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CUC
CUC may stand for: The Cameroon United Congress in the Republic of Cameroon in central AfricaThe Canadian Unitarian Council, the Unitarian Universalist organization in CanadaCanadian University College, a university in Alberta, Canada, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist ChurchCommunication Un..
Cuca
Cuca (from Portuguese) is a female monster from Brazilian folklore. It is an ugly old alligator that eats disobedient children. There is a very popular lullaby in Brazil about it: Sleep, baby, Because the Cuca wants to take you Daddy go to the garden Mummy come straight back Apart from the lullab..
Cucaita
Cucaita is a municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia. ..
Cucalón (comic strip)
Cucalón (Spanish for "safari hat") is a Chilean comic strip created by Themo Lobos. This comic tells the adventures of a Chilean teenage boy called Mampato, who one day receives a telepathic message from an alien called Xseturlz (Xse), asking for help. Mampato offers help to Xse and they both tra..
Cucamonga Peak
Cucamonga Peak is one of the highest peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains in the U.S. state of California. It is located in the San Bernardino National Forest. The peak towers over the Rancho Cucamonga-Ontario-Fontana area of Southern California. The peak also sits beside the Cajon Pass which mo..
Cucamonga Valley
The Cucamonga Valley is a region between the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas, in San Bernardino County and Riverside County, of California, USA. It is located east of the Pomona Valley and it is a major site of wine production and is the location of the Cucamonga Valley American Viticultural A..
Cuca Shop
"Cuca Shop" means "Shebeen" (an Irish word!) -- an unlicensed house selling alcoholic liquor. The term "Cuca Shop" features prominently in the launch edition of Hai Ti!, a Creative-Commons released comic strip that spreads the word about the ways that computers and the internet can transform learne..
Cucc
CUCC stands for Cambridge University Cycling Club. It is one of the oldest sport clubs in Cambridge. The club has been very successful in the past, producing various professional cyclists. Emma Pooley, who currently cycles for Great Britain, started cycling seriously at CUCC. The current CUCC kit ..
Cucciá
Cucciá is a traditional Sicilian dish containing boiled wheat berries, which is eaten on Saint Lucy's feast day (December 13). The dish is consumed in Sicily and among Italian-Americans to commemorate the relief from a food shortage in Sicily; the appearance of wheat on the island is attributed to..
CUCEK
CUCEK (Cochin University College of Engineering Kuttanad) is an engineering school in India. It was founded in October 1999, under the aegis of Cochin University of Science and Technology at Pulincunnu in Kuttanad in the state of Kerala in India. Students are admitted based upon their rank in Cusa..
Cuckfield
redirect [[Template:Infobox England place]]Cuckfield is a large village and civil parish (with a mayor) in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located on the southern slopes of the Weald, two miles (1.6km) west of Haywards Heath and surrounded on other sides by Cuckfield Rural. B..
Cuckfield Rural
Cuckfield Rural is a civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, covering an area from the north-west side of Burgess Hill, the whole lying to the west of Cuckfield civil parish, from which it was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. It includes the settlements..
Cucking stool
A common scold gets her comeuppance in the ducking stool. Ducking-stools and cucking-stools are chairs formerly used for the punishment of scolds, witches, prostitutes and dishonest tradesmen. Contents 1 Cucking-stools2 Ducking-stools3 Fiction4 References Cucking-stoo..
Cucklington
for at grid reference ST754274 Cucklington is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated on a hill three miles south east of Wincanton and four miles north west of Gillingham in the South Somerset district, near the Dorset border. The village has a population of 167[#endnote_po..
Cuckmere Haven
Cuckmere Haven is an area of flood plains in Sussex, England where the river Cuckmere meets the English Channel between Eastbourne and Brighton. The river is an example of a meandering river, and contains several oxbow lakes. It is a popular tourist destination where visitors can engage in lon..
Cuckney
Cuckney is a small village in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire between Worksop and Market Warsop. The A60 road connects Market Warsop and Cuckney via Cuckney Hill. External Link [Link about Cuckney] ..
