comexi
Comexi is a Spanish manufacturer of machinery for flexible packaging, founded in 1954 in Girona, Catalonia, supplying printing, laminating, slitting, and reel handling equipment to converters worldwide.
Comfort women
Comfort women (ianfu, 慰安婦): women and girls, mostly Korean and Chinese, held in Imperial Japanese Army military brothels 1932–1945; contested coercion, 1993 Kono apology, 2015 Japan–Korea settlement.
Comgall
Comgall (c. 510s–602) was an Irish abbot who founded the monastery of Bangor on Belfast Lough around 558, led a community of thousands of monks, and trained the missionary Columbanus.
Comic Relief
Comic Relief (registered as Charity Projects) is a British charity founded in 1985 that raises funds through comedy, chiefly its Red Nose Day telethon, and distributes grants to fight poverty in the UK and worldwide.
Comics Code Authority
Comics Code Authority (CCA): the Comics Magazine Association of America's self-censorship body for U.S. comic books, 1954–2011, issuing the Seal of Approval after Senate hearings; revised 1971 and 1989; ended when Marvel, DC, and Archie withdrew.
Comiket
Comiket, also known as Comic Market or Comike, is a semiannual doujinshi convention in Tokyo held since 1975, now the world's largest marketplace for self-published works.
CoMind
CoMind is a London-based neurotechnology startup founded in 2018 by James Dacombe that is developing CoMind One, a non-invasive bedside brain monitor targeting traumatic brain injury, with $102.5 million raised.
Cominform (Коминформ)
Cominform (Коминформ), Information Bureau of Communist and Workers' Parties, founded September 1947 at Szklarska Poręba with nine European parties; Yugoslavia expelled June 1948; seat moved from Belgrade to Bucharest; dissolved April 1956.
Cominform Resolution on Yugoslavia
The Cominform Resolution on Yugoslavia (Резолюция Коминформа о Югославии) was adopted in Bucharest on June 28, 1948, condemning Tito's leadership and expelling Yugoslavia from the communist bloc.
Coming of age
Coming of age is the transition from childhood to adult status, marked by rites of passage with van Gennep's three-stage structure (separation, liminality, reincorporation) and by social milestones such as work, marriage, and independent living, which have shifted in the United States from family formation toward economic independence.
Coming out
Coming out is the process of disclosing one's LGBTQ+ sexual orientation or gender identity, a developmental process shaped by minority stress, with falling disclosure ages, generally positive outcomes, and distinct online dynamics.
Comintern
The Comintern, or Communist International, was a world organization of communist parties founded in Moscow in March 1919 to spread world revolution and dissolved in 1943.
Comisma
Comisma (コミスマ株式会社), formerly Comicsmart, is a Tokyo manga and anime IP company founded by Koki Sato in 2013 that runs the GANMA! manga app and owns the anime studio Qzil.la.
Comma
The comma (,) is a punctuation mark separating elements within a sentence, from Greek komma "piece cut off"; covers clause rules, the serial comma, comma splices, Unicode U+002C, and its history from Aldus Manutius to texting.
Comma splice
Comma splice: the punctuation error of joining two independent clauses with only a comma, a form of run-on sentence; fixed by period, semicolon, or conjunction, but accepted in fiction dialogue and idiomatic series.
Command and control
Command and control (C2) is the military exercise of authority over assigned forces, spanning centralized and decentralized (mission command) approaches, NATO command structure, and modern JADC2 network modernization.
Command economy
A command economy is an economic system in which a central authority, not markets, decides production, quantities, and prices, most nearly realized in the Soviet Union between 1930 and 1987.
Command hierarchy
Command hierarchy: the ordered military structure of authority built on unity of command, expressed through chains of command, joint authorities (COCOM, OPCON, TACON), and centralized versus decentralized command and control.
Command-and-control regulation
Command-and-control regulation is environmental regulation in which the government mandates each source's emission limits, required equipment, or practices by legal rule, instead of using taxes or tradable permits.
Commandancy General of the Interior Provinces
The Commandancy General of the Interior Provinces (Comandancia General de las Provincias Internas) was a Spanish territorial jurisdiction created in 1776 to govern the far north of New Spain, independent of the viceroy.
Commandant of Light Carriages (Guangluxun)
The Commandant of Light Carriages (光祿勳) was a Western Han office created in 104 BC from the Qin Prefect of the Gentlemen of the Palace, commanding palace guards and attendants.
Commandant of the Guards (Weiwei)
The Commandant of the Guards (卫尉, weiwei) was a Han dynasty Chinese official in charge of the guards at the gates and walls of the imperial palaces.