Scottish editor and biographer best known for his General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17), a 32-volume revision of work first published in 11 volumes (1761).
port, southwestern Bangladesh. It lies 72 miles (116 km) north of the Bay of Bengal, on the navigable Pusur River and is connected to the major inland river ports and ...
town, Saone-et-Loire departement, Bourgogne (Burgundy) region, east-central France, south of Dijon. Chalon's fine quays border the Saone River at its junction with the Canal ...
single-reed wind instrument, forerunner of the clarinet. Chalumeau referred to various folk reed pipes and bagpipes, especially reed pipes of cylindrical bore sounded by a single reed, which was either ...
people who, in central Vietnam referred to as Eastern Cham, are the surviving inhabitants of Champa and who, in Cambodia referred to as Western Cham, are a mixture of Cham ...
city, northwestern Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. The city lies on the Ravi River between two mountain ridges. It is built on two terraces; on the lower are public offices ...
river, northern India. The Chambal is the chief tributary of the Yamuna and rises in the Vindhya Range just south of Mhow, western Madhya Pradesh state. From its source it ...
music composed for small ensembles of instrumentalists. In its original sense chamber music referred to music composed for the home, as opposed to that written for the theatre or church. ...
method of producing sulfuric acid by oxidizing sulfur dioxide with moist air, using gaseous nitrogen oxides as catalysts, the reaction taking place primarily in a series of large, boxlike chambers ...
U.S. botanist whose research into the morphology and life cycles of the cycads, a primitive gymnosperm family possessing structural features found in both ferns and conifers, enabled him to postulate ...
British-born Germanophile political philosopher, whose advocacy of the racial and cultural superiority of the so-called Aryan element in European culture influenced pan-German and German nationalist thought, particularly Adolf Hitler's National ...
British businessman, social reformer, radical politician, and ardent imperialist. At the local, national, or imperial level, he was a constructive radical, caring more for practical success than party loyalty or ...
British prime minister from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Germany in the period immediately preceding World ...
American physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 with Emilio Segre for their discovery of the antiproton. This previously postulated subatomic particle was the second antiparticle to ...
British foreign secretary from 1924 to 1929, who helped bring about the Locarno Pact (1925), a group of treaties intended to secure peace in western Europe by eliminating the possibility ...
professional basketball player, considered to be one of the greatest offensive players in the history of the game. More than 7 feet (2.1 metres) tall, Chamberlain was an outstanding centre. ...
British male midwife, prominent member of a family of medical men remembered for the parts they played in the introduction of the obstetrical forceps. Hugh was the grandnephew of Peter ...
surgeon, a French Huguenot whose father, William, emigrated with his family to England in 1569. A celebrated accoucheur ("obstetrician"), he aided the wives of James I and Charles I in ...
U.S. geologist and educator who proposed the planetesimal hypothesis, which held that a star once passed near the Sun, pulling away from it matter that later condensed and formed the ...
British encyclopaedia published in Oxford, Eng., and named after its original publishers, Robert and William Chambers. The first edition in 10 volumes (1859-68) was based on a translation of the ...
American journalist, Communist Party member (1923-38), and a principal figure in the Alger Hiss case, one of the most publicized espionage incidents of the Cold War. (He assumed his mother's ...
borough (town), seat (1784) of Franklin county, southern Pennsylvania, U.S., in the Cumberland Valley, 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Harrisburg. The site was settled in 1730 by Benjamin Chambers, ...
town, capital of Savoie departement, Rhone-Alpes region, southeastern France. It lies in the Leysse Valley between the massifs of Beauges and La Grande Chartreuse, northeast of Grenoble.
river in northeastern Zambia. It rises in hills on the Tanzanian border and flows 300 miles (480 km) southwest to the Lake Bangweulu swamps. The swamps act as a check ...
city, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada. The city lies along the Chambly Basin-a widening of the Richelieu River. Its site, 14 miles (23 km) east of Montreal city, was ...
waterway bypassing a series of rapids on the Richelieu River between the Chambly Basin and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, in Quebec province, Canada. Built between 1833 and 1843 and improved in 1850, it ...
village, Loir-et-Cher departement, Centre region, central France. It lies on the left bank of the Cosson River, east of Blois. The only commune in France owned entirely by the state ...
