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- (from the article "Nymphaeales") Nymphaeaceae (including the former family Barclayaceae), or the water-lily family, has 6 genera and 58 species. Cabombaceae, or the water shields and fanworts, is a closely related family with 2 ...
- Caboolture
- shire, southeastern Queensland, Australia, on the Caboolture River. Originally a livestock station, its name was derived from cabul-tur, the Aboriginal word for the carpet snake. To relieve shortages brought about ...
- caboose
- (from the article "railroad") One type of vehicle that is fast disappearing in North America and virtually extinct in Europe is the caboose, or brake-van. With modern air-braking systems, the security of a very ...
- Cabot Family
- prominent American family since the arrival of John Cabot at Salem, Mass., in 1700. The Cabot family has enjoyed a long tradition of wealth, philanthropy, and talent.
- Cabot Strait
- channel (60 miles [97 km] wide) between southwestern Newfoundland and northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. An important international shipping lane, it connects the Gulf of St. Lawrence ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabot, George
- powerful Federalist Party leader, especially in New England. [1 Related Articles]
- Cabot, John
- navigator and explorer who by his voyages in 1497 and 1498 helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada. The exact details of his life and of ... [7 Related Articles]
- Cabot, Sebastian
- navigator, explorer, and cartographer who at various times served the English and Spanish crowns. He may have accompanied his father, John Cabot, on the first English voyage to North America ... [4 Related Articles]
- cabotage
- (from the article "airplane") Today the main restriction on flying appears under two headings: exception of the fifth freedom from certain specific bilateral agreements and general enforcement of the law of cabotage. This law ...
- Cabra
- city, Cordoba provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is picturesquely situated between the Sierras de las Carbas ...
- Cabral, Amilcar
- agronomist, nationalist leader, and founder and secretary-general of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Partido Africano da Independencia da Guine e Cabo Verde; PAIGC), who ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabral, Luis de Almeida
- (from the article "Guinea-Bissau") ...de Spinola, to govern Portugal and negotiate independence for the African colonies. Guinea-Bissau was granted independence on September 10, 1974, and Cabral's Cape Verdean half-brother, Luis de Almeida Cabral, became ...
- Cabral, Pedro Alvares
- Portuguese navigator who is generally credited as the discoverer of Brazil (April 22, 1500). [7 Related Articles]
- Cabrera
- (from the article "Balearic Islands") ...There are two groups of islands. The eastern and larger group forms the Balearics proper and includes the principal islands of Majorca (Mallorca) and Minorca (Menorca) and the small island ...
- Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
- novelist, short-story writer, film critic, and essayist who was the most prominent Cuban writer living in exile and the best-known spokesman against Fidel Castro's regime. In 1998 he was awarded ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cabrera, Angel
- (from the article "Golf") More high scoring came as no surprise at the U.S. Open, held in June at the famously difficult Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club. The winning aggregate was 285, five over par, ...
- Cabrera, Lydia
- Cuban ethnologist and short-story writer noted for both her collections of Afro-Cuban folklore and her works of fiction. She is considered a major figure in Cuban letters.
- Cabrera, Ramon
- influential Spanish Carlist general and later one of the party's most controversial figures.
- Cabrillo National Monument
- (from the article "San Diego") ...Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, on the 19th-century settlement site, displays artifacts and restored buildings, and the nearby Serra Museum stands on the location of the original presidio. ...
- Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez
- soldier and explorer in the service of Spain, chiefly known as the discoverer of California. [5 Related Articles]
- Cabrini, Saint Frances Xavier
- Italian-born founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and first United States citizen to be canonized.
- cabriole
- ballet jump, formerly performed only by men, in which the dancer beats the calves of the legs together in the air, with a scissors-like movement. When the beat occurs, the ... [1 Related Articles]
- cabriole leg
- leg of a piece of furniture shaped in two curves-the upper one convex, the lower one concave. Its shape was based on the legs of certain four-footed animals. Known by ... [3 Related Articles]
- cabriolet
- originally a two-wheeled, doorless, hooded, one-horse carriage, first used in 18th-century France and often let out for hire. The name is thought to derive from cabriole (French: "caper") because of ...
