(from the article "Caernarvonshire") In the early Middle Ages the region was divided into three cantreds, or districts (Arllechwedd, Arfon, and Llyn). The cantreds eventually became part of the principality of Gwynedd, ruled by ...
(from the article "collective behaviour") According to the approach suggested by the U.S. political scientist Hadley Cantril, participation in vital collectivities supplies a sense of meaning through group affirmation and action and raises the member's ...
town, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy, southeast of Como city. The town has miscellaneous industries, principally the manufacture of furniture, lace, and hardware. There is a school of carpentry. Among ...
preexistent melody, such as a plainchant excerpt, underlying a polyphonic musical composition (one consisting of several independent voices or parts). The 11th- and 12th-century organum added a simple second melody ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "Track and Field Sports") Shot put competition was fierce. Hoffa was undefeated indoors and took the World Athletics Final, the year's premier IAAF outdoor event, but fellow American Christian Cantwell had the longest throw ...
Danish king of England (1016-35), of Denmark (as Canute II; 1019-35), and of Norway (1028-35), who was a power in the politics of Europe in the 11th century, respected by ... [13 Related Articles]
king of Denmark (coregent, 1170-82; king, 1182-1202), during whose reign Denmark withdrew from the Holy Roman Empire and extended its dominion along the southern Baltic coast to Pomerania, Mecklenburg, and ... [2 Related Articles]
stout cloth probably named after cannabis (Latin: "hemp"). Hemp and flax fibre have been used for ages to produce cloth for sails. Certain classes are termed sailcloth or canvas synonymously. ... [5 Related Articles]
(species Aythya valisineria), bay duck, or pochard (q.v.), of the family Anatidae, one of the most popular of game birds. The male canvasback is a relatively large duck, weighing about ... [1 Related Articles]
low-lying island on the north shore of the Thames estuary, Castle Point borough, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It is connected to the mainland by a bridge at ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "alluvial fan") Alluvial fans border the mountain fronts with the apex of each fan just within a canyon mouth that serves as the outlet for a mountain drainage system. Sediment from erosion ...
city, seat (1889) of Randall county, northern Texas, U.S., in the Texas Panhandle, 16 miles (26 km) south of Amarillo, at a point where the Palo Duro and Tierra Blanca ...
area of rock formations and archaeological sites in northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the Navajo Indian reservation immediately east of Chinle. The name is a Spanish corruption of tsegi, a Navajo ...
(from the article "Colorado Plateau") ...feet (3,353 m) in central Utah. The northernmost section is the Uinta Basin, a dissected plateau abutting the Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado. South of it is ...
(from the article "live oak") A member of the white oak group, the canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepsis), a timber tree occasionally more than 27 m tall, is often called goldencup oak for its egg-shaped ...
desert wilderness of water-eroded sandstone spires, canyons, and mesas, with Archaic Native American petroglyphs, in southeastern Utah, U.S., just southwest of Moab and Arches National Park. Established in 1964, it ... [1 Related Articles]
a genre of Italian instrumental music in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 18th- and 19th-century music, the term canzona refers to a lyrical song or songlike instrumental piece. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "canzona") The instrumental canzona derived its form from the French polyphonic chanson known in Italy as canzon(a) francese; many early canzonas were instrumental arrangements of chansons, alternating between polyphonic and homophonic ...
(from the article "canzona") ...scholar, poet, and humanist Petrarch frequently used the canzona poetic form, and in the 16th century canzoni were often used as texts by madrigal composers. In the late 16th century, ...
(from the article "Cavalcanti, Guido") Two of Cavalcanti's poems are canzoni, a type of lyric derived from Provencal poetry, of which the most famous is "Donna mi prega" ("A Lady Asks Me"), a beautiful and ...
form of 16th-century (c. 1565 and later) Italian vocal music. It was the most popular of the lighter secular forms of the period in Italy and England and perhaps in ... [1 Related Articles]
("High Tower," a Taoist epithet for the supreme god), syncretist modern Vietnamese religious movement with a strongly nationalist political character. Cao Dai draws upon ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices ... [7 Related Articles]
city, located about 75 miles (120 km) west and slightly south of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), southwestern Vietnam. Cao Lanh is on the left bank of the Mekong ...
