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- American professional tennis player who was one of the leading competitors in the 1970s and early '80s and was known for his intensity and aggressive play. During his career he ... [2 Related Articles]
- Conocephalum
- (from the article "plant") ...capsule opening into 4 or more valves; between 6,000 and 9,000 species; representative genera include Porella, Frullania, Marchantia,
- Conocephalus
- (from the article "meadow grasshopper") ...photograph), one of the most abundant and widespread types of meadow grasshoppers, has large orange eyes and a body that is brown on top and green on the bottom. The ...
- Conoco
- former American petroleum company founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company in Ogden, Utah. It became part of ConocoPhillips through a merger with the Phillips Petroleum Company ... [1 Related Articles]
- ConocoPhillips
- U.S. oil and gas company created in 2002 through the merger of Phillips Petroleum and Conoco. [3 Related Articles]
- conodont
- minute toothlike fossil composed of the mineral apatite (calcium phosphate); conodonts are among the most frequently occurring fossils in marine sedimentary rocks of Paleozoic age. Between 0.2 mm (0.008 inch) ... [8 Related Articles]
- conoidal wave
- (from the article "wave") ...cannot be so readily described by mathematical theory, and their form is distorted from a sinusoidal shape. The troughs tend to flatten and the crests sharpen toward a point, a ...
- Conon
- Athenian admiral notable for his overwhelming victory over the Spartan fleet off Cnidus (the southwestern extremity of modern Turkey) in 394 and his restoration the following year of the long ... [2 Related Articles]
- Conon
- pope from 686 to 687.
- Conon Of Samos
- mathematician and astronomer whose work on conic sections (curves of the intersections of a right circular cone with a plane) served as the basis for the fourth book of the ...
- Conopophagidae
- gnateater (or antpipit) family of small, plump-bodied birds of Central and South America. The two genera (Conopophaga and Corythopsis) were separated from the antbird family (Formicariidae) in 1882 and raised ...
- Conor
- (from the article "Ulster cycle") ...and were influenced by druids. Mythological elements are freely intermingled with legendary elements that have an air of authenticity. Events centre on the reign of the semi-historical King Conor (Conchobar ...
- Conoryctinae
- (from the article "taeniodont") The single known family, Stylinodontidae, is made up of two subfamilies, Conoryctinae and Stylinodontinae. The Conoryctinae were rather generalized forms with no special peculiarities. During the Paleocene, they gradually increased ...
- Conover, Willis
- U.S. radio broadcaster and jazz promoter (b. Dec. 18, 1920, Buffalo, N.Y.--d. May 17, 1996, Alexandria, Va.), was the longtime host of the "Music USA" program on the Voice of ...
- Conoy
- an Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe related to the Delaware and the Nanticoke; before colonization by the English, they lived between the Potomac River and the western shore of Chesapeake ... [1 Related Articles]
- Conqueror
- (from the article "tank") ...rearmed with an 83.8-millimetre gun and in 1959 with an even more powerful 105-millimetre gun. Moreover, during the 1950s the capabilities of British tank units were augmented by a small ...
- conquest
- in international law, the acquisition of territory through force, especially by a victorious state in a war at the expense of a defeated state. An effective conquest takes place when ...
- Conquest of the Desert
- (from the article "Argentina") ...until the mid-19th century, when European settlements encroached and warfare erupted. The Indian wars in northern Patagonia and the southern and western Pampas culminated in a campaign known as the ...
- Conquest, Robert
- (from the article "English literature") ...away soon after World War II. In its place emerged what came to be known with characteristic understatement as The Movement. Poets such as D.J. Enright, Donald Davie, John Wain, ...
- conquian
- (from the article "pan") card game played only in the western United States, where it is popular as a gambling game in many clubs. It developed from conquian, the ancestor of rummy games.rummy
- conquistador
- any one of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century. [3 Related Articles]
- Conrad
- (from the article "Henry III") In 1054-55, dukes Conrad of Bavaria and Welf III of Carinthia attempted to overthrow Henry's rule through a widely spread conspiracy, and only their demise saved him from great trouble. ...
- Conrad
- duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine) from 944 to 953 and ancestor of the Salian dynasty of German kings. [1 Related Articles]
- Conrad
- duke of Lower Lorraine (1076-89), eldest son of the emperor Henry IV, who had him crowned king of the Germans in 1087 in an attempt to confirm the imperial succession ... [1 Related Articles]
- Conrad I
- German king from 911 to 918 and member of the powerful Franconian dynasty known as the Conradines. [4 Related Articles]
- Conrad I
- (from the article "Hohenzollern Dynasty") Frederick III of Zollern (d. c. 1200), husband of the heiress of the former burgraves of Nurnberg, himself became burgrave in 1192 as Frederick I. Between his two sons, Conrad ...
