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Cory Tomczyk
Cory Tomczyk is an American politician and Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 29th district, who founded and ran a recycling business in the Mosinee area.
Coscharis Group
Coscharis Group is a Nigerian conglomerate founded by Cosmas Maduka in 1977, holding Nigerian franchises for BMW, Ford, and Rolls-Royce; the name combines his and Charity's names.
Cosijoeza
Cosijoeza, also spelled Cocijoeza, was a Zapotec ruler of the Kingdom of Zaachila in Oaxaca from 1487, known for expanding Zapotec power into the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Cosimo de' Medici
Cosimo de' Medici the Elder (1389–1464), Florentine banker and de facto ruler of Florence after the parlamento of 1434; distinct from Cosimo I, first Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Cosmas Indicopleustes
Cosmas Indicopleustes was a sixth-century Greek merchant turned monk, probably from Alexandria, who traveled Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade routes and wrote the Christian Topography.
Cosmas Indicopleustes at Adulis
Cosmas Indicopleustes at Adulis records the sixth-century visit of the Alexandrian merchant Cosmas to Adulis, Aksum's Red Sea port, where he copied two Greek royal inscriptions.
Cosmas Maduka
Cosmas Maduka is a Nigerian businessman who founded the Coscharis Group in 1977 with N300, growing it from auto spare parts into a multinational with sole Nigerian franchises for BMW, Rolls-Royce, and Ford.
Cosmas of Prague
Cosmas of Prague (Kosmas), c. 1045 to 1125, was a Czech priest and dean of St Vitus at Prague, author of the Chronica Boemorum, the earliest narrative history of Bohemia.
CosMc's
CosMc's was a small-format beverage-and-snack restaurant chain created by McDonald's as a spinoff, named for a 1980s alien mascot, opened in late 2023 and shut down in mid-2025.
Cosmic - Aleph
Cosmic–Aleph is a series of venture capital funds associated with investor Elad Gil, which raised about $2.26 billion across five Delaware funds between 2020 and 2026.
Cosmic - Bet
Cosmic - Bet is a Delaware venture capital fund based in West Hollywood, California, managed by Elad Gil, which reported $2.0 billion sold in 2025.
Cosmic - Bet Durable
Cosmic - Bet Durable is a series of Delaware venture capital limited partnerships managed by Elad Gil in West Hollywood, California, raising $680 million in 2024.
Cosmic Par1
Cosmic Par1, L.P. is a West Hollywood, California venture capital fund formed in 2021, associated with investor Elad Gil, which raised $250.2 million from two investors.
Cosmicism
Cosmicism is the literary philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft holding that human laws, interests, and emotions have no meaning at cosmic scale; related to cosmic nihilism but distinct from Russian cosmism.
Cosmo Energy Holdings
Cosmo Energy Holdings is a Japanese holding company spanning oil refining, petrochemicals, and renewables, ranked third in Japan's downstream oil market after ENEOS and Idemitsu.
Cosmo Feilding-Mellen
Cosmo Feilding-Mellen is a British biotechnology entrepreneur, son of Beckley Foundation founder Amanda Feilding, who co-founded Beckley Psytech in 2019 to develop short-acting psychedelic medicines for treatment-resistant depression.
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864–1945) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1928 to 1942, leading the Church of England through the abdication crisis of 1936 and the Second World War.
Cosmological argument
The cosmological argument, or kalam and contingency arguments, is a family of a posteriori arguments for God as first cause, sustaining cause, or necessary being, from Plato and Aristotle through Aquinas, al-Ghazali, and Leibniz to Hume's and Kant's critiques.
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan, an American women's magazine founded in 1886 and owned by Hearst, began as a family literary magazine and was remade in 1965 by Helen Gurley Brown into a magazine about sex, careers, and single life.
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas: luxury Strip resort opened December 2010, built for $3.9 billion after Deutsche Bank's 2008 foreclosure; Blackstone bought it in 2014, MGM took operations in 2022 for $1.625 billion under a $200 million-a-year lease.
Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism (from Greek kosmopolitēs, 'citizen of the world') is the view that all humans are citizens of a single community, spanning Stoic origins, Kant, and modern strands in political, economic, and moral philosophy, including global justice and debates over patriotism's compatibility.
COSO framework
The COSO framework is a set of internal control and enterprise risk management frameworks published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, first issued in 1992.
Cosori
Cosori is a kitchen-appliance brand specializing in air fryers, launched in 2016 by Vesync, sold in more than 40 countries, and the leading air-fryer brand in the United States.
Cossack collaboration with Nazi Germany
Cossack collaboration with Nazi Germany: Cossack military and civilian cooperation with the Third Reich, 1941–1945, including Kononov's regimental defection, Wehrmacht Cossack units, the Friuli settlement, and British repatriation to the USSR.
Cossack Hetmanate
Cossack Hetmanate (Гетьманщина), officially the Zaporozhian Host, the Cossack state founded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648, recognized at Zboriv 1649, ruled by hetmans with a regimental system, and abolished by Catherine II in 1764.
Cossack raids
Cossack raids were Zaporozhian and Don Cossack military expeditions, mainly by sea in chaika boats, against the Crimean Khanate, Nogai Horde, and Ottoman Black Sea territories from the late sixteenth century; the golden era around 1600-1630 saw strikes on Sinop, Kefe, Varna, Trabzon, and the Bosporus, ending with fixed borders and passport regimes.
Cossacks
Cossacks (kozak, kazak) were self-governing armed steppe communities of the Russia-Poland-Tatar borderlands, later a hereditary military estate of the Russian Empire, revived today as registered state-service hosts in Russia and as a symbol of Ukrainian statehood.
Cost
In economics, cost is the value of alternatives sacrificed when resources are used for one purpose rather than another, spanning fixed, variable, marginal, average, opportunity, and social cost.
Cost accounting
Cost accounting is the branch of accounting that measures and reports the cost of products, services, and activities, supplying data for management decisions and for valuing inventory in financial statements.
Cost Allocation
Cost allocation is the distribution of shared expenses among the cost centers that benefit from them, using methods such as the direct, step-down, and reciprocal methods.