medieval European stronghold, generally the residence of the king or lord of the territory in which it stands. The word is sometimes applied to prehistoric earthworks, such as Maiden Castle ... [10 Related Articles]
in ship construction, structure or area raised above the main deck for combat or work purposes. The name was derived from early similarities to fortress turrets. The forecastle and aftercastle ... [2 Related Articles]
in the European feudal tenure, an arrangement by which some tenants of the king or of a lesser lord were bound to provide garrisons for royal or other castles. The ...
(from the article "Budapest") In a central position is Castle Hill (Varhegy), 551 feet (168 metres) above sea level and crowned by the restored Buda Castle (Budai var, commonly called the Royal Palace). In ...
(from the article "Hastings") ...Sussex, England. The old port of Hastings, premier among the medieval Cinque Ports, has developed in modern times as a seaside resort. Prehistoric earthworks and the ruins of a medieval ...
(March 4-5, 1804), the first rebellion in Australian history. Involving Irish convicts (for the most part, political offenders), the uprising began with the rebels' seizure of the New South Wales ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Leven, Loch") The largest of Loch Leven's seven islands, St. Serf's, contains the ruins of an ancient priory that was transferred in 1150 to the Augustinians of St. Andrews. On Castle Island ...
(from the article "Currie, Sir Donald") shipowner and politician, founder of the Castle Line of steamers between England and South Africa, and later head of the amalgamated Union-Castle Line.
borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northumberland, northeastern England, in the southeastern part of the county. It lies just northwest of the heavily industrialized metropolitan county of Tyne and ...
British politician (b. Oct. 6, 1910, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng.-d. May 3, 2002, Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, Eng.), was a staunch socialist and longtime Labour MP (1945-79) who fought for and won a ...
borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, eastern England, on the north side of the River Thames near its mouth. Castle Point is a low-lying borough of tidal inlets ...
village ("parish"), King's Lynn and West Norfolk borough, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, England. A great Norman castle with a massive square keep stands within a 12-acre (5-hectare) enclosure ...
(from the article "Edinburgh") At the city's core is the Old Town's Castle Rock, a plug of black basalt sealing the vent of an extinct volcano. It stands 250 feet (76 metres) above the ...
(from the article "Castletown") town and ancient capital of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles, on Castletown Bay, which is formed by the River Silver Burn. Castle Rushen, perhaps founded in ...
(from the article "Castle, Vernon and Irene") Vernon and Irene were married in 1911 and as dance partners became famous worldwide. They popularized such dances as the glide, the castle polka, the castle walk, the hesitation waltz, ...
(from the article "nuclear weapon") With the Teller-Ulam configuration proved, deliverable thermonuclear weapons were designed and initially tested during Operation Castle in 1954. The first test of the series, conducted on March 1, 1954, was ...
(from the article "Castle, Vernon and Irene") Vernon and Irene were married in 1911 and as dance partners became famous worldwide. They popularized such dances as the glide, the castle polka, the castle walk, the hesitation waltz, ...
(from the article "intrinsic factor") The term intrinsic factor was coined in the late 1920s by the American physician William B. Castle, whose research into the cause of pernicious anemia indicated that two substances were ...
market and county town, County Mayo, Ireland, at the head of Lough (lake) Castlebar. The town was founded early in the 17th century and was incorporated in 1613. It is ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Aberdeen") Some of the oldest streets, from the 13th and 14th centuries, survive near the Castlegate, the historic marketplace of New Aberdeen and commercial heart of the modern city. The Castlegate ...
city in central Victoria, southeastern Australia, located 8 miles (13 km) east of the Loddon River and 78 miles (126 km) northwest of Melbourne. In 1836 the area was crossed ...
district, Northern Ireland, located directly southeast of Belfast, from where it is administered. Formerly astride Down and Antrim counties, Castlereagh was established as a district in 1973. Its rolling lowlands ...
British foreign secretary (1812-22), who helped guide the Grand Alliance against Napoleon and was a major participant in the Congress of Vienna, which redrew the map of Europe in 1815. [5 Related Articles]
public, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Castleton, Vt., U.S. The curriculum is based on the traditional liberal arts, and the university also offers study in business, education, and ...
town and ancient capital of the Isle of Man, one of the British Isles, on Castletown Bay, which is formed by the River Silver Burn. Castle Rushen, perhaps founded in ...
