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Campobasso: city, capital of Molise regione (region), south-central Italy, northeast of Naples. The old town on a hill was abandoned in 1732 by its inhabitants, who built a ...
Campobello Island: second largest island (9 miles [14 km] long by 3 miles [5 km] wide), after Grand Manan, of a small island group at the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay (an inlet ...
Campos: city, northeastern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It is located 35 miles (56 km) up the Paraiba do Sul River from its mouth on the ...
Campos do Jordao: city, southeastern Sao Paulo estado ("state"), Brazil, in the Mantiqueira Mountains, at an elevation of 5,500 feet (1,700 m). Founded as early as 1700, the city has developed as a ...
Campos, Haroldo de; and Campos, Augusto de: poets and literary critics, best known as the prime movers in the creation of Brazilian concrete poetry in the 1950s.
Campra, Andre: most important French composer of operas between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Camptosaurus: large herbivorous dinosaurs found as fossils in western Europe and western North America that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous Period.
Campulung: town, Arges judet (county), south-central Romania. It lies along the Targului River at the foot of the Iezer and Papusa mountains of the Transylvanian Alps. Originally it was a frontier ...
Campus Martius: in ancient Rome, a floodplain of the Tiber River, the site of the altar of Mars and the temple of Apollo in the 5th century BC. Originally used primarily as ...
campylobacter: group of spiral-shaped bacteria that can cause human diseases such as campylobacter enteritis (campylobacteriosis), which begins abruptly with fever, headache, diarrhea, and significant abdominal pain.
Camrose: city, south-central Alberta, Canada, on Camrose Creek near Bittern Lake, 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Edmonton. Founded in 1905 as the village of Sparling, after the Methodist clergyman Joseph ...
camshaft: in internal-combustion engines, rotating shaft with attached disks of irregular shape (the cams), which actuate the intake and exhaust valves of the cylinders. The cams and the camshaft are usually ...
Camu River: river in north-central and northeastern Dominican Republic. Its headstreams rise in the Cordillera Central near La Vega. Other tributaries flow from the Cordillera Septentrional near Moca. The Camu, about 50 ...
Camus, Albert: French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as L'Etranger (1942; The Stranger), La Peste (1947; The Plague), and La Chute (1956; The Fall) and for his work ...
Camus, Marcel: French motion-picture director who won international acclaim for his second film, Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) in 1958. The film was praised for its use of exotic settings and brilliant spectacle ...
Can Tho: city, southeastern Vietnam. Situated on the left bank of the Hau Giang River, 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), it is an industrial centre ...
Canaan: area variously defined in historical and biblical literature, but always centred on Palestine. Its original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites. The names Canaan and Canaanite occur in cuneiform, Egyptian, and ...
Canaan dog: breed of herding dog developed in Israel in the 20th century from semiwild pariah dogs that were the descendants of animals present in the region since biblical times. Over time ...
Canaanite inscriptions: a group of 11 inscriptions recovered from bowls and other utensils found in several archaeological sites in Palestine dating from approximately the 16th to 13th century BC. Because they have ...
Canaanite languages: group of Northern Central or Northwestern Semitic languages including Hebrew, Moabite, Phoenician, and Punic. They were spoken in ancient times in Palestine, on the coast of Syria, and in scattered ...
Canaanite religion: beliefs and practices prevalent in ancient Palestine and Syria during the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, centring primarily on the deities El, Baal, and Anath (qq.v.). From time to time ...
Canada: second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America.
Canada Act: 1982, Canada's constitution approved by the British Parliament on March 25, 1982, and proclaimed by Queen Elizabeth II on April 17, 1982, making Canada wholly independent. The document contains the ...
Canada balsam: oleoresin consisting of a viscous yellowish to greenish liquid exuded by the balsam fir of North America, Abies balsamea. It is actually a turpentine, belonging to the class of oleoresins ...
Canada Company: organization instrumental in colonizing much of the western part of Upper Canada (now Ontario). Many residents of Upper Canada had incurred losses during the War of 1812 and subsequently claimed ...
Canada Day: the national holiday of Canada. The possibility of a confederation between the colonies of British North America was discussed throughout the mid 1800s. On July 1, 1867, a dominion was ...
