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Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: complex of trestles, man-made islands, tunnels, and bridges that runs across the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, providing a vehicular roadway between the Norfolk-Hampton Roads area (southwest) and Cape Charles at ...
Cheselden, William: British surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery who wrote Anatomy of the Human Body (1713) and Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones (1733). Both books were used as ...
Cheshire: county, extreme southwestern New Hampshire, U.S. It consists largely of a hill-and-valley region bounded to the south by Massachusetts and to the west by Vermont, the Connecticut River constituting the ...
Cheshire: administrative, geographic, and historic county of northwestern England, bordering Wales to the west, fronting the Dee and Mersey estuaries to the northwest, and flanked by the Pennine uplands, partly within ...
Chesil Beach: beach, county of Dorset, England, that stretches 18 miles (29 km) from Bridport to the Isle of Portland. One of the best-known natural features in Britain, it consists of shingle ...
Chesney, Francis Rawdon: British soldier, explorer, and Middle East traveler whose fame rests on his projects for the Suez Canal and for an overland route to India by the Euphrates River valley.
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller: author of A Diary from Dixie, an insightful view of Southern life and leadership during the American Civil War.
Chesnutt, Charles W.: first important black American novelist.
chess: one of the oldest and most popular board games, played by two opponents on a checkered board with specially designed pieces of contrasting colours, commonly white and black. White moves ...
Chessman, Caryl: American criminal whose writings during 12 years on death row made him the symbol of an enduring controversy over capital punishment.
chest: the earliest form of container for storing clothes, documents, valuables, or other possessions, and the most important piece of furniture in the European home until after the end of the ...
chest of drawers: type of furniture developed in the mid-17th century from a chest with drawers in the base. By the 1680s the "chest" was entirely made up of drawers: three long ones ...
Chester: urban area and city (district), county of Cheshire, England, on a small sandstone ridge at the head of the estuary of the River Dee.
Chester: city, seat (1844) of Randolph county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River (there bridged to Missouri) near the mouth of the Marys River, about 60 miles (100 ...
Chester: city, Delaware county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Delaware River (across from Bridgeport, New Jersey), within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. One of the oldest communities in the state, the Chester ...
Chester: county, northern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated between the Broad and Catawba rivers in a hilly piedmont region of pine and hardwood forests. Chester and Landsford Canal state parks ...
Chester: county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a hilly piedmont region bounded to the southwest by Octoraro Creek, to the south by Maryland and Delaware, and to the northeast by the ...
Chester plays: 14th-century cycle of 25 scriptural plays, or mystery plays, performed at the prosperous city of Chester, in northern England, during the Middle Ages. They are traditionally dated about 1325, but ...
Chester, Hugh of Avranches, 1st Earl of, Vicomte D'avranches: son of Richard, Viscount d'Avranches, and probable companion of William the Conqueror, who made him Earl of Chester in 1071. (He inherited his father's viscountship sometime after 1082.) He had ...
Chester, Ranulf de Blundeville, 6th Earl of, Earl Of Richmond, Earl Of Lincoln, Vicomte De Bayeux, Vicomte D'avranches: most celebrated of the early earls of Chester, with whom the family fortunes reached their peak.
Chester, Ranulf de Gernons, 4th Earl of, Vicomte De Bayeux, Vicomte D'avranches: a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Initially taking Matilda's ...
Chester-le-Street: town and district, administrative and historic county of Durham, England, at the southern edge of the Tyne and Wear metropolitan area near the River Wear. It was the site of ...
Chesterfield: town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England, at the junction of the Rivers Rother and Hipper. The borough comprises the town of Chesterfield and surrounding areas, ...
Chesterfield: county, northeastern South Carolina, U.S. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the east by the Great Pee Dee River, and to the west by the Lynches ...
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of: British statesman, diplomat, and wit, chiefly remembered as the author of Letters to His Son and Letters to His Godson-guides to manners, the art of pleasing, and the art of ...
Chesterian Series: uppermost major stratigraphic division of North American rocks of the Mississippian Period (the Mississippian began about 345,000,000 years ago and lasted about 20,000,000 years). Excellent exposures of Chesterian rocks occur ...