(from the article "chess") The one exception to the rule that a player may move only one piece at a time is a compound move of king and rook called castling. A player castles ...
(from the article "alkali metal") ...additives, reagents for chemical industry, herbicides, insecticides, nylon, pharmaceuticals, and reagents for metal refining. The continuous electrolysis of sodium hydroxide, a technique called the Castner process, was replaced in 1926 ...
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...often very striking mimics of wasps; larvae often are stem, twig, and root borers, often injurious to fruit trees.Approximately 130 species in Central and South America; medium-size ...
multiple star having at least six component stars, in the zodiacal constellation Gemini. The stars Castor and Pollux are named for the twins of Greek mythology. Castor's combined apparent visual ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Araliaceae") ...used by the Chinese in the treatment of various diseases; its American relative, Panax quinquefolium (see photograph), is used in the United States as a stimulant. Hari-giri, or castor aralia ...
nonvolatile fatty oil obtained from the seeds of the castor bean, Ricinus communis, of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). It is used in the production of synthetic resins, plastics, fibres, paints, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "louping ill") viral disease mainly of sheep, causing inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. It is transmitted by bites of the castor-bean tick, species Ixodes ricinus. The disease is most common ...
(Ricinus communis), large plant, of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), grown commercially for the pharmaceutical and industrial uses of its oil and for use in landscaping because of its handsome, giant, ... [3 Related Articles]
extinct genus of giant beavers found as fossils in Pleistocene deposits in North America (the Pleistocene Epoch began 1,600,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago). Castoroides attained a length ...
(from the article "Bonn") ...known by the name of Bonn was a river crossing discovered by Roman legionnaires in the 1st century BC. The settlement itself probably disappeared soon afterward, but its name was ...
(from the article "Regensburg") In the area of the old city was a Celtic settlement (Radasbona), which later became the site of a Roman stronghold and legionary camp, Castra Regina (founded AD 179). The ...
(from the article "aggressive behaviour") ...his circulating levels of androgens such as testosterone, a hormone produced in the testes. From fish to mammals, aggression levels rise and fall with natural fluctuations in testosterone levels. Castration ...
(from the article "Freud, Sigmund") ...called the phallic. Because Freud relied on male sexuality as the norm of development, his analysis of this phase aroused considerable opposition, especially because he claimed its major concern is ...
male soprano or contralto voice of great range, flexibility, and power, produced as a result of castration before puberty. The castrato voice was introduced in the 16th century, when women ... [3 Related Articles]
Finnish nationalist and pioneer in the study of remote Arctic and Siberian Uralic and Altaic languages. He also championed the ideology of Pan-Turanianism-the belief in the racial unity and future ...
town, Tarn departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, southern France, on the Agout River, east of Toulouse. The site of a Gallo-Roman camp, the town developed around a Benedictine monastery that was founded ...
chief town of Saint Lucia island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, lying 40 miles (65 km) south of Fort-de-France, Martinique. Its fine landlocked deepwater harbour on the northwestern coast is ... [5 Related Articles]
town, southern Chile. It lies 45 miles (72 km) south of the town of Ancud, on the east coast of Chiloe Island. Castro was founded in 1567 and regrew after ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Portugal") ...(New Stone Age) and Bronze Age discoveries are more common, among them many dolmens (stone monuments). Some of the earliest permanent settlements were the northern castros, hill ...
(from the article "San Francisco") San Franciscans have historically considered their city to be laissez-faire and open-minded, which is probably why homosexuals have felt comfortable there. The affluent Castro district (technically Eureka Valley near Twin ...
the most important and representative of a group of Spanish dramatists that flourished in Valencia. He is remembered chiefly for his work Las mocedades del Cid (1599?), upon which the ...
(from the article "Catamarca") ...(1559) in the Valle de Quinmivil. Following various moves due to hostile Indians, Catamarca was established in 1694 on its present site (a sheltered, fertile valley) by the provincial governor, ...