Cuckney Hill
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Cuckold
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Cuckoo
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. The Cuculidae or cuckoos are a family of near passerine birds. Many of the Old World species and some New World species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds. The best-known example is the European Common Cuckoo. The cuckoo egg..
Cuckoo's Egg (novel)
Cuckoo's Egg is a novel by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. The book was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year. The book was nominated for both the Hugo Award and t..
Cuckoo's Nest Studio
The name of this Taiwanese company is not related to that of the 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Cuckoo's Nest Studio is an animation studio based in Taiwan. The company is famous for their work on the Hanna-Barbera series, movies and specials of the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well ..
Cuckoo-roller
The Cuckoo-roller, Leptosomus discolor, is the only bird in the family Leptosomatidae, which is usually considered to be within the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers. However, there is morphological evidence for a placement within or near to Falconif..
Cuckoo-shrike
The cuckoo-shrikes, the Campephagidae family are small to medium-sized passerine bird species found in the subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia. The 84 species are found in eight (or nine) genera which comprise five distinct groups, the 'true' cuckoo-shrikes (Campephaga, Coracina..
Cuckooland
Cuckooland is the seventh and most recent album by progressive rock artist Robert Wyatt. Track listing Just a Bit - 5:09Old Europe - 4:15Tom Hay's Fox - 3:33Forest - 7:55Beware - 5:09Cuckoo Madame - 5:20Raining in My Heart - 2:42Lullaby for Hamza/Silence - 5:00Trickle Down - 6:47Insensatez - 4:24..
Cuckoo (disambiguation)
Cuckoo can refer to Cuckoo, the bird familyCuckoo the movie by Alexander RogozhkinCuckoo the card or board games.Cuckoo clockCukoo, a Bollywood dancer and actressCuckoo, a term used by Soviet soldiers for Finnish snipers during the Winter War.Cuckoo sign, a motion made with the fingers to state tha..
Cuckoo (film)
Cuckoo (Кукушка) is a 2002 War drama film by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. External links http://www.ctb.ru/base/films?oid=23 ..
Cuckoo clock
A cuckoo clock A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically a pendulum clock, that strikes the hours using small bellows and whistles that imitate the call of the Common Cuckoo bird in addition to striking on a wire gong. The design of a cuckoo clock is now conventional. Most are made in the shape..
Cuckoo Clock
"Cuckoo Clock" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Gary Usher for the American pop band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1962 album Surfin' Safari. Details Written by: Brian Wilson/Gary UsherAlbum: Surfin' SafariTime: 2 min 08 secProduced by: Nick Venet Performers Brian Wilson: Lead Vocal..
Cuckoo Farm
Cuckoo Farm is a multi-use stadium in Colchester, England that is currently under construction. Once completed in 2007, it will be used mostly for football and will be the home ground of Colchester United F.C.. The stadium will hold about 10,000 people. Cuckoo Farm is temporarily the name of this..
Cuckoo hashing
Cuckoo hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions. The basic idea is to use two hash functions instead of only one. This provides two alternative locations in the hash table for each key. When a new key is inserted, a greedy approach is u..
Cuckoo Trail
The Cuckoo Trail is an 11 mile footpath and cycleway which runs from Polegate to Heathfield in East Sussex. It also passes through the towns of Hailsham, Hellingly and Horam. History Originally opened in 1880 the Cuckoo Trail (then Cuckoo Line) was a railway line that ran from Polegate to Eridge to..
Cuckoo wasp
Commonly known as cuckoo wasps, the Hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or cleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliantly metallic bodies and bright coloration (thus the common names jewel wasp, gold wasp,..
CUCN (cable system)
CUCN or China-US Cable Network is a submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It has landing points in: Shantou, Guangdong Province, ChinaFangshan, Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, TaiwanChongming, Shanghai, ChinaOkinawa Prefecture, JapanPusan, South ..
Cucoloris
In lighting for film, theatre and still photography, a cucoloris (occasionally also spelled kookaloris) is a device for casting shadows to produce patterned illumination. The word is sometimes shortened to cookie or coo-koo. The cookie is used to create a more natural look by breaking up the light ..