Chesterton, G K: English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.
chestnut: any of four species of deciduous ornamental and timber trees of the genus Castanea in the beech family (Fagaceae), native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, the burlike fruits ...
chestnut blight: a plant disease caused by the fungus Endothia parasitica. It has killed virtually all native American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) in the United States and Canada and is also destructive in ...
chestnut oak: any of several species of North American timber trees, with chestnutlike leaves, belonging to the white oak group of the genus Quercus in the beech family (Fagaceae). Specifically, chestnut oak ...
Chetnik: member of a Serbian nationalist guerrilla force that formed during World War II to resist the Axis invaders and Croatian collaborators but that primarily fought a civil war against the ...
Chettle, Henry: English dramatist, one among many of the versatile, popular writers of the Elizabethan Age.
Chetumal: town, capital of Quintana Roo estado ("state"), eastern Mexico, on the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, on the Bay of Chetumal, just north of the Belize (formerly British Honduras) ...
cheval glass: tall dressing mirror, suspended between two pillars, usually joined by horizontal bars immediately above and below the mirror and resting on two pairs of long feet. The cheval glass was ...
chevalier: (French: "horseman"), a French title originally equivalent to the English knight. Later the title chevalier came to be used in a variety of senses not always denoting membership in any ...
Chevalier, Albert: actor and music-hall entertainer known as the "costers' laureate" because of his songs in cockney dialect on London common life (a coster is a cart peddler).
Chevalier, Jules: priest, author, and founder of the Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis Jesu (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), commonly called Sacred Heart Missionaries, a Roman Catholic congregation of men originally dedicated ...
Chevalier, Maurice: debonair French musical-comedy star best known for witty and sophisticated films that contributed greatly to the establishment of the musical as a film genre during the early 1930s. Characterized by ...
Chevalier, Ulysse: French priest, scholar, and author of major bibliographical works in medieval history.
Cheverus, Jean-Louis Lefebvre de: first Roman Catholic bishop of Boston.
chevet: eastern end of a church, especially of a Gothic church designed in the French manner. Beginning about the 12th century, Romanesque builders began to elaborate on the design of the ...
Cheviot: breed of hardy, medium-wool, white-faced, hornless sheep developed in Scotland and Northumberland, England. Cheviots have no wool on their heads and ears or on their legs below the knees and ...
cheviot: woollen fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep and now also made from other types of wool or from blends of wool and man-made fibres in plain or ...
Cheviot Hills: highland range that for more than 30 miles (50 km) marks the boundary between England and Scotland. In the east a great pile of ancient volcanic rocks reaches an elevation ...
Chevreul, Michel-Eugene: French chemist who began the study of the chemistry of fats.
Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de: French princess, a tireless participant in the conspiracies against the ministerial government during Louis XIII's reign (1610-43) and the regency (1643-51) for Louis XIV.
Chevrolet, Louis: automobile designer and racer whose name is borne by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corporation, an enterprise from which he derived little profit and of which he was a ...
Chevron Corporation: former U.S. petroleum corporation that was founded through the 1906 merger of Iowa Standard and Pacific Oil Company. It acquired Texaco Inc. in 2001 to create ChevronTexaco Corporation.
ChevronTexaco Corporation: leading U.S. integrated oil and energy company with interests in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of petroleum products. It also has interests in power plants, the manufacture and distribution ...
chevrotain: any of several species of small, delicately built hoofed mammals comprising the family Tragulidae (order Artiodactyla). Found in the warmer parts of Asia and in parts of Africa, chevrotains are ...
Chewa: Bantu-speaking people living in the extreme eastern zone of Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and Malawi. They share many cultural features with their Bemba kinsmen to the west. The Chewa language, also ...
chewing: up-and-down and side-to-side movements of the lower jaw that assist in reducing particles of solid food, making them more easily swallowed; teeth usually act as the grinding and biting surface. ...
chewing gum: sweetened product made from chicle and similar resilient substances and chewed for its flavour. Peoples of the Mediterranean have since antiquity chewed the sweet resin of the mastic tree (so ...
chewing louse: any of about 2,900 species of small (one to five millimetres), wingless insects of the suborder Mallophaga (sometimes considered an order) having chewing mouthparts, a flattened body, and shortened front ...
chewing tobacco: tobacco used for chewing and appearing in a variety of forms, notably (1) "flat plug," a compressed rectangular cake of bright tobacco, sweetened lightly or not at all, (2) "navy," ...
chewink: bird species also known as the rufous-sided towhee. See towhee.
