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Cuban thaw
The Cuban thaw was the normalization of US-Cuba relations announced on December 17, 2014, restoring embassies in 2015 before Donald Trump largely reversed it in his first term.
Cuban tobacco and sugar boom
The Cuban tobacco and sugar boom was the expansion of plantation agriculture that made Cuba the world's leading sugar producer and its richest colony by the 1820s.
Cuban War of Independence
Cuban War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de Cuba), 1895–1898: third Cuban liberation war against Spain, begun at Baire, led by Martí, Gómez, and Maceo, ending via US intervention, the Treaty of Paris, and the Platt Amendment.
Cuban withdrawal from Angola
The Cuban withdrawal from Angola was the staged removal of about 50,000 Cuban troops between January 1989 and May 1991, under an Angola-Cuba agreement tied to Namibian independence.
Cuban–American Memorandum of Understanding on Hijacking of Aircraft and Vessels and Other Offenses
The Cuban–American Memorandum of Understanding on Hijacking of Aircraft and Vessels and Other Offenses was a 1973 US–Cuban agreement requiring the return or prosecution of aircraft and vessel hijackers.
Cuban–American migration accords
The Cuban–American migration accords are US–Cuba agreements signed in 1984, 1994, and 1995, committing the United States to admit at least 20,000 Cuban migrants yearly.
Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1934)
Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1934): bilateral treaty signed in Washington May 29, 1934, abrogating the 1903 Platt Amendment treaty and ending US intervention rights in Cuba while keeping the Guantanamo Bay naval lease in force.
Cubans
Cubans, also called the Cuban people, are the inhabitants of Cuba, a multiracial Caribbean nation of mainly Spanish and African origin with a large diaspora.
Cubist Systematic Strategies
Cubist Systematic Strategies is the quantitative investing arm of Point72 Asset Management, named in 2014, running computer-driven trading strategies across liquid asset classes from New York and Stamford, Connecticut.
Cuckquean
Cuckquean (also cuckqueaning) is the female counterpart of cuckold: historically a wife of an unfaithful husband, recorded from the 1540s, revived today as a consensual kink term.
Cuckservative
Cuckservative, a blend of cuckold and conservative, is a derogatory epithet used by the alt-right against mainstream conservatives deemed weak or too moderate; it spread on Twitter in July 2015 and targeted every major GOP primary candidate except Trump.
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture (Cucuteni in Romania, Trypillia/Tripolye in Ukraine): Eneolithic farming culture, ca. 5000–3300 BC, across Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, known for painted pottery and giant mega-sites of up to 3,000 houses.
Cudgel War
Cudgel War, a peasant uprising in Finland, cited in social-history scholarship as a revolt with a distinctive name; retained sources support only its identity and general European peasant-revolt context, not dates or casualties.
Cudjoe
Cudjoe, also rendered Cudjo or Codjoe, from the Akan day name Kojo, led the Leeward Maroons of western Jamaica in guerrilla war before signing a 1739 peace treaty with the British that recognized their autonomy.
Cudjoe Lewis
Cudjoe Lewis (Cudjo Lewis, born Oluale Kossola, ca. 1841–1935) was a Yoruba captive brought illegally to Mobile, Alabama, on the Clotilda in 1860, the last U.S. slave ship; he founded Africatown and was interviewed by Zora Neale Hurston for Barracoon.
Cued recall
Cued recall is a memory retrieval paradigm in which studied items are produced with the help of a partial cue, sitting between free recall and recognition.
Cuemath
Cuemath is an Indian edtech startup founded in 2013 by Manan Khurma and based in Bengaluru, providing one-on-one online math tutoring for K-12 students on its Cuemath Leap platform.
Cuffy (rebel)
Cuffy, also spelled Kofi or Coffy, was an enslaved Akan man who led the 1763 Berbice slave rebellion in Guyana and is honored as a national hero.
Cui and Qing clans of Qi
The Cui and Qing clans of Qi (崔氏与庆氏) were two ministerial clans that dominated the Qi state, after Cui Zhu murdered Duke Zhuang of Qi in the late Spring and Autumn period.
Cui Bai
Cui Bai (崔白), courtesy name Zixi, was a Northern Song painter from Fengyang, Anhui, whose bird-and-flower work broke the Huang Quan school's dominance in the imperial painting academy.
Cui clan of Boling and Qinghe
The Cui clan of Boling and Qinghe (清河崔氏), among medieval China's leading aristocratic families, produced about 10 Tang chancellors, most entering office through the civil examinations.
Cui Guangfu (崔广福)
Cui Guangfu (崔广福) is a Chinese private-equity investor who has been a partner in IDG Capital's growth-stage practice since 2017, after leading eLong and FedEx Kinko's China.
Cui Hao
Cui Hao (崔颢) was a Tang-dynasty poet and mid-ranking official who died in 754, best known for Yellow Crane Tower, ranked the finest seven-character regulated verse of the Tang.
Cui Hao (2)
Cui Hao (崔浩), courtesy name Boyuan, of the Qinghe Cui clan, was Emperor Taiwu's chief counselor of Northern Wei, famed for military strategy and for directing the National History.
Cui Li's coup
Cui Li's coup (崔立之变) was the seizure of the Jin capital Bianjing by the general Cui Li, who killed the two chancellors heading the government.
Cui Liang (Northern Wei official)
Cui Liang (崔亮, died 521) was a Northern Wei minister who introduced the tingnian ge, a tenure-based promotion rule condemned as the start of Wei's loss of talent.
Cui Lie
Cui Lie (崔烈) was an Eastern Han official who bought the chancellorship under Emperor Ling's sale of offices, served as Situ and Grand Commandant, and proposed abandoning Liangzhou.
Cui Shanshan
Cui Shanshan (崔珊珊) is a Chinese technology executive who joined Baidu in January 2000 as one of its seven founding members, later serving as senior vice president for human resources.
Cui Shi
Cui Shi (崔湜, 671–713) was a chief minister of China's Tang dynasty who rose through patronage, was disgraced for corruption in the 709 personnel selection, and was executed in 713.
Cui Xi
Cui Xi, more precisely Cui Xian (崔铣), was a mid-Ming Confucian scholar and official from Anyang, Henan, who upheld the Cheng-Zhu school and became one of Wang Yangming's sharpest critics.