- Cabrol, Fernand
- Benedictine monk and noted writer on the history of Christian worship.
- cacao
- tropical tree, whose scientific name means "food of the gods" in Latin. Originating in the lowland rainforests of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, cacao is grown commercially in the ... [7 Related Articles]
- caccia
- (Italian: "hunt," or "chase"), one of the principal Italian musical forms of the 14th century. It consisted of two voices in strict canon at the unison (i.e., in strict melodic ... [2 Related Articles]
- Caccialanza, Gisella
- American ballet dancer who was a charter member of George Balanchine's first company in the U.S., danced in musical films Balanchine choreographed, and was a member of the New York ...
- Cacciatori delle Alpi
- (from the article "Garibaldi, Giuseppe") ...Austria. His task was to lead an army of volunteers from other Italian provinces, and he was given the rank of major general in the Piedmontese army. When war broke ...
- Caccini, Giulio
- singer and composer whose songs greatly helped to establish and disseminate the new monodic music introduced in Italy about 1600. This is music in which an expressive melody is accompanied ... [6 Related Articles]
- Caceres
- provincia (province) of the Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), western Spain, bordering Portugal to the west. The Tagus River runs through the province. Conquered ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caceres
- city, capital of Caceres provincia (province), in Extremadura comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), western Spain. It is built on a low east-west ridge south ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caceres de Arismendi, Luisa
- (from the article "bolivar fuerte") ...banknotes feature images of leading figures in Venezuelan history, including individuals of indigenous and African descent and, for the first time in the history of Venezuelan currency, a woman: Luisa ...
- Cachaca, Carlos
- Brazilian songwriter who helped make samba Brazil's most popular form of music, earning the title "King of Samba" for his numerous songs about life in the Brazilian favelas, or shantytowns; ...
- Cachao
- Cuban-born bassist, composer, and bandleader was credited, along with his brother, Orestes, with the creation of the mambo. Cachao studied music as a child, and by age 13 he was ...
- cache memory
- a supplementary memory system that temporarily stores frequently used instructions and data for quicker processing by the central processor of a computer. The cache augments, and is an extension of, ... [3 Related Articles]
- cachet, lettre de
- (French: "letter of the sign [or signet]"), a letter signed by the king and countersigned by a secretary of state and used primarily to authorize someone's imprisonment. It was an ... [3 Related Articles]
- Cacheu
- region located in northwestern Guinea-Bissau. The Cacheu River flows east-west through the region, and the Mansoa River, which also flows east-west, forms Cacheu's border with the neighbouring region of Biombo; ...
- Cacheu
- town located in northwestern Guinea-Bissau. It lies along the south bank of the Cacheu River, near its mouth. Cacheu was made an official Portuguese captaincy in 1588, and it gained ... [1 Related Articles]
- cachexia
- (from the article "cancer") A common systemic effect of malignant tumours, particularly at advanced stages of growth, is body wasting (cachexia), which may appear with loss of appetite (anorexia) and weight loss. It is ...
- Cachoeiro de Itapemirim
- city, southern Espirito Santo estado (state), eastern Brazil. It lies along the Itapemirim River, at 95 feet (29 m) above sea level and about 30 miles (48 ...
- Cacioppo, John
- (from the article "persuasion") An extension of the conflict-resolution model is the elaboration-likelihood model (ELM) of persuasion, put forth in 1980 by American psychologists John Cacioppo and Richard Petty. The ELM emphasizes the cognitive ...
- cacique
- any of a dozen tropical American birds belonging to the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes) and resembling the related oropendolas. Caciques are smaller than oropendolas and have a less-powerful bill, which ... [1 Related Articles]
- cacique
- (from the article "Latin America, history of") ...before him. The larger islands were inhabited by the Arawak, a sedentary if modestly developed people with kingdoms, rulers, nobles, and obligatory labour mechanisms. Their ruler was called a cacique, ...