- Conrad II
- German king (1024-39) and Holy Roman emperor (1027-39), founder of the Salian dynasty. During his reign, he proved that the German monarchy had become a viable institution. Since the survival ... [11 Related Articles]
- Conrad III
- German king from 1138 to 1152, the first king of the Hohenstaufen family. [7 Related Articles]
- Conrad IV
- German king from 1237 and king of Sicily from 1251. [4 Related Articles]
- Conrad of Cologne
- (from the article "Germany") ...of a ruler powerful enough to threaten their growing independence as territorial princes; nor did they single out a German candidate, who might prove to be as uncontrollable as William. ...
- Conrad of Montferrat
- (from the article "Richard I") ...with Philip II, who returned to France after the fall of Acre. Richard's candidate for the crown of Jerusalem was his vassal Guy de Lusignan, whom he supported against the ...
- Conrad of Waldhauser
- (from the article "Germany") ...which dominated the towns by virtue of its economic power and cultural influence. The luxury and immorality of the Bohemian clergy were castigated by a series of religious reformers such ...
- Conrad von Hotzendorf, Franz, Graf (count)
- a controversial military strategist and one of the most influential conservative propagandists of Austria-Hungary, who planned the Habsburg monarchy's campaigns during World War I. [4 Related Articles]
- Conrad, Charles, Jr.
- American astronaut, copilot on the Gemini 5 spaceflight (1965), command pilot of Gemini 11, spacecraft commander of the Apollo 12 flight to the Moon, and commander of the Skylab 2 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Conrad, Frank
- American electrical engineer whose interest in radiotelephony led to the establishment of the first commercial radio station.
- Conrad, Joseph
- English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story "Heart of Darkness" ... [5 Related Articles]
- Conrad-Martius, Hedwig
- (from the article "Phenomenology") ...work on problems of value and obligation. A Polish philosopher, Roman Ingarden, did major work in structural ontology and analyzed the structures of various works of art in its light; ...
- Conradin
- the last of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty, duke of Swabia, king of the Romans, and claimant to the throne of Sicily. The leading hope of the antipapal Italian Ghibellines, he ... [3 Related Articles]
- Conrady, August
- (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") ...initial stops alternate in the same root in many Sino-Tibetan languages, including Chinese, Burmese, and Tibetan (voiced in intransitive, voiceless in transitive verbs). The German Oriental scholar August Conrady linked ...
- Conran, Sir Terence
- (from the article "industrial design") ...on home furnishings, such as Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, IKEA, and the EXPO Design Centers created by Home Depot. Those stores owed an enormous debt to the design ...
- Conrart, Valentin
- man of letters and authority on grammar and style, known as the practical inaugurator of Classicism in French literature through his leading role in the founding of the Academie Francaise.
- Conroy, Frank
- American author (b. Jan. 15, 1936, New York, N.Y.-d. April 6, 2005, Iowa City, Iowa), was revered as both a sensitive writer of nonfiction and a demanding yet inspiring teacher ... [1 Related Articles]
- Conroy, Jack
- leftist American writer best known for his contributions to "proletarian literature," fiction and nonfiction about the life of American workers during the early decades of the 20th century.
- Conroy, Sir John
- (from the article "Victoria") Victoria's childhood was made increasingly unhappy by the machinations of the Duchess of Kent's advisor, Sir John Conroy. In control of the pliable duchess, Conroy hoped to dominate the future ...
- Cons, Emma
- (from the article "Baylis, Lilian Mary") ...she performed in concert with her parents, who were singers. In 1890 the family moved to South Africa, where Baylis later became a music teacher. She returned to England in ...
- Consalvi, Ercole
- Italian cardinal and statesman, who played the leading role in Vatican politics during the first quarter of the 19th century; he sought a modus vivendi between the new principles of ... [1 Related Articles]
- consanguinity
- kinship characterized by the sharing of common ancestors. The word is derived from the Latin consanguineus, "of common blood," which implied that Roman individuals were of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- conscience
- a personal sense of the moral content of one's own conduct, intentions, or character with regard to a feeling of obligation to do right or be good. Conscience, usually informed ... [4 Related Articles]
- Conscience Whig
- (from the article "Hoar, Ebenezer R.") By the mid-1840s, Hoar was an antislavery Whig member of the state senate. It was there that he described himself as a "Conscience Whig," in contrast to the proslavery "Cotton ...
