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Cameroon, Mount: volcanic massif of southwestern Cameroon, rising to a height of 13,435 feet (4,095 m) and extending 14 miles (23 km) inland from the Gulf of Guinea. It is the highest ...
Camiguin: mountainous island in the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, 6 miles (10 km) off the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines. The island is often considered the most beautiful of the Philippine archipelago. ...
Camilla: in Roman mythology, legendary Volscian maiden who became a warrior and was a favourite of the goddess Diana. According to the Roman poet Virgil, her father, Metabus, was fleeing from ...
Camillus of Lellis, Saint: founder of the Ministers of the Sick. Along with St. John of God, Camillus became patron of the sick.
Camillus, Marcus Furius: Roman soldier and statesman who came to be honoured after the sack of Rome by the Gauls (c. 390) as the second founder of the city.
Camino Real: (Spanish: Royal Road), highway that in the 16th century connected the cities of Gijon, Leon, and Madrid, Spain; in Spain it has come to mean any important highway. In California ...
Camisard: any of the Protestant militants of the Bas-Languedoc and Cevennes regions of southern France who, in the early 18th century, organized an armed insurrection in opposition to Louis XIV's persecution ...
Cammaerts, Emile: Belgian poet and writer who, as a vigorous royalist, interpreted Belgium to the British public.
Camoes, Luis de: Portugal's great national poet, author of the epic poem Os Lusiadas (1572; The Lusiads), which describes Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India. Camoes had a permanent ...
Camorra: Italian secret society of criminals that grew to power in Naples during the 19th century. Its origins are uncertain, but it may have existed in Spain as early as the ...
camouflage: in military science, the art and practice of concealment and visual deception in war. It is the means of defeating enemy observation by concealing or disguising installations, personnel, equipment, and ...
camp: in military service, an area for temporary or semipermanent sheltering of troops. In most usage the word camp signifies an installation more elaborate and durable than a bivouac but less ...
Camp David: rural retreat of U.S. presidents in Catoctin Mountain Park, a unit of the National Park Service on a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Frederick county, northern Maryland, U.S. ...
Camp David Accords: agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel ...
camp meeting: type of outdoor revival meeting that was held on the American frontier during the 19th century by various Protestant denominations. Camp meetings filled an ecclesiastical and spiritual need in the ...
Camp, Walter: sports authority best known for having selected the earliest All-America teams in American college gridiron football. More important, Camp played a leading role in developing the American game as distinct ...
Campa: city of ancient India, the capital of the kingdom of Anga (a region corresponding with the eastern part of modern Bihar state), identified with two villages of that name on ...
Campagna di Roma: lowland plain surrounding the city of Rome in Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. Occupying an area of about 800 square miles (2,100 square km), it is bounded on the northwest ...
Campagnola, Domenico: Italian painter and printmaker and one of the first professional draftsmen.
Campagnola, Giulio: Italian painter and engraver who anticipated by over two centuries the development of stipple engraving. Much of his significance derives from this technique: a system of delicate flicks and dots ...
campaign furniture: in Europe, variety of portable furniture made for travel. Most of the surviving examples date from the 19th century and were made for Napoleon's campaigns; they include such items as ...
Campaldino, Battle of: (June 11, 1289), in Italian history, a battle between Florence and Arezzo, an episode in the struggles among rival Tuscan towns and in the contest between the Guelfs and Ghibellines ...
Campan, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Genest: preeminent educator of Napoleonic France and champion of a broader curriculum for women students.
Campana, Dino: innovative Italian lyric poet who is almost as well known for his tragic, flamboyant personality as for his controversial writings.
Campanella, Roy: American baseball player, a professional National League catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose career was cut short as a result of an automobile accident.
Campanella, Tommaso: Italian philosopher and writer who sought to reconcile Renaissance humanism with Roman Catholic theology. He is best remembered for his socialistic work La citta del sole (1602; "The City of ...
Campani, Giuseppe: Italian optical-instrument maker who invented a lens-grinding lathe.
Campania: regione, southern Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea between the Garigliano (Lower Liri) River (north) and the Gulf of Policastro (south). The region comprises the provinces of Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Napoli, ...
campanile: bell tower, usually built beside or attached to a church; the word is most often used in connection with Italian architecture. The earliest campaniles, variously dated from the 6th to ...
Campanulales: the bellflower order of flowering plants, belonging to the class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons; characterized by two seed leaves). Its members are mostly herbaceous and perennial and are of chiefly ornamental value. ...
Campaspe River: river in central Victoria, Australia. It rises in the Eastern Highlands 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Melbourne and flows northward past Kyneton, beyond which it is dammed to form ...
Campbell Hill: highest point (1,549 feet [472 m]) in Ohio, U.S. It lies in Logan county, just east of Bellefontaine, in the west-central part of the state. Located in a scenic recreational ...
Campbell Island: outlying volcanic island of New Zealand, in the South Pacific Ocean, 400 miles (644 km) south of South Island. It has an area of 41 square miles (106 square km) ...
Campbell River: district municipality, at the mouth of the Campbell River on the east coast of Vancouver Island, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is a centre for lumbering and paper mills and ...
Campbell Soup Company: American manufacturer incorporated in 1922, but dating to a canning firm first established in 1869. It is one of the largest manufacturers of prepared foods, especially canned soups, canned spaghetti, ...
Campbell University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Buies Creek, North Carolina, U.S., affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. The university comprises the College of Arts and Sciences, ...
Campbell, Alexander: American clergyman, writer, and founder of the Disciples of Christ and Bethany College.
Campbell, Donald Malcolm: British motorboat and automobile driver who emulated his father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in setting world's speed records on land and on water.