- caciquism
- in Latin-American and Spanish politics, the rule of local chiefs or bosses (caciques). As a class, these leaders have often played a key role in their countries' political structure. [1 Related Articles]
- cackling goose
- (from the article "Canada goose") ...light-breasted goose with a black head and neck. It has white cheeks that flash when the bird shakes its head before taking flight. The various subspecies range in size from ...
- cacodyl
- (from the article "arsenic") Arsenic also forms numerous organic compounds, as for example tetramethyl diarsine, (CH3)2As&singlehorzbond;As(CH3)2, used in preparing the common desiccant cacodylic acid. Several complex organic compounds of arsenic have been employed in ...
- cacomistle
- (Bassariscus), either of two species of large-eyed, long-tailed carnivores related to the raccoon (family Procyonidae). Cacomistles are grayish brown with lighter underparts and white patches over their eyes. The total ... [1 Related Articles]
- Caconda
- town, west-central Angola. It is located 140 miles (225 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Huila Plateau (a high tableland sloping westward to the Atlantic coast in a ...
- cacophony
- (from the article "euphony and cacophony") sound patterns used in verse to achieve opposite effects: euphony is pleasing and harmonious; cacophony is harsh and discordant. Euphony is achieved through the use of vowel sounds in words ...
- Cacops
- extinct amphibian genus found as fossils in Early Permian, or Cisuralian, rocks in North America (the Early Permian Period, or Cisuralian Epoch, lasted from 299 million to 271 million years ...
- cacos
- the name given to Haitian rebels and to an early political group in Central America.
- cactus
- flowering plants belonging to the family Cactaceae, of the order Caryophyllales. Botanists estimate that there are some 1,500 species, grouped into about 100 genera, but there is much argument about ... [10 Related Articles]
- Cactus League
- (from the article "Phoenix") ...life of Phoenix. Baseball is particularly popular. The local professional team is the Arizona Diamondbacks, and many other Major League Baseball teams hold their spring training camps (known as the ...
- cactus moth
- (from the article "pyralid moth") ...and feed on wax and young bees and fill the tunnels of the hive with silken threads. Bee-moth larvae are particularly destructive to old or unguarded colonies and to stored ...
- cactus wren
- (from the article "wren") Common everywhere from Canada to Tierra del Fuego is the house wren (T. aedon); this barred gray-brown species is 12 cm long. The largest U.S. species is the 20-cm cactus ...
- Cacus and Caca
- in Roman religion, brother and sister, respectively, originally fire deities of the early Roman settlement on the Palatine Hill, where "Cacus' stairs" were later situated. The Roman poet Virgil ( [1 Related Articles]
- CAD/CAM
- (from the article "computer-aided engineering") ...use of computers in industrial-design work, computer-aided design (CAD), with their use in manufacturing operations, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). This integrated process is commonly called CAD/CAM. CAD systems generally consist of ...
- Cadalan schism
- (from the article "Italy") ...selected Anselm of Lucca as Alexander II in accordance with the election decree of 1059, Henry proceeded to appoint Cadalo, bishop of Parma, who took the name Honorius II as ...
- cadalene
- (from the article "isoprenoid") ...an even greater complexity of structure than the monoterpenes, and oxygenated sesquiterpenes are commonly encountered. Two arrangements of isoprene units are found in bicyclic sesquiterpenes, the cadalene and the eudalene ...
- Cadalso y Vazquez, Jose de
- Spanish writer famous for his Cartas marruecas (1793; "Moroccan Letters"), in which a Moorish traveler in Spain makes penetrating criticisms of Spanish life. Educated in Madrid, Cadalso traveled widely and, ... [1 Related Articles]
- cadastral survey
- (from the article "Japan") ...landlords (kokujin), he at first recognized them, regarding them as an important adjunct to the strengthening of his military power and using them as followers in his battles for unification. ...
