(from the article "Cowles family") Fleur Fenton Cowles (b. Jan. 20, 1910, Montclair, N.J., U.S.) was married to Gardner Cowles, Jr., from 1946 to 1956, and during the marriage she was active in the affairs ...
(from the article "Cowles family") Gardner Cowles, Jr., called Mike (b. Jan. 31, 1903, Algona, Iowa-d. July 8, 1985, Southampton, N.Y.), followed his brother John to Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, where he edited ...
(from the article "Des Moines Register, The") ...Moines Leader (founded as the Iowa Star in 1849) in a merger in 1902, becoming the Register and Leader. In the following year, Gardner ...
(from the article "Cowles family") John Cowles (b. Dec. 14, 1898, Algona, Iowa, U.S.-d. Feb. 25, 1983, Minneapolis, Minn.) was the son of Gardner Cowles, Sr., a small-town banker who bought the Des Moines Register ...
(from the article "Cowles family") John Cowles, Jr. (b. May 27, 1929, Des Moines, Iowa), followed the family pattern of attending Phillips Exeter and Harvard, where he graduated in 1951. In 1953 he joined the ...
American literary critic and social historian who chronicled the writers of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s and their successors. As literary editor of The New Republic ... [1 Related Articles]
cultivated forms of Vigna unguiculata, annual plants within the pea family (Fabaceae). In other countries they are commonly known as China bean, or black-eyed bean. The plants are believed to ...
(January 17, 1781), in the American Revolution, brilliant American victory over a British force on the northern border of South Carolina, slowing Lord Cornwallis's campaign to invade North Carolina. From ... [2 Related Articles]
one of the most widely read English poets of his day, whose most characteristic work, as in The Task or the melodious short lyric "The Poplar Trees," brought a new ... [2 Related Articles]
mildly eruptive disease of cows that when transmitted to otherwise healthy humans produces immunity to smallpox. The cowpox virus is closely related to variola, the causative virus of smallpox. The ... [3 Related Articles]
town, east-central New South Wales, Australia, on the Lachlan River, in the Western Slopes region. Founded in 1846, it derived its name from an Aboriginal word meaning "the rocks." Proclaimed ...
any of several marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) comprising the genus Cypraea, family Cypraeidae. The humped, thick shell is beautifully coloured (often speckled) and glossy; the apertural ...
American singer and guitarist (b. Jan. 9, 1948, Newport, R.I.-d. Feb. 18, 2006, Calgary, Alta.), was the lead singer for the Cowsills, the family pop-music group that inspired the television ...
(from the article "Equestrian Sports") ...Melbourne Cups. She carried a joint top weight in a field of 24 horses for Australia's richest race and started as the favourite for the 2-mi handicap. Ten days earlier, ...
town, southeastern Bangladesh, situated along the Bay of Bengal. The town, constituted a municipality in 1869, was named for Hiram Cox, who supervised the settlement there of Arakanese refugees from ...
(from the article "ocean") ...zones. Soon thereafter, linear magnetic anomalies were mapped over the Reykjanes Ridge south of Iceland. They were found to occur on both sides of the ridge crest and parallel to ...
American lawyer (b. May 17, 1912, Plainfield, N.J.-d. May 29, 2004, Brooksville, Maine), spent many years in government and teaching positions before serving for five months in 1973 as special ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Gibbs, William Francis") Gibbs built several yachts and luxury liners in partnership with the yacht designer Daniel Hargate Cox, and in 1933 they began to design destroyers for the U.S. Navy, developing a ...
U.S. political leader who became one of the great "civilian" Union generals during the American Civil War and one of the country's foremost military historians.
American newspaper publisher and reformist governor of Ohio who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president on the Democratic ticket in 1920. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "droll") Robert Cox was the leading performer of drolls, and his repertoire included "The Merry Conceits of Bottom the Weaver" from A Midsummer Night's Dream and "The Bouncing Knight, or The ...