- Conscience, Hendrik
- Belgian romantic novelist who so dominated the birth and development of the Flemish novel that it was said he "taught his people to read." [1 Related Articles]
- conscientious objector
- one who opposes bearing arms or who objects to any type of military training and service. Some conscientious objectors refuse to submit to any of the procedures of compulsory conscription. ... [5 Related Articles]
- consciousness
- a psychological condition defined by the English philosopher John Locke as "the perception of what passes in a man's own mind." [23 Related Articles]
- consciousness of kind
- (from the article "Giddings, Franklin H.") Giddings was noted for his doctrine of the "consciousness of kind," which he derived from Adam Smith's conception of "sympathy," or shared moral reactions. In Giddings's view, consciousness of kind ...
- conscription
- compulsory enrollment for service in a country's armed forces. It has existed at least from the time of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (27th century BC), but there have been few ... [18 Related Articles]
- consecration
- (from the article "anointment") In preparation for battle, in danger from wild animals, in the hour of death, and at other special times, anointment is used to endow an ordinary person with special holiness. ...
- consecutive reaction
- (from the article "chemical kinetics") ...behaviour but does not prove it; other, more complicated schemes could be devised, but, until there is further evidence, it is expedient to accept the simple mechanism. This is an ...
- consecutive sexuality
- (from the article "reproductive system, animal") ...makeup of an entire oyster population also has a seasonal aspect; in harmony with the group, an individual may undergo several alterations in the course of a year. A similar ...
- Conseil d'Etat
- (French: "Council of State"), highest court in France for issues and cases involving public administration. Its origin dates back to 1302, though it was extensively reorganized under Napoleon and was ... [7 Related Articles]
- Conseil de l'Entente
- (French: "Entente Council"), French West African organization founded in 1959 and designed to promote the economic development of the region by raising funds, guaranteeing loans, and encouraging trade and investment. ... [1 Related Articles]
- consejo real
- medieval Spanish advisory council consisting of nobles and church prelates. Initially created at the request of the Cortes (parliament) to serve as its permanent representative, the consejo ... [1 Related Articles]
- Conselheiro Lafaiete
- city, southeastern Minas Gerais estado (state), southern Brazil. It lies in the highlands at 3,054 feet (931 metres) above sea level. Formerly known as Lueluz, the settlement ...
- consensual contract
- (from the article "Roman law") ...be transferred from one party to the other and that the obligation arising should be for the return of that thing. Real contracts included loans of money, loans of goods, ...
- consensual system
- (from the article "democracy") Because of differences in electoral systems and other factors, democratic countries differ with respect to whether laws and policies can be enacted by a single, relatively cohesive party with a ...
- consensual union
- (from the article "family law") ...violence by one adult member on another or by an adult on a child or some other violent or abusive conduct within a family circle. In serious cases the only ...
- consensus
- (from the article "Northeast Indian") Persuasion was an important skill for leaders because most communities used a consensus model for decision making; issues were discussed until there was broad agreement on a course of action. ...
- consent
- (from the article "philosophy, Western") Locke thus stated one of the fundamental principles of political liberalism: that there can be no subjection to power without consent-though once political society has been founded, citizens are obligated ...
- consent
- (from the article "family law") In order to satisfy the requirement of a voluntary consent to a marriage, a party must have reached an age at which he or she is able to give meaningful ...
- consent judgment
- (from the article "settlement") ...In such cases, the settlement itself, as a binding contract between parties, prevents renewal of the litigation. But the parties may, and often do, incorporate the terms of the settlement ...
- Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act
- (from the article "South Australia") In 1995 South Australia enacted the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act. This landmark legislation gave citizens the power to predetermine their medical treatment in the event that ...
- consequent
- (from the article "applied logic") A simple conditional, or "if," statement asserts a strictly formal relationship between antecedent ("if" clause) and consequent ("then" clause): "If p, then q," without any reference to the status of ...
- consequent drainage
- (from the article "East African mountains") ...continental stature. The entire system of the Ruwenzori Range drains into the Semliki River, a tributary of the Nile. Because they are relatively young, the mountain systems present good examples ...
- conservation
- (from the article "human behaviour") ...but thin sausage, the five-year-old will tend to say that the untouched sphere has more clay in it than the sausage-shaped object does. A seven-year-old, however, shows what is called ...
- conservation
- study of the loss of Earth's biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place ... [38 Related Articles]
- conservation easement
- (from the article "servitude") Statutes in most U.S. states authorize the creation of so-called "conservation easements" to be held by conservation organizations and governmental bodies. The name is misleading, however, because the primary function ...
- conservation law
- in physics, several principles that state that certain physical properties (i.e., measurable quantities) do not change in the course of time within an isolated physical system. In classical physics, laws ... [6 Related Articles]
- Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Commission for the
- (from the article "Antarctica") Poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (usually marketed as Chilean sea bass) was a priority topic at the annual summit of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, ...
- conservatism
- political philosophy that emphasizes the value of traditional institutions and practices. [13 Related Articles]
- Conservative Baptist Association of America
- association of independent, autonomous Baptist churches in the United States, organized May 17, 1947, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The founders originally organized the Fundamentalist Fellowship in 1920 but remained ...
