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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.
Carnarvon Gorge: gorge in southeastern Queensland, Australia, on the eastern slopes of Carnarvon Range of the Great Dividing Range. The gorge, sometimes called "The Grand Canyon of Queensland," is about 20 miles ...
Carnarvon Range: plateau section of the Great Dividing Range, southeast-central Queensland, Australia. The Carnarvon Range lies 230 to 280 miles (370 to 450 km) inland from the coast west of Bundaberg and ...
Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of, Baron Porchester Of Highclere: British Egyptologist who was the patron and associate of archaeologist Howard Carter in the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of, Baron Porchester Of Highclere: British statesman, a liberally inclined member of Conservative Party governments, who tried, with varying success, to establish federal self-government in British overseas possessions.
Carnatic music: music of southern India (generally south of the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state) that evolved from ancient Hindu traditions and was relatively unaffected by the Arabic and Iranian ...
Carnatic Wars: series of military contests during the 18th century between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore for control of the coastal strip of eastern India from Nellore (north of ...
carnation: (Dianthus caryophyllus), herbaceous plant of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae), native to the Mediterranean area. It is widely cultivated for its fringe-petaled flowers, which often have a spicy fragrance.
carnauba wax: a vegetable wax obtained from the fronds of the carnauba tree (Copernicia cerifera) of Brazil. Valued among the natural waxes for its hardness and high melting temperature, carnauba wax is ...
Carne, Marcel: motion-picture director noted for the poetic realism of his pessimistic dramas. He led the French cinema revival of the late 1930s.
Carneades: Greek philosopher who headed the New Academy at Athens when antidogmatic skepticism reached its greatest strength.
Carnegie Hall: historic concert hall at Seventh Avenue and 57th Street in New York City. Designed in a Neo-Italian Renaissance style by William B. Tuthill, the building opened in May 1891 and ...
Carnegie Mellon University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. The university includes the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Fine Arts, ...
Carnegie, Andrew: Scottish-born American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.
Carnegie, Dale: American lecturer, author, and pioneer in the field of public speaking and the psychology of the successful personality.
Carneia: important religious festival among ancient Dorian-speaking Greeks, held in Karneios (roughly August). The name is connected with Karnos, or Karneios (probably meaning "ram"), said to have been a favourite of ...
carnelian: a translucent, semiprecious variety of the silica mineral chalcedony that owes its red to reddish brown colour to colloidally dispersed hematite (iron oxide). It is a close relative of sard, ...
Carnera, Primo: Italian heavyweight boxing champion of the world from June 29, 1933, when he knocked out Jack Sharkey in six rounds in New York City, until June 14, 1934, when he ...
Carnesecchi, Pietro: controversial Italian humanist and religious reformer executed because of his sympathy for and affiliation with the Protestant Reformation. He was patronized by the Medici, particularly Pope Clement VII, to whom ...
Carney, Harry Howell: American musician, featured soloist in Duke Ellington's band and the first baritone saxophone soloist in jazz.
Carney, Robert Bostwick: U.S. Navy admiral and military strategist during World War II.
Carnian Stage: lowermost of three divisions of the Upper Triassic Series, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Carnian time (227 million to 221 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage ...
Carnic Alps: range of the Eastern Alps, extending along the Austrian-Italian border for 60 miles (100 km) from the Pustertal (valley) and the Piave River (west) to the Gailitz (Italian Silizza) River ...
Carniola: western region of Slovenia, which in the 19th century was a centre of Slovenian nationalist and independence activities within the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. It was part of the Roman ...
carnitine: a water-soluble, vitamin-like compound related to the amino acids. It is an essential growth factor for mealworms and is present in striated (striped) muscle and liver tissue of higher animals. ...
carnival: a traveling entertainment combining the features of both circus and amusement park. Developing out of the same roots as the early 19th-century circus-the "mud shows," so called because they operated ...
carnival: the merrymaking and festivity that takes place in many Roman Catholic countries in the last days and hours before the Lenten season. The derivation of the word is uncertain, though ...
carnival song: late 15th- and early 16th-century part song performed in Florence during the carnival season. The Florentines celebrated not only the pre-Lenten revelry but also the Calendimaggio, which began on May ...
carnivore: any member of the mammalian order Carnivora (literally, "flesh devourers" in Latin), comprising more than 270 species. In a more general sense, a carnivore is any animal (or plant; see ...
carnivorous plant: any plant especially adapted for capturing insects and other tiny animals by means of ingenious pitfalls and traps and then subjecting them to the decomposing action of digestive enzymes, bacteria, ...
carnosaur: any of the dinosaurs belonging to the taxonomic group Carnosauria, a subgroup of the bipedal, flesh-eating theropod dinosaurs that evolved into predators of large herbivorous dinosaurs.
Carnot cycle: in heat engines, ideal cyclical sequence of changes of pressures and temperatures of a fluid, such as a gas used in an engine, conceived early in the 19th century by ...
Carnot, Lazare: French statesman, general, military engineer, and administrator in successive governments of the French Revolution. As a leading member of the Committee for General Defense and of the Committee of Public ...
Carnot, Sadi: an engineer turned statesman who served as fourth president (1887-94) of the Third Republic until he was assassinated by an Italian anarchist.