- cadaver
- (from the article "death") ...was pumping blood to a dead brain. Sometimes the intracranial pressure was so high that the blood could not even enter the head. Modern technology was exacting a very high ...
- Cadaver Synod
- (from the article "Stephen VI (or VII)") Stephen was a partisan of Lambert, who induced him to conduct one of the grisliest events in papal history-the "Cadaver Synod" (or Synodus Horrenda). The Spoletans were so driven by ...
- cadaverine
- (from the article "amine") ...some diamines have offensive odours. For example, H2N(CH2)4NH2, called putrescine, and H2N(CH2)5NH2, called cadaverine, are foul-smelling compounds found in decaying flesh. Amines are colourless; aliphatic amines are transparent to ultraviolet ...
- Cadbury Brothers
- (from the article "Cadbury, George") English businessman and social reformer who, with his elder brother, Richard, took over their father's failing enterprise (April 1861) and built it into the highly prosperous Cadbury Brothers cocoa- and ...
- Cadbury, George
- English businessman and social reformer who, with his elder brother, Richard, took over their father's failing enterprise (April 1861) and built it into the highly prosperous Cadbury Brothers cocoa- and ...
- caddisfly
- any of a group of mothlike insects that are attracted to lights at night and live near lakes or rivers. Because fish feed on the immature, aquatic stages and trout ... [3 Related Articles]
- Caddo
- one tribe within a confederacy of North American Indian tribes comprising the Caddoan linguistic family. Their name derives from a French truncation of kadohadacho, meaning "real chief" in Caddo. The ... [2 Related Articles]
- caddy
- container for tea. A corrupt form of the Malay kati, a weight of a little more than a pound (or about half a kilogram), the word was ...
- Cade's Rebellion
- (from the article "United Kingdom") Less than three months later Jack Cade, a man of obscure origins, led a popular rebellion in southeastern England. In contrast to the rising of 1381, this was not a ...
- Cade, Jack
- leader of a major rebellion (1450) against the government of King Henry VI of England; although the uprising was suppressed, it contributed to the breakdown of royal authority that led ... [1 Related Articles]
- cadence
- in music, the ending of a phrase, perceived as a rhythmic or melodic articulation or a harmonic change or all of these; in a larger sense, a cadence may be ... [4 Related Articles]
- cadence
- (from the article "prosody") ...line [ &dblvert; ] to mark the caesura, or pause in the line; a rest [∧] to mark a syllable metrically expected but not actually occurring.) Such a grouping constitutes ...
- cadency
- (from the article "heraldry") Cadency is the use of various devices designed to show a man's position in a family, with the aforementioned basic aim of reserving the entire arms to the head of ...
- cadenza
- (Italian: "cadence"), unaccompanied bravura passage introduced at or near the close of a movement of a composition and serving as a brilliant climax, particularly in solo concerti of a virtuoso ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cadets, Corps of
- (from the article "Russia") ...demanded that institutions of learning be set up to prepare the nobility for better careers, permitting them to skip the lowest ranks. That demand was fulfilled in 1731 with the ...
- Cadillac
- city, seat (1882) of Wexford county, northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It lies on the shores of Lakes Cadillac and Mitchell (linked by a canal), some 100 miles (160 ...
- Cadillac
- (from the article "automobile") Other motorcars of this type included the Hispano-Suiza of Spain and France; the Bugatti, Delage, Delahaye, Hotchkiss, Talbot (Darracq), and Voisin of France; the Duesenberg, Cadillac, Packard, and Pierce-Arrow of ...
- Cadillac Motors
- (from the article "automotive industry") The kind of interchangeability achieved by the "American system" was dramatically demonstrated in 1908 at the British Royal Automobile Club in London: three Cadillac cars were disassembled, the parts were ...
- Cadillac Mountain
- (from the article "Bar Harbor") coastal town, Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S. It is on Mount Desert Island at the foot of Cadillac Mountain (1,530 feet [466 metres]) facing Frenchman Bay, 46 miles (74 km) ...