(from the article "eschatology") ...the hands of Protestant ministers, and for much of that period millennialism fed the fires of nationalism and Manifest Destiny. In a typical utterance, a leading Presbyterian minister of the ...
diplomat who was especially important in the development of independent Iraq from a British mandated territory after World War I. Interpreting the mandate favourably to Iraqi interests, he oversaw the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Encyclopaedia Britannica") ...by Hooper in New York City and J.L. Garvin in London, became the 13th edition. During this period (1923-28) ownership shifted from Sears, Roebuck to Hooper's widow and his brother-in-law, ...
(from the article "joint disease") ...of aseptic necrosis in children, the necrosis is not the consequence of mechanical tearing away of the part. The most frequent site is in the head of the thighbone; necrosis ...
in certain arthropods, one of a pair of excretory organs consisting of an end sac where initial urine is collected, a tubule where secretion and reabsorption may take place, and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mexico") In the earlier El Riego (7000-5000 BC) and Coxcatlan (5000-3400 BC) phases of this sequence, the inhabitants of the Tehuacan Valley were probably seasonal nomads who divided their time between ...
(from the article "hard-boiled fiction") ...(1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), and The Little Sister (1949), deal with corruption and racketeering in Southern California. Other important writers of the hard-boiled school are George Harmon Coxe (1901-84), ...
British-born Canadian geometer, who was a leader in the understanding of non-Euclidean geometries, reflection patterns, and polytopes (higher-dimensional analogs of three-dimensional polyhedra). [2 Related Articles]
a group of unemployed who marched to Washington, D.C., in the depression year of 1894. It was the only one of several groups that had set out for the U.S. ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "rickettsia") any member of three genera (Rickettsia, Coxiella, Rochalimaea) of bacteria in the family Rickettsiaceae. The rickettsiae are rod-shaped or variably spherical, nonfilterable bacteria, and most species are gram-negative. They are ...
(from the article "Some disease-causing rickettsiae") acute, self-limited, systemic disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii. Q fever spreads rapidly in cows, sheep, and goats, and in humans it tends to occur in ...
(from the article "Gould, John") ...produce the first of many folio volumes, A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1831-32). Gould's sketches were transferred to the lithographer's stone by his wife, the former Elizabeth ...
(from the article "herpangina") mild viral infection caused by several enteroviruses, most of which are in the subgroup Coxsackie A, seen most commonly in young children. The most distinctive symptom is a rash on ...
(from the article "rowing") ...International Rowing Federation) was founded. Events in rowing (for crews of eight, four, and two) and in sculling were established. In races for eights and for some fours and pairs, ...
(from the article "Chosen Women") ...under the supervision of matrons called Mama Cuna. At the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century, the Virgins numbered several thousand and were governed by a ...
delegacion, central Distrito Federal, central Mexico. It is a large residential area south of central Mexico City, on the La Magdalena River (now channeled underground). Coyoacan was built on the ...
in the mythology and folklore of the North American Plains, California, and Southwest Indians, the chief animal of the age before humans. Coyote's exploits as a creator, lover, magician, glutton, ... [4 Related Articles]
New World member of the dog family (Canidae) that is smaller and more lightly built than the wolf. The coyote, whose name is derived from the Aztec [2 Related Articles]
(Karwinskia humboldtiana), woody shrub of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae) that is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It grows about 1-7 m (3-23 feet) tall and has ...
French painter and engraver whose major achievements were in teaching and in the administration at the Royal Academy, where he served as director with zeal and distinction. [1 Related Articles]
French Baroque historical painter who was the founding member of a dynasty of painters and designers employed by the French court during the late 17th and 18th centuries.
French sculptor known for his decorative work at the palace of Versailles and for his portrait busts, which introduced a trend toward the sharpened depiction of individual character. [4 Related Articles]
Russian-born British draftsman and painter who, along with his son John Robert Cozens, was one of the leading watercolourists of the 18th century. [1 Related Articles]
island in the Caribbean Sea, about 10 miles (16 km) off the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, in Quintana Roo estado (state), southeastern Mexico.
soft-paste porcelain made in Venice by Geminiano Cozzi from about 1764 to 1812. Cozzi products, often freely adapted versions of Meissen porcelain, consisted mainly of figures, vases, and tablewares with ...
