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Cornelia T. L. Pillard
Cornelia T. L. Pillard, born Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard, is an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2013.
Cornelio Saavedra
Cornelio Saavedra was an Argentine military and political leader, born in 1759 in present-day Bolivia, who presided over the Primera Junta formed in Buenos Aires in May 1810.
Cornelis Networks
Cornelis Networks is a Wayne, Pennsylvania-based developer of fabric interconnects for AI and high-performance computing, founded in 2020 by former Intel employees from Intel's Omni-Path team.
Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1830–1902) was a Dutch Remonstrant theologian and historian of religion who held the first chair in the science of religion, at Leiden, from 1877.
Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck
Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck (1637–1688) was a Dutch nobleman who bought a third of Suriname in 1683, co-founded the Society of Suriname, and governed the colony until 1688.
Cornelis Willem Opzoomer
Cornelis Willem Opzoomer (1821–1892) was a Dutch philosopher and theologian, professor of philosophy at Utrecht from 1846 to 1889 and, with J.H. Scholten, a founder of the Modern Theology movement.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899-1938), Romanian fascist founder and charismatic leader ('Captain') of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, later the Iron Guard; killed at Jilava in 1938 after a treason conviction.
Cornelius
Cornelius was bishop of Rome, counted as the 21st pope, from 251 until his death in exile in 253, best known for the schism of Novatian, the rival bishop he excommunicated.
Cornelius (name)
Cornelius (Cornelis, Kornelius) is a masculine given name and surname from the Roman gens Cornelia, probably from Latin cornu 'horn'; spread via Pope Cornelius and the centurion of Acts, with forms like Corneille and Cornelio.
Cornelius a Lapide
Cornelius a Lapide, born Cornelis Cornelissen van den Steen, was a Flemish Jesuit biblical scholar whose Latin Bible commentaries became the standard Catholic reference for centuries.
Cornelius Musso
Cornelius Musso (Cornelio Musso, 1511–1574) was an Italian Friar Minor Conventual and celebrated preacher who delivered the inaugural oration of the Council of Trent in 1545.
Cornelius the Centurion
Cornelius the Centurion (Κορνήλιος) is a Roman centurion of the Italian Cohort in Caesarea whom Peter baptized in the early 40s CE, opening the church to Gentiles.
Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck
Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck (1818–1895) was an American medical missionary who spent fifty-five years in Syria and helped complete the standard Arabic Bible translation.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, known as the Commodore, was an American shipping and railroad magnate who built a steamship empire and consolidated New York's railroads before dying in 1877.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II
Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) was an American railroad executive, grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt, who served as president of the New York Central Railroad and built The Breakers in Newport.
Cornell Capital Partners
Cornell Capital Partners is a New York private equity firm founded in 2013 by Henry Cornell, a former Goldman Sachs vice chairman, investing in consumer, energy, financial, and industrial companies.
Cornell Capital Special Situations Partners II LP
Cornell Capital Special Situations Partners II LP is a Cayman Islands private equity fund formed in 2015 by Henry Cornell's Cornell Capital LLC, raising $362 million.
Cornell college herbarium
Cornell College Herbarium (MOVC), Mount Vernon, Iowa, founded 1967; about 2,700 specimens of Midwestern prairie plants and tropical Guraniinae cucurbits; digitized in iDigBio under CC0; distinct from Cornell University's herbaria.
Cornell Notes
Cornell Notes, also the Cornell Method or Cornell Note-Taking System, is Walter Pauk's 1950s page-division note method (cue column, notes column, summary) published in How to Study in College (1962) and built on retrieval practice.
Cornell University
Cornell University: private Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York, and New York State's land-grant institution. Founded 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White; unique hybrid of endowed and state-assisted contract colleges.
Cornering the market
Cornering the market is controlling enough of an asset's supply to manipulate its price, forcing shorts to settle on the cornerer's terms; it is a felony under US law.
Cornerstone Chemical Company
Cornerstone Chemical Company is a manufacturer of intermediate chemicals based in Waggaman, Louisiana, carved out of Cytec Industries in 2011 and owned by private equity firm Littlejohn & Co. since 2017.
Cornerstone Robotics (康诺思腾)
Cornerstone Robotics (康诺思腾) is a surgical robotics company founded in 2019 and based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, maker of the Sentire laparoscopic surgical robot.
Cornerstone Speech
Cornerstone Speech, also Cornerstone Address, March 21, 1861 oration by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens in Savannah, Georgia, declaring slavery and white supremacy the cornerstone of the Confederacy.
Cornicello
Cornicello (curniciello), the Italian horn, is a red twisted horn-shaped amulet from Naples worn against the evil eye (malocchio) for luck and fertility; it must be given as a gift, traditionally in red coral, and is handmade in San Gregorio Armeno workshops.
Cornish language
Cornish (Kernewek, Kernowek), a Brittonic Celtic language of Cornwall, died as a community language by the late 18th century, was revived from 1904 by Henry Jenner's Handbook, gained Part III Charter protection in 2025, and now counts a few thousand speakers.
Cornish language revival
Cornish language revival (Kernewek revival): the movement to revernacularise Cornish, a Brythonic Celtic language whose last recorded native speaker died in 1777. Revival began with Henry Jenner's 1904 handbook; the Standard Written Form was agreed in 2008, and the UK granted Part III Charter recognition in 2025.
Cornish people
Cornish people: the population of Cornwall, England, and those identifying as Cornish; 117,350 identified in Census 2021, recognized as a UK national minority in 2014, with a revived Cornish language.
Cornish rotten and pocket boroughs
Cornish rotten and pocket boroughs: tiny, patron-controlled Cornish parliamentary constituencies of the unreformed system, giving Cornwall 42 MPs before the 1832 Reform Act cut this to 14.
Cornplanter
Cornplanter (Gaiantwaka, John O'Bail), Seneca war chief and diplomat c. 1750–1836, fought for the British in the Revolution, signed key treaties, and later advocated accommodation with the United States.