Canada East: in Canadian history, the region in Canada now known as Quebec. From 1791 to 1841 the region was known as Lower Canada and from 1841 to 1867 as Canada East, ...
Canada goose: a brown-backed, light-breasted goose with a black head and neck. It has white cheeks that flash when the bird shakes its head before taking flight. The various subspecies range in ...
Canada West: in Canadian history, the region in Canada now known as Ontario. From 1791 to 1841 the region was known as Upper Canada and from 1841 to 1867 as Canada West, ...
Canada, Anglican Church of: self-governing Anglican church that dates from the Church of England congregations established in Canada during the 18th century. In 1750 Canada's first Anglican church was built in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...
Canada, Bank of: Canadian financial institution established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to regulate credit and currency. The Bank commenced operations on March 11, ...
Canadian Alliance: former Canadian populist conservative political party, largely based in the western provinces.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: public broadcasting service over AM and FM radio networks and television networks in English and French, two national cable television channels, and shortwave radio, among other media in Canada. Advertising ...
Canadian Football League: major Canadian professional gridiron football organization, formed in 1956 as the Canadian Football Council, created by the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) and the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU). Though ...
Canadian high: large atmospheric high-pressure centre produced by the extremely low winter temperatures over northwestern Canada. Its cold, dense air does not extend above 3 km (2 miles). The high's location east ...
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: major commercial banking company operating in Canada and other countries. Headquarters are in Toronto.
Canadian Labour Congress: nationwide association of labour unions in Canada, comprising both wholly Canadian "national" unions and "international" unions that are Canadian branches of unions based in the United States. The CLC was ...
Canadian literature: the body of written works produced by Canadians. Reflecting the country's dual origin and linguistic distribution, the literature of Canada falls into two divisions: English and French. This article provides ...
Canadian National Railway Company: corporation created by the Canadian government in 1918 to operate a number of nationalized railroads (including the old Grand Trunk lines, the Intercolonial Railway, the National Transcontinental Railway, and the ...
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.: privately owned company that operates one of Canada's two transcontinental railroad systems. The company was established to complete a transcontinental railroad that the government had begun under the agreement by ...
Canadian River: river that rises in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., and flows southward across the Las Vegas Plains, cutting a gorge nearly 1,500 feet (450 m) deep ...
Canadian Rockies: segment of the Rocky Mountains, extending southeastward for about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from northern British Columbia, Canada, and forming to the south nearly half of the 900-mile (1,500-kilometre) border ...
Canadian Shield: one of the world's largest geologic continental shields, centred on Hudson Bay and extending for 8,000,000 square km (3,000,000 square miles) over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada from the Great ...
Canadian-American Challenge Cup: trophy of a series of automobile races that took place annually from 1966 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1986. It was sponsored jointly by the Sports Car Club of ...
Canak, Treaty of: (Jan. 5, 1809), pact signed between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain at Canak (now Canakkale, Tur.) that affirmed the principle that no warships of any power should enter the ...
Canakkale: city, northwestern Turkey, at the mouth of Koca River (the ancient Rhodius River), on the Asian side of the Dardanelles. Originally a 15th-century Ottoman fortress called Kale-i Sultaniye, it had ...
Canal Zone: historic administrative entity in Panama over which the United States exercised jurisdictional rights from 1903 to 1979. It was a strip of land 10 miles (16 km) wide along the ...
Canalejas, Jose: Spanish statesman and prime minister whose anticlerical "Padlock Law" forbade the establishment of new religious orders and introduced obligatory military service.
Canaletto: Italian topographical painter whose masterful expression of atmosphere in his detailed views (vedute) of Venice (see ) and London and English country homes influenced succeeding generations of landscape artists.
canals and inland waterways: natural or artificial waterways used for navigation, crop irrigation, water supply, or drainage.
