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Cui Xie
Cui Xie (崔协), courtesy name Sihua, was a Later Tang chancellor appointed in 926 through Kong Xun's patronage and mocked as a "stele without characters".
Cui Xuanwei
Cui Xuanwei (崔玄暐), born Cui Ye, was a Tang dynasty official and chancellor who served Wu Zetian and Emperor Zhongzong, joined the 705 coup restoring the Li dynasty, and died in exile in 706.
Cui Yan
Cui Yan (崔琰) was an official and judge of character of the late Eastern Han who served Yuan Shao and Cao Cao before being forced to take his own life.
Cui Yin (Eastern Han writer and official)
Cui Yin (崔骃), courtesy name Tingbo, was an Eastern Han writer and official from Anping known for his Four Inspection Odes and remonstrances against Dou Xian.
Cui Yin (Tang dynasty chancellor)
Cui Yin (崔胤) was a Tang dynasty chancellor under Emperor Zhaozong who served four times, abolished the eunuch command of the imperial armies, and drew the warlord Zhu Quanzhong into court, dying in 904.
Cui Yuan
Cui Yuan (崔瑗, courtesy name Ziyu, 77–142) was an Eastern Han dynasty scholar, calligrapher, and administrator, son of the writer Cui Yin and father of the essayist Cui Shi.
Cui Yuzhi
Cui Yuzhi (崔与之), courtesy name Zhengzi, was a Song dynasty statesman from Guangzhou who defended the Huai frontier, restored government in Chengdu, and declined the chancellorship.
Cui Zhu's assassination of Duke Zhuang of Qi
Cui Zhu's assassination of Duke Zhuang of Qi (崔杼弑齐庄公) was the killing of the Qi ruler by his minister Cui Zhu, over the duke's affair with Cui Zhu's wife.
Cuirassier
Cuirassier: heavily armored European heavy cavalryman named for the cuirass (breast and backplate). Emerged around 1600 replacing lancers, armed with sword and pistols; revived in France from 1801, surviving into World War I.
Cuitláhuac
Cuitláhuac was ruler of Ixtapalapa, brother of Moctezuma II, and briefly ruler of Tenochtitlan, defeating Cortés in the Noche Triste before dying of smallpox in 1520.
Cula-Subhadda
Cūḷasubhaddā, daughter of Anāthapiṇḍika, is the Pali commentarial laywoman of Dhammapada verse 304 who, married into a family of Nigantha ascetics, invited the Buddha by throwing jasmine from a rooftop, converting her father-in-law Ugga's household.
Cūḷaka Thera
Cūḷaka Thera was an arahant monk of the Buddha's time, a brahmin of Rājagaha who attained liberation in the Indasāla cave and is known through two Theragāthā verses.
Cūḷapanthaka
Cūḷapanthaka, in Sanskrit Cūḍapanthaka, was an early Buddhist arahant who, unable to memorize a single verse, became foremost among the Buddha's disciples in creating mind-made bodies.
Cūḷasīva
Cūḷasīva, or Cūḷa-Sīva ("Sīva the Lesser"), is the name the Pali commentarial tradition gives to several elders of Sri Lanka, known only from fifth-century commentaries and not securely dated.
Cūḷatissa
Cūḷatissa (चूळतिस्स) is a name in the Pali tradition. The Dictionary of Pali Proper Names describes a minister of King Duṭṭhagāmaṇī who later entered the Order.
Culavamsa
The Culavamsa (Cūḷavaṃsa), Pali for "Little Chronicle," is the continuation of the Mahavamsa, the great Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, covering its history to 1815.
Culla Dhammapāla
Culla Dhammapāla (चुल्लधम्मपाल) is a thera of Ceylon, senior pupil of Vanaratana Ananda, traditionally credited with the Saccasaṅkhepa, a short verse Abhidhamma manual whose authorship and dating remain contested.
Cullinet Software
Cullinet Software, founded as Cullinane Corporation in 1968 by John Cullinane, was a Massachusetts company that sold packaged software to mainframe users; Computer Associates bought it in 1989.
Culpability
Culpability is legal responsibility for a criminal act; in criminal law it is the mens rea, or guilty state of mind, prosecutors must prove for a conviction.
Culpable homicide
Culpable homicide, also called culpable homicide not amounting to murder, is blameworthy killing short of murder in Scots, South African, Indian, New Zealand, and Zimbabwean law; in Canada it is the umbrella for murder, manslaughter, and infanticide.
Culper Ring
Culper Ring (Culper Spy Ring; Samuel Culper): American Revolutionary War spy network created by Washington in 1778 under Benjamin Tallmadge, with Woodhull, Townsend, Brewster, Roe, and Strong, gathering intelligence in occupied New York.
Cult
A cult, also called a religious cult or high control group, is a group led by a charismatic figure said to control members through isolation and manipulation.
Cult of personality
A cult of personality, also called a personality cult or leader cult, is veneration of a political leader built through propaganda and loyalty displays, fusing the leader with the nation.
Cult of Reason
Cult of Reason (Culte de la Raison), atheistic state cult of revolutionary France, 1793–1794, centered on the Festival of Reason at Notre-Dame; displaced by Robespierre's Cult of the Supreme Being and banned by Napoleon in 1802.
Cult of the Supreme Being
The Cult of the Supreme Being (Culte de l'Être suprême) was Robespierre's deistic state religion of revolutionary France, decreed 7 May 1794, celebrated at the Festival of 8 June 1794, and banned by Napoleon in 1802.
Cultivation Capital Tech
Cultivation Capital Tech is the technology-fund family of Cultivation Capital, a St. Louis venture capital firm founded in 2012, investing $100,000 to $3.5 million from Seed through Series B.
Cultivation System
The Cultivation System (Cultuurstelsel) was a Dutch colonial revenue policy in the East Indies, introduced in 1830, under which Javanese villages delivered export crops as land rent.
Cultivation theory
Cultivation theory is a media effects theory, proposed by George Gerbion and colleagues in 1976, which posits that heavy television exposure reshapes viewers' perception of reality.
Cultivian Sandbox Food & Agriculture
Cultivian Sandbox Food & Agriculture is a Chicago venture capital firm investing in food and agriculture technology, which reported close to $300 million raised across three funds by 2019.
Cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines
Pre-colonial Philippine cultural achievements: maritime trade networks, metalworking and boat-building, Neolithic agriculture, burial traditions, and the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, known through archaeology and rare documents.