English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is ...
city, seat (1829) of Carroll county, western Georgia, U.S. It is situated near the Little Tallapoosa River, about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Atlanta. Formerly called Troupsville, it was ...
(Daucus carota), herbaceous, generally biennial plant of the Apiaceae family that produces an edible taproot. Among common varieties root shapes range from globular to long, with lower ends blunt to ...
the maximum number of animals of one or more species that can be supported by a particular habitat or area through the most unfavourable period of the year. The carrying ...
capital of Nevada, U.S., in Eagle Valley near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, 30 miles (48 km) south of Reno and 14 miles (23 km) east of ...
river formed by headstreams in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S. The Carson flows 125 miles (200 km) northeast into western Nevada, where it disappears into the Carson Sink. Together with ...
lawyer and politician known as the "uncrowned king of Ulster," who successfully led northern Irish resistance to the British government's attempts to introduce Home Rule for the whole of Ireland.
American frontiersman, trapper, soldier, and Indian agent whose contributions to westward expansion in the United States rank him among the nation's great folk heroes.
card game usually played for a stake with nonplayers making side bets. The game was highly popular in France and England in the 19th century but declined thereafter.
two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a draft animal, used throughout recorded history by numerous societies for the transportation of freight, agricultural produce, refuse, and people. The cart, usually drawn by a ...
port city, in the provincia and comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Murcia, southeastern Spain. It is the site of Spain's chief Mediterranean naval base. Its harbour, the finest on the ...
capital of Bolivar departamento, northern Colombia, at the northern end of Cartagena Bay. The old walled sections, including the 17th-century fortress of San Felipe de Barajas, lie on a peninsula ...
city, east-central Costa Rica. Lying at 4,720 feet (1,439 m) above sea level, the city is located on the fertile Central Plateau, at the foot of Irazu Volcano. Cartago was ...
(French: "Map of the Heavens"), projected photographic mapping of some 10 million stars in all parts of the sky that was planned to include all stars of the 14th magnitude ...
English impresario remembered for having managed the first productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, for elevating his era's musical taste, and for contributing to the development of theatre technology.
originally, a calling card, especially one with a photographic portrait mounted on it. Immensely popular in the mid-19th century, the carte-de-visite was touted by the Parisian portrait ...
association of independent firms or individuals for the purpose of exerting some form of restrictive or monopolistic influence on the production or sale of a commodity. The most common arrangements ...
singing group consisting of Alvin Pleasant Carter, known as A.P. Carter (b. April 15, 1891, Maces Spring, Virginia, U.S., -d. November 7, 1960, Kentucky),, his wife, Sara, nee Sara ...
American jazz musician, an original and influential alto saxophonist, who was also a masterly composer and arranger and an important bandleader, trumpeter, and clarinetist.
American jazz singer who is best remembered for the scat and other complex musical interpretations that showcased her remarkable vocal flexibility and musical imagination.
American composer whose erudite style and novel principles of polyrhythm, called metrical modulation, won worldwide attention. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, in 1960 and 1973.
British archaeologist, who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen.
39th president of the United States (1977-81), who served as the nation's chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad. His perceived inability to deal successfully ...
American first lady (1977-81), the wife of Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, and mental health advocate. She was one of the most politically astute and active of ...
city, seat of Jasper county, southwestern Missouri, U.S. It lies along Spring River, just east of Joplin. Established in 1842, it was named for ancient Carthage. During the American Civil ...
city, seat (1833) of Hancock county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies near the Mississippi River, about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of Davenport, Iowa. Laid out in 1833 and named ...
great city of antiquity, traditionally founded on the north coast of Africa by the Phoenicians of Tyre in 814 BC. It is now a residential suburb of the city of ...
semiautonomous African province of the Byzantine Empire, centred in the city of Carthage, in North Africa. It was established in the late 6th century by the Byzantine emperor Maurice (reigned ...
an order of monks founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084 in the valley of Chartreuse, north of Grenoble, Fr. The Carthusians, who played an important role in the ...
French mariner, whose explorations of the North American coast and the St. Lawrence River (1534, 1535, 1541-42) laid the basis for later French claims to Canada. He appears also to ...
statesman, Canadian prime minister jointly with Sir John Macdonald (1858-62), and promoter of federation and the improvement of Anglo-French relations in Canada.
French photographer whose humane, spontaneous photographs helped establish photojournalism as an art form. His theory that photography can capture the meaning beneath outward appearance in instants of extraordinary clarity is ...
dense connective tissue forming the skeleton of mammalian embryos before bone formation begins and persisting in parts of the human skeleton into adulthood. Cartilage is the only component of the ...
the art and science of graphically representing a geographical area, usually on a flat surface such as a map or chart; it may involve the superimposition of political, cultural, or ...
originally, and still, a full-size sketch or drawing used as a pattern for a tapestry, painting, mosaic, or other graphic art form, but also, since the early 1840s, a pictorial ...
in architecture, ornamentation in scroll form, applied especially to elaborate frames around tablets or coats of arms; by extension, the word is applied to any oval shape or even to ...
in weaponry, unit of small-arms ammunition, composed of a metal (usually brass) case, a propellant charge, a projectile or bullet, and a primer. The first cartridges, appearing in the second ...
advocate of radical reform of the British Parliament and of various constitutional changes that were later incorporated into the People's Charter (1838), the basic document of the working class movement ...
statesman and finance minister of Canada's Liberal Party; he supported free trade between the United States and Canada, in opposition to the trade protectionism of the Conservatives.
city, eastern Pernambuco estado (state), northeastern Brazil, on the Ipojuca River at 1,804 feet (550 metres) above sea level. Caruaru originated as a weekly market centre; it ...
city, northern Sucre estado ("state"), northeastern Venezuela. On the Caribbean Sea, near the centre of the twin peninsulas Araya and Paria, Carupano is the commercial nucleus and principal port of ...
a quasi-philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self. Of the recognized ...
type of ship construction characteristic in Mediterranean waters during the Middle Ages, as contrasted with clinker construction in northern waters. In carvel construction the planks were fitted edge to edge ...
American spool chair with a rush seat and turned (shaped on a lathe) legs that rise above the seat level to frame the back and to support the armrests. The ...
American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. For most of ...
outstanding Scottish composer whose extant works include five masses and two motets. One of the motets, for 19 voices, was found in a large choir book compiled in the first ...
