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Cahuilla: group of Indians who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language and lived in southern California in an inland basin of desert plains and rugged canyons south of the San Bernardino and San ...
cai luong: Vietnamese theatre style, the term meaning reformed or renewed theatre. It evolved during the French colonial period of Vietnam's history (1862-1954) and clearly showed the influence of European drama. It ...
Caibarien: port city, northeastern Villa Clara province, central Cuba. The province's chief port, Caibarien is a major centre for the collection and distribution of goods from the agricultural hinterland, which produces ...
Caillaux, Joseph: French statesman who was an early supporter of a national income tax and whose opposition to World War I led to his imprisonment for treason in 1920.
Caillebotte, Gustave: French painter, art collector, and impresario who combined aspects of the academic and Impressionist styles in a unique synthesis.
Cailletet, Louis-Paul: French physicist and ironmaster, noted for his work on the liquefaction of gases.
Caillie, Rene-Auguste: the first European to survive a journey to the West African city of Tombouctou (Timbuktu).
caiman: any of several species of Central and South American reptiles that are related to alligators and are usually placed with them in the family Alligatoridae. Caimans, like all other members ...
caiman lizard: any member of a genus (Dracaena) of lizards in the family Teiidae. These lizards are found in the wet, forested areas of South America. D. guianensis reaches a length of ...
Cain: in the Old Testament, first-born son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1-16). Cain, a farmer, became enraged when the Lord accepted the offering of his ...
Cain, James M.: novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the "hard-boiled" school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and '40s. Three classics of the ...
Caine, Sir Hall: British writer known for his popular novels combining sentiment, moral fervour, skillfully suggested local atmosphere, and strong characterization.
Caine, Sir Michael: internationally successful British motion-picture actor renowned for his versatility in numerous leading and character roles.
Cainite: member of a Gnostic sect mentioned by Irenaeus and other early Christian writers as flourishing in the 2nd century AD, probably in the eastern area of the Roman Empire. The ...
Caird, Edward: philosopher and leader in Britain of the Neo-Hegelian school.
Caird, John: British theologian and preacher, and an exponent of theism in Hegelian terms.
Cairene rug: Egyptian floor covering believed to have been made in or near Cairo from at least as early as the 15th century to the 18th. The early production, under the Mamluk ...
cairn: a pile of stones that is used as a boundary marker, a memorial, or a burial site. Cairns are usually conical in shape and were often erected on high ground. ...
cairn terrier: working terrier breed developed in Scotland to rout animals that prey on game. The modern breed's characteristics are carefully patterned on those of the dog's ancestor, a 17th-century terrier of ...
Cairnes, John Elliott: Irish economist who restated the key doctrines of the English classical school in his last and largest work, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy Newly Expounded (1874).
Cairngorm Mountains: highest mountain massif in the British Isles, named after one of its peaks-Cairn Gorm, with an elevation of 4,084 feet (1,245 metres)-part of the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands of ...
Cairns: city and port, northeastern Queensland, Australia, on Trinity Inlet of Trinity Bay. Founded in the 1870s as a government customs collection point, it grew in the late 19th century as ...
Cairo: city, capital of Egypt, and largest city in Africa. It has stood for more than 1,000 years on the same site on the banks of the Nile, primarily on the ...
Cairo: city, seat (1860) of Alexander county, extreme southern Illinois, U.S. The city stands on a low-lying delta at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Bridges over both rivers ...
Cairo Conference: (November-December 1943), either of two meetings of Allied leaders held in Cairo during World War II. At the first Cairo Conference (November 22-26), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. ...
Cairoli, Benedetto: politician, leader of the left during the Risorgimento, and three times premier of united Italy.
caisson: in engineering, boxlike structure used in construction work underwater or as a foundation. It is usually rectangular or circular in plan and may be tens of metres in diameter.
Caitanya: Hindu mystic whose mode of worshipping the god Krishna (Krsna) with ecstatic song and dance had a profound effect on Vaisnavism in Bengal.
Caitanya sect: intensely emotional form of Hinduism that has flourished from the 16th century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa, India. It takes its name from the medieval saint Caitanya (Chaitanya; 1485-1533), ...
