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Creek Constitution of 1859
The Creek Constitution of 1859 was the first written constitution of the Creek (Muscogee) Nation in Indian Territory, replaced by a new constitution in 1867 after the Civil War.
Creek War
The Creek War (1813–1814), or Red Stick War, was a Creek civil war widened into a U.S. campaign in the War of 1812 era; Fort Mims, Horseshoe Bend, and the Treaty of Fort Jackson ceding 23 million acres distinguish it.
Creek War of 1836
The Creek War of 1836, also called the Second Creek War, was a conflict between the United States and a faction of the Creek Nation in Alabama.
Creepypasta
Creepypasta, from copypasta (copy/paste), is a genre of internet horror folklore: short anonymous stories spread by copy-and-paste across 4chan, Reddit, and wikis, best known through Slender Man, Candle Cove, and the Backrooms.
Creflo Dollar
Creflo Dollar, born 1962, is an American televangelist who founded World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, and is known for preaching the prosperity gospel.
Creigh Deeds
Creigh Deeds is an American Democratic politician, a Virginia state senator since 2001 representing the 11th district, and the Democratic nominee for governor in 2009.
Creighton Abrams
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (1914–1974), U.S. Army general; World War II 37th Tank Battalion commander who relieved Bastogne, MACV commander in Vietnam 1968–1972, 27th Army chief of staff 1972–1974, namesake of the M1 Abrams tank.
Creighton Preparatory School
Creighton Preparatory School, commonly called Creighton Prep, is a private Jesuit college-preparatory high school for boys in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1878, it enrolls about 1,000 students.
Creighton University
Creighton University, a private Jesuit Catholic university in Omaha, Nebraska founded in 1878 by Mary Lucretia Creighton's bequest, with a Phoenix health sciences campus, 8,948 students, and nine schools including medicine, dentistry, and law.
Crello
Crello was a Cyprus-based online graphic design editor offering template-based DIY design, operated from Kyiv by Depositphotos and rebranded as VistaCreate after Vistaprint acquired it in 2021.
Cremation
Cremation is the burning of a dead body to bone fragments and ash, documented from c. 24000 BCE, revived industrially from 1873–1876, now 62.8% of US and 77.4% of Canadian dispositions in 2025, emitting about 210 kg CO2 eq per body.
Cremation of Care
The Cremation of Care is the opening ceremony of the Bohemian Grove summer encampment, where Bohemian Club members burn an effigy called Dull Care before a forty-foot concrete owl.
Crémieux Decree
The Crémieux Decree (décret Crémieux) was an 1870 French decree making about 34,000 Jews of Algeria French citizens, named for justice minister Adolphe Crémieux and abrogated by Vichy in 1940.
Cremonini S.p.A.
Cremonini S.p.A. is an Italian food-industry holding company founded by Luigi Cremonini in 1963, controlling Inalca, MARR, and Chef Express, with 2025 revenues of 6.42 billion euro.
Creole
Creole describes peoples, languages, and cultural forms arising from mixing during the European colonial era, including creole languages like Haitian Creole and creole peoples such as those of Louisiana.
Creole language
Creole language: a stable contact language, often from a pidgin, that became a community's native tongue, combining superstrate (lexifier) vocabulary with substrate grammar; examples include Haitian Creole, Krio, and Jamaican Creole.
Creole peoples
Creole peoples (Créoles) are groups to whom the term Creole refers: originally people of European or African descent born in the West Indies or Spanish or French America.
Creolization
Creolization is the process by which new creole languages emerge from contact between languages, and, in the social sciences, the mixing of cultures in colonial societies.
Creotech Instruments
Creotech Instruments S.A. is a Polish satellite manufacturer and space-systems prime contractor founded in 2008, known for its HyperSat platform and ESA's CAMILA constellation contract.
Cresa
Cresa (Cresa Global, Inc.) is a Chicago-headquartered commercial real estate advisory firm founded in 1993 that exclusively represents occupiers, never landlords, offering transaction management, project services, portfolio solutions, and lease administration.
Crescendo Biologics
Crescendo Biologics Ltd is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology biotechnology company in Cambridge, UK, developing Humabody single-domain antibody therapeutics, with lead candidate CB307 in Phase 1b trials.
Crescendo Bioscience
Crescendo Bioscience was a South San Francisco molecular diagnostics company known for the Vectra DA rheumatoid arthritis blood test, acquired by Myriad Genetics in 2014.
Crescent Group (Sharjah family business group)
Crescent Group is a diversified family business group headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, founded in 1971 by Hamid Jafar and anchored by Crescent Petroleum, the region's oldest private oil and gas company.
Cressey & Co
Cressey & Company LP, styled Cressey & Co, is a Chicago-based private equity firm investing exclusively in healthcare businesses, founded in June 2008 by Bryan Cressey and Peter Ehrich.
Cressida Dick
Dame Cressida Dick, British police officer, first woman and first openly LGBT Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (2017–2022), gold commander at the 2005 de Menezes shooting, resigned February 2022 after Sadiq Khan withdrew confidence.
Cressida Hogg
Cressida Hogg is a British investor who co-founded 3i's infrastructure business, ran global infrastructure at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, chaired Landsec from 2018 to 2023, and has chaired BAE Systems since May 2023.
Crestview Partners
Crestview Partners is a value-oriented middle-market private equity firm founded in 2004 by former Goldman Sachs partners Barry Volpert and Tom Murphy, based in New York City and managing about $10.5 billion.
Cretan Bull
Cretan Bull (Tauros Kretaios, Marathonian Bull): the bull Poseidon sent from the sea to Minos, father of the Minotaur, captured alive by Heracles in his seventh labour and killed by Theseus at Marathon.
Cretan Revolt (1866–1869)
The Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869, called the Great Cretan Revolution, was a Christian uprising against Ottoman rule on Crete seeking union with Greece, remembered for the 1866 holocaust of Arkadi Monastery and suppressed by January 1869.
Cretan State
The Cretan State (Greek: Kritiki Politeia) was an autonomous state on Crete, established in 1898 under Great Power protection and Ottoman suzerainty, lasting until union with Greece in 1913.