Cucujiformia
Cucujiformia is an infraorder of Polyphagan beetles, representing the vast majority of plant eating beetles. The infraorder contains six superfamilies: Lymexylidae (ship-timber beetles)Cleroidea (checkered beetles, bark-gnawing beetles and soft winged flower beetles)Cucujoidea (31 families that i..
Cucujoidea
Cucujoidea is a superfamily of beetles. It contains the families: Alexiidae Imhoff 1856Biphyllidae LeConte 1861 (false skin beetles)Boganiidae Sen Gupta and Crowson 1966Bothrideridae Erichson 1845 (dry bark beetles, bark beetle parasites)Byturidae Jacquelin du Val 1858 (fruitworm beetles)Cavognat..
Cuculiformes
The near passerine bird order Cuculiformes traditionally included three families as below: Order Cuculiformes* Family Musophagidae: turacos and allies* Family Cuculidae: cuckoos* Family Opisthocomidae: Hoatzin However, the taxonomy of this group is now controversial. Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy raise..
Cucumber
The cucumber is the edible fruit of the cucumber plant Cucumis sativus, which belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, as do melons and squash. The plant has been cultivated for 3000 years and is widely cultivated today. The cucumber plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit. Th..
Cucumber, West Virginia
Cucumber is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. It was named either for Cucumber Creek or for the cucumber trees located there. Cucumber is the only community in the United States with this name. External links ..
Cucumberfish
Cucumberfish may refer to: The Cucumber fish, Paraulopus nigripinnisThe Australian grayling, Prototroctes maraena.The New Zealand smelt, Retropinna retropinna. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this pa..
Cucumber (disambiguation)
A cucumber is an edible fruit. Cucumber may also refer to any of: Cucumber, West Virginia, a community in West VirginiaCucumber (TV series), a Canadian children's television series originally broadcast in the 1970s.Cucumber Castle, an album released by the Bee GeesCucumber beetle, a type of beetle..
Cucumber (TV series)
Children's Underground Club of United Moose and Beaver for Enthusiastic Reporters or Cucumber, was a TV show produced by TVOntario in the 70's, and repeated in the 80's during TVOntario's daytime kids' programming. Some notable people appeared on the show: A young John Candy guest starred as a cha..
Cucumber beetle
Cucumber beetle is a common name given to members of two genera of beetles, Diabrotica and Acalymma, both in the family Chrysomelidae. The name stems from the tendency for adults of these beetles to be found on the leaves and flowers of cucurbits. ..
Cucumber Castle
Cucumber Castle is the Bee Gees' fifth album, released in 1970. It was produced by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robert Stigwood. It consists of songs from their television special of the same name. Cucumber Castle is the only Bee Gees album without Robin Gibb, as he had left the group before the..
Cucumber fish
The cucumber fish Paraulopus nigripinnis is a grinner of the genus Paraulopus, found around southern Australia and New Zealand on the continental shelf, at depths of between 80 and 600 m. Their length is between 15 and 20 cm. The cucumber fish is an elongated cigar-shaped fish with large green ey..
Cucumber sandwich
The traditional cucumber sandwich is composed of paper-thin slices of cucumber placed between two triangular slices of lightly buttered white bread. Preparation and use Because the cucumber sandwich is usually considered a delicate food, the bread is sliced as thinly as possible. The peel of the cu..
Cucumber soup
Pickled cucumber soup, Polsih style The Cucumber soup is a soup based on cucumbers, known in various cuisines. The two major varieties are the fresh cucumber soup and pickled cucumber soup. Contents 1 Fresh cucumber soups2 Pickled cucumber soups2.1 Poland3 See also Fres..
Cucumber tree
Several plants are known as the Cucumber tree. This page is about Magnolia acuminata, of North America. For the species Averrhoa bilimbi, from South-east Asia, click here.'' For the species Dendrosicyos socotrana, from the Horn of Africa, click here.'' The Cucumber tree, Magnolia acuminata, often..
Cucumgillica, New South Wales
Cucumgillica is a small town in Cowra Shire. Garry Starr, now a Cowra Shire Councillor, used to teach there. ..
