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Culture of Greece
Culture of Greece: the religion, family, festivals, arts and institutions of the ancient Greek world and their Hellenistic, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern continuities. Distinguished by non-doctrinal religion without clergy, the polis, the koine, the Olympic Games, and dual classical-Byzantine heritage.
Culture of Japan
Culture of Japan: heritage institutions, World Heritage and intangible heritage, UNESCO cooperation, and the Nihonjinron uniqueness discourse. 27 World Heritage sites, 23 ICH elements, 1950 cultural properties law.
Culture shock
Culture shock: anxiety and distress from losing familiar cultural cues when living in a different culture. Coined by Oberg (1960), staged honeymoon through adjustment, with U-curve, W-curve, and acculturation research.
Culture Trip
Culture Trip was a London-based travel-media company founded in 2011 by former psychiatrist Kris Naudts, which raised about $155 million before selling to U.S. News & World Report in 2024.
Culture war
Culture war: term popularized by sociologist James Davison Hunter's 1991 book Culture Wars, describing conflict between orthodox and progressive moral visions over issues like abortion, rooted in 1960s cultural change, echoing the German Kulturkampf.
Cuman settlement in Hungary
Cuman settlement in Hungary was the immigration and integration of Turkic nomadic Cumans into the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, beginning with Béla IV's reception of 40,000 migrants in 1239.
Cuman–Kipchak occupation of the Pontic steppe
The Cuman–Kipchak occupation of the Pontic steppe was the dominance of Turkic nomads, called Cumans or Kipchaks, over the grasslands north of the Black Sea from the mid-11th century until the Mongol conquest of 1237.
Cumania
Cumania (Comania), the Latin name for the land of the Cumans (Kipchaks, Polovtsians), roughly the western Desht-i-Kipchak steppe; also the Hungarian Cuman regions (Kiskunság, Nagykunság) and the Hungarian royal title held 1236–1918.
Cumans
Cumans: Turkic nomads of the Eurasian steppe (11th–13th centuries), also called Kipchaks, Polovtsians, or Qipčaq; stateless confederacy of khan-led groups from the Danube to the Irtysh, defeated by the Mongols in 1241.
Cumbria shootings
Cumbria shootings, 2 June 2010 mass shooting by taxi driver Derrick Bird, 52, who killed 12 and injured 11 across west Cumbria with a legally held shotgun and .22 rifle before killing himself at Boot; worst since Dunblane 1996.
Cumulative prospect theory
Cumulative prospect theory is a model of decision making under risk, introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1992 as a revision of prospect theory.
Cumulative translation adjustment
Cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) is an accounting item that accumulates foreign-currency translation differences on a foreign entity's net assets in equity, released to income on disposal.
Cumulative voting
Cumulative voting (accumulation or weighted voting): a multi-seat electoral method where each voter holds as many votes as seats and may concentrate them on one candidate; used for Illinois House 1870-1980 and corporate board elections protecting minority shareholders.
Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media Inc. (CMLS) is an Atlanta-based American radio broadcaster owning roughly 390 stations in 84 markets, the Westwood One network with 7,800+ affiliates, and the Cumulus Podcast Network; it completed Chapter 11 reorganizations in 2018 and 2026, shedding about $600 million of debt and going private.
Cundī
Cundī (चुन्दी) was a princess and female lay disciple of the Buddha, known from the Cundī Sutta and a commentary naming her a daughter of King Bimbisāra.
Cuneiform
Cuneiform, from Latin cuneus (wedge), is the wedge-shaped clay writing system invented by the Sumerians in Uruk around 3400–3300 BCE, later adapted for Akkadian, Hittite, Elamite, and other languages over 3,000 years.
Cüneyd Bey
Cüneyd Bey (جنيد بن ابراهيم) was the last independent ruler of the Aydinoghlu emirate in western Anatolia, ruling Izmir from 1405 until his execution in 1425.
Cunibert
Cunibert, also Kunibert, was a seventh-century bishop of Cologne and royal adviser who served as regent of Austrasia for the child king Sigebert III, later venerated as a saint.
Cunjiang
Cunjiang (存奖), also called Xinghua Cunjiang, was a Tang-dynasty Chan monk of the Linji school, a Dharma heir of Linji Yixuan who lived 830 to 888.
Cunnilingus
Cunnilingus is oral sex performed on a woman's vulva, clitoris, or vagina; also called going down on someone. Distinguished from fellatio and anilingus; carries STI risk but little to no HIV risk.
Cunning folk in Britain
Cunning folk in Britain: professional or semi-professional magical practitioners, also called cunning men and wise women, active from the 15th to early 20th century, offering healing, unbewitching, thief detection, and divination.
Cunshou
Cunshou (存寿), also known as Zhenji Dashi, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of Qiyanshan, Hezhong Prefecture, born in 815 and recorded as dying at 93.
Cunt
Cunt: a vulgar English word for the vulva or vagina and, as an insult, a contemptible person; Middle English cunte (1275–1325), Germanic origin, taboo for centuries, most offensive in North American English, milder in British and Australian usage.
Cuntisuyu
Cuntisuyu, in Quechua Kunti Suyu and often spelled Contisuyu, was the southwestern quarter of the Inca Empire, stretching from Cusco to the Pacific coast across what is now southwestern Peru.
Cuomo family
The Cuomo family is a New York political dynasty: Mario Cuomo was a three-term governor (1983–1994), his son Andrew held HUD secretary, attorney general, and three gubernatorial terms before his 2021 resignation, and Chris Cuomo was a CNN anchor fired for aiding his brother.
Cupid
Cupid (Amor, Latin Cupido) is the Roman god of love and desire, counterpart of Greek Eros, son of Venus, a winged boy with bow and arrows of gold and lead, known from Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche and Valentine's Day imagery.
Cupid and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche, also known as Eros and Psyche, is the love story of the god Cupid and the mortal princess Psyche, told by Apuleius in the second-century Metamorphoses.
Cupid Media
Cupid Media is an Australian online dating company founded in 2000 that operates 33 niche international dating sites, including FilipinoCupid and AsianDating, and was acquired in 2021.
Cupisnique culture
Cupisnique was a pre-Columbian culture of Peru's north coast, roughly 1500 to 500 BCE, known for dark incised stirrup-spout ceramics and the Cupisnique-Chavín religious tradition.
Cupul
Cupul was a Maya province and lineage of eastern Yucatán that flourished in the Late Postclassic period and was possibly the most extensive and populous at the Spanish Conquest.