Caithness: historic county in extreme northern Scotland, facing the Atlantic Ocean and the Pentland Firth (which separates it from the Orkney Islands) on the north and the North Sea on the ...
caitya: (Sanskrit: "that which is worthy to be gazed upon," thus "worshipful"), in Buddhism, a sacred place or object. Originally, caityas were said to be the natural homes of earth spirits ...
Caius, John: prominent Humanist and physician whose classic account of the English sweating sickness is considered one of the earliest histories of an epidemic.
Cajamarca: department (formed 1855), northern Peru, bounded north by Ecuador and east by the Maranon River. It has an area of 13,675 sq mi (35,418 sq km). Economic activity is limited ...
Cajamarca: city, northern Peru, lying at 9,022 feet (2,750 metres) above sea level on the Cajamarca River. An ancient Inca city, it was the site of the capture, ransom, and execution ...
Cajazeiras: city, western Paraiba state, northeastern Brazil. Founded in about 1700, Cajazeiras is a transportation and commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural lands. The principal commodities include cotton, sugar, oiticica oil ...
Cajetan: one of the major Catholic theologians of the Thomist school.
Cajetan of Thiene, Saint: Venetian priest who co-founded the Theatine order and became an important figure of the Catholic Reformation.
Cajori, Florian: Swiss-born U.S. educator and mathematician whose works on the history of mathematics were among the most eminent of his time.
Cajun: descendant of French Canadians whom the British, in the 18th century, drove from the captured French colony of Acadia (now Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) and who settled in the ...
Cakchiquel: Mayan Indian people of the midwestern highlands of Guatemala, closely related linguistically and culturally to the neighbouring Quiche and Tzutujil (qq.v.). They are agricultural, and their culture and religion are ...
Cakchiquel language: member of the Quiche group of Mayan languages, spoken in central Guatemala. Closely related to and sometimes considered simply a dialect of Cakchiquel is Tzutujil (Zutuhil), spoken in the same ...
cake: in general, any of a variety of breads, shortened or unshortened, usually shaped by the tin in which it is baked; more specifically, a sweetened bread, often rich or delicate.
cake urchin: any of the echinoid marine invertebrates of the order Clypeastroida (phylum Echinodermata), in which the body is flattened. The surface is covered with short spines (often furlike) and inconspicuous pedicellariae ...
cakewalk: couple dance that became a popular stage act for virtuoso dancers as well as a craze in fashionable ballrooms around 1900. Couples formed a square with the men on the ...
Cakmak, Fevzi: Turkish marshal and statesman who played a leading role in the establishment of the Turkish Republic.
Cakste, Janis: patriot and president (1922-27) of the Republic of Latvia, who, through political activity in Latvia and Russia and on diplomatic missions to the West, helped spearhead Latvia's struggle for independence.
Calabar: town and port, capital of Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria. It lies along the Calabar River, 5 miles (8 km) upstream from that river's entrance into the Cross River estuary. ...
calabash tree: (Crescentia cujete), tree of the family Bignoniaceae, 6 to 12 m (20 to 40 feet) tall, that grows in Central and South America, the West Indies, and extreme southern Florida. ...
calabazilla: (Cucurbita foetidissima), perennial prostrate vine of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to southwestern North America. A calabazilla has triangular, long-stalked, finely toothed leaves, yellow flowers about 6.3 to 10.2 cm ...
Calabozo: city, Guarico estado ("state"), central Venezuela. It lies along the Guarico River, 110 miles (180 km) south-southwest of Caracas, on a piedmont plain between the mountains and the Llanos (plains). ...
Calabria: regione, southern Italy, composed of the province of Catanzaro, Cosenza, Crotone, Reggio di Calabria, and Vibo Valentia. Sometimes referred to as the "toe" of the Italian "boot," Calabria is a ...
Calabrian Stage: all those rocks deposited worldwide during the Calabrian Age (1,600,000-10,000 years ago). The stage's name is derived from the region of Calabria in southern Italy, which has traditionally served as ...
Calah: ancient Assyrian city situated south of Mosul in northern Iraq. The city was first excavated by A.H. Layard during 1845-51 and afterward principally by M.E.L. (later Sir Max) Mallowan (1949-58).
