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- (from the article "Portugal") The decolonization process that took place after the Revolution of the Carnations (April 25, 1974) inevitably had demographic repercussions on metropolitan Portugal because of the large number of people (mostly ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- carnauba wax palm
- (from the article "carnauba wax") The carnauba tree is a fan palm of the northeastern Brazilian savannas, where it is called the "tree of life" for its many useful products. After 50 years, the tree ...
- Carne, Marcel
- motion-picture director noted for the poetic realism of his pessimistic dramas. He led the French cinema revival of the late 1930s. [3 Related Articles]
- Carneades
- Greek philosopher who headed the New Academy at Athens when antidogmatic skepticism reached its greatest strength. [5 Related Articles]
- Carnegie Brothers and Company
- (from the article "Frick, Henry Clay") In 1889 Frick was made chairman of Carnegie Brothers and Company to reorganize their steel business. He initiated far-reaching improvements and bought out Carnegie's chief competitor, the Duquesne Steel Works. ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Carnegie International
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...Muller; the intergenerational mix provided a comprehensive look at current art making and its influences and sources, including popular culture, art history, and social and political history. The Carnegie International, ...
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
- (from the article "Pittsburgh") ...and Observatory (1939), and the Andy Warhol Museum (1994), which exhibits the works of the Pittsburgh-born artist and filmmaker. Other institutions affiliated with the organization are the Carnegie Library of ...
- 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, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
- (from the article "Pittsburgh") Central to the city's cultural life is the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (formerly Carnegie Institute), an umbrella organization consisting of a number of institutions. Its museums include those for the ...
- Carnegie Steel Company
- (from the article "Carnegie, Andrew") ...Keystone Bridge Company. From about 1872-73, at about age 38, he began concentrating on steel, founding the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works near Pittsburgh, which would eventually evolve into the ...
- 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. [8 Related Articles]
- Carnegie, Dale
- American lecturer, author, and pioneer in the field of public speaking and the psychology of the successful personality.
- carnegieite
- (from the article "nepheline") Carnegieite is synthetic, high-temperature nepheline. Kaliophilite is the high-temperature form of kalsilite, the potassium-rich variety of nepheline. Kaliophilite is unstable at normal temperatures and rarely occurs in nature.
- Carneia
- important religious festival among ancient Dorian-speaking Greeks, held in the month of Karneios (roughly August). The name is connected with Karnos, or Karneios (probably meaning "ram"), said to have been ...
- Carneiro, Eneas Ferreira
- Brazilian cardiologist and politician was an extreme right-winger who ran for the presidency of Brazil three times, coming in third the second time; he won a seat in the Chamber ...
- 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, ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Carnero, Guillermo
- (from the article "Spanish literature") Among poets who gained prominence after Franco are Guillermo Carnero, whose work is characterized by a plethora of cultural references and centred upon the theme of death; Jaime Siles, whose ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Carney, Arthur William Matthew
- American actor (b. Nov. 4, 1918, Mount Vernon, N.Y.-d. Nov. 9, 2003, Chester, Conn.), had a long and varied career in radio, television, theatre, and film, including an Academy Award-winning ... [2 Related Articles]
- Carney, Harry Howell
- American musician, featured soloist in Duke Ellington's band and the first baritone saxophone soloist in jazz. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 (228 million to 216.5 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- 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. ... [6 Related Articles]
- carnitine acyl transferase
- (from the article "metabolism") These reactions are catalyzed by the enzyme carnitine acyl transferase. Defects in this enzyme or in the carnitine carrier are inborn errors of metabolism. In obligate anaerobic bacteria the linkage ...
- carnitine transport
- (from the article "metabolic disease") ...of carnitine transport enzymes, although most of these conditions are caused by fat-degrading enzymes directly involved in the beta-oxidation cycle itself. In individuals with inherited disorders of carnitine transport, a ...
- 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 ... [9 Related Articles]
- 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 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
- (from the article "nutrition") Carnivores necessarily form only a small portion of the animal kingdom, because each animal must eat a great many other animals of equivalent size in order to maintain itself over ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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, ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Carnot efficiency
- (from the article "magnetohydrodynamic power generator") ...that the interaction of a plasma with a magnetic field could occur at much higher temperatures than were possible in a rotating mechanical turbine. The limiting performance from the point ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Carnot, Sadi
- French scientist who described the Carnot cycle, relating to the theory of heat engines. [5 Related Articles]
- 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.
- 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)2·3H2O, 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 Baroja, Julio
- Spanish Basque anthropologist and historian who was best known for his ethnographic studies of Basque and Spanish traditional cultures and folklore (b. Nov. 13, 1914--d. Aug. 18, 1995).
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- caroa
- (from the article "Neoglaziovia") The leaves of N. variegata, a reedlike plant, are up to 1.2 m (4 feet) long. They contain a fibre known as caroa, which is used to make rope, fabric, ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Carol Burnett Show, The
- American television variety and sketch comedy program comprising skits, musical comedy, and vaudeville-style performances by the eponymous Carol Burnett, members of her comedy troupe, and various guest stars.
- 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 failed to solve the basic problems ... [2 Related Articles]
- Carol II
- king of Romania (1930-40), whose controversial reign ultimately gave rise to a personal, monarchical dictatorship. [7 Related Articles]
- Carol Lake
- (from the article "Labrador City") town, southwestern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, near the Quebec border. It was developed in the 1950s as a planned community to serve the surrounding mining region (Carol Lake), one ...
- 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 ...