Carnot, Sadi: French scientist who described the Carnot cycle, relating to the theory of heat engines.
carnotite: radioactive, bright-yellow, soft and earthy vanadium mineral that is an important source of uranium. A hydrated potassium uranyl vanadate, K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·nH₂O, pure carnotite contains about 53 percent uranium, 12 percent vanadium, ...
Carnovsky, Morris: American actor who excelled in dialectal character roles and who was acclaimed on both stage and screen in his portrayals of thoughtful, troubled men.
Carnuntum: the most important ancient Roman legionary camp of the upper Danube frontier, situated at Petronell, 20 miles (32 km) east of Vienna. It was the emperor Tiberius's base in his ...
Caro, Annibale: Roman lyric poet, satirist, and translator, remembered chiefly for his translation of Virgil's Aeneid and for the elegant style of his letters.
Caro, Sir Anthony: English sculptor of abstract, loosely geometrical metal constructions.
carob: (Ceratonia siliqua), tree of the pea family (Fabaceae), native to the eastern Mediterranean region and cultivated elsewhere. It is sometimes known as locust, or St. John's bread, in the belief ...
carol: broadly, a song, characteristically of religious joy, associated with a given season, especially Christmas; more strictly, a late medieval English song on any subject, in which uniform stanzas, or verses ...
Carol I: first king of Romania, whose long reign (as prince, 1866-81, and as king, 1881-1914) brought notable military and economic development along Western lines but signally failed to confront the basic ...
Carol II: king of Romania (1930-40), whose controversial reign ultimately gave rise to a personal, corporatist dictatorship.
Carol, Martine: French film actress, the reigning blond sex symbol in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
carole: medieval European dance in a ring, chain, or linked circle, performed to the singing of the dancers. An indefinite number of persons participated, linking arms and following the step of ...
Carolina: town, northeastern Puerto Rico, part of metropolitan San Juan, located about 12 miles (19 km) east of the national capital. Situated on the banks of the Loiza River just above ...
Caroline: county, eastern Maryland, U.S., lying between the Choptank River and Tuckahoe Creek to the west and Delaware to the east. In addition to the Choptank, it is drained by Marshyhope ...
Caroline Atoll: coral formation in the Central and Southern Line Islands, part of Kiribati, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 450 miles (720 km) northwest of Tahiti. It is made up of ...
Caroline Islands: archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, the islands of which comprise the Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae [Kusaie], Pohnpei [Ponape], Chuuk [Truk], and Yap) and Palau. The Carolines may be ...
Caroline Of Brandenburg-ansbach: wife of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727-60). Beautiful and intelligent, she exercised an influence over her husband that was decisive in establishing and maintaining Sir Robert Walpole ...
Caroline Of Brunswick-luneburg: wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom who-like her husband, who was also her cousin-was the centre of various scandals.
Carolingian art: classic style produced during the reign of Charlemagne (768-814) and thereafter until the late 9th century.
Carolingian dynasty: family of Frankish aristocrats and the dynasty (AD 750-887) that they established to rule western Europe. The name derives from the large number of family members who bore the name ...
Carolingian minuscule: in calligraphy, clear and manageable script that was established by the educational reforms of Charlemagne in the latter part of the 8th and early 9th centuries. As rediscovered and refined ...
carom billiards: game played with three balls (two white and one red) on a table without pockets, in which the object is to drive one of the white balls (cue ball) into ...
Caron, Antoine: one of the few significant painters in France during the reigns of Charles IX and Henry III; his work is notable for reflecting the elegant but unstable Valois court during ...
Carondelet, Hector, baron de: governor of the Spanish territory of Louisiana and West Florida from 1791 to 1797.
Caroni River: river in northwestern Trinidad, in the country of Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean Sea. It rises near Valencia on the southern edge of the Northern Range uplands and ...
Caroni River: river in Bolivar state, southeastern Venezuela. Its headwaters flow from the slopes of Mount Roraima in the Sierra Pacaraima, where Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet.
Carora: city, west-central Lara estado ("state"), northwestern Venezuela, on the Morere, an affluent of the Tocuyo River, west of Barquisimeto. It lies at 1,128 feet (344 m) above sea level. The ...
Carossa, Hans: poet and novelist whose contribution to the development of the German autobiographical novel was considered to be outstanding and unique in the 20th century.
carotene: any of several organic compounds widely distributed as pigments in plants and animals and converted in the livers of many animals into vitamin A. These pigments are unsaturated hydrocarbons (having ...
carotenemia: yellow skin discoloration caused by excess blood carotene; it may follow overeating of such carotenoid-rich foods as carrots, sweet potatoes, or oranges.
carotenoid: any of a group of nonnitrogenous yellow, orange, or red pigments (biochromes) that are almost universally distributed in living things. There are two major types: the hydrocarbon class, or carotenes, ...
Carothers, Wallace Hume: American chemist who developed nylon, the first synthetic polymer fibre to be produced commercially (in 1938) and one that laid the foundation of the synthetic-fibre industry.
carotid artery: one of several arteries that supply blood to the head and neck. Of the two common carotid arteries, which extend headward on each side of the neck, the left originates ...
Caroto, Gian Francesco: Venetian painter whose largely derivative works are distinguished by their craftsmanship and sense of colour.
carp: (species Cyprinus carpio), hardy, greenish brown fish of the family Cyprinidae. It is native to Asia but has been introduced into Europe, North America, and elsewhere. A large-scaled fish with ...
Carpaccio, Vittore: greatest early Renaissance narrative painter of the Venetian school.