(from the article "Cozzi porcelain") soft-paste porcelain made in Venice by Geminiano Cozzi from about 1764 to 1812. Cozzi products, often freely adapted versions of Meissen porcelain, consisted mainly of figures, vases, and tablewares with ...
in particle physics, violation of the combined conservation laws associated with charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) by the weak force, which is responsible for reactions such as the radioactive ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "computer") ...years before the release of the Altair. Kildall realized that a computer had to be able to handle storage devices such as disk drives, and for this purpose he developed ...
(from the article "heredity") ...DNA, are located in two types of organelles found in the cytoplasm of the cell. These organelles are the mitochondria in animal and plant cells and the chloroplasts in plant ...
(from the article "cardiopulmonary resuscitation") ...step in conventional CPR is to establish unconsciousness. If the victim is unconscious, the rescuer summons help and then prepares to administer CPR. The sequence of steps may be summarized ...
(from the article "CP violation") The discovery that the weak force conserves neither charge conjugation nor parity separately, however, led to a quantitative theory establishing combined CP as a symmetry of nature. Physicists reasoned that ...
any short-tailed member of the crustacean order Decapoda (phylum Arthropoda)-especially the brachyurans (infraorder Brachyura), or true crabs, but also other forms such as the anomurans (suborder Anomura), which include the ... [11 Related Articles]
any of several small trees of the genus Malus, in the rose family (Rosaceae), native to North America and Asia. Crabs are widely grown for their attractive growth habit, spring ... [2 Related Articles]
(catalog numbers NGC 1952 and M1), probably the most intensely studied bright nebula, in the constellation Taurus, about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Roughly 12 light-years in diameter, it is assumed ... [6 Related Articles]
(species Dromas ardeola), long-legged, black and white bird of Indian Ocean coasts, related to plovers and allied species of shorebirds. It comprises the family Dromadidae (order Charadriiformes). Crab plovers are ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Crab Nebula") ...from which radiation has been detected over the entire measurable spectrum, from radio waves through infrared and visible wavelengths to ultraviolet and X rays. In the late 1960s the Crab ...
family of spiders (order Araneida) that are crablike in shape and, like many crabs, often walk sideways or backward. The family, which is worldwide in distribution, contains many common species ... [2 Related Articles]
(Cerdocyon thous), South American member of the dog family (Canidae), found in grassy or forested areas. It attains a length of 60-70 cm (24-28 inches), excluding a 30-centimetre tail, and ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "macaque") ...nigra) at the northern end of the island to the less-specialized Moor macaque (M. maura) in the south. Most of the Sulawesi species are in danger of ...
(from the article "raccoon") The crab-eating raccoon (P. cancrivorus) inhabits South America as far south as northern Argentina. It resembles the North American raccoon but has shorter, coarser fur. The other members of genus ...
(from the article "textile") ...passes through the heated chamber, creases and wrinkles are removed, the weave is straightened, and the fabric is dried to its final size. When the process is applied to wet ...
(species Lobodon carcinophagus), southern seal of the family Phocidae found among drifting ice packs around the Antarctic continent. A slender animal measuring about 2-2.5 m (6.6-8.2 feet) long and up ... [1 Related Articles]
any of about 300 species of grasses in the genus Digitaria (family Poaceae), especially D. sanguinalis or the slightly shorter D. ischaemum (smooth crabgrass). D. sanguinalis has long hairs covering ...
American actress whose early days as an entertainer during the California Gold Rush led to her immense popularity as the darling of the American stage and in England.
(from the article "Football") ...Texas Tech's top passing offense gained 470.3 yd per game behind quarterback Graham Harrell's FBS-leading 5,705 yd passing, 48 touchdown passes, and 71.8% completions, while freshman teammate Michael Crabtree led ...
(from the article "galliform") ...alike. 1 fossil, Chosornis praeteritus, from the upper Pleistocene; 7 extant genera, 12 species. Australia and East Indies to central Polynesia.Tail moderately long and broad. ...