Campbell, Douglas Houghton: American botanist known for his research concerning modes of sexual reproduction in mosses and ferns. His work intensified a controversy surrounding the evolutionary origin of the Tracheophyta (vascular plants).
Campbell, E. Simms: first black American cartoonist to publish his work in general-circulation magazines on a regular basis.
Campbell, John Archibald: American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853-61). He also was assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy.
Campbell, John McLeod: Scots theologian, intellectual leader, and author.
Campbell, John W.: American science-fiction writer, considered the father of modern science fiction.
Campbell, Joseph: prolific American author and editor whose works on comparative mythology examined the universal functions of mythology in various human cultures and examined the mythic figure in a wide range of ...
Campbell, Kim: Canadian politician, prime minister from June to November 1993.
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick: English actress known for her portrayals of passionate and intelligent characters.
Campbell, Robert: Canadian frontier trader in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company (1830-71) and an early explorer of the Yukon region.
Campbell, Roy: poet whose vigorous extrovert verse contrasted with the uneasy self-searching of the more prominent socially conscious English poets of the 1930s.
Campbell, Sir Malcolm: British automobile-racing driver who set world speed records on land and on water.
Campbell, Thomas: Scottish poet, remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London.
Campbell, William Wallace: astronomer known particularly for his spectrographic determinations of the radial velocities of stars-i.e., their motions toward the Earth or away from it. In addition, he discovered many spectroscopic binary stars, ...
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry: British prime minister from December 5, 1905, to April 5, 1908. His popularity unified his own Liberal Party and the unusually strong cabinet that he headed. He took the lead ...
Campbellsville: city, seat of Taylor county, central Kentucky, U.S. It lies near the juncture of the Bluegrass, Pennyroyal, and Knobs regions, 85 miles (137 km) south-southeast of Louisville. Founded in 1817 ...
Campbellton: city, Restigouche county, northern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Restigouche Estuary (there bridged to Pointe-a-la-Croix, Quebec). It is overlooked by the Sugarloaf Mountain, the focus of a provincial park. Founded ...
Campbelltown: city within the Sydney metropolitan area, eastern New South Wales, southeastern Australia. In 1810 it was proclaimed the town of Airds by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, who renamed it in 1820 ...
Campbeltown: small royal burgh (town) and seaport, Argyll and Bute council area, historic county of Argyllshire, western Scotland. Campbeltown is the main centre of the Peninsula of Kintyre, which is 40 ...
Campeche: estado ("state"), southeastern Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula. It is bounded north and east by the state of Yucatan, from which it seceded in 1857; northwest by the Gulf of ...
Campeche: city, port on the Gulf of Mexico, and capital of Campeche estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It lies on the Yucatan Peninsula at the western end of a ...
Campeche, Bay of: bay, southern Mexico, bounded east by the Yucatan Peninsula, south by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and west by southern Veracruz. An inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, the bay, which ...
Campeggio, Lorenzo: Italian cardinal, humanist, and lawyer who, upon entering the service of the church in 1510, became one of the most valued representatives of the papacy.
Campen, Jacob van: Dutch architect, one of the leaders of a group of architects who created a restrained architectural style that was suited to the social and political climate of the Netherlands.
Campephagidae: songbird family, order Passeriformes, including cuckoo-shrikes and minivets. The 70 species, found from Africa to the Pacific Islands, are 13 to 35 cm (5 to 14 inches) in length and ...
camphor: an organic compound of penetrating, somewhat musty aroma, used for many centuries as a component of incense and as a medicinal. Modern uses of camphor have been as a plasticizer ...
Campi, Giulio: Italian painter and architect who led the formation of the Cremonese school. His work, and that of his followers, was elegant and eclectic. Campi was a prolific painter, working in ...
Campidano: narrow, low-lying plain, about 20 mi (32 km) wide, in southwestern Sardinia, Italy, extending inland about 70 mi (110 km) from the Golfo di (Gulf of) Oristano. It separates Sardinia's ...
Campin, Robert: one of the earliest and greatest masters of Flemish painting. He has been identified with the Master of Flemalle on stylistic and other grounds. Characterized by a naturalistic conception of ...
Campina Grande: city, eastern Paraiba estado (state), northeastern Brazil, in the Bacamarte Mountains, at 1,804 feet (550 metres) above sea level. Located on the site of an Ariu Indian ...
Campinas: city, eastern Sao Paulo estado (state), southeastern Brazil, in the highlands near the Atibaia River at 2,274 feet (693 metres) above sea level. Formerly known as Nossa ...
camping: recreational activity in which participants take up temporary residence in the outdoors, usually using tents or specially designed or adapted vehicles for shelter. Camping was at one time only a ...
campion: common name for ornamental rock-garden or border plants constituting the genus Silene, of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae), consisting of about 500 species of herbaceous plants distributed throughout the world. Campion ...
Campion, Saint Edmund: English Jesuit martyred by the government of Queen Elizabeth I.
Campion, Thomas: English poet, composer, musical and literary theorist, physician, and one of the outstanding songwriters of the brilliant English lutenist school of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. His lyric ...
Campo Formio, Treaty of: (Oct. 17, 1797), a peace settlement between France and Austria, signed at Campo Formio (now Campoformido, Italy), a village in Venezia Giulia southwest of Udine, following the defeat of Austria ...
Campo Grande: city, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul estado (state), southwestern Brazil, lying near the headwaters of the Anhandui River, in the Maracaju Mountains, at 1,770 feet (540 ...
Campo, Estanislao del: Argentine poet and journalist whose Fausto is one of the major works of gaucho poetry.
Campoamor y Campoosorio, Ramon de: Spanish poet whose value lies in his expression of contemporary social attitudes.