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Cotta Verlag
Cotta Verlag is a German publishing house founded in 1659 in Tübingen, known for publishing Goethe and Schiller and continued today as Klett-Cotta in Stuttgart.
Cottagecore
Cottagecore, also called cottage aesthetic, is an Internet aesthetic romanticizing rural life, named on Tumblr in 2018 and spread via TikTok, peaking in 2020 lockdowns with over 12 billion hashtag views, influencing fashion, decor, and academic critique.
Cottaging
Cottaging, British gay slang (also "tea-room") for seeking or having sex in public lavatories, dating to at least 1729, criminalized under s71 Sexual Offences Act 2003, declined after the 1980s.
Cotti Coffee (库迪咖啡)
Cotti Coffee (库迪咖啡) is a Chinese low-price coffee chain founded in 2022 by ex-Luckin executives Qian Zhiya and Lu Zhengyao, selling most drinks for 9.9 yuan or less.
Cottie Petrie-Norris
Cottie Petrie-Norris is an American politician and Democratic member of the California State Assembly from the 73rd district, including Irvine, Costa Mesa, and Tustin, elected in 2018.
Cotton library
The Cotton library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton from 1588, is England's foundational manuscript collection: emperor-named shelfmarks, Beowulf, Lindisfarne Gospels, Magna Carta copies, damaged in the 1731 Ashburnham House fire, now a British Library foundation collection.
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (1663-1728), Boston Congregational minister, son of Increase Mather, prolific author of about 450 works including Magnalia Christi Americana and The Wonders of the Invisible World; linked to the Salem witch trials and to introducing smallpox inoculation in 1721.
Cotubanamá
Cotubanamá was a Taíno cacique of the Higüey chiefdom in southeastern Hispaniola who led the last major indigenous resistance to Spanish rule there in the wars of 1503 to 1505.
CouchSurfing
Couchsurfing is a hospitality exchange and social travel platform founded in 2004, with 25 million members in 200,000+ cities, a paid membership since 2020, and free-stay, no-commercial-use rules; alternatives include BeWelcome, Trustroots, and Couchers.
Cougar (slang)
Cougar slang: an older woman who dates or pursues much younger men, attested by 2002, probably from Canada, popularized by Valerie Gibson's 2001 book; informal, often offensive, distinct from the wild cat.
Coulrophilia
Coulrophilia is attraction to clowns, usually a sexual fetish or paraphilia and the counterpart of coulrophobia. Coined in the late 1980s or 1990s from the uncertain root coulro-, it has online fetish communities and no DSM diagnosis.
Coulter Electronics
Coulter Electronics, later Coulter Corporation, was an American manufacturer of blood-cell analysis instruments founded in 1958 by brothers Wallace and Joseph Coulter to market the Coulter Counter.
Coultreon Biopharma
Coultreon Biopharma, formerly Onco3R Therapeutics, is a Leuven, Belgium biotechnology company spun out of Galapagos NV in 2025, developing an oral SIK3 inhibitor for autoimmune diseases.
Council at the Court of Catherine II
The Council at the Court of Catherine II (Совет при высочайшем дворе) was the Russian Empire's highest advisory body, created in 1768 and abolished in 1801.
Council communism
Council communism: an anti-Leninist Marxist current from 1920s Germany and the Netherlands, also called Raetekomunismus, holding that workers' councils, not a vanguard party, should overthrow capitalism and run communist society; key theorists Pannekoek, Gorter, Rühle, Mattick.
Council for Russian Orthodox Church Affairs
The Council for Russian Orthodox Church Affairs (Совет по делам Русской православной церкви) was a Soviet government body linking the state and the Moscow Patriarchate from 1943.
Council House Fight
The Council House Fight was a March 1840 clash in San Antonio, Texas, where troops killed Comanche peace leaders after trying to detain them for White captives.
Council of 104
The Council of 104, also called the Court of 104, was Carthage's high tribunal, judging generals and magistrates after office, with penalties up to crucifixion.
Council of 1448
The Council of 1448 (Собор 1448 года) was a Moscow assembly of Russian Orthodox bishops that installed Jonah as metropolitan, making the church de facto autocephalous.
Council of 1620 on the sign of the cross
The Council of 1620 on the sign of the cross (Соборное деяние 1620 года) was a Russian Church council under Patriarch Filaret requiring rebaptism of converts baptized by pouring.
Council of All the Land
The Council of All the Land (Совет всея земли), or Zemskoe government, was Russia's provisional government from 1611 to 1613, created by the people's militias.
Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) is a regional alliance of liberal and democratic political parties in Asia, inaugurated in Bangkok in 1993 with support from Chuan Leekpai and Kim Dae-Jung.
Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe
Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE, Conseil des barreaux européens): Brussels-based international non-profit association founded 1960, representing bars of 46 countries and over 1 million European lawyers; issuer of the 1988 Code of Conduct and advocate of the 2025 Luxembourg Convention.
Council of Chalcedon
The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, met at Chalcedon in 451, defining Christ as one person in two natures and deposing Dioscorus of Alexandria.
Council of Code Drafting, 1648–49
The Council of Code Drafting, 1648–49, was the Zemsky sobor and five-man commission under Prince Odoevsky that drafted Russia's Sobornoye Ulozhenie law code, adopted in 1649 after the Moscow uprising.
Council of Constance
The Council of Constance, the Sixteenth Ecumenical Council, met from 1414 to 1418, ended the Western Schism by electing Martin V, and condemned Jan Hus.
Council of Dvin
The Council of Dvin was a series of Armenian Church synods held at Dvin, capital of Persian Armenia, from 506 to 720, which fixed its rejection of Chalcedon.
Council of Economic Advisers
The Council of Economic Advisers, also known as the President's Council of Economic Advisors, is a three-member body advising the US President on economic policy, created in 1946.
Council of Elders (Carthage)
The Council of Elders, or Adirim, was Carthage's aristocratic senate, one of the three main offices of its constitution alongside the suffetes and the Hundred and Four.
Council of Ephesus
The Council of Ephesus, also called the Third Ecumenical Council, was a council of bishops held in 431 that condemned Nestorius and affirmed the Virgin Mary as Theotokos.