- Conservative Central Office
- (from the article "Conservative Party") ...as the Corn Laws, and for most of the next 30 years they were out of government. The party was reorganized by Benjamin Disraeli, prime minister for a few months ...
- conservative extension
- (from the article "mathematics, foundations of") ...(in the sense of category theory) to the topos generated by a language-namely, the internal language of T. On the other hand, Platonists may observe that every type theory L ...
- conservative force
- in physics, any force, such as the gravitational force between the Earth and another mass, whose work is determined only by the final displacement of the object acted upon. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Conservative Judaism
- religious movement that seeks to conserve essential elements of traditional Judaism but allows for the modernization of religious practices in a less radical sense than that espoused by Reform Judaism. [5 Related Articles]
- Conservative Party
- (from the article "Bolivia") Starting with the presidency (1880-84) of Narciso Campero, Bolivia moved into an era of civilian government. The country's upper classes divided their support between two parties-Liberal and Conservative- and then ...
- Conservative Party
- (from the article "Denmark") ...electoral rules that gave weighted votes to great landowners and civil servants, thus securing the distinctly conservative leaning of the Landsting. By 1870 the National Liberals had merged with the ...
- Conservative Party
- (from the article "Norway") ...local elections held in the autumn showed that support for most political parties tended to remain stable. The Labour Party was still the strongest, with 29.6% of the vote, followed ...
- Conservative Party
- (from the article "Venezuela") The first of the military dictators was General Jose Antonio Paez, who gave the country better government than it would see again for nearly a century. Bolivar had left Paez ...
- Conservative Party
- in the United Kingdom, a political party whose guiding principles include the promotion of private property and enterprise, the maintenance of a strong military, and the preservation of traditional cultural ... [21 Related Articles]
- Conservative Party
- (from the article "Botha, P. W.") ...to the black majority. Though the proposed reforms maintained white supremacy, to which Botha was fully committed, the right wing of the National Party split away in protest in 1982 ...
- Conservative Party
- (from the article "Ecuador") Garcia Moreno's death, as he himself might have forecast, brought a period of near anarchy. Conservatives and liberals struggled for power. But Ecuador had become part of the world market; ...
- Conservative Party of Canada
- conservative Canadian political party. The party was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party. The idea for a merger of Canada's main ... [7 Related Articles]
- Conservative Party of Nicaragua
- (from the article "Nicaragua") ...politics was historically dominated by a liberal and a conservative party. Leading political parties include the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista; PLC), the Conservative Party of Nicaragua (Partido Conservador ...
- Conservative People's Party
- (from the article "Denmark") ...Democratic Party (Socialdemokratiet), historically the largest Danish political party, led most Danish governments from the 1930s to the early 1980s. Coalitions of nonsocialist parties headed by the Conservative People's Party ...
- conservative-modernist controversy
- (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") During the 19th century, major challenges to traditional Christian teachings arose on several fronts. Geologic discoveries revealed that the Earth was far older than the few thousand years suggested by ...
- Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique
- (from the article "Bernhardt, Sarah") ...she wanted to become a nun, but one of her mother's lovers, the duke de Morny, Napoleon III's half brother, decided that she should be an actress and, when she ...
- Conservatori, Palazzo dei
- (from the article "museums, history of") The extensive collections of the Vatican also saw considerable reorganization during the 18th century. The Capitoline Museum was opened to the public in 1734, and the Palazzo dei Conservatori was ...
- conservatory
- in architecture, building in which tender plants are protected and displayed, usually attached to and directly entered from a dwelling. It was not until the 19th century that a conservatory ... [1 Related Articles]
- conservatory
- in music, institution for education in musical performance and composition. The term and institution derive from the Italian conservatorio, which in the Renaissance period and earlier denoted a type of ...
- conserve
- (from the article "jelly") ...congeal readily after cooking with sugar and may be added to the juices of low-pectin fruits, vegetables, and herbs, such as blueberries, green peppers, or mint, to promote gelling. Preserves, ...
- Conshelf Saturation Dive Program
- (from the article "Cousteau, Jacques-Yves") ...at Marseille, Fr. (renamed the Centre of Advanced Marine Studies in 1968). The inventor of the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus and a process for using television underwater, he became head in ...
- Considerant, Victor-Prosper
- French Socialist who, after the death of Charles Fourier in 1837, became the acknowledged leader of Fourierist Utopianism and took charge of La Phalange, its theoretical organ.
- consideration
- in contract law, an inducement given to enter into a contract that is sufficient to render the promise enforceable in the courts. The technical requirement is either a detriment incurred ... [3 Related Articles]
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