Cucumis
Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants which includes the cucumber and the melon. External links [Multilingual taxonomic information at the University of Melbourne][ITIS report] ..
Cucumis anguria
Cucumis anguria, also called the West Indian gherkin, burr cucumber, or cohombro, is a vine grown for its fruit used as a vegetable, similar and related to the cucumber. The fruit is typically 4-8 cm in length, 2-4 cm in diameter, and covered with pointed warts. External links [Eden seeds (..
Cucurbit
A cucurbit might be: A plant of the family CucurbitaceaeThe lower part of an alembic This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended artic..
Cucurbita
Cucurbita is a genus in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae. It includes species grown for their fruit and edible seeds (the squashes, pumpkins and marrows, and the chilacayote), as well as some species grown only as gourds. They have bicollateral vascular bundles. Many North and Central American spec..
Cucurbitaceae
Cucurbitaceae is a family of plants including the melon, cucumber, calabash, squash, and luffa. It is one of the most important families of food plants in the world, although not nearly as important as the grass family, Poaceae, legume family, Fabaceae, or Nightshade family, Solanaceae. Most of ..
Cucurbitales
The Cucurbitales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. This order mostly belongs to tropical areas, with limited presence in subtropic and temperate regions. The order includes various shrubs and trees, together with many herbs and climbers. One of major ch..
Cucurbita ficifolia
Cucurbita ficifolia is an annual vine or trailing plant grown at high altitudes for its edible seeds, fruit, and greens. English names for the plant include chilacayote, fig-leaved gourd, malabar gourd, Thai marrow, and pie melon. It shows considerable biochemical difference from the other members..
Cucurbituril
Computer models of Q5, Q6, and Q7. Top row is the veiw into the cavity and the bottom is the side veiw Cucurbiturils are macrocyclic molecules consisting of glycoluril repeat units. These compounds are particularly interesting to chemists because they are molecular containers that are capable ..
Cucuron
Cucuron is a commune of the Vaucluse département in southern France. ..
Cucuteni
Cucuteni is a village in Iaşi County, Romania, having a population of 1,450. It is located 45 km from the city Iaşi and 10 km from the town of Târgu Frumos. Neighbouring villages and communes are Todireşti (in north), Târgu Frumos and Cotnari (in east) and Ruginoasa (in west). The name of the v..
Cucuteni culture
Cucuteni ceramics The Cucuteni culture (after the Romanian Cucuteni village located in Iaşi county, also Trypillian culture, or Tripolie culture after the Ukrainian Trypillia (Трипiлля) village, or Tripolie culture, Tripolian culture, from the Russian version of the name: Трип�..
Cucuyagua
Cucuyagua is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán. ..
CUC Broadcasting
CUC Broadcasting was a Canadian media company. Primarily a cable television distributor which operated under the name Trillium Cable, CUC was also a minority investor in other smaller cable companies, including Northern Cable and UMG Cable. CUC also had some broadcast holdings, most notably CKLW an..
CUC International
CUC International was originally named Comp-U-Card. Though they originally ran electronic malls on early online services like CompuServe and The Source, their business soon evolved. Their main product was providing vacation time-sharing services and direct marketing services to credit card companies..
Cuc Phuong National Park
Cuc Phuong National Park is in Ninh Binh Province of Vietnam. Cuc Phuong was Vietnam's first national park and is the country's largest nature reserve. The park is one of the most important sites for biodiversity in Vietnam. Contents 1 History2 Landscape and C..
Cuíca
Cuíca Cuíca is a Brazilian friction drum often used in samba music. The tone it produces has a high-pitched squeaky timbre. The body of the cuíca is normally made of metal. It has a single head, normally six to ten inches in diameter, made of animal skin. A thin bamboo stick is attached to..
Écu (coin)
This article is about the medieval and early modern French currency, not the European Currency Unit (ECU) or an electronic control unit (ECU). The term écu may refer to one of several French coins. The first écu was a gold coin (the écu d'or) minted during the reign of Louis IX of France, in 126..

 

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