Chinese playwright who was a pioneer in huaju ("word drama"), a genre influenced by Western theatre rather than traditional Chinese drama (which is usually sung). [4 Related Articles]
author of Hongloumeng (Dream of the Red Chamber), generally considered China's greatest novel. A partly autobiographical work, it is written in the vernacular and describes in lingering detail the decline ... [2 Related Articles]
in Chinese calligraphy, a cursive variant of the standard Chinese scripts lishu and kaishu and their semicursive derivative xingshu. The script ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Shanghai") The concept of state-supported housing was introduced in 1951 with the development of Caoyang Xin Cun (Caoyang New Village) in an existing industrial zone on Shanghai's western periphery. Following the ...
(from the article "wine") The cap of skins and pulp floating on top of the juice in red-wine fermentation inhibits flavour and colour extraction, may rise to an undesirably high temperature, and may acetify ...
(from the article "safety lamp") Electric hand and cap lamps were introduced in mines in the early 1900s and by the middle of the 20th century were used almost exclusively in mines. A safety device ...
(from the article "salt dome") Cap rock is a cap of limestone-anhydrite, characteristically 100 metres (328 feet) thick but ranging from 0 to 300 m. In many cases, particularly on Gulf Coast salt domes, the ...
(from the article "Texas") At the western edge of the North Central Plains lies the Caprock Escarpment, an outcropping of rock that stretches to the north and south for about 200 miles (320 km). ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...conchs (Strombidae) of tropical oceans and the pelican's foot shells (Aporrhaidae) of near Arctic waters.Cap shells (Capulidae) and slipper shells (Calyptraeidae) are limpets with irregularly shaped shells with a ...
(from the article "small arm") ...each chamber a percussion cap was placed over a hollow nipple that directed the jet of flame to the powder when the cap was struck by the hammer. This type ...
city, southern Quebec province, southeastern Canada. It is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, at the mouth of the Saint-Maurice River, opposite Trois-Rivieres city and midway ...
city, northern Haiti. Founded in 1670 by the French, the city was then known as Cap-Francais and gained early renown as the "Paris of the Antilles." It served as capital ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") In the 8th century the rising power in western India was that of the Gurjara-Pratiharas. The Rajput dynasty of the Guhilla had its centre in Mewar (with Chitor as its ...
American photographer as a Life magazine photojournalist (1946-67), made issues of social justice and politics the focus of images that provided an appreciation of the beauty of simple, ordinary events; ...
(from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...had originally favoured the succession of Huayna Capac (Wayna Qhapaq), the youngest son of his principal wife and sister. Shortly before his death, he changed his mind and named as ...
(from the article "Inca rulers and royal corporations") ...small domains throughout the Andes. Under Mayta Capac the Inca began to expand, attacking and looting the villages of neighbouring peoples and probably assessing some sort of tribute. Under Capac ...
(from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The Inca forces crossed the Quechua territory and attacked the provinces of Vilcas and Soras, southwest of the area controlled by the Chanca. In about 1445, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sent ...
property of an electric conductor, or set of conductors, that is measured by the amount of separated electric charge that can be stored on it per unit change in electrical ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "reproductive system, human") ...process in the ducts of the male reproductive tract; the process may be continued when, after ejaculation, they pass through the female tract. Maturation of the sperm in the female ...
(from the article "reactance") Capacitive reactance, on the other hand, is associated with the changing electric field between two conducting surfaces (plates) separated from each other by an insulating medium. Such a set of ...
(from the article "capacitance") Capacitance in electric circuits is deliberately introduced by a device called a capacitor. It was discovered by the Prussian scientist Ewald Georg von Kleist in 1745 and independently by the ...
advanced industrial materials that, by virtue of their poor electrical conductivity, are useful in the production of electrical storage or generating devices. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "electric motor") This motor is similar to the three-phase motor except that it has only two windings (a-a' and b-b') on its stator displaced 90° from each other. The a-a' winding is ...
