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Curtin University
Curtin University, formerly Curtin University of Technology, is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, formed from WAIT in 1987, named for Prime Minister John Curtin, with campuses in Malaysia, Singapore, Dubai, Mauritius, and Colombo.
Curtis Act
The Curtis Act is an 1898 United States federal law that forced allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes' lands without tribal consent and abolished their tribal courts.
Curtis Culwell Center attack
Curtis Culwell Center attack, also called the Garland shooting (May 3, 2015): ISIS-inspired gunmen Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi fired at police outside a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, wounding security officer Bruce Joiner before officer Greg Stevens killed both within seconds.
Curtis Duffy
Curtis Duffy is an American chef who earned three Michelin stars at Grace in Chicago. He now operates Ever, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant, and the bar After.
Curtis Flowers
Curtis Flowers, also known as Curtis Giovanni Flowers, is an American man tried six times for the 1996 murders of four Tardy Furniture employees in Winona, Mississippi.
Curtis Gibson
Curtis Gibson is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Florida's 18th district, and a former Lake Wales city commissioner.
Curtis King (Washington politician)
Curtis King is an American Republican politician from Yakima, Washington, who has represented the state's 14th Legislative District in the Senate since 2007, serving on the Transportation Committee.
Curtis L. Collier
Curtis Lynn Collier, born 1949, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995.
Curtis LeMay
Curtis Emerson LeMay (1906–1990), U.S. Air Force general, led the 1945 firebombing of Japan including Operation Meetinghouse, built Strategic Air Command 1948–1957, served as Air Force chief of staff 1961–1965, and was George Wallace's 1968 running mate.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and served as its chief technical officer until 2003, after designing the IBM Professional Graphics Adapter.
Curtis Scaparrotti
Curtis M. Scaparrotti (born 1956), retired U.S. Army four-star general; NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and EUCOM commander 2016–2019; previously led U.S. Forces Korea 2013–2016; West Point 1978.
Curtis Sliwa
Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels (originally the Magnificent 13), started the volunteer unarmed patrol in New York in 1979; later a WABC radio host, he was the 2021 and 2025 Republican nominee for NYC mayor, losing both times.
Curtis Tarver
Curtis Tarver, also known as Curtis J. Tarver II, is a Democratic Illinois state representative for the 25th district on Chicago's South Side and a former trial attorney.
Curtis Trent
Curtis Trent is an American Republican politician and attorney who served in the Missouri Senate for the 20th district from 2023, after six years in the Missouri House.
Curtis Warren
Curtis Warren (born 1963, Liverpool; "Cocky") is a British drug trafficker, once Interpol's most wanted and the only trafficker on the Sunday Times Rich List, convicted in the Netherlands (1997) and Jersey (2009) and ordered to pay £198m.
Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, is an American software developer (born 1973) whose blog Unqualified Reservations (2007) founded neoreaction (NRx) and the Dark Enlightenment; his Cathedral concept and CEO-monarch proposals influence Thiel, Vance, and the Trump administration.
Curzon Line
Curzon Line: proposed Poland-Soviet border along the Bug River, drawn by the Allies in December 1919 and proposed as an armistice line by Lord Curzon on 11 July 1920; superseded by the Treaty of Riga, revived at Tehran and Yalta, and the basis of Poland's postwar eastern border.
Cush (Bible)
Cush (Hebrew: כּוּשׁ, Kush) is in the Hebrew Bible both a son of Ham and the land south of Egypt, usually rendered "Ethiopia" in translations.
Cushitic languages
Cushitic languages: an Afroasiatic branch with at least 30 living languages in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, divided into North, Central, East, and South branches, verb-final, including Oromo and Somali.
Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield is a global commercial real estate services firm founded in 1917 and headquartered in Chicago, with about 53,000 employees in nearly 60 countries.
Cusirimay
Cusirimay, also written Cusi Rimay, was the coya, principal consort of the Inca emperor Huayna Capac, daughter of Topa Inca Yupanqui, who died early in his reign.
Cusp Capital
Cusp Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in Essen, Germany, in 2021, investing in European tech and software with a focus on sustainability.
CuspAI
CuspAI is a Cambridge, UK startup founded in 2024 by Chad Edwards and Max Welling whose MIRA platform uses generative AI and molecular simulation to design new materials.
Custodian bank
A custodian bank is a bank that safekeeps and services financial assets for institutional investors and funds, settling trades, collecting income, and processing corporate actions.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (خادم الحرمين الشريفين)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (Khadim al-Haramayn al-Sharifayn) is the official title of Saudi Arabia's king, adopted by King Fahd on 27 October 1986 replacing His Majesty, referring to the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.
Customary international humanitarian law
Customary international humanitarian law: unwritten IHL rules from a general practice accepted as law, binding all parties to armed conflict. ICRC's 2005 study identified 161 customary rules filling treaty gaps, especially in non-international conflicts.
Customary international law
Customary international law: unwritten rules of international law arising from a general practice of states accepted as law (opinio juris), per ICJ Statute Article 38(1)(b), distinct from treaties; identification method codified in the ILC's 2018 draft conclusions.
Customary international law in domestic legal systems
Customary international law in domestic legal systems is the doctrine by which national courts recognize and rank unwritten international law against statutes, since most constitutions address treaties but not custom.
Customary law
Customary law, chiefly customary international law, is unwritten law formed from general state practice accepted as legally required (opinio juris), under the ICJ Statute's Article 38(1)(b) two-element test and the ILC's 2018 draft conclusions.
Customer
A customer is a person or organization that buys goods or services from a seller, and the customer who pays may differ from the consumer who uses the product.