| | - Carmina Burana
- 13th-century manuscript that contains songs (the Carmina Burana proper) and six religious plays. The contents of the manuscript are attributed to the goliards (q.v.), wandering scholars and students in western ...
- carmine
- red or purplish-red pigment obtained from cochineal (q.v.), a red dyestuff extracted from the dried bodies of certain female scale insects native to tropical and subtropical America. Carmine was used ...
- Carmona
- town, Seville province, in the autonomous community (region) of Andalusia, southern Spain; it overlooks the Andalusian Plain from its site on a ridge of the Sierra de los Alcores. It ...
- Carmona, Antonio Oscar de Fragoso
- Portuguese general and statesman who rose to political prominence in the wake of the successful military revolt of 1926 and who, as president of Portugal from 1928 to 1951, served ...
- Carnac
- village, Morbihan departement, Bretagne region, western France, near the Atlantic coast, just southwest of Auray. It is the site of more than 3,000 prehistoric stone monuments. The ...
- carnallite
- a soft, white halide mineral, hydrated potassium and magnesium chloride (KMgCl3·6H2O), that is a source of potassium for fertilizers. Carnallite occurs with other chloride minerals in the upper layers of ...
- Carnap, Rudolf
- German-born U.S. philosopher of Logical Positivism. He made important contributions to logic, the analysis of language, the theory of probability, and the philosophy of science.
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