(from the article "production system") Next, given a choice of technology, the capacity of the system must be determined. The capacity of the system is designed to be a function of the amount of available ...
(from the article "electric generator") The capacity rating of the machine differs from its shaft power because of two factors-namely, the power factor and the efficiency. The power factor is the ratio of the real ...
(from the article "insurance") The requirement of capacity to contract usually means that the individual obtaining insurance must be of a minimum age and must be legally competent; the contract will not hold if ...
British rock musician (b. Aug. 2, 1944, Evesham, Worcestershire, Eng.-d. Jan. 28, 2005, London, Eng.), was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band Traffic. Capaldi formed his first band ...
(from the article "Orinoco River") ...through the lowest level of the plains and increases to about five miles in width. Along the bend, it receives the largest number of tributaries of its entire course, including ...
commune comprising 38 small localities in Toscana (Tuscany) region, central Italy. Capannori village is a market centre, with paper mills and button and paint factories. The parish church has a ...
(from the article "Bayamon") town, northeastern Puerto Rico, part of the metropolitan area of San Juan (10 miles [16 km]) northeast) and the island's second most populous city. Puerto Rico's first settlement, Caparra, was ...
(from the article "Literature") ...is a victim of drug trafficking and of the violence that penetrates her own family. The novel transformed this into a metaphor of Colombia's national problems. The Planeta Prize went ...
(from the article "mussel") The capax horse mussel (Modiolus capax) has a bright orange-brown shell under a thick periostracum; its range in the Pacific Ocean extends from California to Peru. The Atlantic ribbed mussel ...
(from the article "goose") ...called geese are a number of waterfowl of gooselike build that live in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and belong to other groups. Among them are the magpie goose, sheldgoose, ...
forested upland, northernmost Nova Scotia, Canada, on Cape Breton Island. The highlands, which occupy a large peninsula bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Gulf of St. ...
(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...feet (532 m), is the highest point in the province. Though uninhabited except along a narrow coastal fringe, the highlands are a popular scenic and recreational area that is partially ...
northeastern portion of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is separated from the remainder of the province and the Canadian mainland by the 2-mile- (3-kilometre-) wide Strait of Canso (southwest) and is ... [1 Related Articles]
largest and most formidable of African bovids. Similar to the water buffalo of Asia, the Cape buffalo is massive, black, and sparsely haired, standing up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) ... [1 Related Articles]
town in the centre of the seaboard of Ghana. It lies on a low promontory jutting into the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean about 75 miles (120 km) ...
artificial waterway in southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. A part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, it joins Cape Cod Bay (northeast) with the waters of Buzzards Bay (southwest) and traverses the narrow ...
British colony established in 1806 in what is now South Africa. With the formation of the Union of South Africa (1910), the colony became the province of the Cape of ... [13 Related Articles]
city, Lee county, southwestern Florida, U.S. It is situated on a broad peninsula pointing southward, with Fort Myers just to the northeast across the estuary of the Caloosahatchee River and ...
(from the article "Cape Town") ...between southeast and southwest in summer. Southerly winds produce a cloud cover over Table Mountain known as the "tablecloth." These winds are collectively referred to as the "Cape doctor" because ...
(from the article "Cape emerald") gem-quality prehnite (not emerald). See prehnite.marketing of prehniteprehnite...zeolites. Prehnite has been found in Italy,
(from the article "naval warfare") ...advantages that should have accrued to the Americans at night from superior radar were largely squandered. Between August 1942 and July 1943, in the cruiser-destroyer battles of Savo Island, Cape ...
river in central and southeastern North Carolina, U.S., formed by the confluence of the Deep and Haw rivers along the boundary between Chatham and Lee counties. It flows generally southeast ...