Venezuelan soldier and dictator, called the Lion of the Andes, who was the first man from the mountains to rule a nation that until the 20th century had been dominated ... [1 Related Articles]
political leader of Cuba (from 1959) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America. He ... [29 Related Articles]
mistress, before his accession, of Peter (Pedro) I of Portugal. She was famous because of her tragic death, which was related by such writers and poets as Luis de Camoes, ... [3 Related Articles]
naval officer who helped preserve the Portuguese commercial settlement in India and contributed to the science of navigation with three roteiros (pilot books). He was also the first to note ...
(from the article "Latin American art") In the 1820s Jose Gil de Castro, known as "the Mulatto," rendered the heroes of Peruvian independence in a precise but boldly flattened and brightly coloured documentary style with little ...
(from the article "Latin Americans in Major League Baseball") ...white Cuban players (of Spanish, as opposed to African, ancestry) entered the minor leagues of organized baseball in the Connecticut League and the New York-New Jersey League. Colombian player Luis ...
(from the article "Literature") ...field in Spain. Olga Merino described the immigration of Andalusian workers to Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War in her novel Espuelas de papel. In Viajes con mi padre (2003), ...
(from the article "Alarcos, Battle of") ...to surprise the Muslim advance guard; but, having underestimated the strength of the Almohad army, they were severely beaten by Ya'qub, who was joined by the cavalry of the Castilian ...
(from the article "Portugal") ...republicans had no specific party. The whirligig of republican political life offered little improvement on the monarchist regime, and in 1915 the army showed signs of restlessness. General Pimenta de ...
(from the article "Madrid") Somewhat earlier, in 1860, the Plan Castro-also referred to as the Ensanche ("Widening")-had further expanded and modernized the city, adding convenience and meeting the economic and commercial needs of the ...
head of state of Cuba since February 2008, defense minister, and revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the 26th of July Movement, which brought his brother Fidel Castro to ... [11 Related Articles]
(from the article "Puerto Rico") During the 1880s Roman Baldorioty de Castro led a movement for political autonomy under Spanish rule, which gained momentum at the expense of calls for directly integrating Puerto Rico into ...
(from the article "Volleyball") The Brazilian women claimed their third consecutive FIVB Grand Prix title, with a 25-20, 25-20, 23-25, 25-17 triumph over Russia. Sheilla Castro of Brazil was named MVP. Italy claimed the ...
(from the article "Montecuccoli, Raimondo") ...using that time to complete his education and to study the art of war. His strategic and tactical writings were begun then. Returning to the field in 1642, he campaigned ...
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies near the Rhine-Herne Canal, in the eastern part of the Ruhr industrial district. First mentioned in 834, Castrop ...
(from the article "military engineering") The Romans were the preeminent military engineers of the ancient Western world, and examples of their works can still be seen throughout Europe and the Middle East. The Romans' castra, ...
an essay written in a familiar, often humorous style. The word is usually associated with the style of essay that was cultivated at The New Yorker magazine.
irregular employment or part-time labour, including the labour of workers whose normal employment consists of a series of short-term jobs. Casual labour is usually hired by the hour or day ...
provision against loss to persons and property, covering legal hazards as well as those of accident and sickness. Major classes of casualty insurance include liability, theft, aviation, workers' compensation, credit, ... [1 Related Articles]
any member of a group of large, flightless birds that includes two families native to Australasia. The family Dromaiidae, made up of the single living species of emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), ...
(from the article "Casuarinaceae") the beefwood family of dicotyledonous flowering plants, with two genera (Casuarina, 30 species; Gymnostoma, 20 species) of trees and shrubs, many of which have a distinctly pinelike aspect when seen ...
the beefwood family of dicotyledonous flowering plants, with two genera (Casuarina, 30 species; Gymnostoma, 20 species) of trees and shrubs, many of which have a distinctly pinelike aspect when seen ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "patristic literature") ...a graphic description of Origen's method of instruction, as well as a dogmatically important Symbol and a Canonical Epistle that is in effect one of the most ancient treatises of ...
(from the article "Macedonian literature") ...people's myths and legends of remembering and interpreting their history. Prewar playwrights, such as Vasil Iljoski, continued to write, and the theatre was invigorated by new dramatists, such as Kole ...