- Carolean style
- (from the article "Stuart style") ...British house of Stuart; that is, from 1603 to 1714 (excepting the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell). Although the Stuart period included a number of specific stylistic movements, such as Jacobean, ...
- 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 ...
- Carolina allspice
- (from the article "allspice") The name allspice is applied to several other aromatic shrubs as well, especially to one of the sweet shrubs, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus), a handsome flowering shrub native to ...
- Carolina chickadee
- (from the article "animal communication") ...ridibundus) performs a very stylized and spectacular aerial display when it is strongly motivated to attack but lacks a suitable opponent-such as an intruder into its territory. A Carolina chickadee ...
- Carolina grasshopper
- (from the article "short-horned grasshopper") ...forewings, which blend into surrounding vegetation. The band-winged grasshoppers are the only type of short-horned grasshoppers that can produce sound during flight. One of the common species, the Carolina grasshopper ...
- Carolina Hurricanes
- (from the article "Ice Hockey") Carolina won its first Stanley Cup on June 19, 2006, with a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers at Raleigh, N.C., that gave the Hurricanes the series four games to ...
- Carolina jasmine
- (from the article "Loganiaceae") Carolina, or yellow, jasmine, or jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens), an ornamental evergreen vine, bears fragrant clusters of yellow flowers that are pinkish orange behind the petal lobes. Several species of butterfly ...
- Carolina linden
- (from the article "linden") Carolina linden (T. caroliniana) and white basswood (T. heterophylla), from the eastern United States, are native on moist soils; they are bee trees that yield a fragrant honey.
- Carolina mallow
- (from the article "mallow") ...velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti), a weedy plant. Chaparral mallows (Malacothamnus species), a group of shrubs and small trees, are native to California and Baja California. The Carolina mallow (Modiola caroliniana) is ...
- Carolina Panthers
- (from the article "Football") The New England Patriots of the American Football Conference (AFC) defeated the Carolina Panthers of the National Football Conference (NFC) 32-29 to win Super Bowl XXXVIII, held in Reliant Stadium ...
- Carolina parakeet
- (from the article "psittaciform") ...In North America one species, the thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha), once ranged north into the extreme southwestern United States. Prior to the early 1900s, however, the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) ...
- Carolina Playmakers
- (from the article "Koch, Frederick Henry") ...University in 1900 and his M.A. from Harvard University in 1909. In 1905 he began teaching at the University of North Dakota, forming the Dakota Playmakers in 1910. Called to ...
- 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. With a total area of ...
- Caroline Islands
- archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, the islands of which make up the republics of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia. The Carolines may be divided into two physiographic ... [8 Related Articles]
- Caroline Matilda
- (from the article "Struensee, Johann Friedrich, Graf von") ...the mentally unstable Christian VII on a European tour (1768-69), a post that led to Struensee's appointment as court physician in 1769. Dominating the king, he became the lover of ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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. [5 Related Articles]
- Caroline reforms
- (from the article "Latin American literature") Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), the first Spanish Bourbons set out to put their kingdoms in order and to win the hearts and minds of their subjects. ...
- Caroline, Fort
- (from the article "Menendez de Aviles, Pedro") ...sailed in July 1565 with 11 ships and about 2,000 men. On August 28 he entered and named the bay of St. Augustine and built a fort there. On September ...
- Caroline, Princess
- (from the article "Monaco") ...worries over Monaco's future had been eased with the revised constitution of 2002, which included female siblings and their legitimate children in the line of succession. Therefore, in 2004 Princess ...
- Carolingian absolutism
- (from the article "Sweden") ...throughout the 18th century and far into the 19th, made the crown less dependent on the Diet in matters of finance. The years 1680-1700 were a period of consolidation. It ...
- Carolingian art
- classic style produced during the reign of Charlemagne (768-814) and thereafter until the late 9th century. [12 Related Articles]
- Carolingian chancery
- (from the article "diplomatics") When the Merovingian dynasty was supplanted by the Carolingians, chancery procedure changed drastically. In contrast to the Merovingian kings, the first Carolingian king, Pippin III the Short, was unable either ...
- 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 ... [27 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [13 Related Articles]
- Carolingian Renaissance
- (from the article "classical scholarship") Pippin III the Short (reigned 751-768) began ecclesiastical reforms that Charlemagne continued, and these led to revived interest in classical literature. Charlemagne appointed as head of the cathedral school at ...
- 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 ... [12 Related Articles]
- 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 estado (state), southeastern Venezuela. Its headwaters flow from the slopes of Mount Roraima in the Sierra Pacaraima, where Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet. [4 Related Articles]
- Caroni Swamp
- (from the article "Caroni River") ...Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean Sea. It rises near Valencia on the southern edge of the Northern Range uplands and flows roughly west to empty via the saline ...
- 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 who contributed to the development of the German autobiographical novel.
- 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 ... [11 Related Articles]
- 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, ... [11 Related Articles]
- 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 arch
- (from the article "circulation") ...valve control the composition of blood reaching each arterial arch. The names given to the three arterial arches of frogs are those used in all land vertebrates, including mammals. They ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- carotid body
- (from the article "hormone") Some endocrine-like glands are associated with organs. One example in mammals is the carotid bodies, which are found on the carotid arteries that supply blood to the head. The carotid ...
- carotid sinus syncope
- (from the article "syncope") Carotid sinus syncope, sometimes called the tight-collar syndrome, also causes brief unconsciousness from impaired blood flow to the brain. Unlike the ordinary faint, this syncope is not preceded by pallor, ...
- Caroto, Giovan Francesco
- Venetian painter whose largely derivative works are distinguished by their craftsmanship and sense of colour.
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