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Other political places

  • Castle Rock (disambiguation)
  • Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • Crawford County, Kansas
    Crawford County, Kansas
    Crawford County is a county located in southeastern Kansas in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 39,134. Its county seat is Girard, and its most populous city is Pittsburg. The county was named in honor of Samuel J. Crawford, Governor of Kansas...

  • Province of Cremona
    Province of Cremona
    The Province of Cremona is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Cremona.The province has an area of 1,771 km² and in 2008 census, had a population of 358,628. There are 115 comuni...

     in Northern Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...


Other places

  • College of the Redwoods
    College of the Redwoods
    College of the Redwoods is a public two-year community college whose main campus, comprising , is located on the southernmost edge of Eureka in Humboldt County, California. This sprawling site is spacious and distinctive in its modernistic use of massive, exposed wooden support beams in each...

  • public toilet, washroom, or comfort room
  • legislative route (Minnesota) or constitutional route
  • county highway
    County highway
    A county highway is a road in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario that is designated and/or maintained by the county highway department...

    , county road, or county route
  • CR postcode area

Biology

  • Chemokine receptor
    Chemokine receptor
    Chemokine receptors are cytokine receptors found on the surface of certain cells, which interact with a type of cytokine called a chemokine. There have been 19 distinct chemokine receptors described in mammals...

  • complete remission
  • Creatine
    Creatine
    Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to all cells in the body, primarily muscle. This is achieved by increasing the formation of Adenosine triphosphate...

    , a molecule found in myocytes

Organizations and movements

  • Celtic Reconstructionism
    Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism
    Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism is a polytheistic, animistic, religious and cultural movement...

  • Český Rozhlas
    Ceský rozhlas
    Český rozhlas is the Czech Republic's publicly funded radio broadcasting organization.It offers the following radio channels:*ČRo 1 – Radiožurnál: news and information*ČRo 2 – Praha: talk and family programmes...

  • Chiltern Railways
    Chiltern Railways
    Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company. It was set up at the privatisation of British Rail in 1996, and operates local passenger trains from Marylebone station in London to Aylesbury and main-line trains on the Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham Snow Hill with its associated branches...

  • Choose Responsibility
    Choose Responsibility
    Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization in the United States that promotes public awareness of the dangers of excessive and reckless alcohol consumption by young adults. The main goal is to lower the minimum drinking age by educating the public. It was founded and is directed by Dr...

  • College Republicans
    College Republicans
    The College Republican National Committee is a national organization for college and university students who support the Republican Party of the United States...

  • Community of the Resurrection
    Community of the Resurrection
    The Community of the Resurrection is an Anglican religious community for men. It was founded in 1892 by Charles Gore with Walter Howard Frere and four others....

    , an Anglican religious order
  • Resurrectionist Order
    Resurrectionist Order
    The Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ is an international Institute of Consecrated Life of men within the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1836 by three men, Bogdan Jański, Peter Semenenko and Hieronim Kajsiewicz in Paris on the heels of the Polish Great Emigration...

    , Congregation of the Resurrection, a Roman Catholic religious order
  • consciousness raising
    Consciousness raising
    Consciousness raising is a form of political activism, pioneered by United States feminists in the late 1960s...

  • Consolidated Rail Corporation
    Consolidated Rail Corporation
    The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail , was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and...

     (Conrail)

Publications

  • Casino Royale (novel)
    Casino Royale (novel)
    Casino Royale is Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming himself, in addition to two short story collections, followed by many "continuation" Bond novels by other authors....

    , the first James Bond novel.
  • Comptes rendus - French for reports or proceedings; often used in title of publications, most notably the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (Proceedings of the (Paris) Academy of Sciences).
  • Consumer Reports
    Consumer Reports
    Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly by Consumers Union since 1936. It publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides...

    , American magazine
  • Critical Review (disambiguation), several publications by this name

Sports

  • Colorado Rockies (NHL)
    Colorado Rockies (NHL)
    The Colorado Rockies were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League that played in Denver, Colorado, from 1976 to 1982. They were a relocation of the Kansas City Scouts, a 1974 expansion team. The franchise moved to East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1982 and was...

    , former NHL team that has since relocated and became the New Jersey Devils
  • Colorado Rockies
    Colorado Rockies
    The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1991, they started play in 1993 and are in the West Division of the National League. The team is named after the Rocky Mountains...

    , Major League Baseball team

People

  • C. Rajagopalachari
    C. Rajagopalachari
    Chakravarti Rajagopalachari , informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India...