(from the article "file snake") ...coloured. They are active by night on the ground. File snakes are nonvenomous; they prey on frogs, lizards, and other snakes, including venomous ones. Often exceeding 1.5 metres in total ...
low, sandy area extending inland from the peninsular Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape province, South Africa, and occupying most of the isthmus between Table Bay and False Bay. In ...
(from the article "floristic region") ...with the faunal regions (q.v.) as mapped by animal geographers, are often considered with them as biogeographic regions. The chief difference is the recognition by plant geographers of the Cape ...
(1779-1879), 100 years of intermittent warfare between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. One of the most prolonged struggles ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "gannet") ...goose; it breeds on islands in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and northeastern Europe, wintering to the Gulf of Mexico, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. The two slightly smaller southern species are the ...
city, Cape Girardeau county, southeastern Missouri, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River (there bridged to Illinois) at the southeast edge of the Ozark Plateau, 100 miles (160 km) south ...
(from the article "Physalis") ...which encloses a fleshy berry and which occasionally becomes bright orange-red at maturity. The berries of some species of Physalis are edible, and the plants accordingly go by such names ...
scenic coastal area situated on Bodie, Hatteras, and Ocracoke islands along the Outer Banks, eastern North Carolina, U.S. The park, the country's first national seashore, was authorized in 1937 and ...
undeveloped wilderness area in northwestern Alaska, U.S., on the treeless coast of the Chukchi Sea. It is part of a string of national parks, monuments, and preserves north of the ...
scenic coastal area on the barrier islands of the southern Outer Banks, eastern North Carolina, U.S. The national seashore, created in 1966, has an area of 44 square miles (114 ...
(from the article "lyretail") ...but the males are brilliantly speckled and spotted with reds, yellows, greens, and blues. The tail is fan-shaped with extended filaments at the top and bottom giving the appearance of ...
(from the article "Coloured") ...and were employed as teachers, clerks, shopkeepers, artisans, and other skilled workers. Those living outside the towns were mostly labourers on white-owned farms. A Muslim minority, the so-called Cape Malays, ...
(from the article "mastic") Other trees yield resins that are referred to as mastic. In Algeria, Pistacia atlantica yields a solid resin. Cape mastic is the produce of Euryops multifidus, the resin bush, or ...
(from the article "World War II") Almost simultaneously with the Belgrade coup d'etat, the decisive Battle of Cape Matapan took place between the British and Italian fleets in the Mediterranean, off the Peloponnesian mainland northwest of ...
county, extreme southern New Jersey, U.S. It consists of a low-lying peninsula bordered by Delaware Bay and West Creek to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the ...
city, Cape May county, at the southern tip of New Jersey, U.S. Originally called Cape Island, it was renamed in 1869 for the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, who visited ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "penguin") ...the chronology of breeding may also vary within a species in relation to latitude. The majority of species breed only once each year. Certain species, such as the Cape, or ...
star catalog listing more than 454,000 stars of the 11th magnitude or brighter, between 18° south declination and the south celestial pole. The photographic plates required were made between 1885 ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dennis") ...Clipper ships were once built in Shiverick Shipyard (East Dennis). Tourism and other service-related activities are now the basis of the economy, and cranberry cultivation is also important. The Cape ...
(from the article "pondweed") ...The former group includes frog's lettuce (Potamogeton densus), of Europe and southern Asia, and P. crispus, of Europe but naturalized in the eastern United States and in California. Cape pondweed ...
former province of South Africa, occupying the southern extremity of the African continent. Prior to the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the area was known as ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "veld") ...4,000 and 6,000 feet (1,200 and 1,800 metres) above sea level. The South African part of the region is bounded to the east and south by the Great Escarpment, which ...
(from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...miles across the mouth and has a maximum depth of 72 feet (22 m). Fishing, pearling, prawning, and tourism are the main local industries, and drilling for oil has taken ...
(from the article "conservation") ...that human actions suppress fire regimes, they also control water levels, and the resulting changes can have important consequences for endangered species. An example of a species so affected is ...