(French: Chamber of Accounts), in France under the ancien regime, sovereign court charged with dealing with numerous aspects of the financial administration of the country. Originally part of the king's ...
(French: Chamber of Inquiries), in France under the ancien regime, a chamber of the Parlement, or supreme court, of Paris that was responsible for conducting investigations ordered by the Grand ...
(French: Chamber of Petitions), in France under the ancien regime, a chamber of the Parlement of Paris with responsibilities for examining the petitions of parties desiring to bring a case ...
any member of the reptile family Chamaeleontidae, a group of Old World, primarily tree-dwelling lizards characterized chiefly by their ability to change body colour; by zygodactylous toes (i.e., fused into ...
group of languages spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia, classified as West Indonesian languages in the Hesperonesian group of the Austronesian language family. Of the nine Chamic languages, Jarai and Cham ...
controller general who, under King Louis XIV, directed the financing and provisioning of the French army during the first half of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14).
one of the most gifted lyricists of the Berlin Romanticists and best remembered for the Faust-like fairy tale Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814; Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story).
plant of the genus Anthemis, containing more than 100 species of Eurasian herbs in the family Asteraceae; also, a similar plant in the genus Chamaemelum of the same family. Both ...
internationally known mountain resort in the French Alps, Haute-Savoie departement, Rhone-Alpes region, west of Annecy. It is situated at an elevation of 3,402 feet (1,037 m) on both sides of ...
the native people of Guam. Numbering about 50,600 in the late 20th century, they are of Indonesian stock with a considerable admixture of Spanish, Filipino (based on Tagalog), and other ...
ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century AD and extending over the central and southern coastal region of Vietnam from roughly the 18th parallel in the ...
Asian tree of the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae). Lustrous leaved, pyramidal, and about 30 m (100 feet) tall, the mature plant bears fragrant, star-shaped yellow flowers, which are the source of ...
historical and cultural region encompassing the present-day northeastern French departement of Marne and parts of Ardennes, Meuse, Haute-Marne, Aube, Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, and Aisne departements. The region is coextensive with the ...
classic sparkling wine named for the site of its origin and exclusive production, the traditional region of Champagne in northeastern France. The term champagne is also applied generically, with restrictions, ...
region of France encompassing the northern departements of Haute-Marne, Aube, Marne, and Ardennes and roughly coextensive with the historical province of Champagne. Champagne-Ardenne is ...
city, Champaign county, east-central Illinois, U.S. Lying about 135 miles (220 km) southwest of Chicago, it adjoins Urbana (east), with which it shares the main campus of the University of ...
town, southern Laos. It lies on the west bank of the Mekong River, within an agricultural region of rolling plains and alluvial lowlands whose mountainous core is an eastern outlier ...
town and port, southwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean. Linked by paved highway with Retalhuleu, Champerico is the nation's third most important port and its best on the Pacific, even ...
French novelist and journalist, theoretician of the Realist movement, which he analyzed in Le Realisme (1857). Although his reputation has declined, he was an influential figure whose writings helped to ...
one who fights in behalf of another. During the Middle Ages a feature of Anglo-Norman law was trial by battle, a procedure in which guilt or innocence was decided by ...
former American forest products enterprise engaged in the manufacture of building materials, paper, and packaging materials. It was acquired by a competitor, International Paper Company, in 2000.
lake extending 107 miles (172 km) southward from Missisquoi Bay and the Richelieu River in Quebec province, Can., where it empties into the St. Lawrence River, to South Bay, near ...
French explorer, acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec (1608), and consolidator of the French colonies in the New World. He discovered the lake that bears his name (1609) and ...
in the decorative arts, an enameling technique or an object made by the champleve process, which consists of cutting away troughs or cells in a metal plate and filling the ...