Canaris, Wilhelm: German admiral, head of military intelligence (Abwehr) under the Nazi regime and a key participant in the resistance of military officers to Adolf Hitler.
canary: (species Serinus canaria), popular cage bird of the family Carduelidae (order Passeriformes). It owes its coloration and sustained vocal powers to 400 years of selective breeding by humans. Varieties called ...
canary creeper: (species Tropaeolum peregrinum), annual climbing herb, of the family Tropaeolaceae, native to northwestern South America and introduced to other regions as a cultivated garden plant. It grows to a height ...
Canary Current: part of a clockwise-setting ocean-current system in the North Atlantic Ocean. It branches south from the North Atlantic Current and flows southwestward along the northwest coast of Africa as far ...
Canary Islands: comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Spain, consisting of an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, the nearest island being 67 miles (108 km) off the northwest African mainland. ...
canasta: card game of the rummy family, developed in Buenos Aires, Arg., and Montevideo, Uruguay, in the 1940s and popular in the United States and Great Britain from the 1950s on. ...
Canastra Mountains: mountain range on the Planalto Central (Brazilian Highlands) in western Minas Gerais estado ("state"), southeastern Brazil. Extending 150 miles (240 km) from the Goias state border in the north to ...
Canaveral, Cape: seaward extension of Canaveral Island (a barrier island running southeastward along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean) and city in Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S. The cape itself is separated ...
Canberra: federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia. It occupies part of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in southeastern Australia and is about 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Sydney. Canberra ...
cancan: lively and risque dance of French or Algerian origin, usually performed onstage by four women. Known for its high kicks in unison that exposed both the petticoat and the leg, ...
cancellaresca corsiva: in calligraphy, script that in the 16th century became the vehicle of the New Learning throughout Christendom. It developed during the preceding century out of the antica corsiva, which had ...
Cancer: (Latin: Crab), in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying between Leo and Gemini at about 8 hours 25 minutes right ascension (the coordinate of the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the ...
cancer: group of more than 100 distinct diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancer affects one in every three persons born in developed countries and ...
Cancer and Capricorn, Tropics of: latitudes approximately 23°27' N and 23°27' S of the terrestrial Equator, respectively. These latitudes correspond to the northernmost and southernmost declinations of the Sun's ecliptic (q.v.) to the celestial equator. ...
Canchungo: town, Cacheu region, northwestern Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The town lies between the Rio Cacheu and the Rio Mansoa in an area of coastal lowlands and is a major producer of ...
cancioneiro: (Portuguese: "songbook"), collection of Portuguese lyrics (cantigas) dating from the 12th century. The earliest examples of Portuguese-Galician poetry, composed from the 12th to the 14th century, were collected during the ...
cancrinite: rare feldspathoid mineral, an aluminosilicate that contains sodium and calcium carbonate and occurs as an alteration product of nepheline and feldspar in nepheline-syenite and related rocks. It also is found ...
Cancun: city and adjacent island resort area, Quintana Roo estado ("state"), southeastern Mexico. Cancun city is located on the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula and is essentially a service town ...
candala: class of people in India generally considered to be outcastes and untouchables. According to the ancient law code the Manu-smrti, the class originated from the union of a Brahmin (the ...
Candar Dynasty: Turkmen dynasty (c. 1290-1461) that ruled in the Kastamonu-Sinop region of northern Anatolia (now in Turkey).
candela: unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 ...
Candela, Felix: Spanish-born architect, designer of reinforced-concrete (ferroconcrete) structures distinguished by thin, curved shells that are extremely strong and unusually economical.
candelabrum: in architecture, a decorative motif derived from the pedestal or shaft used to support a lamp or candle. The Romans, developing Hellenistic precedents, made candelabra of great decorative richness. Two ...
candelilla wax: hard, yellowish tan to brown wax found as a coating on candelilla shrubs, Euphorbia antisyphilitica or Euphorbia cerifera, which grow wild in northern Mexico and Texas. Candelilla wax resembles carnauba ...
Candi: demon-destroying form of the Hindu goddess Sakti, particularly popular in eastern India. She is known by various names, such as Mahamaya, or Abhaya (Sanskrit: "She Who is Without Fear"), and ...
Candidas: poet whose love songs addressed to the washerwoman Rami were popular in the medieval period and were a source of inspiration to Vaisnava and Sahajiya religious movements that explored parallels ...