Chewtonian Stage: division of time within the Ordovician Period in Australia and New Zealand (the Ordovician Period began about 505 million years ago and lasted about 67 million years). The Chewtonian Stage ...
Cheyenne: capital (since 1869) and largest city of Wyoming, U.S., and seat of Laramie county, in the southeastern corner of the state, on Crow Creek, 49 miles (79 km) east of ...
Cheyenne: North American Plains Indian people of Algonkian stock who inhabited the regions around the Platte and Arkansas rivers during the 19th century. Before 1700 the home of the Cheyenne was ...
Cheyenne River: river of eastern Wyoming and western South Dakota, U.S. It rises (as an intermittent stream) in northeastern Converse county, Wyoming, and runs eastward, its flow becoming permanent just before entering ...
Cheyne, Sir William Watson, 1st Baronet: surgeon and bacteriologist who was a pioneer of antiseptic surgical methods in Britain.
Chezy, Antoine de: French hydraulic engineer and author of a basic formula for calculating the velocity of a fluid stream.
Chhatak: town, northeastern Bangladesh, on the left bank of the Surma River. The town rose to prominence when a natural gas field was discovered nearby in 1959. Chhatak has a large ...
Chhatarpur: town, north central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. The town is a major road junction and is a trade centre for agricultural products and cloth fabrics. Founded in 1707 by ...
Chhattisgarh Plain: plain, central India, forming the upper Mahanadi River Basin. About 100 miles (160 km) wide, it is bounded by the Chota Nagpur plateau (north), the Maikala Range (west), the Raigarh ...
Chhindwara: town, south central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Situated at a major road and rail junction, it is heavily engaged in cotton trade and coal shipping. Cotton ginning and sawmilling ...
Chi-an: city, west central Kiangsi Province (sheng), China. Chi-an is situated on the west bank of the Kan Chiang (river), at the head of navigation for small steamboats from Nan-ch'ang. The ...
Chi-hsi: city in southeastern Heilungkiang Province (sheng), China. Located on the upper Mu-leng Ho (river), it is in a mountainous area rich in timber and in various minerals, including coal, iron, ...
Chi-lin: city, Kirin Province (sheng), China. It is a prefecture-level municipality (shih) whose territory was enlarged in the early 1970s to encompass the former Yung-chi Prefecture (ti-ch'u). Situated on the left ...
Chi-lung: shih (municipality), northern Taiwan, and the principal port of Taipei, 16 mi (26 km) southwest. The municipality has an area of 51 sq mi (133 sq km). Chi-lung first became ...
Chi-nan: city and provincial capital of Shantung sheng (province), China. Chi-nan lies in the northern foothills of the T'ai Mountains, on the high ground just south of the Huang Ho (river), ...
Chi-ning: city in southwestern Shantung sheng (province), China. In early times the seat of the state of Jen, it later became a part of the state of Ch'i, which flourished ...
Chi-ning: town, Inner Mongolia autonomous ch'u (region), China. Before the Communist Revolution of 1949, the town was a minor station named P'ing-ti-ch'uan and was a collecting point on the east-west Peking-Pao-t'ou ...
Chi-tsang: Chinese Buddhist monk who systematized the teachings of the San-lun ("Three Treatises," or Middle Doctrine) school of Mahayana Buddhism in China and who is sometimes regarded as its founder.
Chia-ch'ing: fifth emperor (reigned 1796-1820) of the Ch'ing dynasty, during whose reign a partial attempt was made to restore the flagging state of the empire.
Chia-ching: (b. 1507, China-d. 1566, China), 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty, whose long reign (1521-66) added a degree of stability to the government but whose neglect of official duties ushered ...