  • Chris Rock
    Chris Rock
    Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central...

    , American comedian
    Comedian
    A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

     and actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    .
  • Cristiano Ronaldo
    Cristiano Ronaldo
    Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH, , commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national team...

    , Real Madrid and Portugal winger.

Companies and products

  • Central Railway (India)
  • Conrail
  • Copper Range Railroad
    Copper Range Railroad
    The Copper Range Railroad was a small railroad company that operated from 1899 to 1972 in the western Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan, United States....

  • Crown Royal
    Crown Royal
    Crown Royal is a blended Canadian whisky, 40% alcohol by volume, 80 proof. The brand is currently owned by Diageo, who purchased it when the Seagram portfolio was dissolved in the year 2000. It is the top-selling Canadian whisky in the United States....


Technology

  • carriage return
    Carriage return
    Carriage return, often shortened to return, refers to a control character or mechanism used to start a new line of text.Originally, the term "carriage return" referred to a mechanism or lever on a typewriter...

     (often shortened to return), a term used in typing and computing, used to start a new line of text
  • challenge-response spam filtering
    Challenge-response spam filtering
    A challenge–response system is a type of spam filter that automatically sends a reply with a challenge to the sender of an incoming e-mail. In this reply, the sender is asked to perform some action to assure delivery of the original message, which would otherwise not be delivered...

  • W3C recommendation#Candidate Recommendation (CR), W3C Candidate Recommendation
  • cognitive robotics
    Cognitive robotics
    a robot is a robot device that is built from inanimate matter. Its behavior in response to the environment is deterministic, based on how the robot was designed. Cognition is the process of acquiring and using knowledge about the world for goal-oriented purposes, such as survival...

  • compression ratio
    Compression ratio
    The 'compression ratio' of an internal-combustion engine or external combustion engine is a value that represents the ratio of the volume of its combustion chamber from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity...

  • computed radiography
    Computed radiography
    Computed Radiography uses very similar equipment to conventional radiography except that in place of a film to create the image, an imaging plate made of photostimulable phosphor is used. The imaging plate housed in a special cassette and placed under the body part or object to be examined and...

  • concentration ratio
    Concentration ratio
    In economics, a concentration ratio is a measure of the total output produced in an industry by a given number of firms in the industry. The most common concentration ratios are the CR4 and the CR8, which means the four and the eight largest firms...

  • continuing resolution
    Continuing resolution
    A continuing resolution is a type of appropriations legislation used by the United States Congress to fund government agencies if a formal appropriations bill has not been signed into law by the end of the Congressional fiscal year...


Concepts

  • caloric restriction
  • change request
    Change request
    A change request is a document containing a call for an adjustment of a system; it is of great importance in the change management process. A change request is not raised for a wording change in a letter....

  • Chart Rulership
    Chart Rulership
    A Chart Ruler refers to the astrological planetary body that rules the zoidion of the ascendant in a given horoscope. For example, if a horoscope has Cancer rising on the ascendant, the Moon is the chart ruler. In Natal astrology, astrologers consider the house and sign placement of this planet to...

     or Chart Ruler, in astrology
  • classic rock
    Classic rock
    Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

    , a radio format
  • cognitive radio
    Cognitive radio
    A cognitive radio is a kind of two-way radio that automatically changes its transmission or reception parameters, in a way where the entire wireless communication network -- of which it is a node -- communicates efficiently, while avoiding interference with licensed or licensed exempt users...

    , an outgrowth of software-defined radio
  • conversion rate
    Conversion rate
    In internet marketing, conversion rate is the ratio of visitors who convert casual content views or website visits into desired actions based on subtle or direct requests from marketers, advertisers, and content creators...

    , used in marketing
  • corporate responsibility
    Corporate social responsibility
    Corporate social responsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model...

  • credit (finance)
    Credit (finance)
    Credit is the trust which allows one party to provide resources to another party where that second party does not reimburse the first party immediately , but instead arranges either to repay or return those resources at a later date. The resources provided may be financial Credit is the trust...

    , in accounting
  • critical reading
    Critical reading
    Critical reading is the opposite of naivety in reading. It is a form of skepticism that does not take a text at face value, but involves an examination of claims put forward in the text as well as implicit bias in the texts framing and selection of the information presented...

     on the SAT
  • critically endangered species
  • crore
    Crore
    A crore is a unit in the Indian number system equal to ten million , or 100 lakhs. It is widely used in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan....

    , 10,000,000 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system
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