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Concordancia (Argentina)
The Concordancia was an Argentine political alliance of conservatives, Anti-Personalist Radicals, and Independent Socialists that ruled from 1932 to 1943 through electoral fraud, ending with the 1943 military coup.
Concordat of Worms
Concordat of Worms (Pactum Calixtinum), 23 September 1122 agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Emperor Henry V ending the investiture controversy: emperor renounced ring-and-staff investiture, kept regalia grants; confirmed by First Lateran Council 1123.
Concordia Association
The Concordia Association (協和会, Kyōwakai) was the official state-controlled national organization of Manchukuo, promoting ethnic harmony and mobilizing resources for Japan's war effort until 1945.
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) is a private ELCA liberal arts college founded by Norwegian settlers in 1891, enrolling about 2,000 students, offering 140+ areas of study, and home to Concordia Language Villages.
Concordia University
Concordia University, Montreal English-language university formed August 24, 1974 by merging Loyola College and Sir George Williams University; two campuses, about 50,000 students, named for Montreal's motto Concordia salus.
Concubinage
Concubinage, from Latin concubina, is cohabitation as married persons without full legal marriage. Covers Roman law status, medieval church tolerance, Council of Trent abolition, Islamic and Chinese concubinage, and modern French and Mexican inheritance law.
Concupiscence
Concupiscence, from Latin concupiscentia translating the Greek epithymia, is in Christian moral theology the inordinate desire for temporal ends seated in the senses, which Catholics hold is not itself sin.
Concurrence (criminal law)
Concurrence in criminal law is the doctrine that a defendant's guilty mind (mens rea) and guilty act (actus reus) must overlap in time for liability to arise.
Concurrent estate
Concurrent estate: shared property ownership by two or more people, in forms including tenancy in common, joint tenancy (with right of survivorship and four unities), and tenancy by the entirety.
Concurrent List
The Concurrent List is List III of India's Seventh Schedule: subjects such as criminal law, education, and forests on which both Parliament and State Legislatures may legislate, with Union law prevailing on repugnancy under Article 254.
Condé Nast
Condé Nast is a privately held American media company founded in 1909, owned by Advance Publications and publishing Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, and Vanity Fair.
Condemnations of 1210–1277
The Condemnations of 1210–1277, also known as the Paris condemnations, were church bans on doctrines at the University of Paris, peaking with Bishop Stephen Tempier's condemnation of 219 theses in 1277.
Conditional sentence
A conditional sentence (if-clause plus main clause) expresses that a consequent holds under an antecedent hypothesis. Covers English zero/first/second/third types, fake past tense in counterfactuals, Romance and English history, and conditional logic.
Conditions of 1730
The Conditions of 1730 (Кондиции) were limits on autocratic power that the Supreme Privy Council required Anna Ioannovna to sign before becoming empress of Russia; she soon tore them up.
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born 1954, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American political scientist and diplomat, 66th U.S. Secretary of State (2005–2009), first African-American woman in that post, first female National Security Advisor (2001–2005), Stanford provost 1993–1999, and current Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution.
Condom Vung Tau Shop
Condom Vung Tau Shop refers to retail shops in Vung Tau, Vietnam selling condoms, lubricants, and sexual-health products, notably Shop Cau Nho (411 Nguyen An Ninh, founded 2011), Shop Gel boi tron (110/2A Pham Hong Thai), and Shop OK (509 Duong 30/4).
Condominium
A condominium is a form of property ownership giving individual title to a unit plus an undivided share of common elements, run by a unit owners' association; also called strata title or commonhold. First enacted in US law in Puerto Rico in 1958; distinct from housing cooperatives.
Condor Legion
The Condor Legion (Legion Condor) was the Luftwaffe 'volunteer' force sent by Hitler to aid Franco in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39; it pioneered finger-four tactics, bombed Guernica in 1937, and served as a Luftwaffe rehearsal for World War II.
Condorcet method
Condorcet method: pairwise-majority single-winner voting electing the Condorcet winner, the candidate beating every rival head-to-head; uses completion rules like Schulze, ranked pairs, minimax when cycles occur.
Condorcet paradox
The Condorcet paradox is a voting situation where majorities cycle: A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A, described by Condorcet in 1785.
Condorcet winner criterion
Condorcet winner criterion: a voting method is Condorcet-consistent if it elects the candidate who beats or ties every other in pairwise majority comparisons. Satisfied by ranked pairs, Schulze, minimax; failed by plurality, IRV, Borda.
Condottiero
Condottiero (plural condottieri) is the Italian term for the captain of a mercenary company, from condotta, the contract of hire; the compagnie di ventura captains who dominated Italian warfare from about 1300 to the early sixteenth century.
Conduct disorder
Conduct disorder (conduct-dissocial disorder, ICD-11) is a childhood/adolescent psychiatric disorder of aggression, property destruction, deceitfulness, and rule violation, often comorbid with ADHD, leading to antisocial personality disorder, treated mainly with parenting programmes and multisystemic therapy.
Conduent
Conduent Inc. is an American business process services company created in January 2017 when Xerox spun off its outsourcing division, processing Medicaid claims, benefit payments, and tolling systems.
Cones of Enmetena
The Cones of Enmetena are Sumerian clay cone inscriptions of Enmetena, ruler of Lagash, recording the Lagash-Umma border settlement and the building of Inanna's Emush temple.
Confabulation
Confabulation, also called honest lying, is unintentional false memory production in which gaps in recall are filled with fabrications accepted as fact. Seen chiefly in Korsakoff's syndrome and frontal lobe dysfunction, without intent to deceive.
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union confederation founded in Barcelona in 1910; assembly-based, refuses elections and subsidies, linked to the CIT, marked by the 1936 revolution, Francoist repression, and a later name dispute with CNT-AIT.
Confederación Nacional Obrera de Cuba
The Confederación Nacional Obrera de Cuba (CNOC, National Workers' Confederation of Cuba) was Cuba's first national labor federation, founded in August 1925 and led by Alfredo López.
Confederados
Confederados (Os Confederados) are Confederate expatriates from the post-Civil War American South who settled in Brazil, where slavery was legal until 1888, founding Americana and Santa Bárbara d'Oeste; descendants still hold the Festa Confederada.
Confederate (TV series)
Confederate was an unproduced HBO alternate-history drama announced July 19, 2017 by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, imagining a seceded South where slavery remained legal; after intense backlash it was cancelled by 2019.