Calahorra: town, in the province and autonomous community (region) of La Rioja, northern Spain, on the south bank of the Rio Cidacos near its confluence with the Ebro, southeast of Logrono ...
Calais: city, Washington county, eastern Maine, U.S., on the St. Croix River (there spanned by an international bridge to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada), 98 miles (158 km) east-northeast of Bangor. ...
Calais: industrial seaport on the Strait of Dover, Pas-de-Calais departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, 21 miles (34 km) by sea from Dover (the shortest crossing ...
Calais and Zetes: in Greek mythology, the winged twin sons of Boreas and Oreithyia. On their arrival with the Argonauts at Salmydessus in Thrace, they liberated their sister Cleopatra, who had been thrown ...
Calama: capital of El Loa province, Antofagasta region, northern Chile, on the Rio Loa in an extremely arid region. It lies on the western slope of the Andes at an altitude ...
Calamian Group: islands lying between Mindoro and Palawan, west-central Philippines. The group comprises Busuanga, Culion, and Coron islands and about 95 lesser coral isles and islets. The main islands are quite hilly ...
calamine: either of two zinc minerals. The name has been dropped in favour of the species names hemimorphite (q.v.; hydrous zinc silicate) and smithsonite (q.v.; zinc carbonate).
calamine brass: alloy of copper with zinc, produced by heating fragments of copper with charcoal and a zinc ore, calamine or smithsonite, in a closed crucible to red heat (about 1,300° C, ...
Calamites: originally, a stem fragment of a fossil plant prominent during the coal age, the Carboniferous Period (from 286 million to 360 million years ago). As such, it was termed a ...
Calamity Jane: legendary American frontierswoman whose name was often linked with that of Wild Bill Hickok. The facts of her life are confused by her own inventions and by the successive stories ...
Calamy, Edmund: English Presbyterian theologian who contributed significantly to the writings of Smectymnuus (1641), the pen name under which was published the Calvinists' famous reply to the Anglican apology for bishops and ...
Calanthe: genus of orchids, family Orchidaceae, containing about 150 species of primarily terrestrial plants native to Asia and South Africa, with one Central American and West Indian species. Some species lose ...
Calarasi: judet (county), southwestern Romania, occupying an area of 1,835 sq mi (4,754 sq km). The county, consisting mostly of lowlands, was formed in 1981 from portions of Ialomita and Ilfov ...
Calarasi: city, capital of Calarasi judet (county), southeastern Romania. It is located at the border with Bulgaria on the Borcea arm of the Danube and along Lake Calarasi, about 60 mi ...
Calarca: city, northeastern Quindio department, Colombia, on the western slopes of the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Central, at 5,039 ft (1,536 m) above sea level. Like neighbouring Armenia, the departmental capital, it ...
Calas, Jean: Huguenot cloth merchant whose execution caused the philosopher Voltaire to lead a campaign for religious toleration and reform of the French criminal code.
Calasanz, Saint Joseph: priest, teacher, patron saint of Roman Catholic schools, and founder of the Ordo Clericorum Regularium Pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum (Order of Poor Clerks Regular of the Mother of God ...
calash: (from Czech kolesa: "wheels"), also called Caleche, or Barouche, any of various open carriages, with facing passenger seats and an elevated coachman's seat joined to the front of ...
Calasso, Roberto: Italian editor, publisher, and writer whose book Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia (1988; The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony) achieved international critical and popular acclaim.
Calatrava, Order of: major military and religious order in Spain. The order was originated in 1158 when King Sancho III of Castile ceded the fortress of Calatrava to Raymond, abbot of the Cistercian ...
Calatrava, Santiago: Spanish architect known for his sculptural bridges and buildings.
calaverite: a gold telluride mineral (AuTe₂) that is a member of the krennerite group of sulfides and perhaps a structurally altered form (paramorph) of krennerite (q.v.); it generally contains some silver ...
Calbayog: city, on the western coast of Samar Island, Philippines. The city lies along the Samar Sea at the mouth of the Calbayog River. It is a religious and educational centre, ...