Club of Rome. Published 1972 Limits to Growth showing the dangers of overpopulation.

Clunaics. 910-12C. Strict Benedictine Order.

Clymene. Nymph. Mother of Atlas and Prometheus.

Clytemnestra. Wife and murderess of Agamemnon. Killed by her children, Orestes and Electra.

CND. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Coalition, Wars of. 1792-1815. European powers oppose France’s revolutionary ideas and expansion. French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Third Coalition War.

Coatlicue. Aztec earth goddess.

Cobbett, William. 1763-1835. English working class pamphleteer.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

Cobden, Treaty. 1860. Free trade between Britain and France.

Coca Cola. Invented by Pemberton 1886.

Cochise. -1874. Apache warrior Indian chief.

Cockayne, Land of. Legendary medieval land of gluttony and idleness.

Cockcroft, John. 1897-1967. English physicist. Split nucleus.

Cockerell, Christopher. 1910-99. English hovercraft inventor 1955.

Cocoa. 1494 brought to Europe by Columbus.

Cocteau, Jean. 1889-1963. Montparnasse poet. Provençale figurative painter. Filmmaker.

Cod War. 1972-6. Britain upset at Iceland’s unilateral expansion of fishing limits to 50 miles.

Code Napoleon. 1804. Napoleonic Code.

Code of Hammurabi. 18C BC. Written legal code.

Codrus. 11C BC/Legendary last king of Athens.

Cody, William F. Buffalo Bill.

Coffee. 16/17C to Europe. 1650 Oxford. First coffee house.

Cohn, F. J. 1828-98. Founder of bacteriology.

Coke, Edward. 1552-1634. English jurist. Defended Common Law. Prosecuted Raleigh.

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