(from the article "cocaine") ...or smoked in a chemically treated form known as freebase; either of these methods produces a markedly more compulsive use of the drug. In the 1980s a new preparation of ...
(from the article "willow") Three of the largest willows are black (S. nigra), crack, or brittle (S. fragilis), and white (S. alba), all reaching 20 metres (65 feet) or more; the first named is ...
(from the article "baking") ...of rollers, forming sheets of uniform thickness; the desired outline is cut in the sheet by stamping pressure or embossed rollers; and the scrap dough is removed for reprocessing. Many ...
(from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...the subject extended beyond the Griffith energy theory and, in its simplest and most widely employed version in engineering practice, used Irwin's stress intensity factor as the basis for predicting ...
in petroleum refining, process by which heavy hydrocarbon molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat and usually pressure and sometimes catalysts. Cracking is the most important ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "lard") ...vessel containing hog fats. Open-kettle-rendered or dry-rendered (enclosed-system) lards, which are darker in colour, are made by melting hog fats in steam-jacketed vessels; the residue is called cracklings. Neutral lard ...
tiny state that for the 31 years of its existence (1815-46) was the only remaining independent portion of Poland. Established by the Congress of Vienna at the conclusion of the ...
songbird family, of the order Passeriformes, that includes species of the bell-magpie, butcherbird, and currawong (qq.v.) groups of Australia. They are sometimes collectively called songshrikes, from their vocal powers and ... [2 Related Articles]
in furniture, infant's bed of wood, wicker, or iron, having enclosed sides and suspended from a bar, slung upon pivots, or mounted on rockers. The rocking motion of the cradle ...
in agriculture, rakelike harvesting implement of wood, devised in ancient times for gathering the stalks of wheat, oats, barley, and other grains (first cut with the sickle) and laying them ...
(from the article "mezzotint") ...hold ink and, when printed, produce large areas of tone. The pricking of the plate was originally done with a roulette (a small wheel covered with sharp points), but later ...
(from the article "placer mining") An improvement over the pan was the rocker, or cradle, named for its resemblance to a child's cradle. As it was rocked, it sifted large quantities of ore. Gravel was ...
mountain situated at the northern boundary of the 622-square-mile (1,611-square-kilometre) Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park, in northwest-central Tasmania, Australia. Located on Tasmania's central plateau, its lava basalt peak rises ...
(from the article "Southwest Indian") ...unduly: young children nursed on demand, and weaning and toilet training were gradual. Children were protected from harm through careful tending and by means of magical prophylactics. Cradles and cradleboards ...
(from the article "lacrosse") ...it, but-with the exception of the goalkeeper-he may not touch it with his hand. A player may kick the ball or bat it, but not into the opponents' goal. A ...
(from the article "World War I") ...coast and had been joined by two more cruisers, the Leipzig and the Dresden. On November 1, in the Battle of Coronel, it inflicted a sensational defeat on a British ...
(from the article "work") ...by rigid, hereditary, hierarchical class structures. Kings and nobles ruled and were supported by warriors; priests served as government officials; merchants purveyed the products of artisans and craftsmen; peasants worked ...
(from the article "organized labour") British trade unionism has a long and continuous history. Medieval guilds, which regulated craft production, clearly differed in function from trade unions, in that guilds were combinations of both masters ...
trade union combining workers who are engaged in a particular craft or skill but who may work for various employers and at various locations. Formed to improve wage levels and ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Stravinsky, Igor") ...Alban Berg, and especially Anton von Webern. (Serial music is based on the repetition of a series of tones in an arbitrary but fixed pattern without regard for traditional tonality.) ...
(from the article "slave narrative") ...for herself and her two children. The Bondswoman's Narrative-published in 2002 but written in the mid-1850s, apparently by an African American woman who signed herself Hannah Crafts-purports ...
(from the article "NASCAR") ...national series: the Nationwide Series (founded in 1982 and called the Busch Series 1984-2007), in which race cars that differ somewhat in engine and body size from Cup cars are ...
(from the article "sculpture") ...content, and expressiveness-is the concern of a designer, and it should be distinguished from the execution of the work in a particular technique and material, which is the task of ...