- Cadillac Ranch
- (from the article "Amarillo") ...the site of a major helium plant; the six-story stainless steel Helium Time Column Monument was erected in 1968 to commemorate the element. Another unusual monument, lying just west of ...
- Cadillac, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe
- French soldier, explorer, and administrator in French North America, founder of the city of Detroit (1701), and governor of Louisiana (1710 to 1716 or 1717). Going to Canada in 1683, ... [2 Related Articles]
- cadinene
- (from the article "isoprenoid") Cadinene, the principal component of oils of cubeb and cade, is a typical sesquiterpene of the cadalene type. It is an optically active oil with a boiling point of 274 ...
- Cadiz
- chartered city and port, northern Negros Island, Philippines. It is one of five chartered cities and one of the principal ports on the island where most of the country's sugar ...
- Cadiz
- provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain, fronting the Mediterranean Sea to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
- Cadiz
- city, capital, and principal seaport of Cadiz provincia (province) in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. The city is situated on ... [4 Related Articles]
- Cadiz, Bay of
- small inlet of the Gulf of Cadiz on the North Atlantic Ocean. It is 7 miles (11 km) long and up to 5 miles (8 km) wide, indenting the coast ...
- Cadiz, Constitution of
- (from the article "Latin America, history of") In 1810 a Cortes (Parliament) emerged in Cadiz to represent both Spain and Spanish America. Two years later it produced a new, liberal constitution that proclaimed Spain's American possessions to ...
- Cadiz, Gulf of
- wide embayment of the Atlantic Ocean along the southwestern Iberian Peninsula, stretching about 200 miles (320 km) from Cape Saint Vincent (Portugal) to Gibraltar. At the Portuguese end-the south-facing area ... [1 Related Articles]
- Cadman, Charles Wakefield
- one of the first American composers to become interested in the music and folklore of the American Indian.
- Cadmea
- (from the article "Thebes") ...to have been occupied originally by Ectenians under the leadership of Ogyges (Ogygus), Thebes is called Ogygion by some classical poets. Greek legend attributes the founding of the ancient citadel, ...
- Cadmilus
- (from the article "Cabeiri") ...were promoters of fertility and protectors of seafarers. Perhaps originally indefinite in number, in classical times there appear to have been two male deities, Axiocersus and his son and attendant ...
- cadmium
- chemical element, metal of Group IIb, or the zinc group, of the periodic table. [13 Related Articles]
- cadmium chloride
- (from the article "fungicide") Cadmium chloride and cadmium succinate are used to control turfgrass diseases. Mercury(II) chloride, or corrosive sublimate, is used as a dip to treat bulbs and tubers. Other substances occasionally used ...
- cadmium poisoning
- toxic effects of cadmium or its compounds on body tissues and functions. Poisoning may result from the ingestion of an acid food or drink prepared in a cadmium-lined vessel (e.g., ...
- cadmium succinate
- (from the article "fungicide") Cadmium chloride and cadmium succinate are used to control turfgrass diseases. Mercury(II) chloride, or corrosive sublimate, is used as a dip to treat bulbs and tubers. Other substances occasionally used ...
- cadmium sulfide
- (from the article "crystal") ...have rusted. Semiconductors are sometimes shiny and sometimes transparent but are never rusty. Many crystals can be classified as a single type of solid, while others have intermediate behaviour. Cadmium ...
- cadmium telluride
- (from the article "crystal") ...created structures that are thermodynamically stable; they have many applications in the modern electronics industry. Another lattice-matched epitaxial system is mercury telluride (HgTe) and cadmium telluride (CdTe). These two semiconductors ...
- Cadmus
- in Greek mythology, the son of Phoenix or Agenor (king of Phoenicia) and brother of Europa. Europa was carried off by Zeus, king of the gods, and Cadmus was sent ... [2 Related Articles]
- Cadmus, Paul
- American artist who created paintings, drawings, and prints in a figurative, near-illustrational style during a career that spanned some 70 years. [1 Related Articles]
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