(from the article "flea") ...immunity after constant or repeated attacks, individuals (especially man) can occasionally become sensitized after exposure and develop allergies. Species that attack man and livestock include the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis), ...
(from the article "fluke") ...a variety of mammals, including man. In addition to the snail as an intermediate host, the Chinese liver fluke infests fish as a second intermediate host before passing to the ...
bacterial infection in human beings caused by Bartonella henselae, which is transmitted by a cat bite or scratch. Transmission of the bacterium from cat to cat is ...
(family Scyliorhinidae), any of more than 80 species of small, mottled sharks (order Lamniformes). Although many bottom-dwelling species are rare and poorly known ecologically, representatives have been found in all ...
any of several groups of arboreal or semiarboreal rear-fanged snakes in the family Colubridae with eyes having vertically elliptical pupils similar to those found in felines. Cat snakes are nocturnal ...
(from the article "electronics") ...but not when it has the other-precisely what Fleming's valve (patented in 1904) did. Previously, radio signals were detected by various empirically developed devices such as the "cat whisker" detector, ...
(from the article "donkey orchid") ...and the greenish lateral sepals are long and drooping. The common donkey orchid (Diuris longifolia) bears from three to five flowers about 4 cm (1.5 inches) long. Other well-known species ...
(from the article "ctenophore") ...ciliary combs over the surface of the animal. The body form resembles that of the cnidarian medusa. Various forms of ctenophores are known by other common names-sea walnuts, sea gooseberries, ...
any of several gemstones that, when cut en cabochon (in convex form, highly polished), display a luminous band reminiscent of the eye of a cat; this particular quality is termed ...
(from the article "knot") ...a loop and putting the shank of the hook through the loop so that the loop may be jammed between the rope's standing part and the hook. A more versatile ...
(species Felis catus), domesticated member of the family Felidae, order Carnivora. Like all felids, domestic cats, the smallest members of the family, are characterized by supple, low-slung ... [13 Related Articles]
(from the article "cat snake") Often classified separately, cat-eyed snakes (Leptodeira) of the New World tropics are superficially similar to Old World cat snakes. Ten species of cat-eyed snakes occur in dry ...
(from the article "flogging") ...varied. Children in schools and homes have been beaten with sticks, rods, straps, whips, and other objects. Elsewhere the lash was widely used, usually with pain-inflicting elaboration, as in the ...
the sequences of enzyme-catalyzed reactions by which relatively large molecules in living cells are broken down, or degraded. Part of the chemical energy released during catabolic processes is conserved in ... [5 Related Articles]
any rock produced by dynamic metamorphism during which faulting, granulation, and flowage may occur in previously crystalline parent rocks. When stress exceeds breaking strength, a rock yields by rupture. The ... [1 Related Articles]
subterranean cemetery composed of galleries or passages with side recesses for tombs. The term, of unknown origin, seems to have been applied first to the subterranean cemetery under the Basilica ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Cimmerian") ...or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful. One theory identifies them with what is known ...
(from the article "telescope") ...For some astronomical applications, however, photographing larger areas of the sky is mandatory. In 1930 Bernhard Schmidt, an optician at the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf, Ger., designed a catadioptric telescope ...
(from the article "migration") Catadromous fish spend most of their lives in fresh water, then migrate to the sea to breed. This type is exemplified by eels of the genus Anguilla, numbering 16 species, ...
ornate, often theatrical, usually movable funereal structure mounted on a stage to support a coffin for a lying-in-state. It is used for royalty and personages of distinction and is normally ...
(from the article "Pyrenees") The Pyrenees are the home of a variety of peoples, including the Andorrans, Catalans, Bearnais, and Basques. Each speaks its own dialect or language, and each desires to maintain and ...
(from the article "iron processing") ...with water power to drive the bellows, and the bloom, which might weigh over 100 kilograms, was extracted through the top of the shaft. The final version of this kind ...
Romance language spoken in eastern and northeastern Spain, chiefly in Catalonia and Valencia. It is also spoken in the Roussillon region of France, in Andorra, and in the Balearic Isles. ... [6 Related Articles]
